and other heavy vehicles has reached an observation point in the town of well that and so here's how my district it's one of the closest points to the line which separates opposition fighters and government forces battling for control of the rebel held city of idlib tikki has continued calls for a cease fire meanwhile the u.n. says it's shared the exact g.p.s. location of schools and hospitals in with russia turkey and the u.s. led coalition as it tries to prevent what it fears will be a bloodbath nearly forty thousand people have fled since soviet and russian warplanes intensified airstrikes ahead of a new missile to win back the last major opposition stronghold. the most congested governorate in syria more than three million people living about one point four million turn displaced. the situation in libya is really very different to any other area given the composition of including all the fighters an extremist groups that's out there and that's really brings the need for humanitarian diplomacy for

diplomacy for conflict prevention key element to of course is that at the moment. we hope for the best we're preparing for the worst stephanie decker has more from on talking all 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 turkmen t'ain't its borders are going to remain closed it already hosts over three and a half million people million syrians and it cannot take anymore 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 could read from that that 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. we have plenty more ahead on the news hour including the band accused by bush and of trying to poison a former russian spy appeared on russian t.v. saying the. president back on a college is french tortured your analogy areas more of a dependence bought stopped short of apologizing for the canadian youth hockey club that lost sixteen players and staff in

a bus crash make their return to the ice. spain has decided to go ahead with selling four hundred laser guided bombs to solve the arabiya reversing last week's decision to cancel the order the moves angered activists who say the weapons will be used in the killing of civilians in yemen the whole time of the deal created concerns about spanish jobs and the future of a more lucrative contract to supply ships well let's get more on this now we're joined by kate gold in washington d.c. she's a legislative representative for middle east policy at friends committee on national legislation that is a quaker public interest lobby in the u.s. very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so what do you make of the spanish reversal the justification that the weapons opposition guided and be used incorrectly. it's truly

a shameful decision we're seeing with this reversal that spain instead of sending a red light to and mass slaughter in yemen that spain is changing that to a green light green lighting the continued indiscriminate killing of civilians and targeting of civilian areas like hospitals and schools and most recently a school bus full of yemeni children so it's truly a shameful decision and spain should rethink this and also other countries should step up to the plate and stop sending more weapons of mass starvation and mass destruction to saudi arabia there are a number of european countries that made the decision to stop selling weapons to saudi arabia this year how much of a difference do you think that will make them a school when the largest supply is the u.s. the u.k. and france continue to on the saudis. well it's important that these european

countries have stepped up to the plate and decided to stop sending bombs to saudi arabia and it certainly puts the pressure on a larger supplier of bombs to like the united states like spain like the united kingdom to stop sending weapons themselves and we need to see more concerted action going forward we do have we know that the trumpet ministration is planning to move forward billions of dollars worth of arms sales to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates we have seen a lot more action from congress a lot of interest in trying to stop those sales and that every bit of pressure does help it sends a strong signal to saudi arabia that support for this war is not unconditional and unfortunately though spain has sent the opposite message with this reversal but has i'm sick which states might. send the opposite message when he told kong was yesterday that the solve the coalition is doing everything it can to avoid civilian

casualties paving the way for the for the u.s. to keep these. yes unfortunately secretary pompei o has made a farce out of the certification despite all evidence to the contrary he has claimed that saudi arabia has made good on its commitments to minimize civilian casualties but we've seen that's just simply not the case and anyone who saw the situation with the bus bombing just last month where in broad daylight they the saudi arabia dropped a us made bomb a persuasion guided munition on a school bus in a crowded market and actually called it a legitimate military target at the time and only. changed only said that it was not a legitimate military target and apologized for the incident after saudi arabia came under a lot of pressure but the fact that they've gone ahead with the certification just

shows how crucial it is that congress really take matters into their own hands the u.s. congress step up to the plate and say that even while the administration continues to give a blank check for saudi arabia that the united states government as a whole is not going to sign on and that congress is going to stand in the way and we need to see other countries stand in the way as well in school thank you very much for your time on the cape go live in washington d.c. thank you now the european court of human rights is a role that some of the u.k.'s massive aiden's techniques violated its citizens' right to privacy court criticize high tech methods used by british intelligence that was exposed by american whistleblower edward snowden five years ago the u.k. has three months to appeal the ruling. the court was looking at how the secret services intercepts communications and examine that data and it was looking at how the secret services can pass through communications dates from communications

service providers found that there was a lot of safeguards in oversights when it came to selecting the traffic for examination and the subsequent going through that's information and also it found that there were not enough safeguards when it came to examining the data had been found by the authorities. the to russian men accused by version of poisoning a former russian spy and his daughter with a nerve agent so they were just to say it's famous cathedral britain's prime minister has ridiculed the parents on russian t.v. tourism a says that their lies and blatant fabrications are an insult to people's intelligence may barco reports the two men certainly look like the u.k.'s prime suspects in the poisoning of sergei and yulia script khalid march we are indeed those who were shown on surveillance videos for. example the bad also

confirmed their names are the same as those revealed by british police thought to be aliases and that it is them all this c.c.t.v. footage but they deny they were in sol's bria they get that time of the poisoning for anything more than a holiday. they have the famous. the. it is famous not only in europe or over the world i think it's famous for its one hundred twenty three metre spire it's famous for its clock the first clock that was invented in the world and which still works prosecutors say the men visited solsbury on consecutive days the first day only for a few hours before returning to london the two russians say it was because of the snowy weather british investigators say they were planning a murder the interviews failed to change official opinions in the u.k. a government spokesman said they clear the men are russian military intelligence officers the m.p. for solsbury dismissed the interview as propaganda delighted that alexander patrol

of and was. able to see the world class attractions that soulsby has to offer tweeted john glenn but very strange to come all this way for just two days while carrying not the chalk in their luggage the interview came a day after the russian president vladimir putin said the man had been found and that there was nothing unusual about them british officials suspect the interview is a carefully staged managed to attempt to turn the u.k.'s version of events on its head . al-jazeera. now for the first time a french president has acknowledged the widespread use of torture by french forces during algeria's war of independence but a man stopped short of apologizing one point five million algerians were killed during the conflict in the fifty's and sixty's. well this is a very significant statement by him at all marco it is the first time that a french president has admitted state responsibility in the death of morris or dan

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 what is only now more than sixty years later though the french president has admitted that morris or die and 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 now runs our way in as an international human rights law researcher and she says this is a positive step for both countries just to swell finally broke. i think what this very well coming decision by president mackerel is a natural next step to take in these a very very heavy history it has to be done it had to be done for for the sake of our countries. a lot of mysteries around the disappearances of people who fall during the war of a jury are mysteries that has not been sought and here today mysteries that have been affected thousands and thousands of families and these definitions to recognize the using of torture but also to open the cows will bring some closure

for bar countries so yes it's it's essential if you want to understand what's going on in france right now start at the roots are found into the history of colonization and that's where our jerry our conversation has been put because well and has been used against its own people to control them and you know young people today want to move on and they they want closure families want closure and i think this step is that council yechury step it's necessary if it's the healthier thing you can do and both country will maybe i hope will startle her and on. her you know better grounds and hope for both of our people and i hope it will also have the french and offended toward one because you cannot move forward if you don't have any closure with your past. sudan has named the new finance interior and

water resource ministers in the new government days earlier president omar al bashir dissolved the government saying it would help fix an economic crisis but she named a new prime minister and said a smaller twenty one member cabinet would cut government spending as inflation rises and hard currency is hard to come by saddam's also been dealing with severe shortages in fuel and food. and dignitaries from around the world have celebrated the life of. two thousand guests and wanted to a state funeral and gonna the former united nations secretary general and noble peace prize winner died last month at the age of eighty. reports from the capital. a seventeen gun salute for the world's former took to. the state funeral for coffee and then laid to rest with full military honors. and dignitaries

paid homage to the former u.n. secretary general. credited with helping to form the worldwide organization from the current secretary general since the shock of his death. i've been reflecting on what may be special. to his family my love. your long journey may you rest in peace. with them and compassion continue to inspire and guide and that way we are. and was awarded the nobel peace prize. in two thousand and eight is recognized for his contributions and reforms in the united nations. and also divert to globalization a result of what's going. on in africa also presided some of the biggest scandals and the united nations during his. in one thousand nine hundred eighty s.

under secretary general in charge of peacekeeping he and his team or criticised loading warnings and failing to stop the one the genocide. he later apologized and fellow diplomats defended his record as they said goodbye there when the genocide was a failure of the world. community led down the people of rwanda but there what is significant is that while this coffee was a position of authority he took initiatives to ensure that such a catastrophe would never be repeated. or was also criticised for failing to prevent supreme mr europe's wasc massacre since the second world war that didn't stop him becoming the first black african secretary-general of the united nations on the second african after boutros boutros ghali from egypt coffee an undated sits learned last month after a short illness yours eighty years old is remembered by colleagues and

contemporaries as a soft spoken man of strong character and humility got us president said he was the quintessential deployed. trees al-jazeera across. still ahead on the result a show of force in siberia three hundred thousand troops joined in the largest military exercise between china and russia since the soviet era to look at the impact of auditing as financial crisis on the country's indigenous communities and of course the dominican republic take on japan after qualifying for the volleyball world championships for the first time in forty fortieth's. from the waves of the south. to the contours of the east.

hello again welcome back to international weather forecast well in the philippines where watching the approach of super typhoon man cood as it makes its way towards luzon now we do expect to see a landfall there on saturday morning but friday we're going to start to see the effects of the storm as well a lot of heavy rain across the region six million people are going to be impacted by the storm large swells rain flash flooding landslides as well as widespread power outages could be expected with the storm now once it passes over luzon then on sunday it is going to be making its way over here towards the southern portions of china a lot more people going to be affected there but we do expect that the storm is going to be weakening as it makes its way towards the west here across the southern parts of asia well most of the activity is up here to the north there is the storm right there making its way towards the philippines down towards a cell we are looking at better conditions of course we are seeing drier conditions down towards jakarta maybe mostly cloudy conditions for you but really no rain in the forecast there a lot of rain up here towards the southern parts of vietnam and as we make our way

towards the weekend that storm is going to be making its way towards vietnam so parts of hanoi you're going to be seeing some very heavy rain as well over the next few days holtzman city rain in your forecast at thirty one encroaching about thirty three degrees for you. the weather sponsored by qatar. where their online this isn't some abstract. to their stops or if you join us on sect rather than stopping terrorism is creating it 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 in a short while everyone has a voice and barge in civil society but i never get listened to by those in the corridors that join the global conversation. on how to zero. in the wild west previously where the average person couldn't touch a post had been paid for in some way does this updated now have the kind of support

that it needs we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. it's good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour and these are our top stories in france has started to batter the east coast of the united states it's heading as a category two storm forecasters are warning that it will still cause catastrophic flooding across america southeast

a grave threat to life and property high winds and waves are already slamming three coastal states turkey central bank has raised interest rates from seventeen to twenty four percent in a bid to stabilize the economy and stable currency crisis the move helps too. again think u.s. dollar by nearly three and a half percent spain has decided to go ahead with selling four hundred laser guided bombs to saudi arabia reversing last week's decision to cancel the order and those angered activists who say the explosives will be used in the killing of civilians and yemen. now in washington d.c. the congressional black caucus is holding its annual conference it's made up of african-american members trying to ensure that marginalized communities can achieve the american dream but critics have long queues the group of wanting to be part of the establishment and sort of challenging it she however tons of reports.

massachusetts made history last week iowa presently being a ten midterm congressman by almost twenty points despite being outspent she will now will most certainly be the state's first african-american member of the house of representatives but as with so many successful progressive candidates she built a coalition of younger white voters and minorities on a platform of the right to health care education and economic and social justice policies that have become so ingrained in our daily lives this to obama's convinced are so if there wasn't anything we could do about. but as we now know. when. one group was notable for withholding its support in fact it supported white opponents the congressional black caucus the president's supporters that wasn't really a shock were clear about what cyber were on the side of grassroots from the side of working people and were on the side of an insurgent left that that's talking about

the issues that folks have been have been frankly in the black community these are issues that that we've been in front of as black voters unfortunately there's been a centrist political class that's been sort of stymieing that debate and now it's coming to the fore here at the c.b.c.'s annual conference delegates can see the blast left. a multi-racial electorate across the country and winning with candidates who argue the goal isn't just to fit in to the u.s. a social and economic system but to transform it even to overthrow it but the c.b.c. has long been criticized for seeming to argue that all black america once is to fit in corporate america post tens of millions of dollars into the c.b.c. and questions have long been raised as to how the bouncer affected the policy positions of c.b.c. members from weakening financial regulations on the banks accused of predatory lending to black communities to voting for the militarization of the police or the

expansion of the us is wars abroad the congressional black caucus said it was unable to provide us with a representative to interview. the polls show that fear of trump will not suffice to get voters to the ballot box candidates offering genuine alternatives will in two thousand and seven the c.b.c. didn't even endorse barack obama prefer hillary clinton now it faces the same questions that led to that decision what does the c.b.c. stand for and does it comprehend the changes taking place in the united states she ever time c.l. jazeera washington. resilient farai a presidential candidate had a bowlful now is recovering from emergency surgery following his stabbing last week surgeons in sao paulo repaired parts of his intestine or war he was attacked at a campaign rally by a man who said he was acting on a mission from god also now is leading opinion polls despite critics saying he's

homophobic and i'm a sergeant first of all for the seventh of october where the suspect in the attack has told a court that he feels threatened by both the model's views. squeezers in view. i like millions of people feel literally threatened by both scenarios i feel threatened by the speeches that he has given that sooner or later you'll accomplish what he so vehemently promising for the whole country against people exactly like me. to argentina now where prices are soaring unemployment is high and the currency has lost half its value so far this year and inflation is now at thirty thirty four point four percent that is one of the highest rates in the world and the stories above reports from charcoal and communities are some of the worst affected. struggling to recover from her son's death last week she belongs to the indigenous community in check or one of argentina's poorest provinces. yet lead 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 on or 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 a group of people allegedly tried to rob a supermarket. in the killed that for no reason mine was far. tension has been on the rice in argentina as food prices have increased because of the financial crisis . was all saline up in my says the incident in science pena is an example of the difficulties indigenous communities face every day i don't know who i know but i 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 says on this occasion the card was withheld by the shop owner and those who went to the supermarket wanted it back. 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 mocking 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 state they're suffering from high levels of undernourishment. 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. and he's 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 they decide science pena argentina. a new report by the overseas development institute is warning that the world is not on track to end extreme poverty by twenty thirty that target was set by world leaders and twenty fifteen where the world bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than two dollars per person per day it affects eight hundred million people and that number is expected to have by twenty thirty but the report says that extreme poverty will persist without increased investment in health education and social protection as calling for an immediate change to hell international aids

distributed with a focus on countries which are least able to find as they are in public spending well it's predicted that south africa will be one of sixty countries which will fail to meet the twenty thirty target fourteen million living in extreme poverty farm in the middle of reports from johannesburg. the sprawling township of soweto is rich in contrast while there is a growing middle class in a vibrant economy many here live in poverty one of those people is rosy. she's unemployed and looks after four grandchildren with a government pension of one hundred dollars a month. it's too little money to feed for growing boy the money runs out before the month is on when we struggle to survive she brings the children to this community center with they have what is often their only meal of the day government statistics show that poverty levels have increased since twenty eleven with fourteen million south africans now living in extreme poverty surviving on less

than a dollar a day thirty million south africans live in poverty that's just over half the population most of those affected are children while the government launched a national development plan to eradicate poverty by twenty thirty levels are still rising the poorest of the poor live on just thirty five dollars a month spending a third of that on. boot reported by the overseas development institute says that up to sixty countries are unlikely to eliminate extreme poverty by twenty thirty almost a third of the africans are unemployed often relying on the government social grants to survive but with low economic growth economists say this is not sustainable progress singler on direction and the moment our population growth is higher than are we could normally growth or population growth rate is more than one and a half percent per annum or economic growth rate as we all know is if they get

there if we are in a recession and are sort of salt of. the prices so for african people who are according to the o.d.i. the world is managed to more than half the number of people living in extreme poverty still hundreds of millions like rosie continued to be at the burden of hardship for me to al-jazeera johannesburg russian president vladimir putin has watched hundreds of thousands of troops take part in the country's largest military exercises since the fall of the soviet union and for the first time chinese troops are also taking part or a challenge reports from flood of us talk. three hundred thousand personnel thirty six thousand tanks and other vehicles one thousand aircraft eighty ships and supply vessels that's the size of voss stock two thousand and eighteen according to russia's defense ministry even if there might be some exaggeration there these drills are still huge the largest since one thousand nine hundred one bloody near

putin flew into war to the super bowl firing range of near where the russian chinese and one goalie in borders meet soldiers and hardware from all three countries are taking part. but he is not in this way i want to express special gratitude to the soldiers of the people's republic of china and mongolia our duty to russia i am referring now to russian servicemen our duty to the homeland as did ready to defend the sovereignty the security and the national interests of our country. it's a huge show of force from the modernized russian military boosted by increased funding and the crucial battle experience it's gained in syria the chinese involvement in russia's drills has raised particular concerns in the west it's a sign the two eurasian powers are overcoming historical animosities to forge a strengthening partnership they want to show that if the united states asserts itself in the korean peninsula if they move against iran that they're likely to

come up against a unified front from beijing and russia so it's really about showing solidarity and showing that that's an alignment of interests. putin said russia is a peace loving state that does not and cannot have aggressive plans but nato has condemned the drills as rehearsal for a large scale conflict the north atlantic alliance has also been testing capabilities british french and german jets simulated flight interceptions over western europe on wednesday to deter russian planes from entering nato airspace russia and the west haven't seem quite so hostile since the cold war these military exercises with china coincide with russia hosting the chinese president and other asian leaders at the eastern economic forum here in the pacific port city of light of rostock and taken together these two things show that russia are increasingly seen as its partners in interests in this part of the world more than in the capitals of europe and the united states for each island's al-jazeera logical step .