this announcement. all right. this is the u.n. humanitarian chief lee's grand day speaking earlier about this. we estimate that a child is in every ten minutes for war related causes ten thousand children have died. in the city of data which is under military attack right now twenty five percent of all of the children in that city are malnourished we're desperately worried about conditions in the game and that's why it's so important during this general assembly that the world wake up that we understand what's happening there and we also understand that humanitarians can help to reduce suffering but we can't solve the problem politicians are the ones who can do that

we are desperately worried about what could happen in the data it closes even for just a few hours that means that assistance can leave the city and get to the people who need it there are so many civilians who were acquired that that's why everything has to be done to keep the port open. and the u.n. humanitarian chief in yemen speaking there we lost him just for a moment but happy to report we have him back now andrew simmons is there any guarantee that this move announced by the coalition can relieve the threat of famine. in short there is no guarantee as long as the fighting goes on and that is really the opinion of all in the un and all of the aid agencies however what we've heard from mark local the undersecretary for humanitarian affairs of the un is that they have already tried alternative routes

through a whole series of winding twistin twisting mountain roads through craters of bomb strikes airstrikes and they're having great difficulty getting the supplies through the grain mills in her day they are all shut down that can they be reopened there is a whole series of questions aside from some sort of temporary agreement to get a route through from the from the port city to the capital but the problems of these and that is the unknown factor in all of this whatever the coalition might do is have a who things will respond they are still fighting they're fighting to keep control of the port city that port city the estimate on the population is six hundred thousand civilians that's a lot lower now we don't have recent figures the un doesn't have read figures but there are still really hundreds of thousands of civilians in that port city and it

seems through all diplomatic sources that the u.a.e. saudi coalition is intent on putting a control or a hold on her data if not a complete takeover of her data before it is prepared to go to the negotiating table the situation for martin greste this is absolutely critical he was meant to be in riyadh we're not even sure if he got there there seems to have been a basic diplomatic block and now the coalition is blaming the huth is saying that they're not serious about negotiations but the devil is in the detail not only that the motivation of both sides in terms of how they get to some sort of deal that might just save some lives because the situation is critical. andrew simmons live for us there in djibouti thanks andrew well still ahead on al-jazeera when we come back thousands to the take to the streets in argentina

furious over the government's latest economic policy. a new twist to the war on drugs will tell you the unusual proposal songs for world leaders are looking at to control the global illegal drug markets. hello there we've got a blast of cold air that's making its way across parts of europe at the moment this is the leading edge of it and it's working its way steadily southwards behind it it's turning a lot cooler and fresher we're also seeing a lot of heavy rain out of this system as it works its way southwards is behind that main front where we're seeing the strongest of the winds there very very strong particularly along the coastline of the adriatic as they work their way southward they're dragging in that cold air so a maximum temperature in vienna own choose day just a fourteen degrees force in warsaw will just be at twelve towards the west is

actually a good deal warmer here the temperatures for some of us are above average so for madrid will be around twenty eight maybe thirty degrees over the next couple of days and force in london we are at least twenty so generally speaking in the west it's fine unsettled warm and in the east it's pretty cold and as we head through wednesday there's yet another weather system that's making its way across parts of scandinavia and across towards the east as well now a bit further towards the south we've got a fair few showers over parts of the mediterranean at the moment particularly over sicily and into solid india and those are going to pull themselves together as we head through wednesday and push southwards so for cinci newsier that's a risk we could see more flooding out of this and also for western libya.

right. well again you're watching al-jazeera minder of our top stories this hour the e.u. says it's working on a plan that would allow it to keep trading with iran the aim is to get around u.s. sanctions follows president charms withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal earlier

this year. in yemen the saudi u.a.e. coalition has said it will open humanitarian corridors between the data. in coordination with the u.n. its humanitarian affairs chief mark a local warns that a famine could strike at any time fighting over the port of the data has stopped aid agencies from reaching millions of people. the u.s. is warning russia about deploying its missile defense system in syria russia sending the s. three hundred system a week after one of its planes was mistakenly shot down by syrian anti aircraft fire russia blames israel for the incident. so world leaders are gathering in new york for the un general assembly the secretary general is expat to expected to paint a grim picture of the state of affairs around the globe and call for countries to

work together this time last year the u.s. president delivered a fiery first address to the meeting threatening to totally destroy north korea and calling its leader a little rocket man a year on donald trump is striking a much softer tone saying a second summit with kim jong un is likely soon mike hanna reports from the u.n. . president trump arrives highlighting one major change in his position since derisively labeling north korea's leader a little rocket man a year ago. q you wrote a letter of a letter. asking for a second meeting we will be doing that secretary will work that out in the future looks like it will be very very well tremendous progress for north korea certainly since we got here it was a different world it was a very dangerous time this is a lot this is one year later a much different tact. many periods president trump could prove best disruptive as

the intense security measures imposed in midtown manhattan. but no signs of gridlock in the first public event he hosted opening a session on the global drug problem with a few severe praise of the united nations and its secretary general we also thank the secretary general for joining us and our special guest and as our special guest he's come a great friend and he's doing a wonderful job at a very very complex situation but a beautiful situation and i've always said the united nations has tremendous potential and that potential is being met slowly but surely it's being met little mention at the stage of u.s. action against united nations entities threats to dismantle the human rights council the suspension of funding to the relief and works agency. and the unilateral withdrawal from both the paris climate accord and the iranian nuclear

agreement positions at all it's with what many of the leaders view as the problem philosophy of the united nations it should not rely only on the political interests of a few as an impasse between the major powers often impedes the entire organizations ability to act. the united nations can only succeed to the degree that we as global leaders provide visionary leadership that transcends our ideological differences and national interests over the road from the united nations the stark black monolith called the trump international tower which like its owner will loom over the rest of the week's proceedings mike hanna al-jazeera united nations u.s. president donald trump supreme court pick brett kavanaugh has again denied

accusations of sexual misconduct in a t.v. interview he defended himself his response comes a day after a second accuser came forward it involves an alleged incident that dates back to cavanaugh's time at yale university his first accuser will testify before the senate judiciary committee on thursday or thursday is also the day when deputy attorney u.s. deputy u.s. attorney general rod rosenstein will meet president trump at the white house u.s. media have been suggesting that his job is on the line he is a key figure in washington as the man who appointed special counsel robert mueller to investigate alleged russian interference in u.s. politics some reports say he could be about to lose his job last week the new york times reported he'd be looking at ways to secretly record trump to help build a case for his removal from office rosenstein denied the report. argentina's largest labor union is calling for a nationwide strike over the government's austerity measures and many a furious of

a president macro's new budget but he says it's needed to secure more funding from the international monetary fund to race a bow or a force from one of cyrus. lever unions in argentina i few years 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. that. this shows the discontent workers have with 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 money 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. and just see that when a scientist the international drug control system is failing that is the finding of a new report published by twelve former world leaders they're calling for some drugs to be legalized since banning them has proven ineffective john ahmann 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 x. 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 at 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 veiled 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 full and 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 little girls that are in the drug trade what happens to the mothers who are smuggling from one country to the

other at the risk of their lives so our next step is really proposition ality for the punishment of these of these people reintegration in society development 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. thailand will stop importing most types of electronic waste within six months so far this year it is seen as an influx of waste arriving in the country after china enforced a similar band when hey reports. these are not images normally associated with one of the world's most popular tourist destinations through

a combination of consumption poor infrastructure and practices thailand is one of the world's largest contributors of ocean waste many of its beaches and waterways are clogged with rubbish it's also one of the region's biggest importers of waste but is making a move to stop it within six months the government says it will ban imports of hundreds of types of scrap electronics. in the proposal we suggest banning the import of used electrical appliances which total four hundred thirty two items last year thailand imported fifty three thousand tons of waste which is recycled for precious metal or plastic but it can also contain hazardous materials this year it's almost matched that amount already a result of china stopping some waste imports in january in thailand only a few companies are licensed to import a waste but corruption and weak law enforcement mean a lot more is brought into the country illegally that's your task.

to the car lot. to the letter to the town's friends and. partnering up. with this is next on the hit list is plastic. thailand plans to ban plastic imports within the next two years but like the ban on the waste the plan is light on detail but what it may do is focus attention on domestic plastic use at the moment less than a quarter is recycled already used. thailand has been slow to wake up to its waste problem until the new laws are implemented and enforced there will be skepticism about the government's commitment to clean up wayne hay al jazeera bangkok.

is al-jazeera let's get a round up now of the top stories the european union says it's working on a way to keep trading with iran despite u.s. sanctions president trample the us out of the iran nuclear deal earlier this year and put sanctions on businesses that deal with iran the european union and other countries that signed on to the deal now want to find a way for businesses to avoid u.s. countermeasures e.u. member states will set up a legal entity to facilitate legitimate financial transactions with iran and this will allow european companies to continue to trade with iran in accordance with european union low and could be open to other partners in the woods in yemen the saudi u.a.e. coalition has announced it will open a humanitarian corridors between data and sonar in coordination with the un fighting over the port of a day to stop aid agencies from reaching millions of people the un humanitarian affairs chief is warning of famine could strike at any time and the u.s.

is warning or russia about deploying its missile defense system in syria russia sending in the s. three hundred system a week after one of its planes was mistakenly shot down by syrian anti aircraft fire russia blames israel for the incident. the united states has approved the sale of three hundred thirty million dollars in military equipment to taiwan it includes spare parts and support for f. sixteen fighter jets and other military aircraft the us is the only country that sells weapons to the island and has done so for nearly forty years u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh has again denied accusations of sexual misconduct he defended himself in a t.v. interview a day after a second accuser came forward the alleged incident dates back to cavanaugh's time at yale university his first accuser christine blousy ford will appear before the senate judiciary committee on thursday those are the headlines in such stories next

. to zero where you. russia again blames israel for its role in the recent downing of its jet in syria it's a new low in a relationship that's in due order and even private despite appointing agendas on multiple fronts so will moscow curb israel's actions in several this is a story. hello and welcome to the program on the parana russia is the main ally of syrian

president bashar assad who israel has repeatedly targeted russia sells alms to iran and supports the nuclear deal with it all what israel has the said for asli lobbied against russia and israel had steered clear of confronting each other that changed last monday when syrian government forces mistook a russian reconnaissance plane for an israeli jet and shut down killing all fifteen people on board the russian defense ministry says israeli fighter jets deliberately used the russian plane as cover and get to our guests in a moment but first here's more of what the spokesman had to say. i would like to emphasize the fact that the israeli jets or the russian i have twenty and used it as a shield against the anti-aircraft missiles while they carried on maneuvering in the region their misleading information provided by these radio about the aerial strikes did not allow the russian i and twenty aircraft to move timely to a safe area that's presented the objective data testify that the actions of israeli

fighter pilots which led to the loss of life of fifteen russian servicemen by the luck professionalism or quite an act of criminal negligence to say the least. well the israeli military insists that it's not to blame saying it did not hide behind any aircraft russia though is calling israel's actions an extremely on. great for response to the operational deals that the two sides have struck and servia and now moscow is supplying syria with its sophisticated s three hundred anti aircraft missile system which it had held back for many years let's take a closer look now at the relations between russia and israel moscow reportedly struck a deal with israel and the sea a keeping iranian and lebanese hezbollah fighters away from the israeli occupied golan heights and it's allowed dozens of israeli airstrikes inside syria despite having a base there with radars and surface to air missiles that could intercept it strikes

military coordination has come with a warm relationship between israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and russian leader vladimir putin and israel has stayed away from western sanctions on russia. well it's introduce i guess now joining us from moscow the samuel romani a specialist on russia and middle east relations and a contribution at the russian international affairs council think tank in moscow that is hooshang haas and yardy a professor of military and international relations at salon caboose university and in tel aviv is a sophomore now the journalist at its newspaper and its former world news editor a very warm welcome to all of you are mr ramani let me start with you in moscow the strongest condemnation so far from the russian defense ministry how serious an impact do you think this incident has had all new russia israel relations. i think the has had quite

a serious impact on russia's relations because ever since the september twenty fifth scene there's been an informal agreement between the russians and the israelis have these really do not violate the convictions own exchange for the russians working on lobbying with their allies iran and hezbollah to ensure that no what tack isn't made on israel from russia's position they believe that they have upheld the bargain but they believe that israel has not and this breach of trust has created quite a significant rift ritually within the russian defense ministry according to my contacts in the ministry and mr right now the two accounts the two countries accounts just don't add up israel does not agree at all with the russian defense ministry statement what's going on here. they think that they're first of all it both countries all the known full they're not always sticking to their actual to us especially when the goal is to a military actions but in this case it's just as most of if not all are exposed in

israel and military experts there is little village and seems no liable to these lately had and no interest in their provoke i think their actions too and of causing any home to the russians because they know that relying on the russians to continue the fleet and in the syrian air space. so it seems that the situation is a bit more complex i think i think in my perspective that the russians are using this incident first of all to blame from themselves and from the allies. of the russian expos that are sitting in side they sit in their defense a part of us and they are helping them so maybe that was even the russian involvement in shooting the midst of a so that if trying to davao blame for the death of their soldiers and also the situation in syria is changing no they also does the. regime is almost secured and

secure with the new consoles almost all of their. own of all of syria and the russians are now trying to change the playground the redefined the rules of engagement in syrian airspace which into the past six years these ladies have been doing all they wanted ended in a space of any target that they wanted least according to the post of hundreds of airstrikes and now the russians are trying to find those and saying that these ladies cannot act as freely as the did in the past and this incident than they were to change the situation. is that what's going on here and russia is using this on fortunate incident to change the rules of engagement in serbia as the war comes to an end. that might be the case but i believe. there's a relationship between russia and israel they're very very very bad as the markets mentioned in the past many many years russians almost that turned their head the

other raid that the israelis to take care of the danny and forces and the his border as they wanted to i think the mistake by these raids if they must go is very and he's correct these mistakes by the israelis know to coordinate better read the russians is going to cost the israeli deity we should not forget that in the past a few months needs rabies contacted so many attacks on the iranian forces in syria here's what eyes would be down to any kind of intervention by the russians actually . i believe that russians opened the door for do for the israelis to do that well that might relation and that might that goal might be about to close because just today we had the russian defense ministry announcing that they are going to now the russian government announcing that they are now going to supply the syrian

government with these. anti missile defense systems that they previously had and mr ramani is this to keep russian plane safe or to curtail israel's freedom of movement and syria. i think that this is the two prong message firstly it is to keep the russian jets safe because they've argued that the s two hundred is radius and zone of influence is inadequate and the s three hundred can extend to two hundred fifty kilometers which would give them a greater degree of security but i also think that this is a warning shot that's being fired at israel much like the way russia did not react very strongly to the americans allegedly killing three hundred russian mercenaries a few months back russia's basically trying to warn israel that if there is another violation of the convictions and they will be serious consequences and making an unprecedented step by delivering equipment that would only been used by the russian military to another forest and one of israel's arch enemies bashar al assad is a very clear way of making that warning shot mr now how do you think israel is

going to respond now to these anti missile defense systems being deployed to syria israel's former military intelligence chief thomas yadlin has said that he assumes that the if falls will destroy the s three hundred if it's hand handed over to syria what do you make of that. i think that the situation in syria has become more compact complicated for these earlier false previous declinations and reports from the inside the israeli army indicate that israelis believe they can walk around the s three hundred if it is deployed in syria and still achieve their goals might be most complicated it might be but they will achieve their goals a line in the past to clarify that every. defense system that is attacking its jets will be attacked and as it happened in the past and so the possibility i'm not sure that it would be

a preemptive attack but if those systems would be activated against israeli jets it is very likely that they the israeli jets will attack them into the town and destroy them which is also which my faith even i'm more complicated situation because last time the russians discussed this applying this to syria they also want anyone from trying to attack those systems so there is a very the chances for. further complications is going going and the situation is getting even mobile a. lot of all these are there for the i don't think that these ladies will let go of the achieving their goals which is according to these latest statements and polls and everything to limit the iranian president's military presence in syria and the transport of advanced weapons for me to point out in militias in syria and to the hizbollah and have been a mistake so given that you know so israel is going to continue with this

operations russia now could be trying to i mean is it going to try and limit israel's operations or engage with it more you know engage in more diplomatic coordination and syria how is it going to use this incident as leverage. i think the incident could be viewed a thirty point in this situation in syria but also you know what the israelis can do and if you share we should recall also what the mood what the. minister of defense in the in moscow said that they are going to be integrated a defensive. system be diff syrians it means that. the russians soldiers. be syrians operating as three hundred and that's the major to extremely difficult really for these raiders to attack such a system knowing that the russians are going to be implicated and so all of that to

say. in the absence of any kind of russian agreement to let these readies do basically what they want to do you are going to see a situation much much more complicated than before and that is going to serve obviously detainee interest in syria this year in government and his well known and consequently really limited i believe the margin for the israelis to men who are as they used to the israelis do have some considerable leverage with the russians mr rabbani how much action you know can russia take against israel given things like we had from israeli minister. earlier this year who was very quick to remind russia that. you know israel didn't join and western sanctions against russia for its actions in crimea it didn't kick russian ambassadors and diplomats out of its

country like a lot of other countries did following the poisoning of the former russian spy in england. i think israel has many points of leverage that are suresh are first of all and most the most proximate is that israel can launch another set of airstrikes against military defenses or against iranian military defenses in selden syria could kill many or any revolutionary guard members who are vital for russia's military campaign i may tenth that's the most proximate example in other ways is it resolves important to russia because it's a major trade partner in the middle east is also a very important partner for russia's broader collective security goal russia wants to be involved ideally gaging in dialogue i want a few major conflicts israel the iran iran and saudi arabia and trying to leverage a strong relations with all these powers if the relationship between israel and russia were to be breached is broadly diplomatic goals for a long term foothold in the middle east should be greatly diminished so i think

that means to me a good relationship with israel is paramount and that ultimately russia will probably try to warn and gradually chastise israel rather than cut off relations or escalate or drastically it doesn't want retaliation from jerusalem but will russia mr ramani continue to you know turn the other way as it has been so far in this conflict it doesn't sound from like it's going to at all from what other guests the saying i think that the russian defense ministry certainly will be a lot more aggressive towards israel for a period of time and russia could retaliate by potentially not supporting israel on un resolutions about the settlements it could retaliate by more directly providing military assistance and that could be threatening and quite scary for israel i think in the very long term if you're looking past a few months i think ultimately they'll be some kind of a normalization and some kind of consensus will be reached regarding to him flexion and this kind of crisis while simply simmer down with a warning that if israel violates the convictions on again the consequences will be

much more severe lesser but now what do you make of that is this just you know a minor cop in the historic relationship between these two countries. a thing that first of all of the relations of bigger than a syria and they think that as it's been said. israel has ability to help syrian interests in the region and around the world and i think also it's also minding that the unions and the russians are fighting the same side in syria but the interests are not always the same a way that even a competition between in iran and russia about the presidents and their influence over the syrian regime over the last allusion. to the world is over right now and once the world is over and i'm not sure that putting in the russian military was very unpleasant with the fact that these ladies were talking iranian targets in syria thought those busts excuse because in a way as long as they didn't have the direct military effort of desolate gene

regime it helped it might have helped their russian interests in limiting the union presidents in syria which you can claim that the russians are not completely happy with it because they want to be their good money force donating money force in studio at least the most important force in syria and limiting iranian presence there via israeli air strikes was it could have been seen as useful and i'm not sure this equation changed so much i think that still there is a struggle between new russia and iran about who controlled syria and so it was over and i think that the russians would want to might want to continue using these lowliest place as they do in this struggle mr half and you know what do you make of that is russia using israeli air strikes as a tool in the conflict and also how long do you think will the syrian government continue to also essentially allow israel to carry out attacks on its allies on hebron on hezbollah targets on its territory. did is no doubt that

ronnie's very very upset about what russians are doing. in syria i mean also their day to. date complacency toward these radio times for example. you damn hands are in syria because syria is for them it's strategy. that they want to be there they need c.d.o. order to reach their lebanon hezbollah the border israel the hands are not going to be pushed out very easy but what the russian president said in the past there few months that all foreign forces should believe. was received a very negative the integrand so. this is why i believe it was the from day one it was a big mistake by tehran for it to put all its eggs in the. in the russian

side of the equation and consequently now that they have to they have to reject it but what is important and if we make a connection between the recent incident and the past many years of nuthin negotiations russia has always used the daniel court to put pressure on the u.s. on europeans and get concessions from there and i believe they are going to do the same thousand ships on one hand the game is because of their isolation they need russia russia is backing russian. more than before and on the other hand they cannot. completely go do wait that the russians do not aggravate this so this is why didn't his our cornet and the russians are using this situation in order to consider

a date. presence and their domination of indonesian and so i believe to be done american retreat to be did russians cause. you did. if you're going to see configuration of the the jewish refugee theme out of. their very russians are going to be dominant and then daughters to the other states are going to be used by russians wherever do russians interest the state so mr ramani i mean that sounds like it's good news from russia have a way you look at it you know it can balance all these different interests with iran with syria with israel because of the power that it has right now yes russia's given itself of position of indispensability and it will remain an enduring to the doctrine of having no problems with their neighbors basically a perfect application of that doctor by working with both israel and iran as also

important to keep in mind that at the helsinki summit putin acknowledged behind the scenes that he has really no leverage over iranian presences of in syria so there are a lot of disagreements between iran and russia over syria and other crises too like yemen and afghanistan i could make that relationship considerably weaker along with the economic competition over natural gas i think that is important even mine that russia will probably head in the middle east balance or to deescalate with israel eventually he built that relationship with iran rather than picking sides because hedging is the best tragedy for its overall geopolitical agenda was to rebel what do you make of that is russia going to be able to balance all of these often opposing and trusts. i think that the chances for. fellow complications great job in the used to be on the one hand but i think that there is no other the super bowl that would be able to stop us from doing whatever it wants to build them accounts of him almost insignificant in syria and the money

and energy will be about the destroying what's left of the un your field even if we're talking about the. middle east policy there isn't much left more than that and i think that there is. going chances for further complications. technical level. and the but i beg you that they are long gone the russians will continue balancing will continue balancing their different interests of the different both that they'll be doing within the middle east for their own gains and but still the question is whether they would allow enhanced to a continuing punching game militarily in syria against these later wishes and what we did and will they allow the iranians to do it under the new a limitations that they were to apply on these early activity and syrian air space and how would a zoladex because i don't think that these ladies we did let go of the interest of

stopping iran in presence and syria a if the russians were to lead accommodate that which is not unlikely then the situation will continue in this balance but it is a fudge about and the russians were left to continue flying very sophisticated diplomatic and then education means to keep it and short of it and mr hudson yeah you know as russia continues to gain who else gains in the situation. in this situation i believe. that the new friends of israel in the region they are going to be very have some more some difficulties really to do whatever they want to go into positioning themselves in the region for example so the area under a person want to be to be joshua was seen very negatively by iran if the

confrontation between who or if peace that dispute with the israelis gets out of hand and russians if they push the try to push the israelis somehow to corner them then death would also create some confidence situation for for syria so i believed it did those who gain from the east this situation in the region there are not to too many obviously assad is not a very popular president that among the arabs in the region many of them they don't want to see set in power but also they don't want to see you know any terry frieden seen in syria in the arab if they kept the times out of that phase as they call it and consequently. the situation would be quite different this is why i'm talking about the reconfiguration of the of the region in this new region russia is going to have off air month for how long we don't know unless down americans they get

back and then they try to play dangerously historical and tradition order to roll less the house and yard thank you very much for that unfortunately we have got out of times i'd like to thank all of my guests samuel romani and moscow. in muscat and for now and kind of a if and thank you too for watching he can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion to go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation.

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general assembly where the secretary general is expected to paint a grim picture. we take you to the biggest competition in the u.k. and it's not a painting in sight. for the european union says it is working on a way to continue trading with iran despite u.s. sanctions president pulled out of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal of this year and a strike into slap sanctions on companies that do business in iran she has more from washington the e.u. was reported to have been discussing what it calls a special purpose recall for several weeks monday night the e.u. foreign policy chief said it would be going ahead e.u. member states will set up a legal entity to facilitate legitimate financial transactions with iran and this

will allow european companies to continue to trade with iran in accordance with european union low and could be open to other partners in the woods the plans discussed in the past have involved an entity being set up to act as a go between or clearing house. and other nations to facilitate commercial transactions for example if a country or company wants to buy iranian oil it would send money to or perhaps engage in a barter system involving this entity which will handle the transaction with iran the same were true in reverse for iran's dealings with the rest of the world the idea is to bypass commercial and central banks who are fearful of being frozen out of the us financial system if they help circumvent the new sanctions being imposed by the trumpet ministration against iran in the. however the details have yet to be worked out and there is some skepticism that the system will work especially given the large number of european companies already curtailing their business dealings

with iran. this meeting at the u.n. also announced that iran remained in compliance with the nuclear deal and pledged their commitment to remain participants in the meeting on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly didn't just involve european foreign ministers but the foreign ministers of russia and china as well meeting with iran coming as it did on the eve before donald trump addresses the u.n. general assembly in what's been billed as an attempt to really blast iran for its activity this was a sign of real international solidarity here in new york she represents the al-jazeera new york the saudi and erotic coalition fighting in yemen plans to open humanitarian corridors to allow for the delivery of aid it says that it will work with the u.n. on the area that would be between the rebel strongholds of a day down on the red sea and the capital sana'a quite a bit shocked at how the coalition is working with the u.n. humanitarian agency in yemen to establish safe humanitarian corridors to help with

the delivery and aid between the day deaths on. andrew symonds has more from djibouti. this announcement by the saudi u.s. led coalition appears to be off the back of around a chorus if you will of protest and indignation and also really passionate appeals for something to be done about the finding and that was at the united nations general assembly now in terms of a humanitarian corridor being formed the details haven't been given but there already exists some sort of agreement between u.n. officials and the coalition to get supplies through that having very very large difficulties in doing so because of the the roads that are getting around the main fighting which is the main route between data and sana'a it is a difficult task there are the roads are really very almost impassable in places

and to that the fact that the grain mills storing so much food for the people of yemen are in active they're not being used right now because of the fighting so the question is how will the who think is engaging in an agreement how will the whole process be observed on the ground and will it be effective the aid agencies are united in the warning that the famine is coming soon and the head of the humanitarian operations in the u.n. has warned this is mark local that when the famine strikes it will be too late at the u.n. humanitarian affairs she's is warning of famine in yemen could strike at any time and lead to even more deaths food prices have soared in the fighting of the port of data has stopped aid agencies from reaching at least eight million people so far this year he says by the time a famine is concerned it would be too late to stop it. my job is to draw attention

to the humanitarian suffering and one way in which the situation could be worse is if we were running the biggest relief operation and we didn't have a very well funded appeal so my colleague martin griffiths who's the un political envoy is working as hard as we can to deal with the underlying issues and what's needed is to get people around the table so i agree with you there's all sorts of contradiction in this my central focus though is ensuring that the people who are the losers in this conflict in which there are no winners the people who loses are the civilians those little babies. the u.s. is warning russia about deploying its missile defense system in syria it is sending the s. three hundred missiles a week after one of its planes was mistakenly shot down by syrian anti aircraft by syrian air defenses were responding to raids by israeli jets in the province of latakia roy chalons has more. russia's s. three hundred the air defense system that's russia has held off from supplying to

the syrian military until now. within two weeks a modern surface to air missile system the s three hundred will be handed over it's capable of intercepting air assault weapons on a range of more than two hundred fifty kilometers and at the same time can hit multiple aerial targets having an advanced facility and high fire rate the system will strengthen syrian air defense combat capabilities significantly defense minister sure you gave little doubt why the russians have changed their position but you're cool that issue that has them going to let me make a point at the request of the israeli side and twenty thirteen we halted delivery of the s three hundred which was ready to be shipped to syria while syrian service personnel were given appropriate training today the situation has changed not by our fault the defense ministry holds israel responsible for the deaths of fifteen military personnel

a week ago there reconnaissance plane was misidentified and mistakenly shot down by syrian air defense admits the confusion of his radio strikes and israeli military delegation sent to moscow last thursday failed to convince the russians it wasn't their fault. but interesting aspects of this rift is the way the ministry of defense approach differs from that taken by the kremlin the m.o.d.e. has kept pushing the view that israel is culpable but. his spokesperson have been soft pedaling saying it was just an arm for. accidents and that the ass three hundred decision is not say that israel. israel has previously been able to count on russia turning a blind eye to its airstrikes inside syria of which there have been some two hundred in recent years but if damascus really does get its hands on s three hundreds the israeli military will have to rethink its tactics is the first time in

the history of the conflict that we see the the syrian defense is equipped with the mother in. missiles that can deprive the israeli air force of from their freedom of movement in the syrian air space part is not just the israelis who will be affected by the booth u.s. national security adviser john bolton has called it a major mistake any other country operating in the region will now have to realize that syrian airspace isn't theirs to use it will rory chalons al-jazeera moscow and the united states has approved the sale of three hundred thirty million dollars in military equipment to taiwan include spare parts and support for f. sixteen fighter jets and other military aircraft the us is the only country that sells weapons to the island which has been doing for nearly forty years china considers taiwan part of its territory and opposes all u.s.

military sales there russ feingold is in asia political risk analyst he says this new deal with taiwan will not help relations between china and the u.s. . we simply don't know how long taiwan could withstand it military attack from china but from the u.s. perspective anything that you can do such as sell these spare parts or what is likely in the future additional weapon sales does help taiwan prevent a chinese attack given that it's a relatively small dollar amount and spare parts by itself it wouldn't anger china however the totality of the circumstances are certainly indicative that this will contribute to more tension between the u.s. and china we've seen so many issues arise just in the last week or two whether it's u.s. military patrols in the south china sea the tariffs and now this announcement of sale weapons sales to taiwan so it's one more issue that will now be on the agenda

and clearly they'll be a period of recriminations from both sides are still ahead on al-jazeera we'll tell you why thousands have been protesting in argentina. and why this surgeon from south sudan has won a prestigious u.n. award. through tranquil the raveena. tandon on the moon and it's a new ship going to look. hello the cold air continues to dig its way across europe the satellite picture is showing the leading edge of that cold air gradually working its way southwards now the cold air is all the way across greece working its way into turkey as well plenty of showers all following it so for us in ankara then the temperatures will be a pleasant twenty seven degrees is the maximum during the day today but as we fast forward into wednesday they were dropping just to thirteen and this time they'll be

a strong wind and some heavy rain around and as the cold day digs in here it's then covered most of us across eastern europe most of us will be fall fresh air flow towards the north we're going to see more cloud of rain push its way across parts of scandinavia there for wednesday that will be working its way eastwards towards russia as well so heavy downpours here but the western parts of europe though it's very different hair it's falling and settles already quite pleasantly warm for many of us london up at twenty matching the temperatures they were expecting in paris and zurich as well for the other side of the mediterranean there's been quite a few showers here recently in the satellite picture showing the last of those just off the coast of tripoli for the south so we've got this area of cloud here that is galloping its way north woods so by the time we get to wednesday it looks like some of us around the coast about geria tunisia and into libya.