speaking of iran the u.s. treasury department has hit iran with another round of sanctions accusing the country of recruiting child soldiers as young as twelve to fight for bashar al assad's regime in syria the sanctions primarily target the best resistance force an arm of the islamic revolutionary guard corps the treasury also opposed sanctions on a network of businesses that were financing it including iran's mellot bank to get more now from jordan in washington d.c. arrows what more do we know about this latest round of sanctions. well barbara this is really part of the trumpet ministrations efforts to continue isolating the regime. by focusing not just on this elite paramilitary organization known as the besiege but also highlighting the fact that the besiege isn't just responsible for internally spying on iranian citizens and basically

punishing them violating people's human rights by my spying on them if they have any opposition to the regime but also trying to was put pressure on the iranian government's efforts to develop a nuclear weapons program by trying to starve it of cash and that's where the sanctions come in not just against the organization itself but against at least twenty businesses that it has a lot of influence over which essentially do business with companies in other countries in order to bring in the cash the trumpet ministration says in order to build up its nuclear weapons program this is of course can be seen barbara as part of the trumpet ministrations ongoing efforts to isolate iran from the international community not just because of its supposed nuclear weapons ambitions but because of what the trumpet ministration says is terence insistence upon meddling in the affairs of other countries particularly in the middle east and with the added coda

that not only is it trying to meddle in other countries affairs but it's also recruiting and training child soldiers which of course violates a number of international law treaties rosin join in with the latest on that story from washington d.c. ross thank you. and still to come in this news hour demands for a public inquiry a year after a multis investigative journalist was killed by a bomb planted in her car nigeria's government says it's shocked and saddened by the killing of a second health worker kidnapped by boko haram and then sport fifty years on we hear from two of the athletes involved in one of the sport's most iconic. but first the leaders of the european union are meeting on wednesday as the deal of

a breaks it looks to be as far away as ever britain's prime minister to resign may has met her cabinet to discuss the status of the talks and says and the amicable divorce the old still be achieved but european council president donald tusk says without concrete proposals from may it doesn't hold out much hope for a breakthrough unfortunately the report on the state of the negotiations that the from you today as well as. it in the house of commons give me no grounds for optimism before tomorrow's. british. shoot the only source of hope for the rueful know if the good will and determination on both sides. however for a breakthrough to take place beside. new fact. well the e.u. and the u.k. have been unable to make an agreement over the irish border which is vital for the

movement of goods in and out of the you at the sharp end of this is the dutch port of brought her down crucial for the movement of goods into the u.k. now it's preparing for the worst as lawrence lee went there to find out. the dutch love to grow tomatoes the netherlands is the world's biggest exporter of the fruits in the summer the u.k. gets really hard of all its tomatoes from here or at least it has done the assumption is that a no deal bricks it will mean a no some are so britain are you talking on or about empty shelves on the u.k. side for the price in fact. probably but there at the same time is for a. product that is not going to your grandma has no interest and finds. the new markets. the british relied just as much on rotterdam europe's biggest ports to service the demands of consumers it is

a model of efficiency freedom of movement of goods services money people is the most treasured achievements of the european union in its purest form brics it says no it's all of those things but because the british government still can't decide what sort of breaks it wants the dutch it had no choice but to get into worst case scenario planning. no trade deal with the european union would mean fruits vegetables and meat having to be checked this new border to ensure it all meets hygiene standards it means the dutch employing nearly a thousand more customs officers it means queues backlogs turning away from the u.k. in seeking new markets and it isn't only about dutch tomatoes it's about goods produced across the e.u. that british people want to buy. so all the production from germany twenty five percent of the trade is coming from or is going to germany they have to prepare as well and that is where the real challenges are doing preparing as well as rotterdam

is for the for the brits it's because if they're not prepared then it still stops here across western european capitals the same conversations are being had how to get a deal done when the british government is riven by dissenting views and still we don't know where we're lending our lending with a chaotic back set aren't ending within that customs union without a customs union and do we have two or three years of a transition period or not it's still all in the air and the basic mistake was made before the notification of the article fifty letter so you still see that british politicians are negotiating among themselves. what's next it should look like and that question should have been settled by now. the british government has warned the brics it could lead to food shortages though such talk is dismissed by purest breakfasters as scaremongering gradually though the e.u. is coming to the view that the u.k. may have to put up with the consequences of its lack of direction lawrence leigh

al-jazeera rotterdam. a minute's silence has been held on the first anniversary of a massive bomb blast which killed an investigative journalist in malta hundreds of people gathered at the scene of the attack to remember that. she'd been looking into corruption between business is the police and government her family is the managing of public inquiry to find out who ordered her death need barker reports from malta. dufty khurana go he says death shocked a nation to many she was a fearless anti corruption crusader but she was also accused of scathing even defamatory journalism and of being politically partisan on i want to be read blog a year after she was killed in a car bombing the reasons for head death are still unclear. family wants a public inquiry free from all political interference the focus of that inquiry on like the current processes is to look into whether daphne's nice could have been

saved so that would mean looking into possible state failure to protect and possible state complicity in the assassination this is where daphne karrada going to see i was killed she left her home in a village just up the hill in an least car the blast was so powerful it scattered parts of the vehicle in surrounding fields some of her remains were found eighty meters away from here this isn't the first car bomb in malta they have been six since the start of two thousand and sixteen but it's the first time the victim hasn't been a criminal three men are on trial for murder question surrounding a motive a yet to be answered. claimed to have uncovered corruption at the highest levels in a maltese bank the police and the government she believed officials were granting residency and passports in return for bribes from shady individuals trying to access the

european union. she also linked to maltese politicians including the prime minister joseph muscat with offshore tax havens he denies the allegations. but his family believes there's been a deliberate attempt to control the narrative surrounding her death to make it look like she was investigating criminal gangs alone and not the government the prime minister declined our request for an interview. since carolina khaleesi is dead colleagues say bolters media office which is of directly by political parties has lacked an important voice it was nothing like her before and there's been nothing since her bravery i imagine would inspire others in the years to come locally she opened many people's eyes to what. journalism could be this is what's left of a once large makeshift memorial to the journalist opposite multis law courts it's

tended to by activists who say it's a regularly torn down even in death they say she continues to be silenced neve barker al-jazeera valetta malta. so to come in this hour on the world food day we're in the democratic republic of congo release two million children are in danger of dying of starvation. ethiopia's prime minister gives half his cabinet posts to women and creates a peace ministry tried to tackle a wave of ethnic violence plus in sport pakistan bounce back from a terrible start against australia in the second test. and either southern europe has been very stormy recently obviously some of the

worst of the weather has been in the southwestern parts of france but also the northeastern parts of spain have seen a lot of flooding as well the system responsible is working its way eastwards now and we still going to see some heavy downpours of parts of course and solidarity there as we head through wednesday on thursday still plenty more wet weather across many parts of the western med and then as we head through thursday night into friday the eastern parts of spain look pretty nasty looks like there is going to be a bit more in the way of flooding here further north a lot fine and dry for many of us here and still fairly warm for years to warsaw getting up to around eighteen degrees as a maximum during the day for the other side of the mediterranean in the east it's fine that's where the settled weather is but further west well this is the tail end of what's going on over parts of the mediterranean so plenty of wet weather plenty of thunderstorms across many parts of northern area and into tunisia and some of those showers really will be very heavy that also be pushing their way into more of morocco there as we had through thursday so again this whole region looking very unsettled indeed for the central belt of africa where here there's still quite

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shine a light on your hero with your nomination for the international space award two thousand and eighteen for more information go to isa war dot com. time now for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera turkish police have been forced to postpone a search of the saudi consul general's residence in istanbul because of lack of cooperation by saudi arabia they want to access the building as part of their investigation into the missing saudi journalist i'm on the show. a police source

meanwhile has told al-jazeera that evidence including blood samples confirm that he was killed inside the saudi consulate all this says u.s. secretary of state might prompt a zero held talks with the saudi king and the crown prince president from tweeted that he's also spoken to mohammed bin some man and answers will be coming shortly. will saudi arabia now finds itself under a whole new level of scrutiny despite countless civilian deaths in yemen both the u.n. secretary and to and the security council have been muted in their criticism of the saudi led coalition's actions in that country james bays examines whether the high shuggie case could now change that. it has the worst humanitarian situation on earth with the u.n. warning that yemen could soon face a full scale final. since it led a military intervention in its southern neighbor three and a half years ago saudi arabia and its allies have breached the basic rules of war

civilians have been repeatedly targeted with some attacks on schools and hospitals a un panel recently accused the coalition of war crimes so many people talk about yemen as the forgotten war but here at the u.n. it's not a forgotten war we have sometimes monthly debates and meetings on the what's going on in yemen it's an ignored war and it's ignored because so many at the security council table are directly or indirectly involved and shielding fouled eurabia from any criticism and they all have blood on their hands those countries include the us france and the u.k. friends of saudi arabia with huge investments and trade deals all three supply the saudis with weapons the u.n. secretary general has also been muted in his criticism perhaps because of the country's regional influence and the count here deputy crown prince mohammed bin

sound and present secretary general antonio good terrorists with a check worth almost a billion dollars from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for humanitarian assistance in yemen some of the time muttered this was blood money but of course no diplomats would say that in public. seclude what happened to jamal khashoggi and the saudi consulate in turkey be a turning point in yemen in the past the saudis have held a number of key cards that have protected them from criticism that economic dominance their regional influence and the fact that they control humanitarian access by sea and land into yemen. but by far its most important card has been its alliance with the. us will be seventy years and alliances be strengthened since president trump took office with the president's son in law jared kush not building an extremely close bond with the saudi crown prince that's why the saudis need to be very worried about what happens next in the u.s.

congress where the fate of mr cash has led to anger and revulsion if members of congress keep up the pressure other parts of the international community are likely to follow suit and saudi arabia's disastrous campaign in yemen is likely to face much tougher scrutiny james bays out zero of the united nations well of course the saudi led war on yemen continues and thousands of yemeni families have made the dangerous trip across the red sea to djibouti desperate to escape the fighting in their country the government there allows the yemenis to live either in refugee camps or in the capital city but life is very hard in what's already a very poor country bernard smith has more now from to pretty. in a sparse room in central djibouti we see abdul aziz abdullah and their seven children sit out the war in yemen they're safe but destitute and scarred for life

by the horrors they say they've witnessed on the moment but we couldn't stay there was a wedding in our village during the celebrations airplanes came in dropped bombs on it forty five people were killed the whole place was demolished in people blown to pieces they couldn't tell who was who people brought a buckets and we picked up pieces of flesh and bone his mother was one of them we lost so many relatives at once so fast we didn't want that to happen to our children but to escape and a grueling fourteen hour boat ride across the red sea. i have seven children understand how it is i got scared the killing began bullets began flying around and my children were very scared so i took them to the coast and that night there was heavy bombardment of a military base on the outskirts of town the kids did not stop crying all night i found a fishing boat and they said they were headed for good it was a very windy day very high waves my kids got sick i threw up a lot. of family ended up at this remote refugee camp in obama but the hot dusty

desert environment aggravated the us some of their baby daughter forcing them to seek better treatment in djibouti is capital around five thousand yemeni refugees live in the city the u.n. runs an advice center here but it doesn't have the resources to pay for health care or anything else yet you see they come here and explain their case they don't know what is or isn't possible and the hardest thing basically is getting them to understand it's clearly very frustrating for abdulaziz like most refugees here he'd rather go home to yemen but he tells us he can't do that until the situation changes.