united nations is warning of a lost generation of youth who remain an educated and traumatised andrew simmons has been following developments from nearby djibouti. life has taken a bad turn for mohammed al man's story he's a bright teenager and before yemen's war he dreamed of one day being a doctor but his father died at fifteen years old mohammed has swapped his education for a motorbike he uses it as a taxi trying to support his mother and finally. this is where he should be been most solemn school alongside his close friend mohamad bilel. whatever the ceremony nothing can disguise the new school year is attended by only a fraction of the number of last year. elsewhere many schools lion ruin all taken over by armed groups half a million yemeni children are estimated to have dropped out of school mohammed friend hopes that studying will bring a better life. mohammed and i are close friends he left to support his family has eased all amanda left to come to schooling fair hospitals and schools not spare in this war but we cannot afford to drop out and lose years and years of our lives. as one

well correspondent andrew simmons is following events live from. under this who think that a case in is not yet left yemen and we got any further word on that. we don't have any further word nor do we have any remarks from the united nations to pass on to use the united nations who is sponsoring these talks martin griffis the special envoy who has worked tirelessly to get the two sides together whether this as described by the interview you played out there whether this is more serious than i'll hold up something that can be resolved quite quickly is unclear it is possible of course that the may be posturing to some degree in twenty sixteen there was a similar store process with refusal to attend geneva it is unclear at this stage exactly how this will play out but as you heard in that interview that telephone interview the dumond from the who it is to transport critically ill people to amman was made it seems the u.n. may be casting light on this later from geneva possibly in a press conference later on wednesday but you have now the main governme

fighting has resumed in the many portsea for data between healthy rebels and saudi iraqi led forces andrew simmons is following developments from djibouti there are no details on casualty figures and whether or not civilians are involved but multiple reports suggest that the fighting has escalated again around the city of who data it's rebel held by the hooter's and they are reliant on a supply routes between the port city and samar their capital now the report suggests that that supply route has been cut to the point of choke point called kilos sixteen also reports the kilo ten further towards the city has also been breached cuts by government forces forces they are aided by the saudi us a e led coalition amounting strong asteroids all around the area now we're hearing that the hutu rebels have responded with a counter attack using artillery and other weaponry and that fighting has been very harsh indeed now beyond this beyond this whole issue of this route that delivers aid and arms and supplies to the rebels is the problem of how martin gryphus the u.n. special envoy can possibly get traction a

andrew simmons live for us there in djibouti thanks andrew well still ahead on al-jazeera when we come back thousands to the take to the streets in argentina furious over the government's latest economic policy. a new twist to the war on drugs will tell you the unusual proposal songs for world leaders are looking at to control the global illegal drug markets. hello there we've got a blast of cold air that's making its way across parts of europe at the moment this is the leading edge of it and it's working its way steadily southwards behind it it's turning a lot cooler and fresher we're also seeing a lot of heavy rain out of this system as it works its way southwards is behind that main front where we're seeing the strongest of the winds there very very strong particularly along the coastline of the adriatic as they work their way southward they're dragging in that cold air so a maximum temperature in vienna own choose day just a fourteen degrees force in warsaw will just be at twelve towards the west is actually a good deal warmer here the temperatures for some of us are above average

andrew simmons joins us live from djibouti just across the red sea from yemen and andrew first of all do we know any you know much about any progress that griffiths made during his visit to santa. well we can only assemble what we've heard from good sources and also officially from the united nations the latest on the situation we must agree to this is that he's shed you will to be going to riyadh to speak to talk to key figures there about response to a whole series of moves from the huth is in terms of their easing of some aspects of the negotiation lines although the problems could still remain and this is the reason that there was a memorandum of understanding signed or initialed according to the u.n. by the top u.n. official in yemen that's lisa golan day and that allows for injured people to be transported by to get medical treatment we understand and we can only say that at this stage that cairo in egypt is the destination now a source on the ground that independent source on the ground in sanaa is telling outages there are that forty five civilians civilians who are suffering

unemployment poverty and illiteracy andrew simmons al jazeera djibouti. relative calm has returned to libya's capital tripoli after a rocketing gun attack on shoes they raised fears of a un brokered cease fire had collapsed the united nations mission in libya has been calling on rival factions to abide by the terms agreed two weeks ago tuesday's unrest plunged much of tripoli into darkness as a disrupted the electricity supply late last month an upsurge in fighting left sixty people dead many of them civilians but the two rival groups are vying for control of the area around the city's only functioning airport both were previously aligned to the un backed government in libya the fighting has shrunk the government's area of control to the center of the capital it also forced many residents to stay indoors and left migrants detained in parts of the city without food or water. is the c.e.o. and co-founder of libya that's a research and consulting firm he says the situation in tripoli is highly unstable . the situation as the events of yesterday have shown th

unemployment poverty and illiteracy andrew simmons al jazeera djibouti. still ahead here on al-jazeera. buried after a massive landslide in the philippines and says it's unlikely any of them will be found alive. and neck in neck runoff looking more and more likely in brazil and next month's presidential election.

children to school otherwise he says the consequences are dire unemployment poverty and illiteracy andrew simmons al jazeera djibouti rescue workers in northern philippines are continuing search efforts despite saying it's unlikely they'll find any survivors after a massive landslide family members in the mining town of intercon have been queuing to identify recovered bodies many locals have been sheltering from typhoon man coat when the landslide happened might cut the most powerful storm to hit the philippines this year has killed at least eighty one people dozens of others are messing. and has more from it on. this is the fourth day of rescue operations and now they have been focused on retrieval efforts this is the list of those who are missing those who have been recovered and those who have survived that list keeps getting longer now behind the here are forensic experts who have been here since they won at that time some of the bodies they recovered as the identifiable so that the families were able to see clearly but as the day drags on some of the bodies the pieces they've recovered are b

andrew simmons al jazeera ople and you can. still have for you on this program india's prime minister launches not vicious news came down to give free health insurance to the country's poorest also. should always think. who we are here for. poor do we present. politician and now president of this year's un general assembly just the fourth woman to do so in seven decades. hello again it's good to have you back or across australia we are watching one front about you making its way towards parts of perth you can notice those clouds right there that is going to start to bring in some clouds and some cooler weather but not here on monday we expect to see that a nice day but there's a front there's that weather system right there so as we go from monday to tuesday well we do start to see more clouds and a drop in temperature maybe about eighteen degrees few there out here towards the east we're looking quite nice we're going to be seeing a little bit cooler weather for brisbane most of the active weather pushes out into the tasman se

the losses are higher now than ever before andrew simmons al-jazeera opal in japan to. a still ahead why sri lanka's former president is accusing the government of mismanaging its finances. and they're supposed to keep student.

told our viewers earlier amounted to more than half a million people that is really critical andrew simmons with his update from djibouti there thank you voting about to close in sweden in an election that many believe could change the country's political landscape and anti immigration party is expected to significantly improve on its vote share opinion polls suggest the right wing sweden democrats could win almost twenty percent of the ballots prime minister stefan loughlin reiterated his call though for voters to reject the far right after stepping out of the polling place this election is a referendum but oh well. we want to continue to invest you know well through the schools to come here. to greece creatures to our families it's also about decency about a decent democracy of sorts of democrats and just sort of them is going to live. this we democrats extremist party racist party get in early. in the year the governor. also the leader of the controversial anti immigrant sweden democrats cast his ballot jimmy akeson is confident his party will be making big game. i'm an old student what

internally displaced and almost two hundred thousand have left from a bring countries al-jazeera as andrew simmons is in a book refugee camp across the red sea in djibouti when the two thousand yemenis struggling to survive. they're hungry like millions of fellow yemenis they've left behind these men have just arrived in old book huddled together in some shade having being smuggled out of yemen for two hundred dollars each. it was a life and it's a war we don't want to be part of says this man explaining that he and the others fear they be conscripted to join who theory rebel forces. this is where they'll end up with families who may have refuge but little else this man has fresh drinking water but can't afford to buy food so his family has to get by soley on emergency aid learned to get lots all outlets but there was a lot we don't receive anything but enough to survive from the u.n. we don't have been through she needed for our children the elderly even us it's a grim existence here in the sweltering heat of such a dry arid an infertile place. the natural focus of aid agencies is across the wate

nevertheless those without a voice of influence a crying out for help now more than ever before andrew simmons al-jazeera djibouti well mama chicago is a professor of conflict resolution at george mason university he says a tougher approach to diplomacy is needed going forward. what so far three years of heavy confrontations have not given us a winner decisive when they're in favor of the only one in favor of the coalition so sometimes when realism political realism over that it's the use of powers use of force and then there is this. no win win situation for anybody the question becomes who can sit down and find a formula where the use of force can lead to something that's not good for the sake of fighting each other and i think now mr griffith it is articulating a strong we don't have all of the international community and we need to bring this conflict to and somehow and i think we need a more progressive or a more aggressive diplomatic for mayor and i hope that we'll give him that now and also we have seen some reports coming from the human rights organizations from the united nations crit

of going to the cinema tickets have been selling fast for the premiere of a local production andrew simmons reports from nearby djibouti. perhaps it's a distraction from a daily struggle that attracted so many people to the first public screening of a movie in yemen since civil war broke out tickets costing two dollars or something well despite the broken economy. ten days before the wedding stands out because it's a yemeni production a love story that takes in the wall with many of its effects russia whose wedding plans nearly fell apart because of the conflict falling incomes and rising prices have a big effect i feel same mamoun struggles with different issues raising a dowry for example. and. we wanted a movie to show what's going on inside the houses of the city and the whole country how families are affected by the state of the economy how the hopes of young people also collapse everyone is worried that if something simple collapses then everything will collapse with it the whole house we tried to portray the mental state of the yemeni people. those viewing are impressed thing to me i

nevertheless those without a voice of influence a crying out for help now more than ever before andrew simmons al-jazeera djibouti . still ahead here on al-jazeera the worst is not over yet for people in the u.s. state of north carolina which is being battered by the tropical depression florence also ahead. they call themselves the gypsies of helping on they've lived in this neighborhood for centuries and now they say local authorities want to throw them out i'm a fashion partner reporting from southern france. hello again it's good to have you back well here across the southern reaches of asia we are watching a lot of clouds here across the south china sea and for the philippines some good news for you we are starting to see a lot of clearing a lot more sunshine so the recovery in the relief efforts after coop pass through will really start to kick in now we're going to be seeing most of luzon expression the northern half of those on seeing partly cloudy conditions here on tuesday and as we go towards wednesday well more clouds there but really no heavy rain is in the forecast or we are going

andrew simmons al-jazeera oh block in djibouti. are protesters in southern yemen say the morality led coalition has become an occupying force demonstrators marched in the government health city of aden hundreds have been killed there in saudi air strikes since the coalition intervened to back yemen's government in the war with the who the rebels three years ago or so u.a.e. backed groups have been accused of committing human rights abuses in a network of secret prisons thousands of people have marched against bragg's it in the u.k. city of liverpool as the opposition labor party meets to decide its stand the protesters are calling for a new referendum on bragg's it is something labor hasn't entirely ruled out e.u. leaders rejected prime minister to resign may's bridget plan to leave the european union at a summit in salzburg three days ago she says talks have now reached an impasse and the stalemate is prompting labor to push for a general election this is a leader jeremy coleman he's sounding out the views of party members at the

the losses are higher now than ever before andrew simmons al jazeera in djibouti. plenty more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including foreign aid and medical aid for venezuelans as they struggle with shortages passed on the eve of the modiste presidential election police raid the opposition campaign headquarters and in support alex ferguson returns to old trafford for the first time since having emergency brain surgery details coming up with. francis has settled a seventy year old dispute with china he's agreed to recognize seven bishops who were appointed without his approval pope francis says he hopes a deal will heal rooms of the past and bring about full catholic unity in china the country has some ten million catholics. this is the end of a process that's really the beginning it's also important to remember that while it's come to fruition under pope francis if pope benedict have a letter to chinese catholics in two thousand and seven he was working for the same goal. john paul the second had made legitimate a number of illegitimately ordained bishops so

children to school otherwise he says the consequences are unemployment poverty and illiteracy andrew simmons al-jazeera djibouti the us president donald trump has again voiced support for his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh who's been accused of sexual assault kavanaugh is a legit victim christine blazin ford says she wants an f.b.i. investigation that's before she testifies at his senate committee hearing she accuses calvin off attacking her when they were teenagers thirty five years ago kavanagh says the incident never happened. if he shows up and make a credible showing that would be very very big a big decision but i can only say this is a. very hard for me they would imagine that anything at the white house correspondent kimberly halakhah joining us from washington d.c. so what does this mean for for herself will she be testifying. well she's certainly been given the opportunity whether she will do it in a public hearing one that has been scheduled for monday by the senate judiciary committee is still unclear she has not committed instead as you point out she has instead pressed f

fighting against one of the consequences of war and the losses are higher now than ever before andrew simmons al jazeera o'boyle in djibouti. still ahead on al-jazeera why sri lanka's former president is accusing the government of mismanaging its finances. and they're supposed to keep students in the u.s. safe but there's a call to kick police out of schools will explain why. hello again we're here across north asia we are watching a front about to make its way towards the parts of the pacific more rain down here towards the south of the next few days and a lot of clouds across much of japan here on monday sunday twenty six tokyo twenty eight same thing down here towards osaka a little bit better across the korean peninsula but a little bit cooler as well with seoul only seeing about twenty degrees then as we make our way towards tuesday the rain starts to build up along the coast of japan you can see tokyo getting that rain as well but for so we are looking at some partly cloudy conditions a beautiful day with those temperatures really coming up maybe about twenty three degrees there where t

andrew simmons al jazeera oh book into committee. still ahead announces era on the eve of the maldives presidential election police raid the opposition's campaign headquarters. and comparing trauma to hit how documentary maker michael moore is raising the fire height again. hello again we're here across united states we did see a lot of active weather in terms of severe weather with this system right here pushing across the great lakes and into canada that's still going to cause some problems here along the eastern seaboard then down towards texas this ribbon of moisture caused by actually a tropical depression from mexico really pumping up the moisture there causing some localized flooding in some areas now temperatures are going to be going down over the next few days so for new york sunday twenty one degrees you there they're going to be seeing only about nineteen but we are picking up some drier and also sunnier weather but still quite wet down here across much of the southeast miami though a nice day for you at thirty one and ov

children to school otherwise he says the consequences are dire unemployment poverty and illiteracy andrew simmons al jazeera djibouti. still ahead here on al-jazeera and dozens of failed barry down from the house of landslide in the philippines and it will mass says it's unlikely any of them will be found alive. and neck and neck runoffs looking more and more likely in brazil and next month's presidential election. hello welcome to have a look at the international fall cost things not looking too bad across japan at the moment but some places of cloud spilling out of the yellow sea through the east china sea and that's just going to notch its way towards south korea towards southern parts of japan some more wet weather coming into southern areas of conscious as we go through thursday to the north it is looking generally fine and dry it'll stay that way as we go on through friday but still southern passage japan south korea maybe the possible korea will see some life spells of rain that wet weather stretches this way across into eastern parts of china and place a safer southern areas to china it d

nevertheless those without a voice of influence crying out for help now more than ever before andrew simmons al-jazeera djibouti. the united states has ordered the palestinian mission in washington to close staff bank accounts and clear their offices the trumpet ministration had announced the closure of the palestinian liberation organization office in the us capital last week palestinian leaders are calling it a declaration of war on peace efforts but p.l.o. executive committee member had a national ari has condemned the latest move saying the u.s. has taken its attempts to pressure and blackmail the palestinians to a new level u.s. ministrations gone from cruel punishment to revenge against the palestinians and their leadership well moon rabbani is a senior fellow at the institute for palestine studies he says the trumpet ministration has shown that it cannot bring about a peace deal. i think the trap administration is dealing with the past sitting as if they're tenants and one of their slogan all the things you know you do what we say or or will let the rascals rot that will that and that

children to school otherwise he says the consequences are dire unemployment poverty and illiteracy andrew simmons al-jazeera djibouti rescue workers in the northern philippines are continuing search efforts despite saying it's unlikely they'll find any survivors after a massive landslide family members in the mining town of it are gone have been queuing to identify recovered bodies many locals have been sheltering from typhoon mango when the landslide happened and the most powerful storm to hit the philippines this year has killed at least eighty one people dozens of others are missing to islander going has more from. rescue and ritual operations are now on its fourth day and that is something that's very difficult for families here as they wait patiently to hear news about their loved ones they're the ones behind me they're registered they're missing they've put forward information about those who have been buried but essentially this is really a waiting game and it's agonizing for so many of them here we've spoken to members of the scene of the crime office here and they said basically that ove

civilian ones right now but this is really a bad backdrop to any hopes for this to get developments andrew simmons live injuries he thank you. now just five days before voters in the movies go to the polls a major new piece of investigative journalism has raised questions about the sitting president the devil c.r.p. story builds on details revealed in a twenty sixteen ounces or a documentary is based on government documents banking records and the contents of three i phones owned by a now imprisoned former tourism minister made a d.v.d. he least tens of islands to various property developers siphoning away at least seventy nine million dollars in the process the new evidence implicates the president himself president abdullah yeah i mean and this is something that he's always denied league messages from his deputies phones show the president intervened to clear at least twenty four of these deals many of the islands are now home to major projects that by international hotel chains and it's led to questions about who has benefited from little easing of these islands and the development of the hotel

andrew simmons al-jazeera djibouti . at least sixty migrants have been rescued off the coast of spain oh oh. a spanish maritime rescue ship spotted the overloaded raft with people waving and screaming for help officials say everyone on board was rescued. peru's top immigration official says efforts to repatriate hundreds of thousands of venezuelans who fled to other parts of south america are nowhere near enough every day around one thousand three hundred of them are arriving in peru then as well as in the grip of a severe economic crisis mariana sanchez went to meet a peruvian businessman who set up a shelter in the capital lima to help venezuelan migrants. on the floor alongside each other more than one hundred seventy vinous williams sharing three bedrooms two bathrooms and every single space there is left in this makeshift shelter on the outskirts of lima. says he feels lucky to be here when. i feel blessed because a lot of people have to sleep on the street i don't have any food what these people here are doing is g

council says that the collapse of yemen's economy could cost more lives than in the war itself andrew simmons out zira djibouti. india's supreme court has ruled that homosexuals sex should not be treated as a crime gay rights campaign is celebrated as the landmark judgement was delivered it strikes down a colonial era law which made homosexual acts punishable by up to ten years in prison. tens of thousands of people have rallied in sri lanka's capital angry at economic conditions and a delay in provincial elections former president. is leading the charge as wayne hay reports from colombia. the leaders of the protest movement said it was going to be their biggest show of force yes their predictions of hundreds of thousands fell short nevertheless the streets of colombo were choked for several hours with protesters from communities throughout sri lanka they came to the financial heart of the capital to deliver their message to the government that they want change. the tax burden on the difficulties we're facing that brought us here we can voluntarily spending our own money to be here. yeah yeah

andrew simmons live in djibouti thank you. now the u.s. secretary of state has just arrived in pakistan days after three hundred million dollars worth of military aid was cancelled in his first official meeting with the new the elected prime minister imran khan he's expected to talk about counterterrorism relations between the two countries have worsened in the past we can talk live to our correspondent in islamabad i can't imagine that this first encounter is going to be a very good natured affair. obviously read all the problems regarding the two countries and the fact that that relationship is now almost in the deep freeze it is going to be an extremely crucial now the u.s. secretary of state had already been talking to the media on board the flight. that the object of this. their relationship with pakistan number one and. a new page by finding common ground but it is going to be very difficult to find that common ground given the fact that the united states is now looking forward. to the war in afghanistan the longest in u.s. three day

many yemenis who fled the war have found themselves in djibouti andrew simmons is live for us from oneof the camps the refugees now call home he reports now with more on this. they're hungry like millions of fellow yemenis they've left behind these men have just arrived in old book huddled together in some shade having being smuggled out of yemen for two hundred dollars each. it was a life and it's a war we don't want to be part of says this man explaining that he and the others fear they'd be conscripted to join who three rebel forces. this is where they'll end up with families who may have refuge but little else this man has fresh drinking water but can't afford to buy food so his family has to get by solely on emergency aid learned to get lots all outlets but there was a lot that we don't receive anything but enough to survive from the u.n. we don't have the instruction needed for our children the elderly even us it's a grim existence here in the sweltering heat of such a dry arid an infertile place the natural focus though of aid agencies is across the water in yemen where by the d

the losses are higher now than ever before andrew simmons al-jazeera in juba and. still ahead on al-jazeera from rome to mexico a touch of the vatican will soon be gracing the ceiling of a church in mexico to meet the artist who painted a new rules. why sri lanka's former president is accusing the government of mismanaging its finances. hello again welcome back we're here across the southern part of asia we are watching what is happening in the philippines very carefully they are pretty dry right now but if you look up there on the edge of the chart we are looking at a typhoon making its way to the west incident northwest now we don't expect a landfall there but we do expect to see some rains over the next few days so sunday not too bad as we go towards monday still clear but winds are going to begin to pick up and then as we go towards tuesday you notice that we are picking up more clouds and rain so i think by mid-week we're going to be seeing even more of that even though the storm is making its way towards the north well here across australia really not looking

twenty six meanwhile on the ground in yemen there's growing frustration over a struggling economy andrew simmons reports. a full day of protests and reports of violence away from here at one gathering when police intervened to disperse protesters a security official says they opened fire and some demonstrators were injured the street band i was torn down and thank the united arab emirates which backs the local administration. eyewitnesses say a number of roads have been blocked by demonstrators in government controlled. since sunday demonstrations have been going on in many parts of the south people who find themselves in poverty as the economy of yemen collapses its currency is now at its lowest values ever against the dollar food prices have never been higher what the civilians make of the un's attempt to get dialogue going between the warring sides i shall be adding on how well the people are destroyed and the situation requires mutual agreement if we really are arabs and we really are patriotic we have to compromise and can see each other and god willing we will all succeed and the country w

mix a very in motivations for diplomacy fighting and suffering no one would predict the outcome andrew simmons al-jazeera djibouti. more than two million people have been forced to evacuate is time for. china's guangdong province at least two people have been killed in the storm there lee fifty thousand fishing boats have been called back to port as part of an effort to minimize damage the typhoon is carrying winds of two hundred kilometers per hour and to rain shield rains. in the philippines the death toll from typhoon manget has risen to fifty three and that number is expected to grow dozens of others are missing and feared buried in a landslide getting thirteen miners in could guy in provence over the u.s. residents of north carolina are being warned the worst is yet to come from storm florence florence crashed into the state as a hurricane on friday killing fifteen people for weakening to a tropical depression i'm just of thousands of homes and businesses have been left without power. south korea's president is preparing to play chief negotiator between washington and pyongyang at a summi

children to school otherwise he says the consequences aadhaar unemployment poverty and illiteracy andrew simmons al-jazeera djibouti. rescue workers in the northern philippines are continuing search efforts despite saying it's unlikely they'd find any more survivors after a massive landslide family members in the mining town of its hogan have been queuing to identify recover the bodies many locals have been sheltering from typhoon man good when the landslide happened man good the most powerful storm to hit the philippines this year still is is he one people with dozens more still missing well indonesian has more permissive on. rescue and reachable operations are now on its fourth day and that is something that's very difficult for families here as they wait patiently to hear news about their loved ones they're the ones behind me they're registered they're missing they put forward information about those who have been buried but essentially this is really a waiting game and it's agonizing for so many of them here we've spoken to members of the scene of the crime office here and they said basicall

though to end the four year war were abandoned after the hoody delegation did not show up here is andrew simmons in djibouti monitoring events for us from there what more do you know about these deaths since the talks fell apart. we know that there's been a big escalation in this offensive led by the saudi u.a.e. coalition a lot of us trikes some estimates which we can't verify obviously of at least sixty in twenty four hours aimed at the outskirts of the city and also other parts of the province a large numbers of fighters have died it would seem and have been injured or hurt is a claiming a lot of them. the opposition what they call. mercenaries people insurgents but this far as the coalition goes they're also indicating through reports that we. have made heavy gains and been losses from the enemy now the backdrop to this is of course the geneva talks and the situation there. delegation did not show up because they said categorically that it was down to no safe passage being agreed with the u.n. mediating and the saudis. for not actually agreeing to things about that a squabble still going on

unemployment poverty and illiteracy andrew simmons al jazeera djibouti rescue workers in the northern philippines are continuing search efforts despite saying it's unlikely they'll find any survivors after a massive landslide family members in the mining town of is gone have been queuing to identify recovered bodies many locals have been sheltering from typhoon language when the landslide happened and got the most powerful storm to hit the philippines this year has killed at least eighty one people dozens of others are missing to alan duke and has more from its hogan. rescue and ritual operations are now on its fourth day and that is something that's very difficult for families here as they wait patiently to hear news about their loved ones they're the ones behind me they're registered they're missing they've put forward information about.

children to school otherwise he says the consequences are dire unemployment poverty and illiteracy andrew simmons al jazeera djibouti. still ahead on the ballot and russian president vladimir putin says a tragic chain of events calls the downing of russian warplane killing fifteen people and turns them a gets ready to pitch had breakfast planned to. one country and particular may prove to be a tough sell. from a fresh breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello again it's good to have you back or here across the levant we are looking at some better conditions for most of the regions but up here to the north cross the caspian notice those clouds pushing through back who those clouds remain not too much in terms of rain but we are going to be seeing rain just to the south just off tehran with a temperature few of thirty one degrees down towards quaid well things are going to be getting very humid over the next few days notice the temperature from wednesday to thursday we're going to be dropping down from forty five to forty two the german means that you've made it is cost can be

andrew simmons al-jazeera in june two. civil rights groups in the us a calling for the removal of police in schools a new study is showing growing numbers of the time the children they are supposed to protect is heidegger castro. these are not the images you would expect from school or of the birth of a police officer responsible for keeping students safe has put one in a choke hold the reason the boys friends say was because he threw an orange at a wall when you're in the hallways and atmosphere of tension and slight worry and fear the incident in philadelphia in two thousand and sixteen sparked student protests and demands to remove police from the city's public schools the school district spends thirty million dollars a year on police deploying about three hundred fifty officers across some two hundred campuses the philadelphia student union says that creates a militant environment if feel like oh i have to put on this mess i have to make sure. you know. i'm not acting out of character or anything that's considered to b

nevertheless those without a voice of influence a crying out for help now more than ever before andrew simmons al-jazeera djibouti the confirmation of president donald trump's pick for the supreme court has run into problems after an allegation of sexual abuse the judiciary committee it was set to vote on brett kavanaugh his nomination on thursday but with the new revelation some politicians want it to be delayed political hay reports. if brett kavanaugh is confirmed he will change the highest court for a generation he will cement it as solidly conservative it's a high stakes nomination that has been controversial from the beginning with republicans refusing to hand over hundreds of thousands of documents from his long legal career this nomination is going to be tainted it will be stain. by badly broken process that has shattered the norms despite that in just days it was expected he would get past the first vote and be on his way to final confirmation until this the washington post has a story about what one woman alleges kavanah did to her in high school christine bleakley ford going public

several months this placing tens of thousands of civilians to get more from under simmons now in neighboring djibouti am andrew the miseries of the people of yemen continues tell us the latest on this attack well barbara what we're hearing is that there are multiple sources of as evil it is said reporting that dozens if not scores of people have been killed in the past twenty four hours after saudi u.s. led coalition attacks in fact one source is saying that have been sixty attacks now who data is a key city it is under attack a norwegian refugee council with its people on the ground is reporting that the south and the west have been hit the hardest of the city and they have now to close a process they've been since the offensive started in june towards the center of the city and there are also multiple reports of attacks in other parts of the province involving civilian deaths although many many fighters and soldiers have been killed and injured there is also a report that rocket fire some sort of missile fire has been returned by the hoochie rebels so this is definitely escalating in a fairly big way althoug

intervenes to support yemen's government back in twenty fifteen and are simmons following the story joining us from a neighboring djibouti andrew and that is a grim warning from save the children. well these figures a shocking yet they're not surprising sadly the situation in hadji province which is does suffer from fighting but not intense fighting is absolutely critical we're only recently reporting on the position there where people in some going to genes are eating tree leaves to get by there mashing the leaves that crunching them down cutting them into a paste cooking them and feeding their children with them and that of course leads to medical problems for the children as far as faith is a concerned well it is harrowing the sort of images we're seeing right across yemen and the figures well they speak for themselves fifty five out of a thousand have died before their fifth birthday and of course famine isn't the only major factor shaking yemen right now it's also education because we're now finding with a new school year starting that's so many schools remain closed in fact seventy five percent of the schools in yemen are

between day death on our need to help and are simmons is our correspondent following the story live for us here on the news out of neighboring djibouti andrew this corridor or how will it operate and i guess crucially how will they keep it safe. this is a big question right now on the ground there is still fighting the amorality trained government troops taking on the who's the rebel forces around that main road between her and santa that is a critical point because the whole plan to try to cut through with a humanitarian corridor will be extremely complicated there has to be the assurances that the huth is will hold back in certain areas possibly whether it's all being worked out is unclear but we've already heard from local the u.n. under-secretary saying that there are some roads already have been discussed with the coalition and they're very very dangerous indeed and also winding through mountains winding through areas that have already been blitzed asterix there is a real critical situation with the aid flow so they'll have to be a pretty quiet be big quantum leap in the situation on the ground for an effective humanitarian corridor or

urgent need of food and ruth simmons joins us now live from djibouti so aid agencies very worried about the latest developments in the fighting what are you hearing andrew. well that's right that's fair about the situation is growing by the day the latest apart from that report you just mentioned the latest incident we know of is the reports of what seems like an ass strike around sixteen the main highway between. the capital of the rebel held capital and the data that strike according to the hootches killed fifteen civilians and injured twenty nine others now there are images we're going to get soon all of that we've seen them and there is certainly it's straight after some sort of attack and there's people shouting and a lot of panic involved but this incident would appear to be by either ground fire or seemingly an ass strike that one that leads one to conclude that this is saudi u.n. he led coalition strike part of their offensive to cut off that whole route between the red sea ports and the capital now they say it's already being cut but there's still a lot of fighting going on the hoochie rebels have said that they have successfully mounted one at