tween pakistan and china the foreign minister also condemned the gunman. one attack a designated his suicide vest killing two policeman but police killed the other two attackers before they could enter the consulate premises we're glad that all the consulate staff aside the government says chinese consular staff have been moved to a safe location and that security forces have the area under control however they're braced for more attacks from people who feel china is transforming their impoverished region but not giving them a fair share of the benefits victoria gates and be out there and in a separate attack in the northwestern part of pakistan an explosion in a crowded market has killed at least thirty five people including children dozens were injured in the reside district it recently merged with path to providence after decades of direct rule from islamabad so far no one has yet claimed

responsibility. has more now from the pakistani capital islamabad. they did it in more dreijer in an area where george formerly known as progress down to tribal areas but was recently merged into pakistan now the big question and progress on a bed the last week a fifteen a spike in violence across the country would attack again security for days the attack in the southern border city of karachi on the chinese consulate that responsibility claimed by the baluch liberation army but there are other several groups who are general store and ward in adak in august on including i feel rejected also gained of four toward in the mountains of running a stand and a very good dollar bond pakistan the big question heard in pakistan aid it is the beginning of or not a spate of violence across the country and there's been an explosion in neighboring afghanistan at least fifteen people were killed this attack happened in the city of

costs at least twenty others were wounded as they attended friday prayers at a mosque in a military base the un special envoy to yemen is arrived in the port city of her data after holding talks with his rebels in the capital sanaa pro-government forces backed by the saudi u.a.e. coalition have been trying to seize a day death from the rebels for months as mohamed odeh reports from nearby griffiths says both sides have now pledged to attend peace talks in suite next month. u.n. special envoy martin griffiths his efforts to launch peace talks collapsed last september now he's back in yemen trying to get a farm commitment from the warring parties to a cease fire and a new round of talks is an opportunity to try and build trust ahead of peace talks and sweet as we know we when you have peace talks you need to speak to the various people to open back channels up lines of communication to build up trust ahead of

the almost talks to try and make sure that people will firstly attend but then they're also listen to what the other side has to say their ongoing fighting in the port city of her day the however risks upset to this partial and voice efforts to bring the warring parties to the table in december the sodium and arctic ocean announced earlier this week it was holding all hostilities around what they did they said later fighting broke out again a patchwork of yemeni fighters loyal to the international difficulties the couple meant leading the fighting on the ground despite loud claims of progress al-jazeera has us published but they have not been able to enter the city most of the fighting so far has been confined to the eastern suburbs of the city healthy fighters have fortified the city's outskirts algis it all tamed such images captured on the fourteenth of november one day before the sodium erotic coalition announced it had

suspended its military operations in the city. the images show that the coalition forces failed to entire data they also showed the massive fortifications and trenches created by the oldies around the city and along the roads leading to the port side light images showed the dog must have trenches along the edges of the city as shown by these lines these pictures also show the before and after when the port was full and then after shipping containers were moved to form part of the rebels defenses. also booby trap compounds and houses in the outskirts of the city this video shows a group of pro-government fighters and showing a booby trap compound and then the massive explosion that decimates them all. the very latest now from mohammed here is in djibouti a mahmoud what exactly that is massing griffiths expecting to do in this vital

city for the people of yemen. well martin a fifth visit to her day there is about exhorting more pressure on the in the war in yemen to seize hostilities and with tonto talks he's also visiting the city to see for himself the damage done by recent fighting he met minaj went of officials of the port which is a lifeline for millions of yemen is more than seventy percent of the country's imports and also u.n. aid goes through the sport the u.n. also wants to play some sort of supervisory role in the future if the whole thing is agreed to demands from the international community that they hung over the port . city a u.n. spokesperson in geneva haas said that

a plan to visit by griffiths to the fold a hospital the main medical facility which is treating people with color as well as malnourished children and cutting out some lifesaving surgery will not happen or has been postponed because. because of time and his eyes. the u.n. humanitarian coordinator for yemenis grandees a company martin griffiths in this trip on this leg of his journey in the amman and mohammed he's visiting as the prospects for talks in order to start the transition process yemen have got perhaps more optimism than they had had to two years now and what is most in griffis prepared to do in order to try to master this process along . well he's been promising big things he's promised the whole thing is that he has gotten them the permission

and. the permission to leave the country and also retire on assurances from the soda in. the last round of talks in geneva call lobster because the oath is did not show up claiming that they were not allowed to leave so now that cup it's all because so debbie of controls the airspace of yemen basically and they were also afraid that even if they were allowed the would not be able to come back so now griffiths a.c.s. goaltender them these assurances and is promising even to have trouble with them if need be to sweden and buck to give them the kind of motivation they need top ten talks there's a lot of consensus building on the need to stop the war in yemen at a time to peace talks everyone seems to be singing from the same hymn sheet more than ever before mohammed. thanks. we've got

a lot more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including another setback for sri lanka's newly appointed prime minister by the new composition of an influential parliamentary committee matter and it's keeping a close eye from the sky i don't know trance running to close the u.s. border with mexico to keep migrants out and back a genius fans back into the stadium in one osiris just to watch a training session ahead of saturday's big final against river plate peter we'll have more on that in school. politician and a former militia leader accused of war crimes in central african republic has appeared at the international criminal court in the hague alfred also known as rambo was a senior leader in the mostly christian anti block a movement its fighters attacked muslim seleka rebels who seized power in the

country in two of the thirteen yet on is accused of killing civilians of rape as well as recruiting child soldiers well rory challenge is at the hague he's live for us now so tell us how this a procedural appearance actually went. it was pretty short just half an hour long or so. the first appearance of alfred in front of the international criminal court here at the hague as you say was was a procedural one the three judges sitting here basically confirmed his identity they established the language in which he is to understand the proceedings as they are unfolds and they outlined essentially the charges against these basically amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity i can list some of them for you now or he is basically alleged to have been involved in these crimes between

december two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and fourteen when he was the commander of one of the militia groups part of the anti balika movements which was opposing the seneca rebels many muslim rebels who had taken over the capital bangui at the time now. accused of murder torture cruel treatments mutilation intentional attacks against the civilian population intentional attacks against buildings dedicated to religion as you say lists of children under the age of fifteen years child soldiers essentially displacement of the civilian population and destruction of the adverse property now. lawyer said that actually it was the exits on himself who was the victim of infringements of his fundamental rights that when he was detained in benghazi in october as

a result of an incidents in the parliament where he fired a gun inside the parliament building itself he was arbitrarily detained lawyer says that he was tortured and beaten in detention it was only once he got here to the international criminal court that actually any of the. the charges will make clear to him all right rory thank you for that challenge is our correspondent there at the hague well now we can speak to phil clark his a reader in comparative and international politics at the school of oriental and african studies so s. and he wrote the book distant justice the impact of the international criminal court on african politics and he's joining us live now from london thanks for talking to us phil how big a figure then is. in terms of the atrocities that have been carried out against the people of central african republic yet it's all me is in effect a middle ranking actor in the violence in central african republic that there's no

doubt that he's charged with extremely serious crimes but but within central african republic he's not considered one of the big fish and so the suspicion around his case is that we're seeing something that we've seen with many of the other i.c.c. kerry says across africa which is that the court is going off to suspects who are available rather than those who are potentially the most responsible for these crimes in fact the i.c.c. only issued an arrest warrant for you to tom after that incident that you mentioned in your report where when he fired this rifle in the chapala meant he was then arrested by the current government so he was in jail and therefore he became a viable and then we saw the i.c.c. issue this reservoir and it's not clear that the i.c.c. has been focused on him for a long time it seems like he might have turned up in the hague more by accident rather than design and but we have to remember that we failed the fact that the international criminal court has very limited resources at its disposal in terms of

the sealing a case in terms of gathering evidence and and in terms of securing witnesses. that this is absolutely right and in fact this is something i argue in my book distant justice that the i.c.c. in many ways is a very weak institution it has very few resources it also has very little expect to use about the african societies where it's conducting these investigations so this means that the i.c.c. is really struggling to go are often the most important cases the the high ranking government officials the highest ranking rebel leaders who are responsible for atrocities instead it's having to go off to these kind of middleman activists and yack yack it's always very much in that category and i mean he was an elected official i mean you've already alluded to the fact that those in government pretty much secure a secure themselves from any possible indictment and what are his rights what all the protections other any protections for somebody who has been elected to the poem and as a republic that this is going to be

a really important facet of of his case because technically he was no longer a member of parliament at the time that the i.c.c. sent him to the high he'd been arrested he'd been in jail for a number of weeks that it looks like he will have lost any privileges that he had as a palm and terry and i think this also points to something else important in this case we which is that the cognomen seems to be using the i.c.c. as a weapon to get rid of someone like you who is proving to be a dissident and an enormous nuisance inside the parliament there are many more senior figures inside the car government who have committed much more serious atrocities and should be attracting of the attention of the i.c.c. that the cod government has used the i.c.c. as a white it to get rid of all of us could tom and i think that's a big reason why that the state has cooperated and has sent him to the high in the last few days phil clark interesting to tilton thanking. the half

a million villages in south sudan have had their water supplies contaminated by leaks from damaged although wells they were often targeted by attacks during the five year civil war or some being repaired and production is restarting to boost the oil dependent economy but as ever more the ripples villagers in the northern states of the ruling fear further damage to their health for more than seven years doctors advised to make sure his daughter yeah dad is never alone they couldn't figure out why she lost the ability to walk. she was growing up normally she started crying one night that her body was aching then over a few weeks she stopped walking i took her to so many doctors no one gave me a reason why this happened. he isn't sure what affected his daughter's health but a tour is she looked at the tumor growing on her hand four years ago and it's become more painful lately the forty two year old blames drinking water from a source near an oil well given to let me first there was pain in my left hand then

i got frequent headaches then the tumor appeared on my right hand i drink the water that's next to the oil well and i think that's a reason behind it. she's one of hundreds who live in villages near oil wells and growing state some were abruptly shut five years ago when rebel attacks destroyed facilities the shutdown are blamed for causing or leakage is into water source his production is restarting and the damage is repaired on revenue a council more than one thousand percent of south sudan's g.d.p. increased oil production it's a stronger economy for stocks but for those believe me to hold well unless you want to sources from the area there are concerns that what production would you want council risks. the german aid organization sign of hope says leaks a damaged oil wells have contaminated the water supplies of more than have a million south sudanese the organisation says what i meant for drinking was found to contain heavy metals and oil production waste government leaders say they are

looking to the operating companies to assure villages about their health concerns really. what it about they being because of their or your. sector. this is affecting people from time to time in the community a better organised government also a quarter of the companies that you are working printing ruling is that in order to look at the needs of the people. the main operating company in the area the group the pioneer operating company are cheap ok he says it's aware of the health and science it is because i wasn't the only one to see that video much of where they might just talk for unity and that we should take these items not only not only stuck to the one and only about the people. villages such as

nasdaq who may never recover from her illness yet will just wants treatment for her tumor but to make her pain go away people morgan al-jazeera ruing south sudan. to australia now where strong winds are fanning bushfires on the east coast of the country some home owners have been advised to move to safety flights have been cancelled in sydney and melbourne airport stranding thousands of passengers right to evidence here now and from bushfires to other kinds of fires this time in the united states yeah that's right martin the rains have arrived in places i know the start of those bushfires not stray but a late ending to the fires in the u.s. of course as i said the rains have arrived and you can see that cloud that is showing up quite nicely on our satellite pitch the heavy downpours they are still coming in these pictures from northern california take san francisco for example we had three thirty three millimeters of rain over the past couple days in the week about eighty millimeters of rain in the event but this is

a useful amount of rainfall concerns of course to shift to the fact that we are lucky to see some mudslides over the next couple of days so the rains are still in place disturbances rolling in from the pacific but the disturbance into the central plains you notice there and that's going to feed some very unsettled weather over towards the eastern seaboard you can see that rain just clearing away from california from the western side of the u.s. as we go through friday into saturday turning to snow over the higher ground and then we're looking at to that wetter weather pushing over towards the mid atlantic states as we go on into worst saturday snow towards the north they're just around pennsylvania upstate new york some snow to north of the border into ontario and also into quebec that all continues to drive its way further eastward some more snow forward just pushing into new england to that eastern side of canada a little more cloud you notice just coming back into the western side of the u.s. with a chance of a little bit of rain next week martin. and again thank you very much indeed still

to come on this al-jazeera news hour will millions of dollars more being spent in new york be enough to keep homeless students off the streets. backbreaking work on the fields but rich with rewards why iran suffer from industry is thriving just like u.s. sanctions and installed the wind is a knocked out of the wall twenty twenty on home soil peter will have the details. the chandelier is all staring down at what humanity is done since those other no one will ever know how many heroes die just ahead of him he's governed by those in the body by a. whole lot of simms when the shots came from the holiday and you heard craig speakers on the balcony over her troll was really just want to break off because we've got so many times that i trust that i'm somehow. more hotels

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says it's unacceptable that the u.s. president is turning a blind eye to the killing of jamal khashoggi may have alluded to cavil sure lou was speaking after donald trump again supported the saudi crown prince has been accused of ordering the murder. pakistan's prime minister has ordered an inquiry into an attack of the chinese consulate in karachi seven people were killed including two police officers and three gunmen a separatist group called the baluchistan liberation army has claimed responsibility of all militia leader in central african republic has appeared before the international criminal court in the hague where he's accused of war crimes alfred. was a senior leader in the mostly christian and. now the united arab emirates is reviewing a request for clemency from the family of a british academic who's been jailed for life for spying the u.s. ambassador to the u.k.

has defended the judge's decision matthew hedges was arrested at dubai airport in may whilst on a research trip for his university thesis his family say he was forced to sign a confession in arabic which he doesn't understand let's go live now for the latest to our correspondent paul brennan who's in london paul the ambassador then saying that the country will consider this plea for clemency has been taken out of this dispute between britain and united arab emirates. i think there is reason for cautious optimism now given the way that the diplomatic to and fro has played out over the past twenty four hours. on friday morning we've had the u.s. ambassador to london here come out and first of all defend the integrity of the u.a.e. judicial system saying that the judges are not ordered what to give their verdicts by political considerations they consider just the evidence and it was a pace to say look the u.a.e. is in what he described as a dangerous neighborhood and national security has to be

a top priority but he then went on to say the following he said under u.a.e. law everyone has a right to appeal and everyone has a right to request a pardon from our president but the hedges family have made a request for clemency and the government is studying that request and then he said because of the strength of the relationship between the u.k. and the u.a.e. we are hopeful that an amicable solution can be reached after that as the foreign secretary of the u.k. jeremy hunt came out in a short statement issued virus spokesperson actually saying we hope the u.a.e. now looks favorably on the family's request for clemency so a nudge in the right direction from the u.k.'s point of view and remember this december the second is the u.a.e. as national day and previous years they have released hundreds in fact last year was nearly fifteen hundred prisoners in advance of that national day they give them clemency they give them pardons so as the winds change in relation to the matthew

hedges case it looks entirely possible that as national day approaches and the tone that we're getting from both the foreign office and the u.a.e. foreign ministry it could mean that matthew hedges is free within a matter of days not get final word to daniela to harden his matthew's wife who in a statement after the u.s. ambassador to spoken said the following we have asked for clemency we will wait to see what happens back to you. live in london thank. in sri lanka m.p.'s supporting the disputed prime minister made the rajapaksa have walked out of parliament for a second time this week they accuse the speaker of favoritism punches were thrown last week when m.p.'s pass a new confidence motion against roger both he and ron ill with a singer who was sacked by the president last month say they are the lawful prime minister we're now from and as has more from the sri lankan capital colombo. another day and another board here in sri lanka's parliament this time for

a committee a sort of an umbrella committee which oversees and does all the appointments for all the committees to select committees here in sri lanka as parliament both sides back to prime minister minded rajapaksa and ousted prime minister brown and become a senior wanted to control that committee of selections now the speaker just at the outset of the parliament sitting this morning said that he was allocating five seats to the rajapaksa faction and seven obviously to the ousted prime minister the rajapaksa faction rejected that allocation the accusers speak of the bison partial and then they staged a walk out of the chamber the speaker continued the proceedings had called for a vote basically what was different in recent days there was an electronic vote and the results of that electronic vote the atsic prime minister garnered hundred and twenty one of the two hundred twenty five votes thereby showing his majority it was

symbolic in that he couldn't seem that was able to demonstrate basically the support he has in the house as you can see the business of parliament on the floor of the house progressing and it's basically a matter of who accepts these proceedings as being the official proceedings of the house. president trump has threatened to close the u.s. border with mexico if he decides the mexicans have lost control of migrants hoping to get into his country thousands of asylum seekers are in the border city of to juana having walked all the way from honduras and other countries in central america don holeman is there. the day starts with the battle to keep clean it's hard when you're sleeping rough with five thousand three hundred of the people you've got to try and get because washed. it feels weird being dirty all the time.

easier said than done in the sports complex hardly turned into account privacy doesn't exist or even shelter to some and the rainy season is just beginning and those who wind up with that i'm going to have you know it last night it was tough my blankets got wet so we had to go and stand where there's a roof and we didn't sleep all night. it's going to be that way for some time for this caravan of central americans they've got to right up against the u.s. border but now they stuck nowhere to go and nothing to do. some brush up on the football skills others practice their poker faces or explore the small playground for the umpteenth time. the clothes washing areas busy series of phone charging station at fifty cents a go. in a passes the time with the daily concert for anyone who cares to listen to them and

that it will be them also it's a way to forget the bad moments that we've gone through with all been suffering so it's a way to forget that stress. they were queues for the country laid on by the mexican navy and the buses going to a newly arranged job fair but the semblance of order can't last. this makeshift camp is almost full but you can see people are still arriving daily here saying there's going to be no space for anyone more. authorities say the city can't deal with the influx any longer some townspeople believe the newcomers bring only crime and problems. others do what they can to help it ok with them so you know i don't think we should lose our humanity at the end of the day where city of migrants and mexicans have had to cross as well into the us. that's what everyone here wants to get to the other side instead they're setting up for the long haul just a stone's throw away john holdren how does it keep one of the united nations

says levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached new record levels the un's trying to pressure governments before next month's climate summit in poland the aim is to limit global warming to less than two degrees celsius that's the amount agreed by the paris climate accord three years ago well oksana tartus over coordinated the un report she says temperatures rise a temperature rise is inevitable under the current climate agreements. we are very much concerned are with the recent findings because what we reported in these here on greenhouse gas politan off to all mature logical organization is that the concentration off the main gases carbon dioxide methane and nitrous oxide they continue to increase not that they are just continuing to increase they are increasing to the same great is for the last ten years so we do not see any signs or the decline in the grow fraid of the greenhouse gases and in their concentration

and that is really very voice him because the countries have taken the commitments we assign and the paris agreement under which all the countries wanted to do something but unfortunately we do not see any signs or the decline in the greenhouse gases in the office here the implications are that even if we stop emissions overnight we already immediate so much greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that we are committed for another half degree warming if we continue with increase off the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere with the rate as we are doing now are we may reach our very high temperature increase and definitely all which will be at the levels which were a grade within the paris agreement so it will be definitely above the two degrees. the homeless is a growing problem in new york city of the eight and

a half million people there while new in one hundred twenty eight doesn't have a home and that includes families now city leaders a spending extra money to try to keep homeless children in school christensen in the reports. the thanksgiving holiday in the united states is traditionally a time to gather with family and feast on a trip to dinner with all the trimmings. all your family scientists a painting that you bring home a turkey so we'll be giving each one of you guys a time to bring home to your family. it's an experience the staff at the research and service high school in brooklyn tries to replicate for its students thirty percent of whom are homeless students like lexus cologne who lives in a city provided hotel room and has a lot more than homework to worry about these out of focus and. i can't think the way i want to clearly. i'm always thinking about how i'm going to get out this plea when i'm going to nick. the school is in

a neighborhood where like most of the city affordable housing is getting harder to find income levels have not kept pace with inflation helping to drive one hundred fourteen thousand students and their families into shelters or shared apartments part of the reason why i think students come to school is because they know they can get a meal here they know that they can get cleaning products here they know that they can get close here they know that this is a safe warm loving environment in which they can learn and forget about many of the problems that they face outside of school buildings the school has a pantry from which students can select up to ten items a week in addition to a social worker who can help them with the issues of instability that can affect their education district wide the city has promised to add one hundred community called word neighbors to help students in transitional housing. students living in shelter have dismal.