and reactions from washington d.c. ross president doesn't seem to be backing away from his racially divisive rhetoric no he's not foley and as you noted the president was doubling down on sunday morning before he apparently went out for a day of golf this is a situation where the president is not adverse to using a racist language in order to boost his political standing with his political base and he's also not averse to using this language as a diversionary tactic cricked critics are suggesting that he's doing so because of the announcement late last week that. some members of the democratically led house are looking at possible impeachment hearings because of what they heard from the former special counsel robert muller this is of course something that has dominated the sunday public affairs shows here in the united states with both critics and supporters of the president weighing in on the situation and basically agreeing

that if nothing else the president's once again has focused attention on his views of race and diversity in the united states and tell us more about the reactions. well overwhelmingly you had people saying both republican and democratic that the president ought to apologize for what he said there were some who called the president's language racist although they did not want to say that the president himself is a racist but and then there was this one defense coming from the white house acting chief of staff mick mulvaney this is what he had to say when he was asked directly about the president's comments about alija coming and about the city of baltimore. to push back against what the president sees as accuracies lies about what mr cummings said this week in the oversight committee about the border if you go on the internet you can find the exchange where laci coming said the children were

sitting in their own feces at the border that's wrong in fact it's misleadingly wrong it's the type of thing that really breaks down a civilized debate about how to address the the crisis at the border and the president didn't like it because the president speak hyperbolically absolutely and we've seen this type of of reaction from him before yes and you will again because he pushes back he fights back when he feels like he's attacked or what mr coming said this week was wrong. well we've also now heard from some residents of baltimore who were interviewed while shopping at an outdoor market on sunday morning almost to a person these residents are saying that the rhetoric coming from the white house is unhelpful at best and is disgusting out worst one person has told reporters that she found the language not just offensive but that she believes the president himself has engaged in racist and divisive behavior and should face impeachment again these are opinions of ordinary baltimore residents speaking on

sunday morning thank you for that. washington d.c. . with no agreement on repatch what is next for the refugees in bangladesh. i'm hurting in southeastern ethiopia i will tell you how these burning bones are being used to treat high fluoride levels found in water in the rift valley. hello again welcome back we're here across the levant it is going to be hot and dry normal for this time of year and for baghdad we are going to be seeing temperatures sorry to rise over the next few days so starting at about 45 degrees here on monday quite city you can be seeing the same type of trend where those temperatures daily are going to be going up we do expect to see 48 degrees her on tuesday but as we go

towards wednesday possibly even seeing getting close to 50 degrees there up towards tehran 40 degrees and over here toward scrushy more rain in your forecast with a temperature of 30 where across the gulf it is going to be the middy that is a problem we're going to be seeing maybe some gusty conditions as well but on monday 40 degrees is the expected high but notice along the coastal areas of amman it is going to be the clouds anywhere from ascott all the way down here towards the law up towards dubai we're going to be seeing about $41.00 degrees in abu dhabi $41.00 degrees as well there and then as we make our way down here towards the southern parts of africa we are going to see some coastal clouds doubt across cape town as another system comes in but relatively quiet across much of the interior of the next few days temperatures though are going to be warming up for cape town winds are coming out of the north with the temps there of about 70 degrees durban at about $26.00 degrees and plenty of sun in the forecast for johannesburg with a temperature of 22 degrees for you.

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a reminder our top stories police have cleared the streets of hong kong after hours of clashes between police and protesters on the officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a crowd and activists retaliated with makeshift weapons dozens of arrests have been made as the group's battles for control of the streets thousands have joined marches and occupations for the 2nd day of protests over police and small bought by . the syrian government offensive on a day province shows no sign of letting up despite warnings from the u.n. that war crimes are being committed at least 4 people died when a market was bombed in the town. and jailed russian opposition leader next in a volley has been taken to hospital to be treated for a severe legit reaction is serving a 30 day prison sentence up to calling for protests in moscow which saw more than 1300 people arrested on saturday. the talks in bangladesh between myanmar delegation and refugees have broken up with no agreement on repatriation

hundreds of thousands of running a have been sheltering in camps in bangladesh and 27000 when they're fed a crackdown by myanmar's military and be a child to report some cox's. security was stepped up for the visit of representatives of the me and my government to the refugee camp at cox's bizarre there had been a fear a protest and only a select group of rowing was chosen to meet with the delegation in one of the camps offices shader when was among those who attended the talks to me and my government is trying to persuade the refugees to return home. they told us that all arrangements are being made for us to return they also told us that there are camps built for us with the necessary security and facilities outside the camps office several 100 running as gathered to get to meet the delegates and ask questions but they were quickly dispersed by police and nearby another group of refugees try to

stage a demonstration but that was also quickly broken up by security officers some of the community leaders at cox's bazaar expressed their concern at what condition will be like if the refugees return to rakhine state we demand before our water going back i want to be done in done her community you should visit inside don't know much affected area about assume that what our protection this is the 3rd high level visit by the me and mar government repatriation of the 1st batch of refugees was to begin officially last november but it stalled amid protest at the camps and bangladesh. many are still traumatized from their experience 2 years ago when they were forced to flee their homes during the me and my own military crackdown so who are accountants 25 year old son and 18 year old grand daughter in law were killed by the security forces. we will seek compensation and justice 1st for the loss of

our family members we also want to be recognized as if these demands are met and we get justice then we will think about going back critics said this trip planned is just me and maurice latest attempt to divert international criticism from its policies directed at the rowing nearly a 1000000 rowing a refugees are crammed into this densely congested shanty camps in the caucasus bazaar area they're getting increasingly frustrated and angry about their future but no one is willing to return home to me on my heart without citizenship papers and security guarantee. i'll just get out of the following parts of bangladesh. at least 24 people have been killed in a suspected ball coram attack in northeastern nigeria the raid happened during a funeral in borno state or killed thousands then displaced millions in the region

over the past 10 years in libya 5 doctors have been killed and 7 others injured 7 other people injured in an airstrike launched by warlords 25 task forces medical sources say the strike hit a field hospital in 7 tripoli on saturday while it was packed with patients and medical teams. has more from tripoli. since the beginning of the military campaign launched it by warlords plea for help that on april the force to take control of the capital tripoli medical facilities including field hospitals ambulances and medical workers have been so vulnerable this field hospital is only about 5 kilometers away from the front line in the vicinity of the all the active international airport in southern tripoli was hit by an air strike on saturday 5 medical workers including 4 doctors and one risk you were were killed 7 others were wounded medical workers here tell us that these are the remains of the guy did the

rocket that hit the field hospital and they say that this. was most probably launch should by. a drone we understand that immorality drones have been supporting have those forces since the beginning of the fighting medical workers here tell us that. there are still remains body parts of the victims on the rubble and as you can see here. there is blood on the wall blood of the victims. the explosion was huge that it it just destroyed everything here and as you can see here inside the glass is shot of the there is also blood of the victims here beds are destroyed and the. this field hospital has been fully evacuated and we know

that since the beginning of the fighting on april 4th several field hospitals were told to but have to fight for the jets many medical workers and the rescuers were killed or wounded some lost their limbs and the world health organization along with right rights organizations have been calling on both rival factions of the conflict to go until the safety of the medical workers but so far it seems that all those calls have gone on hold talks on afghanistan's future expected to be held in europe within weeks but the taliban says it won't hold any direct discussions with the afghan government u.s. officials then taliban representatives have been meeting in qatar tints october in a bid to end the 18 year war several talks have also taken place where afghans

macross the political and social spectrum have met taliban representatives but this all comes against a backdrop of violence in recent weeks war jack is a lecturer of government and politics at khandaan university he explains why the afghan government may have decided to push ahead with a tux. so this is not the 1st time the government has announced that they will go into direct talks with the taliban and perhaps this is not the last time and every time they have talked about going into direct talks with the taliban the taliban have flatly rejected it indeed the statement that came out from the taliban will basically saying god all of those people who were. who will be from the government and the europe. dialogue will be there in their personal capacity it looks like the taliban have live coverage as far as this whole peace process is concerned they are talking to the americans directly and the african government feels left out on the other side you have president gandhi who is focusing on the elections as

priority is elections to ensure that he comes to power for another 5 years i don't know if demand to be due to show that they are involved but i think president gandhi wanted to show died some some level of priority as well as just not the elections and at least 2 people have been killed and 25 others injured in an explosion in afghanistan's capital kabul the blast hit near the office of vice presidential candidate who was slightly injured a number of attackers then stormed the building sallis party green trend has posted online that he's fine and has been transferred to a secure location. iran says it considers the u.k. seizure of its oil tanker off gibraltar a breach of the 2050 nuclear agreement iran 70 foreign minister made the comments in vienna at an emergency meeting aimed at saving the deal this month british authorities detained iranian tanker accusing it of breaching e.u.

sanctions on syria the remaining parties of a agreement france germany russia china and the u.k. are attending a senior iranian negotiators said the meeting was constructive but that iran would continue to reduce its commitments. forensic teams are analyzing bones discovered in the vatican as part of an investigation into the disappearance of a teenage girl in 1983 after an anonymous tip investigators opened tombs earlier this month to see if a man or landis' remains were hidden inside nothing was said but that investigators found bone fragments in underground caverns near a vatican cemetery the cold case has generated years of conspiracy theories and allegations of cover ups. your ride has long been added to drinking water in countries around the world to improve dental health because there's not enough of the mineral in natural water supplies but in some countries like e.c. opiah there's too much of it and that's causing health problems al-jazeera has more

from the town of motor. it's tasteless odorless and invisible but the effects are obvious high fluoride levels and water cause teeth discoloration and in extreme cases bone decay but a solution ironically comes from bones of a different kind specialist working for a nonprofit humanitarian organization in southeast ethiopia have figured out a way to absorb fluoride and water by using cow skeletons the idea is that water containing high fluoride levels sticks to the animal bones when put through a filter instead of harming human bones the process to make the bone charred takes weeks. we're inside the furnace and as you can imagine it smells awful and here it smells like death they just look the flame and these bones will essentially be baking at temperatures of 350 degrees celsius for at least 10 days until these bones are whittled down into bone char. the char is then ground

sifted and washed if fluoride levels are too high a more expensive chemical alternative is provided half of the battle with this program has been convincing communities that it's safe to drink water filtered by bones what i'm in most on we take this product to the local community we were facing challenges and they asked if this was a muslim or christian slaughterhouse we finally convinced them that this was only from cattle. the char is then brought to rural communities to be added to water supplies the rift valley has an unusually high level of fluoride because the volcanic rock naturally produces the chemical the world health organization recommends fluoride levels to be around $1.00 milligrams per liter in this village the level is 9 the excess levels of fluoride causes a chronic condition called fluorosis 67 year old fatality suffers from it as do most of his 9 children. and we get a new one in your room i feel back pain in joint pain i can't sit down or stand up

properly i also feel pain all over my body. the effects of fluorosis are irreversible but increasing calcium intake can help 97000 people have been helped by the charred programme but 16000000 are affected this project is just scratching the surface but for those in this village safer drinking water is making a difference leo harding al-jazeera mojo in southeast ethiopia. now again i'm fully back to bo with the headlines on al-jazeera police have cleared the streets of hong kong after hours of fighting between protesters and police ahmed officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds and activists retaliated with makeshift weapons dozens of arrests were made as the groups battle for control of the streets thousands have joined machos and occupations for the 2nd day of protests over police and mob find sour krakow small

from all cost. here in central long gone we've had thousands of protesters and police in an intense standoff of locating this area around us which is around one can't keep at least action as well as tight as mine the ice office which is in the side where we know now that the police several rounds of tear gas and rubber bullets to try and clear those protesters there are the hardcore protests as early as today we had a peaceful rally where we had tens of thousands of people blocking streets across the whole way along calderon and from east to west but tonight which is a sunday night here in hong kong was just a standoff we saw a lot of resistance from those protesters now they fought back that were throwing anything they could get their hands on including sheets of glass cardboard which was full of metal rugs most of us were being thrown from above which is where we are now which is a mine highway that also started throwing them directly at the police and of course

this frustrated and angered the place and the place moved in this study along those protesters have dispersed and left on the end which is home homes trying to action and the cleanup has now begun. the syrian government offensive on the last rebel held province shows no sign of letting up despite warnings from the u.n. that war crimes abhi committed at least 4 people died when a market was bombed in the town of every half at least 24 people have been killed in a suspected book coram attack in northeast nigeria the raid happened during a funeral in borno state. fountains and displaced millions in the region over the past 10 years in afghanistan at least 2 people have been killed and 25 others injured in an explosion in the capital kabul the blasts hit near the office of vice presidential candidate who was injured several attackers then stormed the building . jailed russian opposition leader alexei navalny has been taken to hospital to be treated for severe legit reaction is serving

a 30 day prison sentence after calling for protests in moscow which saw more than 1300 people arrested on saturday you're upset with the headlines on al-jazeera the news continues right after inside story do stay with us. thank you. a record number of children dying in war and conflict the u.n. names and change those responsible in places like yemen and the palestinian territories the do the powers behind the bombs and the bullets actually care what needs to be done to protect the lives of children this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm dennis them all kids are dying in wars and conflicts than ever before that's according to the united nations which is about to release its annual report on children and armed conflict out 0 has seen an advance copy a special u.n. representative found more than $24000.00 cases of children being killed maimed or forced to become child soldiers last year the report highlights rising casualties in war zones such as yemen where the saudi u.a.e. coalition is fighting huth the rebels and despite condemning israel for the deaths of palestinian children israel is not on the report's black list of offenders right

let's have a look at some of those figures now the report says the saudi u.s. coalition in yemen is responsible for almost half of all child casualties in the country last year 729 killed or injured out of a total of almost 1700 the who the rebels were blamed for. $398.00 casualties and the yemeni government forces but blame for $58.00 the un says israeli forces caused the deaths of $56.00 palestinian children and the wounding of almost $2700.00 now that's the highest number in 4 years and there syria airstrikes barrel bombs and cluster munitions killed or injured more than 1800 children and afghanistan tops the list for another year with more than 3000 child casualties. are either introduce our panel now in toronto by scott we have know her eldar hobb

who is a fellow at the brookings doha center specializing in conflict and transitional justice in beirut we have rami curie senior fellow at the is on fire is institute for public policy at the american university of beirut in lancaster in the u.k. also on skype simon mabel and senior lecturer in international studies at lancaster university while come to you all know her i've just i've just read out a litany of bad news affecting children around the world particularly in conflict areas why do you think we're seeing a larger number than ever before of children being killed or maimed in conflicts. well the short answer really is that there's a there's a lack of accountability for these for these violations and actually the bad news that you just mentioned is in reality much much worse than what is captured in in such u.n. reports i mean with regards to yemen for example the the the number of child

casualties mentioned in these reports is only really a glimpse into the extent of the atrocities the children suffer these casualties have to do with armed conflict in a very sort of narrow sense in the sense of ground fighting airstrikes unexploded ordinances and so on but really there are tens of thousands of children who are dying of starvation and of disease as a direct result of the armed conflict and so unfortunately these reports only really capture a very small parts of what is actually going on here that's even more gloomy as nature and rami do you agree with no have and that it is really as a consequence of of a failure of an international system of accountability. yes i agree fully with her and i would even go further because you have situations like in palestine and israel for instance where the conflict creates damage to schools children become

displaced jobs are lost because of the siege on gaza normal economic activity can't go on so the entire economic foundation of a society the palestinian society starts to crumble and families don't have an a full malnutrition increases stunting increases so there's a whole ripple effect of damage that's done to the physical and mental wellbeing of entire families not just the children and these these reports really capture just the surface manifestation of the worst battle casualties but the the depth of destruction is much worse and parallel to that is what she said at the beginning that there's no accountability the whole process of international law has collapsed in virtually most of the middle east because even have you know respectable governments like some like the u.a.e. in the saudis on the back of any isn't the egyptians and others who are doing terrible things to their people in jails to killing people after kangaroo trials

you have countries like iraq and syria and parts of lebanon and other places where terrible things are happening to people and there's just no real international accountability whatsoever because the all out warfare that has spread across the region essentially since the syrian war started 8 years ago has really and go for many many parts of the area and therefore law really finds no place trying to rear its head right in some in coming to you i'm looking at figures of this coming from a save the children report from earlier this year which says that 5 times more children than come buttons are actually killed in comfort i mean is the nature of conflict the way was a being forced is it changing in is that perhaps responsible for the increasing number of of children getting caught up. you know i think that's probably one of

the reasons we know the conflict is getting more complex we know that battle battlegrounds are changing traditionally they would be separate from urban areas and in recent years particularly post 911 in the middle east we've seen that they've become really really embedded within been areas so as conflict increases as conflict becomes more and more intractable it's going to have more busy and more of an impact on the lives of people living within those cities so i don't think it's particularly surprising that the conflict has become more complex it's become more embedded structurally within the political fabric of of a state and as a consequence it's having an absolutely devastating effect on the people that are most vulnerable living within those particular areas children the elderly the infirm people who are unable to flee these conflict zones and i think think what rami is just articulated about them and whole dimensions are incredibly important this rip this report this is hugely devastating in terms of the death and the

casualties of children but there is of course a much deeper mental die mention in terms of the amount of trauma that children have gone through the p.t.s.d. that they will experience through through living in that all meant to years through a conflict so which will have an absolutely devastating impact on their lives right on the lights of those around them and so very very grim today but also incredibly grim for the future it would have been no how coming back to you. when we're talking about the changing nature of conflict we are not necessarily talking about state to state where from talking about non-state actors a battling each of the civil war was localized into national intra national comfort and is this perhaps a contributing factor to the to this terrible scenario that when we're looking at today and that is not deaths of children killed but civilians being killed and

injured increasingly. yes i mean absolutely the the the the expanding sort of nature of non-state actors and their role in an armed conflict certainly complicates and worsens. the the the crimes committed in these conflicts but it also complicates this issue of holding non-state actors accountable and i should add that there's another very sort of important missing part of of these reports when you when you look at them you know you'll see countries such as sudan and you know the democratic republic of congo yemen syria etc listed and the parties to those conflict named and shamed for for their role in the armed conflicts but the big missing part here is the role of western powers in particular whether it's the u.s. or the u.k.

and their complicity and their support it's really been in the perpetration of these crimes and since we're on the subject of non-state actors there's also this issue of course of these multinational corporations and their role in and their complicity in these crimes and so this is another sort of achilles heel of these reports is that they don't really capture the the role of the stars and how powerful would it be if the u.k. and the u.s. and other such powers were named and shamed for their role in print and perpetrating these atrocities whether it's in syria area men or other well there are efforts to do that and there are efforts in the u.k. against the british government and indeed against in congress against the u.s. government ramey coming to you. i'm just wondering though how much of the concept of naming and shaming how how how shamed would

a country be like for instance the saudi u.a.e. coalition in yemen which is named. and in this report to be released by the un next week and how shamed would that coalition be to be on that to be publicly identified as being responsible for so much horror i mean do you think it really matters to them. and well recent years suggests that it doesn't matter at all because what they would do is they would go to the white house announce a big new arms deal with the united states go to london announce a big new p.r. campaign with big pictures on busses maybe go buy a football team in paris and then they would be the best friends of the 2 major western powers and nothing else really matters to them this is one of the problems and heard them mention this the presence of the international players is really the terrible thing that's happened and this comes right out of the syrian war the syrian war was which is still going on it was really has been really

a terrible historical turning point because what's happened in the last 8 years in syria is we've ended up with coalitions of a major international power a local government or 2 and non-state actors all working together in a fighting force on the ground so in russia you had russia the syrian government has below and various groups on the ground facing rebel groups the united states gulf supporters and sometimes turkey so these coalitions on both sides fighting each other you have the same thing in yemen and you have this now happening in every in libya you're starting to see it and there's direct not only direct involvement and western and russian and turkish and other of iranian other foreign governments not just supplying arms and but they're actively fighting on the ground with their troops with their artillery units with their special forces and with their air forces it's quite an extraordinary situation of all out warfare

all combining states non-state actors and foreign powers and there's nobody who can do anything about this so the that's the long answer to your question which is that governments are not particularly shamed by being named the only thing that really matters to them as if there's some serious legal action that's taken to actually do . turn them on there's no sign of that unfortunate right simon it's often said isn't it that the world is pretty much dictated by interests how much political pressure would you say is is brought to bear upon the un itself for instance i mean this particular section of the un is the children and armed conflict section of the the un they report to the secretary general but the report is criticised insofar as it doesn't name and shame sufficiently it doesn't attribute blame as harshly or as

clearly as it might in particular i'm thinking of the israeli defense forces they highlighted having been responsible for a larger number of palestinian child deaths last year than have been in the last 4 years and yet they don't appear in the annex yet the list of bad is they don't appear there at 0 so how much pressure is the un under when it's compiling a report like this to actually keep a certain balance if you like in terms of other political interests i think that's a really important point and it really gets to the fundamental problem with all the un bodies all un agencies that they have to balance the sort of the impartiality and the interests of the particular body with broader chip political interests and so here you have a report that is trying to really get to the bottom of what's happening on the ground but it feels feels compelled to this sort of cold but for fully naming and

shaming the israeli defense force says the united states the united kingdom for their complicity in events and i think that gets to this this fundamental power of balance and the structural organization of the united nations which means that the powerful states wield a great deal of disproportional influence across the united nations particularly in the security council and we see this of. in that the human rights council as well where there are particular human rights agendas that are suppressed by members of the council who are sitting on this council and don't want these to be articulated so it is power the troyan. normative concerns such as human rights such as children's interests right ok all right so simon raises an important point i think know her and empower in terms of the security council i suppose resides with the permanent 5 and there is pretty much paralysis isn't there on the security council but i mean the saudis again i mean they are allegedly responsible for dangling

substantial amounts of money before the very eyes of the secretary general of the un in order to ease their way if you like through some potentially uncomfortable moments both on the un human rights council and also within the u.n. security council deliberations particularly in the war in yemen so money matters here of course unfortunately money does matter and it's not just saudi arabia that has that has put the secretary general under under pressure it's you know several other countries including the u.k. especially in the in the human rights council and so you know it's it's unfortunate that it seems over the last couple of years in particular that the secretary general is kind of caving into this pressure a little bit you see it in the language it's not it's not as strong as it should be in these reports and again we've we've spoken already about the lack of accountability the lack of enforcement any kind of enforcement measures following

these reports but of course i mean in theory the u.n. should not be caving into this pressure and should stand firm right and romney said oh are we saying are we saying that this the sea primacy of these interests if you like of the various powerful players internationally all collectively undermining what is also what. yes to be a rules based international system there are all those that are supposed to protect children and civilians particularly in war but they seem to be ignored at the moment yes that's true and i've been interacting a lot with various u.n. agencies on international. n.g.o.s working all over the middle east in the last year or 2 dealing with women and children and marginalized people and they're just scrambling around trying to figure out how do they minimize the deaths of young people rather than what they were doing 510 and 20 years ago which is to expand the

well being of young people and the survival rate and the health and the immunization rate and all that and there's just such an overwhelming need for services to deal with the simply keeping people alive especially 60000000 people 60 is 60000000 people in the arab world who need humanitarian aid simply to stay alive and and in decent shape biologically and this figure is going to is going to keep increasing so the situation really is one in which there is no sign of any action that is going to change the situation what we really need though and this is where there is still an opening and people do try it we've seen it in yemen we've seen it in other places you need vigorous political initiatives to try to end the conflicts if you end the war you end all of this suffering many of the parties who are fighting each other many of them have legitimate grievances not all of them but many of them do and if you address those legitimate grievances 0 in on

the people on the ground get the foreign fighters and criminals and donors out and 0 in on the conflict on the ground and find a resolution that satisfies everybody you can end some of these conflicts and therefore you and this cycle of increasing suffering and vulnerability in the prob. what were some of the situations like the arm israeli conflict is this event going on for over 400 years we've had a 100 years of israeli colonize ation of arab land and it's still going on and there seems to be nobody in the world who is willing or able to do anything about this and some of these conflicts need much more effort than purely localized on the right side and which brings us a space to history and tradition and that is leadership has traditionally been provided by the united states has knit since in the post-war 2nd mode war era that

seems to be. lacking should we say and i'm do you think that it passes too simplistic to link the current situation we're in now would be seen to be gang backlit in terms of moral principles and rule of law can we link the 2 to the fact that america has turned in let's push ups but i think there's probably more to it than maps and if we look at the conflicts and the impacts of conflicts on children and and marginalized people across across the past few decades we'll see that that this has been continuing this is this is even increased whilst america has been more involved in the global stage in it and in actually articulating more liberal projects and the likes of bill clinton and barack obama this had a massive there was a massive increase in the number of people affected by by conflict and i think that obviously on the trumpet's had a marked impacts on on america's role in the world and it's sort of step but most

leadership position but it's not just about that there's a complexity of conflicts that have bowled over the past few decades and the report talks about building sustainable peace but as rami suggesting that it's difficult to build that sustainable peace when there is conflict going on but the sustainable peace is essential to actually preventing future conflict of in future. aeration addressing longstanding grievances is addressing longstanding need. for food for shelter for water for basic human needs so it's not just about addressing the conflict and making people safe from war do we have to do more the u.n. has to do more in order to actually build this is stable peace and it will require leadership from a range of different groups not just the united states team really flow into these rules and these norms it will require strong leadership from from

a range of different sectors that will hold each other to account but of course this is incredibly idealistic and i don't that we'll see it any time soon i think here again and so no hurry it seems very much as though already laid back to the u.n. we look to the u.n. to do so much particularly in a in a world that's devoid of of obvious national leadership the u.n. have started a process haven't they need yemen obviously this is described as perhaps the west humanitarian crisis in the world at the moment what do you think of the stockholm agreement as a as a beginning as a start to perhaps stopping that dreadful war in yemen i mean any sort of any agreement that's geared towards stopping lifting up blockade or stopping the fighting is of course very welcome i think there's been a lot of issues with with the stockholm agreement. you know one of them being that it's it's very very much focused on how data and has led to sort of this dismissal

really of a focus on the rest of the country which is just as a port and but i think just to follow on the discussion earlier. another sort of factor that is really important and an opening as rami called it is the role of civil society in these countries right the solution doesn't begin and end with the united nations the role of civil society. look at the role of civil society in syria for example birth course in all of these conflicts countries is absolutely crucial in but unfortunately it seems that more often than not international organizations or international policymakers. don't have this as meaningful an engagement with the civil society accessors as they should and so the result is that there's sort of a delayed resolution to these conflicts working local actors is is absolutely crucial to try and and bring bring an end to these armed conflicts right rami give

the last word to you and if you can make it brief please so know how offices a glimmer of hope and i'd like to end on that if possible she sees that there is potential perhaps in stimulating the civil societies role and participation in these processes and that could could help assassin a lot i've says absolutely right and it's not just civil society as such it's just all local people working together and their normal day to day life one of the things that i've been amazed that and not so surprising in my 50 years of covering the middle east as a as a journalist has been that in all of these conflict situations when you see local communities arabs and israelis arabs and turks iranians and saudis some news and she are as christians and muslims whoever it may be any 2 people who seem to be having a fight when you go to the local level they're living together they're going to school they're playing football they're creating businesses they know how to

co-exist peacefully and this is really the one of the great unexplored areas of peacemaking stability and national development that has to be looked at through civil society through political mediation and through other forms we know how to live peacefully and co-exist in this region if the big powers and some of the external actors and local criminal leaderships and the various countries stay out. this process and so this is really an area that we have to explore much more carefully and it doesn't actually even syria during the war you had local communities that made cease fires a long reasonably well i don't know it's definitely an area for a lot of work thank you very much indeed a note of relative optimism thank you all very much indeed rami khouri in beirut simon maybe in lancaster and i will in toronto thank you all very much indeed and thank you for watching the program you can see it again any time you like but again to the website al-jazeera dot com should you want more discussion in go to our

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thank you for joining us police have cleared the streets of hong kong after hours of clashes omid officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds and activists retaliated. with homemade weapons dozens of arrests were made as the groups battle for control of the streets thousands had joined marches and occupations for the 2nd day of protests over police and mob violence the hong kong government has condemned the protesters accusing some of my lens arson and putting public safety at risk in a statement released a short time ago it said we strongly condemn the radical protesters who disregarded the law and order and violently breached the public's peace we will continue to give full support to the police to strictly enforce the law to stop all violent

behavior is with a view to resuming public order as soon as possible al-jazeera thyra crock has more now from hong kong here in central hong kong which had thousands of protesters and police in an intense standoff locating this area around us which is around one key part of the police station as well as china's mine the ice office which is in the siding where we know now that the police fired a several rounds of tear gas and rubber bullets to try and clear those protesters there were the hardcore protests as early as today we had a peaceful rally where we had tens of thousands of people blocking streets across the whole way along called on and from east to west but tonight which is a sunday night here in hong kong was just a standoff we saw a lot of resistance from those protesters now the back of that was throwing anything they could get their hands on including sheets of glass cardboard which was full of metal rugs most of us were being thrown from above which is where we are now which is a mine highway that also started throwing them directly at the place and of course

this frustrated and angered the place and the place moved in and this study along those protesters have dispersed and left on the in which is called homes translation and the cleanup has now begun chris chang is editorial director at the hong kong free press an independent publication he says until protesters demands are met the rallies won't stop. on beijing's side i think it's very angry when processes put nk on the chinese enter mosque legian process so beijing will actually have to pass a press conference tomorrow about the whole situation but we expect it will only get lighter take that. disagrees with the violence and support all governments also for only govern and on hold on governments and we see increasing cracks inside a government with cause for a public rally oser by civil servants so the people actually running the government

are maybe going to have to rally on friday next week so we'll see if the government itself is those into or from its own employees and we see it more and more calls for general strikes such as public transport and other sectors so this situation may evolve bigger and bigger just within next week mysie strikes civil servant inside the government. and the government i am not sure what response they can get to the yes case assertion other to agree to process the amounts. in other world news airstrikes are intensifying in syria's province despite u.n. warnings that war crimes being committed this was a scene in the tunnels. on sunday morning a market was bombed killing at least 4 people and wounding many others. i mean. billions we have nothing to do with children women old people young people not

terrorists muslims an arab nations bombarding us every day every day strikes killings blood the blood covers all streets we're swimming in. the united nations says at least 450 civilians have been killed since april when the syrian government and its russian allies began an offensive to take back the last rebel held local monitors with the death toll much higher at more than 700 aid groups are calling the escalation a nightmare with schools medical centers and homes coming under relentless bombardment then harder has our report from istanbul. another lifeless body pulled from the rubble another syrian child a victim of the airstrikes by russian and syrian warplanes the town of a rehab has been repeatedly hit in recent days and yet again residential buildings have been targeted have a hard. look around no rebel places or fighters here this is a residential neighborhood look children live here what is their crime the syrian

people are being bombed by planes and the un remained silent. opposition controlled towns across the southern countryside of it live and northern hama are under fire people there say they are being bombed into submission but that surrendering is not an option since they have nowhere else to go this is the last rebel held territory in syria are people going to. do all this year of people need to die so that she can stay in power is everyone at their wrist except we moved closer to the border with turkey but how do we know the players want to hit us here . the recent escalation in violence is worsening the displacement crisis according to the united nations many people are living in the open air because there is overcrowding in camps and reception centers more than 440000 syrians have been made homeless in the last 3 months how long then the. building was bones and all our

belongings are under the rubble we came out and didn't know where to go we have nothing there's no water no bathrooms no tents for the children there under the sun . many people have been displaced more than once and many towns and villages are now empty. in our house and car for zito was hit so we left a hoss and again we were targeted we survived but our neighbor was killed it was too dangerous to stay so we came here we hope this place will be safe. that will depend on russia and. turkey russia which backs the syrian government and turkey which supports the opposition co-sponsored a cease fire and last year the deal collapsed when russia supported a syrian government offensive in april blaming turkey for not fulfilling its commitments to an agreed demilitarized zone around the province turkey repeatedly said it needed more time because forcing some will groups from the zone would have put civilian lives at risk there is nothing that indicates the ceasefire will be

revived soon. i just want to be able to play i just want to go home i just want to go to school that is no longer an option for many children 7 year old son has become another statistic in the escalating violence and despite criticism by the un over the international indifference nothing has been done to stop the bombing campaign. stumbled on joining us now on the newshour is mark united nations deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the syria crisis he's on skype from gaziantep near the turkey syria border thank you very much mr cutts for being with us on al-jazeera the syrian government is stepping up its bombing campaign in despite warnings from the u.n. that war crimes are being committed tell us for us a bit more about how civilians are being affected by this bombing campaign. well

it's an absolutely distraught situation for civilians. there day and night and we've seen an escalating situation throughout the last 3 months this bombing campaign has been going on now for more than 3 months and. there are. more than 3000000 civilians who are living in this area. more than $1000000.00 of them are children we're talking about attacks that are landing in crowded residential areas and they've been hitting marketplaces and schools and hospitals and bakeries and other civilian objects and we now have a completely terrorized traumatized population it's really one of the most dangerous places if not the most dangerous place in the world to be if you're a civilian today are syrian and russian forces. targeting civilians in

a dilemma well our humanitarian workers on the ground are telling us that hospitals are being hit daily and more or other facilities are being hit the united nations has documented more than 50 attacks on hospitals and health facilities over the last 3 months. sorry more than 50 attacks on schools and about 35 attacks on school hospitals and other health facilities so our stuff in the ground are simply you know appalled at what is happening and the local population they're getting more and more frustrated desperate and they cannot believe that the world continues to watch and action is not being taken to stop this fighting we in the united nations are calling for a session of hostilities we want this fighting to stop immediately and while the fighting continues the parties to the conflict have obligations under international

humanitarian law all they need to ensure that civilians are protected. how how does the bombing affect teds humanitarian operations in the area are your teams on the ground able to reach the people who are in need. well they have great difficulty reaching many of these frontline areas a number of rescue workers and humanitarians a health workers have been killed in the last few months only a few days ago we had more who were killed and weaknesses have been attacked so it's extremely dangerous to be a humanitarian work out in those areas but i have to give credit to our syrian humanitarian workers there are thousands of them and extremely courageous dedicated people who are working to help their own civilian population the united nations is supporting them but it's mostly syrians who are helping their own people and as a.