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al-jazeera. that's where every jew. society led coalition launches a new wave of airstrikes on yemen targeting a key supply route as the u.n. envoy tries to kick start talks in the capital sanaa. out of there i'm julie wood all of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up typhon monk could smashes into china killing two people after blowing through hong kong forcing the city to shocked and. fall in the philippines its devastating
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quake leaves at least fifty three dead and a trail of destruction plus. they call themselves the gypsies of peril the norm they've lived in this neighborhood for centuries and now they say local authorities want to throw them out i'm not such a popular reporting from soap and from. a very warm welcome to the program fighting in yemen's hyundai de provence has intensified with the hootches reporting more than thirty five year strikes by the saudi immorality coalition in the past twenty four hours the targeting a main highway out of the port city which is a key supply route the rebel held capital of some now the un envoy to game and martin griffith is there for fresh talks with hootie rebel leaders under simmons has been following the story from nearby djibouti and a warning you may find some of the images in his report to starving.
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anyone trying to bring peace to yemen may not need reminding of what's at stake nevertheless those without a voice of influence are crying out loud now for help in hagin one hundred sixty kilometers from her data they try to keep babies alive malnutrition could potentially soon be the biggest killer in this conflict nearby families are eating wild vine leaves to survive. or not we cook tree leaves we have no nutrition we will die here we have no one god. i mean personally i don't you believe but since my salary has been cut it's only mean mean for my children even though these cars in each us in drowsiness but what can we do. in her data the fighting has taken another quantum leap as saudi led coalition forces and government troops on the ground continue their campaign to cut all
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supply lines from the red sea port the saudis are accusing who the fighters of opening fire on grain silos in order to claim it was the coalition that's responsible whoever did watch the u.n. pressure to stop the fighting has never been greater the u.n. special envoy martin growth this is now in the capital center for talks with the who the leadership what may help him is a memorandum of understanding signed by the un which gets safe passage by for injured who's these needing medical treatment it's reported they'll go to cairo in egypt. but is this enough to get dialogue going even though the number of civilian deaths is still rising there is a coalition diplomatic initiative trying to convince the un that her data has to be taken for the huth is to be pressurized to talk of peace this conflict is now a lethal mix a very ng motivations for diplomacy fighting and suffering no one would predict the
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outcome andrew symonds with your beauty the sami handy is the editor in chief of the international interests he says diplomatic efforts to resolve yemen's war are getting more complicated as the conflict intensifies. i think the biggest issue is that when you look at the dynamics on the ground there is nothing to suggest that any of the parties are ready to sit down for peace who doesn't want to give up any of the military gains that he's made particularly the capital he wants to insist on holding the capital and holding her data because it means that any conditions that are made on the table will allow them to have a greater say or a greater stake in any future government who doesn't want to actually rule yemen who wants to be like it hezbollah of lebanon it wants to be the main political power behind the scenes the part of the arab coalition is that to go to the negotiating table now essentially means defeat because they cannot dictate the terms they've been unable to defeat the whole things militarily in key strategic
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points so they would have to see these particular conditions to the who fees but for the neutral the problem is even worse because for the neutral the problem is this if you're ford who through concessions while he is still in summer and while he is still in her day then while he is still in a job phenomena and these other cities even if you have peace even if you have a government that comes about in which cause he has the greater stake there's nothing stopping islam or the southern separatists from studying the whole thing model taking over a few cities surviving a bombing campaign from say iran or russia or whoever and then the u.n. coming in once more giving concessions a new government with them having the highest state the problem with yemen is this it's a balance between trying to solve the humanitarian crisis and defending the principle of a national dialogue that came to an agreement over a government do you protect that democratic style of coming to an agreement over a government or do you stop the humanitarian crisis at any cost this is the catch twenty two with yemen this is why it's such a horrific and such
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a terrible conflict because there is no easy solution either way moreover even if you look at the emmen everybody likes to talk about it as a binary between the arab coalition and between the horses but there are many people who say it was naive or they don't agree with you and they despise the incredible damage that saudi arabia has done with the u.a.e. . more than two million people have been forced to evacuate is time food mine could take years to china's going dong province these two people have been killed in the storm really fifty thousand fishing boats have been called back to port as part of an effort to minimize damage typhoons carrying winds of two hundred kilometers an hour to wrench away before reaching china the storm could choose waves into hong kong bringing the city to a standstill the terror she was put on the highest alert level for the only the fourth time in twenty years cranes collapsed and windows shattered in many high
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rise buildings they were clark has a story. the eye of the typhoon hurtle towards hong kong with that gal force winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour grooves were blown off and windows in some high rise buildings were blown out trees were sent flying this crime was ripped from a building and collapsed this is amazing never seen the like this it's it's. nobody walking around roads were closed and businesses locked up hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes in low lying areas with nine hundred flights were canceled interrupting travel plans for thousands of passengers most people bunkered down and study some of those who braved the with the was swept off their feet the city was paralyzed and forced into lockdown the worst storm in hong kong for more than a decade old home is prone to still events and things but this one has caught many by surprise the strength of the winds has treated shoot swells across the harbor
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inundated areas in the central parts of the city. these waterfront hotels were flooded as waves pounded the coastline the only movement on the harbor was this ship adrift all schools will be closed on monday the typhoon is now headed towards mainland china the province directly in its path. al-jazeera hong kong. well in nearby macau the government shut down all of its casinos due to the extreme weather for us for the region former portuguese colony also issued its highest storm alert officials in macau have been criticised for their handling of the typhoon last year which left widespread damaged and killed twelve people. over in the philippines the death toll from the typhoon has risen to fifty three and that number is expected to grow dozens of all this a missing and feared buried in a landslide getting thirty miners in cagayan province jimmy allen dorgan traveled through the area to see the destruction left behind. to witness for ourselves the
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strength and scale of devastation in kg and province which are north this is the town of island where hundreds of civilians were evacuated from their homes days before the typhoon hit landfall. and her eighty three year old grandmother placide left their house of forty eight hours before the storm struck they survived but now they're free to go home. to be poor is to suffer we're just corn farmers and now we've lost her hearing and we have to borrow from creditors now just so we can start over. farmlands and now submerged in flood waters schools used as evacuation centers are also damaged. we drove further to reach the town of get around this is what's left of cornfields here a few hours of
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a thai food took a year of their earnings. for farmers here super typhoon monk a battered much of northern and so on leaving a trail of tift and destruction. across began our and communication lines have been destroyed leaving many farming communities isolated after several hours we reached the town of look. he took two years he says and live in the lean on to build just the frame of their home but it's all gone in an instant. and it hurts us to see this to recover what we lost we have to make painful sacrifices again indigenous communities like this one have been living in abject poverty for generations and they are held back even further by natural disasters that is because the government assistance they need to start over is barely enough. farming
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is their life now would be to know how the cancer fight this story is one that's repeated this time. the damage into province is extensive what we've just seen so far is just a fraction of the devastation by food has caused the full extent that no one in the community. similarly dug in al-jazeera the improvidence northern philippines. the u.s. has ordered the palestinian mission in washington d.c. to coast staff bank accounts vacate their offices within a month this comes a week after the trump administration announced the closure of the palestinian liberation organization office in washington d.c. palestinian leaders have called the move a declaration of war let's get more the story from pascoe haid who's live in washington d.c. hi there patty so first they closed the office and know the administration seems to be going even farther what's behind it all. hey there julie
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exactly we've just received a statement from the p.l.o. of her organization here in washington and they say that the trump administration went last week to revoke the visas even though they had two more years on them of the ambassador has some soon lot his wife and his two children a seven year old son and a five year old daughter had to be pulled out of their school here in washington d.c. and they were forced to leave the country apparently their bank accounts of off also been frozen out the ambassador has not been in d.c. since he was recalled because of protests that the u.s. administration moved the u.s. embassy to jerusalem but this is really an unprecedented move what we've seen over the past few weeks is the trump administration trying to find a pressure point that will make the palestinians basically give in we've seen them strip money from refugee programs cancer hospitals now programs that actually work to try and facilitate communication between jews and arabs they are systematically going through every friday it seems when news tends to be buried and trying to take
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away and put as much pressure and put as much pain into the palestinian people in an attempt to try and get the palestinians to say fine will agree to whatever peace plan you've put forward now the palestinians have said repeatedly they're not going to do that the president basically said fine come to the deal make a deal great we'll give you money if not you get nothing so we see both sides really entrenched here but this is a fairly unprecedented step i mean ambassadors have been recalled in the past but kicking out the ambassadors children and wife when they're just starting elementary school that is going to be seems quite a slap in the face. to kill him their life in washington d.c. patrick thank you. still to come on the program the worst is yet to come residents in the u.s. state of north carolina are warned about the flooding threat posed by storm florence a muslim america struggles with its worst migration crisis in decades we need to prevent businessmen setting up shelters to help venezuelans eva chaos back home.
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how the actions by the kick off in the northwest the of europe at the moment the action is still just on the eastern edges to go some big some sort of wandering around but all that crowd looping in really from the atlantic is their contents of the quite interesting actually of the next twenty four more likely forty eight hours are going to spinning top in here now it's not really a tropical storm because it's outside the tropics but it is named it has been over the is always a tropical storm called ellen and it will turn up as a very wet and windy thing over arlington probably the british isles more generally in the six to three days that usually is the sign of a real change in the fortunes of the weather the season becomes autumnal not
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immediately so still twenty two in london twenty six in paris so things run north but it has taken the energy away from the rest proper a few showers in italy maybe around the swiss alps we are more or less shower free was temperatures still in the twenty's even the high twenty's for some but a late summer or likely there was still run about the thirty's to market a very hot tuna's and a hot and humid out is for the suggestion of all the clouds and still twenty eight rebut that cloud streak going to goes right down through western zahar with more time you're at least down towards the tropics interesting. what really makes a good doctor. to have empathy at canada's pioneering medical school we follow the young trainees for and to create for integration and explore how the experience prepares them for life and death decisions what do you tell a mother one there is
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a very strong possibility that she could be burying her child canada's new doctor on the people's health on al-jazeera. or mind of our top stories here on al-jazeera fighting in yemen so data province has intensified with the reports in more than thirty five airstrikes by the saudi m. iraq coalition in the past twenty four hours. hong kong has bore the brunt of typhoon which has forced the city into shock time making its way across southern china where millions of people have been evacuated to sea. meanwhile the cleanup from the
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typhoon is underway in the philippines fifty three people there have been confirmed dead but that number is expected to rise. evidence in the u.s. state of north carolina are being warned the worst is yet to come from storm florence florence crashed into the state as a hurricane on friday killing fifteen people before weakening to a tropical depression hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses have been left without power people and i've been warned about the high risk of flooding the cape fear river. we're doing as much as you can of the organization but now we need to participation of the public and so we are impressing upon them not to be complacent not of going to the worse is behind us in fact the workers in front of us we're seeing roads in downtown areas float away and all of those tributaries encouraged straight into the river so we have a problem so we're hoping for the best we're programmed for the worst and we and we sit in a strong message to people if you decide to stay and not by about a mandatory evacuation order by three pm today help will not be available to you
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and so we encourage you to do things like notify legal next of kin and let people know what your choices are. now christians let me has the latest from fayetteville north carolina after two days of pounding rain and with more rain in the forecast local authorities have ordered the mandatory evacuation of residents who live within one mile of the cape fear river and the little river which is also in the area and expected to flood exceeding levels from past hurricanes record setting rainfall in much of the state already has happened and officials are warning residents not to be complacent shelters have been open more than one hundred fifty of them across the state some twenty thousand residents have taken advantage of that so far and rescue officials say they will not be able to help people who do not heed those warnings and leave their homes roadways also very dangerous at this time some major highways have been flooded making it difficult for emergency
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vehicles and anyone trying to get around officials are warning that the worst is yet to come. south korea's president is preparing to play chief negotiator between washington and pyongyang at a summit the north korean leader when general traveled to pyongyang on tuesday to hold talks with kim jong un is said to be the third meeting between the two leaders and the first since kim summit with u.s. president donald trump in june when is also looking to improve economic ties with the north will be accompanied by a launch business delegation from the bite has more from seoul. that isn't it when . the president has explained the goal of the upcoming summit the first is to improve and develop into korea relations secondly to mediate and catalyze the dialogue between north korea and the u.s. for denuclearization the third is to end military tension and threats of war between south and north korea and well years of conflict inside sedan has left more than half of its twelve million population to food aid for survival the many have
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been displaced from their homes and farms and aid organizations say that fighting makes it harder to reach those in need of a morgan has more. this is a regular scene as of a hospital in south sudan's capital juba children suffering from severe malnutrition come to this world every day to be treated one of them is agnes a russia's baby girl. she's been sick since she was six months old i try to feed her but they will i find food you have to buy food here you can't farm if his money i buy food to feed my kids if not we go to bed hungry agnes's daughter is just one of the hundreds of thousands of children unicef says are suffering from severe malnutrition here five years of civil war has left seven million south sudanese relying on relief supplies tens of thousands have been killed since president salva kiir accused his then vice president riek machar of attempting a coup the world economy makes daily meals and affordable to many including
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millions of children says the outbreak of war in haiti that we have never seen this number before in twenty eighteen was demitted two hundred seventy thousand children suffering from sick be a good man this is a huge number and if we don't respond quickly we will lose all districts but aid groups have complained repeatedly to the government about being blocked from reaching those in need by the whirring sides. the latest peace deal has been signed to end the fighting and pledges made to allow humanitarian access. witnesses that assigning say much needs to be done to ensure that happen safely with the signing up to revitalize the agreement we should publicly acknowledge it is but one spear on the road to peace but one which lies the plantation for all their followers. agnes hopes that the peace deal works so she doesn't lose her child to hunger
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a hope shared by many mothers whose children are starving he will morgan al-jazeera . london mayor sadique khan has called for a second referendum on brics it criticizing the government's handling of withdrawal of negotiations com says the british public should have a say on a final deal could in the option to hold a second vote you case you to leave the e.u. in march next year. we've now reached a position where there are two outcomes as a consequence of the governance to go sions a bad deal and by that i include a sleeve in the e.u. without knowing the terms of the future relationship sort of blindfold brooks or no deal and the independent research and taken for us shows that no deal would leads to five hundred thousand fewer jobs eighty seven thousand fewer jobs in london alone and fifty billion pounds less investment in our country that's bad for a country hugely damaging to london in the french city of pepe new on a gypsy communities historic neighborhood is being threatened with demolition some
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shack is one of the poorest neighborhoods in the entire country a local official says it's in need of renewal but it's not about the reports residents say they're simply being pushed out. the soundtrack neighborhood is a maze of narrow streets in color for buildings for more than one hundred fifty years it's been home to a unique catalan speaking people who call themselves the gypsies of pappy but now they say the city council is demolishing the area and trying to push them out the thug brutal rip why destroy our history this is our neighborhood we've always lived here together it's a beautiful district so why not make it like granada was seville somewhere that tourists could come and not be scared of us instead no one helps it's dismissed as a ghetto. in the past three years local authorities have demolished more than fifty houses part of a hundred million dollar urban renewal plan they say many of the buildings are
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unsafe but people here disagree with the middle i've lived in this house all my life i was born in it and they want to destroy i'm scared because if this room in the street i wouldn't know what to do campbell is part of a group of residents who say the neighborhood needs to be regenerated not demolish he says the council's ignored the area for years providing few services or opportunities for people rubbish israeli collected there are no play areas for children three quarters of people are unemployed. what we want is to work with the council we want better homes it's a stay in the neighborhood a contractor booked a whole community wants. some residents a city officials haven't consulted them about the plans but the deputy mayor says they've been dozens of meetings on the project. of wanted and there's never been a desire to gentrify the area chased out the poor population those who want to stay can and we will help those who want to move out we're not get a wiser now about building homes that are clean and safe people here say it's not
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only about breaking buildings it's also about breaking up our community tearing apart generations of family and friends. this woman says local officials also totally for a house she thought should be gone a few days when she returned to who should lived in for forty years was gone and she's not been offered another good food they demolished my whole house with all my furniture everything i thought was only leaving for a few days so i left all i have inside most here agree that son jack and his people are in need of attention it's one of the poorest neighborhoods in france but what they want is to hold on to their rich past and have a say in their future natasha butler al-jazeera. scuffles have broken out between police and protesters demonstrating against planned pension reforms in russia three people were detained during the rally in st petersburg which was attended by around five hundred people is the latest protest against the changes
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that indented president vladimir putin's approval rating wants to lift the retirement age from sixty to sixty five men and fifty five to sixty two women. the russian activist group pussy riot says one of its members has arrived in germany for medical treatment after reportedly being poisoned he also oversee the office said to be getting medical help at a bird in hospital the symptoms which include loss of sight speech and ability to walk off publishes an online news out that affiliated with the n.t. cram and punk band july he and two others served fifteen days in jail for running onto the pitch to in the world cup final in moscow the crisis in venezuela is causing one of latin america's worst migration crises in decades nearly half a million refugees have sought shelter in peru second only to colombia and though the organization of american states and u.s. president trump have threatened a military intervention in venezuela to ease the crisis the mass exodus hasn't
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stopped yet as mariana sanchez reports now from lima peru the ins are forming their own ways to help the new arrivals. on the floor or bunk beds alongside each other more than one hundred seventy venezuelans sharing three bedrooms two bathrooms and every single space there is left in this makeshift shelter on the outskirts of lima. says he feels lucky to be here when a million dollar win this year i feel blessed because a lot of people have to sleep on the street i don't have anything what these people here are doing is great it was when it's all free says clinical mania a peruvian businessman who says he spent nearly thirty thousand dollars to rent and set up this shelter. or use the money to buy the stove mattresses everything i was about to buy a car but decided to invest it here because in exchange you get happiness. in a few months giving us is nearly two thousand venus williams who learned of the
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shelter through social media have come and gone the only way to make it work with so many is with discipline says supervisor a mortar or physical the space is already too small it's a challenge because people keep on coming on our motto is to never say no we open our doors to any woman. the shelter is now run with the help of private donations to be a bit who has absorbed the largest number of the newest women migrants and refugees more than four hundred twenty thousand says the government seventy thousand already have work permits but most are taking underpaid jobs such as street bending for many venezuelans starting a new life here has been much more difficult than they imagined so a few have taken up president offer to be flown back home for free rob there were nearly two hundred in a swell as have been airlifted in israel and precedent to just have been as williams were living and working in slave like conditions propaganda replied the
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peruvian government was the majority of in his will as at the embassy are here to request document renewals to be able to. life or work permits nearly two million business women so living abroad straining relations in the region and leading some countries to impose travel restrictions that's a shame says going in but there's a hunger in the city don't have borders countries shouldn't impose restrictions to these people. the organization of american states says no country can face this wave of migrants and refugees on the road all governments and international organizations get together to think of a regional plan people like political are already making a difference in a sense of self deceit. well he's always been known as a bit of a showman but former manchester united and barcelona footballer slots on break him
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of it has scored his five hundred that the career goal in spectacular style the now l.a. galaxy striker reached the milestone with a karate kick style goal against toronto f.c. the frame of it's now joins christiana or naldo and you know messi is the only active players to score five hundred goals for a club and for a country. well you can find out much more on our website the address for that is the be doubly doubly dot al jazeera dot com. a quick reminder now of our top stories we're following here on al-jazeera fighting in yemen so data province has intensified with the hooty rebels for forcing more than thirty five airstrikes by the saudi m.r. r.t. coalition in the past twenty four hours or targeting a main highway out of the port city which is a key supply route to the rebel held capital of summer the u.n. envoy to game and martin griffith has just arrived there for talks with hooty
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leaders. two people have been killed after typhoon mongered barreled into southern china bringing to wrenshaw rains and winds of one hundred sixty two kilometers per hour more than two point four million people have been evacuated from guangdong province fifty thousand fishing boats have been called but port authority or hong kong bore the brunt of its force in the city was effectively shot. while over in the philippines the death toll from the typhoon has risen to fifty three and that number is expected to grow dozens of others a missing and feared buried in a landslide getting thirty miners in could guy in province sights korea's president is preparing to play chief negotiator between washington and pyongyang at a summit with the north korean leader in will travel to pyongyang and choose the to hold talks with kim jong un is said to be the third meeting between the two leaders and the first since kim summit with the u.s. president. to do it isn't it once i was there they were the president has explained
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the goal of the upcoming summit the first is to improve and develop into a career relations secondly to mediate and catalyze the dialogue between north korea and the u.s. for denuclearization the third is to end military tension and threats of war between south and north korea. residents in the u.s. state of north carolina are being warned the worst is yet to come from storm florence florence crashed into the state as a hurricane on friday killing fifteen people for weakening to a tropical depression hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses have been left with high power. london mayor subject canas called for a second referendum on breaks it the british public should have a say on a final deal occluding the option to hold a second vote. you are fully up to date those are our current top stories stay with us though talk to al-jazeera is coming up next and we will see you at a little bit later but i.
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hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the country with the rules to largest known oil reserves and israel. until six years ago it was one of latin america's most prosperous nations must when the price of oil plummeted the exodus began first the wealthiest class left by plane followed by middle class professionals. now with
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a hyper inflation rate that's almost impossible to measure it's the turn of those who can only afford to leave by bus or by foot and they're leaving in astonishing numbers go.

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