discussions on drafting a new constitution for syria but that's angered many syrian refugees as david chaytor reports from geneva. the united nations has warned an all out onslaught on it little endangers the lives of three million civilians trapped in the province one million of them children. the special envoy for syria has spelled out to the security council what it could mean we have been hearing it during this last few days we are all terribly concerned they are all in great that exist poor a perfect storm which in chile devastating your many concert with other consequences as well the syrian refugees and activists have been staging weekly demonstrations outside the u.n. headquarters in geneva they say is in tolerable talks of a new constitution are taking place while bombs are falling on. to the united nations says if you are not doing anything just talking without action we heard kill my brother next to. i lost my city i lost my country. the u.n. special envoy to syria said in terms of real politics they realize that plans could be overturned by the escalating conflict in it but that n

attack but nothing can convey the sheer scale of the suffering to come if the assault continues david chaytor al jazeera geneva. lawyers for brazil's jailed former president louis. lula da silva say that he'll keep fighting to run in next month's presidential election is banned from standing juicer corruption conviction and the supreme court has rejected his latest appeal he spent monday with fernando her dad who could be announced as the workers' party candidates on tuesday in america and it's on the sea of human is in could achieve. is in jail. it's a race against time for former president lula da silva and his workers party this is the federal police facility where the former president is serving out a twelve year prison sentence and it's here that the would be presidential candidate spent the day meeting with his running mate fernando had that it was widely expected that lula would give him a letter naming him as his successor to allow him to register in his stead as the party's candidate before a tuesday evening deadline for doing so runs out. outside supporters who've been camped out in

still a geisha and heading home to a war wracked country with little immediate hopes of peace david chaytor al jazeera geneva ever have a separate fessor of conflict resolution at the institute he says the failure of the geneva talks to get under way shows the deep distrust mistrust between the two sides. i assume actually when martin defense makes such an announcement with international commitment then attention for the negotiations that they care to take place in geneva that he secured already an explicit unconditional approval from the saudis as that this would happen but for the saudis to insist that no they can't come on any on all many a plan and they can come on a you want a plan it would be something that talks to the. positions of where they really stand on these things because. at the end of the day and all many have been would not be smuggling weapons for them give them the money.

acceptable let's stay with these live pictures as long as they last and also bring in our correspondent david chaytor so david clearly a completely different interpretation on why the who sees are not there compared to what the are saying is the main reason for their lack of turning up in switzerland . peter that's right senshi this was a whole process meant to build confidence to restore trust between the two warring sides and instead what is shown clearly to the people of the yemen who are suffering so greatly and to the international community how wide that gap still is between the warring parties this is a this is a war that is not going to have a military solution everybody knows that a peace process must be started about already the recriminations are starting the blame is being laid but the special envoy for yemen martin this is still saying that he believes the peace process can be started it doesn't have to be in the same building at the u.n. headquarters in geneva it can actually be done in different cities if necessary but the peace process must go on so as you said before he's trying to p

attack but nothing can convey the sheer scale of the suffering to come if the assault continues david chaytor al jazeera geneva. if they so people are dead and. capital tripoli after gunmen stormed the headquarters of the national oil corporation security forces regained control of the building last week between rival armed groups brought some fighting in the city that the. the special deterrence force that is the security apparatus policing in the capital tripoli has announced of that it's individuals have taken full control of the headquarters of the national oil corporation following that attack that targeted the national oil corporation and killed two of the employees and one did ten others now according to the head of the tripoli security directorate the attackers belong to ice of but at the same time the interior ministry issued a statement saying that the attack is a terrorist attack without without naming the assailants at the same time the d.n.a. does the government of national accord condemned the attack calling it a terrorist attack now the situation has called of to some extent bu

attack but nothing can convey the sheer scale of the suffering to come if the assault continues david chaytor al jazeera geneva a suicide bomb explosion in somalia's capital mogadishu has killed at least six people and injured many others the armed group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for this latest act of violence to hit mogadishu this year it will morgan reports. the was the bomber targeted a local government building in mogadishu and was followed by gunshots oh on the top of it i was drinking tea when the car hit the cage i fell down on the ground and saw other people on the ground as well but i was shocked the this is the second suicide blast and somalia's capital has not. claimed responsibility for that blast and dozens of other previous he said attacks in others were fighters they turned out they are talking as the they have attacked in the hour will be. attackers in the conditions somali capital you know all the last week and hello that districts like killing hearing and today they are all the districts where they are and it is a. many people are they are on their way growing t

same negotiation process in geneva as we stay with those pictures will bring in our correspondent david chaytor who is there as well david confidence building measures as far as the war in yemen is concerned easier said than done. clearly that must be one of the briefest updates i've ever heard from the united nations but they did say that the hopes are still alive that the two parties can be brought together at the geneva headquarters of the united nations the confidence building measures that were being discussed between martin right the special. martin griffiths the special u.n. envoy for the m. and this morning included talks about a possible prisoner swap this would be very complicated it would be overseen by the i c r c the as an international committee of the red cross but it would be very important the envoy said that this is one of the clear measures that would give what he called that flicker of hope that was so necessary in the am and to all the parties involved the families could hope at last to be reunited with their loved ones on both sides of the warring parties so that is someth

special envoy remains hopeful of future negotiations from of zeros david chaytor in geneva. the peace process collapsed before it even began they were meant to establish a framework for the peace process they are meant to build confidence measures to try and bring the trust together between the two warring factions but now the yemen government delegation attacking their bags in the hotel behind me and are ready to leave this is been a huge disappointment for the special envoy for the amman martin griffiths he hasn't given up all hope though he hopes to continue with the peace process in some form he hopes perhaps to bring the the sides together at a later date but he won't give any timetable on that let's hear what he said we're going to. take up the issues that we will have discussed here this is what i mean by we have begun this is what i mean by we have begun. it's too early for me to say when the next round of concentrations will take place or will be held that's obviously going to be high on the agenda to so that we don't go through a repeat of this week and i think it'

still a geisha and heading home to a war wracked country with little immediate hopes of peace david chaytor al jazeera geneva. greek police of fire tear gas at demonstrators in the northern city of thessaloniki thousands of greeks are protesting against a recent diplomatic agreement to end the quarter century with neighboring macedonia the deal would see the balkan state we named north. police estimated around fifteen thousand people were in the crowd many tried to converge on a venue where the prime minister the press was giving a speech on the future of greece now its bailouts have ended serbia's president has pledged to continue talks with call civil to resolve the long running dispute between the two alexander speaking at the start of a two day visit to cos of o. a day after he and this cos of an counterpart called off a face to face meeting in brussels at the last minute possible declared independence from serbia ten years ago a move not recognised by belgrade the two men were due to discuss a land swap under which the price of a valley in southern serbia where the population is mainly

david chaytor has more from geneva the venue for the plan talks. the peace consultations between the two warring sides were jus to start here at the geneva headquarters on thursday morning but the united nations has now said that will be delayed until friday we don't know exactly what time but the delay is being caused by the fact that the hooty delegation the rebel delegation are still in the capital of sana that is because the saudi arabia at the head of the coalition has refused to allow them to fly now they were jew to go out to a mosque up in amman with some injured civilians for medical treatment but i think the saudi coalition of the looking at whether they were militiamen exactly who the injured people were and whether there were any iranians of whatever profession also on that flight so this is now all up for consultation with the special envoy to the yemen martin griffis is said he's not worried by that delay this is usual he said and he is sure everybody consultations are going on at the moment to make sure this matter could be cleared u

delegation did not attend planned talks on thursday which would have been the first in almost two years david chaytor is in geneva. the u.n. special envoy for yemen is still holding out hope that these consultations talks can start but he doesn't know exactly when it could be saturday it could be sunday it could even be monday but you still holding out hope the question is exactly how long can the yemen government delegation sitting on their own here at this hotel in geneva how long can they actually wait when will their patience run out still on the ground in sun other yemeni capital is the who cheat rebel delegation there demanding the chance to put injured fighters on that plane for treatment in the amman the capital of moscow's but the yemeni government spokesman here told me this is not only the injured fighters they're trying to get on that plane let's hear what he said they said yesterday they want to. jets from yemen we have information from our side from there from santa those are not injuries they are a group of iranian and a group of hezbollah experts who were. ballastic missiles program t

to leave yemen almost ten thousand people have been killed since the war began three years ago david chaytor is our correspondent live for us this hour in geneva david so on again off again it looks like they're not going to happen. they're not going to happen i've confirmed that with the foreign minister of the yemen government who is leaving in the car behind me for the united nations he says he feels a sense of dismay he's just leaving now. he says he feels a sense of dismay that these hopes for conservation talks have actually collapsed he of course blames the delegation we're waiting to hear exactly what the special envoy for the amman martin this is going to say it is press conference but i did have at least a four minute conversation with the government delegation clearly upset they say they are leaving i have confirmed that with them and we don't yet know exactly when they might try and reconvene these consultation talks but it's been speculated in some reports that it could be in about two weeks time so all these efforts that have gone on the really hard efforts by martin griffiths

still a geisha and heading home to a war wracked country with little immediate hopes of peace david chaytor al jazeera geneva. trumpet ministration has cut one of its last remaining aid programs for palestinians this time affecting cancer patients and children with serious conditions the state department has withdrawn twenty five million dollars earmarked for the east jerusalem hospital network a group of six hospitals providing treatment not available in the west bank or gaza two weeks ago the trump administration canceled two hundred million dollars of aid to fund programs in the palestinian territories and last week it withdrew all two hundred nineteen million dollars of this year's u.s. funding to that's the united nations agency which helps palestinian refugees in the west bank gaza and neighboring countries it had already with sixty five million dollars from the agency in january in the last few months countries including india catherine the united arab emirates and saudi arabia have stepped up giving a total of two hundred thirty eight million dollars in extra funding to offset the u

attack but nothing can convey the sheer scale of the suffering to come if the assault continues david chaytor al jazeera geneva. a suicide bomb explosion in somalia's capital mogadishu has killed at least six people and injured many others the armed group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for this latest act of violence to hit market issue this year have a morgan reports the the bomber targeted a local government building in mogadishu and was followed by gunshots to the only thought that i was drinking tea when the car hit the key i fell down on the ground and saw other people on the ground as well but i was shocked the this is the second suicide blast and somalia's capital system on the al-shabaab claimed responsibility for that blast and dozens of other previous he said attacks in others not fighters they turned out they are jockeys the they have attacked in the hour will be they carry out attackers in the conditions somali capital they know are the last week be attacked and hello that districts like killing. and today they are all the districts and it is a people many people are they a

attack but nothing can convey the sheer scale of the suffering to come if the assault continues david chaytor al jazeera geneva. there are plenty more ahead on the news hour including bots prime minister goes on a tour of the city by days of anti-government protests an attack on libya's national all headquarters puts pressure on efforts to end the fighting in tripoli and bradley makes sure home crowd is paying attention as he feels his first win and six years peter will be here with more on that later. lawyers for brazil's jailed former president. says he'll keep fighting giovanna next month's presidential election banned from standing due to a corruption conviction and the supreme court has rejected his latest appeal he spent monday meeting with fernando hard out who could be announced the workers' party candidate on tuesday a latin america editor lucien human could achieve where. it's a race against time for former president and his workers' party this is the federal police facility where the former president is serving out a twelve year prison sentence and it's here that the would be presi

the need the permission of the saudi and the rotty coalition because they control the airspace david chaytor has the story. the u.n. special envoy spent the morning in talks with the yemeni government delegation at their hotel in geneva but the rebel delegation still on the ground in yemen we are here to put something to the end of their yemeni suffering and but who are these proves that they don't want peace they don't believe in peace the u.n. special envoy for the yemen here in geneva is still trying to square all these very difficult diplomatic circles but he does hope still that there is a chance for these peace consultations to go ahead but it's not known how long the patience of either the hutus all the government will last. a tweet from the leader of the peace dedication mohammed abdulsalam in the yemeni capital of sana'a didn't simplify the problems the hooty delegation does not have an airplane so it cannot get authorized by the saudi alliance which also needs a u.s. authorization the united nations has asked for our participation in the geneva consultations the u.n. must address t

who's in antakya that's in southern turkey right on the border with syria first so let's go to david chaytor who's in geneva where those talks are taking place and david no doubt these are the people who are meeting these delegations or the meeting who are considered representatives of the guarantor countries will be talking about italy which must be top of the agenda given the disaster that is looming according to so many sources now. martin you might say that but staffan de mistura who is the u.n. special envoy for syria has said he's very anxious that the regional plan for this meeting is not hijacked by events in italy what they're supposed to be discussing here what they were due to be discussing was in fact the forming a constitutional committee of some forty members to redraft syria's constitution and kick start the political process but of course they will be discussing now the the situation's humanitarian situation in libya and i've been talking to n.g.o.s here about exactly what is needed they say that there are some five hundred doctors there five thousand medical workers some fif

let's go to david chaytor who's in geneva first david what's the latest on the start of these talks bearing in mind those delays in getting the city delegation to geneva. well let me update you immediately we've just heard from the u.n. here in geneva that the start of these consultation talks here at this building will be delayed for twenty four hours they will only start on friday now that is clearly. as a result of the delay caused by the the hooty delegation not being allowed to take a larger plane with the injured civilians for medical treatment in mon and now that means as far as the special envoy for yemen is concerned martin griffiths the former british diplomat that he's relaxed about the idea of a delay he says that he is consulting with all parties this may take time and this is the reason why there is a twenty four hour delay in the start of these consultation talks but he's very relaxed about it as i say and he thinks this will go ahead each side and he's been in close consultation with them have both said that they want to get a peace process going once again because it's been

attack but nothing can convey the sheer scale of the suffering to come if the assault continues david chaytor al jazeera geneva. lawyers for brazil's jail for president lula da silva say that he'll keep fighting to run in next month's presidential election is param from standing due to a corruption conviction and the supreme court has rejected his latest appeal he spent monday meeting with fernando her dad who could be announced as the workers' party candidates on tuesday in america editor lucy of human is in could achieve is in jail it's a race against time for former president lula da silva and his workers party this is the federal police facility where the former president is serving out a twelve year prison sentence and it's here that the would be presidential candidate spent the day meeting with his running mate fernando had that it was widely expected that lula would give him a letter naming him as his successor to allow him to register in his stead as the party's candidate before a tuesday evening deadline for doing so runs out. outside supporters who've been camped out in front of the

still a geisha and heading home to a war wracked country with little immediate hopes of peace david chaytor al jazeera geneva several top u.n. officials are in pakistan's push our province for talks about the treatment of afghan refugees pakistan hosts around one point four million afghan refugees many of them if it decades for the program the local car among those visiting a camp which operates with u.n. funding. unfortunately very long protracted refugee situations are more difficult to support or more difficult to find resources for so we are unfortunately in that situation now but i think we should not forget that in the course of these four decades there were moments when the situation in afghanistan was better it was more stable when people went back voluntarily in large numbers now unfortunately we are at the difficulties elections are coming in afghanistan we've seen in increasing violence and i think that we need to help afghanistan overcome this difficult period re store stability and with stability we've come a lot of other things more from come ohio to who is in. the united nati

still a geisha and heading home to a war wracked country with little immediate hopes of peace david chaytor al jazeera geneva. the united states has cut one of its last remaining aid programs for palestinians this time affecting cancer patients and children with serious conditions the state department has withdrawn twenty five million dollars earmarked for the east jerusalem hospital network a group of six hospitals providing treatment not available in the west bank and gaza two weeks ago the trumpet ministration cancelled a two hundred million dollars of aid to fund programs in the palestinian territories then last week it withdrew all two hundred ninety million dollars of this year's us funding to which helps palestinian refugees in the west bank gaza and neighboring countries it had already withheld sixty five million dollars from the un agency in january in the last few months countries including india of the united arab emirates and saudi arabia have stepped up giving a total of two hundred thirty eight million dollars in extra funding to offset the u.s. cuts but the agency still faces

including prisoners and humanitarian access with yemen's foreign minister here's more from geneva with david chaytor. the u.n. special envoy for yemen is still holding out hope that these consultations talks can start but he doesn't know exactly when it could be saturday it could be sunday it could even be monday but you still holding out hope the question is though exactly how long can the yemen government delegation sitting on their own here at this hotel in geneva how long can they actually wait when will the patients run out . still on the ground in the yemeni capital is the hoochie rebel delegation they're demanding the chance to put injured fighters on their plane for treatment in the amman the capital of moscow's but the yemeni government spokesman here told me this not only the injured fighters they're trying to get on that plane let's hear what he said they said yesterday they want to. enjoy it's from yemen we have information from our side from there from santa those are not injuries they are a group of iranian and a group of hezbollah experts who were. going ballastic missiles program tha

discussed issues including prisoners and humanitarian access with yemen's foreign minister live david chaytor who's in geneva for us so things off to a rocky start there in geneva are these talks going to happen at all. well let me give you some information from sources inside the united nations headquarters in geneva they say that essentially martin griffiths will keep on with his efforts to try and get the rebel rebel delegation lifted off from sana to join these consultations talks now it's not sure exactly when that can happen but it is certain as far as the special envoy is concerned that it will happen now it could be later saturday sunday or even monday the only problem there is sort of course he will have to persuade the yemeni government delegation to bear with him to keep their patience going and that could be a very difficult task or they are committed to the peace process they've said so loudly and clearly they are very disturbed by the demands of the rebel delegation for these so-called injured fighters to be put on that plane with them and taken for medical treatment at my scott