the talking about this facility this mechanism on balance do you think do you have the sense that this can or cannot preserve the nuclear deal in a sense in a way as we could have described it six months ago or twelve months ago when everyone was saying this is the only deal on the table is the best way forward it's just not possible to say yes or no right now we need to see how this works for seeds but i think there is a prospect that if not provide the full range of benefits that the iranians as expected there is still a prospect that some of those benefits would still occur whether that's enough to support the rouhani administration and its efforts to keep the agreement alive domestically is very difficult to say but don't count it out yet and i think that the commitment is very strong as margaret made that very clear in his statement today and it's

a very robust commitment and the position of europe is solid on the member states entirely with it as well. let's see what was the trump has to say later on today james morone many thanks. the saudi and iraqi coalition fighting in yemen plans to open humanitarian corridors to allow the delivery of aid it says it will work with the u.n. on the corridor that would run between the rebel strongholds of who data on the red sea and the capital sana'a for what could be targeted to how the coalition is working with the u.n. humanitarian agency in yemen to establish thief humanitarian corridors to help with the delivery and aid between day death on our need to help and are simmons is our correspondent following the story live for us here on the news out of neighboring djibouti andrew this corridor or how will it operate and i guess crucially how will they keep it safe. this is a big question right now on the ground there is still fighting the amorality trained government troops taking on the who's the rebel forces around that main

road between her and santa that is a critical point because the whole plan to try to cut through with a humanitarian corridor will be extremely complicated there has to be the assurances that the huth is will hold back in certain areas possibly whether it's all being worked out is unclear but we've already heard from local the u.n. under-secretary saying that there are some roads already have been discussed with the coalition and they're very very dangerous indeed and also winding through mountains winding through areas that have already been blitzed asterix there is a real critical situation with the aid flow so they'll have to be a pretty quiet be big quantum leap in the situation on the ground for an effective humanitarian corridor or to be built up the u.n.

general assembly on monday was hearing from a number of people saying this has to be a situation whereby the fighting has to stop period that has to be a fighting a cease fire in order to enable effective humanitarian help to get through to the millions of people who are so desperately in need this is what the u.n. chief based in yemen had to say in new york. we estimate that a child is dying every ten minutes for war related causes ten thousand children have died in the name and in the city of the 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 aimin 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 two data 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 choir that aid that's why everything has to be done to keep the port open and or even if they manage to get all these pieces of the jigsaw in place in this corridor or does eventually get up and running is it a permanent fixture or will they will they put a timeline on it will it have a an expiration date if you will. no indication at all peter on whether there's a timeline or how it will be done very unclear but just to update you on the sort of situation on the ground that you heard ground referring to there this is a sequence of images of

a new arrival at the. clinic in the province a little boy. is two years old and his weight is less than five kilos he has all sorts of complications from malnutrition his mother is trying to look after the rest of the family in a remote area some distance from this district she says there is no help available and the father is also sick he has to be looked after as well so it's his grandmother who is there in the clinic trying to get some level of hope but the prognosis for this call child is not good he has to go to sana'a or if he's going to get any hope of this sort of attention he needs and he can't get to santa because the family can't afford it this is a snapshot of an extreme snapshot it has to be said of what's facing the civilians who have no say in any of this and this is the sort of thing that so many

politicians are banging the table about but as the u.n. humanitarian under secretary said in a briefing on monday there is a dichotomy between what the saudi u.s. a led coalition does on the ground and what it does in terms of a major donor of funding towards the u.n. effort for humanitarian relief and there is also a very mixed picture a fork if you will of fog of war and also a fog over the diplomacy because there doesn't seem to be any traction whatsoever between the u.n. that this saudi u.a.e. led coalition the yemeni government. and and the who says in terms of getting a dialogue going it would appear still that the coalition intends to block off or take a city that have six hundred thousand population before the fighting

escalated no one knows the exact number they're still in that port city but it amounts to hundreds of thousands there's no doubt and the statistics well they they speak for themselves when you look at three hundred forty nine civilian deaths in her data since the offensive started in june there was a pause for that rather disastrous attempt to get talking going in geneva but it started again with full force after those attempts at diplomacy failed peter ok and we will leave it there many thanks plenty more still to come for you here on the news hour including these ones we'll tell you why thousands have been protesting in argentina. and we'll take you to the biggest competition in the u.k. but there's not one painting in sight. and in the sports news with and in europe's ryder cup captain says his players will take on a resurgent tiger woods without fear we'll have that story for you in about twenty five minutes.

britain's main opposition party is deep in discussions on how it will respond to the government's talks with the european union labor party members at their conference in liverpool will be voting soon on their plan among the options likely to be considered our support for a new referendum on any deal that they can reach the labor party leader jeremy corbyn has said he would prefer an election a general election over another public vote on e.u. membership not in barbour is our correspondent there as far as the labor party leadership is concerned is this clarification or a complete three sixty utero. well if you ask the leadership it's consensus and it's consistent with what they've been saying all along which is that they have to respect the results of the twenty sixteen referendum while protecting jobs and citizens' rights it was very difficult

the process on sunday to come up with this text which they're voting on in the coming hours and almost certain to two approves and it does. keep in the option of a so-called people's votes which might offer the option of staying in the european union versus any deal that the government comes up with but there is a lot of debate over that for a bit more on what it all means i'm joined by ana oppenheim from another europe is possible i know you believe in fight should be a people's vote if i'm not mistaken how clear is it that labor has taken a step towards that happening and the motion is likely to pass today does not explicitly commit labor to people's health is why it's been this kind of compromise however there is a lot of things it does say clearly it does say it never will do everything to stop and no deal for access and that's a noble goal down a terry branstad deal that's along the lines of any time

a sticker that does everything for a general election and failing that all options mean with able including a public vote one of the options are very limited if we experience now on the oh it's a high rank if we commit to a single market as the motion does the only revision i can see is ask people once again if they expect to feel well if they want to maintain you. the policy is still maintaining that the priority must be trying to move to an early election what's the likelihood of that. it is very hard to say it's clear that there is a maze government is falling apart that's ari's are. fighting and here is the fight over bracks and it is very likely that if the deal falls. whatever the only the management negotiate falls there will be a crisis which might be lower than the general election but you know we know what happened last year we know that these things are quite unpredictable and every direction does happen i would like to see labor running on a manifesto of

a people's vote which seemingly a lot of the momentum a lot of the push for people's vote is coming from the new a grassroots members who are very supportive of jeremy colbert but opponents of the people's vote say that well this would be this would be seen by the neighbor voters as a betrayal and that it would be damaging for the party's prospects in a general election what do you say to that you know like huge majority of labor members and the majority of labor support here is and potential labor voters are he will have done this in maine or you could change your mind and are more likely to build to maine if there is a second referendum we also know that lonely vote is don't see brands as a number one priority what people care about is jobs housing public services these things where labor has a clear answer is so actually ideal thing that i mean. is that might have no progress if anything it will bring more people forward it will bring the kind of young people that labor is fire last election to now majority of us afford to mine

thank you very much for talking well the voters i was saying is going to finish in the next few hours almost certain to be carried but there are still many many uncertainties in just in the last few hours kids starmer not ruling out the possibility that labor might support an extension of article fifty in other words the in the go see asians with brussels going on the past march of next year the official. date he says that the policy now is achieving unity he says the tories are unable to do that but how will the party if it does gain power gets out of the i'm passed is still not exactly clear to everybody here one brief point ninety. i mean how does the labor party leadership once the party conference season is well and truly over how do they sell whatever they come up with to their core supporters you know the fifty to forty eight percent vote to in a bit years ago that was white working class men in some of the labor heartlands

who voted for brics it and yet at the end of the conference now in a couple of days or maybe today or tomorrow it looks like they're going to vote on a promise of a possibility that's a tough one to sell. well it is but it's not so what a lot of people are calling triangulation is trying to keep options open and appeal to everybody it's not as clear as saying yes ultimately we would like to for example stay in the european union it's not even promising a second vote saying that that is one of the possible ways that they could try to get out of this they some pass of course some in the labor party argue that yes that would normally deep increase divisions and further antagonize people who wanted. it for example for reasons of immigration. but and

that perhaps that could play into the hands of the far right in britain but as anna was saying many people do have other things which they care about deeply as well as those issues and for example labor is prioritizing how it would transform the economy yesterday we heard from john mcdonnell talking about putting workers on to company boards and making big firms pay their fair share of taxes these are all things which go down really well with that working class electorate so it's not clear exactly how how much of a danger that would be versus according to some opinion polls the the rest of the the country where and in some according to some opinion polls they could actually gave him one point five million votes now of course they would be deducing some seats in gaining others but it's really i mean it's a it's a it's a balancing act but it's but it's something that has to be done according to the

leadership understood nadim we'll talk later i'm sure in the meantime thanks very much. well one of the piece of european political news for you in sweden the prime minister stephanie low from the house lost a vote of no confidence following this month's elections he'll have to step up to members of parliament voted to remove the center right social democrat leader elections in september live neither the main right or left bloc with an outright majority. thailand says it will no longer take in other countries electronic rubbish so far this year it's seen an influx of waste after china enforced a similar wainaina from bangkok 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 or that's your to have some more interest in. to the car lot. to the letter to the town's friends and after partnering up.

with this hasn't been seen as next on the hit list is plastic. thailand plans to ban plastic imports within the next two years but like the ban on e.u. 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. now in a few moments we'll have the weather for you with staff but also still ahead here on the news hour why the surgeon from south sudan has won a prestigious u.n. award. in sport in jersey and a new start for basketball's biggest star we'll hear what le bron james has to say about this move from east to west.

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welcome back you're with the al-jazeera news on my name's peter dhabi these are your headlines so far the e.u. says it's working on a plan that would allow its companies to keep trading with iran the aim is to get around u.s. sanctions that follows president trump's decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal and punish those who do business with tehran. in yemen the saudi u.a.e. coalition has announced it will open humanitarian corridors between the data and sanna in coordination with the u.n. fighting over the portal for data a stopped aid agencies from reaching millions of people the un's humanitarian chief says famine could strike at any time. britain's main opposition party is deciding how it will respond to the government's breaks it talks with the e.u. the labor party leader wants a general election but some party members are pressing for a second referendum. the

un general assembly in new york will officially get underway in around two hours from now this time last year the u.s. president on the trump delivered a fiery first address threatening to totally destroy north korea and calling its leader little rocket man one year on donald trump is striking a much softer tone mike hanna explains now from the u.s. . president trump arrives highlighting one major change in his position since derisively labeling north korea's leader a little rocket man a year ago. you wrote a letter beautiful letter. asking for a second meeting we will be doing that secretary of the table work that out in the future it 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 tack. 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 surprise 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 odds 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 now drew national interests over the road from the united nations a 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. well the u.n. general assembly has been a witness to some of the most powerful moments in history and sometimes it's been

a place to of the tricks is a look back. when we were like yeah yeah the day it ancient i live i know to an able to me to get out because that was the brave men and women of suffering and dying that we may live. today at the threshold of a great thing if you know this declaration of human right. the. wrong everywhere. you go the. views of benghazi and i do actually. resume in the development of this organization the only true alternative to war

no ship but i'm not in a box. and you know the minute they say not to be going to tend to good living can argue all day every day we can move on it's not really political. the most. white people to do you have to beg to be. put the rules but only now do you. believe we can bridge our differences and just cooperation over coffee that is not weakness that is for. the next generation must belong to women. i think you know. i think i didn't. i didn't. mean one of the williams put it but i mean this is a bomb. this is

a fuse we had nor did we miss you. too often the focus of this organization has not been on results but on iraq there's a russian and american people hope that one day soon the united nations can be a much more accountable and a vacuum advocate for human dignity and freedom around the world. taiwan is to get three hundred thirty million dollars in new military equipment from the united states it includes spare parts and support for f. sixteen fighter jets as well as some other military aircraft the u.s. 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 that the president from some battle nominee for the u.s. supreme court is speaking out after facing new accusations of sexual misconduct in

his youth brett kavanaugh offered a blanket denial and a t.v. interview john hendren watched it. people. as protesters faced arrest to demonstrate against president donald trump supreme court pick brett kavanaugh is striking back. appearing with his wife on fox news a day after not one but two new accusers emerged he insists he's been wrongly accused saying the truth is i've never sexually assaulted anyone in high school or otherwise i'm not questioning and have not questioned that perhaps dr ford at some point in her life was sexually assaulted by someone in some place would i know is that i've never sexually assaulted anyone kevin i was seventeen when his original accuser christine ford says he tried to rape her cavanaugh and ford are scheduled to break their silence at a senate hearing on thursday but the white house considered that too late president trump is standing behind his nominee for the united states highest court since

a fine man and we certainly hope he's going to be confirmed as quickly republican leaders in congress aren't backing down either this is what the so-called resistance has become a smear campaign pure and simple democrats would let a few and convey to things like a complete lack of evidence or accusers requests for confidentiality to get between them and a good smear it's despicable. on sunday kavanagh's nomination was struck with back to back bombshell first the new yorker magazine published the account of deborah ramirez who says the cavanagh exposed himself to her while they were both students in a university then the lawyer for stormy daniels the woman who was paid one hundred thirty thousand dollars by president trump's lawyer to deny that she had an affair with the president says that he has another client who says that she also was

assaulted by kevin on. now the republicans who run the senate judiciary committee are considering whether to go ahead with the thursday hearing or to postpone it to investigate further with just six weeks to go before the november midterm elections that could shift control of congress and the supreme court nomination to democrats john hendren al jazeera washington argentina's biggest labor union is calling for a nationwide strike over the government's austerity measures many a furious over president that it creates new budget but he says it is needed to secure more money from the international monetary fund from the capital when his ira's is to raise about. libor unions in argentina i feel yes with the government of. the economy's shrinking and argentina is reducing spending and increasing borrowing from the international monetary fund to pay the bills. he said teacher who has taken to the streets and when a site is to demand better wages i think that if 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 mackey 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 plan on somebody 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 francis says the sex abuse scandal the catholic church has been facing is driving people away speaking in stone on the final leg of his four day tour of

the baltics the pontiff said the church must change its ways if it wants to keep future generations the visits which included live here any. as coincided with a scathing new report on decades of sex abuse and cover up in germany. the only had surgeon in south sudan is this year's winner of the un's nansen refugee awards dr evan. provides health services to locals as well as refugees from neighboring sudan's blue nile state catherine sort has a story. in an ordinary week doctor even atar at the heart a surgeon at the only functioning hospital in bunch town in north eastern south sudan and his team operate on around sixty patients two hundred thousand people most of them refugees from sudan's blue nile state live in this remote town and look to a band hospital for all their medical needs they were as.