well that is the really hard part because one of the things that we have seen under the trumpet ministration is an effort to try to continue having open relations with beijing and to not let things such as the president's trade war with beijing get in the way of other matters that are important to people within the u.s. government and for americans in general but you don't apply sanctions a less you think that there is going to be more of a payoff as it were then there will be some sort of negative repercussions to the united states' interest in this case but certainly to have people you know standing up for a minority group of people is certainly something that could be popular at least with members of congress and certainly throughout the human rights stablish went in this country thank you for that ross dawson jordan my force in washington d.c. the u.n. says it's shared the g.p.s. coordinates of schools and hospitals with russia turkey and the u.s.

led coalition as it tries to prevent what it feels will be a bloodbath in syria's rebel held italy province almost forty thousand people have fled since syrian and russian warplanes intensified as strikes and of a new ming assault to win back what is the final major opposition stronghold. the most congested governorates in syria more than three million people living there about one point four million internally displaced. the situation in libya is really very different to any other area given the compositional including all the fight is an extremist groups that's out there and that's really brings the need for humanitarian diplomacy for diplomacy folk conflict prevention key element to of course is that at the moment it's humanitarians while we hope for the best we're preparing for the worst. stephanie deca has more from antakya on turkey's border with syria. nine hundred thousand people those are the estimates from the united

nations of a worst case scenario if there is a full on military offensive on the province of idlib they fear that that's the amount of civilians who could try to flee to safety what does that mean though however because it is surrounded by government forces most people don't want to go to those areas there's a small area controlled by turkey turkish backed forces to the north the u.n. believes around seven hundred thousand people could flee in that direction that's a huge humanitarian effort and this is why you have increasing calls for there to be some kind of a political solution turkey meant tains its borders are going to remain closed it already hosts over three and a half million people million syrians and it cannot take any more this is why the diplomatic tract the political talks are ongoing certainly reading the ground the last three days no airstrikes no barrel bombs on it of sporadic shelling yes across the border but i think we can read from that the turkey has been given more time to try to talk to the armed groups inside particularly those sticking groups being called terrorist organizations to try and get them to disband that is going to be

a major challenge so it is an incredibly complicated scenario and certainly for the opposition it's the province is their last stand everyone will tell you at this point in time it's impossible to predict how it's all going to play out. among the stories still to come this news hour president mccoy knowledge is french torture a knowledge area by sobs short of apologizing brass japan pushes and a decades long ban on commercial whaling we'll look at their chances and in sports a hero's welcome back in japan for u.s. open champion naomi osaka and a lucrative one to. the end. and a first for france its president emmanuel mccall has acknowledged that the country used torture widely during algeria's independence war in the one nine hundred fifty s. and one nine hundred sixty s. but he stopped short of making an apology the conflicts claimed about one point

five million lives and remains hugely sensitive in both countries to this day that has more from paris. well this is a very significant statement by him at all michael it is the first time that a french president has admitted state responsibility in the death of morris or die in one nine hundred fifty seven during the algerian war of independence now morris order was a mathematics teacher at the university of algiers he was a communist he was an anti colonial activist and what his widow says is the one evening he was taken away from his home by the french military taken to a prison and then she never saw him again the french military said to her that he had escaped but she never believed them she believed that he had been tortured and that he'd died in captivity well it's only now more than sixty years later that the french president has admitted that morris or died did die that he was tortured at

the hands of the french military and it's a very significant statement indeed it closes a chapter for her and it also perhaps opens one one another one for other people because he has said that the french state archives on that period of time will be open so other people other relatives of people who disappeared at the time will be able to find out what happened to their loved ones and whether or not the french military was involved in their deaths of them on this thread speak to ream sarwan who's an international human rights jurist and a ph d. candidate in public not at the university of to lose capital in france which is via skype from there thank you very much for being with us stream so for the first time a french president is admitting state responsibility knowledge in that it carried out torture during andrius war of independence did emanuel go far enough in his remarks in your view well first of all just use will finally be brutes. i think what this very well coming decision by president.

is a natural next step to take in a very very heavy history it has to be done it had to be done for the sake of both countries. a lot of mystery around the disappearances of people who fall during the war of a jury are mysteries that has not been sought until today mysteries that have been affected thousands and thousand of sara lee. this decision to be using of torture but also to open the archives we'll bring some closure for countries so yes it's it's essential it's a broader recognition of wrongdoing but it's not an apology so what will it mean to the algerians in and french citizens of algeria descent. it's a first step really don't forget. that the

colonization is still a big terrible in france. that the very first state to admit torture will lead to redress and probably lawsuits in reparation and i think apologies will come afterwards kind of started. with the. core way before he was a president he visited algiers as a candidate and declared that what happening now gerry are was a crime against humanity and it caused a backlash but it was a first step second step less december during a visit to nigeria as a president he. wished to give back. the colors of. fighters back in the eighty fifteen killed by the french scales that has been exposing the museum of humanity in paris so that

a second step and first this one so it's a shutter open that cannot be closed and i believe and i hope that the next step will be apologies so bloc countries can move on the next it's not just it's not just our jury or the rain it's other countries where france has a colonial history as you see this is a very taboo subject in french society french culture explain to our international viewers why that is the case this on jury and conflict dates back sixty years tell us more about the consequences of the secrecy and denials from not just friends but also for our jury and how has it impacted people. the toxic consequences of colonialism has impacted today's friends. in england population and its relation with french people of immigrant background especially from north africa and french muslims as well you know if you want to

understand what's going on in france right now start at the roots are founded into the history of colonisation a storage area colonization has been toxic as well and has been used against its own people to control and you know young people today want to move on they they want closure families want closure and i think this step is that council yes. it's necessary it's healthier thing you can do and we will maybe i hole start over in on the. grounds and talk for both of our people and i hope it will also help the french too and a standard to walk forward because you cannot move forward if you don't have any closure with your past thank you very much for sharing your views with us reams our one researcher joining us there from toulouse thank you for your time thank you for having me nod to the united states and hurricane four and has been downgraded to

a category two storm as it heads towards the east coast but forecasters are still warning of a disaster this is a liaison live images now about two hundred kilometers off shore florence is expected to make landfall somewhere between north and south carolina and bring a dangerous storm surge warnings have gone out to ten million people andy gallagher joins us now on the news are his live in wilmington north carolina and the florence is weaker but still a very dangerous storm tell us about the conditions where you are. well folley we're getting occasional schools here the wind is definitely picking up but the key thing about this storm is it's moving so slowly it won't be here for about another ten hours but that presents this part of the east coast with a huge problem forecasters say once it makes landfall it may linger in this area for as long as two to three days bringing about sixty hours of rain with it the other big concern forecasters has is that storm surge we've been talking about

anywhere from two to of two to four meters which means basically the buildings behind me all the way up to the first floor will be completely submerged in water about one point six million people have been under mandatory evacuation order most have left the coastal regions there are always those people who just hunker down and say they want to look after their homes but those people know once this storm hits sometime around friday lunchtime that they are essentially on their own there will be no emergency services are no one to help but preparations have been made as good as they possibly can be but the storm itself now is sustaining winds of around one hundred sixty kilometers per hour that in itself could do damage but the real danger here comes from that surge that tidal surge of up to four meters and that lingering rain. thank you for that and gallagher and i first seen wellington north carolina. a face with sustained criticism over his handling of the hurricane that devastated puerto rico last year present on trump has accused rival democrats of

the inflating the number of people killed he tweeted this three thousand people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit puerto rico when i left the island after the storm had hit they had anywhere from six to eighteen deaths as time went by it did not go up by much and then he says a long time later they started to report really knowledge numbers like three thousand he added that this was done by the democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible while scientists have warned for a long time now that more intense weather events as a planet swarms up and this is being discussed at a climate change summit in san francisco is one of the not just cities in california us states that is determined to defy the trumpet ministrations retreat on climate change reynolds explains why. more intense fires more devastating droughts deadly heat waves with tens of thousands of premature deaths

a rising ocean and disastrous floods that's the future california faces due to manmade global warming over the next century according to a major new state climate change is spent university of california scientist stephanie penn's cell helped review the findings the future seems dire if we don't do anything the assessment says heat waves in polluted air could cause up to eleven thousand deaths annually by mid century the pain of climate change will be felt most acutely by vulnerable poor and more generalized people the poor are going to be hit by the apocalyptic putra like the poor are always hit by any a cup of apocalypse harder and worse aging infrastructure like this game that nearly failed last year will be heavily stressed by heavier rains and flood. associated with the changing climate california is already dealing with the biggest most deadly outbreak of wildfires in state history but the assessment says

the area burned by such conflagrations will increase seventy seven percent by the turn of the century and two thirds of california's famous beaches could completely disappear by then devoured by the pacific rising nearly three meters above its current level in response to these dire warnings about climate change california's legislature and its governor instituted a new law that would phase out the use of all fossil fuels to generate the state's electricity the law requires california to rely on renewable sources like solar and wind power for sixty percent of its energy by twenty thirty and for using only carbon free sources including nuclear power by twenty forty five it's not going to be easy and it will not be immediate but it must be done california is committed to

doing whatever is necessary to meet the existential threat of climate change but with president donald trump's repudiation of the paris climate accord and his efforts to increase coal mining and relaxed standards for fuel efficient vehicles california is taking the lead hoping other states and cities will help it stays off a fiery and foreboding future robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles. coming up in the second half of this news hour the end naaman rise of cancer and the world's worst affected places plus the pope made american bishops and launches and another sex abuse inquiry and find out why not legal might not be staging games in miami after all all have the details in sports to say with the back after that.

hello we got more warm sunshine across a good part of the middle east a chance of want to see showers still spinning their way across turkey maybe the odd shower there into syria lebanon jordan over the next day or so but essentially for the most part it does look largely dry the showers will be a bit further north pushing up towards the black sea maybe towards the caucuses as well but sometimes by roache at twenty nine celsius warm sunshine to for karate again at twenty nine degrees but we are going to see temperatures again getting up into the forty's for a good part of iraq and also into kuwait into the forty's here in dakar as well with a high of forty two celsius on friday looking at temperatures around thirty eight in abu dhabi a little more on the humid side here similar conditions as we go on through day but it is pretty much wall to wall sunshine and bunny is on side to into our southern africa but

a bit of cloud right now making its way away from the southern cape brightening skies coming back a bit hotter we'll see temperatures in capetown getting up to about sixteen degrees celsius ten degrees warmer than that four to harness but while pleasant sunshine coming through a little more cloud spilling its way into the western cape as we go on through sas day but i suspect it will be largely fine and dry. when they're on line this isn't some abstract issue we need to be attached to their stops or if you join us on sect rather than stopping terrorism it's creating a base is a dialogue then just the community is wanting to add to this conversation we need a president who's willing to be a villain or a short while everyone has a points i'm proud of civil society i did go but i never get listening to those in the corridors of both joining the global conversation and going out to zero. i mean

this was different not to say whether someone's going for someone's favorite that doesn't mean it's true i think it's how you approach an individual and that's it is a certain way of doing it to congress in just a story and try out. millions of dollars has been stolen in a standard starts in the philippines and stretches across the globe when he stays exclusive access to this cutthroat underworld to a criminal turned whistleblower on al-jazeera. play watching the news out on al-jazeera are with me for a reminder of our top stories britain's prime minister is ridiculing two russians

who are professing their innocence in the know the chalk nerve agent boys made three some a says their lies on insult to people's intelligence the men told russian t.v. they weren't just tossin spa tourists. these saudi him erotic correlation at a war in yemen says it remains in control of a supply route in the ports of her data the fighters are underpaying those reports though saying they have repelled government forces. and the u.s. has suggested it may consider visa bans and targeted sanctions against chinese officials over the treatment of ethnic way gores and other muslims inching john province the un human rights panel has accused china of holding up to one million ethnically goes in a secretive system of internment camps where they undergo political education. now japan is proposing an end to a thirty three year old ban on commercial whaling the move comes as the international whaling commission begins its biennial meeting which is taking place this week in brazil marianne holland explains the issues on the table. you'd be

forgiven for thinking whaling is a thing of the past gone of the fleets slaughtering whales to near extinction commercial whaling is banned trading and wild products is to end it every year japan norway and iceland collect least fifteen hundred that's an estimated forty five thousand whales at least since the ban was introduced in one thousand nine hundred eighty six and they want to take more norway has never been bound by the eighty six moratorium because it lodged an objection to pen in iceland to conduct scientific whaling a controversial loophole allowing countries to hunt for research purposes together they have been lobbying the international whaling commission to reinstate sustainable commercial whaling the stocks that they say have recovered and the whaling countries though say the numbers and the practices just don't stack up they

accuse japan of aggressive lobbying and particular of trying to entice developing nations to vote on this side and return for investment in their fishing industries and so every two years i.w.c. member nations on both sides of the divide prepare for a fight like whaling itself it's a bloody business. and his. name now with more on japan's proposal and how it hopes to change minds at the i.w.c. . welcome to him it's too cool or confidential whale the name aside the owner says he's hoping people will find their way to his tokyo restaurant to enjoy will colin airy creation sick to new england and. my hope is that he will discover more about japan's co-owners secrets through whale meat for centuries the japanese have hunted whales as an economical source of protein room

because. of eating it is strange that we can't do that today. the international whaling commission or i w c banned commercial whaling in one thousand nine hundred eighty five except for research and subsistence in indigenous communities it blames what it called over exploitation by the whaling industry for a decline in the population now as a result of that ban it says most whale species are rebounding japan says the time has come to end the ban but we soon rose has graduated. into a moment i want to see which does not respect the best abuse but current situation is counterproductive for the growth of governance. concentration and management resources. at an international meeting on whaling this week in brazil japan's proposal is facing

a tidal wave of opposition that we don't want to see any wives whether they killed because you know. whether it's a cycle scientific like japan isn't the only country in favor of whaling iceland and norway continue to hunt whale commercially they provide information on their catch to the international governing body and the us ok. once again though i think there's a difference between from cultures people overseas knew more about the uses why it's even here they might understand it better and if they could also tell him why they don't consume it maybe that will change ship him too for now a divide. between countries wanting to kill whales for food and research and those doing a band is the only way to protect a species that includes some of the largest creatures ever to live on earth natasha going to. joining us now is amy leslie who's a spokeswoman with the world wildlife fund she's via skype from brazil thank you

very much for being with us amy so the international whaling commission has voted to back a new culture for aboriginal whale hunt should we end the hunting of whales instead of a koto what do you make of this move well on one hand i'd like to say for starters that aboriginal subsistence whaling is justified when it is aboriginal and poor subsistence so we support aboriginal subsistence waving as ws but the real concern is not the coda in itself but is the fact that the commission has approved for this code to be renewed automatically so the new period of the quotas for seven years and the expectation is at the end of that period it will be renewed automatically of those no change and that is a very dangerous president not only for the idea b.c. but for any other international or that establishes right to countries like japan

and norway may have been arguing that certain stocks of whales have recovered enough for them to hunt the whales and so in a sustainable way and in such a way that the mammals will recover what do you respond to that. on one hand there is no population of whales that has recovered to their status before industrial whaling began so even though some populations of whales have recovered the reason why the international whaling commission was created was because hunters were not respecting the quotas and today there is no international system for monnet gene or anything and control of whaling that would allow that how any kind of whaling activity to be carried out the stain of the quote unquote so until such a systemic states we cannot allow commercial whaling to be reopened right at the job oh of the i.w.c. is to work on how to manage the world but who decides how much of it the information we have on the whales is very imprecise is it not that's absolutely

correct one of the biggest challenges in working with generally is that they're at sea and so therefore they're very difficult to count so we have these broad estimates so when the scientific community of the idea of the sea for example makes estimates of how many whales can be taken it's only a based on the best available information which can be many times imprecise and it's not just fishing amy which is a threat to whales climate change is also a factor here when it comes to the declining number of whales in the wild how can this be managed how can this become better than you well i would say the biggest threats to whales today is ship strengths and by catch and mainly by kent and entanglement in fishing gear so getting accidentally caught in a year is costing three hundred thousand cetaceans a year at least to die and therefore this is the main threat that we need to focus

on by making fisheries more sustainable and selective i mean thank you very much for speaking to us amy leslie is with the world wildlife fund she was vice cop there from brazil thank you for your time my pleasure thank you. now the number of people suffering from cancer is on the rise with the disease expected to become the number one killer of the century the world health organization estimates will be about eighteen million new cases of cancer this year and more the nine million deaths worldwide the most common are long breast and bowel cancer would lung cancer the most deadly men are twice as likely to die from the disease as women and where you live could affect what type of cancer you get as countries become wealthier you're more likely to get diseases linked to obesity alcohol tobacco and most camp suggests are in asia home to sixty percent of the world's population researchers are warning that if no action is taken the number of patients will double by two thousand and forty with twenty nine million cases and sixteen million deaths now dr

christopher wyatt is the director of the global agency for research on cancer with the world health organization he says there are several complex causes for the rising rates of the disease. there are two major components the first one which is really predominant is the aging and the growth in populations will why. cancer is predominantly a disease of older age people generally globally we're becoming older we're living longer. but at the same time there is an effect of changing exposures so the risk factors the underlying causes of cancer which are becoming more common also contributes to those projected increases the sort of houghton's that we say to for very much jail graphically and reflects to a large extent differences and exposure to known risk factors so for. chronic infections which are responsible for about one in six counts as worldwide.

we see huge differences in different populations in north america it's only one incidence you counseling to those factors or is in sub-saharan africa one in story so for a start we've just got difference globally and exposure to these different types of risk is the head of the catholic church has ordered an inquiry into allegations a u.s. bishops actually harassed adults after accepting his resignation the move was announced just as pope francis met us church leaders at the vatican they were meeting to discuss more claims of sexual abuse by catholic clergy on wednesday the pope announced a summoning base of some around the world to discuss how to prevent hitcher scandals other countries include germany where leagues report says sixteen hundred priests sexually abused nearly four thousand children since the second world war pope francis visited island last month to meet survivors and apologize for decades

of abuse police in chile raided more church properties as part of an investigation into more than one hundred k. to men for sex crimes and cover ups. in australia archbishop philip 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 or widespread crimes and in this staunchly catholic philippines the church apologized for widespread abuse by hundreds of priests over the last twenty years that it can alice christopher lamb says the pope needs to ensure there is a coordinated approach across the church who are his children but then as so often during this clerical sex abuse crisis been playing catch up and what we see with this scandal is wave of way of revelations coming out across the world and each time the pope ask them how to react to things rather than become be

pro-active in what the pope is trying to do or calling leaders of bishops conferences which are the structures of the bishops around well you're just trying to create get naked efforts to deal with what is a global scandal oil prices in the. state work with its own soul it's just terrible. british prime minister to recently has held a cabinet meeting to talk about what they'll do if the u.k. splits from the european union without the separation deal they agreed to ramp up preparations promising to be ready for all scenarios economies have warned no deal spritz would hit businesses with a sledgehammer these chief negotiator michel barnier has been sounding optimistic though saying a deal could be struck within two months threaten is due to leave in march next year sony has rates for us from london. office day morning's meeting was looking at

pushing up more of those technical notes that are there to provide some kind of answer in the eventuality of a new deal breaks 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 brics it secretary dominic robb stating that if that would be the case and that no deal would be the scenario that the country went down then it would not be obliged to pay the fifty one billion dollar divorce settlement counter to what the chancellor of the exchequer had said earlier that british finance minister saying that britain would fulfill its financial obligations meanwhile all of this is taking place against a background of potential leadership challenge mrs made a prime minister is facing off some serious contenders with some ministers within

her government even calling for her ouster whether she will face them off in time ahead of the party's conference in a few weeks time will be another matter altogether. diplomats in dignitaries from around the world have celebrated the life of kofi annan two thousand guests were invited to his state's funeral in ghana the former united nations secretary general and nobel peace prize laureate passed away last month. report from ghana's capital . a seventeen gun salute for the world's former top diplomat. and a state funeral for coffee and then laid to rest with full military honors. the works and dignitaries paid homage to the former u.n. secretary general the gun and credited with helping to form the worldwide organization from the current secretary general since the shock of coffees that. i've been reflecting.