some in djibouti others having returned to yemen. and their relatives in the us waiting hoping they can be together soon. before the war yemeni americans were able to travel relatively easily between their two home countries. that's the case for abdul forgave he works in the u.s. for an a.t.m. company to support his family. we went to meet him at his apartment just outside new york city home to generations of yemeni americans saw a wave of flood immigrants they came from our area in yemen abdul's family's roots in the u.s. go back almost a century i'm a fourth generation fourth generation in the country my father was grandfather. from his mother's side of the cities my father was a citizen all my uncles are citizens abdul had hoped his children would continue that line to. she is twenty one years old my mother is seventeen when i was nine this is my life. and your other son so nineteen years old. there's nothing in this for he first applied for visas for his wife and four children in two thousand and fifteen just after the war began

embassy in djibouti. because this is the e-mail you got from the embassy. dear mr a lot money during your family's immigrant visa interview at the u.s. embassy. severity of shame as a ripple policy had not only been independently verified by. panel physician but also very apparent to me to surprise the embassy official told them they were now approved for waivers had you heard from the u.s. consulate into beauty at all between when you were ejected for surjective for the waiver and when you got the approval in april. when if either of us and. the embassy official claimed he had always been approved but they couldn't tell him in the meantime as you've been his family spent thousands of dollars in djibouti and traveled back to yemen after the e-mail he had to wait for further instructions and eventually got a call from the embassy telling him they had two weeks to get to the u.s. . from yemen they rushed to djibouti to get their visas and then were finally able to come to the u.s. henri met up with them again. via the annual habit and any move by at about fiv

embassy in djibouti. because this is the e-mail you got from the embassy. dear mr a lot money during your family's immigrant visa interview at the u.s. embassy. severity of shame as a ripple policy had not only been independently verified by. panel physician but also very apparent to me to surprise the embassy official told them they were now approved for waivers had you heard from the u.s. consulate into beauty at all between when you were ejected first rejected for the waiver and when you got the approval in april. when if either of us and. the embassy official claimed he had always been approved but they couldn't tell him in the meantime there's even his family spent thousands of dollars in djibouti and traveled back to yemen after the email he had to wait for further instructions and eventually got a call from the embassy telling him they had two weeks to get to the u.s. . from yemen they rushed to djibouti to get their visas and then were finally able to come to the u.s. henri met up with them again. via the annual habit and. by at about five. years th

but many are struggling to survive having arrived with nothing from djibouti bennett smith reports. in a sparse room in central djibouti we see abdul aziz abdullah and seven children sit out the war in yemen they're safe but destitute and scarred for life by the horrors they say they've witnessed on the other we couldn't stay there was a wedding in our village during the celebrations airplanes came in dropped bombs on it forty five people were killed the whole place was demolished in people blown to pieces they couldn't tell who was who people brought a bucket and we picked up pieces of flesh and bone his mother was one of them we lost so many relatives at once so fast we didn't want that to happen to our children but to escape and a grueling fourteen hour boat ride across the red sea. i have seven children understand how it is i got scared the killing began bullets began flying around and my children were very scared so i took them to the coast and that night there was heavy bombardment of a military base on the outskirts of town the kids did not stop crying all night i found a fis

embassy in djibouti. because this is the e-mail you got from the embassy. dear mr a lot money during your family's immigrant visa interview at the u.s. embassy. severity of shame as a ripple policy had not only been independently verified by. panel physician but also very apparent to me to surprise the embassy official told them they were now approved for waivers had you heard from the u.s. consulate into beauty at all between when you were ejected for surjective for the waiver and when you got the approval in april. when if either of us a. the embassy official claimed he had always been approved but they couldn't tell him in the meantime as you've been his family spent thousands of dollars in djibouti and traveled back to yemen after the e-mail he had to wait for further instructions and eventually got a call from the embassy telling him they had two weeks to get to the u.s. . from yemen they rushed to do to get their visas and then were finally able to come to the u.s. henri met up with them again. via the annual habit and. by about five. years the family

one of the couples we met in djibouti has been trying to start a life in the u.s. for nearly three years i'm. very near yeah sure thanks for saying us a mix of home answering them. as strange muhammad first moved to new york in this early twenty s when he went back to yemen a few years later he had mozzies or got married and they had their daughter. the war broke out when she was still a toddler. a little i don't we don't want to be dull but at the intellect if you know what i did it tends to have stuck and i would suspect just by this i don't think i can tell a lot of a listener that has some has a. little bit of that has to feel pain had he has that tendency a lot of muhammad became a citizen when he went back to the u.s. where he was working and most of his family lives and started planning for us these are no no you know to join him. so this is stuff for the house for nature without the suit all the premium going to be found. when they got to do beauty five year old the mayor was given a visa but her mother was still waiting for a decision moment when i've seen

embassy here in djibouti describe what happened in the embassy here and. in the night. i had been so into japan-u.s. so. because she was born after najib became a citizen his youngest daughter could be issued a passport but his wife and two other daughters needed visas. and the life of them went on best fear. and how did you feel when you got there and can learn how and now not in the hell not only if you stay now it's not. that you see here show me the papers. they would have thought well. one of the changes in the latest version of the travel ban is the inclusion of one pathway to the u.s. a waiver that can be granted on a case by case basis if applicants meet three criteria the more. a little. would at least this one issue. that he wanted. only a while and landed with an italian the one with a hole in it it was funny the oven talks are fucked and they anything. and always have to have one hell of a lot of old me how they had. let me have a bit of them. thought that given chametz condition and the fact that he's an american citizen they would qualify for a waiver. wit

in a sparse room in central djibouti we see abdul aziz abdullah and seven children sit out the war in yemen first safe but destitute and scarred for life by the horrors they say they've witnessed. we couldn't stay there was a wedding in our village during the celebrations airplanes came in dropped bombs on it forty five people were killed the whole place was demolished in people blown to pieces they couldn't tell who was who people brought a buckets and we picked up pieces of flesh and bone his mother was one of them we lost so many relatives at once so fast we didn't want that to happen to our children but to escape and a grueling fourteen hour boat ride across the red sea. i have seven children understand how it is i got scared the killing began bullets began flying around and my children were very scared so i took them to the coast and that night there was heavy bombardment of a military base on the outskirts of town the kids did not stop crying all night i found a fishing boat and they said they were headed for good it was a very windy day very high waves my kids got sick and thre

yemen airways flights are now forced to make a fifteen minute detour across the red sea here to djibouti for refueling before flying on to their final destinations. are seeing two letters written by the airline to the coalition complaining it is costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars to make these details but the coalition has ignored those complaints burnet smith al-jazeera djibouti. here it was a being held for seven palestinian protesters killed near the barrier fence between gaza and israel on friday they were taking part in demonstrations demanding the right to return to their ancestral lands nearly two hundred protesters have been killed by israeli forces since the protests began. well palestinian college graduates in the occupied territories are confronting a reality that flies in the face of conventional wisdom the chances of finding a job a worse than those without higher education and that is causing concern and frustration for many as natasha going to reports from the occupied west bank. leaves his house at four am to commute to a job he never wanted he has a degree in

when we met naji even his family had been living in the east african nation of djibouti across the sea from yemen for almost four months. there hasn't been an american embassy in yemen for over three years no because of the war. that means she's a including. american citizens like machine have had their cases assigned to foreign countries like booty is a try to get the armies away from conflict you want. nothing more than a mission to land a number out of my feet. nefesh an inconvenient message and. i'm in awe i've been out of. the aladdin mission to learn how to. tell this daughter eleven year old shaman was born with cerebral palsy making it more urgent for her to get adequate medical care something that's become increasingly difficult in yemen. the financial and. as the war escalated and as you've applied for visas for his family to join him in the us where he works to support them and where

environment aggravated the us some of their baby daughter forcing them to seek better treatment in djibouti is capital around five thousand germany refugees live in the city the u.n. runs an advice center here but it doesn't have the resources to pay for health care or anything else. if they come here and explain their case they don't know what is or isn't possible and the hardest thing basically is getting them to understand it's clearly very frustrating for abdulaziz like most refugees here he'd rather go home to yemen but he tells us he can't do that until the situation changes bernard smith al-jazeera djibouti. you know a tropical storm has ravaged large areas of yemen's eastern province bringing three days of heavy rainfall and flooding around seventy percent of the region has been affected by cycle a move on to aircraft one yemeni and the other one from the united arab emirates have been ferrying residents to safety after they became stranded in the provincial capital. hundreds of homes have been destroyed and thousands of livestock drowned after they were swept away by the floods. ru

in a sparse room in central djibouti we see abdul aziz abdullah and their seven children sit out the war in yemen they're safe but destitute and scarred for life by the horrors they say they've witnessed on the moment we couldn't stay there was a wedding in our village during the celebrations airplanes came in dropped bombs on it forty five people were killed the whole place was demolished in people blown to pieces they couldn't tell who was who people brought a buckets and we picked up pieces of flesh and bone his mother was one of them we lost so many relatives at once so fast we didn't want that to happen to our children but to escape and a grueling fourteen hour boat ride across the red sea. i have seven children understand how it is i got scared the killing began bullets began flying around and my children were very scared so i took them to the coast and that night there was heavy bombardment of a military base on the outskirts of town the kids did not stop crying all night i found a fishing boat and they said they were headed for good it was a very windy day very high waves my

flights will now need to make a detour their neighbor in djibouti and its myth reports from that. it's more a military airfield now than an international airport for airline passengers and the u.a.e. backed separatist forces controlling adenauer port have just made it much harder for the national airline yemeni air to continue operating the three remaining routes on a chance. to khartoum cairo and a man are no longer allowed to refuel here and engineers aren't allowed to maintain aircraft in the. saudi u.a.e. led coalition targeted these airports and violate all international laws and international treaties and enforce the continued closure of civilian airport and there are conditions airports should operate under what is stated in international treaties and rules however in yemen all sorts of illegal acts some pressures have been exercised to close airports and target them directly airplanes buildings support civilian staff there has been direct targeting or that it's in sanaa or in aden the southern transition council controls most of aden including the airport while the prime m

many are struggling to live having arrived with nothing from djibouti bernard smith reports. in a sparse room in central djibouti we see abdul aziz abdullah and their seven children sit out the war in yemen they're safe but destitute and scarred for life by the horrors they say they've witnessed oh my mom we couldn't stay there was a wedding in our village during the celebrations airplanes came in dropped bombs on it forty five people were killed the whole place was demolished in people blown to pieces they couldn't tell who was who people brought a buckets and we picked up pieces of flesh and bone his mother was one of them we lost so many relatives at once so fast we didn't want that to happen to our children but to escape and a grueling fourteen hour boat ride across the red sea. i have seven children so understand how it is i got scared the killing began bullets began flying around and my children were very scared so i took them to the coast and that night there was heavy bombardment of a military base on the outskirts of town the kids did not stop crying all night i foun

for example, djibouti is indebted and they put up a military base in djibouti.ould they get the mombasa port if kenya defaults? it is a very unlikely scenario, because the overall trade benefits we will see emerging from this, investment and trade benefits we will see will supersede these. i am aware countries often overpay for the infrastructure. the infrastructure in this case was necessary and i think it will overall be a benefit to the economy. rishaad: infrastructure builders like china communications construction companies see plenty of opportunities to boost their own growth as well as those of african nations. it is a parent to the company that built and operates theme sgr. i think the whole african continent as an opportunity for development. there is a large, young workforce, but economic growth is slow so there are few good job opportunities. right now they are like china in the 1970's. given china's development through the years, they will also embrace development opportunities. rishaad: the steady influx of chinese companies and workers have fueled

targeting and that's making it difficult for aid to get in when it smith reports from neighboring djibouti. you can safely bet with a spoon at the ready this girl is thinking of her next meal but she doesn't know when it will be where it will come from in northern yemen as many as a million people are living in camps beyond the reach of aid groups while yemen isn't officially in a state of famine it must feel like it here. lunch has been cooking for two hours and it's not ready yet we have no gas or proper firewood here under siege and we have nothing some of these crimes have been here for four years sprouting up as people escaped fighting in towns fell under who the control let's say i don't go to school because my father has no money to buy a sports and pings when i see girls come from school i get jealous i want to be a doctor aid agencies so a combination of armed groups checkpoints airstrikes and bureaucracy often make it impossible to reach these people. we appeal again to the international and humanitarian organizations to respond rapidly to displaced people and effective communiti

rebels suspected cases of cholera have almost tripled this summer smith reports from neighboring djibouti. you can safely bet with a spoon at the ready this girl is thinking of her next meal but she doesn't know when it will be where it will come from in northern yemen as many as a million people are living in camps beyond the reach of age groups while yemen isn't officially in a state of famine it must feel like it here. lunch has been cooking for two hours and it's not ready yet we have no gas or proper firewood here under siege and we have nothing some of these camps have been here for four years sprouting up as people escaped fighting in towns that fell under who the control let's say i don't go to school because my father has no money to buy a sports and pings when i see girls come from school i get jealous i want to be a doctor aid agencies so a combination of armed groups checkpoints airstrikes and bureaucracy often make it impossible to reach these people. we appeal again to the international and humanitarian organizations to respond rapidly to displaced people and effective commu

but it smith reports from djibouti. it's more a military airfield now than an international airport for airline passengers and the u.a.e. back separatist forces controlling adenauer port have just made it much harder for the national airline yemeni air to continue operating the three remaining routes on a chance. to khartoum cairo and a man are no longer allowed to refuel here and engineers are allowed to maintain aircraft in the. saudi u.a.e. led coalition to target these airports and violate all international laws and international treaties and enforce the continued closure of civilian airport and there are conditions airports should operate under what is stated in international treaties and rules however in yemen all sorts of illegal acts some pressures have been exercised to close airports and target them directly to airplanes buildings support civilian staff that has been direct targeting or that it's in sanaa or in aden the southern transition council controls most of aden including the airport while the prime min

transition council wants independence for southern yemen bernard smith reports from neighboring djibouti. it's more a military airfield now than an international airport for airline passengers and the u.a.e. back separatist forces controlling adenauer port have just made it much harder for the national airline yemeni air to continue operating the three remaining routes on a chance. to khartoum cairo and a man are no longer allowed to refuel here and engineers aren't allowed to maintain aircraft in the. saudi u.a.e. led coalition targeted these airports and violate all international laws and international treaties and enforce the continued closure of civilian airport and there were conditions airports should operate under what is stated in international treaties and rules however in yemen all sorts of illegal acts some pressures have been exercised to close airports and target them directly to airplanes buildings support civilian staff that has been direct targeting or that it's in sanaa or in aden the southern transition council controls most of aden including the airport while the prime

targeting and that's making it difficult for a to get in front of smith reports from neighboring djibouti. you can safely bet with a spoon at the ready this girl is thinking of her next meal but she doesn't know when it will be where it will come from in northern yemen as many as a million people are living in camps beyond the reach of aid groups while yemen isn't officially in a state of famine it must feel like it here. lunch has been cooking for two hours and it's not ready yet we have no gas or proper firewood here under siege and we have nothing some of these crimes have been here for four years sprouting up as people escaped fighting in towns fell into who the control let's say i don't go to school because my father has no money to buy a spokesman ping's when i see girls come from school i get jealous i want to be a doctor aid agencies say a combination of armed groups checkpoints ass strikes and bureaucracy often make it impossible to reach these people. we appeal again. the international and humanitarian organizations to respond rapidly to displaced people and effective communitie

burnet smith al-jazeera djibouti. hundreds of yemenis have been protesting in the southwestern city of tire yes' against the rising cost of living on the falling value of the yemeni ria the currency is expected to slide even further fuel prices have gone up and that increase transportation costs. at least twenty people have been killed and more than fifty were injured in a suicide bomb attack on an election meeting in afghanistan a suicide bomber targeted supporters of a provincial council member in the province of many of those killed are local elders the candidate targeted has previously spoken about increasing pressure on myself in the region. france is accusing iran of being behind a foiled attack near paris earlier this year they say tehran's intelligence agency which is led by the supreme leader ayatollah khamenei tried and failed to bomb an exiled iranian opposition groups rally in june iran denies french accusations over the alleged bomb plot. britain's former foreign secretary boris johnson today calling on t

week we're into the second week of october and the airport remains closed burnet smith al jazeera djibouti. fully back to go with the headlines here on al-jazeera the washington post has published what it says is the last known photo of jamal entering the saudi consulate in istanbul a week ago turkish investigators believe the saudi journalist was murdered inside the consulate the subject rabia government is denying any link to his disappearance donald trump has for the first time voice concerned about the fate of the well known journalist who has a u.s. president the u.s. president is calling on salinger a.b.i. to support a thorough investigation into his disappearance before he vanished in hinted that he was concerned about his fate the b.b.c. has released an interview with him just three days before he went to the saudi consulate in istanbul recently a saudi columnist an economist who was close to the royal court got a listed and that's a good many people because here we are talking about somebody who's close to the government right right i don't even want to use the term this is a diss

affordable levels and many think the saudi led coalition is to blame when it smith reports from djibouti. economic collapse rather than the war against the truth is now becoming the biggest short term threat to the stability of yemen's government across the south they've been protests against the fall in the value of the currency that all over the world grow old are going to we're starving our children are dying the cities are under siege and that's unemployment we want to tell the regime in the arab coalition that when hunger is the engine of these people discussions negotiations and treaties collapse and the only solution is immediately supplying a loaf of bread. there that they say listen we came out today in mass anger against the coalition it into human under certain agreement which was to liberate human passion lost its way and started controlling our country's resources we are calling on the coalition to return the oil and gas open the airports and return everything to be legitimate places. the government had been printing more money to try and keep cash flowing but there's been n

needs after a report was seen by the hoofy health minister but a smith reports from neighboring djibouti. he's just skin and bone mass and her son is two years old he should be walking by now he has severe acute malnutrition and a range of related complications after a million children in yemen earn a similar condition to bassam as a consequence of the war now into its fourth year between the yemeni government backed by the saudi and their r.t. coalition and who the rebels some of his long we can't ignore the siege and. just silence of sun our airports i mean under part of the day they're full and that led to their suffering from malnutrition. who the administration's health minister saw some store in al jazeera two weeks ago and ordered his rescue from northern yemen. and he was brought to the capital sanaa for treatment along with five other children condition might improve or he may need more specialist treatment outside yemen and that is where the health minister is influenced and it's. sunnah airport is closed to all but a handful of u.n. flights the saudi u.a.e. led coalition battl

makeshift camps there in an area controlled by who the rebels and smith reports from neighboring djibouti. you can safely bet with a spoon at the ready this girl is thinking of her next meal but she doesn't know when it will be where it will come from in northern yemen as many as a million people are living in camps beyond the reach of aid groups while yemen isn't officially in a state of famine it must feel like it here. lunch has been cooking for two hours and it's not ready yet we have no gas or proper firewood we are under siege and we have nothing some of these camps have been here for four years sprouting up as people escaped fighting in towns fell under who the control let's say i don't go to school because my father has no money to buy a spokesman ping's when i see girls come from school i get jealous i want to be a doctor aid agencies say a combination of armed groups checkpoints airstrikes and bureaucracy often make it impossible to reach these people. we appeal again to the international and humanitarian organizations to respond rapidly to displaced people and effective communi

ceasefire and that might only come when the warring parties sit down until burner smith al-jazeera djibouti bolivia has lost its legal battle to force chile to negotiate access to the pacific ocean both nations leaders traveled to the netherlands for a hearing at the international court of justice landlocked bolivia lost its coastline to chile in a war one hundred thirty five years ago doesn't like the big getting it back anytime soon stories about reports. from early in the morning these people in the believe in capital waited for a ruling that they claim would help landlocked bolivia regain what it's not had for well over a century access to the pacific ocean. one of those in the crowd they made daniel said he was bitterly disappointed with the ruling one of the killer morse. we only want to be able to sit at the same table and to negotiate. five years ago believe us president evo morales took to the international court of justice in an attempt to force his country's neighbor to negotiate over access to seal its link to the ocean was lost to chile in the aftermath of what was dubbed the w

bernard smith al-jazeera djibouti an explosion at an election rally in afghanistan has killed at least twenty two people thirty six others were injured in the blast in the northeastern province of parker the explosives were turned to a motorcycle near the rally the crowd was going to hear a speech by a female candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections the u.s. special envoy has met taliban officials to discuss ending the seventeen year conflict in the country zalmay khalilzad met the taliban representatives in cattle's capital on friday now this is the second face to face talks between the u.s. and the taliban since june the afghan born u.s. diplomat was appointed last month to find ways to end the fighting. has more in kabul the talks between the u.s. and the taliban are quite significant a step forward but he says that this is only mean that we're going to see an end to violence in afghanistan any time soon the americans and the international community say there's no military solution to the conflict afghanistan and therefore they're willing to have all the parties come on boa

some in djibouti others have been returned to yemen. and their relatives in the us waiting hoping they can be together soon. before the war yemeni americans were able to travel relatively easily between their two home countries. that's the case for abdul forgave he works in the u.s. for an a.t.m. company to support his family. we went to meet him at his apartment just outside new york city home to generations of yemeni americans saw a wave of flood immigrants they came from our area and human outdoes family's roots in the u.s. go back almost a century i'm a fourth generation fourth generation in the country my father was grandfather. from his mother's side the city's my father was a citizen all my uncles are citizens abdul had hoped his children would continue that line too. she is twenty years old my mother is seventeen when i was nine this is my life. and your other son so nineteen years old. there's nothing in this for he first applied for visas for his wife and four children in two thousand and fifteen just after the war began it ma

there stablished their first military base in djibouti at camp a former french foreign legion fort. rudolf attala directed counterterrorism efforts in africa for the u.s. department of defense. the sal played a key role and. looking at. the movement of weapons the movement of potential foreign fighters organized crime during that time period you also had an influx of cocaine flowing in through the saddle so all of this was was of primary interest and it in a continued to grow. piece the series of maps in two thousand and two bulking both this whole part of africa as a terrorist chordal corridor of terrorism and of course the official narrative from the pentagon and the white on is that these terrorists that come from afghanistan they've been driven out by american forces united they went that time was they've crossed through bin laden country i.e. sudan they're linking up with terrorists in north africa they've come through this sort of belts this but on a shaky area. jeremy keenan a british professor and author has spent fourteen years studying the. step the military engagement of

deep water ports in pakistan and also in djibouti, why influence the middle east from djibouti, influencen, from pakistan. they have put in writing they want to dominate the asian pacific in near term, and in 20 years be the preeminent global power replacing the united states. that is the direction of turn at that is why i say we are on a collision course with them. >> martha: important and scary. just about ten seconds. pompeo is going to go back and meet with kim jong un. quick thought on that. >> good. public diplomacy, the president says, he's in love. [laughs] never heard anything like that of my life by the president of the united states. obviously the public diplomacy is positive. listen, martha, they have not turned over one single ballistic missile are one single nuclear weapon or even provided us the inventory of all of the above and the additional sites that are there supporting those activities. that is what pompeo wants. >> martha: general, thank you, as always. great to see you. thank you for being with us. up next, hillary clinton going back to going after the deplorables a

week well into the second week of october and the airport remains closed burnet smith al jazeera djibouti. time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back suffering in silence the less obvious scars of palestinians trying to fight against israeli occupation. soon temperatures will be subzero here people will die displaced by drought millions of afghans face a bleak winter ahead. and in sports a first test century for her sale puts pakistan's cricketers in charge against australia mana stay with us. from cool brisk north in few weeks. to the warm tranquil waters of southeast asia. hello is starting to rain again in china not just in sichuan that that rains become bit more extensive it's actually linking up with another system in atlanta spreading its wings through shanghai and eventually up towards the korean peninsula and the whole it's falling slowly south you might catch the edge of it in hong kong so it's been a change in the weather type which has been quite settled now for a couple of weeks more or less most of china south of this and it's actually relatively quiet no typ

burnitz with al-jazeera djibouti . brazil is set to hold its final presidential debate ahead of national elections on sunday but controversial right wing front runner joy bosso naro has confirmed he will be taking part in the debate at the recommendation of his doctors he's recovering from surgery after a stabbing last month let's get more from to there's a bill in sao paolo given he's not talking about what are the expectations for this last debate. well two days away from the elections and there's not a lot of expectation in this debate especially because the frontrunners out a warm press in there because of health reason the former paratrooper a representative of the extreme right and admirer of brazil's dictatorship has been being seen on the come pain since he was stabbed earlier in september but in spite of this his possibilities of becoming brazil next president have continued to increase following him. he's an intellectual left fifty five year old former mayor of the city of so probably who recently replaced a

needs after a report was seen by the mental health minister and the smith reports from neighboring djibouti is just skin and bone mass and have some is two years old he should be walking by now. he has severe acute malnutrition and a range of related complications after a million children in yemen are in a similar condition to bassam as a consequence of the war now into its fourth year between the yemeni government backed by the saudi and iraqi coalition and who the rebels some of them has long we can't ignore the siege in their garage. on our airport i mean under part of the day the whole and that led to their suffering from malnutrition. the who the administration's health minister saw some story in al-jazeera two weeks ago and ordered his rescue from northern yemen. and he was brought to the capital sanaa for treatment along with five other children condition might improve or he may need more specialist treatment outside yemen and that's where the health minister is influenced and it's. santa airport is closed to all but a handful of u.n. flights the saudi u.a.e. led coalition battling t

week we're into the second week of october and the airport remains closed bernard smith al-jazeera djibouti. the u.s. secretary of state says international inspectors have been invited to north korea's nuclear and missile testing sites to confirm they have been irreversibly dismantled my composure made that announcement after his talks in pyongyang with kim jong un on sunday. also said both sides are close to finalizing terms for a second summit between kim and donald trump now in beijing for talks more on all of that from bryan he's in seoul secretary of state pompei or wound up his visit to south korea very upbeat about progress made in talks with kim jong un in particular on the subject of international inspectors being allowed to visit nuclear sites in north korea working party level talks are going to be set up to look into the logistics of those visits and also into the logistics of a second summit between president trump of the u.s. and kim jong un the whole visit has been treated very positively by state run media of north korea quoting kim jong un as saying that the talks with pomp

rebels suspected cases of cholera have almost tripled this summer smith reports from neighboring djibouti. you can safely bet with a spoon at the ready thinking of the next meal but she doesn't know when it will be where it will come from. in northern yemen as many as a million people are living in camps beyond the reach of aid groups while yemen isn't officially in a state of famine it must feel like it here. lunch has been cooking for two hours and it's not ready yet we have no gas or proper firewood here under siege and we have nothing some of these camps have been here for four years sprouting up as people escaped fighting in towns that fell under who the control let's say i don't go to school because my father has no money to buy a spokes and pings when i see girls come from school i get jealous i want to be a doctor aid agencies say a combination of armed groups checkpoints airstrikes and bureaucracy often make it impossible to reach these people. we appeal again to the international and humanitarian organizations to respond rapidly to displaced people and effective communities many

our series on the challenges facing children in war zones bernard smith reports now from nearby djibouti. these children shouldn't be anywhere near what's left of their school clambering over the rubble on the ceilings on the walls the could give way to any minute. but the concentration in their faces shows how much they want to try to learn since twenty fifteen the school in ties in southwestern yemen has been hit by airstrikes artillery and gunfire. our schools have been destroyed because of these barbaric groups who came from the silence of history and corrupted or learned what brought them here and what do they want look at our school this is their mark they did not come distributing books or supporting students or to praise teachers they came with destruction with slogans of that those people. and. the school is stuck in the middle of a relentless battle for territory between rebels and the saudi u.a.e. led coalition that backs the yemeni government has asked way mad that the education is the basis to rebuild the state knowledge is light and ignorance is darkness we want to tell the

twenty seventh teen that's going to have to burn a smith who is covering this story for us from djibouti so what might this move granted by the hootie suggests. well it looks like it could be some sort of a concession from the who thinks martin griffiths the u.n. special envoy to yemen is in abu dhabi today he is said last week on the back of the u.n. general assembly that he wants talks to get going as soon as possible he said he believes the who these are ready to take part in talks so this looks from their part like some sort of a concession ahead of any talks that might take place only and as they release seven separatists are threatening again to take over government institutions why now well just to complicate the challenge for martin griffiths well who things might have made this concession the southern separatists they see they've always wanted a part of the table they've always wanted a part in these talks and i haven't been able to take part in the talks the talks when they take place have been planned to be between just the internationally recognized government of yemen and th

economic collapse after a four year war with hutu rebels and as here as bernard smith reports now from djibouti. economic collapse rather than the war against the who thing is now becoming the biggest short term threat to the stability of yemen's government across the south there been protests against the fall in the value of the currency of the loss of about saudi's war in yemen is seriously affecting us we've not been paid properly for the last three years we can't find any other way to get by and was like that diesels up to eight hundred dollars for twenty liters when it was nine dollars before cooking gas is nine dollars for a catheter and is impossible to find the only fuel you can get is on the black market the government had been printing more money to try and keep cash flowing but there's been no increase in exports and not in a foreign currency reserves to support the increased supply now the saudi arabian government has given the central bank two hundred million dollars to stabilize the rio and amount of money down when you print more money must be matched by hard currencies in market

but at smith reports now from djibouti. economic collapse rather than the war against the who thing is now becoming the biggest short term threat to the stability of yemen's government across the south there been protests against the fall in the value of the currency of the us of about saudi's war in yemen is seriously affecting us we've not been paid properly for the last three years we can't find any other way to get by and was looked at diesels up to eighteen dollars for twenty liters when it was nine dollars before cooking gas is nine dollars for a catheter and is impossible to find the only fuel you can get is on the black market the government had been printing more money to try and keep cash flowing but there's been no increase in exports and not in a foreign currency reserves to support the increased supply now the saudi arabian government has given the central bank two hundred million dollars to stabilize the reality and i'm out of my own when you print more money must be matched by hard currencies in market and if

native language she was born in addis ababa studied in france and has been an ambassador to france djibouti and senegal and most recent post is the un's top official at the african union. women's rights and peace are top of her priorities one thing that you were taught from one action the absence of peace maybe victimizes women during my presidency my main focus is to ensure peace by mobilizing all ethiopian women peace loving men and all peoples of the world who love peace. change is underway ethiopia's reformist prime minister ahmed last week appointed a streamlined to twenty person cabinet in which half the posts are held by women including in charge of the defense ministry and the newly created ministry of peace supervising police and domestic security the new president is also a strong advocate for an end to religious ethnic and gender discrimination it is the prisoner shows. every fiscal year two boys houses the upper and lower houses to guy you know i was the guy the guidance of the government's activities for in coming years so it's it's not just saturday morning i would say but fro