a political resolution is found but i'm sure it will be heard and we were just hearing actually a moment ago about sort of humanitarian corridors potentially being set up and so on are you seeing really tangible efforts to ensure that the civilian casualties are at a minimum right now. and well i think there is some effort to ensure that people comply with the requirements of international humanitarian law to protect civilians and so on insofar as the combat is self he's concerned but the real problem is facing economic contraction the closing down of the aid greece which which we are trying to prevent and the fact that people in yemen have suffered through this war for year after year after year and near the end of their tether and they all the parties need to pay more attention they need to be less careless if the impact of their actions on civilians that's what i'm trying to draw attention to. very much for joining us and yemen will be a theme throughout the week here in new york at the u.n. general assembly expected to be a topic raised

a number of the bilateral sessions coming up but you don't chat thank you when also the u.n. france's foreign minister met with arab leaders to discuss the situation in libya joining wants to ensure that a plan agreed to in paris to hold elections in december goes ahead smoothly meanwhile fighting between rival armed groups in libya's capital has now forced more than five thousand families to flee their homes the international organization for migration says the numbers leaving have gone up sharply in the last three days the battle for control of the area near tripoli's airport erupted late last month battles continue despite a u.n. brokered cease fire agreed three weeks ago. and has more now from tripoli. this is to ation is still tense and uncertain in the southern suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli despite all efforts to put a cease fire agreement in force when the stand at the seas and a brokered cease fire agreement has been breached by both sides of the conflict

civil times during this month of september thousands of families have been forced out of their homes in the southern suburbs of tripoli because of the clashes many of them had to leave the city others had to share their relatives accommodations and many of them have been living here in tripoli in schools accommodated by nongovernmental organizations we understand that civilians have been paying the heaviest price in this war and this war has taken a toll on civilians among the casualties so many civilians including women and children since the beginning of this war on august twenty seventh now we understand that stray rockets have been lending in populated areas killing civilians and damaging many houses and properties. lots more so it's coming here on the news hour

including hong kong bands a small political party raising new questions about the city's status. on the biggest competition in the u.k. but not a painting in sight phil digital imagery and politics dominate this year's turner prize. pool the best of the footballing world is recognized at a ceremony in london details coming up later the father of the school. u.s. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is set to meet president donald trump at the white house on thursday amid reports his job is on the line rosenstein servicing the investigation into alleged russian meddling during the twenty sixteen election last week the new york times reported he'd been looking at ways to seek a record trump to help build the case for his removal from office can help get us more. as donald trump at with heads of government at the u.n.

general assembly in new york back in washington his own government was reeling with speculation about the fate of this man deputy attorney general rod rosenstein we want to have friends there in the work of openness and i look forward to meeting with the rise of that after a single tweet on social media the rosenstein the man overseeing the investigation into alleged campaign ties to the kremlin was resigning reporters scrambled to find out what was going on. there the president is reportedly fuming over reports rosenstein suggested secretly taping trump last year in an effort to invoke the twenty fifth amendment to removed from office. trump is already fired others connected to the vest a geisha into his campaign leaving former f.b.i. director james comey deputy attorney general sally gates and deputy f.b.i. director andrew mccabe says. at a campaign rally on friday in missouri trump suggested more could be comic there is

a lingering then should we're going to get rid of that. many believe trump was referring to rosenstein that led to monday's speculation that rather than rosenstein resigning travel was going to carry out his threat the president would like someone in that role who he see. personally there to protect not necessarily there to enact or in fact the justice for the entire country trumps the next move is unclear and meeting between the two is now set for thursday the timing is raising eyebrows in washington that's the same day donald trump supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh testifies before congress defending himself from accusations of sexual assault leading to speculation that trump's thursday meeting with rosenstein is a deliberate distraction kimberly hellcat al-jazeera the white house

a russian court has sentenced opposition leader alexina valmy to twenty days in jail he was arrested early on monday of allegations of staging illegal protests that happened minutes after he was released from jail the valley finished a thirty day sentence of planning on unauthorized demonstration in moscow in january which he called for a boycott of local and regional elections. britain's main opposition party plans to vote against any deal the british prime minister makes with the e.u. the labor party's brags that spokesman says it's increasingly unlikely it's a reason why its plans will pass the six tests the party has sent out on wednesday may well meet us president donald trump to discuss a possible post brigs a trade deal but in baba reports. whenever that general election comes we're ready we're ready to campaign for victory we're ready for government shadow chancellor john mcdonnell outlining how labour's economic policies will transform the economy but while the pact all enjoyed his pitch much of the talk elsewhere was about

something entirely different breaks it the idea of a new referendum is popular among labor members but would it include the option to stay in the european union on tuesday these people will be voting on a text that took many hours of hard negotiations to agree on it says that if the party fails to force an early general election it will keep open the option of backing a so-called people's vote but what that means exactly depends on who you are early on monday all the talk was of a clear breakthrough opening up the possibility of a bricks deal being blocked by a majority in parliament and then put to another referendum once you have got first parliament throwing it out and then the population is a whole throwing it out you can then say look the tory government has spent two and a half years on this absolutely wasting everyone's time it's now on the table here's a manifesto to fix all the problems that breaks it never fixed but in a radio interview john mcdonald seemed to suggest any second referendum could only be on the deal itself in other words the terms of direct sit and not on staying in

the you and some observers see a certain wisdom in labor making a snap election it's priority what happens if there's another referendum for instance we vote fifty two forty eight to remain on a smaller turnout than in twenty six states that would hardly settle the question so i think for the moment labor are perfectly happy to let the government stew in the bracks mess. and to say we would do this better and to leave it is very good. for now the conference vote is almost certain to back the need for exit policy but whether it can keep everyone on board from labor remain is to labor leaders it's hard to tell the debugger al-jazeera political. does a health officials have confirmed the death of a poll. stinney and manned by israeli gunfire. ten others were wounded when soldiers fired tear gas on live rounds at thousands of protesters on the beach and in fishing boats along the border with israel demonstrations against the israeli blockade of the gaza strip have been going on for more than six months

palestinians are demanding an end to the blockade by israel in egypt and their right to return to ancestral lands. and star from the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees in gaza say they don't have enough money to keep going thirteen thousand teachers and health workers have now gone on strike and protest it all comes out of the u.s. decided to pull its funding from and run last month and the needs its funding to run schools hospitals camps and social services for millions of palestinians in the middle east u.s. relations with palestine have worsened since president trump announced his support for israel and recognize jerusalem as its capital last year reversing decades of u.s. policy or a force that has more from gaza. we're here at the guard h.q. of the owner agency you can see some of the thirteen thousand local employees who are on strike this monday the consequences of this strike are being felt all across the gaza strip two hundred seventy four and ross schools serving two hundred eighty

thousand children are closed along with sixteen food distribution centers twenty two medical clinics the reason for this strike can be traced back to a decision by the us administration to cut more than three hundred billion dollars in funding for enron and more recently decided to end its funding of the agency in its entirety the workers here say that the effects are being unfairly felt by them more than a hundred of them already either sacked or put on early retirement with six hundred being starters with their jobs being lost by the end of this year they say that an rocket is done more to try to lessen the impact of all that and give people voluntary redundancy voluntary retirement those sorts of options here's how the head of the agency here in gaza responds to that charge the rest of the organization has borrowed us forty five million dollars that we don't have for gaza to allow us to continue food to allow us to continue almost three hundred jobs full

time and yes sadly move some two part time we've had to make some adjustment but i believe on the basis of facts i. demonstrate we've done a lot to make things as smooth as possible under very very challenging circumstances would be talking to one of the striking employees here and his story does give you a sense of just how deeply these cuts will be felt he says that is twelve hundred u.s. dollar a month salary supports twenty eight family members and that if he does lose his job as he's threatened with by the end of this year that's going to have a devastating impact on a huge family and that is a story that is being repeated here many times over so that's why these potential job losses to be felt so widely the ugandan politician turned pop star bobby wian has issued a warning to president you're in the seventy he's back home after receiving medical treatment in the u.s. for injuries he says he suffered in police custody the opposition leader was charged with treason alongside thirty two other politicians following violence

during a byelection last august i want to know what you feel when you treat your people like this mr president how does it feel to continuously praise keep your boot on the necks of your people there was a time when you are not in power you must remember that there will be a time when you are not in power so you should treat people the way you want to be treated now an election that many were calling a test of the more these young democracy has resulted in the president conceding defeat in the yemeni appeared on national t.v. took knowledge he lost the race to his only rival opposition leader ibrahim saul a provisional result show that sunny won fifty eight percent of the vote even more reports. many had expected monday's president abdullah yemen to win the election then it was feared that he would not accept the result but hours after early poll

results showed that his rival one yemen conceded defeat. deviant people have decided what they want the results from yesterday. has been in political turmoil under yamin during his five year tenure two former presidents a prosecutor general and a number of opposition politicians have been jailed in controversial trials on the eve of the vote opposition leader ibrahim mohammed so hills campaign office was raided by police but no evidence of electoral fraud was uncovered preliminary results on monday showed that fifty eight point three percent of the votes the electoral commission said voter turnout in the country of four hundred thousand people was eighty nine point two percent the u.s. had threatened sanctions if the elections were not free and fair the message is loud and clear the people of the most want change justice and stability. in the next five years we will consolidate democracy by guaranteeing human rights and

ensuring accountability we will establish a peaceful and just society for all the electoral commission will announce the official results in seven days but with president feeding what is left now is to see if the hill will keep its election promises and try to reform the country even morgan al-jazeera. well the maldives has a history of close ties to india but china has become a growing influence the chain of islands in the indian ocean is near important shipping lanes india aims to remain a dominant power there but beijing's muscling in hoping to use the modis as a sea and air base it's estimated that china has already invested around one and a half billion dollars and sixty percent of the island's debt is linked to chinese projects but outgoing president yeah i mean had been accused of leaving the country into a debt trap around ten percent of the budget about ninety million dollars a year goes to debt repayments but a big challenge facing the new government will be deciding on the future relations

with china geoffrey why he is the deputy permanent representative to the u.n. for them all these he says political stability will be crucial in the days ahead the new coalition which will assume power. he lost because it's a free and fair election because the people have spoken and they chose the opposition candidate when the president elect won he's won with this fairly large coalition of many parties in the maldives the last time m.v.p. came into power in two thousand and eight within three months that coalition fall apart one of the biggest challenges that the president elect will have is making sure that the coalition stays together that is able to keep his partners happy this very diverse group of people that he's able to create a power sharing arrangement in a presidential system which is not an easy goal he'll have a lot of difficulties coming up especially given that there's a parliamentary election less than six months down the line the political campaigning you know the vicious sort of infighting that tends to come before an

election will be present and that's a very big challenge not just for the president elect but for the modern community as well for a time for a short break here in al-jazeera when we come back up in arms against austerity measures in argentina. the u.k. inquiry into hell thousands of people were given infected blood almost fifty years ago. stranded in the middle of the indian ocean has finally rescued another story coming up in its own status. hello there we have two main rainmakers across parts of north america at the moment the first one is in the east across parts of alabama and stretching up across new york and the other one is a bit further towards the west over the northern plains there stretching up into an

terrio so to maine systems and they both are working their way eastward so for many of us in the east then it's going to be pretty wet as we head through the day on tuesday and as we head into wednesday is still going to be really quite wet for some of us here further west generally drier for many of us here but the winds will be pretty strong at times so there's a risk of an increased fire danger i mean further towards the south and on the satellite picture you can see this lawn of thunderstorms that's tracking its way towards the west as a tropical wave an enhanced area of thunderstorms and that's going to continue its journey west woods as we head through tuesday but still plenty of showers following it and further south expect plenty of heavy showers here as well at times they will be banding together to give some more persistent outbreaks of rain before the towards the south and it's been very very hot force in paraguay recently the temperatures are just easing a fraction as we had three tuesday so thirty one degrees will be our maximum but here do expect there to be quite a good deal of cloud at times and one or two fund of storms as well those storms continue all the way down into year ago i should be trying him for his aries.

from city hospitals to community health centers change is happening across china. and for one six year old boy there is now hope. from the boy you just saw is from the countryside he came to a big hospital and experienced doctors performed the operation for him. how to care for one point four billion people china's unique challenge on the people's health on al-jazeera. fresh perspectives new possibilities. debates and discussions it's only one piece on a story that doesn't get nearly the news coverage that it deserves says so much to talk about is there any way of measuring that is our number at all that we can put . out his ear is award winning programs takes you on

a journey around the globe. on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder at the top stories here this hour the u.s. does want russia is making a major mistake by deploying its missile defense systems in syria the kremlin selling the s. three hundred system the week after one of those planes was mistakenly shot down by syrian aircraft fire. u.s. president donald trump says he'll have a second summit with north korea's leader kim jong il in the coming months i made the announcement while signing a trade pact with south korean president bluejay and on the sidelines of the un

general assembly. on the un's humanitarian affairs chief mark a local cause want to famine in yemen could strike at any time i need to even more loss of life. food prices have soared and fighting over the key port of the data a stop idea agency isn't reaching these eight million people so far this year. but to our top story now the assad government in syria has long wanted to get its hands on the russian s. three hundred missile system but russia has held off selling it in recent years because of israeli pressure with a soviet designed system can be used to defend against a missile attacks and fired at targets on the ground iran and china have versions of the s three hundred so does greece on the other side of the mediterranean from syria it's considered powerful but not reachable in recent years some western powers have developed technology that could successfully evade three hundred detection but monks makovsky is a senior fellow at the atlantic council he says russia is supplying syria with the s. three hundred system to send

a political message you know this is an advanced system that the syrians have been seeking to get their hands on for many years russia essentially halted the delivery because of israeli concerns and wider concerns about stability in the region clearly moscow's made the political decision based on this shoot down of its airplane that there is no no need to withhold this equipment in the future obviously moscow i think also has grown frustrated with israeli impunity in striking syria and so this is to send a message that israeli actions are going to be limited in the near future because they're going to take into consideration a much more highly advanced anti aircraft or missile system argentina's largest labor union has called for a nationwide strike over the government's austerity measures president mercia matter his new budget is at the center of their anger but he says it's needed to secure additional funding from the i.m.f. to reasonable reports from one desirous. leaver unions in argentina i

furious with the government of. the economy shrinking and argentina is reducing spending and increasing borrowing from the international monetary fund to pay the bills. from a teacher who has taken to the streets and when a site is to demand better wages. they find out about this shows the discontent workers have with macros government this is the beginning of a plan to fight the austerity measures he's implemented for the government the priority is to defend bankers and multinational companies not people like us. marcie took office three years ago with a promise to improve argentina's economy after years of double digit inflation and recession but this year a bad drought sapped argentina's grain export sector and the peso currency depreciated almost fifty percent due to a lack of investor confidence in emerging markets mackley says he's been forced to

seek help from the i.m.f. and implemented shock austerity measures to prevent a major financial crisis. this is the fourth strike against his policies. unemployment an increase in food prices currency devaluation these are all had a huge impact on low income households it affects the lives of the millions of people that live under the poverty line these strikers include truck drivers state employees teachers and doctors. and if we were able to negotiate a twenty five percent salary increase but we know inflation is going to be well over forty percent but it's not only that the government has shut down the health ministry they're putting people's lives at risk. is banking on an upturn in the country's finances with some forecast for next year.

there will be presidential elections and he's expected to run the big question is whether it will be enough to help him regain the votes he has already lost. when a site is. now a new report is recommending that countries start regulating drugs that have a lower potency as part of an effort to control the illegal market reports been released by a group of former world leaders in reports from mexico. this new report on drug policy has a fair amount of weight behind it it's been put together by a group including twelve ex heads of state and its message is simple and stark prohibition has failed it says and the world needs to legalize and regulate drugs look good on the yeah pass you see what we've done for a century has been a mistake prohibition doesn't work it's causing a lot of damage it should be eliminated and instead we should have policies based on brake elation. the group some veil the report in mexico because it says that

nowhere better shows the failure of prohibition there's been a full frontal assault on cartels here for a decade but it's just because turf battles and deaths as kingpins have fallen and others have to take their place as well as such human cost the report also emphasizes the vast amounts being lost to governments in the form of taxes from what is the largest illicit market in the world the former leaders have got a lot of suggestions of models for legalization from state monopolies to purely personal production they also talked about the vulnerable people at the bottom of the drug world if legalization happens so little boys needle girls that are in the drug trade what happens to the mothers who are smuggling from one country to the other that the risk of their lives for our next step is really proper should not be for the punishment of these of these people reintegration in society he brought up meant of measures of integration the incoming mexican government is in step with

that talking about an amnesty for some of those on the lowest rungs of organized crime as well as possibly legalizing marijuana and opium that's been incredibly controversial and what is still a very socially conservative region but a growing number of countries worldwide are taking a look at what legalization could mean. amnesty international is demanding that china explain what's happened to. one million muslims swept up in a massive government crackdown the human rights group says hundreds of thousands of families in the northwestern shan region have been torn apart by china's actions to be called on governments around the world to hold the country to account. a small political party has been officially banned in hong kong raising questions about rights and status in the territory the governments accuse the group of threatening national security it's invoked a colonial era law that was previously used to target organized crime is there

a clock. he's the leader of hong kong's national party it's a small group promoting independence from china but the government has deemed a threat to national security the party is now banned in hong kong. what the agenda of the hump on the national party. aims to is. in strict contravention to the basic law the national party also. spreads hatred and discrimination against maine and. the police made the initial recommendation the government agreed but the party later says he doesn't advocate violence and made this statement at the city's foreign correspondents club in august due to the nature of how the chinese propaganda machine works the national party was instantly demonized as some sort of extremist group due to this single word independence in reality what the national

party is chasing out is no different from what many homeowners wish for the dream of democracy the decision to ban this group is unprecedented in hong kong but is considered a strategic move by the government to muzzle the problem dependent sentiment as beijing acts on any challenge to its sovereignty the vast majority of hong kong people do not see the bad independence is a realistic option but there has been increasing the sentiment against a tiny so far these against intervention in hong kong and naturally hong kong people feel that they are all bad news their lifestyles up in fact hong kong is a semi autonomous territory under the so-called one country two systems deal which is part of the official handover from great britain to china more than two decades ago that means hong kong enjoys freedoms unsane on the mainland including freedom

of speech but that space for political dissent is shrinking. pro independence activist and a chair was prohibited from standing for election six democratically elected pro-democracy politicians were disqualified from the city's parliament the national party plans to hold a public protest on tuesday but the government says any member of the group will be fined up to twelve thousand dollars or face up to three years in jail if they speak out sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. the philippines at risk again of landslides as another typhoons bringing more rain to the country meanwhile the death toll from a landslide has gone up to fifty five while forty seven other people are believed to be trapped or buried in the rubble families of victims are calling it a manmade disaster to mel and doug reports from the city. a semblance of dignity indeed. this is what families here

desperately want for their loved ones. the priest tries to comfort them but the reality is too hard for families here to grasp. the mountain gave way while they slept burying thirty homes and about one hundred people in the central philippines city of them and. many of those who died were the sole providers of impoverished families they already had little before the landslide now the survivors say they have nothing. for years they have been calling on the government to stop pouring operations in their communities but because they were poor at the sea their appeals for ignoring . some in the community see recent reported fissures on the mountain should have been a warning sign. but for me at the end of the day i know i meant i'm accountable to

the people of naga but the thing is when and when a technical agency assigned to one of our and rather regularly says that a certain company isn't ready career you know what john you could have even you have before sometimes the people to evacuate. but many here say rising above a tragedy is simply not enough we should assume as possible a file case against this these people who are responsible we asked ourselves is the life of a child in naga worth the millions that these companies are allegedly contribute to the local economy. these are the first batch of victims and many more are expected for mass burial in the coming weeks the local government says these are the focus now rescue which evolve and burial but this is exactly what many families

fear that everything and here. their final resting place is right next to the quarry site and so it is clear there is no escaping the influence of powerful businesses here. the dead are too many to be buried in one day. and as they are taken to the tubes one point one families here feel their loved ones have been buried in the east. and they weren't given enough time to see good. jamila al-jazeera nagar in cebu province central philippines. thousands of protesters of march in the streets of the liberian capital monrovia. there demanding the return of one hundred four million dollars in missing cash

shipments of new notes from princes overseas disappeared after passing through the country's main ports a number of people have been barred from leaving the country amid the investigation into the son of former president ellen sirleaf johnson liberia wants the u.s. to help investigate. a public inquiry in the u.k. is being held into a contaminated blood scandal dating back to the nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's at least two thousand four hundred people died after being treated with infected blood the bug reports. these are some of the thousands of people infected with contaminated blood i had a postpartum hemorrhage i was rushed into hospital jackie britain's among those sharing her story at the opening of a government inquiry into the scandal in one thousand nine hundred three she was given a blood transfusion after giving birth infecting her with hepatitis c. the virus went undetected for thirty years leading to cirrhosis of the liver else

so traumatized once i tell you you want to know what stage you're at i felt like i was dying and that the next day i could have been dead in the nineteen.