this is about the times not about war the pentagon chief turns down the war of words with iran a senior u.s. officials briefed politicians about the military buildup in the region. and our intended this is al jazeera live from london for the coming up there has already been too much death and destruction a dire warning from the u.n. that libya could be descending into a prolonged civil war. the british prime minister offers the chance for a 2nd referendum on breaks it but only if m.p.'s support her new withdrawal deal. and cristina kishner in court the corruption trial starts in the former argentinean

president. of the acting u.s. defense secretary says there will be no war with iran insisting washington has deterred possible attacks by terror on by deploying forces to the region had made the comments following a classified briefing to members of the house of representatives along with the u.s. secretary of state they've been under pressure to reveal more details on what they describe as unspecified threats from tehran. our biggest focus at this point is to prevent the iranian miscalculation. we do not want the situation to escalate. this is about deterrence not about war. we're not about going to war this is about containing the doctor interests in the middle east a good. to missions that there we are there to perform somebody we shared with both

the house and the senate our strategic campaign the effort to push back against iran's malign activity 40 years of terrorist activity and so we talked about that we tried to place that or place the recent intelligence in context that 40 years of history and we walked through our efforts and our ultimate objective over the past days which has been to deter iran. it's going to have not in my can in washington d.c. so we're with people they were talking to the politicians satisfied with the briefing well once again it depends on the party is division within congress great division and certainly the republican members of congress appeared to be satisfied with the briefing given by the secretary of defense and the secretary of state the acting secretary of to say and stressing that there's no intention to go to war with iran that the deployment off an aircraft carrier fleet to the region has actually worked

well as a deterrent and protected he says american interests but from republicans as being support for the action by the trumpet ministration support to fall hard line measures to be taken against iran if necessary democrats student not agree they insists that the trumpet ministration is still a threat to universal peace. the attack on the ships in the pipeline was coordinated and directed by the iranian government. that we had picked up strong intelligence that they had given the militia basically bore running room and direction in their attacks against american interests and personnel were. the decision to send the abraham lincoln to the region was to try to deter attacks against american personnel not to invade or start a war and i hope it works i hope the iranians understand that we will hold them

liable for any attack on an american in iraq or anywhere else i believe that a war with iran would be an absolute disaster of. the war with iraq and i hope the american people told the ministration that we will not go to war in iraq but you know that so congress reaction divided very much on party lines however a relief among some in congress that the acting secretary of defense making clear that conflict is not on the table at the moment that the u.s. is proceeding with a policy of to terence in that particular region the key issue is how iran views the step up of american military action and naval action within that particular region also a reminder from democratic members of congress that it is not the president in

their view who can make war it is the right of congress itself mike hanna thank you very much. to former u.s. assistant secretary of defense lawrence korb he says the tensions could result in a dangerous arms race. the administration does not have a clear goal in mind they think they can bring a ran back to the bargaining table by putting the sanctions back on preventing the europeans from getting around the sanctions on a military military buildup but basically that's not going to happen bret rouhani has already said he would not negotiate with the president and it will empower the hardliners in iran the i.r.g.c. people who said we should never have dealt with the united states in the 1st place and the real danger is that iran would shorten the time for them to get

a nuclear weapon which could lead to a nuclear arms race in the region the u.s. says it seen signs the syrian government may have renewed its use of chemical weapons the state department says that includes an alleged chlorine attack on sunday in the northwest of the country and it said that it would respond quickly and appropriately if it's found to be true that kind of contact in the city of doom and last year kills dozens of civilians from tng asked trice against the syrian government by britain france and the united states. in other nations special envoy for libya has warned the country is on the verge of descending into a prolonged civil war as an salim a was speaking at a u.n. security council briefing on the latest situation as fighting for control of the capital tripoli is about to enter its 8th week diplomatic editor james phase report . the u.n.

special representative just sound salami reporting to the security council on what's been a dramatic and destabilizing period for libya. the country gripped by fresh violence his plans for a national conference representing all libyans overturned by a no day shifts offensive by holy for hafter a renegade general believed to be armed by the united arab emirates and egypt 48 days into the attack on tripoli by general have those forces there has already been too much death and destruction libya is on the verge of descending into a civil war which could lead to the permanent division of the country the damage already done will take years to mend and that's only if the war is ended now he said war crimes were being committed and some of those already listed by the international criminal court were involved in the most recent fighting there are numerous reports of extremists persons under international sanctions and individual

is wanted by the international criminal court appearing on the battlefield on all sides. all parties must publicly dissociate themselves from such elements without delay and referred to the i.c.c. those for whom arrest warrants have been issued addressing a security council it is itself deeply divided and has been unable to agree a resolution calling for a cease fire in libya he attacks regional and international players for fueling the conflict by sending weapons to both sides in defiance of an arms embargo officially in place since 2011 many countries are providing weapons to all parties in the conflict without exception the amount and sophistication of these weapons are already causing greater numbers of casualties without a robust and forstmann mechanism for the arms embargo into libya will become a cynical joke. some nations are fueling this bloody conflict the united nations

should put an end to it the u.k. is what's known as the penholder on libya very would draw up any security council resolution it's likely they'll try again to negotiate a resolution calling for a ceasefire but it's also likely the negotiations will be difficult james space al-jazeera at the united nations. the british prime minister is offering members of parliament a chance to vote on whether to hold a 2nd brace at referendum to resume a set out her latest plan for britain's departure from the e.u. telling politicians they have one last chance to deliver breck's it m.p.'s have already rejected her previous withdrawal agreement negotiated with the european union 3 times may's latest deal will be brought to parliament in june. i've also listened carefully to those who've been arguing for a 2nd referendum i've made my own view on this clear on many many times i do not

believe this is a route that we should take because i think we should be implementing the result of the 1st referendum not asking the british people to vote in a 2nd one but i recognise the genuine and sincere strength of feeling across the house on this important issue. the government will therefore include in the withdrawal agreement they'll at introduction a requirement to vote on whether to hold a 2nd referendum and this must take place before the withdraw agreement can be ratified largely is following developments in london. by her own admission this is three's m a's one last chance so she put it in a speech to try to deliver some sort of bracks it's to try to deliver herself a legacy frankly but what she wants is a brick set that can appeal to as many people in this deeply divided parliament and deeply divided country as she can and so to that end she's obviously listen to

all the different very loud voices across parliament who want entirely different things from bracks it's and tried to bring them all together and say ok let's see if we can have a withdrawal bill that we can pass that brings all of these things in at once and so she's trying to appease the hardliners in her own party who want to ensure that at some point the u.k. will be free from a customs union with the european union says that will have to be done by december 2020 that the northern irish part of the democratic unionists have been propping her up that there will be a same system nor nolen to the rest of the u.k. so the argument be divorced so all that to appease them but she's trying to appease the labor party as well and those other much more moderate parties by saying don't worry we won't have horrible american chicken in the u.k. afterwards will be environmental standards and most crucially of all she said to those m.p.'s on the labor party side if you pass my bill vend we will have a confirmation referendum where the public will get to decide if they like it or if

they don't presumably the u.k. then doesn't leave the european union it's all too ben p's like it's no they do not speak as much of it is absolutely hated there's no really big new idea in any of it's to try to move the process forward or the bracks there's a saying with a. all this no thanks very much the labor party side crucially those who want a 2nd referendum is saying well hang on to reason why you're saying these things but you'll leave in office anyway and your successor could be a whole lot of who will rip up the idea of a 2nd referendum completely so as an idea we could see before this voted or it looks pretty much dead in the water still to come on al-jazeera thousands still fleeing every day the un demands urgent refugee protection for venezuela's displaced. and calls for drastic action to combat climate change after warnings that global sea levels could rise by 2 meters by the end of the century.

hello there we've had a fair amount of cloud over the southern part of australia recently but clouds still with us on the satellite picture down in the southeast it's given us one or 2 showers but mostly now it is beginning to move away that means it should be a bright day for some wednesday 19 the maximum in melbourne towards the west it should also be not too bad for us in perth a top temperature of 19 and some sunshine around but then the next system is working its way towards us as we head through thursday say thursday will be a cloudy day and the chance of one or 2 showers around over towards new zealand and there's plenty of sunshine here we've got an area of high pressure in charge of us so it's fine unsettled just a little bit of cloud there drifting its way towards the southern parts of the south island so that's still going to be with us over the next few days making things here a little bit gray maybe one or 2 showers but really elsewhere it's fine unsettled

15 as a maximum in christchurch around 16 in or clear and further north and for the northern parts of asia there's been some very heavy downpours over positive pan recently that system is pulling away though so as we head through the next couple of days there should be more in the way of sunshine for tokyo going to around 24 degrees there on wednesday up to 26 as we head into the day plenty of bright weather here towards the west it's getting very hot force in beijing. yugoslavia disintegrated or descended on its inhabitants. amidst the death and destruction one man created a peaceful microcosm for boys whose fathers faced each other in battle episode 3 football rebels enters the world of footballing legend push each. who went from coaching boys football to teaching young men like frederick push each of the siege

of sarajevo on al-jazeera. are among the top stories here now syria us politicians are received a classified briefing from secretary of state might pump a 0 on escalating tensions with iran as the pentagon stressed there will be no war . united nations special envoy for libya has warned the country is on the verge of descending into a prolonged civil war. and british prime minister to resign may's offering m.p.'s a chance to vote on whether to hold a 2nd corrected referendum as she set out her latest plan for britain's departure from the e.u. . the u.n.

says most of the people who fled venezuela's political and economic crisis are need of refugee protection and is urging government not to deport them 3000000 have left the country since 2015 as they call me crumbles and a power struggle continues between president nicolas maduro and opposition leader. the un's refugee agency says between 3 and 5000 venezuelans still leaving every day just under. half a 1000000 have sought formal asylum mostly in other that american countries mistrustful is a spokeswoman for the un refugee agency she says for many venezuelans staying in the country is no longer an option. venezuelans in many cases are unable to go back home they're suffering from the point of view of persecution but also deterioration in the conditions inside the country one example is a father who spoke to u.n. refugee colleagues who said that he decided to take his family to brazil after 3 of

his relatives including his 9 month old daughter died and he put it quite bluntly he said we either leave or we die we totally understand that the scale of the numbers of venezuelans arriving in countries is challenging and is complex we recognize that and we recognize that the countries of latin america in the caribbean have made efforts to host venezuelans in some cases they have offered them temporary visas or work arrangements to enable them to stay but what we are saying is that given that the infrastructure in their silence systems may be overwhelmed it really is important for the governments to focus on giving venezuelans international refugee protection and it may be very difficult maybe impractical to do individual determinations so in that case we are advising that they consider venezuelans as a group in order to give them asylum. argentina's former president cristina fernandez de kitchener has appeared in court on the 1st day of what's expected to

be a yearlong corruption trial it comes just days after she announced she was running for vice president in october as election there is a book reports but as ours. she was argentina's president for 8 years from 2007 to 2015. 4 years later cristina fernandez that continues to be one of the most important politicians in the country. now she's on trial for her alleged role in a corruption probe worth millions of dollars during her administration and. lawyers likely got a lot more not a son say the links between kirshner and the businessman are a crucial part of the investigation that will be the nobody has been able to prove that she had corruption money but what has been demonstrated is how the former president used their hotels and other places to launder illicit money. money that i legibly came asking backs from public works contracts from last advice

a family friend who was a bank clerk turned tycoon when he 1st met the kershner family. cristina kirchner will be appearing in this courthouse regularly from now on even though she's been implicated in more than 10 corruption investigations this is the 1st case that makes a full court cristina kirchner is now a senate or still sees protected with parliamentary immunity which prevents her imprisonment but not her prosecution. since leaving office cristina kirchner and members of her government have been indicted and accused of corruption one of them was even caught trying to hide around $9000000.00 in a monastery. but the former president says she's seen a cent and a victim of political persecution from her rival precedent. and the judiciary in argentina tends to lean towards those in power i bet they will feel there is political persecution there is animosity and judges pushing cases

improperly against certain political figures but i believe it has to do with the justice system as a source of power and not because they're responding to those who are in government commission or was expected to run in the october presidential election against modi . but the former president surprised everyone on saturday when she said she would run for vice president instead i company a lot of the for a man this a former political ally a strategic move that is supposed to help her party win more votes. her supporters say cristina is in a sense isn't it was. with her we had a better life education health care she's been persecuted because she defended the poor. the trial is expected to last for a year a year in which she could make it back to power once again. they said will.

the chairman of the u.s. house of representatives says he's willing to go to court to force a former white house counsel to testify before congress softer president trump ordered done with not to speak at a hearing into russian interference in the 2016 u.s. election again has delivered some of the most damning testimony against in special counsel robert minnows investigation he was a key witness in the movie report regarding the possible obstruction of justice by trying. dozens of purchase are being held across the us against new restrictive abortion legislation in several states. hundreds of pro-choice activists go to do it in washington d.c. to demand the bills are blocked by the supreme court last week passed the strictest just patient in the nation boring abortion in almost all cases missouri is also assigned to look on

a woman from abortion after the 8th week of pregnancy or does your castro has more from washington. these abortion rights protests are happening in nearly all 50 states and on the anniversary of the 100 year since women gained the right to vote in the united states here in washington democratic members of congress joined the protesters as they manifested before the u.s. supreme court this court of course is the body that gave women the constitutional right to an abortion in 1973 that is that when they made the landmark ruling in roe versus wade which is a legal case you'll hear plenty of as with these months that passed it becomes under attack and in fact it is the 1st time since the passage of roe versus wade that it may be overturned why now because more than a dozen conservative states have passed it these abortion restriction bans the most onerous of which was signed into law in alabama last week which was

a. outright ban on abortion with the only exception being when a woman's health is in danger and notably makes no exception for cases of rape or incest you know the writer of this bill says he hopes that it is challenged in court and does reach all the way to the supreme court and that justice is there who have moved right word since the a donald trump took office would then use this case to overturn roe versus wade but it is notable that even the president himself has backed away from these most extreme bans on twitter saying that he is pro-life but that he does respect the exception of harm to a woman's life and rape and incest all of this may be indication that trump and other republicans are aware that embracing such an extremist position on an all right ban on abortion would be alienating to voters. the founder of 4 ways says the

company will not be impacted by u.s. sanctions or injuring fay was warned that blacklisting the chinese tech giant in the u.s. would have implications for american firms or monday the u.s. issued a temporary license allowing some companies to continue supporting existing waterway networks and devices so although this time we're on the blacklist our own company won't be affected by it but the u.s. is a country with the rule of law u.s. companies cannot avoid respecting the launch as the media reports on this they should deeply understand that u.s. companies share a common fate with us. global sea levels could rise by as much as 2 meters by the end of the century if the world's carbon emissions continue unchecked researchers say that's far more than predicted and is due to accelerate and melting in greenland and antarctica as mariana reports scientists say there is still time to act. our planet's ice sheets are enormous around 10000000 square

kilometers in size and they're melting but just tell much fresh water is flowing into our oceans and how quickly has been notoriously difficult to assess the climate can vary widely from one part to another they were affected by different way the ravines the thickness of the ice the temperature and flow of the ocean around it the long held view of the i.p.c.c. that the un body dealing with climate change has been that if we do nothing and continue on our current trajectory sea levels could rise by as much as a metre by 2100 here's the coastal city of miami by that assists meant but new scientific research just published in the u.s. predicts sea levels will rise by twice as much the city of shanghai would cease to exist along with many island nations and other coastal cities the took me to sea level rise that we we project $2100.00 is not the most likely scenario but it is

a plausible scenario so it is one that we should consider if we want to plan and adapt to future see level rise it was based on the assumption that we carry on increasing our emissions of greenhouse gases into the future and i mean sadly carbon emissions have carried on increasing even after the paris agreement and 25th think the authors combined the assessments of 22 scientists and insist this is a worst case scenario a world where we have not taken action with global temperatures have hit 5 degrees celsius and the world sees have risen by 2 mases they say there is still time to wait but that has yet to happen just last week the national oceanic and atmospheric carbon dioxide in the its atmosphere from burning fossil fuels such as oil and coal is now. now at its highest level and human history. how to see how. they

would be a specializes in climate adaptation at the nature conservancy he says action to action is needed to avoid the most extreme outcomes no matter what we do there is some amount of built in zeal rise that is going to be happening and so really important part of studies like this is to continue to remind us and help decision makers understand that we do need to start addressing what those impacts will be and that many of our cities across the world were built with an assumption of what the future or the future will look like the past and we know that's not true today and so we need to start thinking about planning for a future that was very different than the world that we're in right now and what that future is that we want to see where the investments that we want to make what is it that we want to use to actually look like and be like in the future in the face of rising seas however high than iraq's 3 prominent saudis connoisseur to be executed after the end of ramadan on june the 4th according to

a report by the middle east i saw. and at the end of mary well rested in september 2017 on what the saudis described as terror charges all 3 have launched online following us. preciously this is you don according to les supporters to prepare for a general strike talks between the opposition alliance and ruling military council continuing demonstrators say they remain on the streets of cartoon until a civilian led government is installed so far the 2 sides have been unable to agree on the makeup of the new governing body why would i do has the latest cartoon. the opposition movement leaders say the people of sudan should prepare themselves for a general strike they're calling it a complete shutdown of the country this saying it would be a tough and painful but very necessary if the involution is to achieve its objective of course they're frustrated with negotiations will fall over the full

mission of the foreground council which is going to be the highest organ of the transitional government calls for saddam the general from their side saying no we're going to pull my says he will be given a position leaders and higher legislative council which will be made up of 300 members of parliament and the executive council which will be made up of a technocrat. cabinet which is going to come from has most of the civil society organizations on that if this is going to be a hybrid transitional council or administration it's only fair for the military to be given the opportunity to lead the sovereign council and steer sudan to its democratic elections of the end of 3 years. police in the indonesian capital jakarta have fired tear gas to disperse protesters angry at the election result. demonstrators are accusing officials of election fraud after

a joke or widowed it was declared the winner with 55 percent of the vote opposition party say they will challenge the results in court the results on the roads 3rd largest democracy took more than a month to be declared. a minor the top stories here not just here are the acting u.s. defense secretary says there will be no war with iran insisting washington has deterred possible attacks by terror on by deploying forces to the region after shanahan made the comments following a classified briefing to members of the house of representatives along with the u.s. secretary of state had been under pressure to reveal more details of what they described as unspecified threats from terror on. our biggest focus at this point is to prevent the rioting and miscalculation. we do not

want the situation to escalate. this is about deterrence not about war. we're not about going to war this is about continuing to protect our interests in the middle east and conducting the missions that they're we're there to perform. i believe that a war with iran. would be. an absolute disaster for worlds then the war with iraq and i hope the american people told this administration that we will not go to war in iraq. the u.s. says it seen signs the syrian government may have renewed its use of chemical weapons the state department says that includes an alleged chlorine attack on sunday in the northwest of the country and that it would respond quickly and appropriately if it's found to be true a chemical attack in the city of duma last year killed dozens of civilians from

thin air strikes against the syrian government by britain france and the united states a few dozen nations special envoy for libya has warned the country is on the verge of descending into a prolonged civil war a son salomé was speaking at a un security council briefing on the latest situation as fighting for control of the capital tripoli is set to enter its 8th week. the british prime minister is offering members of parliament a chance to vote on whether to hold a 2nd breaks at referendum to resume a set out what she described as a new deal for britain's departure from the european union telling politicians they have one last chance to deliver bricks it through to the top stories do stay with us on al-jazeera football rebels is coming up next i was watching my phone off for americans and struggling to pay their rent the problem isn't just limited to basics if you're. a former governor of the get social back it's cost the country. we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in. counting

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