war on fossil fuels and then sports a hero's welcome back in japan for u.s. open champion naomi osaka. one two. but first the u.n. is warning that hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance as fighting escalates in the port city of data yemeni forces backed by the saudi erotic coalition have seized the main road into the city it's one of the main who the supply routes linking to the rebel held capital who the fighters have been downplaying before it saying that they've repelled government forces and stopped their progress and to simmons's more now from neighboring djibouti. it's now becoming clearer that the fighting is escalating around the red sea port of data and hooty rebels have tried to repel the u.a.e. saudi led attacks but without success it seems armed there has been

a cut in the supply line between the port and the rebel held capital sana'a now that has massive implications because say the children say millions of children's lives are at risk because of this with food supplies not getting through and other supplies medicine along with the vital supplies for the hoochie rebel fighters as this fighting goes on the attempts at getting some sort of dialogue revived by a lot of gryphus the u.n. special envoy goes on he's in the amount of capital muscat and he's been talking to a delegation of who is the delegation that was meant to go to geneva led by mohammed abdulsalam and he has said that some sort of dialogue will continue there is nothing substantive coming out of these talks publicly anyway whether or not he goes on to sign or is unclear but he is destined for riyadh and

time is going by at a rapid rate with all this fighting escalating and this critical situation that gryphus himself warned about the economy plummeting and the danger of more deaths not through fighting but through farm in right there for everyone to see but then what does everyone do it is a very very dangerous situation. more than eleven million yemeni children are already facing food shortages that's according to unicef representative in the war torn country right so rely on those says the conflict has made yemen a living hell for its children with one point eight million suffering from malnutrition the saudi led coalition has imposed stringent measures on imports into yemen to prevent the who these from smuggling weapons but this is slow the flow of commercial goods and vital aid into the country myanmar's leader and son suchi says in hindsight her government could have handled the raw hinge

a crisis better seven hundred thousand range of muslims that fled the military crackdown in rakhine state in the last year un investigators say there were mass killings and gang rapes but an international meeting in vietnam sochi defended the security forces when he is in hanoi for us. appearance at the world economic forum on southeast asia in hanoi was the first international speaking engagement since a united nations report was released last month that called for genocide charges to be laid against me and military leaders for attacks on rigging your communities in reclined state that report was also very critical of aung san suu kyi and government for their failure to condemn the violence something she also refused to do here in hanoi there are of course. we simply to we with hindsight might think that the situation could have been handled better but we believe that

for the sake of long term stability and security we have to be fair to all sides the rule of law must apply to everybody we cannot choose and pick who should be protected by the rule of law and i have to keep repeating because people are very few are interested in that aspect of the situation that in the rakhine there are many many small groups ethnic groups and religious groups and they don't just muslims and of a kind and seem to be perception of much of the world for example we have very small ethnic groups which are fast disappearing but nobody seems to be interested in them and yet they are the ones who could disappear altogether because some are now down to four figures she was also asked about the case of the two reuters journalists last week which jailed for seven years to also and while loans were arrested last year while investigating a massacre of rakhine state and there is growing international pressure on sun

suchi and two governments to grant them pardons it's not a matter of lou they were not jailed because of adjournment they were to do it jail because the court has well sentence has been awesome that because the court 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 judgement and to point out why the gesture in this room if they consider wrong me and my is expected to come under even more scrutiny at the united nations general assembly next week but aung san suu kyi will now not be attending. nearly twelve thousand people have been evacuated from their homes in southern china after typhoon about it brought torrential rain to the city of st john's it's the twenty third typhoon to threaten china this year work has been suspended or more than. two hundred construction sites and dozens of emergency vessels are on standby well countries across southeast asia bracing for a super typhoon among good which is gathering strength near the northern

philippines thousands of people have been evacuated from coastal areas of the philippines main island luzon the typhoon is expected to make landfall on saturday with wind speeds of up to two hundred forty kilometers an hour it's expected to be the strongest of fifteen storms which hit the country this year. well meanwhile the east coast of the u.s. is starting to feel the effects of hurricane florence it's been downgraded to a category two hurricane but forecasters warn it could still cause catastrophic flooding across america's southeast posing a grave threat to life and property high winds and waves are already battery north carolina with thousands of power outages reported along the coast a message that they don't relax don't. like to stay on guard this is a powerful storm that could kill today the threat becomes

a reality catastrophic effects will be felt outside the center of the storm due to storm surges high is nine thirty feet that's the second story of how battering wins and or little it's rain that will last for days make no mistake whether the eye of the storm makes landfall along our shore or for the south we're on the wrong side of this. well let's go live sandy gallagher who's in wilmington north carolina for us and and the ed does look a lot windier than it was last time we spoke how is it exactly where you are right now and how much worse is a god recently. or conditions as you can see getting to deteriorate here is our again flowing as draws ever closer towards the coastline here it's moving at around five miles an hour around walking pace it's very very slow but there are two big concerns that forecasters have the first one is the tidal surge that could come up could be as high as four meters that would basically cover up the first floor of

all the buildings here behind me the other big concern is that when hurricane florence does reach the coastline it supposed to do that around lunch time on friday it may just linger in this area for as long as two days bringing with it another meter of rain so you combine all those things together as well as the high winds we're going to get category two hurricane carry winds around one hundred sixty kilometers an hour it is potentially catastrophic not just for the north carolina but also for south carolina and there are several of the states on a state of emergency right now so that rain those tidal surges and those high winds could cause billions of dollars of damage about one point six million people have been under mandatory evacuation orders and most have left wilmington in north carolina where the eye of the storm will hit predictions are correct a lot of local residents have chosen to ride this storm out they know one such storm arrives here tomorrow they will have no help at all because there are no emergency services say they will essentially be on their own potentially without any power without any fresh food or water so it is

a life threatening situation as situation that could cause billions of dollars worth of damage but the thing to watch is what hurricane florence does when it gets here if it lingers here for two days and brings as much rain as forecasters say it could be catastrophic. having that certainly and it sounds like it's potentially going to be all for and that's why as you say a lot of people have left now the people that have left what is there for them where where are they going to go basically how ready are authorities for this. well the town is divided a good few days to get ready for this they've been watching this storm come across the atlantic for quite a while they knew it was a monster they knew it was very powerful so everything's in place many people are heading to shelters in la and other people heading to hotels and friends' homes so the authorities are ready to something like forty thousand engineers here from seventeen different states to try and restore power and then inevitably goes out once this storm hits so the authorities have done all they can they've issued warnings they've told people look this is the storm of a lifetime you are taking

a chance with your life if you do stay but otherwise they are pretty well prepared for what places like this are prepared for though is a call me to storm surge that really could be catastrophic for this entire region it will simply flood buildings that will cause billions of dollars worth of damage and if people stay could well take their lives and the gallagher with the latest there from wilmington in north carolina and the thinking well two days ago president trump outraged many by praising his administration's response to the hurricane that hit puerto rico which killed almost three thousand people now even top republicans are criticizing him after he rejected the best oil from the disaster blaming it on the democrats our white house correspondent kimberly how kate has the story. as hurricane florence barrels toward the east coast of the united states president donald trump is in the middle of his own storm.

using the official death toll in the aftermath twenty seventeen's hurricane maria the puerto rican government says nearly three thousand people died there but trump disagrees and thursday morning tweets he not only disputed the numbers but without any evidence claimed they were being inflated by the democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when i was successfully raising billions of dollars to help rebuild puerto rico trump is faced heavy criticism for his response to maria starting the day he visited when he tossed paper towels to displaced residents the initial death toll was in the dozen but the governor of puerto rico recently raised that number to nearly three thousand after an independent study still this week trump was defiant when discussing the response i think the puerto rico was credible and show of success the mayor of san juan a vocal critic of the response disagrees he wasn't up to the task and the neglect

and the way that he neglected our lines gave permission to other people in his administration to look the other way translator this is a political move by opponents comes during our four so alexion campaign in november's voters go to the polls to decide which political party will control congress and whether they wish for trump's agenda to continue can really help at al-jazeera washington. california governor jerry brown has kicked off a climate change summit in san francisco same president trump will likely be remembered as a liar and a fool when it comes to the environment the summit is to some extent an act of rebellion against the trumpet ministration and for california the stakes are high it's seen record wildfires this year and vast areas of coastline a vulnerable to rising sea levels as old reynolds now reports 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 assessment 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 and 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 marginalized people the poor are going to be hit by the apocalyptic putra like the poor are always hit by any a cut of pocalypse harder and worse aging infrastructure like this major dam that nearly failed last year will be heavily stressed by heavier rains and

flooding associated with the change in 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 and 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 still to come on this news hour sixty years on the french president has made state responsibility in the torture of an activist to dealing algeria's independence war we're going to look at the impact argentina's financial crisis is having on the country's indigenous communities plus paul will be here with the details of the world's first foot drupal tale wait for the mountain bike what is that that's

coming it's. going to welcome back to your national weather forecast for here across europe we are watch some clouds passing through parts of the mediterranean over italy that's going to provide some rains across the region as we go towards the end of the week and probably into the beginning of the weekend as well also some showers over here towards the black sea enough towards the u.k. we are looking at some windy conditions pushing through some clouds as well london eighteen degrees with mostly cloudy conditions but saturday looks a little bit better for most areas. down towards the south are going to sing zurich at twenty one but clouds across parts of southern france as well here across another part of africa we have rain here to talk about across algeria and across parts of morocco robot seeing twenty six degrees you're seeing some rain showers in

your forecast up to the north towards tunisia and tunis we're seeing clouds in your forecast as well and that will continue over the next few days but over here towards egypt well down the nile we are seeing some warmer conditions towards us one at forty one because we're not looking too bad at about thirty three degrees there and then very quickly across central africa of course we've seen a lot of tropical activity most of the tropical wave start out here towards western africa and you see a lot of activity right there across a mostly cloudy day for you at about twenty nine degrees lego's at twenty eight still staying rainy across much of the region with the temperatures into the high twenty's. millions of dollars is being stolen in a scanned it starts in the philippines and stretches across the globe when he stays exclusive access to this country underworld do a criminal turned whistle blow on al jazeera. we know the culture we know the

problems that affect this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and we point on a story that you might take an international network for months to be able to do it united nations even if i didn't know if i'm tired will. challenging the voices were challenging companies or going to places where nobody else is going. inscribed in the wild west previously where the average person couldn't actually tell if a post had been said or or in some way does this updated nafta have the kind of support that it needs we bring you the stories the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera.

a reminder now of the top stories here on al-jazeera the two men suspected of poisoning a former russian spy and his daughter. have appeared on television in russia insisting they were in the u.k. city to visit its famous cathedral turkey sends military reinforcements to the syrian town of modoc after the turkish president warned it will not turn a blind eye to the killing of civilians in a province and the u.n. says hundreds of thousands of lives are at risk is fighting escalates in the yemeni port city of data and that saudi backed forces seized the main road linking it with the capital. spain says it will go ahead with the sale of precision bombs to saudi arabia the spike concerns over its role in the war in yemen saudi led coalition airstrikes on the packs of being blamed for killing thousands of civilians during the conflict the spanish government was applauded when it said

last week that it would cancel the sale of four hundred laser guided bombs but it's now confirmed it will actually owner of the two thousand and fifteen contract after riyadh threatened to pull out of a two billion dollars deal to buy warships from spain potentially costing thousands of spanish jobs. well christopher is a political intelligence analyst he joins me now via skype from madrid sir thank you so much for joining us here on means quite an about turn isn't it one week they say one thing and they're applauded for it and then literally a few days later the spanish government turns around and says no no actually the deal will go ahead but the foreign minister says that it was you to confusion within that the fence ministry that that's why the original statement was made what do you think actually happened in the past few days. well actually the implication was mourning because it shows economy communications that's

a reason why independence time to being in the senate and properly that these issues have all the forms. so offensively they say they should be read by. selling ones who want to war. they never thought that they were not going to sell their homes and find it in the side that they need to sell the homes because actually they are already being paid. of course that is not on track that you mentioned before when they warships on where. the. main issue in the area expecting the jobs. related to who do these contracts i mean yes because in the contract was five warships worth about almost two billion dollars that the saudis threatened to to step back from what kind of reaction has

there been in spain there were protests in the shipyard that is going to build these washouts but beyond that kind of reaction has there been disappointment in spain or as in the if we've registered. actually a spade in german war. and the issue is not the department the date may be syria but will general. the public here not why. it's been. so. radical left people and animals that's now a parliamentarian and i. quote were meant they ask for the consolation on all these on trial. one not this one check all they warships their contract all the poems so it seems they are. i. knew that too something to to say we are. finally well.

strong trade relations we. release all the horror relation which. was not. an issue of the new so. if you see the paper tonight rules you will not see you. in that main page or the cyclone in this their actions but not in the main page because actually being at the debates here yeah i mean one of these so forgive me whatever you do don't tear tragedies of the war in yemen is that it just doesn't seem to really make the headlines in a lot of european and american publications i mean countries like spain and the u.s. the u.k. italy that they get criticized for selling arms to the saudis when the saudis are accused of you know of hitting civilians as well pretty indiscriminately but what

do you think the lesson to be learned to after what we've seen happen in spain in the past week that ultimately that these contracts are just too lucrative and that everyone will just turn a blind eye to how the saudis use these weapons. well actually this nice. person is then has the. contract must comply with intervention are you know so they are expecting that this now this is in the forms properly and that's not where and cheap for anything but a baby expect to be. fully in accordance with the international law that's what actually. were very lucrative even the major. piece erebus in thirty four or that it was he was in favor or so in the forms of the warships chris about her political

intelligence analyst speaking to us from madrid sir thank you so much for sharing your views with us thank you thank you overnight. the head of the catholic church has accepted the resignation of a us space ship accused of sexually harassing adults and launched an investigation into the allegations the move was announced as pope francis met u.s. church leaders at the vatican it were there to discuss more claims of sexual abuse by the clergy on wednesday the pope announced the summoning bishops from around the world next year to discuss how to prevent future abuses french president manuel mcconnell has acknowledged for the first time that the french state was responsible for the systematic use of torture during the algerian war in the one nine hundred fifty s. and one nine hundred sixty s. that tasha butler has more on that 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 dan one nine hundred fifty seven during the algerian war of independence now more so down 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 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. well staying in france the president has also unveiled a multi-billion dollar plan to eliminate poverty within the decade it includes making education or training compulsory up to the age of eighteen and providing free breakfasts for the poorest children a recent survey by the end french popular relief found that twenty one percent of the thousand people questioned say they can't afford to have three meals a day or than a quarter say they don't have the money to buy fruits and vegetables every day for those who are less than fourteen hundred dollars a month more than half say they have trouble paying for their children's meals in schools and eighty percent are concerned their children will be even more vulnerable to poverty in the future so a year ago has more. in

a village in southern france this grocery store is a lifeline for people who struggle financially run by a charity it offers produce and fresh vegetables at low prices the service means the shoppers kind of forward regular meals. there's another performance advantage of this shop is that it stops me really hitting rock bottom when you're going through rough patch to stop you falling too low. i live on seven hundred fifty dollars a month after the bills electricity and water rent and insurance i have three hundred dollars level as this on their own that's why i come here every tuesday. one in seven adults and a fifth the children of france lives below the poverty line that's less than thirteen hundred dollars a month activists say the situation is urgent it's why the french president has launched what he calls a new battle against the scandal of poverty so. this is not a charity because it's not a question of helping people to live

a bit better it's all about pulling them out of poverty nine billion dollars will be invested over four years the focus will be on creating long term of a cina teas and jobs for people lifting them out of poverty through work and off welfare focus on more child care. and support the deprived school children and also training and apprenticeship schemes the young adults. is also about having enough money so that you can look after yourself feed yourself and have a roof over your head as far as this is concerned the president does not want to increase the minimum funding for survival michael says he wants to eliminate poverty in france within a generation a goal aimed at ending need and silencing critics who call him the president of the rich sonny i echo al-jazeera bank of england governor mark carney has told britain's guardian newspaper that leaving the european union without a deal could lead to a financial crash in the u.k. as bad as two thousand and eight it comes as the bracks it minister dominique robb

published a list of twenty eight issues that could arise in the event of a no deal breaks it they range from the need to retest the export products for safety to increased mobile phone charges when british citizens travel on the european continent the u.k.'s shuttle to leave the e.u. on march the twenty ninth next year. prices in argentina are soaring unemployment is high and the peso has sharply dropped in value the financial crisis forced president but his government to seek a fifty billion dollars loan from the international monetary fund this year among the most affected are argentina's indigenous communities there are several traveled to chaco in northern argentina and filed this report. struggling to recover from her son's death last week she belongs to the indigenous community in chuckle one of argentina's poorest provinces. he was

a good boy he was always smiling always playing he did not deserve what happened to him we are good people we work in what we can and do not have much but we are honest my son would never steal a looter supermarket he was a good student. if my in was thirteen years old he was going to meet his mother in a nearby neighborhood when her fever allegedly trying to rebel supermarket. in the killed that he's mind was full. attention has been on the rice in argentina as food prices have increased because of the financial crisis. and are still enough to mice says the incident in science pena is an example of the difficulties indigenous communities face every day though i don't know who i know but look at us and say those dot disgusting indians from the north a useless and come to steal but that's not what happened argentina's government gives cash handouts through a card scheme to help poor families silliness says on this occasion the card was

withheld by the shop owner and those who went to the supermarket wanted it back what they meant what happened is that you leave your card at the supermarket because we can only buy the basics so they kicked it as a guarantee to make sure we pay the problem is we never know what we are being charged and he keeps on marking the prices up and that's a big problem when he defects those who come barely make enough to survive indigenous communities in northern argentina have historically been neglected by the states they're suffering from high levels of undernourishment lack of basic services this is the place that members of this community get their water from and that's why in times of economic crisis very desperate need of help. we went to talk to the owner of the shop where the shooting happened he denied any wrongdoing. but within the region is having repercussions on the prices because of the devaluation so it's confusing for us too so we try to catch up to those who came here wanted to

rob us and had no excuse. but the communities insist that is not the case the economic crisis is affecting the poor in every possible way and while the government tries to contain the impact for some it is already too late. the several signs binya argentina. the brazilian far right presidential candidate who was stabbed last week is recovering after a successful emergency operation j able so narrow underwent to the surgery late on wednesday to repair a de janeiro's in his intestinal walls he currently holds a large lead in the race for of cobra's presidential election taking twenty six percent in a survey of first round votes the man arrested for the stabbing is posted a video from prison explaining his motive. squeezes in view. i like millions of people feel.