for treats of this crime but also ordered it or do they try and maybe allow for some sort of cover up or some wiggle room for the saudis where b. maybe there is a scapegoat that's his given but the person who ordered it's widely believed to be crown prince one of the it's a man gets off scot free in favor of the bilateral deals which are in the billions between these countries particularly the united kingdom that is something that people are waiting to see very quickly the united kingdom also through its own voices it will be trying to push the saudis to bring an end to the war in yemen which shows that the case of the model for structure is much greater than just the murder of one man jim and say a life in istanbul thanks to. the u.s. has renewed its call for an end to the civil war in yemen some reports say at least one hundred fifty people have been killed in the past twenty four hours street battles a broad chaos to areas in the main port city of a day that thousands of civilians are trapped by the fighting a pro-government alliance backed by saudi arabia is trying to seize control of the

city from hooty rebels. the spokesman told al-jazeera the fighting is only happening in an industrial area outside the city. with a look at medina today did they say they've taken over the whole city but the battles are taking place outside of the data and everyone knows that the area of ikhwan is ten kilometers away from the city with me but as i said the battles ahead signs that a moment ago is following the story for us from across the red sea in djibouti somehow might what is the latest on the fighting that. well five things to going on. on a list three different fronts lines some of the fighting is already happening on the streets of residential areas particularly in the eastern parts they've been fighting will slow down and the outfall to hospital which is one of the main hospitals one supported by the international red cross officials there say they

have clashes there and none of the complications of and that the hospital now in the past hour or so a coalition spokesman speaking at a press conference in riyadh this claimed victory for the pro-government forces they are supporting in almost all fronts an accused all the fighters all using civilians. as human shields and then also talked about how they were blocking ships from docking into the for the the delegations that have all been denied by all the fighters pro-government forces are also saying. also take on early on in the day to take the port war well water when the whole the fight is put on a very stiff resistance. we've been talking about the british foreign secretary visit to riyadh just quickly but what's happening on the on the diplomatic side.

of these and i didn't see all source to try and bring that back together but there is a lot of suspicion and a lot of bad blood between them and also many countries like the united states and the u.k. not being viewed as honest brokers so it has a long way to go before that's achieved. still ahead on al-jazeera sri lanka's supremes court is hearing petitions challenging the president's decision to call snap elections plus the death toll mounts and hundreds of people are still missing as wildfires rage across california .

hello again the cloud is clearing away from the southeastern parts of china now we did have a lot of cloud a lot of rain with us but that's working eastwards and we're just seeing this little patch now towards shanghai still giving us a bit of rain but even that should clear as we head through into cheese day and then most of us should see a good deal of dry weather later on there we will see more clouds begin to form in a few outbreaks of rain and then that will be pushing its way a bit further north was as we head into wednesday say force in hunan and also through bay it looks pretty great pretty wet to during the day a wednesday but the rain will turn a little heavy a force in the province later wednesday night and as we head into thursday as well when it does it pretty wet here another place we're watching for some rather significant weather is across the bay of bengal where we have a cycling with us that's tracking its way towards the west and it's moving fairly slowly so force in india that it looks like we're going to see the eye of that storm made landfall on thursday but between now and then we're going to see the cloud increase and the rain will begin as well so the west so weather will be with

us on wednesday setting heavier throughout the day and as we head into the day ahead of it lots of cloud of force in new delhi staying fine and dry it's hundred seven degrees will be our maximum for the arabian peninsula still thirty to step for us mostly here just to the south the kuwait that's where the wettest of the weather should be. the un's man in charge of middle east and north africa has refugee crisis is that the end is still not in sight the world doesn't act like that in concert some other countries bottled or does not like that there ought to be a new order to make that contribution is more equitable i mean i was talking to al-jazeera new yorkers are very receptive. because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective.

hello again you're watching al-jazeera minor of our top stories this hour israeli troops have killed seven palestinians including a hamas military commander they entered gaza as part of a special forces operation an israeli officer was also killed. at least six people are dead and twenty injured from a suicide bombing in the afghan capital kabul hundreds of people from the community had been holding a protest at the time they were demanding protection from continued attacks on the . pressure is growing on saudi arabia to reveal the details of journalist murder the u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt has arrived in riyadh and held a meeting with man he is urging the kenyan to fully cooperate with turkish

investigators. and this concern in france about the fate of two saudi princes who have not been seen or heard from since being detained in saudi arabia ten months ago prince abdullah. this. man was last seen entering the royal palace in january left has been released showing the french foreign ministry has been asked by the president's office to monitor the situation the french lawyer who represents the princes says they've been held without charge because of comments about crown prince mohammed bin. i called on the u.s. president donald trump who is known to wall has his own mandate on the kingdom of saudi arabia to exercise pressure on the crown prince in order to release them i also requested the french president where it is more difficult since france hardly intervenes in such domestic issues however it was only the french president who

hated my call and handed over the dossier to the foreign ministry to act and seek answers from the saudi authorities. and more political chaos in sri lanka opposition parties there want the supremes court to review the president's snap election call president. say now fired and replace the prime minister last month he dissolved parliament last week after his attempts to secure a majority for his part in failed. him are live in. certain members from both sides made statements through the media and of various discussions that there will be a big clash sometimes leading to the death of a few when parliament is convened on the fourteenth if i permitted those incidents to happen by convening the parliament on the fourteenth without dissolving parliament it became apparent that those fights could have brought about a serious situation with these fires creating hardships on the population living in towns and villages across the country which is yours and mine when a smith has more on this now from colombo. court has spent the day listening to

arguments from petitioners who want the court to overturn the president's decision to dissolve parliament and call elections for january the fifth they say the president is acting constitutionally as far as record certain he has the right to dissolve parliament the man and the second census in which he does it is clearly stated in the constitution and he seems to have ignored it and in that sense it's a full. eight the president were to dissolve parliament and if that dissolution is within the first four and. then that can be done only after the parliament by a two thirds majority approves it as illusion to that effect in this instance. not lapsed and parliament has not approved. and therefore the condition proceed and laid down in the constitution has not been followed and then

president's act of dissolving parliament. on tuesday the court will hear from the attorney general he has to make the argument on behalf of the government this is going to be arraigned trysting because the attorney general when asked by the speaker of parliament a couple of weeks ago for an opinion he said he didn't think it was right by him to do so will now he must and whether the tourney general agrees or not whether he agrees with the president or not he must make the government's case and underneath all of this is a very simple argument but while the government's lawyers may find a constitutional way to excuse or allow the president's behaviors in dissolving parliament the big argument is that he's acting against the spirit of a constitutional change brought in a couple of years ago that took power away from the president and gave it to the people through parliament and it's a parliament to appoint the prime minister. the u.n. says libyans could go to the polls in spring next year once they've decided on a format that's after plans to hold elections next month had to be abandoned

because of the rise in violence the u.n. special envoy to the country said a national conference should be held early next year to decide exactly when an election can take place we want to ask them clearly doing the national conference what kind of elections do you want parliamentary presidential attack and what kind of law do we need because we don't have to go the house of representatives has been meeting all the summer. but it has been sterile let's face it producing the new low on that effort and producing no legislative little i think we need a wider presentation. other comments were made at an international conference on libya in italy warring parties and foreign powers are trying to bring an end to seven years of fighting but with so many competing interests inside and outside libya peace could prove elusive john r. reports from the sicilian city of palermo. when nato bombs helped rebel fighters

to overthrow moammar gadhafi in two thousand and eleven it was far from the end of libya's troubles. seven years later the country is divided between warring militant groups and opposing political factions each claiming control of vast swathes of territory the latest attempt to bring peace to libya has been convened by former colonial power italy the peace conference in polar mo brings together libya's major opposing sides as well as some of the key foreign powers with influence in the region so fires who heads the un backed government in and around tripoli will be joined by general. whose breakaway army holds much of the east battling for control of the south meanwhile are ethnic tribes and cross border criminal gangs while the un backs the tripoli government general haftar has the

support of egypt and russia the united states is there to of course keen to bolster its influence in the resource rich north african country. libya's difficulties of further complicated by the competing interests of european union rivals italy and france both have energy investments in the country and back opposite sides while france wants to stabilize the lawless south with its proximity to former french colonies in the hell italy wants an end to the flow of migrants across the mediterranean it is a rivalry that saw france organize its own peace summit earlier this year and one that could undermine the chances of success in. jonah how al-jazeera sicily. the catholic bishops in the u.s. have gathered in the city of baltimore for their annual general assembly it comes as a just a expands its investigation into child sexual abuse by priests. from

washington. within the walls of each of the one hundred forty five diocese that form the us catholic church are the secret archives containing the clergy most confidential and sensitive records could they contain more evidence of priests sexually abusing children and the actions to cover it up that's what the us department of justice wants to know we've been trying to get this investigation going survivors and victims for years we asked year after year for this evidence is after most of evidence the department of justice is request addressed to the president of the u.s. conference of catholic bishops asks church personnel to not destroy discard dispose of delete or alter any documents related to sexual abuse investigations that includes documents about the transfer of abusive priests from one community to another xan go already says that's what happened to the priest who abused him in

catholic school. man three my friends and i is very dear to help things in the rectory pack up the car and go to the new parish and the new school and spend the first night in the new rectory with them and he was being transferred for sexually abusing two brothers those sexual abuse allegations against u.s. catholic priests first surfaced in the one nine hundred eighty s. long foresman renewed its scrutiny this year beginning with a pennsylvania grand jury report that documented the abuse of more than one thousand victims by three hundred priests in that state alone priests were raped raping little boys and girls and the men of god who were responsible for them not only did nothing they hid it all for decades now thirteen states and washington d.c. have launched investigations into church sex abuse and cover up that is in addition to the federal probe by the department of justice the church says it fully

cooperating. even as thousands of new victims have been merged in mandate the belated justice party joe castro al-jazeera washington. at least thirty one people have now died as wildfires burn across the u.s. state of california more than two hundred people are missing rob reynolds reports from up village. when the fire ripped through these houses in open village it didn't leave much small during wreckage burned out vehicles a charred exercise bike seventeen houses were completely destroyed but thankfully no lives were lost people here are deeply grateful to their firefighters it just flared up and just went quick and those firemen god bless them stood on my parents' deck here and fought off the fire from their house the state of california is under siege from north to south high winds and bone dry trees and brush have

fueled deadly wildfires this week california has experienced the most devastating destructive fires that we've seen in its history over one hundred ninety six thousand acres burned. thousands of homes and dozens of lives lost everything depends on the wind a calm day can give firefighters a chance to contain the blazes but there are no calm days in the immediate forecast we have to keep understanding it better but we're in a new have normal and things. like this will be part of our future and this will be the beginning it will be things like this and worse open village where lawn ornaments live for lauren amid the ashes was out of the fires direct path and would not have burned had it not been for the wind. people here tell us it was embers born on high winds from another fire perhaps a dozen kilometers away that started these houses

a light. wildfire makes no distinction between rich and poor famous or obscure all must flee before it's at vance we ran into a hockey legend wayne gretzky outside his mansion near thousand oaks we evacuated last night at about two am. and still my wife or my young kids and i came back here to check on the house. and yeah we were deathly scared and nervous like all citizens around here in oak village weary firefighters were hosing down hot spots more than twenty four hours after the flames swept through people here are deeply traumatized you could see it on t.v. you can see it on social media but when you actually see it and smell it that words can't describe the devastation officials say the fires may take weeks to

bring under control for those who live here it's already too late rob reynolds al-jazeera oak village california. this is al jazeera let's get a round up of the top stories israeli troops have killed seven palestinians including a hamas military commander they entered gaza as part of a special forces off for ation an israeli officer was also killed israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has cut short his visit to paris to return home. at least six people are dead and twenty others injured from a suicide bombing in the afghan capital kabul hundreds of people from the huzzaing community had been holding a protest of the time they were demanding protection from continued attacks on the . pressure is growing on saudi arabia to reveal the details of journalist. to the u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt as arrived in riyadh and met with concerned men is

urging the kingdom to fully cooperate with turkish investigators we continue to be engaged with our allies on the investigation into accountability for the murder of jamal khashoggi and we are in discussions with her like minded our eyes as to next steps toward saudi arabia there's concern in france about the fate of two saudi princes who have not been seen or heard from since being detained in saudi arabia ten months ago prince abdullah's he's been said man bin mohammad is sowed and his son seven men were last seen entering the royal palace in january a letter has been released showing the french foreign ministry has been asked by the president's office to monitor the situation opposition parties in sri lanka won the supreme court to review the president's snap election call president multi-polar city senior fired and replace the prime minister last month. firefighters in california say they've only managed to contain ten percent of the

fire burning in los angeles county of these thirty one people have died and hundreds of thousands have been forced to leave their homes firefighters expect hot and windy weather conditions in the next three days those are the headlines talk to engineers next. when they're on line for you looking at wildlife and the solutions come together to benefit all parties involved that's where we're going to have long term success or if you join us on set if you could take me around the content what would you tell me you don't have to set up your experiment for your experiment in the universe this is a dialogue everyone has a voice you actually raise several interesting point there that some of our community members are going to join the global conversation. and. you can. see.

according to the united nations refugee agency there are sixty eight and a half million people forcibly displaced worldwide of these twenty five point four million are refugees sixty eight percent of all refugees come from just five countries syria afghanistan south sudan. and somalia even though they are hosted by several countries and many of them aim for one final destination europe. european union declared a refugee crisis in two thousand and fifteen the crisis intensified as thousands kept pouring into the continent e.u. member states have failed to agree on a solution with increased political tension as a result but whose fault is this crisis and all the countries in the world doing enough to ease the situation or are only a few carrying the burden. we find out as i mean our director for the middle

east and north africa bureau of the united nations high commissioner for refugees talks to. thank you for talking to. now you are director for the middle east and north africa bureau and regional refugee coordinator for syria and iraq at the united nations high commissioner for refugees office that's quite a long title just explain that to us what your job involves what it is that you do my job is a very difficult one i manage the crisis of the middle east the wars of the middle east and the consequences of war of the twenty plus million internally displaced. syrian iraqis yemenis libyans and other supplies or if we are coming out of syria and iraq and other places the situation in the middle east is not really looking up

when it comes to wars and destruction. and there is a lot of work to be done in the humanitarian front leave alone when we talk about the return of syrian refugees for example internally displaced persons again we're looking at thirteen million people that should go back to their homes this will be the biggest return since world war two also and it requires a lot of work on the legal side of things in the security side of seeing on a stabilization or recovery on reintegration stabilization throughout the country shelter home probert the land and physical security for people to go back that's what i do it's been just over three years now since we saw that huge migration of people to europe from places like syria and iraq and other countries in the region that really hit the headlines globally how would you assess this then going forward i mean have we. are we over harmful have we reached a kind of new normal with the situation a new normal no as far as the syria situation i think that what you're asking i

think we have new elements of the war by and large stopped hostilities in many part of the country stop it liberate me and then i hope that the peaceful solution will be will be found for at least that the war does not break out over it leave as we have seen in aleppo homs and other places because that would be a disaster however there's a lot of ground work to be done to create conditions conducive for return for stabilization and to remove obstacles for it that these are legal protection security livelihood housing. water sanitation health. food security so there's a lot to be done to really want a conflict stops to start rebuilding people. and in terms of which countries are doing their fair share i mean if we look at syria. for example. it certainly seems that jordan and lebanon and turkey are really taking the brunt of this in terms of

the numbers of refugees that they have taken in but a lot of people would be asking why aren't other countries stepping in a particularly other arab gulf countries and since we're talking about a global problem here as well why not countries in asia like china what to countries like south korea and japan for example should they be stepping up more here this eerie war wasn't a local one was not a region was global poor that maybe would involve a lot war since the beginning of the war on our repeated appeal from the beginning of the year. the u.n. and as an international coalition receives about twenty billion dollars twenty billion dollars went into syria and the surrounding countries that's still not enough because our peers were much much higher five times higher than that now i think the international community have been to a certain extent generously for the syria situation but they're in not so when when you talk about the international community who you're talking about the traditional

donors what we called the resolution of donors like the european union the member state of european union the arab world the sciences the five countries egypt iraq jordan lebanon. plus turkey that they have received five plus six million over us and others have contributed to the syria of course but we also have iraq we have levy we have yemen we have many other crises in africa that goes you know silent people are also in many places facing problems and shortages of funding not every appeared by the un for example is feeding the fund to deceive some of them that is having seven eight ten percent and ways that. i think we ought to be a new international or the one. comes to humanitarian assistance to stabilize people in their communities people do not move across continents or countries or international boundaries to go from one place to another i think should be given to proximity in the proximity of work rices are and their national community the

donors that maybe after are more responsibly in addressing these crises in a full and comprehensive manner not in a partial manner but you must have had discussions with your member member nations or maybe you haven't i don't know about the burden that some of these countries are sharing i mean if we take for example the case of south korea and. yemeni asylum seekers who a number of them went went to south korea what happened there in june is that they removed yemen from the list of countries that allowed. free access to the island of jeju in south korea how do you square that with the with the responsibility that the international community as you say has to them that's what proves exactly what i said there be enough support to our virt the crisis that's happening in yemen today financially and otherwise. the spread of. diseases

in yemen we would not have had this migration out and far beyond continents across continents to to a place like south korea there are many displaced people from the middle east who tell us that going to other arab countries is not an option for them because in many of these countries they're likely to face more repression. and hostility from people i mean refugees arriving in egypt from syria for example have been met with suspicion discrimination violence we've heard lots of stories and i'm sure your graduation is heard the same so europe is still a more attractive option for them. what's being done to address that there well if you look at the five point five six million dollars or five point five you want to share there could be another half a million that in order to use that for a reason or another who checked into egypt we should just mention a case in point from my visit to egypt they had access to education health they

were living among the population not in camps in the bellies of towns and villages and countryside and you know in the countryside of egypt when did you last visit egypt because things have changed somewhat since president sisi. during the during the last three or four years since the last five years i visited guy or maybe about a dozen times not only cairo i went to examine villages i met people in a better home communities in apartments in collective centers. i have inspected that and as we do also in jordan lebanon iraq i think by and large the five point five million people that came out of syria they were received very well in lebanon jordan turkey egypt iraq there could be exceptions there could be exceptions also in europe don't want to paint the picture of it was being the heaven and on the last the last the summation no also there is this image that there could be discrimination isolated cases here and there we see in germany there were there were some there were some hostility in some areas because of the vast numbers of people who came not only from from syria but from other countries so i

think on balance for us the most precious thing is countries open their borders to allow people to come in from priest accused in war and killing and that happened in this very important instance of the syria influx there is an argument as well that says with with this movement of so many people many of them are not really refugees but economic migrants how do you make that distinction in economic migrants they're going for a better life looking for jobs refugees are leaving giving prosecution wars destruction physical security they're running for their lives that's what makes a difference for us are entitled to course board. into safety and the natural process this involved in making there would be a standard for you started determination to interview those people to see where they're coming from and if they're indeed wars and if they're really free prosecution ones that they confirm that asylum seekers that are for these migrants are fully in condition that sub. standard or poverty and they're looking for better

for a better life we should not discriminate against them because of their convention their conventions like the convention the refugees. governing the movement of people migrants for economy then and there are policies and they should be treated with humility and dignity and they should not be abused and they should not be manipulated or instrumentalist in their journeys for a better life there's been some discussion as well mung european nations. about setting up a kind of central processing center somewhere north north africa morocco has been talked about this for migrants not us from us for migrants that's right where does the un h.c.r. stand on that particularly since. this is come under some criticism in europe is it seen as abdicating its responsibility at a time when when my graflex are much lower than they were in twenty fifteen what's

your view on that well these are discussions that are going on between the european union on the one hand and the north african states the bilateral so we are not only in the middle of that but also there are discussions going on between individual states in the e.u. the european continent with these countries and i think what the europeans are trying to do is to share the burden of the hundreds of thousands or millions that have crossed during the last few years and try to diversify their locations where processing centers can be put up other shirking their responsibilities. who the the european nations they saw that during the last few years they received millions. and they believe that many countries in africa where transit countries where we know some countries like egypt became a destination and transit and the transit in other words some people come and remain in egypt and some try to go further so many countries in north africa became distillation but all across it so not only europe i think there is a there is

a way for the europeans and also africans and others in the continent to really fine. find a way out of this the way out of this is really a policy robust policy is due to government assistance to the north each region or that can give to sub-saharan africa or north africa in order to stabilize this population the second thing the world have to come up with a very robust comprehensive system to fight and contain smuggling and trafficking smugglers traffickers are coordinating as groups as gangs. who are trading arms and in drugs and you have the people and those that we're talking about who are trading in smuggling and trafficking of human beings they share intelligence they share resources they exchange. heavy weapons and they're bent on doing they're controlling the three areas i just mentioned drugs. people. and weapons this is very destabilizing for the world at large

and this is billions of dollars of trade if the world does not come up with a mechanism to control this and put it as one of the most important agenda items today on the top of the world agenda i think the situation will get worse and worse and what you have mentioned before that you want to do is north africa becomes really mad you know and a drop in the ocean action that was no substance and no sustainable impact what are these countries doing to address that i mean i mean are they are they listening to the u.n. h.c.r. in our what kind of access. yes are you and your staff getting to some of these places we don't deal with migration a source with on the with this problem but this affects also movement if you are tied into. and among that there is a very small number of asylum seekers who are fleeing persecution or find among these massive so an army of people who are moving from one place to one of the for a better life or simply because traffickers smugglers have provoked communities to

move. if i tell you that people are moving in yemen today from the horn of africa across the red sea you'd be surprised why people go into a war zone where there is famine cholera disease and knowledgeable with unis and security because of a good business model by the topic of the smugglers they're poor they're not educated they were given they were promised heaven to come to them and they don't even know it's on the formula and they cross the sea and they found themselves in the situation they paid whatever their life saving this all the land their animals they got there somehow so what's being done then in those discussions that you're having with with with these member nations to try to to try to combat that these are done in different platform on migration. and on the people trafficking these are international criminal acts if you like and i think they are appearing with the u.n. and other nations that are concerned part of these routes have to really come up with better policies and better action plans to contain this problem reports that

some european countries particularly italy have been paying money to the government in libya to distribute to the militias in the country to try and keep migrants and refugees from fleeing to europe is this something that the u.n. is looking at. isn't this essentially a via group violation of migrant law and what's being done about it i've heard this. but really i'm not the we're not the quarter residents that the un have many arms international community have to work in different ways to verify this first if it's true or not and to find ways from the us it's not something that we will intervene with the government of italy the militias in libya the libyan government we're out of that loop but but the u.n. is presumably in a position isn't it too to apply this how can we verify if there really if there

are a group of people stopped from moving forward let's say the free prosecution of course that's wrong but for others no way for us to verify that that is i want to turn back to yemen there is this perception that other arab nations in that region particularly in the gulf are not doing more to address that situation what would you say to that i think if there is if you allow me to speak about yemen i don't think it's one group of countries or another there is a humanitarian disaster in the making the world is watching this and one day the world will wake up to find out that we have went through one of the worst famine. crises of our time the world have to act not one region around of the internationally to contain this problem to reverse the situation there is a need for a huge humanitarian intervention here to really reverse the famine the cloke cholera and other diseases. the health systems indication and the welfare of

the end we have many people as a whole as a whole nation does going through a crisis and the world is watching that that has to stop when you look at yemen they share a long border with saudi arabia so a lot of people will be asking why why isn't saudi arabia obvious or very wealthy country why why isn't saudi arabia doing more to address what is going on well first of all that would have to stop saudi arabia or not other countries have to come to the assistance of of the year many people now what has been done is not enough to avert a crisis with this at this is what role has technology played in all of this in this digital age where information is is very readily available people have smartphones and devices there is an ability to navigate and to know more easily where to go compared with say twenty or thirty years ago how much of

a factor is that in people's decision to. to migrate. and how does that how does that affect the situation because you know many decades ago a lot of people didn't exactly know where where the best place was to go has that. made the situation more challenging for you. in a way those who are educated a certain level of education and they have these devises to guide them where to go for their cut i think their technology and innovation are using it to deliver better humanitarian assistance but i'm afraid that the new technology and innovation does use more force smarter guns on wars and and that is does it really bosses out simple as that what's been the impact of the trump. travel ban on the refugee situation in this region because a lot of many of those countries that were on that list are middle eastern countries the resettlement well the quarter that we heard from the us were only lies about twenty percent of it and we hope that the u.s. policy versus decision that we have more space to really send people all the

settlement and that generosity of the u.s. and us people who would traditionally it's a migrating nation itself it's a destination and has been like that for many years for two hundred years so we're hoping that the u.s. will open its court again for syrian refugees and others how hopeful are you of that moment given this current climate i am sure everything will take time but it will happen what's being done specifically to address that is there any regular u.s. government at all levels we are in the communities with the bottom of that tradition to have been engaged results for the last two decades so. the time is opportunity sure like any other policy that could be reversed or amended another thing that's in the news right now is this central american caravan that there is going through making its way through mexico right now and is intending to get to the united states i know this is outside of your region. but this is something that president

trump has talked about quite a bit it's been. a political issue there at the moment how would you have handled that situation as far as i'm concerned those who are leaving hundreds probably living under the stress i think the situation the. security wise for many. segment of the population especially the young and the children is not conducive and they ought to be a system to do to the contin. lawlessness situation for people not to leave their homes and cross international borders but it is it is very much a kind of hot button issue at the moment is there not a. ability on the part of rich nations like like the united states to. take in people who are fleeing playing war and likely death and poverty for sure but i would look at it differently definitely does have to happen of course

people are seeking international support but there could be today's qur'an and the war of the could be second and third and the tense and the one hundred one thousand kind of like as we see the movement across the mediterranean we have to find out what other root causes the root causes are within reach to sort. there are lawlessness created by many elements and that have to be reversed for people to be for the population to be stabilized i want to come back to the issue we talked about earlier about burden sharing and this idea that a number of nations richer nations bigger nations are not doing their fair share in trying to help the situation here one of the number of countries that comes up is singapore. wealthy nation a small nation but a wealthy nation russia as well we don't hear much about. russian assistance for

any refugees either from the middle east to or anywhere else why isn't more being done to address that there isn't much don't give a reason i think talked before about world order that cemented the way they were both world war two i think that have to change the world have to come together reconfigure all of this mechanism when it comes to international response when they come to military an archon with come to better than sharing responsibility sharing and find a more equitable way for the arab gulf or the scene got bored of this world for the korea mission before and other countries to really. contribute in an equitable manner many countries have a percentage of their g.d.p. and make that contribution in a consistent manner and some others don't so things are not equal that's the way the world it is it has to change but i mean if you look at a country like russia for example it's one of the superpowers in the world why don't we hear more about what about russia and why why they're not doing. i mean we hear a lot about the u.s. and the assistance that they that they are giving we don't hear much about russian

assistance because as i said there are assessed contributions that they make which is a percentage of their g.d.p. of their income one percent or less that they put out every year really to different prices be the konami. environmental humanitarian or others. the world doesn't act like that in cos or some other countries part of the law does not act like that there ought to be a new order the reg that contributes these contributions is above the sharing more it with a bill among the number of countries that contribute for example to all of this crisis not more than fifteen. countries as you mentioned earlier that capable and able to pay and not doing so are more than the fifteen so it's left to very small number of countries that they cannot meet the demand of humanity and these demands are increasing every year as the crisis deepens the crisis become productive in different part of the world the world population explodes so you have more people on the move for economic reasons for humanitarian reasons and the

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a homage to show you the hash tag aging is great. news great minds on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live in an al-jazeera dot com we will get to all of those events out of gaza which happened overnight in a moment but we will start with some breaking news that is coming out of the strip at the moment we're getting reports of explosions there tank fire and we have got the live shot now it's just going to be a little moment ago you could actually see the black smoke off in the distance and attack hasan really. and explosion which sort of lists up some areas we've got harry forsett who's our correspondents and western following yesterday's story and these events now harry take us through what you know. well yes this is a sign of just how much on the knife edge things always are when it comes to guns all the indications were that both sides were trying to deescalate from the

military confrontation that we saw overnight inside gaza and then in the last twenty minutes or so first the reports of rocket sirens then or a port that an israeli civilian bus had been struck by or bias by fire coming out of gaza the israeli army spokes person eating reports of massive rocket fire coming out of gaza the iron dome anti-missile system intercepting rockets as they came in and all of this coming after a meeting between the various factions in gaza guns are of course controlled by hamas but there are other palestinian factions there some of them armed and they were having a meeting to discuss their response to what happened overnight with this israeli incursion into gaza in territory during which time there was a firefight and a senior or least a relatively senior hamas military commander killed in the course of that along

with six other palestinians and one israeli officer what was extraordinary about that was that both sides seem to be adopting the same narrative about it saying that it was not an attempt from the outset to either capture or kill this commando which would have been an extremely high risk thing to have done at a time when both sides have been trying to work towards a long term truce and so the fact that there was an initial response to that in terms of sun ten rockets being fired out of gaza and then both sides saying that this is what happened through one of its officials claiming victory that seemed to be an indication that both sides were very keen to get back on track with these truce negotiations since then we've had this meeting of palestinian factions now this rocket barrage it may be that there was a calculation that they could fire these rockets. as a response to what happened last night and potentially then see some kind of

limited israeli response and move on however depending on what has happened with this strike on a bus one reported injury a lot depends on on the outcome of that and these things can always spiral out of control once we have rockets and weapons in the air as we have at the moment yet i can't harry let's just pause for a second because while we're talking to you we've got the live pictures coming in from dallas that it is impossible really for me to tell exactly what's coming from where where but you can see and then if you've got a monitor anywhere near you as well who are you can see the sort of traces of of light going through the sky. and then sort of it's like a little explosion in the sky in many seasons one of it's going to look it's it's it's very worrying i guess given vats initially to water it happened overnight there was a sort of limited response or at least a more limited response certainly from factions and gals that then we've seen in the past in similar situations. indeed i mean make no mistake the idea

of an israeli undercover special forces operation going into gaza and according to the hamas reports traveling in a civilian car attacking and killing a senior commander at least a regional commander in southeastern gaza that is the kind of thing that would almost mandate a very significant response the fact that hamas initially came out and well two things firstly that the israeli army said look we never meant to come in to specifically target this man this was a. operation designed to promote israeli security i.e. what we understand was probably some kind of intelligence gathering operation or the fact that the israelis came out and said that the fact that hamas then came out in support of that and said yes we assume that is what happened as well that suggests that both sides were very much keeping their investment in in working

towards this truce just a few days ago fifteen million dollars worth of qatari money came in to start paying at least partially the salaries of hamas employees inside gaza we've seen the electricity supply drastically improved thanks to the fuel that israel has allowed to come in we've seen egyptian mediation united nations mediation all an attempt to try to get some kind of long term truce underway between the israelis and hamas we heard the prime minister benjamin netanyahu in paris on sunday saying that it was worth the effort it was worth the political domestic cost to him as well now it seems that the calculation has somewhat changed after this meeting of factions inside gaza and again there might have been a calculation that they could launch. a certain number of rockets and still potentially in a few days start to move ahead again with a truce but once these things start to get underway it's always very difficult predict how they will go and if indeed an israeli be. has been hit depending on the

outcome of that on the injury that's already been reported a lot really does depend on that as to how israelis will respond to it so once again we're in the situation of extreme danger and uncertainty surrounding potential risks nutria still ation in gaza ok harry that's pause again for a second i'm getting some real time updates here looking at the twitter account of the israeli as they call themselves israeli defense forces this is what they've just put up on their twitter well twenty minutes ago they said breaking news israeli bus directly hit by their words terrorist fire from gaza and the word is that that israeli bus has been hit directly by fire from gaza they've been tweeted eighteen minutes ago about sirens sounding across southern israel and posted pictures of what they say are israeli i'm sorry are rockets coming from hamas being intercepted by the iron dome the israeli defense shield more than fifty rockets

launched over the past half hour we're getting word from our produces as well so that's what i'm just saying on twitter at the moment let's have a quick look at the live shot as well as we were watching it there the smoke coming up as the sun goes down over gaza i think the same time zone here in doha ten past six in the evening if you're just joining us and al-jazeera this is all began in the last half hour or so rocket fire out of gaza the word is that a bus has been hit in israel directly by those rockets coming out of gaza the israeli iron dome defense system has been enacted and is stopping some of those rockets. and i don't know fortunately this stage when you look at that plume of dark smoke there what that is actually coming from if that's coming from israeli fire or indeed from rockets out of gaza. harry falls that is a correspondent in west jerusalem i know we're going over old ground here harry but for anyone who's just joining us he wanted to bring us up to date with what you've

learned about what's happening now and then just briefly how it links into events over night. well yes as you say it's all taking place in the last half an hour or so the initial reports of sirens being sounded the israeli army spokesperson talking about reports of a massive barrel of rocket fire being fired from gaza into israeli territory and crucially of course a lot of this is being intercepted by the iron dome anti-missile system and typically a lot of these rockets do fall into entry empty territory in and around israeli communities on the border or near near the border with gaza but crucially the reports of an israeli bus being hit a civilian bus that in itself could be cause for a bigger military response than might otherwise be the case from israel and the idea that there has been a civilian injury potentially that will also be very closely monitored and analyzed

by the israelis in terms of calibrating their response so this all comes after what we saw late last night sunday night which was an israeli operation inside gaza an operation which the israeli military said was to enhance israeli security which has largely been interpreted by the israeli media to mean a an intelligence gathering operation of some kind israeli special forces driving in a civilian car according to the the hamas telling of this narrative and then being stopped at a checkpoint suspicions raised and a gun battle breaking out in which a relatively senior hamas military commander from the southeastern communis area was killed now in response to that there was first the series of israeli air strikes as those soldiers were pulled out one israeli soldier was killed one wounded in the operation seven palestinians in total were killed and then shortly

thereafter there were there was a limited barash of rockets that came out of gaza. into israeli territory nobody killed nobody injured in that rocket fire since then there has been a pause during which both sides of essentially adopted the same narrative that this was not an attempt by israel to go in and take out a particular hamas military figure rather it seems to be a botched intelligence operation of some kind and now after a security meeting or a meeting of various armed factions inside gaza we're seeing this response certainly there was a lot of call jury in the funerals of these seven men for a significant response from gaza against israel to pay the price as one of the factions put it that israel must pay the part price for this and it seems that that pressure on hamas may well have led to this. the key thing now is to appreciate

exactly what has happened in the case of this bus and how that might prompt.