the national system and it's a complete failure of many of us to be able to prevent work we've seen happening time and again the u.n. commission blames all sides of the conflict for violations of the syrian government for again firing the banned chemical weapon or even gas using rockets made in iran turkish forces footballing a medical convoy and an archaeological site in the battle for african and kurdish fighters for attacking a psychiatric hospital is hope that all the analysis carried out by the commission of inquiry on syria will one day lay the groundwork for legal proceedings against those accused of war crimes and of violating human rights in the hope that when the war is finally over the guilty will be brought to justice but with peers growing up an imminent assault and it live the u.n. is preparing for an even larger humanitarian crisis leave barca al jazeera geneva yemeni government forces backed by assad led coalition have seized two major rebel

supply routes into the key port city of a day that fighting has once again broken out in the city with the rebels and fighters loyal to the government are battling for control last week he won brokered peace talks aimed at preventing an escalation of violence collapsed the u.n. envoy to yemen is said he'll be visiting the region in the hope of securing commitments to continue the talks andrew symonds has been following the story from neighboring egypt will too. there are no details on casualty figures and whether or not civilians are involved but multiple reports suggest that the fighting has escalated again around the city of who data it's rebel held by the hooters and they are reliant on a supply routes between the port city and san are their capital now the report suggests that that supply route has been cut to the point a checkpoint called kilo sixteen also reports that kilo ten further towards the

city has also been breached cuts by government for the forces they are aided by the saudi us a e led coalition amounting strong asterix all around the area now we're hearing that the hooty rebels have responded with a counter attack using artillery and other weaponry and that fighting has been very harsh indeed now beyond this beyond this whole issue of this route that delivers aid and arms and supplies to the rebels is the problem of how martin gryphus the u.n. special envoy can possibly get traction again for any form of peace talks or talks about talks involving diplomats and the fighters he is shy jeweled to be in amman and moving on from there hopefully he thinks to santa and from there to riyadh but

as he knows the chances of getting a breakthrough seem quite limited. well the u.s. secretary of state has said he's certified to congress that saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are working to avoid harming civilians in yemen this means the u.s. can continue to provide support to its saudi and iraqi allies from palest statement follows a string of coalition airstrikes which have killed dozens of civilians including many children the conflict is widely seen as a proxy battle between regional rivals saudi arabia and iran. coming up on the al-jazeera this news hour president trump issues an executive order authorizing sanctions against foreigners meddle in u.s. election a media conference that's exposed the strained relationship between the philippine president and the military and olympic cycling cycling champion christina vogel comes to terms with the injury that's left her unable to walk.

one of the russians named by the u.k. as a suspect in the service crippled poisoning says he may make a public statement next week that's according to russian state t.v. it comes after president vladimir putin announced that the russian authorities had located the two men who he said were both civilians so they wore. a convenient time for russia's president to announce his government doesn't know the suspects in the ski powered poisoning case taking advantage of the international attention and bloody vostok planted question granted this response. we have looked at who these people are we know who they are now we found them i hope that they show up and speak for themselves that would be better for everyone there is nothing special criminal there i can assure you that in time we will see civilians. millions. of courses civilians one

russian state television. channel said it had spoken to one of them he declined to comment on the case for now saying only that he wants for a pharmaceutical company in the siberian city of tomsk and would perhaps speak next week just last week british prosecutors identified the men they said were russian military intelligence officers operating under the aliases alexander petroff and bush of the peg casually dressed boarded a flight from moscow to london on march second staying at a hotel in east london before heading to the city where the poisoning took place c.c.t.v. footage captured the moves at several locations including at the train station on the day of the attack later that night they returned to moscow the british government has repeatedly demanded explanations from russia with little result the mother has been backing from the u.k.'s international allies the prime minister's spokesperson said that moscow had repeatedly lied and hidden the truth about the

poisoning statement really didn't give much he he said these these individuals are civilians that was essentially a time to disavow them and the claims of the u.k. had made their member of. russia's military intelligence. and you know beyond that we didn't even see any confirmation of these gentlemen real names british prosecutors have said that there is sufficient evidence to charge the two men they have not requested extradition as russia does not extradite its own citizens but a european arrest warrant has been sought if the patch travel to any e.u. countries in the future. al-jazeera london. u.s. president donald trump assigned an executive order authorizing sanctions against foreign people or countries who meddle in u.s. elections the top administration has faced months of criticism for not doing enough to prevent foreign interference in future american elections kimberly how kept

reports. with just weeks until u.s. voters go to the polls for a vote determining control of congress president donald trump signed an executive order to punish nations that interfere with that election the president has specifically directed us the director of national intelligence made wednesday's announcement along with national security adviser john bolton it follows their briefing last month with other top intelligence and law enforcement chiefs our democracy itself is in the crosshairs free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy and it has become clear that they are the target of our adversaries the white house says those adversaries include not just russia accused of meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential vote but also china iran and north korea. and his summit in finland with russian president vladimir putin trump was reluctant to point fingers at the kremlin he just said it's not russian it's

a statement he later backtracked to send should have been i don't see any reason why i wouldn't or why it wouldn't be russia russia denies any interference in two thousand and sixteen at a geneva meeting in august bolton's russian counterpart refused to sign a joint statement that included the election meddling allegations still u.s. intelligence expects there will be more attempts to interfere trump's new executive order hopes to address that setting up a mechanism through the department of justice and the state department to impose sanctions on any individual or nation ninety days after election meddling is confirmed the white house says those sanctions would be calibrated based on severity and could include the blocking of assets of anyone accused of attempting to manipulate america's vote kimberly help at al-jazeera the white house. the

governor of the u.s. state of georgia has declared a state of emergency after forecasts showed that hurricane florence may be taking a southwest turn that this means a longer strike stretch of the u.s. coastline may be hit residents are rushing to prepare before the hurricane makes landfall facials have ordered more than a million people to evacuate as the hurricane approaches. this is not going to be a glancing blow this is not going to be a tropical storm this is not going to be you know one of those storms it's here in move out to sea this is going to be you know mike tyson points to the carolina coast and then is going to have very heavy rains you know that as steve alluded to it's going to start so we're looking to inland flooding we're looking at you know coastal storm surge we're looking at all the hazards that there's a storm of this magnitude would take well n.b.c.'s when the wolf joins me now from wrightsville beach in north carolina wendy good to see you i mean are people

heeding the advice that's coming from authorities are they leaving. i would say about seventy five twenty five good afternoon to you barbara here it's a beautiful day on wrightsville beach you know a lot of people who have places on this island have been evacuated they were required to leave this morning about eight o'clock i would say though as you go closer and when you've got more people who have chosen to stay probably about twenty five percent of them have decided to get their supplies board up their homes and businesses and ride out the storm but you also have people like i spoke to on the plane coming down here yesterday you got husbands who were trying to come down and help wives who said get home we got to get out of here and as you saw on the highways yesterday people are heeding those warnings and the people that are staying away get some of the people that are leaving what are they doing to keep

themselves safe over the next few hours. i think this is like one forecasters said this is kind of a game of chess at this point we have not heard of any power outages the winds have picked up here this afternoon probably in the last hour or so so most people in this region i would say most people have power still through at this point they're probably listening to their radios they are watching their t.v.'s and what we have been seeing as we really are all watching those models and there are a lot of conflicting information as to which way this storm will go will she come directly into north carolina but she has looked like she is shifting a little bit overnight today and it might be coming to the carolinas and then turning southward a little bit and so at this point what they're doing is to occupy themselves is to

watch those weather maps to see where she is going to make landfall no matter what though barbara we know that she is going to make landfall it's going to be a marathon not a sprint and they are all preparing for what could be catastrophic rain fall amounts not to mention the powerful winds that come with the hurricane hope everyone manages to stay safe and be sees when he will folk live for us from wrightsville beach in north carolina wendy thank you. well hurricane hitting the u.s. on a super typhoon is heading towards the philippines heavy rains have already caused flooding in the capital manila thousands of villages are to be evacuated and schools shut down in the north where super typhoon man could to is due to hit on saturday it's that expected to move on to taiwan and then possibly towards hong kong and mainland china. saying in the philippines president through very good at that there has there admitted tree commanders to rebel against after they ignored

his order to arrest the high profile critic senator i'm telling you three young is says the arrest order is a desperate attempt to hold on to power jimmy darling dogan reports there for many . what was the widely anticipated conference ended up becoming one of the most jarring interviews ever held by president to the good the terry for most of the one hour and a half long interview vented his anger on the philippine military exposing the strained relationship between soldiers and their commander in chief. started now don't let this drag you plan to sabotage me then go ahead and be firing a few rounds won't work then assassinate i'll be happy to die in your hands he accuses soldiers of sighting with a staunch critic and younis the senator accuses the cat there and his family of amassing illegal which is denied chilian as was also one of the proponents of

a complaint in the international criminal court against the terror to swore on illegal drugs. that they ordered arrest which the military did not carry out. their youngness was amy the officer one of the many to mutiny when gloria arroyo was president despite his detention for seven years he complained and won a senate seat he was granted amnesty by former president binney lucky no seven years ago there to revoked the amnesty see it was avoided but documents show the amnesty was legal and absolute and because an amnesty is your revokable juliana's says what the teacher has done is unprecedented and only done by a desperate leader there will probably. be psychological for the commander in chief because they didn't expect that from their commander in

chief who will actually incite so the. against against himself and it threatens to split the military institution that has. gone through major reforms over the last thirty years critics say it is unheard of for a president to challenge his commanders to oust him the politics of the a.f.p. is that all paid client relationship he dispenses favors he dispenses all round people would think that the us logical thrown around but i look at this person us a calculating person and he is not to be underestimated the senate leadership has given to me on this sanctuary so he remains within the premises for now meanwhile the military has made a commitment that it will only follow orders that are in line with the constitution still many here are worried they say do terror does relentless pursuit of

genuineness no matter the costs may further this taboo lies the country's already fragile democracy dog and al jazeera mandela so to come in this news hour the young victims of afghanistan's unexploded bombs we read seven children from one family who were all lost in. the european parliament gives a big thumbs up to a new law tightening copyright rules on material uploaded to be internet and then sport find out what happens when a sprinting champion is put in a virtual zero gravity one five. get a welcome back to international weather forecast or first we're going to start here across the u.k. you can see on the satellite image we have this big mess of clouds that are

settling down really across parts of the london area but we are going to be seeing a change over the next few days that's going to be pushing more towards the south we're going to sing some windy conditions so it's going to be a little bit cooler than that's going to settle here across the northern part of europe so now you should see these temperatures berlin. fifteen degrees here but if you go a little bit further to the south much warmer in vienna twenty eight degrees and then much windy across much of the u.k. and we're going to be seeing eighteen degrees but down towards the southwest towards madrid it is still warm and cloudy and those clouds are also extending across parts of north western africa and in these clouds we've been seeing quite a bit of rain charge to be anywhere from algeria all the way up here towards tunisia those showers will continue really across the atlas mountains over the next few days temperature wise about average for this time of day we do expect to see a little bit more sun as we go towards friday and those temperatures will be coming up tonight about thirty degrees in algiers at about twenty nine and then down here across much of central africa heavy rain showers across much of the kosik specially a new tropical wave possibly developing out here towards the west but across the

coast twenty nine in lagos with some to few and rainy twenty seven. in germany's capital there is a barber like no other i'm going to put it to. marcos from across what you have. but as he said he changes he's moving with the time. and going on the road. the stories we don't often hear are told by the people who live there. the master barber of berlin this is you know on al-jazeera. when people need to be heard. but it's been a refugio most sold as long as it's not a no more short and the story needs to be told we do stories that have impact on society i testified in the court of law to make sure that the bad guys behind bars

al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring new documentaries and live news on air and on the. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the european parliament has voted to sanction hungary for breaching the e.u.'s core values prime minister viktor orban has put pressure on courts and non-governmental groups while refusing to take an asylum seekers' a un commission of inquiry says internal displacement in syria this year has

reached record levels more than a million people have been forced from their homes and russian president vladimir putin says authorities have located the two men accused by the u.k. of the circus creep up poisoning putin says both men are. well there we put in that was speaking at the eastern economic forum in vladivostok where he's been meeting leaders from russia's eastern neighbors he vowed to work with his chinese counterparts ping to ensure regional economic stability and he sprang a surprise on the japanese prime minister for a chalons is following events in russia's most easterly major city. lot of our stock has been russia's window on the pacific since ships like these come on to the oceans the city's name means owner of the east that's more ambition the reality there have always been larger powers in the region a lot of our stock is much closer to beijing tokyo and seoul than it is to russia's

own capital moscow so it makes sense to reach out to asian countries from here and since russia's isolation from the west escalated in two thousand and fourteen has become a strategic necessity creating the eastern economic forum was one response to that shift flying in for the fourth year of the annual forum with the prime ministers of japan and south korea as well as the presidents of mongolia and china the main focus of russia's attention. we should strengthen trust for the sake of peace and stability in the region even complex changes underway in the international situation the politics of force unilateral approaches and protectionism are rearing their heads that was clearly a dig at u.s. trade policy but the americans have allies here the japanese prime minister spoke up for the u.s. president's approach to north korea. president donald trump engaged in confidence building with chairman kim jong il he also shared with him the broad future that

would emerge through denuclearization and urged him to take action and doing so he dumps a new approach that no one else had tried before with russia and japan have a seventy year old dispute over the korea that prevented them formally ending the second world war but saying the idea had just occurred to him putin suggested turning the disagreement on its head that would lead sign a peace treaty not now but before the end of the year without any preconditions i haven't asked the audience to support me with applause but i'm grateful for the support ok and then based on this peace treaty trying to solve all the remaining issues later as friends putin likes to throw such surprises it. highlights what events like this one can be used for as the name implies this forum is all stance really about economics but the presence of so many presidents and prime minister shows it has diplomatic value to this is a chance for them to meet and talk together in a relatively unpressurized environment snopes summit stolid genders here and as

a useful way to explore reasonal problems and perhaps find solutions that have otherwise eluded them retellings al-jazeera but it will stop more than three and a half thousand children were sexually abused by more than one thousand six hundred roman catholic priests in germany between one thousand nine hundred forty six and two thousand and fourteen that's according to a leaked report published by spiegel online the revelation comes after pope francis called on senior bishops from around the world to attend the meeting in february to discuss the problem of sexual abuse in the church. the best told from tuesday a suicide bomb attack in eastern afghanistan has now risen to sixty eight with one hundred and sixty five injured the attack targeted protesters demanding that remove all of a police officer in one province two thousand and eighteen as seen a spike in attacks in afghanistan with at least seven thousand eight hundred civilians killed in the first six months of the year thousands more have been

wounded often with life changing injuries and many of them are children shiloh bellis reports from kabul. the clunk of the missile against the parched afghan countryside. a village seven children between four and thirteen years old from a single family lost limbs one morning in april. in. mathematics we found a bomb and started playing with one of exploded i saw blood everywhere i didn't feel anything at the time when i looked at my leg it was cut off and then i fell to the ground. for the go families villages in eastern province on the frontlines in the fights between the taliban and government forces the children heard gunfire and explosions during the night the next morning they found an unexploded bomb curious

they played with us and they got in my heart that i hope the side of the explosion ran towards the place but i saw the children and they were scattered here and there after a while. that one of my daughters a diet about seven of my children lost their legs the explosion killed four people including four year old twin sister and her mother bridged nearly all casualties from unexploded bombs in afghanistan children. many like the go family flocked to cities for treatment turning to the red cross and charities for long term support. some going to fly fast official limbs to be fitted when they stumps of heels the goal children are preferred to be harm in the village worried they'll get behind in school if they're away for too long. these problems we would like that there should be peace in the fighting should and because there is no benefit in the fighting what i have lost all others like me have lost many more

will also lose thirteen year olds on the far right now a double amputee and will ship bound carries on. now you can see all seven of us are amputees if the peace comes in our country it won't bring us back our legs but it will benefit all the people. in the province peace is particularly elusive there are many taliban in ice who finds this they fight each other and they fight the government from april to june one hundred sixty civilians were killed in the half and nearly five hundred wounded most of those casualties were no accident . i saw last three courses of the fight is an afghan and american operations last year in response they targeted civilians and urban areas a strategy born out of desperation but one that civilians must live with balas out zira. authorities in the democratic republic of congo and the world health

organization say they are boosting the response of the bowl outbreak in north eastern congo it follows the best of another patient in. north kivu province health officials say the city of one million people is a new hot spot for the virus so far more than two hundred people have been vaccinated including people who came into contact with a confirmed case this is a bold outbreak has so far killed eighty five people since july. dignitaries are paying their last respects to kofi annan as his body lies in state in the guinea and capital accra crowds gathered at the a crime international conference center where a man's body was straight from the canadian flag the former u.n. secretary general died in august after a brief on the school owes the us will be buried in a military cemetery on friday. well as well as voting to take action against hungry the european parliament's had a busy day and back to a new law tightening copyright rules on material uploaded to the internet the

copyright directive aims to make all line platforms and web streaming services pay more to performers and create. years of news content by requiring them to buy licenses it would also make large internet companies such as you tube and facebook install upload filters to monitor users making the platforms responsible for any breach of copyright the proposals are backed by filmmakers such as mike lee music industry bodies and stars such as paul mccartney who say internet firms are profiting from their work without paying for it but lined up against it alongside you tube and the big tech firms are internet freedom campaigners and some musicians tim berners lee says it will restrict free expression while former fuji likely believes performers should embrace the online world of means sampling and remake sing joining us now via skype from outside los angeles's cory doctorow he's

a bestselling novelist and a leading activists for the liberalization of copyright laws sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera i mean it does seem fair doesn't know that people who create the content should make some money when that content is then shared especially when other platforms are making money from it you don't agree explain to us why. oh no i certainly do agree as a working artist the more of the income generated by my work that i can get compensated for the better and indeed the actual overall revenues from the entertainment industry have just gone up what's changed is the slice of the income going to artists are slice keeps getting smaller and i think that that has a lot more to do with consolidation in both the tech and entertainment industry than it does with piracy there's not much evidence that the few pennies and nickels that are sliding through our hands because someone has used our content in some kind of content farm or spam or something that's attracting ads is the main culprit

where at the same time you know you see works that generate tons of money through streaming or what have you and either the streaming company doesn't send any money to the label or the label gets the money and trowsers it and says that their deal with the artist means that they don't have to send much on to the artist ok there's two main stumbling blocks with this e.u. legislation one is the upload failed has the other is the link tax so let's just start with the upload filter was briefly just explain to us again what they are and what you see the problem with them. so under this rule everyone who provides a forum where the public can make works available where you can upload code or photos or videos or text or you know even something as small as a tweet that's going to have to be filtered against a database of known copyrighted works and anyone can add anything to that database and have it censored across europe whether or not they have any proof that they own the copyright to it and these systems are going to just do exact matching they're

going to do fuzzy matching so they're going to say well this looks kind of like a copyrighted work i know that's already a problem on platforms like facebook and you tube where they've already done this so we can kind of see how it's going to work out you have classical pianist for example who perform compositions by people like brahms and beethoven who've been dead for centuries and because any competent performance of those piano pieces sounds pretty much the same they get flagged up as being an infringement of sony's copyright and so sony gets to automatically claim copyright but these people can only make their works available if they get in line behind everyone else who's been flagged in the filters and beg for a human being to review their case and to believe that they play that piece on their own piano with their own hands this is going to get a lot worse though because it's not just videos on you tube and facebook this is going to be everything you've ever posted and everything that you might want to post this is the online educational materials you get death condolences you send to

a loved one. kindergarten homework that your kid puts online because she's proud of the drawing she's done it's all going to be filtered against these copyright filters and every false positive is going to be an opportunity for you to get back in line and beg someone on the platforms for permission to make your work public most of the upload for i mean you've given a lot of examples but mainly people tend to talk about music as the product that gets you know that usually gets discussed the most the length x. though would also affect news and that would create another set of problems what are they. yeah so the idea here is that a newspaper will get to decide who can link to its content and therefore who can criticize its content who can discuss its content they can charge anything they want for that license to link and if you're on a platform and you want to link to something that's in the news your ability to do so will be contingent on whether the people who own the platform negotiated a license with the people who own the site the directors very badly written it

doesn't include a definition really of link it says using more than one consecutive word from the article as an on a loud link it also doesn't tell you what a new site is all twenty eight member sites will get to make up their own definition of a news site which means that we're going to race to the bottom where the platforms comply with the most restrictive definition of what constitutes the news and there's many problems with this for one thing it's going to snuff out a lot of the smaller sites where news is published but it includes commentary and people won't be able to get licenses to lincoln for their commentary which means fewer opportunities for working journalists but it also means that fake news which is going to be. posted on sites that are you know owned by shadowy figures who are never going to send a demand letter for linking to them that's that news will be readily linkable whereas the official rebuttals from reliable news sources will only be linkable if you have permission so if you're on some fringy site where you're talking with your friends and one of them post something ridiculous like you know vaccines cause

autism or you know refugees are implicated in more crimes than native born people and you want to rebut them with an article that's from a reliable source.