the message from the protesters is louder not only are they protesting against the visit running for that matter but also against. one of. the one young man. women and children and devastated the country was there through news in progress. they also heard them fall through the whites of white the millions over the cross to return to our need. to take charge and work. because of the lack of freedom. the previous three stops in been seven months to or were egypt behind and the united arab emirates cairo is viewed by many as a military dictatorship while manama and double dobby are also criticized by human rights groups for cracking down on freedoms and not long public protests in tunisia may not be the only bad publicity for the crown prince on tuesday human rights watch announced it had filed a submission with

a federal prosecutor in argentina where he's expected to attend the g. twenty summit in a couple of days the submission requests that the court's investigate been sound man for war crimes and his role in the murder due to a treaty signed by such a claim can indeed be pursued just as the crown prince is trying to prove that he isn't isolated internationally his critics are doing everything they can to ensure he's brought to account even if it's only in the court of public opinion. now help end the war in yemen and prevent a massive famine and save tens of thousands of civilian lives that's the message from five major aid groups to the united states calling on the department of defense to cut military support for the saudi and erotic coalition to force them to change their approach to the conflict mom of the reports from djibouti. in a joint letter to the u.s. government the five chatted to say the hole to u.s. villages support for the sodium but out to coalition. 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 from america ok us save the children on the agenda for the council say that fourteen million yemenis 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 civilian shipment lossless and we're seeing enough now is the time for the u. s. 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 are out of work and don't know where their next meal will come from the u.s. supports the so democratic coalition with intelligence and sales of billions of

dollars of arms we cannot have small children die of hunger and it's mis aisles and bung 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 all still it is. the target is now say washington should back up all those calls with jenin diplomatic pressure mainly on the sodium it out to coalition it's been more than three years since the coalition began its full scale military complain against both the fight is what captured most of northam yemen including the capital sanaa. hospitals schools. have been hit by. killing. people the target is an. ability of what could be the

farm in decades if it doesn't stop its support for this. to come here and. around. the. democratic republic. of the world. global outrage. twenty counts of attempted murder because coming up later in the program. now the u.s. president says he may cancel his meeting with his russian counterpart at the g. twenty 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 see them president petro poroshenko has now raised concerns over what he says is

a buildup of russian tanks close to his country's border. 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 we have to provide the ukrainian armed forces with a resistance capability in case of a large scale ground invasion these tanks have not yet been withdrawn they are still there meanwhile three ukrainian sailors 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 similar reports from kiev.

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 did 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 useful. 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 extraordinary andrew symonds out zero kiev in china an explosion that killed at least twenty two people near a chemical plant in northern province it happened in the city of chang jack-o. more than twenty others were hurt the government's launched an investigation into what caused the incident. 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 affairs he says some of the nearly one million syrians forced into lebanon during the war twelve thousand have returned to syria since june

moscow and damascus have been encouraging refugees to repatriate but rights groups around the u.n. have warned of possible to seclusion. 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. but ukraine's prime minister to reason is in northern ireland to seek support for briggs a deal she hopes the day you people are to plan a parliamentary vote on december eleventh mase government relies on a deity for a slim majority early this week in your leaders approve the terms of the deal at

a summit in brussels or to resume a insisted there were no hard border between northern ireland and the republic what the government has done in looking at this deal is ensure that the deal that we deliver 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 and that we have no heart. but scotland's first minister nicolas sturgeon has slammed the plan saying it will damage scotland's economy. no scottish government with the entrance of this and future generations at heart could possibly accept the deal or no for that deal will take scotland it all the european union against our will it would remove scotland from the single market of five hundred million people around

the tables of the sides of the u.k. market it would also take as a for the customs union and possibly deprive us of the benefits of e.u. trade deals with more than forty other countries in short the and i was his day in the streets this deal will make scotland and indeed the whole of the united kingdom puter. no fences being counted in the u.s. state of mississippi off to a runoff election for a seat in the u.s. senate it follows a campaign which highlighted the state's troubled paused involving the lynching of black people and company republican cindy hyde smith was caught on camera saying she would help me attend a public hanging if invited she's facing african-american democrat mike espy the use of lobby for the form of ivory coast boat has been charged with crimes against humanity well john hendren joins us live now from jackson mississippi johns the polls have just closed tell us how the race is looking. that's right daryn votes are starting to trickle in less than twenty five percent of the

votes in right now the republican and cindy hinds smith is leading fifty five percent over mike espy he is the democrat she's a republican he's got forty five percentage points right now but that is not terribly meaningful and one reason is that a lot of the urban areas still aren't counted hinds county where the capital of jackson is that's where we are right now has not been a majority that has not been tallied that's an urban vote right now it's going. for s.p. to thirteen percent for her what does this all mean it means we've got to wait there's it's way too early for anybody to be on that stage behind me where the concession or the victory speech will be given later this evening for mike espy a lot of analysts have said that the formula for him was to drive african-american turnout up and that's about forty percent of the population here and to hope that white voters largely stay home and that's because a majority of them reliably vote for the democrat in or for the republican rather

in this reliably republican state this is a state that after all voted for donald trump by eighteen percentage points and voted for another republican for senator just days ago by twenty percentage points or mike espy really has an uphill battle here but he's had a lot of help from his opponent and john just talk us through how xmas money is to make a race of it against cindy hyde smith who of course as you say is the favorite. well cindy hyde smith has made some self-inflicted wounds on her campaign she began as you pointed out earlier by saying to a supporter that if he invited her to a hanging she would sit in the front row with him and then she was shown in a facebook photograph and a confederate cap and musket and that's in his state here that is where the wounds of the civil war are still open and that lynching comment for instance it is happened in a state where five thousand black men were lynched after the civil war so for a lot of people that is still

a meaningful gaffe so she's given she's close herself some trouble in this campaign president trump came here just on the eve of the election and made two stops trying to save that campaign because he wants the republicans to have as much control of the senate as they want and if they win this election they get fifty three votes to the democrats forty seven right now they only have fifty two s b is helped himself in some democrats estimation by being the most credible candidate in about a decade they have not had a democrat elected to statewide office here since one thousand nine hundred eighty two and he has surprisingly made a race of it part of that might be the backlash to trump part of that might be hide smith's own self-inflicted wounds but he is also as a moderate candidate drawn voters out what it may depend on is turnout and we'll find out the results of that daryn very soon john hendren the in jackson mississippi john thank you. now an alliance between two opposition leaders in the democratic republic of congo is shaking up the political scene just ahead of next

month's presidential election voters will head to the polls to choose a successor joseph kabila reports. a hero's welcome in the capital of the democratic republic of congo tens of thousands rallied for opposition leaders félix just a k.d. and be told come or a at the to return to concession after announcing their alliance in nairobi on friday under. the deal just a katie will be president and comer a prime minister of the to win. for her this is about how the we have only two opposition leaders and together they will beat all other candidates there's no doubt as you can see yourself. feel like she security is the leader of the u.d.p. yes is fighting for us so that we don't have to beg for food or housing our country is down and we only trust him to change the situation of the country. i am happy welcoming my president phoenix she see katie see you d.p.s.

hati has been fighting for a change for a long time i believe he will reign and felix will be on unita the winner of the presidential race will replace joseph kabila who's been in power since two thousand and one his term ended in two thousand and sixteen but he delayed elections twice saying the country couldn't afford them kabila is now backing candidate emmanuel or masi should dari their party is very optimistic about a victory however vitol kummer a is warning against a fraudulent election he accuses the election commission of favoring camillus pick shari cameras says he and she cicada he will get sixty percent of the votes if say yes'. shouted to. the people can i ask. and fund their way to. the power because it is the people to decide. the winner from the pool of twenty one candidates for president will face

a difficult task in power northern and eastern d r c r in the grip of on groups fighting the military enter ethnic violence in the mineral rich country has killed hundreds since two thousand and fourteen. killings kidnappings and robberies happen regularly. seventeen thousand u.n. peacekeepers have been in country since two thousand and three tasked with controlling the aftereffects of a five year civil war. in which millions of civilians and soldiers died at least seven peacekeepers were also killed this week trying to help health workers contain multiple new ebola outbreaks more than two hundred people have died from the disease since august first there have been ten outbreaks of ebola since one thousand nine hundred six in the d.r. c. but the current outbreaks are the worst to date dealing with them will be among the new president's top priorities paul chatterjee on al-jazeera time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back we're open for business i hope you are open for partnership afghanistan's president says the time to invest in his

country is now while the u.n. though one is of famine. and we'll tell you how nigeria's president plans to tackle corruption in the police force. and in sports the chess champions of the separated father have that story after the break more on that stay with us. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. however we got some rather wet weather into southeastern parts of china at my little line of cloud in place here we got that northeast a fade on our winds of course now fall is time of year whether in place there was a go on through wednesday hong kong could see some rather shop downpours from time to time the weather also making its way into the one half of vietnam quite keen wind coming through watch the skies back into the southeast of china on thursday

twenty five degrees celsius still a few showers around that the eastern side of vietnam meanwhile we see the showers across southeast asia some on the live site heat of the day showers of course in the u.k. you can see the the cloud just building in the heat of the day there they go with the usual rash of showers quite a good spread here right down into indonesia continue to sink their way further southward some mob pushing up into the night but managed seeing some shop showers along with spells of rain from time to time a possibility of some showers still in the forecast for sri lanka particular cross the eastern side of the country again is that northeasterly way in the eastern side of sri lanka will see some heavy rain from time to time that's wednesday going on into thursday cloud thinning and breaking for much of india. the weather sponsored by qatar and race.

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welcome back to the top stories here on al-jazeera the white house says it's unlikely the president trump will meet the saudi crown prince of the upcoming g. twenty in argentina trump's national security adviser said isn't going to learn anything by listening to the older recordings of. u.s. president donald trump says he may cancel a meeting with russian president vladimir putin at the g twenty and some response to russian maritime forces opening fire on ukrainian naval vessels earlier this week. and five major aid groups have written a joint letter to the u.s. government urging the trumpet ministration to help end the war in the end they say causing u.s. military support for the saudi and iraq to coalition would save millions of lives.

now three u.s. soldiers have been killed and several others wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in eastern afghanistan it happened in the city of god's name is the deadliest attack on u.s. forces in afghanistan in the past seventeen months the taliban this claim is going to responsibility for the incident. well the attack coincides with a two day international conference in afghanistan that's underway in geneva with appeals for more foreign investment but it's not in barbara reports the afghan government under growing pressure to end the fighting that's holding back the economy. was. 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 that. we're 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 the hands. and it's big big because every day we're losing brave soldiers civilian casualties always you know increasing so that's the immediate need for. tuesday's events included sessions on afghan refugees and increasing women's participation in society from 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 the georgians are voting in a second round of presidential elections that follows an inconclusive first round the not so let me is rather silly who is backed by the ruling party failed to win

more than fifty percent of the vote she's really launched a campaign with a promise of debt relief for hundreds of thousands of people from tbilisi is robin forest a walk. later makes a living selling souvenirs but it's not enough to repay her back now to which 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 but 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 to say the government's critics you know i don't. carry or bringing in these kind of initiatives and talking about in general lection period can be considered a vote buying because these programs affect very tough choices. many votes is

chose not to back the government's candidate in the first round suddenly zurabishvili. thanks to guests 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 should say is a member of the former governing party still unpopular with many georgians since the first round the government has a grant on a new aggressive p.r. campaign to discredit the opposition their message that if the opposition candidate wins some familiar controversial faces will be making a return to georgian politics. whatever the outcome georgians understand that ultimately an oligarch runs

a country. which is initially chairs the governing party seen 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. us secretary of state mike pompei i will meet mexico's incoming foreign minister to discuss migrants on their joint board at the white house says the two will meet later this week to work out a deal to keep like once 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. authorities fired tear gas on migrants on the other side who are trying to cross over mexican authorities have called for a full investigation into the incident and also deporting nearly one hundred migrants trying to enter the u.s.

illegally. the leader form of rebels in colombia is promising the group will never take up arms again roderigo london spoke at an event to mark two years since fox signed a peace deal with the government to end more than fifty years of conflict the organization has since become a political party but none the neo says the peace process has been slow because some former fighters have been killed and hundreds are still in jail the french president has refused to give in to the demands to scrap taxes on fuel manual macro instead announced plans to close some reactors in an effort to reduce reliance on nuclear power in presenting his government's energy plans in paris so-called yellow vest demonstrators have been rallying in the last few weeks blaming taxes for driving up petrol prices. the men. for several weeks now a large protest movements based on the price of fuel has been growing across the country it has led to major demonstrations as well this unacceptable violence i

want to say here that i do not confuse these unacceptable acts with the protest themselves i do not confuse violent prepared who break things with other citizens who want to send a message i ask for their understanding but i will not give up anything to those who want destruction and i saw. the wife of a british academic who was jailed for allegations of spying in the united arab emirates has released the first picture of a husband since his return to the u.k. matthew hedges landed in london after flying from dubai he was sentenced to life imprisonment last week before being pardoned on monday he was arrested in may while researching a ph d. on the security strategy nigeria's president. has approved an increase in salary and allowances for police officers nigerian police are rated a some of the most corrupt on the african continent which many attribute to low wages and poor working conditions up idris says more now from. well

underpaid and unappreciated the institution these nigerian police officers represent is understaffed and often stigmatized most rewarding for some here is a battered image of police among the people they are signed to protect themselves seen them like somebody they will run to them for help they feel that when you go there the quote part of your problems in the leg areas and or believe in a grown police. so the president has stepped in hoping a modest increase in pay will help make life better for officers. he thought maybe the man harnessed salary for the police also help reposition them so that they can be the first line of defense in the country he had always said it that is unfortunate when things happen in any part of the country until you send in troops. things don't come under the laws

we're not rich and i didn't police officer earns two hundred dollars a month not enough to pay the rent and feed the family considering the long and dangerous hours that must be put in. as a result some officers try to earn extra cash legitimately or otherwise it's not clear if the increase in salary allowances well made these men and women focus more on that you're to but some nigerians say it will take more than a salary increase to stop decades of police corruption. but actually say they want to see more done i think it's good looking to create increase in the salary its goals to the extent of looking at the whole dinero well for the police before you can see that getting to a point. for now though the police look forward to that pay rise that could help them a bit more. but many nigerians are waiting to see you've done increases also reduce

some of the corruption police are often accused off. with the trees al-jazeera applejack slovenia has appointed a female officer has its army's chief of staff for the very first time major general allen carr a mensch took up the post following a government ceremony slovenia is now the only nato country whose army is headed by a woman. china's national health commission has ordered an investigation into a scientists claim that he's created the world's first genetically edited babies in a video posted online this week professor hey john couey says the old to the d.n.a. of twin baby girls to prevent them from contracting hiv an american university in houston is also investigating for that one of its scholars had a stake in the controversial research as he was a chinese science advisor during his studies in the u.s. . do you soldiery east's and sort of remain a technology for him any he has the i.q. of dean how all i know is not what the levy. does that sort of

be banned understanding that work with you can do for ourselves but i believe family need this taken ours and i'm to take it that chris says well robert klitzman is a professor of psychiatry and director of the models of bioethics program at columbia university he says there are lots of problems with the gene editing there are also risks particularly now when it's still considered by most people experimental so if i take a gene out of an embryo still no cell in my body has that gene that gene in the case of what dr he did he took out a gene that enables a try to get into the bar of the cells that you're exposed hit me with that same gene could be involved let's say in the proper functioning of the brain or the liver or the heart.