the intelligence community so i think the answer is that they could do so yes just a final thought from you again i mean the head of the cia as we know is a white house appointee but it is quite surprising that the white house can guide the narrative in this way but is this very much about trump trying to silence his intelligence community when he doesn't like the intelligence well clearly clearly it's not just the intelligence community the trump doesn't like although he clearly doesn't because the intelligence community attempts to ascertain and then present the truth facts neither of which suit trump. in frequent circumstances what suits trump is support for whatever whim or opinion he holds at a given moment and that he thinks defends his particular objective of a given moment that's it so he will criticize the chairman of the federal reserve as he did today or the head of the cia or the intelligence community or anyone who says anything that doesn't simply praise him and or with him in this instance the

cia looks for facts and he won't like it once again then call thank you for talking to al jazeera. now help end the war in yemen prevent a massive famine and save tens of thousands of civilian lives that's the message from five major aid organizations to the united states and they're calling on the department of defense to cut military support for the saudi america coalition to force them to change their approach to the conflict mom of the dough reports from across the red sea in djibouti. in a joint letter to the u.s. government the five charities say the hole to u.s. military support for the sodium but article would save many lives the u.s. they say is fueling a crisis that has severe consequences for millions of civilians. the international rescue committee oxfam america care u.s. save the children and the with generosity council say that fourteen million the images out risk of starving to death if the parties to the conflict don't change

course immediately we're completely desperate the more we wait every single minute . day a week we wait means more simply in shipment lossless and we're saying enough now is the time for the us to use the power they have to end this brutal brutal manmade hell really that we're seeing in yemen today. the charities also accuse the warring parties of undermining human sequenom it with practices that of course rampant inflation millions out of work and don't know where their next meal will come from the u.s. supports the sodium without equivocation with intelligence and sales of billions of dollars of arms we cannot have small children die of hunger and it's mis aisles and bomb brains every single day and allow for it to happen because our own interest and political agenda u.s. defense secretary giamatti is announced last month that the u.s. wanted the warring parties to hold talks within thirty days and hostilities. the

target is now say washington should back up all those calls with jenin diplom. pressure mainly on the sodium in our to coalition it's been more than three years since the coalition began its full scale military campaign against the fighters who had captured most of the north a million including the capital sanaa. since then what things hospitals schools water and electricity plants have been hit by coalition missiles killing tens of thousands of people the charities are now warning the united states that it could bear the responsibility of what could be the largest farm in decades if it doesn't stop its support for the so do you call nation how about the world is it or djibouti also to come here on the news hour including we're open for business i hope you're open for partnership. afghanistan's president says the time to invest

in his country is now while the un warns the summit. will tell you how nigeria's president plans on tackling corruption in the police force. and in sports how the dog. is convicted of twenty eight counts of attempted murder. in the. u.s. president says he may cancel his meeting with his russian counterpart at the g. twenty summit in argentina because of the clash in the black sea with ukraine on sunday the russian coast guard opened fire on ukrainian naval boats and seized three of them ukraine's president petro poroshenko has now raised concerns over what he says is a build up of russian tanks close to ukraine's border a year. this is a russian military base located eighteen kilometers from our border on september seventeenth and september twenty fourth these are all tanks this is october which

as you can see the number of tanks at the base is located along the border has tripled why are they deployed there the number of units deployed along the entire length of our border has dramatically increased using possible exercises as an excuse does not justify this increase in any way after the incident in the sea of of we have to provide the ukrainian armed forces with the resistance capability in case of a large scale ground invasion these tanks have not yet been withdrawn they are still there. three ukrainian the same as captured by russia during that confrontation in the black sea have been sentenced to two months in custody a court in russian control of crimea has accused them of illegally entering its territorial waters under simmons has more now from kids. russia says this is one of many confessions by ukrainian sailors about how the navy illegally entered its territorial waters despite warnings there's outrage in ukraine its foreign minister says these men are obviously talking under duress as

he puts it under the rules of russia's f.s.b. security service but they're prisoners of war covered by the geneva convention and should have access to the international red cross most of the servicemen and up here in simferopol before a court that gave out detention orders for two months while cases are investigated internationally the pressure on russia appeared to have no effect on its foreign minister sergei lavrov visiting paris be. getting screwed if the ukrainian side like its partners in europe is interested in avoiding such situations in the future it is obviously necessary to send a signal to kiev not to allow such a provocation that is not for us to do but for those who maintain close contact with the korean you know thorgils mr lavrov hadn't appeared willing to meet a request made by the french foreign minister. sergey lavrov. told

sergey lavrov that a gesture is expected from russia at the prisoners and the boats being held must be free to soon as possible but i will also call my ukrainian counterpart to encourage him to seek a deescalation in this region. there may be no confrontation now in the strait but the words exchanged by both sides are getting more volatile ukraine's navy is saying the russians was shooting to kill on sunday russia is warning that limited martial law to be imposed in parts of ukraine on wednesday could escalate the conflict. and now it's emerged that not all the arrested crew are sailors ukraine's state security services the s.b.u. says it had counterintelligence officers on board and it also says that two missiles were fired by one of two russian fighter jets at the boats and one of those agents was seriously injured what happens next to the detained ukrainian

servicemen may be unclear what's certain is that without their release ukraine will continue to ramp up pressure for some sort of international action against russia for what happened off the shores of an extent crimea andrew symonds al-jazeera kiev three u.s. soldiers have been killed and several others injured in a roadside bomb explosion in eastern afghanistan it happened near the city of gasoline is the deadliest attack on u.s. forces in afghanistan in the past seventeen months the taliban is famous sponsibility for. well it can sides of the two day international conference on afghanistan is underway in geneva with appeals for more foreign investment that is not in barbara reports the afghan government's under growing pressure to end the fighting that's holding back the economy. a demonstration by afghans outside the united nations in geneva a reminder for the afghan president of the urgency of ending the violence back home

but at the start of a two day conference here he was keen to stress opportunities for the outside world to decide a vent on private sector investment it's a different have guns. we are open for business i hope you are open for partners thank you this is not a pledging conference rather it's a chance to evaluate whether afghanistan is delivering on its promises to the international donor countries the un assistance mission to afghanistan or you know is pointing to several areas where things are getting better thanks to outside support one concrete example ensuring that there is a police force which is trained which functions police men and women across the country receiving their salaries that is something where there's been huge investment by the international community and that investment continues still virtually every aspect of life in afghanistan is affected by the conflict which has got worse this year besides the war with the taliban and there's now the threat of

attacks on civilians by i saw five thousand children have been killed i mean within the first three quarters of twenty which is equal to the total number in twenty seventeen so we are expecting this numbers to go higher by the end of the at the in the immediate. need is to stop conflict in afghanistan and it's big big because every day we are losing a brave and soldiers civilian can develop. you know increasing so that's the immediate need for us and afghan. tuesday's events included sessions on afghan refugees and increasing women's participation in society but on wednesday the focus shifts to politics delegates from more than sixty countries are expected to be here as the afghan president and his government highlighted chief much like last month's elections but many afghans will be wondering when the violence that still cripples

their country is going to end nadine barber al jazeera geneva. now some syrian refugees have been killed detained or forced into the military when they return home that's according to lebanon's minister of state for refugee if it is he says of the nearly one million syrians forced into lebanon during the war twelve thousand of return to syria since june moscow and damascus have been encouraging refugees to repatriate but rights groups and the un have warned of possible prosecution. what we are sure about is nearly twenty people have been killed and there are three cases that i've personally documented i spoke with their relatives and received their photos these people are scared there might be revenge or they won't be allowed to return to syria especially because they're refugees in lebanon this is in addition to cases of kidnapping detention of men who have been forced to join assad's army these matters are known and reported daily on the internet we decided to talk about them now so that these acts of killing and kidnapping might stop such acts discourage syrian refugees from returning home. the

u.k.'s prime minister's reason mase in northern ireland to seek support for her briggs it deal she hopes northern ireland's d. of p. party will back her plan in a parliamentary vote on december eleventh mase government relies on the do you believe for a slim majority earlier this week e.u. leaders approved the terms of the deal at a summit in brussels to resume a has insisted that northern ireland will be protected by the deal. what the government has done in looking at this deal is ensure that the deal that we delivers not only delivers on the vote and protects people's jobs but crucially recognizes the specific circumstances of northern ireland and the importance of maintaining our commitment to the belfast good friday agreement and ensuring that people in northern ireland can continue to live their lives as they do today that we have no hard border on that issue with no hard border we have been in great in agreement with the government of ireland and the t. shirt and i have discussed this on a number of occasions at the same time here and i have also discussed how we can

build on the significant improvement that we've seen in recent years in relations between the u.k. and ireland and ensure that we have that good and strong bilateral relationship in the future we're both committed to that and that's what we'll deliver but scotland's first minister leader of the separatist scottish national party nicholas sturgeon has stunned the plans it will damage scotland's economy more scottish government in the interests of them and future generations at heart could possibly accept the deal or not for that do you will take scotland or the european union against their will. to scotland single market five hundred million people around the table is the size of the u.k. market it doesn't it is a customs union possibly deprive us of the benefits of e.u. treaty do you think then forty other countries in short was there and i was his dinner st this day you will make scotland and indeed the whole of the united

kingdom. two prominent opposition leaders in the democratic republic of congo struck a deal to be part of a joint ticket in next month's presidential election. here in phoenix both returned home after coming to an agreement at a meeting in ten years couple to nairobi under the deal he will become president and come are he prime minister if they will. u.s. sector state might pump a will meet with mexico's incoming foreign minister to discuss migrants on their joint voda the white house says the two will meet later this week to work out a deal to keep migrants in mexico while their claims for u.s. asylum are considered tensions mounted on sunday in the mexican border town of tijuana when u.s. or storage is fired tear gas on migrants on the other side who are trying to cross over mexican authorities of call for a full investigation on the incident while also deporting nearly one hundred migrants trying to enter the u.s. illegally. well john heilemann joins me live now from the mexican border town of

tijuana john more than five thousand people are at the main shelter there but what kind of conditions exist of people staying in other shelters. and just as you say it's five thousand seven hundred now in that shelter and a sports center that's being currently converted into account some pretty pretty awful situation for the people there sleeping out in the open decided to read facilities pretty much on the blink can the authorities are worried about infections really sweeping through there hasn't happened yet but where we are now there's about one thousand five hundred other people from central america in this caravan that local churches in this case the up stairs rooms of a local church here and other organizations have tried to help out and put up you might see behind me we're just in the kitchen here and we have ruth here who's just been making the the flower like tacos for lunch here she says in telling me that

she spent a month sleeping rough going through this country with her small child who's. on the way through this on the way through mexico and she's just thankful that she's been able to arrive at a place where she's got a roof over her head where there is food here the renter also here one of the helpers here from the local church is trying to take care of people just to say these are the lucky few that have managed to find this will to shelter while several one else is sort of sleeping out in the rough and hoping for something that's very unlikely to change because the united states administration has made their position pretty clear they've labeled most people in this caravan as criminals and said there's no way they're getting into the united states and john the events of sunday were something perhaps of a reality check for some of the migrants and we're now saying some people choose to go back home and we. hope. exactly that we saw more of the. so far yesterday that we're seeing today i think immediately after the the

sort of the tear grass and the protests that got up against the fence a few people did break through and the reaction to that from the united states side i think people maybe it brought home to them what they'd known all along that it was going to be very very hard for them to get across when you ask people about what the chances of getting to the united states here a lot of people in the caravan says that they hope that god is going to make president trump's heart softened towards him so that he'll let them in now viewing that from an outside perspective it seems extremely unlikely president trump really has pinned a lot on this particular politically that he's going to stop these people from getting in also a lot of people in the caravan coming through violence but still others are many of the coming just because they couldn't live on the amount of money that they were making back in their homeland they said it was enough to put money to put food on the table but that legally doesn't mean that they can get asylum in the united

states so i think between the president's posture on this between us aside from law there's a chance that a lot of people here in this caravan that are going with the american dream of going to be disappointed or the gentleman there live in tijuana mexico john thank you. time for a short break here now just when we come back georgians head back to the polls for the second round of presidential elections. genetic modifications a doctor claims he's prayed to the world's first so-called designer babies the global outbreak. and in sport the chance champions that can be separated far beyond that story after the break more in the states. we still have something of a wintry mix in our weather from new england and eastern parts of canada sierra

little disturbance here this is something of a nor'easter into the far northeast of the u.s. added to that is to sort of kind of place the snow is certainly still a possibility but for many come for the southeast dry single figures seven celsius there in new york five celsius for d.c. in even into atlanta betty getting up to six degrees celsius and set the cold enough subzero there for chicago and also for minneapolis take a look i was the western side of the country we got some rain coming through rain is returning into california a fair bit of california will see some wet weather over the next couple of days inevitably that brings back that risk of flooding and also the possibility of some mudslides over the next few days something to watch out for will see some snow over the high ground clear skies over tools eastern seaboard and eventually clearing up across the eastern side of cat it's clear skies across much of the caribbean warm for pickle sunshine here looking lovely over the next couple days always a chance of wanted to shout into the western side of the caribbean jamaica could

see a few showers as we go through wednesday a few a little clearer as you go on into thursday kingston at thirty celsius you can see those showers there was some pasta mexican. i've had this conviction that everyone has a deep reservoir of time of ability and if you can give them the opportunity wonderful things start to happen sometimes the simplest seditions author missed and packed for. the main things that sets out zero apart from other news organizations is that a lot of our reporting is about real people but about ideas or politicians or what they may want to do but how policy and how events affect real people it's ok it's ok it's ok. little more complicated don't put it off and if this is not an act of creation i'm going to book the walk. down like my family's status and

wealth has benefited from their choice to enslave. some oversold even scared to speak out as a surprise that. this job isn't just about what's on a script or a piece of paper it's about what is happening right now. welcome back of it reach out of the top stories here this hour the white house says it's unlikely that president trump will meet the saudi crown prince at the upcoming g. twenty meeting in argentina in the same briefing trumps national security advisor john bolton said he isn't going to learn anything by listening to the order recordings of some off the shelves is killing. us president obama trump says he may cancel

a meeting with russian president vladimir putin at the g twenty is in response to russian forces opening fire on ukrainian naval vessels this week. a two day international conference on afghanistan's economy is underway in geneva with hopes of boosting fawn invest. and the afghan government something creates pressure to end the fighting with a ton of. not people in the u.s. state of mississippi all voting in a runoff election for a seat in the u.s. senate follows a campaign which highlighted the state's troubled past involving the lynching of black people incumbent republican senator smith was caught on camera saying she would happily attend a public hanging if invited she's facing african-american democrat mike espy the use of lobby for the ivory coast. has been charged with crimes against humanity well for more on this let's cross the john hendren in jackson mississippi john so with just hours to go now until the polls close how is the race looking today.

is become a cliche to say that the race depends on turnout it depends on which side turns out but in this case mike espy a democrat an african-american really needs a large turnout among african-american voters here in a state where they represent forty percent of the electorate and then he needs a good slice of the rest of the voters most of them are caucasian to vote for him and president obama helps out with a robo call but he's finding against president donald trump who also came here twice just yesterday on the eve of the election in order to support his opponent cindy hyde smith and so this is a neck and neck race in a state where it really is such a race. just talk us through how my cast me as managed to make a race of it john i mean against republicans and the odd smith who is the favorite . well at the risk of offending my host here since i'm at her party she got he got

a lot of help from his opponent and that's because she made a number of gaffes you mentioned one of them she said that to her supporter on camera that if she were invited to a lynching to that she would be in the front row she went on to wear a confederate cap and a facebook photo posing with a musket here in a state where the civil war still holds the power to divide and she went on to talk about voter suppression joking that it might be better to make it a little more difficult for liberal people to vote all of that could cause some republicans to stay home but mike espy is also a candidate who got help from president obama this is a year in which there is some back backlash against president trump although this is a state where trump did very well he won by eighteen percentage points here in two thousand and sixteen so s.b. has been one democrat described him as the first credible democratic candidate in the state of mississippi since the past decade and he would be the first democratic

senator from this state since one thousand nine hundred eighty two when the first african-american senator in over a century here so he's got an uphill climb in order to win this election he needs really to drive a strong turnout among his people and so far the secretary of state here at their office says that it has been slow but steady turnout and that is probably not what he wants to hear he wants to hear that turnout has been huge we'll find out exactly how big it's been in the next couple of hours thank you. georgians are voting in a second round of presidential elections that follows an inconclusive first round in october salome's rather severely who was backed by the governing party failed to win more than fifty percent of the vote in the last few weeks the governing party has really launched a campaign with a promise of debt relief for hundreds of thousands of georgians from tbilisi and forrester walk. leyla makes a living selling souvenirs but it's not enough to repay her back now is government

has promised to help out more than six hundred thousand georgians trapped by debt. their lives future is looking bright. if someone will do such a kind think why not why not i can only say thank you. she'll be able to express her gratitude at the ballot box initiative coming just ahead of the country's presidential runoff. the timing is wrong say the government's critics you know i don't. carry orgy bringing in these kind of initiatives and talking about engine election period can be considered a vote buying disease procurers effect voters choices. many voters chose not to back the government's candidates in the first round suddenly zurabishvili. thanks to gaffe she made clear in remarks that

georgia should shoulder responsibility for the war with russia in two thousand and eight. opponents portrayed her as vladimir putin's apologist. her challenger grigolo the shirts say he's a member of the former governing party still popular with many georgians since the first round the government hasn't gone a new aggressive p.r. campaign to discredit the opposition their message that if the opposition candidate wins some familiar controversy or faces will be making a return to georgian politics. whatever the outcome georgians understand that ultimately and all the guy from his country. which is an issue really chairs the governing party scene here sitting next to his chosen candidate. it is his private foundation that would pay off loads like mailers. the voters

must decide whether it is a genuine initiative to alleviate poverty or and make it a tent to buy their loyalty driven first able. to please. now the un's environment body has found the world needs to do three times what it's currently doing to avoid catastrophic climate change the twenty fifteen paris climate dale agreed to limit the rise in global temperatures to a maximum of two degrees celsius this century to avoid major and irreversible climate change bill and all the un environment programme report analyzed emissions and the targets in place to meet the two degree goal it found that we need to do three times as much as we are currently doing to make that target count in the world's twenty biggest economies the g twenty are collectively not on track to meet that twenty. pledges the biggest elephant in the room that we refused to see is the risk that it poses to everything we like and appreciate in this

planet where that you biodiversity is your thing or sustainable finance or you know the and the health of the planet and the people of prosperity or peace or human movements i mean you just pick up anything you like everything is at risk if we do not allow up and prevent. from the catastrophic risks that the world is facing today well let's bring in our literary he's a senior scientist with the potsdam institute for climate impact research in germany and one of the authors of that un report he joins us via skype from berlin . according to the u.n. report in order for the world to stay on target global greenhouse gas emissions in twenty thirty would need to be something like fifty five percent lower than today and that sounds like a goal that's never really going to be achieved is it. well

indeed there is a tremendous get between the ambition formulated by the international community namely to limit global warming to well below two degrees or even one point five degrees and the actual action that we see on the ground so to put the word on track towards those two degree target emissions would have to go down by around a quarter inch or two without thirty. and for the one hundred five degree limits which actually would be much safer for our developing nations and small island states we would even have to achieve theirs around half enough when i was gas emissions of fifty five percent the number that you are that you put down what you see on the other hand is that there's a very sluggish progress in reducing global emissions an effect in two thousand and seventeen was a bad year. in that emissions have actually gone up so as we did the opposite direction from where we would need to go to are limited warming and how much of

a gap is there between the targets agreed by governments around the world to stabilize our climate and the measures needed to achieve those goals. yeah so it's . this paris agreement that was put down in two thousand fifteen. head there's aspect of. of the countries are signing countries putting their own emission reduction letters. nationally in different contributions and the aggregate effect of these nationally german contribution is roughly to keep emissions current never before to need is a long term transition towards zero emissions. by around mid century and it may far from reaching that goal we're talking about an emissions gap of it least fifteen year times for the twenty me target and around about twenty five

gigatons or whether one can practically live it yet and your report indicates the world is heading for a temperature rise about three point two degrees by the end of the century the target of course was around two degrees for ordinary people around the world that difference between three point two and two degrees what are they going to see happen in terms of their climate. so what we're headed to is indeed something off around three degrees until the end of the century if we don't really bend the curve. but actually there would be more warming in the pipeline so we would really see room for that increasing the after and that certainly would mean that we would see of fundamental deviation from the word as we know would with further increasing sea levels much more and more extreme events floods heat waves droids. in unprecedented scale so this is really a fundamental change from the state of the bird that civilizations have to have

gone and gotten adapted to so. it becomes also increasingly clear that this would have to go all or would go with quite a vehicle on the demonstrators. if we don't change course and clearly this demonstrates that we would see any such of. that in action would certainly be much more expensive than the costs of reducing emissions now ok good i literally have to leave it there thank you very much indeed for talking to others are fake. the french president has refused to give in to the demands to scrap taxes on fuel emanuel macro instead plans to close some reactors in the effort to reduce reliance on nuclear power he's been presenting his government's energy plans in paris so-called yellow vest demonstrators have been rallying in the last few weeks taxes driving up petrol prices the wife of a british academic who was jailed for allegations of spying in the u.a.e.

has released the first picture of her husband since his return to the u.k. matthew hedges landed in london after flying from dubai it was sentenced to life imprisonment last week for being pardoned on monday the edges of the.