secretary of state is criticise saudi arabia for failing to result that standoff with cata rex tillerson says he has little hope the crisis will end anytime soon and blame the saudi led bloc for lack of progress to listen made the comments a day before you embark on a trip to the region in a renewed attempt to mediate saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain in egypt severed ties with cattle in june accusing it of supporting terror groups that's good idea or castro in washington d.c. has to listen what to say in marion what we heard from tillerson today was a change in tone gone was the optimism the u.s. secretary of state had expressed back in july that was his last visit to the middle east region since then three months have passed and there has been little progress to show in mediating this gulf crisis and today tillerson expressed his frustration in an interview with bloomberg news saying there seems to be a real on willingness on the part of some of the parties to want to engage it's up to the leadership of the quartet when they want to engage with qatar because qatar has been very clear the

secretary of state has hit out at saudi arabia for failing to resolve its standoff with cata rex tillerson says he has little hope the crisis will end soon and blame the saudi bloc for a lack of progress to listen is due to visit the region in a renewed attempt to mediate the crisis in saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain in egypt severed ties with cattle in june accusing it of supporting terror groups. taliban fighters have killed forty three afghan soldiers after storming a military camp in the middle of the night the group set off two suicide car bombs at a base in the my one district of kandahar which was then followed by a lengthy gone back will more than one hundred twenty people have now been killed in a series of taliban attacks this week about one hundred thousand kurds have fled the region since it was retaken by iraqi forces the u.n. says it's worried by reports of millions of being forcibly displaced in their houses and businesses looted and destroyed. but least believe a bomb that killed a prominent journalist in malta was attached beneath a car and triggered remotely daphne koran

secretary of state has hit out at saudi arabia for failing to resolve that standoff with cata rex tillerson says he has little hope that the crisis would end soon and blame the saudi bloc for a lack of progress to listen made the comments today before you embark on a trip to the region in a renewed attempt to mediate and e.u. leaders have welcomed a proposal by the british prime minister to resume a aimed at blocking rights it talks but said concessions to ease the fears of eastern isms living in person and not enough arriving at the today e.u. summit in brussels may sought to shift the focus away from a divorce settlement and on to trade talks this just seventeen months before britain is due to leave the union. that's it for myself aaron and want to one east is next. valued as a gem of africa nairobi has gone through many changes over the past decades took to al-jazeera travels to the kenyan capital to hear from those who witnessed the city's progress to becoming a metropolis and discusses where it's heading now at this time on al-jazeera. you know still years remote northeast big lands ar

secretary of state has had out at saudi arabia availing to resolve that standoff with cata rex tillerson says he has little hope the crisis will end any time soon and blame the saudi led bloc for a lack of progress to listen made the comments a day before embarks on a trip to the region in a renewed attempt to mediate the crisis. and britain's prime minister is in brussels trying to restart stalled breck's it talks to resume a is demanding urgency from e.u. leaders on resolving the rights of e.u. citizens in the u.k. after it leaves the blog seeking to clear the hurdles may says she will make it as easy as possible for citizens to stay in britain the stream is coming up next i'll see you after that in twenty five minutes. hi i'm femi oke a dean and you're in the street what is it like to be in the middle of one of the world's biggest humanitarian emergencies on today's stream you can ask al jazeera journalists about reporting from inside the room him that crisis we're live on you tube. since august more than five hundred thousand ranger have poured across the myanmar border into neighbor

secretary of state has hit out at saudi arabia for failing to resolve its standoff with cata rex tillerson says he has little hope the crisis will end any time soon and blame the saudi led bloc for a lack of progress to listen made the comments a day before embarks on a trip to the region in a renewed attempt to mediate the crisis. and britain's prime minister is in brussels trying to restart stalled brecht's it talks to resume a is demanding urgency from e.u. leaders on resolving the rights of e.u. citizens in the u.k. after it leaves the blog seeking to clear the hurdles may says she will make it as easy as possible for you citizens to stay in britain the stream is coming up next i'll see you after that twenty five minutes. hi i'm femi has hi i'm the hoods of adin and you're in the street what is it like to be in the middle of one of the world's biggest humanitarian emergencies on.

secretary of state has criticized saudi arabia for failing to resolve its standoff with cata rex tillerson says he has little hope the crisis will end anytime soon and blame the saudi led bloc for a lack of progress to listen made the comments a day before he embarks on a trip to the region in a renewed attempt to mediate the crisis in saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain an egypt sever ties with cateye in june accusing it of supporting terror groups. it's now speak to castro in washington d.c. what more do we know about to listens comments. hey mary i'm so rex tillerson had a distinct change in tone today in an interview he had with bloomberg news gone was that sense of optimism we heard back in july when the secretary of state made his last visit to the region instead after these three months of relative in action little progress to show tillerson expressed his frustration telling bloomberg that there seems to be a real unwillingness on the part of some of the parties to want to engage it's up to the leadership of the quartet when they want to engage with qatar because qatar has been very cle

secretary of state has criticized the four countries imposing a blockade on cata for refusing to engage in talks rex tillerson says there's an unwillingness on the part of the saudi led quartet to negotiate despite being ready to engage. from washington d.c. . tillerson gave this interview martine to bloomberg news in which it was marked a change in tone from the u.s. secretary of state you know back in july we heard optimism from tillerson as he went into his last round of meetings in the middle east he was practicing shuttle diplomacy between qatar and saudi arabia he expressed hope that the resolution would be reached very soon but that was three months ago and there has been very little progress to show and so today his statements to bloomberg expressed that frustration that tillers and has and in the words of the secretary of state laid the blame for this stagnation in talks at the feet of these walk hating nations european leaders are backing spain is the castle and crisis escalates in brussels the prime minister mariano rajoy won the support of the french president emmanuel mccraw and the german chance

secretary of state has criticised the four countries imposing a blockade on cata for refusing to engage in dialogue rex tillerson said there was an unarmed willingness on the part of the four countries to negotiate despite cata being ready to engage. european leaders a backing spain as the catalan crisis escalates in brussels the prime minister mariano rajoy won the support of the french president emmanuel mccraw as well as the german chancellor angela merkel bought the e.u. itself says it will not intervene in the dispute between madrid and barcelona. the white house chief of staff has come to the defense of president donald trump's call this week to the widow of a slain soldier mr trump is accused of making insensitive remarks during a phone call to the widow of a soldier who was killed in an ambush in israel earlier this month. now the former president of the united states barack obama has urged americans to reject the. politics of division that's growing in the country it appeared to be a swipe at president donald trump without actually mentioning his name well president obama was speaking at an event for th

arabia is not yet ready to begin direct talks with doha to resolve the gulf crisis rex tillerson has been speaking in catahours after meeting the saudi leaders he says it isn't for the u.s. to impose the solution gulf countries have to find one themselves with respect to talks getting underway yes i did in my meetings with the crown prince mohammed bin samana i asked him to please and gauge please and gauge in dialogue. there is not a strong indication that parties are ready to talk yet. and so we cannot force talks upon people who are not ready to talk so there has been no invitation to the white house because it's not clear that parties are ready to engage but we're going to continue to work towards that dialogue and towards that engagement japan's prime minister shinzo abyei has swept a victory in the snap election after promising to toughen his stance on north korea and revive the economy also results a ruling coalition has already won two hundred sixty four seats exit polls say he'll easily achieve his supermajority target of three hundred ten seats which could allow him to change the constitution an

cata logical hand reports. he's back u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has landed in saudi arabia he was here in july then signing a memorandum of understanding with carter would be enough to end the blockade it didn't despite his shuttle diplomacy so now he's coming back trying a new tactic for the four blockading countries saudi arabia u.a.e. egypt and bahrain assigning blame and then in an interview saying qatar is willing to negotiate and the saudi led coalition is simply refusing to talk because he tried before he tried to try to be nice with everyone but him no where. produced no results so i think that's probably. the time has come. analysts say there is a renewed hope they might be more willing to engage now has the president for example try to put pressure on the saudis in the u.a.e. to be willing to to meet. the resolve some of the sanctions and stop that they put on. the fact that the president house call mout now and basically decertified the iran deal is not going to make the saudis more willing to work with us to deal with the situation wit

secretary of state rex tillerson is in saudi arabia for talks aimed at ending the blockade against cata he's met saudi king solomon it's now been four months in saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain suspended ties with cata a fall from the gulf dispute mr tillotson will also discuss measures to counter iran's influence in the middle east iraq's also on the agenda with the secretary attend in the first meeting of a council aimed at boosting ties between saudi arabia and baghdad and after visiting doha later today he'll travel to delhi for talks and then on to pakistan. u.s. backed syrian democratic forces have captured syria's largest oil field from ice on the kurdish s.t.'s are in a race against russian backed syrian troops to seize parts of the oil rich to resort region against yes i've already pushed myself from the areas main natural gas field down the city of raka after a four month campaign rocket was i saw self declared capital. is on the turkey syria border hashim how significant is this. by capturing of the alarm our oil field which is one of the largest in syr

secular state rex tillerson visited the region in july but left without a breakthrough although a memorandum of understanding of combating and financing terrorism was signed with catatennison later pointed to diplomats to step up efforts to find a solution and u.s. president donald trump offered to mediate following a white house meeting with the emir of kuwait in the wake of that visit the emir of qatar saudi arabia's crown prince had their first phone conversation since the crisis began in june hopes were dashed within a few hours and the deadlock has continued since i mean that didn't bode well or doesn't bode well for her doesn't for future conversations if they can even have that type of telephone conversation was considered. sing and you know wondered why it ended like that what if the u.s. now in their their arsenal of of offers of the leverage that they have offered talks at the white house camp david would that work. well there has been countless affairs from the beginning in order to bring that to bring the parties just the table of discussion and the as the person have mentioned before coming here of the quartet been hard headed refusing even to entertai

secretary of state rex tillerson met with king solomon in saudi arabia for talks aimed at ending the blockade against cata it's now been four months since saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain suspended ties with. i was it was pretty cool hayne is with me in the studio it's all about been it's been all about reading the tea leaves as far as rex tillerson visit to saudi arabia is concerned so far we had that bizarre incident yesterday where he was met at the airport not by his counterpart and i someone from some ministry but today we've had these meetings a press conference that was going to happen that wasn't going to happen and that is going to happen what's going on yes it was considered an insult because it was the deputy minister for protocol the met the u.s. secretary of state now this could backfire i'm not saying it will but it could because remember president donald trump on the campaign trail made a huge deal about the fact that barack obama had to walk down the other side of the plane air force one if he finds out that his secretary of state was shown this level of risk disresp

conflict in the middle east and south asia rex tillerson first stop is saudi arabia for talks on the ongoing war in yemen and the current gulf crisis he'll then go on to cata pakistan and india on thursday to listen said he had little hope that the gulf diplomatic dispute would be resolved soon blaming the four blockading nations for refusing to engage in talks. a month after hurricane maria hit puerto rico eighty percent of the island to still without power crews are working around the clock to try to fix hundreds of kilometers of power lines but the governor of puerto rico says it could be another two months before full power is restored alan fischer reports now from san juan. this is normally the convention center in san juan the capital of puerto rico but for the last month this has been the coordinating hub of all the rescue efforts across the island the federal emergency management agency the department of defense a number of local agencies and a number of charities are all based here trying to coordinate relief efforts but one month or one after the hurricane many people are saying they're seeing nothing nothing from any of these agencies coming int