overtip party of to reason may next week will fail to show any unity on breaks it so he's hoping that the party in the next few weeks or months will implode that in fact any deal they get with brussels will come to parliament and be rejected but that is not clear so this is why it's so important to many labor voters what labor is saying it will take what approach it will take over how to get out of this brett sit and pass and many of the younger members here do hope that there will be a people's vote meaning either approve a deal or stay in the european union now that's very contentious among some of the labor party but certainly at the moment the message is it's not off the table some people say it would be rejecting the referendum result from two years ago others argue that it's the only way to give to take the matter out of the hands of the politicians who are clearly failing to deliver. a sweden's prime minister stephan

loaf and has lost the confidence vote following this month's elections you have to step down after members of parliament voted to remove the center right social democrat leader the elections left no bloc with an outright majority. still ahead on agitated when we come back we'll tell you why thousands have been protesting in argentina. and how this surgeon from south sudan managed to win a prestigious un award. hello there we've got quite gumi weather across parts of japan at the moment you can see why on the satellite picture there's this area of cloud with us at the moment now the majority of the weather from this is falling around the coasts and that's what way it's going to stay as we head through wednesday as well so wet on

the south coast further north large amounts of cloud but predominantly drawing as we head through into thursday though the rain will be pushing back northwards again so yet more wet weather for us and the temperatures will therefore be dropping in that range so tokyo a maximum of nineteen degrees on a pretty wet day as well but the towards the west we've got another weather system that's working its way through parts of china that's going to be bringing some snow for us here but further south of course it's rain it's working its way towards beijing but it won't reach us just yet i mean further towards the south that lots of rain here will stretch its way up through that it's gradually pushing its way southwards though so it should hit the south coast there as we had three thursday for the east staying fine and dry for now shanghai a twenty six am force in hong kong where we had a pleasant thirty two i mean further towards the south and all storm a typhoon is moving away towards the north that means for us in the philippines just sunshine and showers for us and those showers pushing all the way towards the west will catch some in singapore and celtic.

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hello again you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour the e.u. says it's working on a plan that would allow its companies to keep trading with iran the goal is to get around u.s. u.s. sanctions that follows president trump's decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal and punish those who do business with iran. in yemen the saudi u.a.e. coalition says it will open humanitarian corridors between the data and in coordination with the u.n. fighting over the port of her data has stopped aid agencies from reaching millions of people u.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 bragg's it talks with the european union labor's leader wants a general election but some party members are pressing for a second referendum. on the us is warning russia about deploying its missile defense system in syria russia sending the s. three hundred missiles a week after one of its planes was mistakenly shot down by syrian anti aircraft

fire syrian air defenses were responding to raids by israeli jets in the province of latakia rory 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 early sort 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 going there 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 the recognizance. the 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. had his spokesperson been soft pedaling saying it was just an unfortunate accident and that the asked three hundred decision is not a 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 syrian defense is equipped with a mother in. missiles that can deprive the israeli air force of from their freedom of movement and the syrian air space part is not just the israelis who will be affected by the move 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. china has accused the us of in its words holding

a knife to its neck by imposing its biggest round of trade tariffs yet a senior chinese trade official says u.s. actions made it impossible to resume any negotiations the u.s. has put duties on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports china retaliated with similar taxes on sixty billion dollars of american products it is the latest move in the growing a trade war between the world's two biggest economies pope francis has acknowledged that the sex abuse scandal of the catholic church has been facing is driving people away he was speaking in a stoning on the final leg of his three country tour of the baltic region the pontiff said the church must change if it wants to keep future generations visit which included lithuania and latvia coincided with a report on decades of sex abuse and cover up in germany a president donald trump's embattled nominee for the u.s. supreme court is speaking out after facing new accusations of sexual misconduct in

his youth brett cavanagh offered a blanket denial in a t.v. interview john hendren one hundred has that. 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 have 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 kavanaugh was seventeen when his original accuser christine bloody forward 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 conveyed a thing 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 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 are 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 largest labor union is calling for a nationwide strike over the government's austerity measures they're furious over president mackie's new budget but he says it's needed to secure more money from the international monetary fund and i sub zero reports from one of. the lever unions in argentina i think yes with the government of. the economy string king 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. 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. 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 stopped 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 many that 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. 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 banning them has proved ineffective john holliman 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 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 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 legalisation 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 that so our next step is really. the 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. the only head surgeon in south sudan is

this year's winner of the un's nansen refugee award dr evan. provides health services to locals as well as refugees from neighboring sudan's blue nile state catherine so i met him. in an ordinary week dr event atar at the heart surgeon at the only functioning hospital in bunch town in north eastern south sudan and he steam 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 looked to be a band hospital for all their medical needs they would has destroyed almost the infrastructures which are especially in the upper layer. almost all work including my local hospital was destroyed i think the process of removing issues all of them are not really working to the capacity that they are supposed to south sudan has

been in conflict since twenty thirteen the war has divided the country along ethnic lines and their qana me and made it difficult for many people to access basic services like health care when the conflict started at tahrir and hundreds of refugees were just beginning to settle in after fleeing violence in neighboring sudan you have to do you have collectively lead to the two countries for twenty years and has seen the worst of both wars what challenges did you face in sudan in the mud in the mumbai. really bombing the area seriously sometimes it gets and then you were displaced and had to come to south sudan and then a conflict broke out tell us about that situation the only difference was that there was not one but many in south sudan but of course the fighting was just the same year the fighting is taken place here and there. is another complication we did one was it was from within when we. know very well that that is

a force. the united nations refugee agency nominated him for the prestigious nansen award which he won in recognition of his work and the incredibly difficult circumstances none saw in the world is awarded to some exploding knowing. work humanitarian work done but by people on behalf of refugees in turn our internal displaced people and stateless people and dr atala as demonstrated outstanding commitment to be sure he says he'll use their ward money and his new platform to try to make the lives of his patients a little better catherine sorry al jazeera nairobi.

this is al-jazeera it's going to round up now of our top stories the e.u. 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 european union and other countries that signed on to the nuclear deal now want to find a way for companies to avoid u.s. countermeasures so in basra he has more from to her on. the officials we've spoken to have said over and over again that their oil sales have not fallen. and remained largely the same from before the twenty fifty nuclear deal was negotiated during the negotiations and thereafter until now oil sales have remained the same so international demand market forces dictate that the math is on iran side so unless the trumpet ministration and the white house is willing to accept a a price hike unless the international oil market is willing to see oil prices go up something that the president donald trump has lobbied the oil producing nations

against letting happen then really the math will remain on iran side and yemen in the saudi u.a.e. coalition has announced it will open humanitarian corridors between the data and sana'a in coordination with the un fighting over the ports of data has stopped aid agencies from reaching millions of people the un humanitarian affairs chief is warning that a famine could strike at any time britain's main opposition party is voting to decide its position on bragg's it with six months before the u.k. leaves the e.u. prime minister it's recent may is yet to reach a deal on the details of that split labor party members are deciding whether to hold a second referendum if may can't get her brags that plan through sweden's prime minister stefano one has lost the confidence vote following this month's elections you have to step down off the members of parliament voted to remove him those are the headlines inside stories next.

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 i'm elizabeth purana russia is the main ally of syrian

president bashar assad who israel has repeatedly targeted. to iran and supports the nuclear deal with watch 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 sold the russian i had twenty and used it as a shield against the anti-aircraft missiles while they carried on maneuvering in the region and then misleading information provided by the israeli officer about the aerial strikes did not allow the russian i had 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 quell 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 is calling israel's actions an extremely on. great for response to the operational deals that the two sides have struck and syria 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 into sipped 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 let's introduce a guests 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 in this to remind you 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 and the israelis 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 in 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 particularly 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 they're both countries of unknown 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 most reliable to head and no interest in they provoke i think their actions too and 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 experts that are sitting in side this sit in their defense a lot 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 develop blame for the deaths 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 syria and the russians are now trying to change the playground the two they defined the rules of engagement in syrian air space which into the past six years these ladies have been doing all they wanted ended in a space attacking any target that they wanted just according to the post of hundreds of its likes and now the russians are trying to find those and saying that these letters 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 i'm 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 red as the markets mentioned in the past many many years russians almost that they had the other raid

that the israelis to take care of the danny and forces and 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 trade is not to coordinate better read the russians he's going to cost the israelis dearly we should not forget that in the past a few months needs rabies conducted so many attacks on the ied any and forces in syria has what eyes would be down to any kind of intervention by the russians actually. i believe that russians open the door for do for the israelis to do that well that might relation and that might that door might be about to close because just today we had the russian defense ministry announcing that they 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 planes safe or to curtail israel's freedom of movement and syria. i think that the two prong message firstly it is to keep the russian jets safe because they've argued that the s two hundred 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 on they'll 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 big 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 playing 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 levels of the i don't think that these ladies will let go of the achieving their goals which is according to these really statements and polls and everything to limit the iranian president's military presence in syria and the transport of advanced weapons formula to poison 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 really a thirty point in this situation in syria but also you know what the israelis can do in the future should recall also what to me what the. minister of defense in the in moscow said that they are going to integrate a defensive. system be diff syrians it means that. the russians sorters. be syrians operating as three hundredth and that would make it extremely difficult really for these raiders to attack such a system then 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 the israelis do basically what they wanted to do you are going to see a situation much much more complicated than before and that is going to serve obvious need any interest in syria disunion government and his well known and consequently we 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 ramani 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 isr.