but there have to coordinate with the international red cross committee they have also the during the press and what they describe the saudi recruitment of children in there in the defense of the supplement they say they have rooted children with age of 13 and 16 years old so they are also be calling will be the walled during the press there are the deaths of those who are being killed during their latest operation as they are laying there on the international community the international red cross haven't been able to reach those who have been killed. laying on the ground where the operation has taken place well let's get more on this lastly back that she is the spokeswoman for the international committee of the red cross and joins us now by skype from aids and nasa your organization helps oversee this prisoner release one more can you tell us about that. yes sir today the international committee of the right across oversaw the release of 290 detainees that were held in that a man our central prison and so now. our all in this particular release was to 1st conduct a pre-departure inte

the head of the delegation of the international committee of the red cross and he visited the scene of the attack yesterday thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera to begin with just tell us what you saw when you headed to the model and the scene of that attack. yes and even i have i think on the spot there it. around the middle of to be i saw were very shocking images we've many bodies many dead bodies lying around our team turn especially yemeni prep crescent society our partner has already started to read to great bodies somewhere around 50 bodies could be. ongoing also as we speak but after. a little be quite. so what you're saying is you're expecting that that's all then to be much higher than what's reported so far. listen yet again 60 bodies that could be acute today there are many more would be are the. 9 people that have an hour or body parts of peppino you could probably get that are still around 20 visual bodies in the rubble so we're piecemeal among our also bigger one so if you create it to be to around 10510 bodies big is probably matching a whole saw when we see how litt

when i say back there she is the spokeswoman for the international committee of the red cross she says the charity confirm the identities and medical status of the prisoners ahead of the transfer. certainly the international committee of the right across oversaw the release of 290 detainees that were held in that a man our central prison in sanaa. our role in this particular release was to 1st conduct a pre-departure interviews with all the detainees to verify. their identities and also to check with them if they have any concerns where they would like to go when they are released so that we can also help with. with with the transfer we provided monetary. monetary. incentives to for their transfer we also had medical staff on site for all our releases there's always a medical staff on site to check the health of the detainees and if anybody needs special measures to be transferred we also work with the authorities to do that to any detainees who are actually transferred to their areas of origin through their will yemeni red crescent society ambulances sarkis president has promised to c

leaving and leaving everything behind so it's extremely harsh for them and for us for the international committee of the red cross also for the book you know the red cross society or other humanitarian workers it's not easy to work in this context because there are some issues related to access and security which we always have to monitor and which sometimes make it difficult to reach people a peace talks are underway in south sudan between the president and the exiled rebel leader rick mashad landed in juba on monday to sit with president salva kiir a meeting seen as an important step towards putting into action a stalled peace deal at least 400000 people have died since the country's civil war started in 2013 after kira moved machine as vice president. of britain's prime minister is expected back in london to push for an early election before parliament is suspended for the next 5 weeks on a monday morning boys johnson made a fleeting visit to an island where he made a rare admission that a no deal breaks it would be a failure of diplomacy charlie angela has moved. looking for a breakthrough on

must stand aduu international committee must stand adult now, all, to say a big know and to a country above the laws of man. ——no. let's get some of the day's other news: officials in iraq say at least 31 people have died in a stampede during commemorations for the shia holy day of ashura, in karbala. 100 are said to be injured. the stampede reportedly occurred when a pilgrim tripped while hundreds of thousands were performing a ritual. the body of zimbabwe's former president robert mugabe is on its way to the airport to be flown from singapore for his burial later this week. his body will lie in state in harare on thursday and friday before the official funeral on saturday. mr mugabe died last friday aged 95, after receiving long—term medical treatment in singapore. mexico's foreign minister, marcelo ebrard, says his country will not be considered as a safe third country for people seeking asylum in the us. the trump administration has pressed mexico and guatemala to accept the status, which would mean immigrants would have to make an asylum claim there before trying to reg

the not province where jason strother used as a spokesman with the international committee of the red cross he says and strike should not target those who want involved in the fighting our team delivered medical supplies taken to hospitals where some of the injured were taken and we also had a forensic specialist on site who will be helping our knowledge today but this week with that body of management well it's clear that this building was full of about 170 detainees and 11 can say that generally speaking warring parties should not be targeting people who are not part of the fight and in this case these detainees in in all likelihood are not part of the fight so. it's a. it's a target that generally speaking should not be targeted the death toll is there's more going on 100 there were about 40 people taken to the hospital today. and there are still many bodies left to be recovered from the rubble and that will be the worse for yemeni red cross assistance from the i.c.r.c. in the next coming days there's been a surge in support for a far right party into the german state elections pre

steven anderson now a spokesman for the international committee of the red cross he says people who facean impossible choice and became a faster between staying or leaving. the situation is it's really difficult there are many people that are forced to flee there are displaced so we're talking about $270000.00 in august and then many many people also have problems having access to healthcare we're talking here about about half a 1000000 people and the situation really has degraded deteriorated rapidly in the past months since the beginning of 2019 actually so for people it's really very often an extremely hard choice between staying in their village with lots of security very often difficulties to access health and water or basically leaving and leaving everything behind so it's extremely harsh for them and for us for the international committee of the red cross also for the book you know the red cross society or other humanitarian workers it's not easy to work in this context because there are some issues related to access and security which we always have to monitor and which sometimes

he claimed also that the it's occurred it's and has been have been shared with the international commission committee for red cross and also with other international relations so there the place is not sacred sunday that the couldn't hide such weapons mohammed thanks very much. well the conflict in yemen is now in its 5th year and has led to tens of thousands of deaths the u.n. high commissioner for human rights says most casualties have been caused by saudi led coalition airstrikes human rights watch says up to last november at least 6870 civilians were killed and what's believed to have been the most deadly strike was on a wedding party in september of 2015 more than 130 people lost their lives but witnesses said because of the scale of the destruction the death toll was difficult to confirm in december 27th teen more than 60 civilians were killed in 2 strikes on the same day the 1st struck a crowded market entire province killing $54.00 civilians including 8 children the 2nd killed a family of 14 in the red sea province of her data and last year in august at least 40 children were among more than

have an official list of the prisoners held inside the prison that is being shared with the international committee for really. cross all of the prisoners have been tempted by the. units from battlefields. equality has been fighting in yemen since 2015 supporting the internationally recognized yemeni government against these the war has killed tens of thousands and had a devastating impact on millions of yemenis with many on the brink of famine that was reporting from the scene in yemen well israel's military it tried d. cooperations at a hospital exchanged fire with hezbollah along the lebanese border has fired anti-tank missiles towards an israeli military post on sunday afternoon israel responded by sending about 100 artillery shells and what it said was targets across the border there's been no fighting overnight harry false reports from northern israel. on sunday afternoon the tense week long waiting game was over the strike that hezbollah had been promising was underway anti-tank missiles fired in israeli army base near the community of just south of the lebanese border as well as t.v. claime

leaving and leaving everything behind so it's extremely harsh for them and for us for the international committee of the red cross also for the red cross society or other humanitarian workers it's not easy to work in this context because there are some issues related to access and security which we always have to monitor and which sometimes make it difficult to reach people so what specifically are you calling on the government there to do nor to improve the access that i can get into people there. well we were calling basically to arms carriers to to really be aware of the fact that we are here organizations like ours to provide help for the people so that there is awareness of those needs and acceptance for humanitarian organizations to to come because because this is really becoming more and more needed another issue that i can flag here as well is that there is not so much interest so far in this situation i think booking office was not much in the headlines and this is also an issue that we can also have more awareness from the international community to help more financially so you mentione

korea has filed a complaint with the international olympic committee over japan's plan to use a military flowing during next year's games in tokyo so insists the rising sun emblem is no better than the nazi swastika represents japanese colonial rule on atrocities associated with it to accuse top official in charge of the 2020 olympics sees no problem with flying the imperial college. it has a lot of takes a look now at the decades long feud between seoul and tokyo. this flag is the thing setting apart south korea and japan for almost the whole past decade you might not see anything wrong with it but for more than a 1000000000 korean and chinese people it's no different to a swastika during the 2nd world war the japanese empire made this image of the banner for atrocities which rival the darkest crimes of adult hitler. the row over the flag largely dates back to 2011 when the nation's football teams met on the pitch to witness the image being literally waved in their faces and since then so has repeatedly asked tokyo to abandon the symbol the latest being their request for the 2020 olympi

inaudible] as a piece and cooperation district and transform it into a zone where both the international committee conjointly explore the path to prosperity on the korean peninsula and it's the dmc comes to house un offices already stationed in the two careers. another international organization related to peace, ecology and culture and emerge as the center for research on peace, peacekeeping, arms-control and trust building it can become an international piece zone and name as well as absence approximately 380,000 personnel mines are laid and it is expected to take 15 years for the troops to remove them on their own. however, cooperation with the international community will not only guarantee the transparency and stability of the mining operations but instantly turn to the cooperation. north korea makes the course to implement denuclearization the international community should also reciprocate. the establishment of the international piece zone would provide an institutional and realistic guarantee to north korea security at the same time south korea will also be able to gain permanent peace. ch

of the olympic spirit promoting world peace and love for humanity and that the international olympic committee should have the tokyo organizing committee prepare strict measures to prevent it from being brought to stadiums just last week tokyo snubbed an international fleet review in south korea over the demands to abandon any of the controversial image symbols of nazi germany have been outlawed and to this day on solemn occasions berlin speaks of its continued repent at the same time the japanese flag opens old korean and chinese rooms repeatedly according to a letter by south korea. and plenty of south koreans agree with the official line one of the reason for doing all it is is. if you or anyone of his you saw in your stuff let's. say were where were doesn't like that i think they stayed on the want to rebuild the relationship because they deny our cast i suppose koreans korean governments opinion i so for. you see that look you know lindsay or other or. anybody in carry out there just below her. the only one to. receive their apologize they should apologize sincerely to not only koreans bu

denies that does positivity is what's required but as you said you are the chair of the international trade committee and i understand you've got a reply from the international trade secretary liz truss about questions that you've asked of her. yeah you know like with those of us expected to come to comedy she don't come to imagine we pretty you know i do not think unless the person got the message quite clearly that you do come to parliament committees perhaps this size was dealing experience who knows but i think she's got the message no i said it but if some hotter water with very mixed selling out of society out of all places of involvement in a genocide in the yemen at the moment the behavior in the conduct of city island and the court's ruling against them leaves less the us in a more precarious position with bigger and more important questions to answer that klaus i was intending to ask a and to get it because we invite the saudi arabian ambassador to london to answer some of those questions i understand actually trusses in australia of all places just finally there's a climate global climate

have an official list of the prisoners held inside the prison that is being shared with the international committee for really. cross all of the prisoners have been captured by the. units from battlefields. equality has been fighting in yemen since 2015 supporting the internationally recognized yemeni government against hoshi's the war has killed tens of thousands and had a devastating impact on millions of yemenis with many on the brink of famine and without bob. the mark problems the death toll from widespread flooding across iran continues to rise nearly 80 people have been killed dozens have been injured and hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced al-jazeera is mohammed's our reports i stand not far from the and tons of village that lies between here and the riverbed of the nile the riverbed itself is 4 kilometers from here all this land is submerged and for 20 days now people have been trying to extract their belongings from their village that has melted into water because most of the buildings there are made of mud bricks people telling us that they have tremendous difficulties in

have an official list of the prisoners held inside the prison that is being shared with the international committee for really. cross all of the prisoners have been captured by the army units from battlefields. because she has been fighting in yemen since 2015 supporting the internationally recognized yemeni government against how these the war has killed tens of thousands and had a devastating impact on millions of yemenis with many on the brink of famine. bob. the mark province. hurricane dorian has become the most powerful storm to make landfall in the bahamas the category 5 storm is battering islands with torrential rain leaving some parts underwater and gallagher reports from miami and florida were dorian is expected to hit next. hurricane dorian packing sustained winds close to 300 kilometers per hour is battering the bahamas this is one of the most powerful storms to hit this nation and is predicted to linger for hours with coastal surges in excess of 6 meters despite pleas some residents have decided to ride the storm out a decision officials say could put their lives at risk that is not a

according to the international committee of the red cross the i.c.r.c. yemen's hoofy rebels have released 290 yemeni detainees in what they're describing as a unilateral release earlier the military commanders of the who the rebels said that they were doing this as a sign of good will. we reiterate our commitment to a prisoner swap deal that has not changed it is today as it was and we are prepared and willing to execute an all inclusive deal whether they are yemenis or other nationalities to prove our veracity we have initiated an unconditional release of 350 prisoners from the other side we have called on the united nations to pressure the coalition to reciprocate this initiative falls within the swedish agreement and today we are going to execute an order of this agreement under the plans of the knowledge of the united nations and the swedish agreement. more now from the yemeni capital and our correspondent. oh thiis by releasing unconditionally the prisoners of war want to send a message to the wall that they are willing to continue their obligations

have an official list of the prisoners held inside the prison that is being shared with the international committee for really. cross all of the prisoners have been captured by the army units from battlefields. the cooperation has been fighting in yemen since 2015 supporting the internationally recognized yemeni government against how these the war has killed tens of thousands and had a devastating impact on millions of yemenis with many on the brink of famine and without bob. them are problems in southern yemen heavy fighting continues between government forces supported by and separatists backed by the united arab emirates separatists a regained control of aden the port city which is the temporary capital of the un recognized government and also in battles further east in the province of shabwah government forces say they've taken the city of which was controlled by the separatist fighters elizabeth kendall is a senior research fellow at oxford she says disputes between the yemeni government forces and the u.a.e. backed separatists have diverted attention away from the overall conflict. the bombi

have an official list of the prisoners held inside the prison that is being shared with the international committee for really. cross all of the prisoners have been tempted by the army units from battlefields. equality has been fighting in yemen since 2015 supporting the internationally recognized yemeni government against hold these the war has killed tens of thousands and had a devastating impact on millions of yemenis with many on the brink of famine and without blub. the mark province of the conflict in yemen is now in its 5th year and it's resulted in tens of thousands of deaths the armed conflict and location is vent data project says more than $70000.00 people have been killed since the war began human rights watch says almost $11000.00 were injured by the end of last year the conflict has threaten millions of lives 80 percent of the population requires some form of humanitarian assistance and more than 15000000 could soon face starvation. so let's bring in our panel now to talk more about this joining me here on set is has sena but adi professor of international relations at the university

have an official list of the prisoners held inside the prison that is being shared with the international committee for real. cross all of the prisoners have been captured by the. units from battlefields. the coalition has been fighting in yemen since 2015 supporting the internationally recognized yemeni government against toasties the war has killed tens of thousands and had a devastating impact on millions of yemenis with many on the brink of famine i'm a golf club. the mount problems police in the u.s. have identified the man responsible for a mass shooting in odessa texas that killed 7 people on saturday the 36 year old hijacked a mail truck and opened fire at passers by after being stopped by police for failing to signal a left turn he was a benchley shot dead by police investigators say they haven't found any links to terrorist organizations this is the 2nd major shooting in texas and less than a month yes president donald trump has again dismissed the role of background checks and helping reduce gun violence. so when looking at a lot of different things we look at a lot of different. ideas c

have an official list of the prisoners held inside the prison that is being shared with the international committee for really . cross all of the prisoners have been captured by the inside and army units from battlefield. formation has been fighting in yemen since 2015 supporting the internationally recognized yemeni government against holdings the war has killed tens of thousands and had a devastating impact on millions of yemenis with many on the brink of famine and without bob. them are problems in southern yemen heavy fighting continues between government forces supported by saudi arabia and separatists backed by the united arab emirates the separatists say they've regained control of even the port city which is the temporary capital of the un recognized government there have also been battles further east in shabwah province government forces say they've taken the city of which was controlled by separatists fighters the death toll from widespread flooding across sudan continues to rise in the last 3 weeks nearly 80 people have been killed dozens injured and hundreds of thousands of people disp

thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us jason says it's spokesperson for the international committee of the red cross thank you regarding the u.s. is saying that it fully supports israel's right to self-defense after an exchange of fire between the israeli military and the lebanese hezbollah is upon us as its fighters targeted a military vehicle in the galilee region israeli forces retaliated by shelling aboard of a niche in southern lebanon that reports now from northern israel. on sunday afternoon the tense week long waiting game was over the strike that hezbollah had been promising was underway anti-tank missiles fired an israeli army base near the community of avivim just south of the lebanese border hezbollah t.v. claimed an israeli tank it being destroyed and soldiers killed but the israeli military said while its base had sustained hits no soldiers had died israeli artillery and as strikes targeted lebanese border areas the reports from there said the shells hit mainly empty areas no casualties were reported on either side less than 2 hours after it began the israeli army said

in the past 3 months and the thoughts are now steven anderson who's the spokesman for the international committee of the red cross he says people face an impossible choice between staying or leaving the situation is it's really difficult there are many people that are forced to flee there are displaced so we're talking about some 270000 in august and then many many people also have problems having access to healthcare we're talking here about about half a 1000000 people and the situation really has degraded deteriorated rapidly in the past months since the beginning of 2019 actually so for for people it's really very often an extremely hard choice between staying in their village with lots of security very often difficulties to access health and water or basically leaving and leaving everything behind so it's extremely harsh for them and for us for the international committee of the red cross also for the book you know the red cross say to your other humanitarian workers it's not easy to work in this context because there are some issues related to access and security which we always have to moni

millions of yemenis nor about unmanly al jazeera for jason stresses it was a spokesman with the international committee of the red cross he says airstrikes should not target those who aren't involved in the fighting. our team delivered medical supplies taken to 2 hospitals where some of the injured were taken and we also had a forensic specialist on site who will be helping now and today but this week with that body management well it's clear that this building was full of about 170 detainees and 11 can say that generally speaking warring parties should not be targeting people who are not part of the fight and in this case these these.

air strike has killed 68 people the target was a prison facility north of donmar city the international committee of the red cross says it sent urgent medical supplies. and here are live pictures from hong kong and beijing protesters have disrupted transport links to the main airport all trains to the hub have been canceled with roads also blocked many passengers are making their way there on foot luggage and hand. and in geneva a u.n. building was surrounded by yellow vests activists they march over from france to denounce police violence right control gear made in switzerland has been used by french police during the ongoing protests. breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week along with today's top news for more on those stories head to our website r.t. dot com. leg. oh. please. just so. lift. and a very warm welcome to you watching us in such. they say that the british. history. teacher. missed the word supporter. there is this interview. with people. still stuck in speed. on them or 14th 2006 i was substituting for a 5th grade class all of sudden it's kids come bursti

we are about to enter the 74th session of the general assembly of the united nations, the international committeetall now! all, to say a big no and to stop treating israel as a country above the laws of man. let's brief you on some of the other stories making the news: mexico's foreign minister, marcelo ebrard, says his country will not be considered as a safe third country for people seeking asylum in the us. the trump administration has pressed mexico and guatemala to accept the status, which would mean immigrants would have to make an asylum claim there before trying to register in the us. the body of zimbabwe's former president robert mugabe is being flown from singapore to zimbabwe for his burial later this week. his body will lie in state in harare on thursday and friday before the official funeral on saturday. mr mugabe died last friday aged ninety—five after receiving long—term medical treatment in singapore. a freight train derailment, in the us state of illinois, has caused a huge fire, as flammable material leaked from some of the cars. billowing black smoke could be seen for miles, af

north of donmar city or riyadh rejects that saying it took out a military installation the international committee of the red cross says it sent urgent medical supplies. and more civil disruption in hong kong where anti beijing protesters have disrupted transport links to the main airport all trains to the hub have been cancelled with roads also blocked many passengers are making their way there on foot luggage in hand. and in geneva a u.n. building was surrounded by hundreds of yellow vests activists they marched over from france to denounce police violence right control gear made in switzerland has been used by french police during the ongoing protests. that's a recap of just some of the stories that help shape the world these last 7 days for all the latest and up to the minute reports all of us on twitter facebook. dinner's. please dear. during the great depression. i'm old enough to remember there was most of my family were employed. there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objectively than today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of ho

of it then that's why the palestinians have taken the very logical approach in forming the international committee that so long as this administration does not recognize palestine the end rights for international law there's really not much to talk about if the palestinians are going to simply boycott mr green blood boycott mr trump boycott the saudis boycott anything before they even seen the play and then there's no opportunity for engagement this is the time for engagement not for boycotts and when you start to boycott the arab world and the united states you're going down a very slippery slide and i got to be arab or else or miss. no but is well i can tell the audience have with palestine is an integral part of the arab world mr greenblatt is someone who has is not only committed ideologically to the settler movement he is a contributor to the entrancement of the supplement regime which is illegal under international law in the heart of the occupied west bank so there was never. a moment where this administration even made a slight effort to give the impression that it has any inclination or a