it who who had their own side of it is a region's stock a thank you very very much so disappointment here they will meet again next year and the year beyond that and they will try at some later stage to reestablish a giant marine park in and talk to her along the lines of the one that was being discussed over the last few weeks but inevitably the momentum that everyone felt began in twenty six they were the establishment of a marine park in the rough sea in antarctica they thought it would be continued this year to have something all right andy thomas live for us there in hobart tasmania. thousands of workers at tech giant google have walked off the job around the world to protest what place harassment the company's face criticism of a multi-million dollar pay off the top executives accused of sexual misconduct ronald's unfolds. in cities around the world employees of google walked off their jobs in protest over the company's policies and practices and workplace sexual

misconduct from its headquarters in silicon valley to new york washington and boston employees stream down denouncing corporate culture they say tolerate spur rasmussen's letting accused executives quietly walk away with buckets full of cash is standard and it really should not be the employees were angered by a new york times report that andy reuben the creator of google's android mobile phone software received a ninety million dollars severance package in two thousand and fourteen even after the company's own investigation found accusations of sexual harassment against him to be credible employees say sexism is right that google and allege executives acts with impunity setting high standards of beauty but i think to say here at google's european headquarters in dublin employees showed solidarity with victims

of harassment protests also took place at the company's offices in singapore and in london i'm working out along with other colleagues in support of all anyone in any workplace has been arrested to ensure that the pride is yeah no protection and no reward it's on google c.e.o. sundar pichai and co-founder larry page apologized to workers and promised changes in policy protesting employees are. also demanding an end to mandatory arbitration clauses in their contracts which prevent them from taking harassers to court rob reynolds al-jazeera well sensuous. as i'm seeking let's get a round up now the top stories on the u.s. secretary of state says sanctions are being prepared against saudis involved in the

killing of jamal khashoggi saudi leaders of so far resisted international pressure to reveal who ordered the journalist murder aides to crown prince mohammed bin sandman are implicated in the saudi and iraqi coalition in yemen has targeted an air base in the capital sana'a it says the rebels used to launch missiles and drones it's sending more troops to retake the port city of data as the u.n. relaunches talks to end the war the government has cut foreign services in parts of pakistan an effort to stem protests over a blasphemy case they're demanding the government overturn the supreme court's decision to release a christian woman who was convicted of insulting islam in twenty ten she was acquitted on wednesday. the speaker has parliament says he will reconvene the house earlier than planned as he tries to end the constitutional crisis president city seen his decision to replace the prime minister with former president mahinda rajapaksa has caused controversy and peace will now meet on wednesday and sacked

prime minister we can image has refused to accept his dismissal and remains in his official residence the european union proposal to create an ocean sanctuary in the antarctic is facing an uphill battle in its bid to get enough support in a crucial vote in australia they wanted to make the wood del see a no go zone for industrial fishing mining and deep sea drilling scientists believe it could be home to thousands of undiscovered species google employees around the world have walked out in protest against the company's handling of workplace sexual harassment staff in london tokyo new york are among those taking part in the protest those are the headlines europe today we're back in half an hour right now on al-jazeera it's inside story. in south career around two million dogs are eaten every year but now animal rights groups

want the ancient tradition taken off the menu want to when used investigates korean dogs or food on al-jazeera. the u.s. calls for an end to the war in yemen and urges both sides to agree to a cease fire in the next thirty days that with the fighting into its fourth year he suffered as well as famine and humanitarian disaster will this time be any different this is inside story. on welcome to the program i'm richelle carey enough is enough is the message from the united states to the warring parties and yemen and the americans want a halt to the more than three years of combat between who is the rebels and the saudi and u.a.e. led coalition supporting the many government troops yes defense secretary is

calling for a cease fire by the end of the month the united nations is welcoming the u.s. appeal to replace combat with compromise but the american message to saudi an iranian allies could fall on deaf ears thousands of reinforcements have been sent this week to the rebel held city if we data it is the major report for the massive amounts of food aid needed to keep millions of humanity's from starving to death the special envoy will continue to work with all parties to agree on tangible steps to spare all yemenis to disastrous consequences of further conflict and to urgently address the political security and humanitarian crisis in yemen. here it is all concerned parties to seize this opportunity to engage constructively with the current efforts to swiftly resume political consultations to agree on a framework for political negotiations and confidence building measures in particular and has in the capacities of the central bank of yemen the exchange of prisoners and the reopening of airport. stopping the war in

the acts of aggression from aggressive state supported by the us as necessary we currently are not acting as a graces against any of our neighbors states they are doing so against us and so when the walk stops and the aggression against us stops we will be for peace which will preserve our independence and particular independent entity from any interference from any of the state within neighboring or not. as interest the panel now and washington d.c. eric i can bury an advocacy associate at yemen peace project in santa fe yemen affairs specialist finally also in washington d.c. sigurd neubauer a middle east specialist welcome to all of you i will start with you eric a state department spokesperson says that this call for this ceasefire is in no way were elated to the murder of jamal khashoggi the timing do you agree with that do you

believe that. not entirely i think in the aftermath of the murder we've seen a lot of congressional reaction we've seen a lot of very strong pushback from within the u.s. government what's been interesting about this pushback is how quickly it has pivoted to yemen and to u.s. involvement in yemen and i think that reflects not only outrage over the murder of a shock she which was a terrible event an individual tragedy but knowledge from members of congress knowledge from certain scorn of the administration that u.s. support for the side of the coalition in yemen is vital and that if you want to rollback saudi behavior whether it be or amorality behavior as well whether it be in yemen or elsewhere you need to start looking very critically at the support so i think that sue policy makers are very willing to connect to these two issues sigurd what do you make of the timing i would give the united states government really from secretary mabus to secretary peo have consistently called for

a resumption of u.n. peace talks at least for the last year and a half each time to united states as has demanded a concrete steps it has fallen on deaf ears in abu dhabi and in riyadh so the difference now is that the united states does believe that it has some leverage over to two parties into this conflict precisely because of the fallout over that because shoji if there so this is the recklessly attributed to trying to reverse a negative trend in the us saudi relationship over yemen so even before the leverage yes there have periodically been times that the u.s. says it has drawn some sort of attention to the conflict and yemen but just asking for it isn't the same is really having any force behind it or having any will to make it done or even. withdrawing from the role that that they actually played in it do you think the u.s. has ever had the will to do something about this sigurd. the united states has

always had the will the problem that we have seen and the u.s. saudi relationship over the past eighteen to twenty months unless president trump makes a deliberate statement. statements by his subordinates namely who cabinet secretaries of defense and state have been ignored altogether and we have also seen that on the bureaucratic level the u.s. government has repeatedly call or and of hostility and resumption of peace talks. what what is different now is that the culmination of events whether it's a fair whether it is the broader instability in the middle east and now the washington post playing a central role in demanding justice for jamal khashoggi and tying it to broader u.s. saudi cooperation in the region is drawing tremendous scrutiny domestically here in the united states and it is leaving get ministration with little choice but to up.

the pressure on riyadh and even though and i will add that the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia strategic including on on yemen so this is an extraordinary difficult balancing act that the president has to engage in right now hussein what do you make of the timing now that there seems to be more of a public push to draw attention to what has been happening in yemen for years more than ten thousand civilians killed. yeah i think the united states would do some kind of statement they want now to withdraw the attention of the killing of. two like to draw it into yemen is not to show what's happening in yemen it just to show that the united states is willing to bring peace into yemen and we all know and i said many times that the saudi cannot stay for two weeks without your support so i think the united states really wanted to stop the war they can stop it in a matter of days. actually we must look into the statement what

this statement has have told about the cease fire and if you look into it it is only a cease fire from the hoti this statement has requested. first to stop the missiles against saudi arabia to stop the drone strike against all got to be on of the united arab emirates and if it turns out that coalition will stop strike in highly populated area this means that the saudi come bomb any area they can bomb brode there anything that's out of a major city like sun on a date and i think this kind of ceasefire it just only to protect the saudi and they always say money the war just to stay in yemen they do want to limit so let me ask you that when you say you're saying that you don't think that this call for a ceasefire is even handed does that mean you don't think it's genuine either. it is not

a ceasefire. and i think that they said they're not united states is the one who is back in this war and they can stay with us soon as they want but we know that the united states have struck billions of dollars in deals with. some of the lot of just. in us history has been doing during this war. just doesn't matter to yemenis because the first thing that the united states actually can do and the united nations yemeni is to lift the blockade at least to leave for humanitarian aid supplies and fuel to come into yemen freely and then they controlled about this eric do you agree with what hussein is saying that if the united states had wanted to do something about the sooner they could happen mean they are they are supplying obviously a lot of the weapons somewhat just support as well and horrific things continue to

happen there particularly to civilians. yeah i mean he's right in the sense that you know the united states has extraordinary leverage in terms of refueling logistical support munitions sales and also targeting assistance as well and the administration has been very reluctant and resistant to exercising some of the celebrity and one of the very disappointing things about the pump a one mad a statements as that even though they advanced the strongest rhetoric yet on the conflict in the thirty day deadline for ending it and bringing everyone to the table it was still rhetoric there was no sort of threat attached to that there was no actual push or leverage the united states can certainly stop or be a play a role in stopping the worst of the violence particularly stopping airstrikes that are targeting civilians in rural and urban areas and that is strong so much going to economic infrastructure the united states can't wave a magic wand and bring the parties automatically to a table that will produce a long lasting accord that has come from the in many parties themselves and even

though. statement on the sequencing i believe sir deserve some criticism as same pointed out the sequencing for reducing ballistic missile fire and reducing our struck should be simultaneous there who these also do have a responsibility to stop that ballistic missile fire which is justifying the united states using using that to justify continued hostilities so it's on all the warring parties to stop this here although the united states does play an outsized role so eric about that yes there are there are calls for a ceasefire sure but have you i'm sorry sigurd pardon me eric i want this question to go to have you seen or heard any actual solutions to this situation and yemen obviously the cease fire matters because people are dying clearly but beyond that it's one thing a calls for to call sources call for a cease fire have you see anything out there in the public discussion that's an actual potential solution to what is happening there. i'm very glad that you asked

that question because it's really important to understand for our viewers that u.s. diplomats remain in regular contact with the who the leadership which is based in oman and part of the who with the delegation that would negotiate in peace talks are based in moscow to oman with the precise goal that they will be able to travel to to peace talks once they eventually take place they who think spokesman mohammad . based in moscow it and he's quite a moderate figure i would add and he maintains regular contacts with u.s. diplomats so the americans understand have a better understanding of what the who thinks wants what a road map to words at the escalation and eventually peace talks can take place and what i wear will disagree with the two other panelists this that the united states on one hand sending messages throughout the public sphere by by issuing statements and in private we are seeing quite some arm twisting taking place so just because

there are no public threats from the trump administration against saudi arabia and the united arab emirates against procedural matters that they could implement if peace talks are not. proceeding to fact that we have a thirty day. timeline for peace talks to resume is in the six an event statement and itself is saying tell us more about what is happening and who data or what you anticipate happening there. this moment saudi the coalition is gathered in tens of thousands fight us and send the new. vehicle south of where they does so they are preparing for a major attack on a date and i think. this could be the biggest attack that would be conducted in the data in the same time we see the statement about peace in yemen in the last forty years every time someone either from the united nation or u.k. or u.s.

come release a statement about peace in yemen on folks on cease fire we see a major attack that will take place straight after the invasion of aden it came during a cease fire attacks on some areas on. the border of yemen was during the cease fire that they when they talk. it was do it in this type of statement so it's all covered and we will see the think in the coming days when the saudis that coalition war will start that attack and who are they that then we're going to see the united nations will ask again. to all the sides to cease fire just to to keep the saudi that coalition safe in this area that they have controlled ok i just want to bring eric answered this eric hussain us or people they brought up the u.n. and that's a really good point what what wol. should or could the u.n.

have played along the way here what well can they play now. i mean now i think the u.n. can help mediate a peace process between the parties maybe not an immediate peace process the u.n. special envoy martin gryphus talks about stopping the fighting first and building peace later and i think the contact he's maintaining with both on the who of these and also side of the coalition and also the united states is very important to stopping the worst of the violence to stop in the missile strikes on both sides to potentially averting an escalation and data martin gryphus was instrumental in over the course of the summer.