it's charlotte's book is a spokesperson for the world food program she says rival factions of showed little for the growing humanitarian crisis there are already people dying there are already people who are starving there are ready children who are to moan nourish to recover and so are our job is to try to keep things from getting that bad that's what we've been trying to do for years why we've been ramping up our assistance so intensely for so long and why we're going to you know regardless of what the analysis determines we it's very clear already that we're going to have to double our efforts to reach more people with more food assistance but it's even more clear that the conflict that's led to that hardship in the first place absolutely has to end the guns have to fall silent the parties to that conflict every one of them every one of them claims that they care about the people of yemen and that they're concerned about the welfare of civilians but the actions that they've taken in

pursuing that conflict have made a mockery of those claims and it's absolutely vital that they end that conflict as soon as possible so that humanitarian agencies like mine can do our job and can get the assistance to people to try to keep a famine from happening or turn it around if in fact we are already looking at one will syrian state media says the lobby has three. children. killed kidnapped they were. serious about it bill ritchie dru's community abducted from the so the so were you to profit. thousands of hard liners have taken to the streets in pakistan those the government denied that a christian woman acquitted of blasphemy has left the country was was these would seize it grow to a protest as to see a bibi's acquittal should be reversed bibi was released from jail away stay a week after her death sentence was overturned by the supreme court she was

convicted in two thousand and ten of charges of insulting the prophet after a dispute with farm workers school hired to house ball for the slab about ten days after the court ordered her to release a. baby was released from a prison and a city of more than one i specially leg of that broader do the order been a good international airport in islamabad rejected moorcock you know all the government is saying that the media reports about her leaving the country are totally false and the information minister lashing out against the media is saying that this was in response to bill behavior given the fact that the country had come to a word you were down then after a violent protests broke out across pakistan and the government was forced to make it again read the book that day the protesters were now warned get indeed that out here baby not leave the country a difficult predicament indeed for the government. of the united

states will be to get ahead with the good she actions to remove the country from the list of state sponsors of terrorism so don has feet on the list is the one hundred ninety three when president bush is gov but was accused of sheltering groups including al qaida leader some a bit law would be full from the list would help provide signals a call to be previous international relations and i was just sanctions were lifted but sudan was kept on the list. so the border with chad is a trading hub for. starfall state the borders being the point of tension between the two countries but it's also a route for smuggling goods to have a war god has more for west or for on the border with chad. our beloved has been in the trade business in west are for for more than twenty years he says his business has expanded over the past few years as he no longer sells his goods to sydney's traders. do so when you hear that when we take our sudanese products to

sell i sell some of the things to charity and traders who cross the border they bring them back to their country. hundreds of creators in sudan's west are for buy and sell goods across the sudan chad border for many it's a way to keep their business is alive but the border isn't always secure a book at remembers the times when violence plague the border affecting his business. sometimes clashes with long order and we had a fear that we had to close the shops. border tensions rose when the darfur conflict began in two thousand and three in two thousand and six chad accused of backing a failed rebel attack on the capital. khartoum returned the accusation in two thousand and eight when darfur rebels attacked the sudanese capital and security isn't the only issue causing tension at the joint border the border has been shut down several times over the past decade due to the smuggling of weapons cars and

other goods across the two countries. with a history of smuggling and movement of armed groups between the seven hundred fifty kilometer border between sudan and chad securing it is vital for both countries a special joint deployment force has been increased here but while that has reduced the number of armed groups the smuggling continues that's because those joint forces established in two thousand and ten are not present along the whole border with goods worth millions of dollars being smuggled annually local authorities in west are for say securing the border is a pirates. we have the joint forces established there directives from the presidents of the two countries to protect trade there is an active trade between our country and chad if we want benefits for citizens of both countries so securing the border ensures trade continues in the right way abdullah says he doesn't know if the child in traitors who buy from him take the goods back to their country illegally but he hopes to continue to trade with him regardless so that his business continues to thrive he will morgan are just. west are for.

looting in the us. democrats raise concerns about the new acting attorney general. also how argentina is looking into one of its most famous exports to beef up the struggling economy and in sport will meet the millennial grandmasters who are bringing chest to a very new forty. other top administration has moved to restrict claims for asylum by migrants crossing the us mexico border illegally and the regulations issued a short time ago people caught crossing the border at places other than official border posts will not be allowed to present asylum claims for more that's that's joint she has returned see use in washington d.c. a lot of legislation coming through

a lot to read and what acts actually been announced. right so this is a two part process what we've had so far is the department of homeland security and the department of justice announcing this interim final rule that says certain migrants who cross the border into the u.s. at locations other than designated border crossing points of entry will not be allowed to claim asylum however that rule is at the moment rather meaningless because what hasn't been defined is which class of migrants will this affect and we expect a presidential proclamation from donald trump on friday morning u.s. eastern standard eastern standard time where he will will spell out which migrants this will affect now obviously we're looking at this in the context of the central american asylum seeker migrant caravan still about a thousand kilometers away in sudden in southern mexico it was never clear how many of these people even make it to the border that alone trying to cross the border at

non designated points of entry and there might be some suggestion of this is going to be more of a did some sort of deterrent against them but there's still some weeks away and we already know that this this executive the executive plan is going to be challenged in court the american civil liberties union says it will challenge us in court because it clearly goes against as far as they're concerned both national and international law whereby you have to give a migrant who has a credible fear of danger the chance of pleased to claim asylum so this is likely to be held up in the courts for some time does that mean then shipped to a certain extent that asylum seekers could be turned away and that's really the big question mark of the gray area that needs to be clarified. and that's the fascinating part about this two stage process it would seem you get the sense of the trump of ministration has got a lot smarter about these executive proclamations from the president since the

travel ban of the famous muslim ban as it was known was announced soon after donald trump became president this is quite carefully calibrated and you know eventually member that travel ban which was issued under executive order was upheld the third iteration was upheld by the supreme court after the d.o.j. and others are gone and d.h. has to go look clever about the wording this is going to be instituted under the similar powers that the president is claiming of acting in the in the interests of the united states and people are simply going to be thrown out and they're not going to be turned away and so get it be able to claim asylum they will have a withholding of removal procedure undertaken which means they will never be able to claim permanent legal residence in the u.s. there's a much higher standard for them to get to to prove that they will be able to they should be able to stay in the u.s. and addition they were able to be incarcerated a lot longer arrant families can be adjudicated potentially separately the cases of

parents and children might be able to be adjudicated separately so they're not being thrown out they're not being they're not big turned away back to danger they will still have a process and the thinking might be i mean one would assume among. some of us the travel ban will maybe especially with the right wing supreme court we have now that might be enough for the justices to say you know what this does still meet our international and national requirements not to send people back into danger at least as some sort of process of see what happens in the coming certainly so they would she have thank you. trump has been attending the formal investiture rob the new u.s. supreme court justice brett kavanaugh supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg was absent from the ceremony she's in hospital after fracturing three ribs in a form of the eighty five year old is one of four liberal members of the nine strong court if she had she had to be replaced from could appoint a conservative judge shifting the court further to the right. the race for the

governorship in georgia remains unresolved two days after the vote the democratic candidate stacey abrams is refusing to concede to her republican rival brian kemp kemp declared victory on wednesday evening and has resigned as georgia's secretary of state abrams's campaign believes thousands of uncounted postal absentee ballots could force a runoff election she's vying to be the first female black governor in america. yes democrats have to bow to the budgets hearings in the house of representatives to investigate double transfer louvel all the attorney general jeff sessions they choose trump of tried to robot with us of us to keisha did to question badly in the twenty sixteen election it a lot of democrats wrote tom's decision threatens a rule of law places that they shouldn't the throes of a calls to chew tional crisis the white house denies allegations particle had possible for washington d.c. . a day after losing one of the houses of congress the president was

a man on the defensive i keep hearing about. investigations now facing investigations on two from special counsel robert mueller looking into potential russian collusion and obstruction of justice and in january a democratic controlled u.s. house of representatives looking into pretty much anything it chooses to. with that a dramatic move his attorney general fired replaced by matthew whitaker a man close to the president in tweets in articles he's made it clear he thinks the moeller probe should be limited whitacre will have tremendous power over the investigation now not just the scope of it but under law he has the ultimate say as to what happens to muller's findings he could simply shred his final report but the midterm elections makes that less likely that the democrats will in fact invite. special counsel mauler to testify before the committee and testify in public about

what were the findings in other words there are more ways to get the information to be public now that congress is in the hands of the democrats mother and his team have kept remarkably quiet letting their convictions speak in their stead. they've got a lot of people close to the president so far those charged include his former campaign manager his deputy can. payne manager his former national security advisor and foreign policy advisor all have pled guilty to federal charges and agreed to cooperate giving every indication that special counsel is making his way up the food chain the president has made it clear from the beginning he wants the miller investigation to go away there was no collusion there was no anything the midterm results make it much less likely he has the power to do that in the end. al-jazeera washington. was a political analyst in the old the book the g.o.p.

civil war he says the democrats will use the new power in the house of representatives to demand answers. we could actually see a new level of enmity taking place in washington if in fact the president decides to somehow in the approach because now with congress or at least the house of representatives and the hands of the democrats the democrats will use their subpoena power as well as the power of the purse to compel members of the administration particularly the justice department to answer questions on the record and public as to why certain decisions were made to in the probe and also now where we're hearing from mitt romney who will be one of the end coming u.s. senators saying that this investigation needs to continue unimpeded so not only will we be hearing directly from the house of representatives but we could also hear from some members of congress i mean some members of the of the senate members of

the president's own party actually pushing back if he does decide to go for it and in the investigation president trump's supporters his base they like to see the president going after the media and now that the president has a new for oil and nancy pelosi was because she will wield the gavel and the house they are going to want to see this president fight against the fight against her fight against the democrats that's what bold is the president that's what actually keeps his his base with him and so i think you're going to see the president continue along this path. well still ahead here on the al-jazeera news of refugees fleeing violence in central african republic across is that aid groups say the world has forgotten about also iraq saw the goes on the pilot of the syrian border serving and he is coming in. the birth of boats slowed and they whether he was jews

people's sons days after flying to tokyo to promote his. head over the rains have not played away from the eastern parts of north america you can see the latest system has it works its way over into the atlantic but it's still clinging on to the south so still expect a few showers here and if that will moves away another one develops a force for friday seven lot of snow on the northern edge of this than tending to rain as you head of the south and then that system pushes its way northeast with as we head into saturday behind it it'll turn cooler than it has been so chicago will have a maximum just of zero washington d.c. will struggle to nine degrees further towards the west a fine along that western coast but not too warm for us in seattle a maximum temperature just of nine degrees

a bit further towards the south lots of sunshine here we can see quite a bit of cloud there over the lesser antilles and i think we'll still see plenty of showers here as we head through the next couple of days elsewhere the wettest of the weather will be across parts of panama and stretching a little bit further north woods as well as we head through the day on saturday for south america the wettest weather here over the past few days is mean in the welcome parts of argentina but all of that is now breaking up so it should be a good deal dry ahead as we head through friday friday will be wetter than forth in brazil but further south we're going to see the clouds gather once more the temperatures will be dropping for same but as always just twenty three on saturday . dug a stone rife with tensions between islamic separatists and pro russian national. calls in the crossfire one man has a vision for the next generation empowering. back

to seek a special way. with a dog it sounds peaceful maureen's on al-jazeera. and monday pointed low on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country haven't truly been able to escape the war.

at the back you're watching the al-jazeera news archives a whole rubble of a top stories turkish police say that they've ended their search for the body of saudi journalist about to show cheap sources have told al jazeera the residence of the saudi consul general in its stumble the house was searched following shorty's murder in the days by consulate building. at the top of the strangers move to restrict claims for asylum by bike routes crossing the us mexico border illegally but the regulations issued a short time ago people caught crossing the border places other than official border posts will not be allowed to present a sign of plagues. police say the gunman who killed twelve people after a big fire at a crowded bar in california was a marine who served in afghanistan but his motive is not known it david long to open fire on the borderline bar and grill in the city of thousand. well earlier

we spoke to chris brown who's the co president of the brady campaign to prevent gun violence she told us there are always ways to tackle the growing problem. we know that there are commonsense solutions that will make this epidemic drastically reduce and we need to enact them as soon as possible that's why we have worked so hard at brady to elect gun violence prevention champions in the house of representatives and we finally have a majority in the house of representatives who we hope will tackle commonsense laws and enact them that will make a difference in this kind of shooting and many others that occur in this country we need to expand the background check system in this country the brady law was enacted almost twenty five years ago and one in five sales of guns that occurs today occurs without any background check it out at all because of gaps in the system we need to close those gaps the second thing we need to do is we need to an

act extreme risk laws that allow guns to be removed from at risk individuals across this country we have states that haven't acted them but there's legislation pending in congress that would provide grants to states to enforce those laws and to educate people about them i think we're going to find that while there are facts and circumstances with this shooting in which a potential extreme risk law could have been very important or an order put in place and the third thing that we have to do is make sure that we have an honest conversation about the role of assault weapons and far too many mass shootings in this country we need to tighten the sale of assault weapons in this country as a top priority we have an epidemic of gun violence in this country the vast majority of americans regardless of party affiliation believe we must do more so the idea that something more should not be done sensible policies that we know will stop some shootings. i think it's ridiculous we need to take action we need to do

it now and we know that we will save at least some lives if we do that it's an excusable from the american public perspective to hear just thoughts and prayers from elected officials we need to act to save lives. aid agencies are calling the cause is in central african republic one of the world's most neglected conflicts an elected government is now in power but the violence between groups continues its forced more than twenty thousand people from the homes of the littlest reports the refugee camp in. oh. they've just arrived you leave this place children in this refugee camp the latest victims of the unending sectarian violence in central african republic some have their homes burned to the ground others were chased from their villages by young men with machetes and guns among them are survivors of unspeakable violence. ten year olds his mother is dead her father is

gone killed because they were christian by their own muslim neighbors she hid in the bush with her uncle then tried to return to her village but the men kept coming back so she had again i'm sure there's no hiding from the violence we want the arms to go the violence to stop we just want peace this is silliness you home an overcrowded refugee camp of twenty three thousand people surrounded by armed militia groups under siege and unable to leave the camp is that they are held hostage protected by a few overstretched u.n. troops celine wants answers she says she wants to be asking the questions and so we traded places and she took the microphone. will we find peace how can we make the violence stop when will i be able to return home. we put her questions to visiting secretary general of the norwegian refugee council young angle and i hope she will

be able to go back soon house but the reality is that you know the big forces of the armed groups and the lack of intention from this national community is not going to her direction really this situation for these people is really desperate outside of the camp and outside of where this small girl is there are three armed groups and they deny people are returning to their homes among the people living in this refugee camp are armed men in hiding not only do they target the humanitarian workers that bring them health they also attack the people that live in this camp it seems that there is no safe space for people to skate from the violence at least them but we're searching for food when she was gang raped at gunpoint by men she suspects are part of a christian armed group in the camp what they won't stop hurting girls here they

think we're objects for them to take rape is just part of living here despite the trauma and the violence committed by adults where the christian or muslim children in this refugee camp sure a brief moment of unity in a country torn and looking for peace nicholas hawk al-jazeera. well you're the only norwegian refugee council learned you told us war why the conflicts been forgotten. well i'm now in western central african republic it's one of the poorest most violent most neglected places on earth really all of the people in this community where i stand now have been displaced by violence each and every family have family members killed in the most gruesome fashion but then it's also as you may see a and i don't know hope because here we are really building houses for people where

displaced and we do it from both communities christians muslims and this and there is now an island of peace here these people want to rebuild their lives but it's very hard to get funding for these projects really the central african republic is forgotten i think we have to build peace brick by brick literally here if we get resources and if there is a more coherent effort for peace that includes neighboring countries like to chad and sudan and cameroon and the congo etc i'm optimistic for the future of the central african republic if not if it continues like now we may have another cat but let's make war around zones like this that could threaten the lives of millions iraq's army is keeping a close eye on its border with syria worried that i still flies in the crossing over it's a reminder of the threat still posed by the armed group despite being defeated in

almost all of the areas that used to control the image in june possible. above an office border with syria security forces are on high alert. the military is doing what it can to repel any attempts by eisel members to regroup at a briefing the commander of anbar operations command centers has pockets of eisel fighters are located in an area north of the euphrates river. at another part of the border a convoy is on patrol on the horizon smoke rises the result of out of the forces shelling eisel fighters a little recently i salute tacked a stiff positions a move post to retreat from their location but across the border area between iraq and syria there is no sign of terrorist elements even if they do then they'll be talkative by iraq to force. an optimistic assessment even as it of the military commanders estimate that at least two thousand five hundred eisel fighters remain

in dead and other syrian towns close to the border brigadier general you hear us who says that all compositions have been fortified and the border is being secured at the bottom of top where intensifying our intelligence gathering effort as well and we have installed he seeker and thermal surveillance cameras supported by drones were also conducting strikes and shelling and ice. where located on the highest hill overlooking the syrian border the threat posed by ice along the border isn't just worrying the forces people living in the nearby town of a caught him are also concerned they've suffered in the past and are still suffering in two thousand and fourteen when a client was still under eisel control samee to have mood lost a leg in an explosion. the improvised device had been planted by isis to halt the advance of the alkie forces who were attempting to take back the town like i felt

with them i started working as a fisherman but the job is difficult i need to feed a large family i call on the government to help us these are no thems husband was killed by eisel fighters in two thousand and fifteen she tries to support her family by selling milk from her two cows one of my children are students and need heat and electricity at home. sadness and desperation seemingly deepening even as a borders defenses are bolstered. as. fourteen soldiers have been killed and eight others injured after the taliban that's the afghan national army base in the quad jugaad district of the province. female politicians from eighty six countries have gathered in the united kingdom's parliament to mark one hundred years since women in britain got the right to vote but apart from celebrating past progress event also aimed to inspire future

generations of female politicians paul brennan reports. we are here not because we are law breakers we are here in our efforts to become law makers so wrote the suffragettes a million pankhurst to mark one hundred years since that campaign opened the u.k. parliament to women female parliamentarians from all over the world came to westminster to launch a new push for female political involvement so let us recommit ourselves to inspire a new generation of female social political leaders to end violence against women and girls to grant all women access to family planning and the barriers of girls' education and economically and cowed women those who went before us started the great meant for equality les aspin the generation that finishes the job. for the. statues of parliaments masculine history still dominate

westminster to get themselves elected many of the women here had to overcome the suspicion and opposition of their male dominated societies people feel. people feel what does she bring on the table what does she wants to influence how does she want to take this call that is within the society so it becomes very difficult but all of them are driven by the determination that equality is worth the struggle and that the future requires the effort if you mean well and if you fight well we are here the other women will try to give up and bring this world to a change let's go in country b. together with the men and make a will a better world sometimes i think office. stopping doing this but usually to members all these with their woman who hundred years ago sacrificed their lives and sacrificed their happiness is in everything and the fight for their kids and

grandchildren one hundred years after britain elected its first woman member of parliament the message of the suffragettes suffragists still resonates down the decades inspiring new generations of women and girls to take their rightful place in the political process paul brennan al-jazeera parliament square in london. star . budget deficits huge unemployment good economic news is hard to come by in argentina but one industry is booming and that's beef industry supply reports on but as i receive the government wants to see more of that to the world was this is a leading processing plant in when a site is working nonstop to export before around the globe. it's heading to the middle east europe and china and it is implants like this one where production has increased over fifty percent in the last few months. broda focused on the me has

been in the beef industry for decades he says argentina has lost years of production because of bad economic policies. the genetics of arjen time cut was unique among the best in the world fortune teller could be exporting much more but because of policies implemented during the previous administration industry was hurt no we're going back slowly but we are ready to sell our beef to every country in the world. the argentine pump out with its mild weather and extensive land is the perfect region to raise high quality cattle that has made the from here famous worldwide but production has dropped dramatically because of an increase in the growth of the so you have been crop and also because of regulated policies during the previous government to former president cristina fernandez the very depression that they were we lost about twenty percent of the cattle it was about twelve million cows that's how big the damage was to this industry that generates jobs in

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