all on major residential towers in gaza city and that's what we're seeing taking place an aerial assault on some of the civilian infrastructure in gaza hotels the all rahma residential tower this might be how it ends up before there is a cessation of hostilities in any case it's a major escalation just payments all that very much for your time and your expertise on this we really appreciate it that is max min from one live and washington d.c. thank you thanks for having me. demanding protection. becomes the target tag victims of the civil war and ivory coast a still waiting for justice and breaking down barriers in sports. still making a difference six decades on.

to libya's leaders and other foreign powers a gathering for a conference in the sicilian city of the summit aims to end seven years all the division and fighting in libya many competing interests and side and the country could prove and go join a whole reports. the latest attempt to bring peace to libya picks up where many of those have failed with leaders and representatives from thirty countries gathering just across the mediterranean in sicily one key goal here to get behind a new u.n. led election timeline beginning early next year with a dialogue among libyans themselves to decide what kind of democracy they want we want them clearly doing the national conference what kind of election they want.

and what kind of. because we don't have the house of representatives has been meeting. but it has been facing. you know. legislative little i think we need. a presentation. when nato bombs help rebel fighters to overthrow gadhafi in two thousand. 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 peace conference in poland brings together libya's major opposing sides as well as some of the key foreign powers within through and 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 if all concerned can rally behind the new un plan that would be a minimal measure of success here but it would amount to little more than a contribution to the peace process still

a long way from peace itself jonah hill al jazeera palermo sicily. let's get more on the. new ban on resident fellow at the gulf international forum and he's joining us from washington d.c. very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so with so very many competing interests both domestic and international what are the stances that the summit can result in an agreement on things like an election time. i think that we have to judge young summit in alarm are through an incremental process it was certainly a success today that the egyptian president. was dear to you and secretary general good terrorist was there the e.u. foreign policy coordinator friends estimate greeny was there and representatives from vitaly and government what is really important to understand us that it warder to bring stability and eventually peace to libya all the competing international

actors that have so far sought to use libya as a battleground for their own domestic and regional interests all of that all of these competing interests needs to be dealt with before it political process that eventually elects the parliament and a president has to be dealt with it so today was the beginning of a process and not the end of the process but that's no easy feat of course getting so and many different powers to agree on what's right for libya and let alone getting the two governments and tripoli and to brooke to agree you have perhaps the most powerful man in libya general hani for half the he is at the conference but he decided not to attend this opening dinner. so what does that tell us you know is there any hope for power sharing between public and tripoli. we don't generally fight it's not independent he is beholden to backers from russia egypt

and the united arab emirates but the fact that president sisi of egypt was there today was an indication that egypt of values the ability in libya as a core national security interest and therefore leaned on general hop star to participate in the conference and the european powers including france and italy will continue most likely to pressure de objections to again pressure start to participate in the political process having said that there are two different timelines that the europeans are dealing with for italy this is a national security priority precisely because the current italian government has prioritized to stop all flows of illegal migration from sub-saharan africa up over libya and into southern southern italy so this is a top national priority for france however france cease the conflict to be

resolved through a un mediated process and those attitude converging interests but i am quite confident that the italians and the french can sort out their differences and and in turn lean on the egyptians to ensure that the smooth forward and while we wait for that to happen what is the continued and stability in the media mean for the country and especially its people that eleven through it. well there was during no easy answers to it unfortunately precisely because global powers whether it's the russians and the americans are deadlocked in the political dispute that includes the u.s. presidential election or of the two thousand and sixteen and a future to u.s. russia relationship and directions have very little interest in leveraging that in libya so that's the first aspect the second aspect is that the us air relationship is in disarray over to murder of a high show and turkey and saudi arabia wrangling over the future of how to bring

this murder is true justice so it's very difficult for the americans to work with the arab partners to advance a regional approach to it so therefore what we can realistically expect is that the europeans will take the lead on this and a first step will be to work with egypt and solve their own internal differences and so that this process can move forward let's hope they can do that mr new balance great to get your expertise on this we really appreciate your time that has some good news live and washington d.c. thank you thank you so much bye bye now north korea's nuclear ballistic missile program seems to be continuing that is even though u.s. president donald trump says it's being stopped a u.s. think tank has identified six staying hidden bases mostly and remote mountainous areas the report was based on new images from commercial satellites improvements seem to have been made at more than

a dozen of the bases the networks already known to u.s. intelligence agencies but north korea has never acknowledged them wasn't joint and has more on this from washington d.c. . it really should come as no surprise to anyone that north korea is continuing to develop its conventional ballistic missiles program as well as trying to develop nuclear weapons neither was prohibited by the agreement which the north korean leader kim jong il and the u.s. president donald trump signed when they met in singapore earlier this year and in fact critics of this agreement say that not only was there is no prohibition but there was also no way that the u.s. or any other country for that matter could check up on pyongyang's behavior in either arena now comes this report from the washington based think tank c s i s which says that north korea has been continuing work at at least sixteen facilities around the country including at one facility not even an hour's drive from the

border with south korea that of course is very worrisome because south korea has a substantial threat of north korean nuclear missiles the question now becomes what to do there are a number of sanctions that have been imposed on north korea by both the united nations and the united states but because of the u.s. efforts to try to broker a unilateral deal with north korea on denuclearization there is this sense now that north korea feels empowered to basically step up activities that have been deemed illegal by the and international community that includes expanding trade with both china and russia its two closest neighbors and as the u.s. has alleged for many years two of its most important protectors on the global stage the question is can the trumpet ministration now find a way to not only make north korea stop development of these military programs but

also carry out the sorts of inspections that would verify that north korea is trying to make good on its promise to give up its nuclear weapons program. i still says it was behind a suicide attack in the afghan capital that killed six of protest is that old members of the ethnic minority group the has eyes and are rallying for greater protection for their community following a number of attacks natasha going to aim has wall. a target was this group of protesters. but according to media reports afghan forces were able to stop a suicide bomber before he reached the demonstrators not the four who detonated his explosives. they really are on monday there were calls for peace and protection in kabul we actually have raised our voice because we need security when security and it's their responsibility of the government. subjected to discrimination for

generation of. the haze are a community wants to ensure its voices are heard after a series of attacks by the taliban since last week was almost word of five to five days that the children approach to be modest on and so there is going to be. that attack of taliban through. one hundred fifty people killed but there is no action to take it anymore to look gunnison on the afghan forces have increased ground and air attacks against the taliban in two districts in the southeastern province of gaza me the has are as a shiite minority group dominate the districts they've been fighting the taliban who are sunni muslims. this has raised fears of a spike in sectarian violence in the war weary country and concerns the government

isn't doing enough it's not only drive the whole suffered the same thing would become plame but it's of the countries suffering the same thing every. the afghan security forces just being a high price to secure this country the afghan army chief says it's already lost soldiers additional ground troops are being deployed to gaza the province and u.s. forces are assisting the offensive by air natasha going to zero. two opposition leaders and democratic republic of congo have withdrawn from the deal to support one candidate and next month's presidential election six opposition figures had agreed to back martin for you as their candidate in the long delayed polls but to pull out offer some opposition supporters protested in kinshasa over the choice offer you a new president joseph kabila is standing down after being in power for eighteen years but he's picked the candidates he wants to succeed him. the u.k.

foreign secretary has met saudi arabia's king solomon and jeremy hunt as the first british minister to visit the kingdom since journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered last month at the saudi consulate in istanbul the state run news agency says the two men discussed bilateral relations and regional developments hunters also do some made crown prince mohammed bin some on a spokesman for prime minister tories amaze says hunt will push to solve these to do more to deliver justice and accountability in the kushal case canada's prime minister has become the first western the to acknowledge this country has received an order of according related to kushal g.'s murder justin trudeau says he hasn't listened to the tape himself but has intelligence agencies have 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 our like minded allies as to next steps toward saudi arabia. meanwhile turkey has reacted with anger to french claims

that ankara is playing a political game it's intelligence sharing over the case in a t.v. interview the french foreign minister said he wasn't aware that france had received any recordings from turkey but over the weekend said it had shared the tapes not only with france but saudi arabia the us germany and britain. if the turkish president has information he should give it to us he must give it to us does this mean that he didn't give it to you for now i don't have this information does this mean that he lied it means that he's playing a particular political game and the circumstances still ahead to. the country's political crisis. and the man of god who were responsible for them not only did nothing. for decades the u.s. justice department expands its investigation into priests accused of child sex abuse. and a painful day for this play at the a.t.p.

finals event in london. can you feel the change yet possibly not be you soon will if you're in the states now not much evidence comes from space except this looking gray that's always a hint of something the white talked you know that's always right and it's light to be fairly heavy rain persistent i think the southeast corner of georgia down towards north of florida temps in atlanta ten degrees that's what i mean by can you feel it yet these are next in terms of overlay the temperature background this is what you go to feel by day minus two in chicago minus five minneapolis one thousand denver now the pacific coast is warm we have different problem here as you well know it's the fires in the weather's not anything to help the fact still strong winds down in southern california but for the majority of the us on counter

winter's really setting in unless you're down in florida particularly down in miami right here early and quite sharp we see is a big showers recently the lesser antilles those showers are moving away and equally there's been some flooding in panama but the come straight in cloud the last twenty four hours has been in costa rica in the next day or so we'll still see showers nice run to ease a small ol in the caribbean and i think some rain will reach puerto rico but majority seems to back further west nicaragua and especially central mexico.

ard. and then reported 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 for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war.

these are our top stories three palestinians have been killed by israeli airstrikes on gaza at least twenty nine israelis have been injured by rockets fired from the gaza strip. that killed seven palestinians including a hamas military command libyan leaders are in a conference which might help to end seven years of fighting elections due in december have been canceled because of rising violence. and two opposition leaders and democratic republic of congo have. to support one candidate and next month's presidential election. had agreed to back. the long delayed polls but then. off to some of their supporters protested against the choice. sri lanka supreme court has been hearing to challenge the president's decision to

call a snap election president city santa triggered a political crisis last month when he fired the prime minister don and become a singer and replaced him and often ended his reports. over a dozen petitions were herded sri lanka's supreme court on monday the petition is a prison might to polish citizen a valid to the constitution when he dissolved parliament in this instance for enough years have elapsed and parliament has not approved. and therefore the condition president laid down in the constitution has not been followed and presidents act of dissolving parliament therefore is dull and white while the courtroom was packed to capacity people milled outside waiting for news some heckled politicians prompting police to be called in. at the heart of sri lanka's constitutional crisis is a tug of war between the president who says he's acting to protect the people and

public representatives who say he's not when you take the big fundamental of the constitution spirit of the constitution people as it was of the people president is exerting the executive power. in the legislature when there's a conflict between those two i.e.d. oppose him to make up a fight in addition is the people themselves nothing but the people but we're confident that on the basis of the arguments that the submitter on behalf of the people on behalf of discern political parties and on behalf of people who represent parliament and surprisingly on the election commission us one of the members himself has petitioned and we believe that. people will have justice in a third address to the nation in just over two weeks president seriously and has said he sect parliament because of what buying and the behavior of the speaker of parliament but the speaker he pushed out says as the custody of parliament i have

watched over the last two weeks as the executive branch has seized the rights and usurped the powers of members of parliament who are elected to represent the people i call upon all public servants. to refuse to execute any illegal orders they may receive no matter from. present. that his disillusion parliament on friday was the right thing to do more than ten petitioners who have come before the court behind me the supreme court of sri lanka see otherwise and it's down to the three judge bench to decide who's in the right. fire investigators in the northern california town of paradise have begun sifting through the wreckage searching for human remains at least twenty nine people died in paradise and the surrounding area where huge fire swept through on thursday fire investigators have called in a. d.n.a. lab to identify the victims. of the fire which almost completely destroyed the town

home to twenty seven thousand people or for the cell firefighters have contained about fifteen percent of a huge fire in l.a. county which killed at least two people and forced two hundred thousand from their homes let's go now to n.b.c.'s jennifer bjorkman she's joining us from westlake village in los angeles county scenes of utter devastation behind you jennifer what is the situation where you are and in other parts of the state affected by the fires. yes elizabeth it is a terribly destructive scene here in westlake village as you can see behind me. these homes are all but gone there are very few artifacts that anybody is going to find inside or even be able to identify which room was which in these houses that have been leveled here it's a difficult time as evacuees are led back into their neighborhoods they drive by

we've seen delivery trucks coming by looking to let off packages and the houses aren't there it's almost as if life goes on but it doesn't for so many and the worst news of all of course are those missing people two hundred people still unaccounted for so that death toll of thirty one statewide for these fires is definitely unfortunately going to rise and most likely quite significantly jennifer how much of the fires across the states have been contained and we still expecting bad weather conditions over the next few days that are going to make it even more challenging to contain them yes we are it's moving from north to south so the winds are dying down in the in the upper part of the state the northern california area in paradise where you saw such huge destruction there they're making a some good progress on those fires here in the in the middle part of the state in southern california it looks a little bit worse the fire containment lines about twenty percent the south after

noon and then more fires were popping up nearby so difficult work there and the winds are expected to continue and be as bad and destructive over the next few days and then worsen in the very southern part of the state in san diego we're expecting red flag warnings for the next three four even five days so difficult times have not ended here in southern california jennifer thank you very much for that finale that is jennifer. live and westlake village thank you. now international pressure is mounting for yemen civil war to end the u.n. mission and france of late has to call for a cessation of hostilities especially around the port city of hervey the asahi and iraqi coalition is trying to retake it from the rebels local sources say at least a hundred and fifty people have been killed since sunday the home of the reports from djibouti that just across the red sea from yemen. fierce

fighting when all the forms lines on the fringes of the port city of data this is one of the largest bottle so far in the war in yemen for the whole of the fighters who control the data losing the strategic port is not an option and they are putting up a stiff resistance. we should have attempted another suicide attack but it failed we are advancing. despite earlier promises by the so the coalition and pro-government forces multiplied through bottles in some parts of the city the conflict was already and to that face in one presidential area is still the city borders lie and collect relentless bombardment and kill numerous fighters and this is the ultimate prize the pro-government alliance and their sody and their morality buck is off to the port of data a vital lifeline for millions of yemenis more than seventy percent arguments imports including u.n.

aid comes through these dogs and. as you can see we're at the front line close to the port of her data right there in front of you in the next few days will be able to storm the port. the u.n. secretary general and tony it will tell us is warning against any disruption to the port operations. is of what. i think that now all the powers agreed that it must be ended i think that circumstances will allow it i hope to direct actors in the conflict in the stand and i hope that it happens as quickly as possible because if for example the port of her days destroyed that would be catastrophic for the whole of yemen. these calls son to for the safety of hundreds of thousands of civilians was still in the city there now growing calls for a cease fire and peace talks between the warring parties in a sign the u.s. is finally losing patience with the war in the yemen secretary of state mike pump pretreated enough for all to the saudi crown prince mohammed bin so much that i

didn't need for suspicion of hostilities pompei also all parties to come to the table to negotiate a peaceful solution to the conflict in a meeting in the city coupled with british foreign secretary jeremy hunt spoke of the need to build support for u.n. peace efforts both the fight and the bother since he added some of the loudest voices in the calls for cease fire could be a while before they agreed to peace talks the hum of the whole thing the needle of this supreme ruler lucia very console of the whole thing is recently described the course by the united states and united kingdom as empty talk in an op ed in the washington post who ruled that the united states stop the war a long time ago but has instead chosen to support its allies so dead. djibouti. to every cause now in memories of the last seven war remains for many seven years later fighting between supporters of rival presidents killed three

thousand people survivors of torture and rape are demanding justice as former president on a question for crimes against humanity the goal of hark reports from abidjan. he says he was driving home when a policeman pulled him over asking for identification. the officer told him his last name didn't sound ivorian enough to foreign and he was arrested. while in custody he says police spat in his face the beatings turned to torture human rights groups say three hundred fifty seven people arrested like him were killed that same day and dumped in mass graves seven years on debby awaits justice someplace on the mother for. wanted for society we have not received just as their parents or the children of those mother does of these this did want to let us express or share grievance but you can't erase the past which started as

a disputed presidential election in two thousand and eleven turned to a civil war between supporters of a new president alassane ouattara and all but bo who are fused to concede defeat. here wrapped up nationalist rhetorical calling ouattara and his supporters foreigners and enemy of the state. water as father is from neighboring turkey to faso. is home to many african migrants. human rights groups accused of ordering militia groups to attack what are supporters targeting people who appear foreign to be believed the bag those are behind the killings three thousand people were killed during the four months of a war. while i was on trial at the international criminal court in the netherlands his wife simo and was released from prison in august following the advice to granted by president ouattara which acquitted her of crimes against humanity. despite that the international criminal court is seeking her arrest it's

a rare occasion to see inside her home receiving people publicly since her release from prison she's made only a handful of statements calling for peace and reconciliation it's a change of tone from the former first lady. president to our promise is justice for all but the work of the truth and reconciliation commission appears to be stalling after it published a report accusing the government of overlooking war crimes allegedly committed by ouattara supporters charges they deny the government says it gave soldiers who staged two mutinies last year twenty six thousand dollars each for supporting what or during the civil war no compensation has been paid to victims of murder torture and rape crimes which remain unpunished. in a very close to our other victims and no one is up to dead to have that for us to find peace we need to recognize and forgive the crimes that we have committed. and

many victims like him want to see their attackers punished he says ivorian leaders over that to the dead and to their country still looking to heal its wounds of the past nicholas hawke al-jazeera. now stanley as who created some of the twentieth century's most iconic comic book comic book characters has died at the age of ninety five spider-man the hulk the x.-men are just a few of his creations which have become stars of blockbuster movies the revolutionize comics superheroes by instilling them with human frailties as the top writer at marvel comics from the line nine hundred sixty s. he introduced a festive qaeda plot satire and even philosophy he died at a medical center in los angeles. u.s. catholic bishops meeting at the annual general assembly have decided to delay voting on steps to address clergy sex abuse the vatican asked them to wait until

a global meeting on that issue early next year meanwhile the u.s. justice department is expanding its investigation into child sex abuse by priests castro has more from washington within the walls of each of the one hundred forty five diocese that form the u.s. 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 the 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 investigation.