comes to an end and i'll be able to go back to school i hope i can live the life i once had if not better. back in school the man who used to teach him isn't so optimistic he's also struggling a little bit. teachers haven't been paid for months and this is our only form of income so many have lost their jobs there's unemployment and poverty in nearly every household in yemen. they sing the national anthem that's shared by all yemenis whichever side they're on in a country where education like the wartime economy is. the principal of the school wants to put out a message to parents in yemen is calling on them to brave harsh times and send their children to school otherwise he says the consequences are unemployment poverty and illiteracy andrew simmons al-jazeera djibouti the us president donald

trump has again voiced support for his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh who's been accused of sexual assault kavanaugh is a legit victim christine blazin ford says she wants an f.b.i. investigation that's before she testifies at his senate committee hearing she accuses calvin off attacking her when they were teenagers thirty five years ago kavanagh says the incident never happened. if he shows up and make a credible showing that would be very very big a big decision but i can only say this is a. very hard for me they would imagine that anything at the white house correspondent kimberly halakhah joining us from washington d.c. so what does this mean for for herself will she be testifying. well she's certainly been given the opportunity whether she will do it in a public hearing one that has been scheduled for monday by the senate judiciary committee is still unclear she has not committed instead as you point out she has

instead pressed for an f.b.i. investigation one that could take a very long time now once again the top republican on that committee offering her the chance to testify publicly as well as privately given the fact that this is a very sensitive allegation one of sexual assault ms ford claims that this occurred well brett kavanaugh who both were in their teens and that he was was following a night of heavy drinking why this is relevant is the fact that there has been video that has surfaced where the supreme court nominee essentially both and glorifies the heavy drinking that took place well he was the high school georgetown prep fortunately we had it we had a good saying that we've we've held firm to do that to this day as the team was reminding me before before the talk which is what happens at georgetown prep stays at georgetown prep spent

a good thing for all of us and even though the president is seemingly throwing his weight behind kavanagh what does this mean for his confirmation. well there are a growing list of democrats as well as republicans who say given the seriousness of the allegations that both sides need to be heard so this is something that puts the nomination darian in jeopardy because here's the reality an f.b.i. investigation could take a long time stretch beyond the very pivotal congressional elections in november where potentially the democrats could take control of the house and the senate and to rail this nomination all together so the republicans are pushing and pressing very hard for things to stay on track for this hearing to occur or so that the committee can vote on this nomination and then it can go to the broader senate for the confirmation weeks ago it looks like judge cavanagh was sailing to a smooth confirmation that is now very much in doubt as

a result of these allegations and the concern that both sides need to be right really how to thank you plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including rape hanged burnt alive a new report details shocking violence in south sudan. needles and strawberries australia's prime minister promises action as this country faces one of its biggest food scares coming up and sport with peter u.s. open champion naomi osaka is an action in her home country for the first time since taking her maiden major title. but first european leaders are gathering in the austrian city of salzburg for a summit that will be dominated by migration and britain's looming departure the president of the european council donald tusk has met with the austrian chancellor

sebastian curt's who's been a staunch opponent of open borders for refugees curt's believes italy spain and greece need to do more to prevent refugees and migrants from coming into europe he's also hoping that the british prime minister of tourism may well arrive at the summit ready to compromise on the exits lauren sleep joining us from salzburg speaking of may how willing is she to compromise. well that's what we're going to find out tonight she doesn't seem to want to she wants the e.u. to compromise and pretty much right now over there dinner a wienerschnitzel she's got ten minutes to stand up in front of all the other european leaders and. reasserts her plan and try to persuade them to move a bit more in her direction but you know even before she got here donald tusk who's of president of the european council said that her plan needed to be reworked michel barnier the chief negotiator said it doesn't work either so she's basically selling a complete dud to them and she must know that and that the british seem to be

suggesting that is easier for her to face off against these european leaders and against the european the go sheeting scene because she might have a bit more born army with them but it doesn't look like that seem to me almost all most other people here are upset sticking to their position that there is no clear strategy from the british side about what to do with the irish border to guarantee not just the free movement of goods which is what reason may wants but the free movement of anything else as well and so it is completely stuck. that pun is deep and popular here with her own party with the british public as well reason may's own prime ministership in the u.k. is under great threat because her own political party is going after and so in the engine to go back here probably no further forward and then where she was the whole thing's really irritating to to everybody the spanish foreign minister recently described and excuse my language is

a complete pain in the ass and that the europeans just just can't get it out of the way so it is it is overwhelming things were and they really want to talk about other issues but they that they have to get something done because they all still insist that they don't want to no deal breaks it in the u.k. falling out with any and without any sort of trade arrangement with the european union next mark all the other issue lawrence of course has migration australians putting that issue in the spotlight whilst they hold the e.u. presidency what are they hoping to achieve there what they're the austrians now have a very right wing coalition government the prime minister could win it's a coalition with the with the group that has fascist roots and their plan ultimately to try to protect the shingled free movement of the european union is all about not just protecting the borders in the way the country hungary have done by putting fences up but demanding that anybody who wants to seek asylum in the european union would have to potentially fill out

a form in the country that they're coming from somalia realty or one of those countries which the logical which seems to suggest that you know you're asking the country you want to escape from to help you become a refugee. and it just seems so completely contradictory in the sensical that you know the word is stuck but what it demonstrates is that the political parties in europe which would call themselves sent to rights like austria now directly adopting policies seemingly. taken by the far right populist policies in incomes over europe and so they are the center right now is moving so far to the reuters in the protection of europe that the some of the policy does seem to be way out there ok lawrence lee thank you well anything that was breathing was killed those words have come from a report by amnesty international which contains allegations of brutality and atrocities being committed against civilians in south sudan this year it's based on

interviews with one hundred people displaced by violence in opposition held areas of southern unity states they told investigators that they saw government soldiers and allied fighters rape women hang and burn people and run over others with armored vehicles they also described seeing children killed by being slammed against trees this they say went on between april and july this year while rival leaders worked on a peace deal to end the five year civil war that was finalized last week the report puts a lot of blame on the government saying it's failed to capture and prosecute suspected war criminals that speak to john marina in london she's a senior crisis advisor at amnesty international so these are really grim findings and grim allegations that are put forward by amnesty international can you just talk us through some of the most shocking findings for you and how you were able to collate this information and the process in doing so. you know this was a particularly brutal government offensive that took place in unity state from

april to early july and what we documented based on interviews with about one hundred displaced people who themselves had fled the violence so they were either victims themselves or witnesses of horrific acts was that the government attacked dozens of civilian villages in these areas burning houses systematically. killing people including women children elderly people we documented horrific cases in which elderly people seventy eighty even ninety years old were burned alive inside houses because the government was torching villages in a really systematic way women were abducted particularly young women and girls girls as young as ten even six in one case and they were forced to carry looted goods part of i think the motivation for this was massive looting but they were

forced to carry looted goods back to military gaist bases and in those bases they were systematically raped. almost always gang raped. you had men also being brought back to the bases and a lot of those men have yet to their whereabouts are unknown so we're certainly worried about their fate their report puts a lot of blame squarely on the government saying this that it's failed to capture and prosecute suspected war criminals what kind of response do you get from the government for that statement if any. well the governments in. twenty fifteen in a peace agreement actually promised to set up a hybrid criminal court by which you would be prosecuting these were criminals so the government at least prima facia has a commitment to prosecuting these crimes it would be a criminal court that the government would be staffing together with international

prosecutors and staff but the government's been dragging its feet and so we really don't see a sincere effort to put this court together and to bring the perpetrators of these horrific abuses to justice so how do you see that going forward what needs to be done to and this culture of impunity as is described by amnesty yeah and it's important to recognize in terms of impunity that some of the suspected perpetrators the people who are implicated in leading this past wave of violence are implicated in violence in twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen in the same area so there's really a lot of concrete evidence that letting people off the hook just encourages further violations and what needs to happen now is the government actually drafted and has created a memorandum of understanding to create this court and even

a statute that would set up the functioning of this court but it's now been sitting on a minister's desk and hasn't gone anywhere so the government needs to sign it it needs to adopt the statute and it needs to create this court and get to work to put some of the perpetrators of these crimes behind bars ok joanne mariner we thank you for joining us from london. uganda's opposition leader is expected to return home on thursday after receiving medical treatment in the us his lawyer said the pop star turned politician needed to travel abroad after he was beaten up in custody wine was charged with treason over his alleged role in the stoning of the president's motorcade last month. him from the airport to his home and say they will not tolerate what they refer to was lawful gatherings. here's what's coming up in the second half of this news hour you. mourning the dead relatives of those killed in the philippines landslide remember

their loved ones. process why russia as possible return to international sport is being criticized by anti-doping chiefs that's coming up a little later with peter in sports. how i once again the relentless heat continues across the good parts of iraq into kuwait either side of that temperatures not faring too badly across much of the middle east chiles of one or two showers just around the caspian sea but essentially it does look largely fine and dry thirty celsius there embarrassed there's a heat for baghdad forty two degrees forty four for kuwait city could be even a touch warm as we go on into friday little further east kharaj it thirty one celsius pakistan looking good over the next as i didn't get to work across the

arabian peninsula high saving of around forty one celsius on thursday just a gentle breeze coming through not too bad thirty nine degrees as we go on through friday just a hint of that he would as he come further south little bit of cloud there just hugging southern parts of amman so the areas of yemen to into the gulf of aden there a bit of cloud just hugging the far south of south africa but here it's looking set fair well so dry weather coming through fourteen celsius in cape town little on the chilly side here sixteen therefore in the cloud does recede a little further eastward and we'll see more in the way of sunshine meanwhile sunshine and showers as lobby showers continue from the ethiopian highlands into the gulf of guinea and could pop west africa. whether online or humanity has been taken out of its goals of this one told you about the number on a spreadsheet or if you joined us on sat i guarantee no one else has

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again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour the former pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif was greeted by a crowd of jubilant supporters after being freed on bail. high court ordered sharif as daughter and son in law to be released on so very pale against corruption convictions can be heard. the leaders of north korea and south korea have capped off a historic day by attending a special mass games to monastic events in pyongyang earlier. and signed a raft of agreements aimed at changing the face of the peninsula. u.s. president on the trumpets again voiced his support for his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh who's been accused of sexual assault kavanagh's alleged victim christine ford says she wants an f.b.i.

investigation before she testifies that his senate committee hearing kavanagh says the incident never happened. it's a grim wait for dozens of people still missing after super typhoon manga tore through the philippines burying dozens of people under a massive landslide at least eighty one people have been killed and the death toll continues to climb. going to reports from it's a gone decades of unrestrained mining has made these tragedies all too common. living. the last time they reach spoke to father two months ago now she wishes she had left it so long before getting in touch again. was a landslide. on saturday when i went up and glanced at the coupes i recognized him by his favorite switch that i had given him i'm just glad he was in one piece

and wearing my gift. anju was among more than thirty miners who took shelter in a bunk house with super typhoon monk could struck. a village was destroyed when the storm triggered the landslide recovery operations are underway but they are proving extremely difficult especially in the region or infrastructure has always been a major challenge decades of unrestrained mining has made many areas of his mountain range precarious and dangerous despite government warnings illegal mining is rampant here the department of environment has ordered the temporary suspension of all such operations in the region and local officials are promising to be more strict with their money tory but the bigger question now is whether this disaster

is actually going to change anything because tragic as it may seem disasters like this one has been commonplace in the country of grinding poverty this is why many people here are calling on the national government to act with political will and to find a long term solution on the problem of illegal small scale mining operations otherwise this is just going to be part of a long and endless cycle of poverty and devastation for every disaster a story of courage bring your boat design was one of the first to join the rescue teams he ended up being trapped in mud and floodwaters but he says he has no regrets about trying to help. things but when i was called in to help i didn't hesitate there was no doubt in my heart i knew i was going over there to rescue people and never would have been able to forgive myself if i just sat very and did nothing while people were fighting for their lives. many of the miners had traveled

long distances to work here all for a chance at a better life risking so much for very little in return. for each body pulled out here i dream is shattered. province northern philippines malaysia is former prime minister najib razak has been arrested again this facing more corruption charges there's already facing a string of allegations linked to billions of dollars that were missing from estate investment funds when he was in office millions were transferred through his personal bank accounts. the mother of a palestinian man killed on tuesday is blaming israel for his death. he died in custody after being arrested by israeli soldiers they raided his house in the occupied west bank but didn't say why he later died in hospital. and it didn't then

finish the rest of the day they killed him in ten minutes who came up and killed him in just ten minutes when they saw the daylight they carried him and went out when they entered the house they attacked him directly and two israeli soldiers started beating him now we know about plastic pollution in our oceans but there's a new report suggesting that it's also contaminating the skies british scientists are pointing to micro plastics that washes off synthetic clothing in the laundry a single wash can release seven hundred thousand fibers the study published in the journal of biology letters says mosquito and fly larvae that live in water often eat micro plastics with stay in them as they grow and once these insects are able to fly there are eaten by birds bats and other animals that can be harmed let's get more on this and speak to him on their calendar and she's a professor of invertebrate zoology at the u.k.'s reading university thanks very

much for speaking to us from there can you tell me what stood out for you from this research well what was really interesting about this research was we were not really expecting the extent to which the plastic would go from the loss of. water into the people which is the stage and from the people and so we knew we need the lafayette plastics but we really didn't know the plastics. so how widespread do you think this issue is. well the work we did we've done as a kind of proof of concept in the bird trade but there are there are areas where there is really bad pollution and where their arms so we think that probably to this before there probably there is a very large issue out there that just hasn't been investigated and really it does need to be looked at. so also what you're saying is that how well i mean how likely

is it that other flying insects that begin in water larvae will also be carriers of micro prospects well i would say very i mean mosquitoes are just one example there are lots of other insects that fly that live in water and they're also things like dragon flies that would eat the mosquitoes that had eaten the plastic which could also fly away so it is potentially quite it's an important route of pollution of plastics from the water drop into the air how concerned then should payments be about consuming micro plastics well that this isn't really about humans this is more about so that the pollution of ecosystems i think humans should be more worried about eating plastics in things like fish there's evidence that there are plastics in the water in bottled water for example but if humans are really worried about this what they should be doing is making sure that they're not burning and using products that you've got plastics in them but is there enough research that

has been done on the effects of micro plastics on people are we behind on that as well. well most of the research that's been done is that she loved the work is. going to definitely isn't and are marine organisms. people always think about the effect of humans but if fact if you have a large impact on your ecosystems that in itself is going to have a major impact on humans right amanda callahan we thank you for speaking to us from reading pleasure. more than twenty one people have died after drinking contaminated alcohol in malaysia police raided shops around kuala lumpur and they seized huge stashes of whiskey and beer as they try to get all of the tainted products off the shelves victoria getting reports we. don't know maya to mang suddenly finds herself a widow in a foreign land the next believes woman's husband is among a group of people who have died after drinking what police suspect with

contaminated alcohol. he had difficulty breathing he said he couldn't see that everything was just black police arrested several people and raided more than a dozen store was seizing about a thousand bottles of spirits and beer samples of the drink with sent to a lab for analysis and found methanol which is poisonous to the health ministry says people with little means are risking their lives by buying either illegal alcohol or liquor that's been tampered with people know where to find cheap drink in this quality neighborhood they say the primary customers like the majority of victims are migrant workers and they're likely to continue to fuel an underground market for alcohol victoria gates and be there australia's prime minister has likened the piercing of strawberries with needles to terrorism as he demanded tougher jail sentences for those responsible for

a nationwide food scare scott morrison has also promised to help fruit growers who is businesses have been plunged into crisis they're such a bari house the story. the lady who posted this video says it illustrates the worst thing to ever happen to her family the family business growing strawberries has been forced to dump its products at the busiest time of the year supermarkets won't buy the fruit in normal quantities because their customers fear what the strawberries may contain last week that was what seemed like an ice. the latest case of a sewing needle inserted in a strawberry probably by described told employee at a strawberry farm but since then there have been reports of more than twenty suspected copycat incidents around australia in relation to the motivation in relation to these offenses we still haven't. have any confirmed motivation or reasons why a person want to do this there is speculation that some cases are children putting

needles into strawberry's while they're sitting on shop shelves other cases are complex hoaxes people pretending to find needles in strawberries once they're home it's not a joke it's not funny you're putting the largely hoods of hardworking strivings at risk and you're scaring children and you're a coward and you're a grown up and if you do that sort of thing in this country we will come after you and we will throw the book at you strawberries that are being sold are heavily discounted almost as low as the equivalent of one us dollar a pack and farmers of other fruits are fearful to someone has claimed to have found a needle in a banana and in sydney an apple there just freaked me out but i'm thinking my daughter normally just grabs and just biting the apples the race is on to contain the strawberry scare before it does any more damage to the economy dorset jabari al-jazeera. new zealand is celebrating one hundred twenty five years since it

became the first country in the world to give women the right to vote the prime minister just joined hundreds of women wearing white camillia flowers which are a symbol of the movement she says she was inspired by women like her great great grandmother who signed a petition and eight hundred ninety three paving the way for change he would twenty five thousand women and. he signed. a. new jersey smyth who say when we show. them a mom this is grandma. and i signed a petition sometimes a great cost to themselves would be i'm no no we don't know what it would be. in an era of fake news and free information online journalists and newsrooms across the world are experimenting with new business models to finance their future so one

new model is the zine to fund quality journalism using the same technology that underpins cryptocurrency is like that coin and that's block chain it's a digital ledger which records transactions across the internet and stores this information in multiple locations this means the records are public verifiable and difficult to hack therefore block chain may be used for more than just currency and transactions it could for example help prevent election fraud and that's because the election can be recorded on a publicly verifiable ledger one new york based startup called civil has come up with its own digital currency to fund journalism called a civil token these tokens can be used to fund local or international news or topic focus stories earlier i spoke to and goodman he's a lecturer at the london school of economics who researches blog chain and he says the success or failure of civil will ultimately be to be decided by its users.

let's be honest there are massive challenges i know a lot about blocked in but the fact is in the real world not much has been done with block change yet it's still a kind of sandbox people are playing around with ideas like this one we don't know if this business model will work in five years time in ten years time will it still exist of course there are massive challenges not least you're going to get people who are on of it sort of all depends on the people who are using the platform only stay or will they start deciding that they like fake fake news that they like very biased news say and that they sell voting apple the biased news source is one thing that does give me optimism that it could work is wicked pedia itself like a wicked read is not on the block chain yet it does have a central authority but ultimately most of the decisions are made by the way to p.d. and the people themselves who look at the articles and edit the articles in arguing months and so sometimes quite viciously to decide what is the truth of what should go on the pages if we get that kind of culture with civil

a culture of wanting to see truth of wanting to stamp out fake news then it could be a very powerful platform indeed the cusp of algiers has been a unesco world heritage site for more than twenty five years but some people living in the old city or at risk of losing their traditional way of living in the arts world craftsmanship as the citadel crumbles from overpopulation and neglect hiper morgan has one. algeria citadel founded on a hill in the country's capital on the ruins of past civilisations including the berber the roman and later autumn and was made a world heritage site in one thousand nine hundred two but to reject kyra a local craftsmen says the citadel and some of its features that make it such a treasured site are under threat. there's a may have to save craftsmen working inside a car because it's flowing into rains we need to restore this area we urgently need

help without help handicraft is going to disappear several types of crops have already it is a period like the copper where all the ornaments make is coroutines don't act to save it nothing will remain for the cost. but like many of the people who live here rita has worked in many of the structures in because many of them especially those which date from the ottoman era are in advance space of disrepair mohamed is one of the few young men to take up traditional craft and has workshops here contributing to some restoration projects. this kind of job is more threatened than ever there are fewer and fewer crossman here there are no schools to learn how to do it i would love any young person who has a father or a relative who is across mint to try to learn what they do so it can last there is a famous saying which goes like when parents die only the school they teach to us remains some structures.