has faced since the start of hostilities in april my kana has more from the united nations in iraq yet another draft resolution introduced in the council calling for a cease fire calling 2 for the enforcement of all previous resolutions but the council remains deeply divided russia continues to back the assad government insisting that the ongoing violence is caused by what it calls terrorists that are used to and the sense of frustration summed up by britain's political coordinator who accuse the council of failing the people of syria this conflict has undermined and weakened the united nations and the wider rules based international system assad has used chemical weapons against his own people he has thumbed his nose at this council and our resolutions at the general assembly and at the a.p.c. w. aided and protected by russia and by iran the council was also briefed by the

special envoy to syria who painted a bleak picture of the ongoing violence on the ground but he expressed cautious optimism about a political process that he maintains could result in the formation of a constitutional committee it's possible to form hopefully to find him agreement on that also to a full committee and then we have to use start agreement as a door opener into a political process that could create the beginning for a new syria a new syria the human spirit the mission between the people in syria and start a better life for everyone. for the 1st time the special envoy put a timeline on the process saying that there could be agreement between the opposing parties by the time of the general assembly next month. lesson 3 years after signing a landmark peace agreement in colombia a former commander of the fog rebel group has called on his followers to take up arms again yvonne marquez blames the government for betraying the implementation of

the peace deal. he has more from colombia's capital bogota. it's a painful reminder of the past colombians will carpenters' they too are video posted online by former senior fike rebel commander even marcus in green fatigues surrounded by armed fighters announcing a return to war i don't say. we announce to the world but the 2nd market has become under the protection of the universal right to desist all the peoples of the world to rise in arms against oppression this is the continuation of the rebel fight aunts are into the betrayal of the havana piece of quits marcus was a key negotiator of the landmark 2016 peace agreement but also one of the group's more radical fighters he went missing last year with other commanders eluding drug trafficking charges colombia security forces believe they found shelter in neighboring venezuela denouncement alone with another blow to

a deal that has been slowly in raveling well more than $13000.00 fighters designed after the 2016 agreement hundreds of former rebels and human rights activists have been killed since funding for a key piece reforms have been lagging and the current right wing government of president openly criticize the accords trying to change them unilaterally. but despite all the difficulties in dangers the president of the now legal fire party says the great majority of former fighters remain committed to peace india courts need to be protected but of the. armed fighting in colombia today is a terrible mistake millions of competitors are clamoring for a country at peace we disarmed rebels left our weapons for peace convinced that war has ceased to be the way forward the vast majority fight today for legality and to peacefully ensure the implementation of the havana agreement. colombian president

rejected accusations that is government is to blame for undermining the peace process and said the dissidents will be crushed genesis score one those who choose the route of crime will suffer the full weight of the law this is a time for colombia to unite against terrorism and crime the only enemies of peace are those who pretend using terror against our country that this events announcement poses the most important threat to the already beaten peace process the breakaway fighters remain a minority but it could inflict damage and also convince a number of these illusions x. fighters to join the struggle a scary prospect in a country still struggling to find their way out of more than 50 years of internal conflict i listen to them get to. or less now speak to danielle garcia penya was a former high commissioner for the peace of colombia he joins us live from skype on

skype from bogota thank you so much for being with us so just how big of a threat is this breakaway group led by to the peace process in colombia what can they achieve at this point do you think. well it's definitely take a huge blow in political terms fact and even back to the fact that when chief negotiator of the community is accompanied by other. board members of the partly some 3 he said one had to think that the jury should read politically but numerically speaking its assault was very small and so on without your report of the vast majority one percent of the part that you'd mobilize are with a good process so they represent a splitter group if you want. to work with kitchens and implications as far as you are out there are quite good mince what is exactly their grievance

on hand they note that the implementation of the agreements have in fact in this they are correct and that's. been the implied sued by the government you the grievance. included important issues like agrarian reform democratic reform of prop substitutional series of issues that have simply not been put into effect so their grievances are legitimate if you want. the question of how they will achieve these objectives to our struggle that is with the question minds and the as the leader for it if you will check one of the best way to cure g.d. agreement that is to continue thank goodness mcrib us is to get those reforms. through so what exactly has the government done in these last 3 years since the agreement to what was signed had they implemented every form same proves that the situation

in the areas that were once controlled by the clock. once you did that you in the very simple terms of everything we guarded the reincorporation for a solution have been relatively compliant but the problem reforms do you deal with the issue of very uniform and some of those it's a do not a group and in on in it's far as the current government that is is just to talk about a year ago there is a bit openly that against the nuclear side is just this aspect of the agreement they are the funding through different institutions that were created by the group that has been cut and the overall they true reforms that we have spoken about have shipped you get a better so the government it is this simple as disarming the far right you read original park but not the broad reform agreement that was signed a few years ago as

you mentioned just a small fraction of the flock led by vanoc as a is threatening to take up again but they are. operating in the south of colombia like the l.n. do you think marquez or try to join forces with these bulbs and to what extent will that pose a threat to the government. no doubt that's a this is a very important point because of for me marcus pointed out the possibility that she could not buy into the you know of the you if you go right to feel that commander if you. ours you know they express their their willingness to talk to you to markets which we are we for some of us that this is a very viable threat let's not forget that the there's other are pretty good of you know what happened to drug trafficking that have to do with other. political paramilitaries are so you know the food security even though the markets group

is relatively. mild in the broader sense that we will be there is no doubt that this. changes the meaning greets the situation certainly worrying times for colombian garcia pena thank you so much for speaking to us there from bogota thank you for out. 20 more ahead on this news hour including a south korean court orders every child in a corruption case involving a former president and it top samsung executives. see u.s. plans to revolve rules preventing methane leaks out of oil facilities prompting shiri from environmental groups and world number one and defending champion naomi osaka shows her ally said the u.s. open the i will have the action sports. in brazil president china balsa narrow has signed as

a creamy banning the practice of carrying land by burning it a ban will remain in effect for the next film on sports now is also calling for more development in the amazon the spy and international condemnation of his handling of a record number of wildfires danielle shaima reports in the northwest and said over and danya. it takes a tough 3 to hack a living from the searing hot inhospitable amazon. they come to recap to learn to plant soya yams and much else besides they do so legally but the vulnerable in this huge poorly piece region to illegal speculators. they're grabbing all of that area part of the john marine nature reserve they're grabbing everything and the word is they will cut everything down and if they do then they'll set it on fire it. this man said he feared for his life if his identity was revealed say neither the police nor the authorities have the resources to protect him from

neighbors who covered his land just when the president is being called upon to do more by the international community and some of those living here to do more to defend the amazon he moves in the opposite direction he invites more developments which many living here feel or put both the environment and themselves a greater risk. president says too much of this forest is protected the the nature reserves or indigenous reservations the poverty awaits those who don't take advantage. but this rancher said he thought there had been enough deforestation. on has to have cattle we don't need to de force anything else though just take care of the lands that are already deforested take care of the rivers of the spring this cattle is what we live from. however he said he doesn't blame the president for the lang grabs all the fires he believes the region is simply too big to police despite the efforts of the local authorities. crime happens everywhere however our

policies have been positive so far but because of the size of the state and the way its land is occupied our policies will take time to work to guarantee security in both urban and rural areas. other small farmers stressed that farming can. and should only be done in a sustainable way. some people don't respect the law and this creates a bad image of our country abroad but we keep fighting for local farmers who work with nature the ecosystem so that we can all survive the battle for the land has been raging since the arrival of the 1st europeans the dream the country there is enough for everyone to shattered by greed corruption and poor management. state northwest of the. in neighboring bolivia rising temperatures a causing wildfires to re-ignite in the east of the country president evo morales has been criticized for his slow response to the crisis joint saya fight is in

tackling the blazes and his rival in the upcoming elections have suspended campaigning because of the crisis so far this year highs have destroyed $1200000.00 hectares of force and grasslands in bolivia latin america it's a lucy and human has more from interests in bolivia. this is what's left of the dry tropical forest when i was kalyan because it's full of smoke and pockets of fires actually of the fires are spreading just under the surface of what you see behind me we were in there just a short while ago with some of the firefighters most of them are volunteers people that have no formal training there really are no firemen here some soldiers and police didn't they too don't have the necessary equipment to fight these fires that are just continuing to spread with the wind with the drought and of course with this kind of combustible material that you see behind me this as i said it's called a dry tropical forest that means that there is a question of dry and extremely cruel amable material on the ground years and years

of twigs of leaves of coconut scenes that have oil in them and so it's extremely difficult to put them out and the only thing a lot of these firefighters have a bottle of water like this the thought that they're carrying money and people were brought a consultant paying for it themselves we are marketing the army anywhere near or at least not yet and not the international help that is being offered by the european union and other countries president alice is supposed to declare a state of disaster or emergency in order to allow about to happen but it hasn't done that yet the us government has announced plans to ease existing rules on messiaen emissions it wants to loosen restrictions on oil and gas size which at the moment need to monitor and we pay any messiaen lease in their pipelines and storage facilities. committee hawk it has more white house says it's rolling back these

protections because it says they are unnecessary and even burdensome but environmental groups say that what is really happening is an effort to limit the legal authority of the environmental protection agency in trying to combat climate change and stop global warming so what we're hearing here is that this is now a proposal there will be a period of comments there will be a potential court challenges but ultimately environmentalists say they've seen the script before in the end what will happen is this will be quietly implemented now the white house says that what this means is that oil and gas companies will no longer be required to detect and stop methane leaks and this is certainly something that they are encouraged to self monitor but environmentalists argue in the era of competition where the dollar is the bottom line this is unlikely the white house making the argument though that smaller businesses that only had a few or oil and gas wells could not compete and this will allow

a leveling of the playing field that small businesses were being hurt disproportionately under these regulations so getting mixed reactions from the industry well some are applauding there are a few companies that have voiced some concerns given the concerns the widening concerns about the the rise in temperatures of the planet and climate change and combating that but at the end of the day the trumpet ministration says this is about jobs and protecting jobs when environmentalists say the priority should be making sure that everyone in the world has clean air and water. still ahead on this news hour in the u.k. the legal challenges mounting against boys johnson's frind to suspend autumn and donald trump signs an order creating a space command where then the u.s. military and u.s. and name their pay if they be here with that story in sports to stay with us.

hello again welcome back we're here across united states they are preparing in florida for landfall of hurricane dorian making its way across that area across the bahamas and we do expect to see a landfall on monday but until then the storm is going to be in open water and it's going to be strengthening so it's going to be maybe making to category 2 and by the time it makes landfall on monday it could be a major hurricane a category 3 right there so we're going to be seeing a lot of rain across the bahamas and the rain's going to also kick up as we go towards saturday and sunday for parts of florida as well we're going to see the watches and warnings really start to pop up as we go towards the weekend if you are traveling to florida we could be seeing some cancellations anywhere from miami all the way up here towards parts of tampa in orlando well across much of the caribbean things are quieter now that the storm has pushed to the north we're going to see a lot more dry conditions across parts of the u.s.

virgin islands as well but heavy rain is going to be a big problem here across central america over the next few days panama city attempts a few here on friday of 30 degrees really stay like that as we go toward saturday rain showers for kingston at $32.00 and have bene at about $31.00 degrees there and we are going to be seeing it from about it pushing through parts of southern brazil that's going to be making its way to the north but till that gets there we are looking at rio de janeiro with a nice temperature few of $27.00 degrees. violence and discrimination are all too familiar to many women in india a reality too often reinforced by bollywood. but its leading star is throwing his weight behind the cause of the region the territory and using his celebrity to advocate for gender equality. the snake charmers on a con witness.

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top stories yemen is internationally recognized president has urged saudi arabia to intervene to stop the u.s. military from attacking government forces in and around aides in the u.a.e. says its air force has been targeting terrorists following at times on coalition forces into a port in colombia former rebels are threatening to take up arms again less than 3 years after signing a peace deal they accuse the government of the training the implementation of the agreement and the u.s. government has announced a plan to ease existing rules on methane emissions at oil and gas sites it centers on the current requirement to monitor and repair any methane leaks in their pipelines and storage facilities. british m.p.'s say next week could be their only chance to prevent a no deal break sit this all is a decision by promise of boris johnson to suspend parliament for 5 weeks in september limiting the time for debate on the u.k.'s exit from the european union

the announcement has sponsored protests across the u.k. legal challenges and a petition with more than one and a half 1000000 signatures wolf davidson the popular leader of the scottish conservatives has confirmed she is quitting after 8 years in the job and labor party leader jeremy corbyn has now issued a joint statement with all the other opposition parties in parliament urging the prime minister to reverse the decision or allow him beasts a vote on it. what we've got the most is a group of experts from draft political parties taking legal advice looking to see next we whether we can use the introduction of legislation to prevent now in my well being that boris johnson does try and trigger a general election on his own terms but i will make sure ready that if there is a general election it will be on our terms as well and also part will make the decision about the timing of that we will be dictated to anymore by a dictator in numbers and parliament now is reasserting the traditional centuries

old democratic rights of the people. there is law and sleep has more now from london. well of all the fireworks of wednesday and boris johnson's announcement that he's suspending parliament for a fall 5 weeks all the pressure now is on the anti breck's its side the side that doesn't want to the study doesn't want boris johnson's version of brecht's it to figure out what they're going to do to try to block him and the main problem they have against them is the absolute lack of time because with parliament being suspended from just over a week from now there are only about 3 parliamentary sitting days for them to come up with something their main line of attack continues to be to try to pass a law that would prevent a no deal breck's it at the end of october and ask for an extension from the european union but the problem with that is that if they want to pass a law they have sue amend a government bill going through parliament and if the government doesn't propose

any bills go through parliament then there is nothing for them to amend and as it stands at the moment there isn't anything for them to amend in parliament next week and so how then can they pass a law if that doesn't work their other alternative is to force a vote of no confidence in the government next week which they could do but if they want to do that they have to propose an alternative government with norton it's of prime minister because if the government of the day were to lose a vote of confidence then the opposition would have 2 weeks to form a new government. 2 obviously is largest political parties have joined forces to create a new government under prime minister just separate contests condi has accepted a fresh mandate to govern from president said. the move on the far right league party and its controversial. into opposition needs explains. a seismic shift in italy's political landscape the established a center left democratic party and italy's anti establishment 5 star movement have

agreed to put aside their differences and join forces to form a government the outgoing prime minister a political independent giuseppe conti who resigned last week returns to the top job. of government for the good of the citizens a government which will help modernize the country and make our nation more competitive internationally but also. more supportive and more inclusive. the surprise partnership puts an end to the 1st post-war populist government in western europe. italian politics imploded earlier this month when deputy prime minister any withdrew his league party prabhat turbulent alliance with the 5 star movement the right wing firebrand had hoped to exploit his party's popularity to trigger snap elections and become prime minister if successful it could have led to

the creation of a fully far right government but the plan spectacularly backfired salvini is furious accusing brussels perlin and powerless plotting against him. we've been direct and honest with the president to whom we've expressed wouldn't the boredom and not just of our party but of millions of italians looking on at this ridiculous political show a game of power has been going on for days between the democratic party and the 5 star movement so you need strong fierce criticism and one support for his crackdown on boats trying to bring stranded migrants to italy putting relations with other e.u. members under strain he described african refugees as an be of benefit to the us and criminals once the most influential man in government salvini is now the most powerful man in opposition and the leak still remains the country's most popular policy the new coalition is united against

a common enemy he will need to hold firm to keep selvi at bay leaves parker al-jazeera. and while the daily needs he has kept the far right out of power over in germany the anti integration alternative for germany helps make big election gains in the eastern state of saxony the area along a bastion of conservative politics votes on sunday dominic cain reports. michael is a man in a hurry he's been leading saxony for the past 5 years he's now in a race to persuade voters to give him another fire his is a deeply conservative state perhaps more so than anywhere else in germany so on a summer day in bautzen his message is clear that saxony is a strong state if we get a reasonable government we can deal with all the challenges we face better than almost any other state in germany and people will see that we have the courage at

the strength to say things as they are i want the free state of saxony to carry on in its saxon way. the challenge for michael is not dissuading party faithful here and bars and it is it was waiting on. the. party of the right trying to win back some of that other is called the alternative for germany a far right party shunned by the mainstream but supported by as many as one in 4 saxons if the polls are accurate its message is stark drastically cut immigration stress tradition and homeland urge of voters to reclaim their land and write a new chapter of history your own guns clar it's clear we want to be the strongest force in saxony our party in parliament we want to be to christian democrats and i tell you i think we can do it this november will mark 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall when people denied

a voice by communism cried out for the freedom of speech and yet now the f.d.a. is using reminders of the old east germany to campaign on the slogan of end of the vendor complete the changes. one analyst believes this represents a disillusionment among many east germans over what the end of the cold war brought them now the feel will have to be quite careful wherever there are narrow channel of political correctness and if you make arguments beyond this channel after you go correctly as well you're out of the game and this is their feeling we did not succeed in establishing that kind of democracy that we really wanted to have when free elections returned here in 1990 the christian democrats won an absolute majority in parliament on a promise to bring prosperity and openness now fewer than one in 3 voters say

they'll vote c.d.u. and its leader faces an in bold and far right alternative that wants him out dominant came. in saxony. south korea's supreme court has ordered a retrial in the bribery case against samsung boss jane wiley it's part of a corruption scandal which saw president park geun. from office in 2017 rob mcbride has more from seoul. as one of the country's most powerful business leaders jay wiley's imprisonment in 2017 sent shock waves through south korea. the prospect of him returning to prison is equally traumatic lee was caught up in the corruption scandal that brought down former president park geun hye and her longtime associate choice until both now serving long prison terms lee was judged to have bribed choi by providing funds to a foundation run by her as well as 3 horses for her daughter's equestrian pursuits

but on appeal in 2018 a court ruled that the horses should not be considered as bribes reducing his sentence so he could walk free from prison. again i feel very sorry to everyone for not showing my best side and it has been a really precious time for a year we flecking on myself the supreme court ruling overturned that decision sending the case back to the lower court which could really impose its original prison sentence which is among the convictions and acquittal of the charges in the original verdict the court's inspect the case involving bribery to the high court and so on. all of this comes at a difficult time for samsung caught in the middle of south korea's deepening trade dispute with its neighbor japan tokyo has imposed restrictions on the export of vital components and raw materials but sound so needs for its high tech

manufacturing as it accounts for around 20 percent of south korea's exports that could hurt the country's worsening trade performance samsung's lawyers were quick to express their regret for the possible fallout from the case. i would like to note that the defendants feel very regretful to have caused disappointment and concern to many over this case the case will be heard in the next few months more uncertainty to add to samsung's troubles robert bride al-jazeera sold. have been more violent protests in the popular region of indonesia government offices and cars were set on fire in the provincial capital jayapura the region has been rocked by under arrest for 2 weeks over accusations of racial and ethnic discrimination police say 3 people were killed in a separate protest for the west in the town of day on wednesday the government cut off internet access in the region last week saying it wanted to stop people from

sharing provocative messages. lebanon's hezbollah is warning israel of retaliation accusing it of being behind an attack of self destructing drones last weekend domestic rivals have long accused a group of making security and military decisions on its own dragging the country to war but this time lebanese officials are rallying behind has the law then a harder has more from beirut. the israeli army has pulled back from its positions close to the border with lebanon it's on high alert awaiting hezbollah's promised retaliation for the killing of 2 of its operatives in airstrikes in neighboring syria. since the 2006 war the israeli military has largely refrained from targeting hezbollah inside lebanon instead it has been facing off against the group and its backer iran and syria that changed over the weekend the lebanese armed group is accusing israel of sending armed drones that crashed and exploded on

a mission to attack in its stronghold in the sudden suburbs of beirut it is promising to confront drones that violate lebanon's airspace and it has the support of the lebanese state everybody is aligned everybody rejects this israeli operation with raising premiums what what we've always wanted to have. states the lebanese states are going to strip is the truth and perhaps the majority of the lebanese people. lebanon's army and government officials described the drone crash incident as an attempted attack and a violation of the country's sovereignty president michel and who called it a declaration of war chaired a meeting of the higher defense council which stressed the right of lebanese to defend themselves by any means to deter further israeli attacks before the election or around there was always a margin. a margin of space if i may say between the official position of the of

any state as well opposition as a resistance this fortune or 5. recently has has been. diminished or has. become smaller hezbollah and its allies now hold political power in lebanon its opponents accuse it of doing iran's bidding in the proxy war with israel. the months long war in 2006 was sparked by a cross border raid in which hezbollah are killed and captured israeli soldiers there is now the possibility of a new confrontation hezbollah says it will not reveal details of its planned retaliation and its timings but there are those who believe it will likely be a calculator.