that response has been taken from the politicians and given to the scientists he's one of the most senior scientists in in this field and he said that the strategy needs to change and the response work on the part of the government needs to be devolved to the smallest units of government in the villages so that people who are approached with information or trying to trace the people of the known cases who come into contact with the communities need to be approached by people that they know to date they've mostly been approached by strangers who've been trained in nearby towns and cities and sent into these villages and in a context where there's a widespread mistrust of health workers and widespread mistrust of government generally he said that this is been a major inhibition to the effectiveness of the response so far just bring us up to date with what's been happening in a number of the boner. goma is the regional capital has got

a population of more than 2000000 people and it's right on the border with neighboring rwanda the 1st case was identified just over 2 weeks ago it was a priest who traveled from the from the north of the city into the city that was the 1st case identified he died in 2 days ago the 2nd identified patient also died in 2 more have been identified since that patient who died 2 years ago the government says or rather so the world health health organization says they've traced more than 500 primary 2nd secondary contacts people he'd come into contact with the government says that they vaccinated more than 200 of them with the vaccines given in time it can prevent people from from getting the virus you mentioned the sister of that patient traveled to a city in a neighboring province a car which also has a population of millions of people the officials have managed to trace her and swiftly back to go to try and prevent the spread of the disease because the city is

so densely populated so many people people are worried at this stage that now the virus has reached that densely populated area that things could soon get a lot worse that's what they're now trying to stop. break here al-jazeera when we come back why the u.s. withdrawals one agreement of russia is raising fears of a new arms race and how hong kong is bracing for protests go in defiance of the government wants more that stay with us. i know that cooperation across much of the middle east we've seen as someone signal showers across areas of pakistan the very dry the last 24 hours and really the weekend looks pretty much the same you can see there on the satellite and the temperatures city top of the table here today 46 degrees celsius 43 degrees in

baghdad meanwhile into the north of turkey but a couple days ahead of temperature wise i mean might just see if you show they just brushing by that north coast then further to the south through the arabian peninsula the heat of course really is on here and the cloud is still very much in the picture a lingering illness the south coast of oman and again into the southwest region of yemen the north of that a little bit low those temperatures in doha 41 degrees celsius has picked up a little bit actually brushing through the as a little bit less hot and sunny a little bit less humid and then you notice on sunday we get a kid if finally a caring of all this comes out along the way that is such an improved picture that we had into southern africa the clouds sketching by the south coast slightly brushing by cape town and also she basin pieces just pushing into durban but it should stay dry south of a high of 22 celsius a fairly good 19 in johannesburg and not back and then certainly on sunday 16 degrees again.

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and the opposition agree that a ceasefire the last rebel held province of the opposition says it has already withdrawn its heavy weapons under the sochi agreement. conflicts around the world last year killed or maimed a record number of children and it's a new report the united nations says 1800 children were killed or seriously injured in syria alone. the democratic republic of congo's a bone a crisis could last for up to 3 years that's according to the official i'm in the government's response to the outbreak which says only heart of cases are being identified. now the u.s. has imposed sanctions on moscow over the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter and in the last year or so again due to a script all worked out with a chemical nerve agent in the city of stalls break the russian foreign ministry says the sanctions will further damage relations which are already under strain article and has more now from washington d.c. . u.s. president donald trump complying with something congress told him to do last year

after the poisoning of scrip all the u.s. congress passed a measure saying that because chemical weapons were used russia has to be sanctioned in less they can certify that they would never do it again and allow for inspections the state department months ago said that didn't happen so now congress is basically just been waiting to see if the president would impose these sanctions the law says that he has to pick 3 from this list of options the president is picking to win the 2 that are least likely to cause damage to the russian economy he's forbidding financial institutions in the u.s. from giving loans to the russian government and also international financial institutions from doing business with russia he could have taken such extreme steps as banning russian planes from u.s. airspace limiting imports and exports breaking off diplomatic relations the president chose not to do this no interest in lee we know that the president had a conversation with bottom or putin thursday when asked what they talked about the

president's didn't mention the sanctions didn't mention the i.n.f. treaty he said listen they talked about forest fires and the u.s. is offering to help russia russia says the u.s. has made a serious mistake by pulling out of the control agreement on friday the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed with the former soviet union during the cold war but the u.s. administration says russia has not kept its side of the bargain white house correspondent can really help get reports. it's a treaty u.s. president donald trump has repeatedly accused russia of violating right now to hear the agreement that should have been done years ago. the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed in 1987 by then u.s. president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev for 31 years it's ban both sides from deploying medium range land based missiles halting the arms race between the 2. powers but washington and moscow clashed for years over russia's

development and deployment of a cruise missile system the united states and its allies say was prohibited under the cold war pact in february us secretary of state mike pump a 0 announced that of russia did not begin to comply with the agreement the us would withdraw on august 2nd russia has jeopardized the united states security interest and we can no longer be restricted by the treaty while russia shamelessly violates them announcement prompted russian president vladimir putin warn the united states against deploying new missiles in europe well showcasing next generation russian weaponry because i'd like to tell you about the hypersonic missile which can travel at about 9 times the speed of sound has a range of more than 1000 kilometers for months nato leaders urged russia to comply with the deal to prevent its collapse the u.s. concerns on nato concerns about the new russian missiles had been raised with

russia over several years but last minute pleas to keep that deal intact failed in july putin signed a law suspending russia's participation in the agreement now hopes are diminishing for preserving the last remaining arms pact between the united states and russia the new start treaty signed in 2010 and set to expire in 2021 trumps national security adviser john bolton has called the treaty flawed i fear that without. and with the attitude of mr bolton with a lack of interest and focus of president we end up without a new start treaty as well we go into a nuclear arms race like we saw in the 19 $160.00 s. only more expensive and more dangerous the pentagon has announced it will begin flight tests of new intermediate range ballistic missiles and christmas. by the end of this year and it's requested funding to develop new missile systems that

previously would have been prohibited under the i n f treaty kimberly helped get al-jazeera the white house there mccann has more now from moscow the russian reaction has been brief book quite strong the russians say that the u.s. has made a serious mistake in pulling out of the treaty you know the foreign ministry goes on to say that they would like to see a moratorium on both sides of any deployment of short and intermediate range missiles on either side's borders now what does that actually mean well it means that russia doesn't want to see missiles being deployed to europe close to its borders but it has said that if that happens it will react in kind and it will place nuclear missiles within range of both europe and the u.s. and that's an escalation in itself now the kremlin will be waiting and watching to see what the u.s. is next move is and they'll react accordingly now the real thing of course is that

this will cause some kind of nuclear arms race they'll be costly for both nations and it will be an escalation here in moscow it's very much a case of the americans have made a mistake here and it's a case of the russians waiting and seeing what the next american move might be libya's interior minister has over the closure of 3 migrant detention centers up to criticism from the u.n. never conditions 2 facilities are in the coastal cities of misrata and calms the 3rd is in touch you're a suburb of the capital tripoli forces loyal to the warlord and if you have to hit that facility in an airstrike a month ago killing at least $52.00 migrants the u.n. has backed the decision to close the centers. thousands of civil servants in hong kong have defied government warnings and rallied in support of pro-democracy protesters they want an independent investigation into alleged police brutality charges against demonstrators to be withdrawn it follows weeks of escalating protests triggered by a controversial extradition build. more now from hong kong. the been

a lot of protests in recent weeks here but perhaps none as significant is this one because things people are real civil servants they would pull the government the government their employer that they have come out to protest against and that is despite an open letter published on thursday by the government to carry land saying the civil servants should not take part in this protest or any other so as to preserve their impossibility but they come out to meet spain's of thousands. filling this square here to capacity all the main roads around here are blocked with crowds hundreds deep as well people i've spoken to here say that they felt they had to come out to show their support for protest as they said it has nothing to do with their employer the government what they do in their free time i spoke to a math teacher i spoke with translates to this is well it's a nice he's more in full frankly what they do day to day in terms of working for the government now this cycle has been a completely peaceful protest or

a move right test planned over the weekend to on saturday further what on sunday and on monday calls for a strike white across from. the global stock markets continue to fall a day off the president trump impose more tiresome goods from china wall street and in red on friday off the trump announced a 10 percent tariff on $300000000000.00 worth of chinese imports next month major european markets opened their trading with the biggest slide this year there are new fears of the escalating trade war might lead to a global economic slowdown china says it will not be blackmailed and has warned of a. now it's a political standoff that's plunged relations between japan and south korea to the lowest level in years south korea says it will move japan from its list of preferential trading partners and that's in response to tokyo's earlier decision to drop south korea's fast track export status has more now from seoul. at an emergency cabinet meeting called to discuss the deepening rift with japan.

president moon j.n. of south korea laid the blame squarely with his neighbor. japan's decision is a reckless decision that projects diplomatic efforts to solve the problem and rather worsens the situation i express my deep regret he was responding to the latest escalation in the trade dispute with japan removing south korea from the so-called white list of countries allowed to receive exports of sensitive strategic components that it needs for its high tech manufacturing. it comes on top of restrictions last month on the export of raw materials for the production of semiconductors in south korea with fears of a knock on effect to manufacturing in neighboring countries. japan denies it's linked to a decades old dispute over its water time record. this move was approved to revise japan's export controls appropriately and was not intended to hurt japan south

korea relations or to craft counter measures japan has been angered by a supreme court ruling in favor of victims of forced labor during world war 2 with several japanese firms ordered to pay compensation that's despite japan's insistence that an agreement in $965.00 was meant to have result of the issue once and for all but those studying the history of the turbulent relationship say it's clear the 2 sides have always held opposing views on the nature of that agreement. is up until now they have lived with their separate interpretations but this state of agreeing to disagree has been shaken and can no longer stand after this court decision and now we are at a most critical juncture in korea japan relations and now south korea is saying it will retaliate and remove japan from its list of preferential trade partners further worsening the dispute robert bright al-jazeera sold more than 100 people

have been killed in weeks of flooding in bangladesh now as the waters recede health workers are concerned about a new problem the spread of disease down of a child reports. thousands across bangladesh have lost their homes due to heavy flooding and landslides over 7000000 people have been affected and 163000 hectares of cropland damage in 28 distinct according to bangladesh red crescent society families have been struggling with the impact of the floods the worst in 2 years many are now facing the elements without any kind of protection shilpi big mother of 6 children is finding it hard to cope with the situation. it's hard to compete the children are full square meal when there's so much water still around their father can't find work when there's a flood we somehow manage to survive on dr rice pops many communities are finding

it difficult to access food and little aid has arrived so far. if we got some financial help then we could rebuild our home somehow we could then merely to live a normal life that's all we want. over $40000.00 children are been kept out of schools which have either been too damaged to access or are being used as makeshift shelters and. there is water everywhere in my home and at school i can study your home and now we are lagging behind in study. the majority of bangladeshi lives in rural areas most of home rely on every culture for their livelihood and it's this communities that have been hit the hardest according to environment experts bangladesh is becoming increasingly more vulnerable to climate change especially those living in river islands and coastal belts severe flooding has left many bangladesh is at risk of disease and hunger crops up been washed away

a life stock sale and fisheries room although water is receding in some places what effect that communities have lost their means to make a living and which are very. well just for bangladesh britain's new prime minister bars johnson has suffered his 1st electoral defeat his governing conservative party lost a byelection breckon in a whale leaving it with a one vote working majority in parliament was taken by the pro european union liberal democrats and that will make it hard at the johnson to push through his plans for a possible no deal breaker is it. time for a quick check of the top stories here on al-jazeera syrian government representatives on the opposition have agreed on a ceasefire in the last rebel held province of idlib the opposition says it will abide by the deal as long as the government and its allies don't violate it.

we do the heavy weapons following the sochi agreement but the regime violated this agreement and took advantage of the withdrawal so they can launch their cunning criminal attacks if the regime commits to the cease fire we will commit on our end and there will not be any need to talk about heavy weapons in the area conflicts around the world last year killed or maimed a record number of children and its annual report the united nations says $1800.00 children were killed or seriously injured in syria alone children also continued to be recruited as soldiers including more than 2000 in somalia the democratic republic of congo's ebola crisis could last for up to 3 years that's according to the official handling the government's response to the outbreak who says only half of all cases are being identified. yemen is who the rebels have for the 1st time released images of the ballistic missile system they're using to

target saudi arabia who the say the medium range gerken missile is domestically produced in yemen say they'll continue launching attacks until a saudi led coalition stops its in strikes. when the u.s. impose new sanctions on moscow with the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter in england last year russia says the sanctions will further damage relations which are already under strain and russia says the u.s. has made a serious mistake by pulling out of a landmark arms control agreement the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed with the former soviet union during the cold war but the u.s. administration says russia hasn't kept its side of the bargain moscow denies any treaty violations. thousands of civil servants in hong kong have defied government warnings and rallied in support of pro-democracy protesters they want an independent investigation into alleged police brutality and for charges against demonstrators to be withdrawn follows weeks of escalating protests triggered by

a controversial extradition. well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story stage and that's the watching battle up. is the war on germany finally changing the hoodies have been ramping up attacks on the saudi led coalition both in yemen and saudi arabia itself while the saudis part of the u.a.e. is gradually pulling out of yemen and reaching out to iran so what now for the coalition and is there any room for diplomacy this is inside story.

hello everyone come on santa maria welcome to inside story it has been more than 4 years since the coalition led by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. launched a ferocious air campaign to remove iranian backed rebels from yemen the effect as we know has been devastating tens of thousands of civilians killed and as many as 85000 children who may have starved to death but there are 2 things going on right now which just maybe have the potential to change the course of the war one is the increased ability of the hutus to hit back on thursday they claim 2 major attacks against saudi emirate he backed forces 1st medium range ballistic missiles were fired at a base used by m.r.c. trained forces in the port city of aden at least 36 people were killed including a senior military commander but i also find a long range missile across the saudi arabian border targeting

a military base in demand the capital city of the oil rich eastern region so that's one element but perhaps more significantly in the long term at least is the u.a.e. drawing down its military presence in yemen that started a few weeks ago and for the 1st time in 6 years m r r t officials met an iranian delegation in tehran this time they discussed the strait of hormuz and signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation on maritime border security but really the mere fact that they met in the 1st place is a significant step. meeting was practical with the aim of coordinating between iran and the u.a.e. for border security one of the important points we agreed on is to hold meetings between leaders of border guards from iran and the u.a.e. or we will also strengthen communication between our boarders in emergency situations. so is this a fracture in the coalition will 1st of all we should really define the coalition

because remember there were actually 10 countries which joined the air campaign against the rebels back in march of 2015 they included most of the gulf countries as well as egypt sudan and malaysia but really the whole thing has been driven and executed by the saudis and the iraqis who then removed from that coalition after the blockade was imposed 2 years ago. they've also been supported by the u.s. the u.k. france turkey and belgium not official members of the alliance but they've been selling weapons to saudi arabia despite international condemnation and on the flip side china russia and of course iran to voice their opposition to military action in yemen beijing and moscow have vetoed un resolutions against iran's military assistance to the. i so that's the situation let's bring in our guests now in lancaster in the u.k. we've got simon move on who is a senior lecturer in international relations at lancaster university in sun up. pro

who journalist and yemen affairs specialist and in beirut is rami who are senior public policy fellow at the american university of beirut gentlemen welcome to you all i think that the bulk of our discussion is going to be about the state of the coalition the state of the war the recent moves by the u.a.e. but i do want to deal with these attacks that we've seen from the most recently and i think hussein is a good place to start in. these are increasing are they these larger scale attacks and particularly the attacks would actually go over the border into saudi arabia how are they managing to do this. today the yemeni. the buttons on our hands at least footage of the. targeted at the moment called the. 3 is one of the upgraded from the stockpile that. russia or from north korea that actually it was they think the farthest inside

saudi arabia target which is in the rich area in saudi arabia and they believe that this is a kind of a stronger message to saudi arabia that that saying that your oil infrastructure is under our coverage on the world the united arab emirates which i believe is the same distant. that i thought as well. the saudi backed forces in aden i believe we all have heard the news from united arab emirates that they are withdrawing there was no official statement from united arab emirates and they believe this will be the fairest withdrawal in history without the release in an overzealous statement that just some kind of leaks united arab emirates and into some media outlet and i think they want that by that is to stop any attack on united arab emirates that's why this attack on a den. base is what i must tonight out of him and that is not about your existence in yemen you have for many militia at

a crude in many yemenis in the south and those base are actually used to fight the yemeni army and people of committee who are loyal across and that's why all united arab emirates or other groups under them they will be on that are saying would you go as far to say that these are are turning the tables are are succeeding almost against the saudi arabia. yes of course i mean if you see the course of war and the for the 3 weeks the former spokesperson of the coalition. he said that they have destroyed most of. what he called at that time houthi. missiles but now we see that yemeni army actually is upgraded. copy in some of the missile that they have they are making new drones that have reach the united arab emirates and many areas in saudi arabia and still saudi arabia with although i visit all the battery of the latest budget missile they have they could not stop any most of this attack

so this show you a total failure on one hand you see yemeni army. is getting stronger and on the other hand we see that the saudi backed forces staling they fighting each other as well is failing to defend its border that they are using yemeni and some medicine that is from sudan to defend their border and they begin this war as they say to protect their country are now is exactly the opposite there was no threat against saudi arabia but now there is a huge threat against saudi arabia and of the world against the existence of the saudi royal family source simon in lancaster how is it. important the saudi arabian military with its money and with its hardware is not able to repel these attacks point layman's view of the situation things that the saudis should be able to contain this sort of thing. yeah you think but i guess the nature of the conflict in yemen means that traditional traditional military approaches to

conflicts are not going to be a political there's no there's no very clear battlefield away from urban spaces and that makes it really difficult for the saudis to combat the threat posed by the who are these which is one of the one of the reasons why we've seen such devastation in yemeni cities and yemeni urban areas as the saudis have tried to cattail that threat posed by the who these but it's of course had a devastating impact on the people of yemen on yemeni society as we've seen as we've heard in all these various reports that have documented the devastation that emerged from the coalition so it's really difficult i mean it's not an impossible for the saudis to stop someone hiding in in the streets of a city and then launching a missile so so it's really difficult for the saudis to stop this and spite of all of that vast technological capabilities it's incredibly difficult to know where all the individuals are who might be involved in this and then stop individual actions

and now to add to that you've got the situation of saudi arabia starting to maybe lose and support from its closest ally iran a hurry let me bring you in on this one what is the u.a.e. up to at the moment drawing down its forces and. shock of all shocks talking to iran as well. i think the u.a.e. is really reacting to a series of developments that are taking place simultaneously the most important one probably as they have started to realize which they did about a year ago when they started to really turn over the fighting to the troops the 90000 yemenis and others that they've trained in in the south part the southern part of yemen mostly they realize that they're actually quite incompetent at warfare in other arab countries the saudis on the and that are these are very daring very bold very ambitious very boastful of their capabilities and they're willing to defend themselves but but really heroically incompetent at doing it when

they're fighting in another country and i think they embarked is have to be given credit for realizing that i'm saying look we better get out of here especially when the american congress is passing you know you know majority votes to prevent american sales of arms to the image out these and the saudis and 2nd afford you've got the europeans now the germans the french and others who are refusing to get involved with the american call to get an armada of international navies to preserve free movement through the strait of hormuz. the siege of kut that has not worked at all so the iraqis are really getting terrible press all over the world so i think they're starting to turn around their policy and realize that what they've tried to do as they say to push back the iranians has totally backfired and hasn't creased iranian influence in the amman and other parts of the region so it's

really all of those things happening at the same time and it's one of the few areas few times i think we can say the image that the leadership is acting quite sensibly and realizing that his policies are not working and trying to turn them around is that not a big risk there romney you know in and incurring the wrath of saudi arabia for going against them. well they really don't have much choice the saudis are going to have to do something similar and the answer to all this of course is if you really are worried about the iranians most of the accusations they make about iran are exaggerated but there are some genuine concerns that people have with iran arabs and foreigners and others but if you are concerned then the way to deal with them is the way that obama did which is negotiate with them and come to an agreement so i think what we're starting to see but the. move to talk about fishing and maritime stuff they're now starting to explore the waters for

a negotiated process rather than a military one and sanctions and all that the only answer in that region is a regional security framework that all of the countries and iran and maybe a few others work on together in the saudis have to be a part of that process to hussein how do you think the who will view this sort of pullback if you like from the united arab emirates i'm sure they'd be pleased with it but also maybe a bit suspicious i mean after 4 years of war and suddenly they decide oh ok maybe this isn't working we're going to get out. yeah i think this is they look at it as suspicious and i believe that the attack or. yesterday on base because those forces that have backed by united arab emirates and it's a clear message tonight that a bit of that is not about your own troops is about the troops that you have recruited the militia that you have. created in in aden we did we know that united arab emirate all the forces that backed by them in the south they didn't even have

when i look at the so-called legitimacy they didn't allow the government to go to war from aden and i think this is one of the biggest mistake that the united arab emirates has done because they only focus on controlling the cutter island. state on some key island in that it's easy but on the other hand they haven't given a good example if they have for example from the beginning when they have invaded even if they have like brought back the so-called legitimacy to aden you know made security really safe there you know help the people to rebuild the country i think they could have actually made a good. example to bargain about but they did exactly the opposite because they don't want anything for yemen only to be to stay fighting each other and to control the main area as i mentioned the island that was closed and i believe that many yemenis now hospitalized and i just want to mention that the top commander that was killed yesterday. in that attack in aden because he was the right hand man of the

united arab emirate in setting up secret prison torture assassination abducting many yemeni civilians on most of them that are like the united arab emirates like from the muslim brotherhood on the show you that they're not out of him but it actually doesn't want to help yemenis but they want actually to reach their interests in yemen only simon mobile let's bring you back in at this point the other. issue i mentioned is the fact that the united arab emirates not only drawing down but talking to iran yes they were talking to iran about the strait of hormuz which is technically it's another issue it's a big issue for the gulf but the fact that they're talking. why are they doing it and b. how is saudi arabia going to react to its ally having across the strait in talking to iran. yeah i think it's a really important issue in a really delicate moment for now i think to understand we need to go back to yemen we need to go back to the amarok involvement in yemen and one of the reasons for

that was to counter iran was to prevent iran from from getting a foothold on the arabian peninsula but of course that came at a massive price and recently the deputy prime minister of the u.a.e. has made several remarks about the expense of the emirates the engagement in yemen costing millions every day hundreds of millions a day and he's asking to what extent are we getting anything but for this so there's an economic dimension we know that the emirates has struggled we know that tourism has dropped dramatically so there's an economic dimension that and the economic dimension is sitting against this security debate about how best to curtail iranian influence across the region and this goes back to what romney was saying about dialogue i think the emirates have realized that perhaps the best a way of addressing this iranian question is through dialogue i think as well that using this as a moment to test the waters there were a little bit concerned about the policy which is seemingly to push for regime

change in tehran whereas the emirates want of a form of policy change they were concerned that the sanctions are getting tighter and tighter with little scope for dialogue and diplomacy so this is an opportune moment for the emirates to test the water to see what scope there is for dialogue what scope there is to actually improve relations across the gulf now saudi arabia is obviously going to be a little bit concerned about this we know that the saudis have got a longstanding rivalry with iran it just depends as to whether there has been a degree of communication between the or the not with dobby whether m.b.'s the crown prince has given permission or at least acknowledge that it's ok for the emirates to reach out to tehran and see see what the what the climate is like whether there is scope for dialogue if that hasn't happened. and then it could well be that we start to see real tensions emerging between the saudis and the m.r. artes of course if it has happened then we could see a bit of a sea change and we could see in merging scope and possibility for dialogue between

the various rivals rami do you suspect that is the case that mohamed bin someone has been speaking to the immoralities and saying ok you can't do this because again i don't want to belabor the point too much but i just keep thinking about the potential blowback they could be for the u.a.e. for going. against saudi arabia. further you way definitely has been consulting with saudi arabia talking about these issues they don't necessarily need to get a total green light i mean saudi arabia doesn't control the u.a.e. in fact it's the other way around most observers who know the area well think that it's the u.a.e. leadership that has influence the soda leadership on some of these reckless and totally failed adventures in qatar and lebanon and syria and and yemen and maybe libya even too so the likelihood is they are consulting with each other they have to work closely together the image not to use on the saudi leaderships

about 2011 when they are of uprisings broke out and you started getting elections and just 0 was all over the place and greater than ever with people who are hearing real journalism free expression all over the place elections muslim brothers winning the presidency in egypt that's when they have it out there in the so these freaked out and they decided we've got to put a stop to all of this and they came up with their strategy and it has been a total failure so they have to stick together because their fates are really entered intertwined i would just add another point to the image out these are not totally abandoning so yemen they're pulling out most of their troops from direct fighting but they're still funding and arming and training and equipping 100000 more troops there so that alliances with with various people like the tata sala the nephew of the former president they're still making deals with people tribal leaders and others and they still control certain areas including support the

island and others so there's they want to keep a strategic foothold there because it's part of their whole regional plan to be able to have ports and facilities all across the red sea even going up into libya they would try one day to do but this is not going to work they can this is way beyond their capabilities as a small little can. and i think we're starting to see the 1st signs of the realism in the foreign policy good point to make that you know something gentleman i have a question on my i'm a list here one of the last questions or bullet point if you like saying is that sort of the beginning of the end of the coalition i'm going to change that now because i think from listening to all 3 of you you've all talked about dialogue and i'd like to get your thoughts simon i'll start with you then i'll come to hussein and rami your thoughts on what dialogue might look like because after you've had 4 years of war you've had tens of thousands of people killed it's difficult to sit around a table and suddenly start talking. about peace you want to talk about peace but

it's a difficult thing. yeah it is and dialogue has to go hand in hand with trust you need trust to have a serious dialogue but you also need dialogue to have trust you need to build that trust but trust takes time as you say it's difficult to trust someone when you've been on opposing sides of a conflict when you've been you've had a long period of time of hating up person of of dehumanizing that person through being on the other side of a conflict so you have to build that trust you have to reach humanize you have to start to empathize with that grievances you have to be aware of the issues that are a play and this applies equally to to the yemen conflict but also to tensions between the saudis and moralities and the iranians and others you have to have empathy you have to build trust that comes through dialogue that comes through signaling trust and once you've got that trust you can start to have more serious dialogue but you have to have a degree of dialogue to build the trust so it's

a cyclical process it's a slow difficult process but it's absolutely essential to actually make things well make things better to get conflict resolved and same with your knowledge of the who these in this situation do you think they would be open to dialogue and to what conditions when they come to the table yes i believe they have been open for a diet of from the beginning they have went to the one gentleman saudi arabia to kuwait to all negotiation but that i think the to be successful in any dialogue should be a dialogue between all yemeni parties we should but the so-called legitimacy aside because had he was a president of the transition period then you have no power over yemen i mean this . is a thought so i died of thought between yemeni parties and as well just this would be a direct told between the whole between saudi arabia if it if they are not going to do that then we're going to see another. agreement which now been overstocked it

by this i would be back towards it even though. jose under the supervision of you and has withdrawn from the tea party that's why we don't we do want to be that direct dialogue. on outside of those he has offered many times that they will stop attack in saudi arabia using drone on ballastic me this was days before. the so-called agreement on that for about 7 months and so he has not even apply to that . i mean request for him and that's why i think they should just put everything aside and sit directly on told with. our leadership here and i will leave the final word with. rami hussein mentioned in passing on the 2nd agreement struck on talks is that where it could go back to is a stance in point for any future talks any future dialogue from from all parties.

well the internal situation in yemen started as an internal situation in the various wars and separation and unity and so of all wars and all these negotiations for a new constitution have these things are going on in yemen for about 30 years now and they're quite incredible in their scope and then you've got an always the saudis are involved and then you've got the image that is involved in a became a regional conflict on the image out there so this saying we want to push back iran so it kind of got blown out of proportion there has to be a process to stop the fighting inside yemen and that can come simultaneously with any beginning of a regional dialogue or come before it could come after that's where the yemenis to decide themselves and they will find a way to do this serious issues the people in the south really don't like being ruled by people from the north and the boaties and others but they have to figure this out and they will but there is something really important going on the evidence is in their talks in iran started the talks

a few days ago about fishing fishing boats so then they started talking about the free passage of shipping so they have to pick one or 2 items to go under the time agree on something make sure that both sides see themselves as having equal rights everybody can fish everybody can export oil everybody can trade and that's how this process will finally expand and then you've got to get some sensible people and certainly not from washington because there aren't very many there but sensible people from around the world who can expand this into a real serious regional process maybe under the un's offices rami who are joining us from beirut always a pleasure to talk to you also with an album in son and son in my pond in lancaster thank you to all 3 of you and as ever thank you for watching 3 ways to check us out online one is the show you section and out as they were dot com where you can see this program or indeed any of our previous editions you can also find that facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story on twitter at a.j.

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death toll continues to rise from fighting in italy. if only a warning the democratic republic of congo has told the crisis could last for 2 or 3 more years. new u.s. sanctions on russia over the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter in the u.k. . hello i'm maryanne demasi and london with the top stories from europe including persians new prime minister barak's johnson's working majority in parliament is caught just one after a by election loss in wales. welcome to the program syria's government on the opposition have agreed a ceasefire in the last rebel held province of idlib it's been announced during the 13th round of the so-called us dollar talks in kazakhstan the opposition says it has already pulled out its heavy weapons under the such agreement which it accuses the government and its allies of breaking but the opposition insists it will abide

by the cease fire as long as the government doesn't violate it. we withdrew the heavy weapons following the sochi agreement but the regime violated this agreement and took advantage of the withdrawal so they can launch their cunning criminal attacks if the regime commits to the cease fire we will commit on our and there will not be any need to talk about heavy weapons in the area under simmons has the latest now from north. on the face of it there does seem to be a will for a ceasefire although there are many questions about how long it could last all parties say they intend to move forward with the agreement but there are technicalities which could cripple it very quickly one of them is whether or not all guns all removed from a 20 kilometer buffer zone which was agreed in the so she agreement back in september 28th seen this just in from the opposition spokesperson ayman

samy he says right now there is no trust right now there are no heavy weapons will be withdrawn again unless there's a signed agreement by russia and the turkish sides then we can talk more about withdrawing our weapons now that was a precondition from the syrian regime in actually agreeing to the cease fire in the 1st place so that's one problem and i asked the russian special envoy what he felt about this cease fire. will hope that it will last for a long time but the toll depends now you should understand on those. because the main problem is that according to the source agreement. it's necessary to create a demand. a lot of. members of the writers of. situated right now there is no trust right now no heavy weapons will be withdrawn again unless there will be signed guarantees from various parts on the russian and turkey side then we can talk more about we withdrawing our weapons and another

problem is the civilians $3000000.00 of them living in the northwest region it live under so much pressure so much suffering the civilians have to be protected how can that happen to reroute says that the 1st sign of any offensive towards them they will fire back so can the guns keep silent there is a lot of concern about whether that. will continue there's also the issue of the political settlement which is being part of these talks as well they're all provisional agreements but nothing could be moved forward it would appear until there is a certainty that the guns are going to remain silent in the northwest region more now from say no hold a hose and turkey's border with syria. the guns have fallen silent but what happens next is not clear this is a very ambiguous ceasefire according to the syrian government is that it is

conditional on the implementation of the sochi deal now the opposition saying that we won't withdraw our heavy weapons unless we have guarantees from turkey and russia and you have high authority to share which is the main opposition group but the strongest group in saying that we reserve the right to retaliate if the truce is violated without without even mentioning whether or not it plans to implement that sochi memorandum h.t.s. was the group that refused to withdraw from a demilitarized zone making it very very difficult for turkey to create this so and in fact this is why russia kept on criticizing turkey saying you're not fulfilling your commitments under the sochi deal will turkey be able to do that this time around so there is a lot of concern that this is just a short term agreement or an arrangement at the end of the day we keep talking about the opposition and the government but it is russia and turkey that brokered this deal the 2 powers who support their warring sides on the ground and both of them really have to reach some sort of a compromise because turkey had political leverage if the rebels were holding

ground the government was not able to make any significant advances the russians and the syrian government were targeting civilian areas killing civilians pressuring the rebels to try to surrender so there was a need to reach some sort of an agreement this specially since turkey and russia don't want to rupture their relationship but whether or not it will be short term or long term well we have to wait and see yemen's who think rebels for the 1st time released. images of the ballistic missile system they've used to target saudi arabia who face say the medium range birken missile is domestically produced in yemen they say they'll continue launching attacks until a saudi u.a.e. coalition stops its airstrikes. from some of. during his press today the. spokesperson has syria mentioned that this newly domestically produced missile can have targets far away from riyadh and that the all of these

saudi and the united arab emirates vital targets have become under the fire range of the whole thing so here. more ballastic missiles will be have launched by the whole thiis targets the saudi aggression. stops in yemen he mentioned that the newly. produced can 3rd which is means the will cain who. has the capability also to be launched from. launchers or from text launchers he also mentioned that the b.b. have carried out the. attack in aden winter which carries resulted to the killing of us least $39.00 soldiers during their parade in aden the democratic republic of congo's a bone a crisis could last for 2 or 3 years that's according to the official hamelin the

government's response to the outbreak who says only half of cases are being identified you know on 7 relatives of a gold miner who died in the bone or in eastern democratic republic of congo have been placed under surveillance the family calls are scarce only this week after they travelled from a city of goma near the rwandan border to neighboring province malcolm webb has more now from nairobi. the head of the government's ebola response dr john jack miami has said that a bowl of outbreak could last 2 or 3 years and he said that based on an estimate that there are only managing to identify about half of the about the cases the other half remain at large they're not able to identify them or trace the people that come into contact with it is widely. seen as a positive thing that the response has now been taken out of the hands of the politicians and put into the hands of the scientists talk to me and they said a change of strategy was now required and that the response needed to be moved to devolve down to the smallest units of government in the villages so that when

communities are approached by government workers and health workers who are trying to trace people who are being contacted or trying to encourage people to get vaccinated then they need to be approached communities need to be approached by people with whom they're familiar by people who they know and he says to date it's been problematic the community has been approached by people who've been trained in nearby towns and cities and to them essentially strangers this is in a context where there's a widespread mistrust of health workers and a general widespread mistrust of government not least because of had decades of conflict before delivery of public services he said this new strategy needs to be brought in hoping that they can prevent the spread of the virus especially since it's reached the regional capital of goma city with a population of more than 2000000 people so officials now are very concerned that this ebola outbreak which is the 2nd worst that the world ever seen could soon get

a lot worse the u.s. has imposed fresh sanctions on moscow over the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter in england last year so gay and eunice crippled were attacked with a chemical nerve agent in the city of salzburg the russian foreign ministry says the sanctions will further damage already strained relations practical hain has more from washington d.c. . u.s. president donald trump complying with something congress told him to do last year after the poisoning of scrip all the u.s. congress passed a measure saying that because chemical weapons were used russia has to be sanctioned in less they can certify that they would never do it again and allow for inspections the state department months ago said that didn't happen so now congress has basically just been waiting to see if the president would impose these sanctions the law says that he has to pick 3 from this list of options the president is picking to win the 2 that are least likely to cause damage to the

russian economy he's forbidding financial institutions in the u.s. from giving loans to the russian government and also international financial institutions from doing business with russia he could have taken such extreme steps as banning russian planes from u.s. airspace limiting imports and exports breaking off diplomatic relations the president chose not to do this no if you're soonly we know that the president had a conversation with vladimir putin thursday when asked what they talked about the president's didn't mention the sanctions didn't mention the i.n.f. treaty he said listen they talked about forest fires and the u.s. is offering to help russia russia says the u.s. has made a serious mistake by pulling out of the law control agreement on friday intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed with the former soviet union during the cold war but the u.s. administration says russia has not kept its side of the bargain our white house correspondent can really help it. it's a treaty u.s. president donald trump has repeatedly accused russia of violating right now to hear

the agreement that should have been done years ago. the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed in 1987 by then u.s. president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev for 31 years it's ban both sides from deploying medium range land based missiles halting the arms race between. the 2 superpowers but washington and moscow clashed for years over russia's development and deployment of a cruise missile system the united states and its allies say was prohibited under the cold war pact in february us secretary of state mike pump a.o. announced that of russia did not begin to comply with the agreement the us would withdraw on august 2nd russia has jeopardized the united states' security interest .