this is a violation of international law and the un charter any agreement about any part of syria without the consent of the syrian government is going to them and rejected in form and substance substance. any of foreign forces operating in our territories without them our nation. our occupying forces and must immediately should they refuse we have the right to take any and all counter measures authorized under international law. in this regard i would like to refer quickly to the terrorist criminal and oppressive practices implemented by the sation this militia known as the as against syrians and the governor is of has come rucka they resort and.

with the support of the united states and coalition forces they seek to impose a new reality on the service and marry can and israeli agenda in the region. a reality is that prolongs the war terrorists are waging against syria. mr president his policies whether and or in northern syria and its political maneuvers may undermine all the achievements made in. and turkey cannot claim to hold syria's unity and territorial integrity or while at the same time it is the 1st to undermine them. if

turkey is truly committed to the security of its borders and the unity of syria as it claims it must choose whether to respect their understandings and the bilateral agreements on counterterrorism to secure the borders and to withdraw its forces from syria or to be the aggressor the occupier. and to face the consequences. of the safety of the borders of one country cannot come at the expense of the security of sovereignty or territorial integrity of neighboring countries. mr president. along with our fight against terrorism we have been committed to moving the political process forward because we are participating in the as stand

meetings which are proving effective and we welcome the outcomes. of the syrian national dialogue in the congress in such. including the convening of a committee to discuss the constitution to that and we haven't engaged seriously and constructively with the special envoy of the secretary general for syria to form this committee and. indeed it was that the terminations of syria to establish the constitutional committee under the various. follow up. of each of the. minute detail by president bashar al assad this lead to this important national development for the syrian people and for war to any attempt of and obstruction by some party is that have consistently stalled and continued to

store placing their bets on terrorists and foreign forces and imposing pre-conditions to prevent any return to normalcy in syria. during his last visit to damascus we reasoning really meant with the special envoy mr gere peterson on the terms of reference and rules of procedure of this committee i think clothing and number of principles related to the work of the committee these include one on the whole process should be owned and led by syrians themselves who have the exclusive rights of determining their country's future. without any foreign intervention or interference. so. there must be no prejudice whatsoever to the commencements one of our holding

virtually all of the sovereignty independence unity and territorial integrity of the syrian arab republic and 3. no preconditions must be imposed on the committee that's recommendations be prejudged. the committee must be independent of its recommendations must be made in the pendant without interference by any country or party such as the so-called small group that has declared itself the the guardian of the syrian people and has already prejudge the outcome of the committee's work. for no deadlines or timetables must be imposed on the committee each step taken must be prudent and informed since the constitution is the essential step in

the determination of syria's future although we remain committed to making progress such progress must be on the firm footing to meet the aspirations of syrian syrians. made by. the special envoy for syria must leave the role of a facilitator using his garden officers as necessary to bridge differences. and. one of these principles in mind it's a firm our readiness to engage common and working active with a friendly country is on the special envoy to launch the word of this committee. mr president simultaneously syria is making tremendous effort to improve the humanitarian situation on the ground and rebuild what the terrorists

have to store on the most significant progress has been made and this is by the illegal and inhumane economic blockade with some countries have imposed on our people and. when this blockade has restored the access to medical equipment and medicine oil products necessary for electricity and household gas and heating fuel all of them. the united states has even hurt a company is. taking in the damascus international share and in order to stifle any economic activity in syria. and. failing to achieve their goals is through armed terrorism as these countries have resorted to comic terrorism and the equally brutal form of terrorism embossing a blog and you know rather unilateral coercive economic measures.

and. therefore we call on all peace loving countries on that album hoard international not to come together and adopt an effective measures to counter this phenomenon which is not only used against syria but has also become a weapon of political and economic blackmail against many other countries. or in hunan. from the strong. we call the once again the further lifting of such illegal measures imposed on syrians and on the other independent people and by the collar the people of iran venezuela the d.p. r. k. . and l. arose and we stand with china and russia in the face of the unjust american

policies. of a. we have made it clear on several occasions that the doors are open for the voluntary and safe return of all syrian refugees to their homeland so that and this syrian government is providing the necessary facilities when rebuilding and we have militating the public infrastructure in areas liberated from terrorists. you. can however was stern and some countries of the nations for refugees continue to obstruct such initiatives and indeed we have noticed a strange change in the position of these countries and instead of using every opportunity to call for the immediate return of refugees to syria as they had always done these countries are now imposing artificial conditions and prevent such

returns using this purely humanitarian issue as leverage to serve their political agenda. in. this is truly reminiscent of the theater of the app search and what is happening however is no laughing matter it is a man you believe in of the fates of nations and a cheap explanation of their suffering about mr president instead of working towards peace and stability in the region israel has started yet another phase of a cycle ation are heightening regional tensions the under president said level for them if. israel did not alcohol you arab territories including in the syrian golan it also continues to violate international humanitarian

and human rights laws and it's continues to support their arisen on a daily basis. let has even launched. on syrian territory and on the territories of neighboring countries under false pretenses in flagrant violation of international law the un charter and the relevant security council resolutions in these israeli violations would not continue an escalation were it not for the blind to the words of certain countries that are fully responsible for the consequences of israel's actions. such support became horrifically evident when the united states decided to recognize israel's alleged and faults sovereignty over the occupied syrian golan

recognize the occupied city of jerusalem as the capital of israel and relocate its embassy to jerusalem not to mention its not to mention. intensive u.s. efforts to undermine the palestinian cause all of these decisions are not and avoids any represents a complete disregard to international legitimacy. some must understand that the era of the acquisition of land by force has long passed and it is a delusion to thing that the crisis in syria want to force us to forcefeed our inalienable right to recover the golan before the to the borders of the jordan for 1967 by using all possible measures under international law. moreover.

it is a delusion to thing that the decisions of the year as an administration under sovereignty over the golan would alter historical engineer graphical flags for the provisions of international law and the golan has been and will forever be a point of syria israel must be compelled to implement relevant united nations resolutions not simply resolution $497.00 on the occupied syrian golan and its repeated attacks on the countries of the region as well as its settlement activities israel must be compelled to allow the palestinian people to establish their own independent state with jerusalem as its capital along the borders of jordan for 967 and ensure the return of palestinian refugees to their homes mr president syria expresses once again it's for solidarity with the

islamic republic of iran in the face of the irresponsible american measures and particularly the us withdrawal from the joint comprehensive plan of action between iran and the b 5 plus one and the european union we warn against policy is that aim for men's crisis and conflicts in the gulf under false pretext. we believe that the security and stability of the gulf can only be achieved through cooperation and dialogue among the countries and of that reinsurance without any external interference that might incur he is an escalation in the region and run counter into the interests of the people of the gulf. mr mercer the ladies and gentleman in conclusion and i stress that syria supported. by its allies and friends has stood firm in the face of externally supported organized terrorism that

targeted syria and its people and its culture. today we are sharing and new era that will bring us closer to our final victory. and we aspire to a bright and say future for our people after the long and suffering we are conscious that the various challenges and difficulties that we are facing today or will face in the future or are are as intractable as the phenomenon of terrorism. however we are determined to overcome them just the same and. we have always had the best relations with other countries and we have never sought

to antagonizing anyone. well today. our hand is extended for. we continue to promote dialogue and mutual understanding and why it is staying true to our national principles which we will never betray obviously there are governments that have offended syria and its people nevertheless we will never hold a grudge or secret. but we will engage with others keeping in mind in the interests of our country and our people in line with our desire to achieve stability and prosperity in syria and the region in exchange for those countries that have antagonized syria must reconsider their

positions and correct any miscalculation. they must let go of their delusions and resort to realism and common sense for the common. thank you for your attention. what is the syrian foreign minister addressing the united nations general assembly in new york using his speech to. address the situation in his country the war in syria that's gone on for 8 years putting. blame on as he said the terrorists and also the work of the united states and turkey in northern syria but also as you heard at the end of that speech trying to paint a more positive future saying the doors are open for the return of refugees and that he does want them to come back and for the country to be rebuilt. our diplomatic editor at the united nations in new york i know everyone gets their

chance to speak during the switch this week at general assembly but the timing for this syrian speech is particularly significant. absolutely this is a very important moment in syria 2 things playing out similar tenuously one you know about and that's the ongoing bombardment of it live in the north it is the last battle many believe in this war 3000000 people trapped there many of fled from other parts of syria they don't want to go across to the sad side and they've really got nowhere to run to their homes and hospitals are bombed by the syrian government and their russian allies while that's playing out important political developments led by the us now let me explain this because we've seen failure before when the u.n. has gone to geneva it's a little bit different this time and we're getting more details in fact more details emerging while the syrian deputy prime minister was giving that speech i'll take it slightly at least slowly kemal because we are getting into the

constitutional weeds here but i think it's important there is a new constitutional committee that the u.n. has been working on for 18 months they got bogged down in this they couldn't get the list of names together they finally have a list of names now there are going to be $150.00 people on wheel the number on this committee that's going to meet at the end of next month in just a month's time we think the target date is october 30th to thrash out syria's new constitution 150 will be made up of 50 from the government they've nominated 50 names opposition 50 names of the u.n. of work with civil society to come up with a further 15 names what we're now learning from the terms of reference of these talks which are starting in a month's time is that in addition to this they'll be a small group that will do the actual negotiations $45.00 members 15 from each of those groups 15 government 15 opposition 15 civil society they'll be 2 co-chairs

one from the government one from the opposition and the voting will be by a margin of 75 percent so when they put the play. small group come up with to the big group the majority will be they have to get over 113 out of 150 why is all of this potentially important while they're drawing up a new constitution for syria syria has not had free and fair elections since the assad family took over 50 years ago and the or thora tea for this constitutional committee comes from the last time the international community could agree anything on syria years ago when they came up with security council resolution 2254 that makes it clear that all syrians should be allowed to vote in an election even those that have fled the country and there should be a proper election democratic election a free and fair election supervised by the un so that gives you i think the tantalizing prospect of a constitutional committee but one that leads to an election and are proper

democratic elections can the un guarantee it well that's a question i put to the un special envoy. what i can guarantee is the verkhovna constitution will be based on their separation is of the syrian people you know this is syrian sitting together for the 1st time update on the half years of working on their own constitution and the right you pointed out the security council has risen and. pursuant to the new constitution there should be free and fair elections where all syrians should participate including their spur on the un supervision so this is my mandate i wore the ready of course discussed this both with the government and with the opposition s.n.c. i have of course a military expert all ready berthing on this form the are preparing oversells and of course preparing hopefully then the syrian part is guaranteed that this will take place no but as the right to stated this is part of my mandate it's very clear

to stamp that stated and this also international consensus. as for 3rd place. well use heard him there say he can't guarantee that they'll be free and fair elections and i think you can see the reasons for that when you saw that speech from deputy prime minister because i think already the syrian government is working out how it might try and stop free and fair elections in syria being part of the outcome of that constitutional committee you heard 5 points from mr moreland in his speech tomorrow he said the must be don't deadlines no timetables no preconditions the committee's work must be independent but you also heard him stress and there should be nothing that is against the sovereignty of the syrian arab republic that is the sad government so it's looks like he is going to say down the line after the

constitutional committee has met and potentially for many months that they have a veto on all of this not that's not how the u.n. see it but i can see that is going to be the sticking point as we get towards the end of this process great stuff james thank you james is our diplomatic editor at the u.n. in new york. the polls and our closed vote counting has begun in afghanistan's 4th presidential election security forces have been on high alert of course because of taliban threats and at least 5 attacks have been reported at polling stations across the country 17 people injured in those several other issues have been reported as well the independent election commission lost contact with hundreds of polling stations and many people had to wait for hours to vote because of problems with the biometric identification devices voters well they would choose from 14 candidates

it is likely to come down to 2 members of the incumbent president ashraf ghani and the chief executive of the country. ok let's talk to him about this now electorate morale university and a political analyst he's in kabul for us well i mean the election happened we we got through the day there were attacks obviously but it did happen and i did steps a victory in itself. well yes i mean today was a different day the the way taliban were warning the afghan people that they have not get out of their homes that they have to be attacked by a symmetric security. i think for 2 reason that does not have happened number one i think the crits must go to the afghan security forces big because they have been able to solidify control pulling station that's why a lot that has not have happened or did has not been so much crucial in their

taxes they have been so much did it takes to war and people who are there have been a number of attacks but that has not been. we were expecting so hopefully that was something we experience today so how long is the process from now as i indicated 14 candidates that will likely come down to just those 2 men how long do you think until we actually get some sort of indication. well i'm sure the 2014 violent history may be repeated i'm not very much optimistic that something would happen. with. the parliamentary and recent election has been also an experience that we can consider why and we are expecting that itself from these election. 2 candidates has been the quite strong candidate they have been in contention the number of the other 12 candidate has not been only to win the election there has been only 40 feet taishan or for making up for the difficulty

and so dr up the law of the line dr ghani. people who are fighting it against each other so far i think there are mixed messages from provinces so in some states some sites dr ghani is heading in getting them all in in some cases of the love eating the votes in the country and whoever wins and i know this is a really broad question but whoever wins how do they best deal with the taliban going forward there have been the peace talks the taliban in the u.s. for some time as we know that's all fallen apart as well how do you take this forward from this point in history. we had been in the end the brink of a major breakthrough in term of peace but the but done drunk came in a very but i mean that all these peace negotiation i did member one of the t.v.

day bates dr ghani said that he will not back down if you win the election in turn off piece that's come to afghanistan but doctor of the law of the law has been very vocal he has been very soft and he defeated you all the time that if peace comes even if i went i would step back so there's a lot of for for dr abdullah the law to to to do that but still if western countries including the united states in the e.u. countries squeeze dr ghani in term of when he must step back and he should soften the his position to bring peace to afghanistan because that's the only option on table right now we hope in government people hope into them thank you for joining us today who do appreciate it the u.n. special envoy to ukraine has become the 1st casualty of the widening impeachment inquiry could volcker quit after being named in a whistleblower complaint which accuses the white house of trying to cover up a call between president on the trumpet and ukraine's leader and support from party

campaign. a few subpoenas landed at the u.s. state department late friday evening congress demanding documents and testimony from 5 of their officials in the coming days including the u.s. special envoy to ukraine ambassador kurt volker soon after volcker quit his state department job this comes just after he and other top administration officials were named by a whistleblower in the complaint he alleges the president cut off foreign aid to ukraine and days later in a phone call asked the ukrainian president for a favor a promise to investigate trump's potential rival former vice president joe biden and his son hunter who once had a seat on the ukrainian company board now the u.s. president is trying to turn the tables releasing this ad accusing biden of being in the wrong brush clearing out fire. trump is accusing biden of getting a ukrainian prosecutor fired for investigating his son when in fact the prosecutor

was fired for not going after corruption cases look in the weeks and the months to come is to congress's job to pursue the facts and. donald trump accountable in the meantime my job. our job to make sure we beat. what does seem clear is that after so many months of trying to investigate not getting very far in this investigation is moving their e. fast so far the administration is simply tried to ignore congress but now that impeachment has been invoked if they take this case to the courts president says they'll likely force the president to comply to let aides testify to turn over all the documents meaning it's possible a lot more of what the president said privately to many other world leaders could become public and then the congress will have to decide if his words rise to the level of impeachment. l.

just here in washington. just a little more now on could evolve a closer look at this man who has resigned as a special envoy to ukraine a veteran diplomat who served as u.s. ambassador to nato actually under george w. bush he became special envoy to ukraine on a volunteer basis to help the country resolve its conflict with the russian backed separatists local was also among several officials named by the whistleblower for trying to contain the damage from donald trump's phone call with the ukrainian leader. analysis in a moment but 1st an update with andy gallagher in washington d.c. the 1st casualty i guess is the way you could look at this and do the events move very very quickly. yeah this is moving extremely quickly don trump tweeted this morning do nothing democrats savages was actually a the word he used but as to patty's point about these conversations it seems now we're getting reports that other conversations between president trump and the

saudi royal family and vladimir putin were also place in this supra secret service but i can tell you the democrats or at least nancy pelosi has indicated that they want to keep this these proceedings laser focused on what happened with root ukraine answering that simple question quid pro quo that phrase we've been hearing a lot over the last few days did donald trump withhold funds from the ukraine to then ask for a favor that favor being political dirt on a rival a potential rival for the presidential election so they've really backed themselves into a corner if you hear donald trump talking about this over the last few days to paraphrase him he seems very low energy about it he seems quite deflated about this because these are serious charges and i think important to point out come all these are far more understandable charges to the american public than let's say the miller inquiry which last for 2 years was a some more office thing with all sorts of dates not he's ations this is a very simple question did the president offer all offered money withdraw that

money and then in return for giving it back get dirt on a political rival to help himself that's a simple thing for the american public to understand and that's certainly something the democrats are going to pursue and despite all these other things coming out i think they will target very much on that and as you said the investigation is moving very very quickly it does appear a little more black and white this time around doesn't it thank you andy gallagher in washington d.c. now william cohen is with us and i junked senior fellow at the nonprofit think tank rand corporation but also previously senior director of united states national security council stuff for russia ukraine and eurasia with us on skype from huntington west virginia we thank you very much for your time sir. whose decision to. step down is that just one of those situations where you would say his position has become untenable given the circumstances i would say untenable but given the fact that he's likely to have to testify before congress about

a deposition move next week he probably wanted to avoid creating a situation in which this activity would be a distraction from important u.s. efforts to try to bring about peace and eastern ukraine where russia is prosecuting a war of aggression but he's well he was right in the middle of it wasn't he i know he was doing this technically on a volunteer basis but he was in. the middle of all of this country of this conflict of the things which the 2 leaders were discussing. with regard to trying to find a solution to the word use a new grand you're correct is right in the middle of it with regard to giuliani it appeared what he tried to do was help move the discussion out of traditional sales where it should not be into private channels because rudy giuliani who is the lawyer to president truck fishel. u.s.

justice department lawyer so when zilinskas a 3 year mark request 'd to help him facilitate a contact with rudy giuliani. the soldier and that was the right thing how important was the kind of role that mr volcker did fail well the role as part of work with regard to major conflicts around the world the u.s. has high level special envoys 'd or afghanistan they were iran north korea so this is a normal activity because one wants to be sure that structure and state as a high level experienced official who can provide laser like focus on these conflicts the sources of tension would include we thank you very much for your time and the perspective you could give us on the story thank you. we'll have a break on the news hour when we come back why the doha midnight marathon just

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mistakes or 2nd guesses this is base jumping plunging from a fixed object it's considered more dangerous and more technically difficult than skydiving skydivers typically exit a plane at around 4000 meters but at the calle tower annual base jump divers only have 300 metres before they reach the ground that intense feeling and i guess the question i got from it for me. were risk right away we understand the risk you know it's there it's present every time that we jump and it's kind of a good reminder and i mean you don't want to ever let that going to where you want to feel that intensity in a kind of a mind like a really fun but it's also you know it has some dangers holder shane lochte a 1000 skydives before he did his 1st base jump this is his 7th time at this 4 day event that's attracted almost 100 people from 25 countries this isn't for the faint

hearted even just standing here on the ledge i can feel my legs turning to jelly slightly now once they jump jumpers will freefall for about 3 seconds before opening the parachute at the last minute the parachutes are smaller and designed to open fast and there's no reserve chute there wouldn't be time to use one a lot of effort is put into safety teams continuously check wind speed and direction jumpers wear helmets and other protective gear the technical crew checks equipment and things like that and we ensure that we are where they are lending and . you know we really. everybody's aware question. it's an extreme high risk sport only dead hands and thrill seekers need apply florent slowly al-jazeera. and time now for the rest of your sport we live to fire. study.

welcome back to the khalifa stadium where the action on day 2 is underway it's all taking place in the air conditioned stadium but the question marks continue after the women's marathon last night and even with the midnight local start time the race took place in $32.00 degree temperatures and humidity was around 70 percent 28 of the $68.00 stars withdrew during the race kenya's roots chapnick it should go on to win the 1st gold medal of the championships. so plenty of gold medals are on offer later on saturday the pick of the finals as the men's 100 meters justin gatlin looking to defend his title the day will again wrap up on doha's waterfront with the 50 kilometer walk race. that's right the world cup warehouse japan had pulled off another huge upset they beat one of the world's best teams ireland by 19

points to 12 so has the action of a o.n.t. of support for the host nation but this was not a match japan was supposed to win against an island side recently ranked as world number one and it was the irish who struck the 1st blow carty high kicked claimed by garry ringrose he touched down for the game's 1st try. to get involved for their 2nd choice club addict over the top this time to set up rob carney crucially 3 penalties from you to move japan in contention and at half time the team known as the brave blossoms were only 3 points behind the japanese fans still believed and that filtered down to the players who with 20 minutes left produced one of the most famous moments in the nation's sporting history my pinky percoco was the hero choice scorer and the conversion put japan ahead for the 1st time in the match 16 points to 12 they then extended that lead to 7 points thanks to another timo

a penalty after 7 previous defeats to ireland the fans couldn't believe what they were witnessing and neither could the many green. in the closing seconds for coca intercepted and have the chance to finish the match in style but was cool just short of the line it didn't matter though the clock ran down and victory belonged to japan was this is perhaps the biggest upset in rugby history even surpassing japan's famous victory over south africa at the 2015 world cup we came into this tournament with a new go and we knew what we wanted to do and we backed ourselves going into this game. tonight just really happy about the result and we knew how tough it's going to be anyone not that i was utterly shocked come and see how good they are we came with a game plan and we were really prepared but give credit to that came and played really well 2 wins from. puts japan in a great position but whether they make it to the north council not this victory will live long in the memory of this at the tournament

a lot. al-jazeera. and here's how about pool table looks japan are top with 9 points from their 2 victories against russia and now ireland who are 2nd japan and pole position to reach the knockout stages for their 1st time also on saturday argentina got their world cup campaign back on track with a bonus point win over a taller in pool c. ochre julien long tyo was the standout player for the humans with a high trick of tries in a 2812 victory. and south africa have their 1st win of the turn him and they scored 9 tries rushing the libya 57 points to 3 in b. . and formula one ferrari sheryl's the clare has secured his 4th pool position in a row else start from the front of the grid at sunday's russian rob pre-install achieve a mercedes of championship leader lewis hamilton qualified in 2nd place. liverpool

have made it 7 wins out of 7 in the english premier league gini when all of them got the only goal of their match at sheffield united liverpool's nearest rivals manchester city play everton later on saturday and that's all your support for now will have more for you from khalifa stadium later on but for now it's back to come on earth thank you from the climate change has been blamed for more frequent drops in some audio severe droughts used to occur every 10 to 15 years now happening every 2 years and the u.n. says more than 2 and a half 1000000 somalis have been displaced how many joe has the support from the region of by dora. dusty and parched. desert sun is slowly taking over one's foetal field since somalia. just 2 years of to the last drought and the country's again facing one of the driest thrain assistance in more than 3 decades. the victims of visible almost everywhere makeshift camps like this one for

those affected by drought can be found in almost every city. this is by door in southwest somalia these people of just arrived from the countryside. however builds a heart for her family from old clothes she says it took them a month to get here but on the name brand i don't know what our cattle died 1st and then the crops failed and we fled hanging out here but it is team follows as we have had no help. the people of somalia have always name drop outs and use the buses total coal milestones but that was $1.00 what 10 or 15 years up odds now they've become the new norm and scientists say that the country has dried up mark foster in the 20th century than at any other time in the past 2000 years. these bought in plains of sundin's 2 and have always known long dry spells but they've always been followed by. enough at least to rebuild huts so that's can be

repaid and many provided for the children. that's changed 91 year old a loose ace he has never seen shifting weather patterns some for giving. me here and i don't remember around how it's not having food until recently this droughts are quite different from what we used to see there's no time for recovery they just keep coming back. just a few months ago to shut up that man had $25.00 goats now she has just 5 the rest with it and died in the current drought. the my welcome my high survive on donations from well wishers is no pasture for the goats and i'm forced to look for grass for them in fountains and at times i even have to share my food with them. and it will harden is not just an economic activity for the people of somalia it is

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demand the immediate withdrawal of all foreign forces also a series of explosions target voters in afghanistan after the taliban want people not to take part in the elections and protests in hong kong among the 5 year anniversary of the umbrella movement that have turned into another chance to send a message to china. and supporters what a big shock because japan upsets one of the world's best teams of the rugby world cup. so the breaking news out of yemen is that the hooty rebels say thousands of saudi troops have surrendered after a cross border military campaign they say they targeted the sudden sound the region . captured several army officers and weapons the. coalition of course in yemen has been fighting that is for more than 4 years now. well we're all allowed to mean what the law did thousands of the enemy forces have

been captured as prisoners others were killed from among the president's aides and a large number of high ranking officers and soldiers from the so disappointed more than 72 hours from the launch of the operation our forces laid a total seed to the enemy forces out around totally $33.00 day along with one to many of these how defaults is the world destroyed and imprisoned and captured. more on this from muhammad ali bin son of a we hear that the spokesman explaining that and we said earlier it is a very big claim thousands of saudi troops is there any more information. yes according to the whole of these military spokesperson he said have carried out this operation wide scale operation for over nearly 5 months that means that the.

fighters and these positions and also near these brigades of have been captured. have carried out sniper shooting and also many tactics in order to father tightening their grip on the 3 military brigades. over just 72 hours a bit farther tightened their brigades. the saudi officers and also those who are backed by the all forces who are being recruited from areas from southern yemen this myth this means that the big brigades mainly from recruited forces from southern yemen have been also captured among the war detainees the whole of these military spokesperson revealed that the those who

are being captured that they will be put in disclosed areas in order to protect them from saudia as strikes not to. to repeat the same catastrophic situation when the saudi fighter jets targeted detention center and we're over 125 saudi backed forces have been killed so the the al ensuring the families of these of those prisoners of war that they will be kept in a secret place in order to keep them safe from any harm. these military spokesperson also reveal that the this this operation libya's also to the saudi arabia that the yemeni fighters are capable to to were farther penetrate into the saudi territory is in case it continued it's what they say it's aggression against yemen ok thank you for all those updates there mom and pop and we'll speak to you more hopefully when we get further on this. to other news the syrian foreign minister has used his speech at the un general assembly to tell world leaders his

country is open to international dialogue but north of the expense of its national integrity of listen ascendant. who the united states and turkey maintain an illegal military presence in northern syria they've been so arrogant to the point of holding discussions and reaching agreements on the creation of a so-called safe zone inside syria if they were planning to establish this on american or turkish soil this is a violation of international law and the un charter any agreement about any part of syria without the consent of the syrian government is condemned and rejected in form and in substance any foreign forces operating in our territories without an authorization occupying forces and must withdraw immediately if they refuse we have the right to take any and all counter measures authorized under international law.

his james spader's out diplomatic editor at un headquarters in new york what i'd love you to do james is to put that into context basically what we're saying is not surprising in and of itself it is what he did he put everything onto the terrorists he said but put that into the wider political context for us. and there are political movements kemal taking place importantly in a month's time we think 30 of october is the target date the u.n. plans to get a new constitutional committee together 50 syrians to draw for a new constitution for syria they've been arguing over the lists of who should take part 50 from the government 50 from the opposition and 50 names from the u.n. been arguing over that for months and months and months but this project has taken some 18 months does now look like it's going to take place why that's important is because the authority to set up this committee comes from the u.n. resolution 2254 that also says there should be free and fair elections in syria

that hasn't happened since half is but shell assad's father seized power after back in 1970 so i put it to the u.n. special envoy does see he think now with a new constitution he can guarantee proper free and fair elections. what i can guarantee is the verdict of the constitution will be based on the aspirations of the syrian people you know this is syrian sitting together for the 1st time update on the half years of working on their own constitution and as you rightly pointed out the security council has risen and. pursuant to the new constitution there should be free and fair elections where all syrians should participate including their asper on the un supervision so this is my mandate i've already of course discussed this both with the government and with the opposition s.n.c.

i have of course some electoral expert all ready berthing on this for me of preparing ourselves and of course preparing hopefully then the syrian parties can i guarantee that this will take place no but as the right to stated this is part of my mandate it's very clear to stamp that stated and it's also international consensus estimates for take place. so there is a path to democracy in syria why can't he guarantee it well there are a couple of factors one the constitutional committee is ignoring an important group in syria the main kurdish political bloc is not invited to take part in that but there are other problems potentially and they concern what's going on in libya it's clear that the syrian government and the russians are pursuing a military solution in syria and i can tell you already some of the more cynical members of the security council diplomats there saying what they believe the syrian government is going to do is keep the constitutional committee busy while they try

and get a military victory need lib and then pull out of it when they've resolved things militarily thank you for that james bass is our diplomatic editor in new york. the polls have closed in afghanistan's 4th presidential election where voters advance or brave violence to cast their ballots and these 5 explosions were reported to polling centers across the country on top of that some stations didn't even open any but the reports now from kabul. a city in lockdown the streets of kabul almost deserted on election day because polling stations open the biggest and tightest security operation ever in the capital was under way the taliban had warned people not to vote and it didn't take long before the group carried out its threats. encounters there were attacks around the city aimed at disrupting voting roads were blocked and lines of communication cut a mortar round was fired into the grounds of the school used for polling hospital

confirm civilians had been killed and a number were injured elsewhere the taliban launch more attacks to north of kabul one in helmand and one in one go hard province no casualties were reported but a number of people were injured in a blast at a kandahar polling station it didn't deter some others from voting a lot of them despite all the hardships and violence we haven't lost hope we have to vote and think about future generations this is afghanistan's falls presidential election the government officials maintain the use of advanced technology and highly trained personnel are making these the freest elections to date but there were reports of some polling stations failing to open and voters complaining that they hadn't been registered i came here to choose a person who can help the poor of this country but they say i'm not registered to vote it's not right at the last presidential election 5 years ago there were queues of people waiting to vote at this polling station in central kabul on saturday it was a trickle and voting had to be extended it's

a very slow we'll have to see. has extended for couple of hours we hope that people . come out and make the choice but as well as in secure. people have also become disillusioned with politics in afghanistan and the broken promises and failure to tackle corruption poverty unemployment and security international aid agencies say the situation today is worse than 5 years ago though not everyone agrees there is improvements being made we cannot deny that but there are also some traits in our taliban decrease increase their attacks you know so there are other factors that affect it there are so many other factors that affect it more and bigger taliban attacks had been expected perhaps an indicator the group may be keeping its hardline element of peace while at the same time pushing a diplomatic strategy for peace talks with the u.s. they were abruptly canceled by president trump this month the election results will be announced on november the 7th but it's not just important who wins but whether

the other candidates and all the other groups accept them and agree to work with them and in the fractured world of afghan politics that hasn't always been easy and in 2014 it only happened because of the strong arm tactics of the united states attorney berkeley al jazeera kabul in the news ahead donald trump's special envoy to ukraine a key player in the presidential and each require an resign. bearing or death wish base jumpers taking a leap of faith from one of malaysia's best landmarks. hello there it is a mistake and dry picture across much of china look at if by any cloud on the satellite we've got some rain showers pushing into time.