gabriel elizondo has the report. >> there's an agreement of the what now the u.n. security council wants to know whom. >> please raise your hands. >> a panel of experts known as the significant step the first time blame could be assigned to the perpetrators. >> this sends a clear and powerful message to all those involved in chemical weapon attacks in syria. the joint vesting method will identify you. to urgently find a political solution to the -- the joint geaiveinvestigative method will identify you. >> they never had the mandate to assign blame. russian supporting the resolution was a rare sign of agreement with the u.s. but russia still continues to view with skepticism, that bashar al-assad was responsible. is. >> the question of who used chlorine is still unanswered partly because the existing mechanism of the u.n. and opcw does not have a mandate to identify those participating in such attacks. more joan we became propaganda. >> horrific scenes of human suffering from the aftermath of the attack from the outsecurities offing damascus will killed hundreds. w

gabriel elizondo, al jazeera, united nations. >> investors are keeping an eye on china's stock market as it reopens. there is caution a day after the government cut interest rates and injected cash into the banking system. global stock markets are clinging to dollars in a four-day sell 16 spot by fears slowing chinese economy could push the world into a recession. we have this report from beijing. >> when china central bank cuts interest rates by one quarter on tuesday it was hoped that would have an affect on the market. on wednesday morning when the markets opened in asia pacific, yes it did have an affect on many of the regional neighbors to china, but the focus was on the shangha change high composite. most of the regional market, japan, kia, they're up only slightly. the interest rate cut allows more money from the bank to be loaned to businesses, to exporter who is have a short form in their cash flow as exports are now on their way out or the christmas market from the chinese manufacturers. it's important to try to bolster and help those industrialists. >> thailand says its bus

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gabriel elizondo, al jazerra, at the united nations. >> a few more details about this deal.eates a new power sharing arrangement with rebel leader returning to government as a new vice president and makes a way for rebel fighters to be rei want great ed in to the army think oath side sign up to a ceasefire to take effect in 72 hours and eventual it's creation i've demilitarized zone in juba. and the signatories take responsibilities for the war. apologizing unconditionally for the 10s of thousands killed. now, two workers from the humanitarian group doctors without borders have been killed no separate attacks on villages in south sudan. they were killed in the unity state but officials from the group say they have just learned of violence, exact circumstances are still being investigationed. >>> syria's president says he's confident that russia will continue to support his government. bashar al-assad made the comment during an interview with lebanese television. >> translator: throughout its history the united states is known for playing games. selling off allies, abandoning

gabriel elizondo has more for us at the united nations. i'm guessing in the statement there were pretty strong words. >> there was. this was pretty much an endorsement of the peace deal, david, in a statement, the security council basically said that this piece deal was a first step in trying to reverse the difficult economic and humanitarian situation in south sudan, and it called on all sides to adhere to the cease-fire. >> the security council saying that they do endorse this plan going forward. >> gabriel, it's all very well to endorse the idea of these things, of peace agreements, transitional government, etc. but you got to have some ump if you want people to stick to it. what are they going to do about that? >> well, this all comes at a time that there was increased pressure by the security council against the government of south sudan to really sign this deal. there had been this past week an u.s.-led circulation that would have called for targeted sanctions and arms embargo if the president did not sign this deal. that sort of is

as gabriel elizondo reports. >> there is agreement on the what now the u.n. security council wants to know the who. >> will those in favor of the draft resolution please raise their hands. >> a uns vote to finally point the blame for chemical weapons in syria. the first time the blame could be sent to the perpetrators. >> this sends a clear message. the joint investigative mechanism will identify you if you gas people. it bears repeating as well that we need to bring the same unity that we have shared today to urgently find a process to stop the chemical weapons. >> opew has agreed quote that chlorine has been used as a chemical weapon in syria but didn't have support for the claim. russia continues to view with skepticism, u.s. senate allies allegations that syrian president assad is questionable. >> who used chlorine is questionable. moreover we became witness he of many politicized statements in this regard which were clearly meant to be propaganda. >> horrific scenes of human suffering the aftermath of the attack in the outskirts of damascus dmask damascu

. >> gabriel elizondo, how significant is this for the u.n?> are very significant lauren, the first time it's going to look at the who, generally everyone agrees with the what, chemical weapons and now it's on to who was responsible, that's what the u.n. pushed resolution is trying get at. so in essence it's incredibly important incredibly significant. it was unanimous vote of 15 members of the council voted for it, everyone agrees, chemical weapons were used and there needs to be finger-pointing who was responsible, government organization or one of the actors in the current syrian conflict. it will go on and at this point, it is significant. and let's hear a little bit about what u.s. ambassador to the u.n. samantha power had to say about it. >> today's resolution has been adopted with the council's unanimous support. this sends a clear and powerful message to all those involved in chemical weapons attacks in syria. the joint investigative mechanism will identify you if you gas people. it bears repeating as well: we need to bring the same un

to discuss a road map for peace let's get more from gabriel elizondo. hi there gabe, what's in this statement? >> this is all part of a push at the united nations to try to kick start peac peace talks andt all sides back to the bargaining table. two key things number one it endorses the special plan by stefan de mastura, his new plan tries to bring together working groups, over safety, reconstruction issues, as well as political and legal issues, and security and counterterrorism. again these are just working groups and ban ki-moon, the u.n. secretary-general says he hopes to get the working groups started as early as next month. the security statement also tries to kick start the 2012 geneva communique, and that's important because in there that is what tried to usher in a political transition in syria. as we know that has not happened yet. but while the security council has agreed to this in its statement, venezuela, one of bashar al-assad's key allies they voiced some real reservations about this statement. venezuela is an elective temporary member o

. >> let's cross to gabriel elizondo. good to see you gabriel. the u.n. has confirmed that chemical weapons attacks did indeed take place in syria. how significant is it that they want to assign the blame to who is responsible? >> it is very significant. the world community knows what happened and now the u.n. wants to know who was behind it. that's significant. that was the first time that we get the indication of who was behind the attacks. very controversial, the u.s. and the west as you mentioned clearly point the finger at syrian president bashar al-assad al-assad, but his supporters iran and russia are skeptical of that. that organization based at the hague and it lows can hely close to the u.n, not have any mandate up until now to point blame on who was responsible. that's why the u.s. primarily spearheaded this resolution, working behind the queens russia anscenes withrussia and others. lest listen to what samantha power the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. had to say. >> today's resolution has been adopted with the council's unanimous support. this se

gabriel elizondo al jazeera at the united nations. >> sunday marks a year since a white police officer in the united states in the state of ferguson shot and killed michael brown an unarmed black teenager. brown's death sparked weeks of often violent protest. kristin saloomey is in ferguson for what has changed sidge sinc. >> a tribute to one of their own. marking the anniversary of michael brown's death. this benefit one of many this weekend was organized by his father, mike brown, senior. backstage, there was reflection of what changed michael brown's life and eventually this city. >> in every city, whenever a cop kills a black person that's unarmed unjustly people are going to respond. >> reporter: around ferguson, reminders are everywhere. it was right here that michael brown was shot after being confronted by police for shoplifting. it's a makeshift memorial. federal authorities have cleared darren wilson for any wrongdoing. but there was an investigation of the city, fueling sometimes violent reaction to brown's arrests. sympathy marches spread around the country as did stories o

gabriel elizondo, united nations. >> james hoamtion has found holmes has found he will be sentenced to life in prison. with that holmes will be spared the death penalty for killing 12 people and wounding 70 others. the 2012 attack near denver was one of the worst mass attacks in history. >> someone on that jury who believes that his mental illness is the main mitigator okay, i'm fine with giving him life without parole, but not responsible for death because of his mental illness. someone is saying that. >> family members of the victims spoke after the verdict was announced. >> he's living and breathing and our loved ones are gone for over three years now and the gaping void, the gaping wound that we have with the loss of our granddaughter has been replaced with a new abscess of him living. >> james holmes will be formally sentenced in late august. >>> sunday will mark the anniversary of the shooting death of black teen michael brown by white police officer darren wilson, the incident set off an explosion of voifnlings andviolence andprotests in ferguson missouri. diane eastabrook repor

gabrielle elizondo, new york. parents are having trouble convincing schools to enroll students with learning difficulties. tanya page has the story. >> it's difficult for this woman's son to concentrate. he was expelled two years ago because of his learning disability. >> teacher does not want to teach him because he's not like other children. >> reporter: the only school that would accept him is a special one for disabled children but he can only start next year, once he's able. now he's too old, he was forced out of school eight years ago. >> my mistress never gave me like was given to other kids. and they's neglected me. always bullied me. i never felt comfortable, i never felt like i was a child to them. >> human rights wash is he half a million in south africa. too much focus on special schools when what's needed is what's happening here. this is a regular school that includes disabled children like angel. she has cerebral palsy, participating in class as best she can. but her presence is also teaching her cl

. >>> gabriel elizondo is in new york, tell us more about these latest allegations, gabe. >> well, the peacekeeping mission in the central african republic thrown into more turmoil with this unexpected announcement by an u.n. spokesperson within the last hour. details of these alleged rapes are not fully known yet, but what we do know is allegations apparently came to light last week when the relatives of three young women came forward to u.n. officials to say that they're--that three young girls were apparently allegedly raped by peace keepers in the central african republic, at least one of the three girls apparently is a minor under 18 years old. this apparently took place in a town 350 kilometers outside of bangui. again, the details are still coming to light as the investigation moves forward. let's listen to what an u.n. spokesperson had to say just a few minutes ago. >> on the central african republic, the u.n. mission there said this morning that a new series of disturbing allegations much misconduct has recently come to light. the events allegedly took place in recent weeks. t

gabriel elizondo reports from the united nations. >> his presidential statement by the u.n. security double endorses the new peace plan in south sudan. the statement says it is a good first step in trying to reverse the difficult political, economic, humanitarian situation in the country, and it calls on all sides to adhere to the permanent cease-fire but said there is a pressing need to assure accountability for serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. the peace plan, which calls among others things for a transitional government a cease-fire and power-sharing agreement was signed amid increasing pressure against the government of south sudan. there had been this past week an u.s.-led resolution circulating in the security council that would have called for targeted sanctions and an arms embargo if this peace deal was not signed. now this resolution has been put aside for now, but it could be revisited if the peace plan is not fully implemented. and there really is a need to implement it because of the humanitarian situation is very difficult in

. >> gabriel elizondo, thank you. >>> the rafa border opened for four days allowing palestinians to travel in both directions. 20,000 people have applied to exit. rafa is gaza's only border crossing that isn't controlled by israel. >>> egypt's president has passed a new security law that introduces special courts and harsh he penalties for people seen as a threat. law also gives security forces more power. jerald tan reports. >> the president made a stern process. >> the hands of justice, we will not wait. we will change laws in order to changes law and justice. >> punishes trorlts accordingly. those found guilty of forming or leading the group the government considers a terrorist entity, is sentenced to death. police who use force while acting in the name of the law while journalists can be fined for contradicting the official version of any attack. some egyptians are concern. >> the law here is a system that is not protecting the citizenry but rather protecting the state. this is becoming indicative of the consolidation of power in the hands of the executive and there isn't a check on no

gabriel elizondo has more for us from the united nations. >> stephen o'brien back from yemen where he visited several cities to get a better sense of on the rebound. how bad the humanitarian situation is there. for the security council he briefed them and painted a dark and gloomy picture of a deteriorating situation in yemen. he gave example. he said that he visited a hospital where the lights were flickering because there was not enough fuel to power generators. he said that there were people who were having to sleep on the floors of the hospital, and several hospitals have shortages of criminal medical supplies. he said getting aid into the country is increasingly difficult, and he pointed to airstrikes at the port as an example of the problems and the hurdles that the u.n. is trying to overcome getting aid into the country. there are shortages of almost everything right now in yemen, and innocent civilians are the ones suffering the most. >> i have just returned from yemen where the scale of human suffering is almost incomprehensible. i was shocked by what i saw. the civilian popu

al jazeera's gabriel elizondo explains. >> it's a book like no other.e to read but to save lives. it's called the drinkable book. it's pages are made from technologically advanced paper a made of silver nano particles that kill water-borne diseases. imagine it being like coffee filters being pages of a book. here's how it works. each piece of paper or filter can be torn out of the book. the paper is slid into an especially designed filter box, dirty water can be poured through, and safe drinking waters comes out. >> at the end of the day, the hero is the technology. >> it was invented over several years by a chemist at carnegie-mellon university. >> we're testing these filter papers in a few different countries and evaluate the water quality before and after filtration. in south africa, ghana, and bangladesh, what i reported on the filters have also been tested in kenya, and the results were that 99.9% of the bacteria were killed by the paper, which is basically as good as tap water. >> more than 500 million people don't have access to clean water, and

gabriel elizondo reports from the united nations. >> reporter: it's south sudan's president -- if heut of the peace deal the united nations says it will act and do so quickly. that was the message from the u.n. security council. >> they pressed their. [ inaudible ] to act immediately if the president doesn't not sign the agreement tomorrow as he had undertaken 67 the u.s. has draft aid u.n. security council resolution calling for targeted sanks and an arms embargo if he does not sign the peace deal. but there could be disagreements within the council over the proposed u.s. initiative and diplomats say any action on the resolution would require further negotiations which could take days. the u.n.'s top official for humanitarian affairs told council members on tuesday, that the situation on the ground is grave and getting worse. get giving horrific examples of crimes against innocent civilian. >> i am very concerned about the atrocities that continues to be reported the scope and level of cruelty characterizationed against a villans suggests a deep depth antipathy allegations including

. >> gabriel elizondo has more on what he could do if they do not sign. >> what the targeted sanctions or arms embargo against the country. that's all part of a u.s.-led resolution that's been on the table since the middle of last week. security council message basically they're going to hold on to this resolution, and wait and see what happens in the--in these negotiations or if he signs this on wednesday, and then sort of make a decision after that on how to proceed. now we just did hear from ambassadors from the u.k. and france who both said that i'm if he doesn't sign it, he'll probably just days rather than hours away from the u.n. taking up this resolution. there would still need to be negotiations no matter what happens. >> the prosecutors said that he had extreme video before boarding a high speed train with a bag full of weapons. french authorities have formerly opened a terrorism investigation. >> investigations on site, he had a rifle, not an ak-47, as thought at the time, but an ak ak-m, nine cartridges, each one fully charged. all nine cartridges including one in the rifle

gabriel elizondo joins me now. it was a moving testimony given by stephen o'brien describing the scale in yemen in terms of meeting people's need and gaining access to the country. >> that's right. it was a very gloomy picture that stephen o'brien painted. he just got back from yemen. visited several cities over several days. his message to the security council was one that the humanitarian crisis in yemen is getting worse not better. he painted a very dark picture of the situation there. let me give a couple of numbers. these are really shocking. he reported to the security council there are 1.5 million internally displaced people in yemen. he said more than 1,000 children have been killed or injured in the conflict. and out of the 26 million yemenis, that's the population, 4 out of every 5 are now in need of some sort of humanitarian aid. o'brien visited several hospitals while he was there, and he gave anecdotes about what he saw. the lights were flickering in one hospital because they didn't have enough fuel to

. >> gabriel elizondo at the stock exchange. let's look at what is behind this sell-off then. china's stocks dropped more than 8% on monday, it's biggest one-day fall in eight years. beijing has deployed it's $547 billion pension fund to prop up the market. that after efforts to use another state fund with $400 billion of state assets to buy up stocks failed to stop the decline. from ma malaysia's ringgit, the commodity index has seen its lowest level since 1998. crude oil has been tumbling from $45 a barrel, it's lowest price since 2009. >> the sell off began within minutes of the stock exchange opening. >> on monday the government announced a new and risky intervention to prop up the market by using billions of dollars from the state pension fund, but it failed to stop the slide. >> how can markets drop every day like this. one, two, three, four, five. the market dropped for five days. and it never rose back. >> many borrowed to buy shares, and now are being forced to sell those shares to pay back the loans. >> the chinese market aims to eliminate the middle class after elim

but they're unlikely to join the front line any time soon as gabriel elizondo explains from new york,the u.s. is still debating the role of women in combat. ♪ and the rocket's red glare >> a graduation ceremony of the army's elite ranger division. but this one is unlike any other. 65 years of rangers, for the first time female graduates. it's a key moment in history when it comes to the delicate question of integrating women into combat roles. but while the two women can say that they're some of america's best trained soldiers they won't be in combat at least not yet. while women are allowed in 95% of military occupations, including fighter pilots, historically it was believed that women did not have the same physical strength as men in order to fight on the front lines. but that could change after the two women competed the grueling six-week combat course considered one of the most rigorous training the u.s. military conducts. in 2013 the pentagon announced that they would review the ban on women in combat and the position today is clear. >> the department's policy is that all ground

gabriel elizondo, al jazerra, at the united nations. >>> the injury looks ready to announce its sentencees holmes so let's take a moment and listen in. >> we have a unanimous final sentencing verdict on this count ask. we the jury understand that as a result court will impose a steps of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on this count. final sentencing verdict form count four, murder in the first degree after deliberation, we the jury do not have a unanimous final sentencing verdict on this count and we the jury understand that as a result the court will impose a sentence of life in prison. without the possibility of parole on this count. final sentencing verdict form count five, murder in the first degree after deliberation, jessica, we the jury do not have a unanimous final sentencing verdict on this count. and we the jury understand that as a result, the court will impose a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on this count. final sentencing verdict form count six murder in the first degree after deliberation, john larimer, we the jury do no