the united nations responded by deploying a peacekeeping force into south lebanon. known as unifil part of this force was made up of norwegian troops i had this and that for the first time. as part as as a norwegian sewn into. visiting the uni field forces in lebanon. i came with friends through israel then i ask about that it was you have been to dog a synonym with that's now stuck in east. it in most developed a dome and all the hard to get a foot if i'm sitting in that office just didn't get it but all politicians can get a little dotted off or shifting even long enough to get instilling in it he didn't certainly help nor their contribution did approximately one thousand soldiers and the course and security of. this was a very important cause for to us the very vulnerable the first call to this list what it is that it's working cause contacts the p.l.o.

in that context missing in the. minister of foreign affairs but it was the deputy minister state secretary he followed the situation very close at the time though of this of though that the death think it. what makes as we in the. mini. ring when it comes to. the candidate who is bill and so you want to be in two years be the leader in all when there. are some of them in in all the little colonel bishop hears most of the chorus and then we see. the left. mr wells to mean. more. and she's

a mere. let me shake. a more club in norway was more supportive over israel than many of the others and i think. any of the other european states under there are several reasons one of the most important. and the mention the labor party and the rich and trade union there is for this state for all our socialist experiment. almost social democratic state like the one we have in no way. in the late one nine hundred seventy s. there was a common bond of socialist ideology between noise labor party and its namesake in israel. one of the key players in this special relationship was

a prominent labor party member of norway's parliament johann you're going holst mr holst. person at the political level to me out of. the. ministry of defense. he came to be a roots. in july i think it was seventy nine he made it. and the awful lot of hot then why did the whole group. very pleasant did that mr holst's had very close contact. and that it's that aspect of mr hall smith even more interesting to me that out of. a few that. interested in order it was that he already called things he said. that in the us a little prick just soak up the

middle meaningless income it doesn't cover it that almost just before and in. the sultry halls on the. would just say it was our own losses atomically let you can do and i wish would one. you know mozart upward to him and move to the future no look now. in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine the shah of iran fled into exile. israel lost an hour and a major oil supplier. the united states asked no way to guarantee to sell its north sea oil to israel concerned about repercussions for its un troops in lebanon norway scented steeply matts hands long to seek assurances from arafat mr arafat's after defecting on the phone if you split seconds he said i would have to know what

gyptian to such an obvious and good t. to me he said on one condition when i need this secret back channel three said you provided. yasser arafat wanted the norwegians to act as intermediary between himself and israel and the regions in the region government were just shocked to hear the message coming back from our of so probably lived in seventy nine. every year from there you know michel tried to step up a secret actual between the funeral and israel but israel absolutely not willing at all to listen to anything other than the region could come up with from arafat's on the people. in nineteen eighty two

the p.l.o. lost its base in lebanon. palestinian fighters were forced to depart following the israeli invasion of lebanon three months. before. a u.s. brokered deal arafat and his entourage moving to tunisia it was. an imitation from to my previous foreign minister and threw in. and myself been defense minister. and the went in. to. new year's eve without effort in tunis. out of all stirs the gloom if we could. help him getting. the mean below

and they said in the board. and that time. a member of the assembly know this and so this in. turn out to be. a strong interest in this nothing for trying to contribute to normalization of. the relationship between in the us to help with his charm offensive arafat turned to senior p.l.o. member the time to act as his main go between all our fault i point the doctor . he came to visit me because i said this from.

your very good impression of him i believe that the p.l.o. has been to give aid just achievement of our suffering people i believe that the p.l.o. is the most needed but it. should mean old to pharaoh there was the source of national assembly meeting in portugal and then there was some shooting so the. first dog in the lobby. and. killed. some sort where he'd been killed by a lone gunman who pumped five shots into his chest it has never been clearly verified to the world of the assassination of the tawi but the motive appears to be because he was talking to the israelis on arafat's behalf got the call so that we.

wish. he did so we've taken to the streets in face of great objection and danger. arafat's continued a double game on the one hand seeking discreet diplomatic channels to israel violin norwegians while on the other hand publicly maintaining a revolutionary rhetoric. i want to show you how i was going to treat i was forty three was. the omar and they had a fit but the year we had to do this to the store to vote that did. you know the any. that can be death cool if. you know. and don't walk and then it is there's been no man who's been there when he's there can. never been this i was in the congo but why didn't

the one of my work that. out of it is about can you be mad what this to me that. is that is sheer bad list and of sort of that twenty years on torvald stoltenberg will not betray the secrecy of conversations between the p.l.o. and israel we tried to prepare for. but in the fear that this. labor party has started there we would very much try. home where the people from that is traded labor party that you work contact. parents or other i promise never to. you know i only. part. is not

coming from what they say from all the things i didn't say. in the mid eighty's the labor party in israel formed a coalition government with the. party should mean i gave a nod and a wink member. to hold secret talks with palestinian politician is allowed husseini in jerusalem. discussion centered on p.l.o. recognition of israel autonomy on the west bank and a federal relationship with jordan. the so-called arab husseini plan became a model for the subsequent oslo accords years later. course all that was soon to offer by the outbreak of the first intifada. the palestinian uprising which took both israel and the p.l.o. by surprise. and delight.

at the sight of the father. after. the day after was there a lot of promise. to you well when demand. and when that many. yes the thought of palestinian boys throwing stones at against israel tanks. this david and goliath contest put the israelis under great pressure time is now of the essence. in an exclusive for al jazeera the norwegian foreign ministry has released highly confidential documents that include a nine hundred eighty eight hand delivered letter from foreign minister stoltenberg to israeli foreign minister peres stoltenberg wrote that only by relieving itself

of the burden of the occupied territories can israel succeed and prosper. without the broke with. that there were there miles that all the river except for through and through through and. come with then you're complaining about. the menu to many and he added for this to leave you i mean that zeph the most fun. that can feel welcome again and yes head off and you know cool national know i got out of a thing or been a lot of very that's good to do the live in of a state i'm not doubting. sophie the i am not dumb or not that's just being.

you know the wife of the other one of them look at the how do you i let me begin with you know how to be in the livia's there heidi. one of the saudi if you know the field while they're shut up. for of the philistine me cept i want united nations editions thank you ditto for it and i think the international get it. against intermission a huge. problem in which the mad only let the cannibal cop down well more jihad another might have here the mother might have had the weather talent family after you in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight sweden mediated between the p.l.o. and the united states a public meeting was held in stockholm. but only when. parliament. had accepted it at its highest bit and you will see

it between is that. in his speech to the un general assembly in geneva in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight arafat formally condemned terrorism. with the pub geneive. the muslim america. nor. was it. a happy don't you beginning. obama. i mean you. feel. this move in the you or in the. bill english. for bill maher thomas awfully bullish. child could do. for a while issue. unknown. for. as

for thirty days. i don't hit. yesterday in no uncertain database. and yet. i repeat for the record. i repeat for the record. and absolutely you know it's. all your fault of me is done it is. all the fault of these studies. including and arafat had accepted the israeli term in state to start. is a popular filming location in fact when it comes to stories about trucks crime and radicalization tired of negative stereotypes youth work it's nanny is weak claiming

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you know if you can usually in this case of course i would like to offer my deep condolences to the relatives of those who died speaking of your comparisons of the case where the turkish fighter jet downed a plane this was a different situation then the turkish jet deliberately downed all play in this case on the other hand it looks like a chain of tragic events because in israeli jet did not down on. china has announced they will hike tariffs on sixty billion dollars worth of u.s. goods that's in response to the u.s. imposing tariffs on two hundred billion dollars of chinese imports it's the largest penalty imposed by the u.s. in an ongoing trade war with beijing north korea's leader kim jong il and says he wants to produce a big outcome during three days of talks with south korean president in moon is seeking to resurrect washington stalled denuclearization talks and wants to improve economic cooperation it's the first time

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for the record in december one thousand nine hundred eighty eight. and publicly renounced violence. all. over the years had discreetly been talking to the. with arafat's renouncing violence norway was now ready to pay him an official visit at the p.l.o. headquarters in tunis so this will make long. distance to talk to very little. of this crew on the. disc. there will be. the first time. the reason for them is the visit the p.l.o. it was definitely a successful visit because it was

a breakthrough who faces. the same foreign minister told of. the father of the prime minister of norway today. on mission to arafat's in tunis in one nine hundred eighty nine. i thought a thing that a hard. part and no one knew about the norwegians worked with arafat on creating a channel of communication between the p.l.o. and israel. from public scrutiny. it's the first time in a big splendid whole he saw. facts. being established and the idea of using out of each little search institution was the idea of mr yasser arafat's which. during that. they had been plowed or decided which research institute in no way but they they i agreed that would be

a good cover they also agreed. and no mention minister of foreign affairs should pay for it all that was also i read in the document. fofo was a think tank in all slue founded by the trade unions and connected to noise labor party it was chosen by the norwegian foreign minister as the perfect host for secret talks between israelis and palestinians it's direct. he would go on to become a key figure in the negotiations that led to the oslo accords. with funding from the norwegian foreign ministry in one thousand nine hundred ninety five who started to undertake research in the middle east its first study to examine the living conditions in the occupied west bank and gaza strip.

the living conditions of young people growing up under the intifada what kind of effect on them. maybe more on the sort of mental psychological effect of grabbing up in such. a violent. and why meant but then it was more a social context it turned out to because because that was sort of this special ality. far for. it it turned up to be a little more on the sort of yeah more socio economic. i mean unemployment all these kinds of indicators of social economic life so who were the researchers that worked on this project from norway yeah they're very there where there were many.

one of them that sort of us heading. that service down the hay bag who was the wife of. if he wasn't at the time that he later became the foreign minister you on the other holes. i was i was working in this out of what they call their foreign ministers cabinet or the secretariat my husband was with facile. legen lost a state secretary more now you know and i had studied political science in the university we had been skiing together we had been to. university camps together and her husband tell you that lawson i also knew from his work as an academic and his work in creation of farfel the trade union think tank so these were my friends when i became already when i became.

the deputy of thomas donnelly book in the minister of foreign affairs it's often difficult for foreigners to understand the law very very small time for the labor party house rule of law work for the most of the post war period so you have collections and you are almost probably is married together within the labor party i almost feel sometimes called it a royal labor party because they are like a dynasty. this was a very tight knit foreign minister stoltenberg appointed yun egeland as his deputy . and mona you as a girl and secretary she was married to terry or rod lawson the director of faffing . stoltenberg sister in law was marianne haile berg who worked in far phone she was married to defense minister johan you're going to hold. this made holes and the foreign minister stoltenberg brothers in law holds to himself later became foreign

minister this extended political family became the norwegian team in the secret israeli p.l.o. talks they could use that research as it is an institution as a as a from a diplomatic effort to to facilitate peace talks between the two parties and then do that in all secrecy you are very critical about this why. i think research is in the should not usually be in that they will take two hats being double roles in tel aviv another research institute was also acting as a cover for communication between the israelis and palestinians. this was the economic cooperation foundation set up by israeli labor party m p u c balan the n.g.o.s that we were leading here's for them myself and enjoy which was created

earlier by bailey in we were able to go between the two sites in jerusalem and pass messages and come with ideas and even bring the two sides i'm officially together and the hour of an ngo i was involved with talking to the side for many years in a very informal way mainly. in fresno husseini and from is jerusalem. with whom it was easy to talk. by nine hundred eighty nine with the palestinian intifada in its second year there were few signs of hope for peace. hundreds of palestinians had been killed and thousands detained.

by the united states under president george bush started to increase the pressure on israeli prime minister yitzhak shamir the peace process still to come for stuff to stay just the first stage full interview. conditions. this released. therefore look. just such and states will be direct negotiation this results any preconditions that the palestinian ops and some other countries if they've joined it ever see this. plea on peace talks. they have ended told election. minister territories. democrats believe. they believe. everything changed in the region when iraq invaded

kuwait in one nine hundred ninety. the united states led a coalition of nations that retaliated against iraqi forces just two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq and kuwait these attacks continue as. arafat's rejected a military solution to iraq's invasion of kuwait this proved a costly decision before the. p.l.o. deceived big for that's his support from that have got states. off to the void because of. the. support to saddam hussein

that financial support disappeared they came all it's of that. void very viki and i think frankly that was also vulnerabilities. these c.d.'s many more interested in discussing with them often they go for that beef. we of course have crops that elections for the united states of america. they lie there defend the. secret or we protect the piano or basically this she had some all over it's been based on the case may be a little bit over the medical evidence yes. in the aftermath of the one nine hundred ninety one gulf war the united states and the soviet union co-hosted a peace conference in the spanish capital of madrid we have an opportunity. i think

a real opportunity to see. arabs arab states. sitting down face to face and direct negotiations with israel. will let the. idea because you have that show me a young. and normal one of them at the moment and. well yeah. a lot of them for this the need that obama new. manager. our yeah lived. the years in the only boy in a blue with him or him in the toolbar all of them philammon e.c.s. in newark island. the. tomorrow. the men feel we're fit for the steamy otunnu must.

come out a sort of have. a look to us about. the israelis laid out a fixed negotiating position the only people were relieved in the land of israel without interruption phone nearly four thousand years. shafi led the palestinians within the joint jordanian palestinian delegation at the talks but it's the union your islam the capital of our homeland and you just. finds that it's been in existence was present and future the settlements must stop now territory where for peace is it obvious to you and territory for illegal settlement is a partial israeli policy and practice. the three day conference ended with plans for further bilateral and multilateral negotiations between israel and the arabs.

documents released after the conference reveal that shamir thought madrid a success. and that james baker said that the us did not support an independent palestinian state. in. he feels to lucre him what to him and now so far not to have that. israelis who celebrated the end of hanukkah in washington arrived five days late an attempt to make it clear to the united states that they're here on their own terms for spawn to pressure off the madrid negotiations moved to washington d.c. we sincerely feel there are ideas. fully in conformity with the framework of this process as it was made ahead and

we speak with a joint today and palestinian delegation. and i'll be leaving everybody. we met like we might put in the morning. they had as of delegations. we discussed the matter of procedures. and we could not three yet. and i give him an. israeli government shifted and. grounds returned and openly declared the pollution of claiming all palestinian territory not going to see doing anything for the palestinian. refusing to recognize. their unity unity. don't let the can you cite the. feelings. were few

rushed about and i would not question or smell the rust me yo johnny b. you need be can you say you have killed all this theatre and is reddest ever marry more and more angry about these were all distinguished talking about. he said how come you have back palestine if its settlements all over so he had much more under the dash and there are much more. straightforward approach to peace. for the palestinians negotiator hider abda shafi kept the focus of his agenda on one burning issue the illegal israeli settlement construction in the occupied palestinian territories. by nine hundred ninety one the number of israeli settlers in the west bank and gaza

strip exceeded one hundred thousand my visit the result. of the c.e.o. more than magic missile but in the spirit the celeb was to be. part. of the. felon that will decide. their shot a year. one time a fresh i love this is really different for the stadium from all of the rest of them forward a little more for the theater but they were put on top of. i would say one of the most important messages that they got in our almost daily contacts with the shah and hussein in the same binds eoghan all of the palestinian leaders if p.l.o. will not be involved there won't be any progress and more so showing husseini told us very clear. hunnish only possible senate they told us something very very kill if you would like to have an agreement with a palestinian partner who can make concessions there's only one endless and this is

the p.l.o. . as i would like to oversee it with up on the source so they must oversee it with other presented over the palace for twelve percent of the police force is the poor or if they disqualify the p.l.o. then they're not going to have any palestinian to talk to before that washington but that could do for we saw it till is to matthew ocean to work and nudge them out to teenie of the committee were for the washroom to a larger well for the washroom to him. but then the lower front will we do benefit . while i live on. a beam of our boats hillary in new more oil but. i'm relieved was that the man. when nearly the most on that issue membership would suggest i didn't and then why the move for dogs. the p.l.o. again approached norway to open

a new and secret channel with the israelis in february of one nine hundred ninety two senior p.l.o. official ahmed corona known as abu allah travelled to oslo while a campus we didn't miss with the home. of the muslim. man means to matter for. the man a man who was in her last thought about what they can to kill the p.l.o. starts to send signals to us here. comes that we norway could become their link to israel if israel was interested then came back some i will show riff and he was even more explicit and said i am talking on directly i have a message straight from the top yasser arafat. norway should try to do this.

and it has to be direct lee linked with p.l.o. tunis leadership on the minutes of their secret meeting in all slow reveal that bassam abu sharif told the norwegians that if there were peace the p.l.o. would influence the arab world to stop the boycott of israel. it takes two to tango we did not have the israeli side i had met. bin before he was elected on one of my missions to to his friend april one thousand nine hundred two in april nineteenth two we met be in. the he came for breakfast and then which an embassy and we asked him what is your approach to the palace here he said i am keen to see some kind of

a negotiated settlement in one thousand nine hundred ninety two the israeli labor party led by yitzhak rabin won the general election rabin continued israel's policy of settlement building in public he spoke optimistically of progress in the peace negotiations did will be possible to reach an agreement was the palestinian delegation to stop the sh'ma and before me the first and most important task for a government. process. shimon peres was appointed foreign minister. you see beilin here on the left was appointed his deputy and duri severe on the right the general manager. beilin was given the green light to start the secret to direct negotiations with the p.l.o. in no way the point about millie was because no way was out of

the e.u. it head the independent foreign policy we had meetings with us in wheaties people and be out of many many many meetings. but very little came out of it but then started to understand much better the mindset of both parties they lean actually told the norwegians that it's good that they will make contact with later i joined in order to facilitate you know that to let you know that you have liked to n.g.o.s to non-governmental dialogue this was the we met he met. with also before i met him april and later we found the brother in a way and many things were similar to our way of thinking his wife was the head of the office of the minister is that pretty and second is the minister and the deputy were close friends of laos and all of them from the labor party or old friends

missed those told them was the foreign minister i knew him very well and the he was very very enthusiastic about. this he was. minister for defense research in new york to talk to. join the family in september. and in. on the basis of those contacts and follow up contacts. the. total salt. meant that. time was to die to follow the suggestion to me so i felt the p.r. and i thought were exactly weak enough so this was exactly the time that israelis should choose to start negotiating with p.l.o. outside p.l.o.

the force there was almost dead this was the straw. decided to talk to. talk the talk of the negotiations they talked no way no way could like it or dislike it they could. stay or go a new and self-confident israeli government and the p.l.o. still cast as outsiders by the world community. they were now on the secret road to the oslo accords but much would need to happen before the diplomatic phenolic on the white house lawn.

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blamed on israel. china hits back after the latest u.s. tariffs the spy donald trump warning that retaliation will lead to even more penalties and doctors in germany say it's highly plausible the pussy riot activists . was poisoned. and. has real. magic on the opening lines of the champions league group stage barcelona have a p.s.p. for new. russia's president vladimir putin says a tragic chain of circumstances led to the downing of a russian military plane by syrian air defenses it was in an effort to calm tensions after russia's the fence ministry accused israel of causing the incident the israeli prime minister has blamed it on syrian fire and offered to help

investigate or a challenge reports now from moscow. amidst the confusion of monday night's israeli airstrikes inside syria there was an unforeseen consequence. syria's air defense units trying to hit israeli f. sixteen fighter jets instead hits a russian electronic surveillance plane the il twenty like the one shown here fell into the mediterranean killing all fifteen russian servicemen on board. russia's defense ministry is furious blaming israel for water it is calling hostile actions but it was the system some of the israeli pilots were using the russian aircraft as a shield and pushed it into the line of fire of the syrian defenses as a result the aircraft which has a much more effective reflecting surface then the israeli jets was brought down by the missile defense system israeli aviation management and the pilots of the f. sixteen jets most have seen the russian aircraft as it was landing from the height

of five kilometers however they have done a provocation deliberately. in moscow israeli diplomats were summoned to the foreign ministry and difference minister assure you protested to his is ready counterpart have a door lieberman on the phone. asked about the incident at a news conference with the hungary and prime minister vladimir putin took a softer line and. in this case of course i would like to offer my deep condolences to the relatives of those who died speaking of your comparison to the case when a turkish fighter jet downed plane this was a different situation then the turkish jet deliberately downed our plane in this case on the other hand it looks like a chain of tragic. because an israeli jet did not down on. the difference in tone between the russian ministry of defense and vladimir putin suggests that the russian president is satisfied that the point has been made and that this. tragic circumstances as he put it shouldn't risk what has hitherto been

a pretty good working relationship with. sweeny russia and israel the israeli prime minister's office said in a statement that prime minister netanyahu expressed his sorrow over the death of russian soldiers and said that syria was responsible for the downfall of the plane he also noted the significance of the continuation of security coordination between israel and russia that has prevented many losses of lives on both sides over the last three years at the moment neither leader seems willing to allow this incident to upset the status quo or reach allan's how does iran moscow where the plane was shut down shortly after russia struck a deal with turkey to set up a buffer zone in rebel held in the province of voting a government offensive earlier the u.n. security council discussed events in syria as our diplomatic editor james bays explains in the security council chamber the russian ambassador vasoline the benzine thanked his colleagues for their condolences on the downing of the russian

jet but then he wanted to move on and talk about the russian turkish deal on it that's been welcomed by the united nations by the special envoy stefan de mistura and by the humanitarian coordinator marc local but they're still question marks about the deal in particular about the fighters from the groups that used to be known as al nusra they are supposed to leave it live how's that going to happen why would they leave. where are they supposed to go and who is going to force them to leave if they won't leave a york with james if exactly day one i've been reading myself believe both turkey and russia and they are going to provide us with some type of anthem i think turkey in particular seemed to be given by russia with both the believe you're finding a way to answer your point and to you undersecretary general you cautioned that

this deal might just be a stay of execution could you possibly expound to us what it would look like if there was full scale fighting in the loop and could the un cope let me give you james a very clear and direct response to your question the you the u.n. and the fashion organizations absolutely could not cope could not prevent enormous loss of civilian life. countless numbers of children and if there were a massive military onslaught that would be the inevitable consequence of a massive military and civil be huge loss of life on a scale that you know we've not seen for a very very long time anywhere in the world and mr de mistura made it clear that he was continuing his efforts to restart political negotiations he said he was still trying to form a committee to come up with a new constitution for syria but that's an effort that's been going on for months

the latest on the u.n. there but so how is russian turkey's deal going down on the ground itself in syria stephanie decker has more now from pakistan near turkey's border with syria. as all eyes are on the events of monday night an important reminder of how many international actors have a stake inside syria israel turkey russia iran the united states it is an incredibly complex and complicated and potentially fish oil picture when you look at that situation of course now yes there has been agreement between russia and turkey as a first step let's say a temporary plaster when it comes to solving the issue of in libya deal militarized zone that now we're going to have to wait and see if it will take effect october the fifteenth is the deadline so-called terrorist groups have to leave that area and also all heavy weapons we've been speaking to various sources it is makes some people happy about this saying that it is a virtue what a lot of people were concerned about a bloodbath certainly as

a first stage in the southern parts of the problem others will tell you that some of those rebel forces are not happy at being dictated to and having to commit too late to the of turkey of russia and to damascus so as always with syria we need to wait and see how things unfold on the ground but certainly it is seen as turkey winning time because they have the difficult task of talking to all the various different rebel groups on the ground particularly. that group accused of having links to al qaida getting them to disband getting them to lay down their weapons and that is a very complicated tosk. the saudi i mean russia coalition says it has launched a large scale operation targeting areas under who the control in the yemeni city of a day that the alliance says it's captured two areas on the outskirts of the port city since the advance began on tuesday but it is the main gateway for imports of relief supplies and commercial goods into the country but the united nations envoy

to yemen martin griffiths has just left sunnah after a two day visit involving talks with who the leaders under simmons's more now from djibouti just across the red sea from yemen. martin griffis may have flown out of san are having reach some agreements with the who three leadership but there appears now to be another hitch there was agreement with him and with other un officials for what the un describes as a humanitarian bridge that transport for chronically sick people to get medical treatment overseas forty five patients showed up with their documentation but they were apparently barred from flying because they had no clearance from the yemeni government they're suffering from a number of conditions including leukemia early stage tumors cervical cancer fibroid cancer and those needing bone marrow transplants and kidney transplants.

i was younger i fell and that caused internal bleeding and today it turned into a tumour i need to travel to egypt or to any other country for treatment i'm told by my doctors they need a surgery i'm quite tired of all this i need to travel and be treated so i can survive in the world i'm some of them. have considered that child around so many countries you can treat ranking back last time i was in to travel again in three months but without regard to where i was forced to go back to yemen now we cannot travel at all because all the airports are being blocked now officials from the saudi a morality led coalition have been stressing that the who three leadership has no legal right to sign a document with the un because it is not a legal entity as such and the who thing leadership is saying that this is another major setback. and as an incumbent. lady this is all because of the saudi led

coalition i hope the silent world stands with the oppressed people of yemen overseas treatment as a right for all patients this is their human right could this incident possibly scupper the attempts by griffis to get some dialogue going it isn't clear but as the fighting carries on in her data it is a situation that gets more tense by the day he's under pressure more now than ever he intends to speak to the saudi leadership next but we're not clear exactly what his actions will be. a twenty four year old palestinian man has died with the now was being detained by israeli forces his family says he was beaten and dragged from his home in the occupied west bank meanwhile in gaza two palestinians have been killed by israeli troops near the beit hanoun crossing demonstrators have been gathering along the border fence with israel for months the noun seen these really see general queue patients or the one hundred seventy five listing is have been killed since the wave of protests began in march coming up on the news hour from

london. south korea's president gets a warm welcome in pyongyang as the a rival for three days of denuclearization talks argentina's former president appears in court to answer questions on money laundering a day after she's indicted in another corruption case and in sports realm of radar going for a fourth champions league title in a row peter will be here with that a little later in the program. china has announced it will hike tariffs on sixty billion dollars worth of u.s. it's in response to the u.s. imposing tariffs on another two hundred billion dollars of chinese imports monday's announcement is the third time this year the u.s. has imposed penalties on chinese goods in july twenty five percent were applied to thirty four billion dollars worth of imports.