ethnic groups which are fast disappearing but nobody seems to be interested in them and yet they are the ones who could disappear altogether. down to four figures she was also asked about the case of the two reuters journalists who last week were jailed for seven years. and while lone were arrested last year while investigating a massacre in rakhine state and there was growing international pressure on aung san suu kyi and two governments to grant them pardons it's not a matter of they were not you because. they would get you in jail because the court as well sentence has been awesome that because to call it has decided that they had broken the official secrets act so if we believe in the rule of law they have every right to appeal the judgment and to point out why the justice for them if they consider it wrong me and my is expected to come under even more scrutiny at the united nations general assembly next week but on sun suchi will now not be

attending plenty more still to come for you here on this news hour including let me put in hopes the russians accused of poisoning a former spy would soon tell their stories now they have. warrants is a dangerous storm to dangerous to. millions under a hurricane warning in the u.s. as the southeastern states declare a full emergency. and the weather couldn't stop the moldy storming into the final of salvations biggest football tournament that's coming up in the sports news . today is the twenty fifth anniversary of the all slow accords between israelis and palestinians the deal a five year timetable for a two state solution but with each passing year palestinians have seen chances of that recede very force it has been talking with three young palestinians who've

grown up as part of the so-called generation. it's a sun dappled september day in ramallah families enjoying a public holiday twenty five years since israeli and palestinian leaders signed the oslo accords parts of the occupied west bank have attained limited self-government but a two state solution the overriding goal looks more distant now than it did then i sat down with three members of the so-called oslo generation palestinians who were born around the time of the agreement rita is an activist with the boycott divestment and sanctions movement aiming to marshal international economic pressure against israel for her it was flawed from the start it's going to twist it felt. that. people such a place that if it's just. people will depart from it i think. it's good that it was there that

i think it was structured all of eros are wired a youth member of the ruling fatah faction the agreement was a worthwhile effort was that they didn't get to be also has lots of positive sides to puts us geographically and politically on the international map also the return of some fifty five thousand palestinians including arafat also gave us interim self rule one thousand nine hundred sixty seven borders with east jerusalem as capital unfortunately it was supposed to last five years it wasn't expected to drag for twenty five years that's a lifetime. the accords which were supposed to be the starting point of a path toward statehood where immediately disrupted by a hamas bombing campaign and by the killing of the israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin by an assassin with far right views all the while the israeli right was gaining political ground promoting the inexorable expansion of illegal settlements on the palestinian side came the split between hamas in gaza and fatah in the occupied west bank and

a growing disillusionment with the leadership whose democratic mandate had long. byard. was once an activist but now she's given up on politics and i think have teams however everything's becoming even worse and worse as a listing and a lot of other palestinians are just fed up of the case and they're getting themselves out of politics and they just one of their life a poll released of leader this anniversary suggests nearly three quarters of palestinians believe conditions were better before or slowed the two thirds feel the process has damaged the national interest such numbers may be unsurprising right now with the us administration carrying out punitive measures against the palestinians and the prospects of a two state solution being at a particularly low but they also reflect the legacy of what many here believe to have been twenty five last years are a force that al-jazeera ramallah in the occupied west bank. well the all slue agreement was a pact between israeli and palestinian leaders that was supposed to lead to further

talks laura berg many takes a look at what led to the agreement the accords and whether it ever really stood a chance of creating a promised path to peace. it was a pivotal moment in history twenty five years ago then israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin and palestinian liberation organization leader yasser arafat shook hands these enemies came together for the first time in a bid to resolve the israel palestine conflict and it stemmed from a pressure cooker in the occupied palestinian territories six years earlier young palestinians took to the streets on mass in an uprising that would last for six years israel hit back with crushing strength which led to international pressure to find a solution well a year later speaking for large area arafat announce his recognition of israel's right to exists the p.l.o. was ready to turn from armed struggle to diplomacy in one thousand nine hundred one

a palestinian jordanian delegation attempted to negotiate an end to the occupation separate talks were held in washington in madrid with arab leaders and the israelis and top secret talks were also taking place in oslo between the p.l.o. and israeli academics this would create a framework for a final agreement within five years and establish an internal government which is known as the palestinian authority while five years after signing the accords talks on the final status issues including settlements the state of jerusalem and refugees simply didn't happen and in two thousand u.s. president bill clinton attempted to get them israeli leader barak and arafat to agree to talks but they fell apart and that paved the way for. the second intifada another five years later is ready prime minister ariel sharon moved or is raised

that myth and settlements from gaza but in the legal building continued on hand it in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem twenty five years later negotiations limp on the still no agreement settlement expansion continues the vote and by the u.s. administration and where the also agreement was set to be a springboard for talks it became a void the no other countries could fill. earlier i spoke to. he's formally a palestinian negotiator with israel he says also could have meant peace but there were strategic mistakes on both sides. in the one nine hundred ninety s. between one nine hundred ninety three and two thousand of course there were numerous problems of a number of terrorist attacks israeli collective punishment of the palestinian economy but there was an important degree of political confidence

building at both the government to levels the security level and also societal level. so there were important shifts that. could have allowed i think a successful outcome i was part of the negotiating team starting in one nine hundred ninety one and through that whole period and right up to the one nine hundred ninety nine start of the so-called final status negotiations so i had direct sight of all israeli proposals and i can say that what we also accords did was to recreate the system of control control matrix of israeli control over the occupied palestinian territories in a slightly different form so instead of having direct military government and direct civil administration as the recalled by israel of all ask. it's of palestinian civil civilian life this shifted into joint committees in which however

the veto power was held in every domain for instance registering births and deaths issuing passports allowing imports and exports access to water access to land land registry everything you can think of was ultimately under the veto power of the israeli side so this was an absolute control mechanism which was sort of possible to ignore in the good years because things were growing the palestinian commie was growing and had not yet exhausted the potential for growth within the israeli control system but by around two thousand per capita income was no longer growing many lower income groups among the palestinians who had hoped for much more from the peace process found that their political economic and social status hadn't changed and so there's a great deal of frustration with israeli policies of course colonizing the territory imposing collective economic punishments restricting access to markets

these things were coming to a boil by two thousand. the two men accused of carrying out these souls for a nerve agent attack in the u.k. say they were there as tourists appearing on russian state t.v. often alexander petroff say they visited the in the city to see the cathedral there and the timing of the poisoning was a coincidence the u.k. government accuses the pair of being kremlin agents who were dispatched to salzburg to poison the former russian spy. and his daughter yulia like me putin says the men are civilians as our correspondent following that story for us out of london eve does anyone in the british government actually believe this explanation. no i don't think that anybody here in the u.k. does it's been very much perceived as a stage managed interview an attempt to turn britain's version of events very much on its head in many ways it's being perceived here is a bizarre interview john glenn the m.p. of souls we took to twitter saying this he was delighted that alexander petrova.

were able to see the world class attractions that solsbury has to offer but very strange to come all this way just for two days whilst carrying nazi chalk in their luggage and this statement to from a government spokes person reiterating britain's leaf that the two men were russian military intelligence officers in the g r u we have repeatedly asked russia says the spokes person to account for what happened in seoul be a march today just as we have seen throughout they have responded with obfuscation and lies a clear cut response of the british over what they perceived to be a complete manipulation and propaganda from russia the russian federation never extradite says the nationals interpol are involved various international agencies are involved so where does the inquiry go from here. well the british government made it very very clear that they know full well that the chances of ever seeing

these two men in a court of law in the u.k. is very very slim which is half the reason why they decided to release all of this information anyway they wanted to send a clear message to to russia that they know what russia has been up to on british soil they wanted to send a message also to britain's allies or warning perhaps of what potentially could happen in their countries to this isn't of course the first time that britain has been desperately trying to seek the extradition of two suspected killers is only a few years ago that andrey lugovoy and dmitri cough turn the who were accused of poisoning alexander litvinenko the former f.s.b. officer were singled out by the british authorities under the look of i went on to become a member of the russian state duma and m.p. meaning he's immune from prosecution clearly the u.k. has been down this path before all they really feel that they can do is put forward their version of events that they say is based on fact based on very strong

intelligence thanks need to see its hurricane florence has been downgraded to a category two storm as it heads towards the u.s. east coast but weather forecasters are still warning of a disaster this is the latest satellite image we have it's now about three hundred seventy eight kilometers off shore it's expected to make landfall on the coast of north and south carolina and bring a life threatening storm surge with it ten million people are now under hurricane warnings g. gray joins us live from north carolina jay how bad the expecting it to be. pretty intense peter and we're starting to feel the very initial effects of this thing the clouds are starting to swirl a bit i want to take you out to the sea here and what we've seen are just some real dramatic swell some huge waves building out here and that's been happening through the morning here the water getting up further on the beach than it has in the last

couple of days and high tide still several hours away here no rain at this point we do expect at about midday and then all of those conditions just going to intensify dramatically for the next twenty four to forty eight hours the track of the storm meandering just a bit we don't know exactly where or when it's going to make landfall and people get caught up on where this thing's going to strike where the eye is going to be important to remember with this storm peter it's a massive system and so the effects of this are going to be felt across the region and for a very long time this system expected to stall once it gets added or near the coast and linger for a couple of days here and so that's going to mean and tense flooding in some of the low lying areas and that storm surge is going to continue to be that and so it could push huge waves into the inner core of this island and others that are in the strike path it's going to be a rough few days here for a lot of people briefly gigia get the feeling that because the storm system will

kind of be tethered immediately offshore as opposed to be the moving north south or indeed moving across land that might make the potential damage worse. yeah. oh i think it absolutely is going to be the determining factor in just how bad this storm is i think if it continues to drop that rain for two days that we could see water in places we've never seen here and in other areas in not only along the coast but inland as well because of the massive size of this storm yeah i think that's going to be a huge contributing factor we've seen it with other storms and that's what causes the most devastation the most loss of life it's that water that's the big concern right now jay thanks very much. ok let's take a couple of minutes and stay with what's going on there on the u.s. coast here's evidence well the outer bands already making landfall you know we are seeing the outer bands of the cloud starting to lash out of the coastal fringes and

that rain is coming in flooding will be the major issue page if you take a look at the satellite picture look how big this is it is absolutely massive it's going to push its way towards the coastal fringes not really see much sign of an eye on it now you notice starting to where we can slightly in terms of the winds but in terms of the rain here we go then we are looking at major problems sustained winds hundred seventy five kilometers per hour going to a category two storm and then make this sort of sideways s shape so it's going to hit just a close to where wilmington southern parts of north carolina then run along the south carolina coast before just not its way further west was with those flooding rains so we are going to see catastrophic flooding that is certainly likely storm surge two to four meters rainfall up to six hundred meters could be more than that has to be said and we are going to go through at least two high tides that's going to add to the problems and this is an indication of just how slow moving the system

is actually there you go this is the way this is pretty much now friday night is a little further westwards you go on into where sas day and he really hasn't made too much progress lots more rain two or three days for some people seeing that heavy and flooding rain and then it will gradually make its way further inland peter. ever so many things still to come here on the news hour we look at poverty in a country you might not associate with the word fronts. and the u.k.'s government offers businesses advice on how to handle a new deal breaks it. up in sports a hero's welcome back in japan for the u.s. open champion naomi osaka and a lucrative one to. wear on line this isn't some abstract fish when you need to pay attention to their stops or if you join us on sacked rather than stopping terrorism is creating it this is

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welcome back let's recap your headlines so far here on the news hour the russian president vladimir putin has inspected troops taking part in the biggest war games since the fall of the soviet union mr putin says the armed forces will continue to be strengthened but russia is he said a peace loving state which doesn't have aggressive plans the saudi m r r t coalition of war in yemen says it continues to control a main route supplying the important port of who data the fighters are underplaying the report saying they've repelled government forces the u.n. envoy to yemen is set to visit samar to revive the ceasefire talks. the un humanitarian coordinator for syria says nearly forty thousand to fled it lives and government and russian airstrikes intensified last week pan osman says is calling

for all parties involved in to stop hostilities and express the need for further humanitarian aid to be brought into the rebel held enclave. pope francis is inviting bishops from around the world to discuss sex abuse by catholic clergy the church is in broiled in scandals in many countries including the u.s. where its alleged church leaders overlooked allegations against a former cardinal to allow his promotion other countries include germany where a leaked report says sixteen hundred priests sexually abused nearly four thousand children since the second world war pope francis visited ireland last month to meet survivors and to apologize for decades of abuse police in chile raided church headquarters in santiago last month detectives are investigating more than one hundred clergy for sex crimes and cover ups in australia and archbishop phillip wilson became the most senior catholic cleric found guilty of concealing child sex

abuse a five year inquiry uncovered what government leaders call a national tragedy of widespread crimes and in the storm charley catholic philippines the church has apologized for widespread abuse by hundreds of priests over the last twenty years let's go live now to rome we're going to talk to the vatican analyst christopher lamb christopher lamb welcome to the news hour isn't this all too little too late. well it's triggered back in as so often during this clerical such abuse crisis be they catch up and what we've seen with this scandal is way by our way of revelations coming out from across the world and each time the pope about how to react to things rather than become be pro-active in what the pope is trying to do by calling leaders of bishops conference says which of the structures of the bishops around the world works are

under thirty eight leaders president bush it is. he's trying to create get it on the naked efforts to deal with what is a global. crisis in the church and i think that's key the as the pope of the expects you to deal with each one of christ with a flare up of. the. work with his own souls it's just terrible but can you name me one other multinational fantastically wealthy organization where if the people who work for that organization had consistently abused sexually abused children they would not have gone ultimately to a court of law and then ended up behind bars because the vatican's default setting on this seems to be oh actually we're just governed by canon law we're better than

everyone else we don't have to answer to the laws of the land well many countries many churches in many countries have very little procedures that when an allegation of abuse is made to those church authorities that allegation is referred to the police and pope francis has said. quite clearly that the justice system has to have to investigate these crimes and that as set out right now the problem with teens that in some parts of the world the church has. gone ahead it will quickly put seeders and pro tools in others and that's the whole dynamic and what that what what the open that it needs trying to ward name is that there is that a clear approach across the board because the judge operates in some parts of the country or what's the globe where there is no functioning properly functioning

justice system so what do you do in those if circumstances and that's why there needs to be all approach but it's not true to say that the church does not refer allegations of abuse to be that the it does in many treats across the world you have a crystal and with all due respect to you just interrupt you there what you've just said makes you sound as if i'm sure you're not it makes you sound as if you are an apologist for the church of rome on the one hand and also as if people like yourself or spokespeople for the vatican are obfuscating yes ok there is no clear legal judicial system inside which an investigation like this can operate in some countries you can't say that of germany the irish republic every country in latin america where it's happened you simply cannot say that of the united states where this abuse was carried out clearly on an almost industrial scale and on top of that

the cover up was almost done on an industrial scale. well i'm not in any way defending what happened. then is that cover up or in terms of its failure to report to the civic authorities in the past that's absolutely not what i would say what i'm simply verifying here is that there are procedures that say take in the united states and you lay out an island whereby church receives an obligation in twenty eighty if the check that's received go to get an allegation in those countries the procedure is to repair the police now i'm not saying that that everything is is correct i'm not defending what is being the fence all i am saying is that is that aren't they in those countries ok we have to leave it there christopher lamb thank you so much thank you france spends more government money on social benefits than

any other e.u. country get millions live under what is the official poverty line the french president emanuel macro has today unveiled a new multi-billion dollar plan to change all that involvement once. the if we don't want poverty to be dead in forever we need to get people back to work because having a job gives them an income which allows them to be proud and to have a normal social life i don't want to plan for poor people to live better i want to give them a choice so they don't feel like they were lying or both here because that brings humiliation. well mr micron's announcement follows a new report by the n.g.o.s french popular relief of the one thousand people surveyed twenty one percent say they can't afford to have three meals per day more than a quarter say they don't have the money to buy fruits and vegetables every day for those who earn less than fourteen hundred dollars per month more than half say they have difficulty paying for their children's meals in school and eighty percent a concern their children will be even more vulnerable to poverty in the future.

let's get more on that story for you as well earlier i spoke with yes he's the chairman of the justice and liberties for all committee he says the new multibillion dollar plan that miss your macro unveiled to tackle poverty is far from enough to help those in need. it's rubbish you know to soak over the ball you or the ethnic neighborhoods of our major cities in france better research your must say but also the rural areas those have been particularly hit by the with the lack of access to proper education and jobs and public services how do the demographics break down when the concentration of people in the city is now is you know is michigan on or time low now has been massive exodus from our rural areas in the cities in france and for the past sixty years if not more but today now us cities are becoming ever more crowded the access to housing has become endemic and then if the problematic if and on top of that we have these kind of look at the rise from

the prices of housing which for example represent fifty percent off spendings for the lower income families but also access to proper transportation from the one you the outskirts of the city it towards the center of the cities where most of the jobs are located if that's how the demographics shake down if that's what the statistics are telling us what's the solution what would help the reorient our economic policies you know the french economy is look torrijos and for favoring of major corporations which in turn to engage in tax evasion for example that represents about sixty to eighty billion euros a year but you also how to address our fiscal what is using which was a broken sum for the lower income of feminism and of course of the more you make money and the less you are being taxed by the government and then you added to it the structural in a euro zone for discrimination targeting foreigners to people the poor people as a whole but also disenfranchised communities each you are for example to amnesty

because if once your four times a let's like you of getting up positive answer to a job and if you're a muslim woman or would there is to wear a headscarf you have used in a one percent chance of getting a job another no worries some statistic about fifty five. percent of the high school graduates so who live in the so called the border you do not the how to school a yet hours the schooling here hours already begun so the approach of being thinking by emmanuel mccall is not that of question really questioning structural inequalities are but but again a political stunt for example or as i said that you know in france rob that the problem of tax evasion but also the suppression of taxes on the wealthiest families and thus already three point two billion dollars a ticket no way of from state to. state finances and the other problem that we have is that. when you when you suppress this so-called exit tax for people who for

example own companies and want to leave the country in order not to pay taxes does the really six big been done or is it that went missing so those eight billion dollars that emanuel mccoll is promising at the war isn't just the notes in comparison to the huge problem of oregon frogs and especially inequalities let's talk about the french economy you seem to be saying rebalancing the french economy is the way forward yes of course and i'm very proud of that of course we do protest at the drop of the hard way because when you have these measures being taken in order to take money away from the poor and then distribute it to the wealthy becomes problematic you speak about those people who organize or and in order to stop these murders taken by the government whether left legal rights mean good governments or your top of the standard some people working there we've broken some conditions of people who've got lose their health is a through work their career as well as opposed to do continue working and do good with their hands quickly or at least get some spirit time for their families and

the education of their kids. ok let's stay in france for some breaking news for you here on the news the french president as you might call is acknowledging for the first time the french state was responsible for the systematic use of torture in the war in algeria in the one nine hundred fifty s. and one nine hundred sixty s. live now to paris and our correspondent tasha butler natasha good afternoon what else do we know. well you see in a very significant statement from the lease a president a man or mark or basically saying that the state the french state had a responsibility in the death of morris or die in one thousand nine hundred fifty seven in algiers during the algerian war of independence now morris all die at the time was twenty five years old he worked in a local here in the local university and university of algiers he was a mathematician also an anti colonial activist and then one evening his wife recounts this tale his widow i should say recounts this later she says that the

french military came to the door they took him away and she never saw him again now for the past more than sixty years his widow believed that he was tortured in detention and that he died there but she was told at the time that he'd escaped had simply disappeared and it's only now that the french president is admitting that maurice or diana was tortured by the french military in prison all those years ago and he died because of that torture so it's a very significant statement from the french president who is also calling on all the state archives the files from that period on all the other people who disappeared in mysterious circumstances he is calling on those files to be opened for others to see what may have happened to their loved ones. the moment thank you . well across the english channel the british prime minister to resume is holding

a cabinet meeting today to discuss an orioles for a new deal breaks it the u.k. government is about to publish guidance in case the e.u. and the u.k. don't reach an agreement but the use chief negotiator michel barnier said on monday he thinks a deal can be struck in the next two months meanwhile some conservative m.p.'s have been meeting to discuss how and when they could force mrs may stand as prime minister sonia who has the latest for us from london. well says the morning's meeting was looking at pushing out more of those technical notes that are there to provide some kind of answer in the eventuality of a no deal brecht's it for example looking at how vehicle and environmental standards would fare in this scenario as well as looking at issues like mobile phone roaming charges but also ahead of that meeting as well with comments from the bricks that secretary dominic robb stating that if that would be the case and that no deal.