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you're watching al-jazeera let's take a look at the top stories right now belfast high court has thrown out a case claiming their pranks and strategy of forced johnson's government is not compatible with the 1900 more than ireland peace accord this comes after the release of a british government report warning approximate worst case scenario includes traffic jams shortages of food and medicine rising prices and public unrest the body of former president robert mugabe is to lie in state at a stadium in harare that is where he took the country's leader early 4 decades ago he is to be buried on sunday but there are ongoing discussions between the government and his family about where they'll be laid to rest sudan's new prime

minister abdullah hum doc is making his 1st state visit to south sudan where this hosting talks between the transitional government and several armed groups has made peacemaking with groups fighting khartoum one of his main priorities. scientists doctors and political. leaders are meeting in brussels at a global vaccination summit the conference takes place in a time when countries around the world are facing outbreaks of preventable diseases to or to lack of adequate bax a nation now many nations including malaysia are considering making immunization whole story for children play reports in kuala lumpur this is a government clinic in malaysia where vaccinations are given free for 12 preventable major childhood diseases including measles diphtheria and polio immunization coverage has reached 95 percent but the program isn't mandatory and mohamed nor bin zakaria a father of 2 has chosen not to vaccinate his children i do believe that although.

i do believe the measles is not a deadly disease because if we look at the older generation how did they deal with it somehow we're treating all these diseases that have existed for a long time something that is so deadly and i believe that with good sanitation good hygiene good nutrition and existing information you can treat made at least from my child that's my personal stand but i don't go around telling parents not to vaccinate their kids. reasons cited by other parents for not vaccinating include concerns about possible adverse side effects and religious grounds this debate is taking place not only in malaysia but globally the world health organization has blamed vaccine misinformation as a major threat to global health saying it could reverse progress made in tackling preventable diseases one example is measles provisional data from the w.h.o. indicates the have been more measles cases reported worldwide in the 1st half of this year than in any year since 2006 the rise in measles cases is driven by

poverty in some places but in more developed countries is due to a growing wave of people who refuse immunization for their children in malaysia the health ministry says the number of anti vaccines as they're known is small but the government is considering a proposal to make certain vaccinations compulsory for children we all agree that our children must not be exposed to such unnecessary release especially when there is vaccination available and it's free for the children. are of me and his wife expecting their 1st child next month and they've decided that they'll follow the national immunization shed you know interest but not protecting your child it's about protecting others as well because if we can ensure that every child can learn that seeing it benefits in it that. might prevent all this. from spreading he says to deny that to any child would be irresponsible florence

al-jazeera. gather is a virus expert a lecturer at lancaster university in england he says the use of social media can be vital and educating communities about vaccinations. when we had 84 notify deaths in the european union last year from measles and historically death rates were much higher in the prefix nation days in 1980 there were 2 and a half 1000000 deaths worldwide from from measles and that's come right down into the teens of thousands no largely as a result of the vaccination campaigns that have been ruled out saw there's no doubt the statistics are on the side of the of the vaccines and the case for vaccination is or is overwhelmingly compelling but the problem is that we're finding it difficult to get that message out on the grown and vaccines conference taking place at the moment in belgium the u.s. surgeon general talked about how the measles outbreak in new york had been

counteracted and he emphasized that it was through dealing with local community leaders and getting the message out to people who have trusted in in the affected communities that they were able to get more people to take up the measles vaccine and thus bring the new york measles outbreak under control so we have to operate through social media and community organization level in order to get the message to the people who who have been vaccinated the children. hong kong was one of the world's most visited cities in 2018 but after almost 100 days about rescue and astri's like tourism are suffering and this week the government confirmed the number of people visiting in august was down 40 percent from a year ago a train brown imports are an economic downturn that looks set to worsen. burned performs in an almost deserted theme park this is disneyland normally one of hong kong's most popular tourist attractions but there are no queues to the rides

and other attractions today. on average 18000 people visit each day many of them from mainland china this. year but the unrest that began on june the 9th has made it harder for hong kong to sell itself as a fun destination in. the neighborhood of manchaca has seen some of the worst winds the bravo clothes boutique on princess wood road regularly has to close early but always opens the following morning only the graffiti hinting at what had happened a few hours earlier. the shop faces monk police station a frequent target for demonstrators since mid june businesses for them by 80 percent yet the solitary sales assistant says she supports the protests because she says they want what she wants. of course freedom freedom since i'm not the boss and just an employee i think freedom is more important but

my boss would think business is more important. at the nearby noodle 11 restaurant customers are still coming but business is 30 percent down on a month ago and while the owner remains confident hong kong's economy will recover he still worried. it's hard to sustain the business how to pay the rent and the stuff. in more prosperous districts sale star found a number of customers in some luxury boutiques visitors from the chinese mainland are still arriving but they're spending less time here and list money some appear indifferent to the unrest well i don't know when i got here it seemed fine it's not as hard as i imagined and even before the protests began on june the 9th it had not been a good year for hong kong's economy it's been fading the effects of the trade war between china and the united states as well as the slowdown in china's economy and

all of that argue some economists could be enough to push hong kong into recession . this is a city where divisions in society are deepening and no matter how it all ends many people on both sides agree on one thing hong kong is unlikely to be the same again adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. and the u.s. supreme court has ruled in favor of president ronald chance latest effort to restrict immigration the court allowed a ban to go into effect on nearly all asylum applications at the mexico border so people all the while have to seek asylum in the 1st safe country they travel through and that effectively blocks most applications jordan has more now from washington d.c. . u.s. president donald trump is celebrating the supreme court decision to allow his new policy denying migrants from central america the right to apply for asylum to continue however the president may not want to celebrate 2 vigorously too soon

that's because this is simply allowing the new policy requiring people to 1st apply for asylum in a 3rd country before trying to ask for refuge in the united states because there are legal challenges against this new policy inactive in mid july the groups that are challenging the law say that it is up ending nearly 40 years of u.s. asylum policy and that it is incredibly disruptive to the families of those who are trying to find shelter and refuge in the united states they also say that the trial that ministration has tried to impose this new policy without getting proffer public consent but what the u.s. supreme court is saying in a ruling 7 to 2 is that this is a matter where the u.s. has to let the legal challenges in a number of federal courts play out but in the meantime there should be some sort

of hold on the number of people being allowed to come into the united states in essence it's simply a hold it doesn't mean that the controversy over what the trumpet ministration calls a migration crisis is anywhere near being resolved. yes democratic party presidential candidates leading in recent polls will debate each other for the 1st time later on thursday it will be the 3rd party debate a later show by elizabeth warren and bernie sanders haven't shared the stage together until now our panel supports in histon. it's a showdown in euston with the leading democratic candidates all together on stage for the 1st time former vice president joe biden is the front runner followed by senators bernie sanders elizabeth warren and kaamelott harris trailing in the polls are south bend indiana mayor. senator cory booker prize former cabinet secretary

who leon castro former congressman bait to o'rorke senator amy clue which are and businessman andrew yang viewers can expect spirited discussion of democratic priorities expanding health care reducing gun violence and overhauling the immigration system but polls show democratic voters have one overriding priority 1st and foremost they want to beat donald trump next year and while they may not always articulate electability quote unquote as a major concern in polling the unifying theme is fight and be trump the candidate who can you know show competence in doing that i think is likely to attract a lot of support so far that has benefited biden who's seen is best able to reach out to voters in rust belt states like michigan and wisconsin where trump narrowly won in 2016 but the choice of texas as the venue for this debate is also

significant for decades democrats have dreamed of moving this state into the democratic column analysts believe this could be the election in which that happens texas is a dynamic and changing state we've got urban professional suburban professionals from around the country moving in we've all. got a large multi-cultural population coming of age and beginning to vote those the combination of those factors is changing the state's politics and a massive and rapid way a lot of the president's rhetoric against immigrants the policies in these detention centers around the border most of which are in texas by the way that combination of factors has begun to galvanize latino's in a way in the state that they haven't been previously if texas went democratic the republicans would have virtually no chance of winning the white house just before the debate the democrats got some good moods a new poll came out showing that the top 4 candidates biden sanders warren and

harris all running ahead of president pro by significant margins but it's still more than 400 days until the election robert oulds al jazeera houston protesters in argentina are demanding the government declare a food emergency after shortages hit the country and argentina has been battling an economic crisis with inflation forecasted 53 percent and coming months the country spent $15000000000.00 in reserves to try to stabilize its currency it crashed after president rates in mockery lost an election primary a month ago cuba's president says his country will soon be in an acute fuel shortage unless emergency measures are taken a gold as canel says the nation is feeling the effects of the united states blocking of oil shipments to the country cuba's imposed austerity measures since 2005 when oil supply from its ally venezuela started to decline in the 1990 s. cuba experienced blackouts and food shortages due to disruption and oil supply. if

you go good the problem is short term and not the result of bad management talk pass it to you the cuban government as the united states has tried to say we have many problems to solve but this in particular is not the result of our insufficiencies rather it has to do with the grease of measures that the united states government is extraterritorial imposing to economically suffocate people the search for alien life just got a galactic boost scientists from university college london have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of another world that's more than twice the size of earth that's the 1st time a planet orbiting a star outside our system or exoplanet has been found with both water and temperatures that could support life catherine stansell reports 110 light years away from our planet there is a super earth a world where life could exist outside of our solar system. was discovered in

2015 astronomers use data gathered from the hubble telescope to analyze light filtered through the planet's atmosphere they found water vapor in helium the eggs the planet also orbits at sun's habitable zone meaning that temperatures are stable and favorable to host life forms these planets is potentially a hobby that will so we're talking about a planet that. on paper based on calculations is able to host liquid water right now we all can only calculate temperatures for these plants ok 2000 bees the only one that we go one step further we know that there is water up most of it but to go to to hubby the blue planet thought would require many many advances and many more observe ations. researchers at university college london believe that other molecules found on earth like nitrogen and me saying are also present in the out. the exoplanet may have the conditions to support life but it's not another version

of the earth it's twice as big as a smaller sun and thus far more dense and scientists currently don't have the technology to physically reach the planet or analyze its surface to determine if life actually exists there. 18 b. is one of thousands of exoplanets but being trillions of kilometers away it's unlikely humans will ever be able to reach them even though this is a very exciting discovery we should wind back a little bit because it's just i don't occasion that something that we know is vital for life as we understand it. is presence of this world but whether that indicates that there is life there is another question entirely we know the more we learn about the cosmos the more we realize that perhaps the earth has this singular combination of characteristics that would be very clear that there should be other worlds out there like earth but at the moments we have discovered that new more

powerful telescopes are expected to be launched over the next few years they'll be able to provide deeper and more accurate analysis of 18 b. and other exoplanets allowing astronomers to discover their composition and learn more about the evolution of worlds outside of our solar system catherine stansell al jazeera london. our web site is al-jazeera dot com take a look fairly you get a moment her update. from news around the world and on the other side of the break we have the headlines for you keep it here. i'm richelle carey these are the headlines on al-jazeera belfast high court has thrown out a case claiming the bricks that strategy of war sponsons government is not compatible with the 1908 were there in ireland peace accord this comes after the release of a british government report warning a bracks that worst case scenario includes traffic jams shortages of food and

medicine also prime minister boris johnson has refuted claims that he lied to the queen in order to suspend parliament did you lie to the queen when you advised her to probe to suspend parliament absolutely you know a lot. and indeed i say that the high court in. playing the agrees with us but the supremes will have to decide we need a queen's speech we need to get on and do all of these 3 afghan soldiers have been killed in a suicide bombing near an army base in kabul the afghan minister of defense confirmed that attack 4 soldiers were also injured and the taliban says it is responsible sudan's new prime minister abdullah is making his 1st state visit to south sudan juba talks between the transitional government and several armed groups made peacemaking with groups fighting khartoum one of his main priorities. the body

of farmers involved a president robert mugabe will lie in state at a stadium and harare that is where he took oath as leader of the country nearly 4 decades ago. to be buried on sunday but there are ongoing discussions between the government and his family about where they will be laid to rest. the u.s. supreme court has ruled in favor of president obama latest effort to restrict immigration court allowed a ban to go into effect on nearly all asylum applications at the mexico border people will now have to seek asylum in the 1st safe country they travel through and that effectively blocks most applications he was president says his country will soon be in a cute fuel shortage unless emergency measures are taken the gold is canel says cuba is feeling the effects of a united states blockade oil shipments to the country impose austerity measures since 2005 that's when the oil supply from their ally venezuela started to decline

so the headlines keep it on al-jazeera and that story is next. they clashed over iran north korea and afghanistan now donald trump and john bolton have parted ways the u.s. national security adviser has been al stayed from the white house so what does that mean for u.s. foreign policy this is inside story. hello i'm in wrong and welcome to the program he was the longest serving u.s.

national security adviser under president donald trump but that wasn't enough to save him just like his predecessor john bolton has been tweeted out of the white house bolton was known for his hard line stance against countries like iran and north korea and he disagreed with the president over foreign policy most recently on afghanistan he opposed trump's plan to bring members of the taliban to camp david to sign a peace accord those views led to the president firing him although bolton says he resigned so what does this departure mean for u.s. foreign policy and is there anyone who can hold on to one of the most powerful positions in the white house we'll speak to our guests in a moment but 1st reports from washington. you're going to do a fantastic job and i appreciate that there had been growing divisions between john bolton to his course but the end was brutal even by the standards of this white house donald trump tweeting i informed john bolton last night that his services are

no longer needed at the white house i disagree. strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration therefore i asked for his resignation which was given to me this morning bolton tweeted not the usual thanks for being able to serve but an insistence he quit rather than being fired at a news briefing at the white house which bolton was initially listed to attend stephen secretary of state mike pompey it defended the president's decision the president's entitle to the staff that he wants at any moment as a staff person who works directly for the president and states and he should have people they trust and values that were many times in basketball that i disagree that's to be sure but that's true for lots of lots of people who with whom i interact john bolton was don't trump start national security adviser the longest serving so far but with his stated positions of using military force in iran and north korea he was annoyed fit for a president whose isolationist america 1st policy wanted to reduce the u.s.

military footprint reason withholding was against talking to north korea against pulling u.s. troops out of syria and against the president's latest idea of inviting afghanistan's taliban to peace talks at camp david that seems to have been the breaking point we have seen from this and from every other firing that what he really wants are people that echo what he already wants to do and with bolton's opposition gone there could be obvious changes for example that there's a better chance to president will meet with his a really encounter part president made very clear is prepared to meet with no preconditions before he became president donald trump considered john bolton for the role of secretary of state but ultimately decided against it because he felt he didn't look the part mainly because of his mr bush now after 18 months as the national security advisor john bolton once again finds that his face doesn't fit alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house. john bolton joins

a long list of white house employees who got the chop terms our 1st advisor retired army general michael flynn lost in just 24 days the shortest tenure of any security adviser in history he was replaced by h.l. mcmaster known for his roles of honest on both gulf wars the last just over a year other high profile departures include the former secretary of state rex tillerson the secretary of defense jim mattis who lost along the most holding his position for more than 2 years and then there's also former white house chief strategist steve bannon and former f.b.i. director james comey to name just a few. let's bring in our panel joining us from washington d.c. joined jones former senate national security director under former national security adviser chuck schumer from birmingham on skype scott lucas founder and editor of in a world view and professor of political science and international studies at the

university of birmingham and also from washington d.c. janet venue president and c.e.o. of the truman national security project welcome to you all to the program i'd like to begin with john jones in d.c. 1st in many ways this is been a very extraordinary relationship between the 2 men between john bolton who has been seen as being very hawkish very angry towards iran particularly north korea and wanting to take direct action and donald trump who has a shall we say a more mecurio nature when it comes to foreign policy now it's clear that the 2 men have disagreed and the disagreement has led to john bolton either resigning or being pushed at the white house depending on who you believe but the question i want to ask you mr jones is is this a chance for the u.s. to reset its foreign policy and to become much more united rather than have these big differences that we've seen in the past. it's very interesting in iran right now the united states foreign policy establishment is at

a crossroads within the republican party you have those individuals who support a pro isolation policy for the united states government and those who support a pro intervention policy for the united states government right now it seems that the pro isolation wing or element within the republican party is winning but the pro intervention element within the party is highly numbered and it's just too soon for this debate to end john bolton at the end of the day was a someone who had a very forceful arguments and made his criticisms aware to the president and it appears that it probably started out with the links with leaks to the media but whether you're serving a president a united states senator or any political principle your criticisms

once they become public then you're no longer going to be one to or needed whether in the white house or in a u.s. senate office let's bring in jenna. in d.c. there is this you all human to be made once the president has decided on a direction for foreign policy even if you disagree with him you should probably try and make policy was john bolton really didn't seem to fit into that camp today . no he didn't and that is not a 1st for john bolton and it's true as john notes once you get out of step with your boss it's either to put you know your time is to put up to shut up there aren't a lot of options here at this point what we need to be looking at moving forward as that who is going to be the 4th national security adviser and just 3 years that's not a recipe for a talent we're looking at destroying options and the path forward is really uncertain at a time when john bolton has really been quite effective in dismantling the national

security council but you know i have to say this this president particularly likes people he knows he understands money from the business world it has to be said a lot of key positions of filled with people he's known for a very long time always looking at a national security adviser the mayor will come from a small circle of people and not the wider foreign policy circle of people in d.c. and he's not a threat. well it's possible but let's think about what this job entails you're really pulling together the department of homeland security for which there is no secretary the director of national intelligence for which there is no head nor is there a deputy really it's a hollowed out national security establishment it requires a lot of nuance a lot of inner agency coordination and a tremendous amount of sophistication and expertise trouble at this point would be really hard pressed to find somebody who meets that criteria and it's likely that he's going to get somebody who's a real yes man to him and that's

a problem and it's not a good path to peace jones owns a another yes man in the white house is that healthy. what you want is someone who is going to provide the best analysis and advice to the president especially with all of this serious national security challenges that we have going on today i don't think we want to lose sight of the fact that in many ways in his own right john bolton was rather successful someone who started as a in turn of the nixon administration worked in legislative affairs in the reagan white house very political in nature and he was successful in terms of his goals which probably did not align in the with the long term goals of this president in terms of getting the u.s. deeply involved into venezuela. put pulling the united states out of the nuclear agreement with iraq and lastly taking steps to in every way shape and form and what would have been president trumps potential meeting

with representatives of the taliban at camp david that was probably his swan song at the end of the day so in his own right his goals were met but those weren't the goals i believe that mr trump and most importantly when you look at the national security adviser position there's not going to may not going to be many to choose from who at least within the u.s. foreign policy establishment who may be. lining up at the door to work in the trump white house but rest assured that i may not be very long but there will be a lot of those pretty in school luke is here from your outside of the washington foreign policy in a world shall we say. there is a lot of conversation going on right now where people are wondering what the u.s. is foreign policy actually is is it serious you have a 30 year old now who's in charge of who's now the middle east effectively the middle east peace envoy berkovitz who used to be

a coffee boy. you have no national security adviser right now the president says he will appoint one in the coming week. you're looking at disarray. from the outside is that something that you'll seeing are you seeing a white house that has no real leadership has no real agenda. i don't just see it live through it each day well limit 2 points for john and jenna to consider it with their own marks about where u.s. foreign policy is the 1st is that the primary goal for a trump foreign policy is donald trump's ego it makes no sense to make talk about it for us foreign policy when you talk about on russia that a lot of the agencies want to take a tougher line with a lot of repute but donald trump embraces him on north korea where the north koreans continue to pursue a nuclear missile program but donald trump wants a photo opportunity of kim jong un on iran or the u.s.

pursuing maximum pressure at this point with sanctions but donald trump wants to get another photo opportunity if not with the supreme leader with the iranian president hassan rouhani and perhaps most importantly were donald trump's opinion about alliances they go about 70 years is dictated by the idea that whether it's the europeans whether it's the japanese the south koreans they're all out to rip off the united states and the 2nd point on top of that is if it's donald trump's foreign policy it's also a family and friends foreign policy as you just pointed out now apart from a trump loyalist like mum might come pale who was secretary of state you really are talking about a foreign policy coming from someone like an unelected and largely inexperienced advisor and i'm sure questioner who is donald trump's son in law and who now has.