ally let's find out more about the what the united states had to say on day two and that is where lawrence lee is joining us from from the hague lawrence. yes as you say the overall for the united states side in being represented by legal advisers from the state department is that effective is trying to manufacture. here and they say that iran is complaints against the united states isn't really about these nine hundred fifty five. agreements of friendship or amity it's all but it's actually about the iran being very unhappy with united states pulling out of the joint conference a plan of action the way the iran nuclear deal and then reimposing a very harsh sanctions against iran and so because of that the lawyers are arguing that the court because that's a political acts are not illegal acts that the court doesn't have the power or the jurisdiction to decide one way or the other whether or not iran's case has any merit and so in terms what they're trying to do is to get the inside thing throwed out before it goes any further but they are addressing at the same time iran's core complain that t

pakistan as the public politicians and even a former cricketer voiced their anger and support from lawrence lee. the netherlands self-styled european capital of tolerance but populism and its fault line with islam are resurfacing again. here to build as leader of the far right wing freedom policy seen here before last year's elections as announced a competition to help him plaster the walls of his office with cults too much of the prophet mohammed. the news of the stunt reached pakistan with predictable results political policy call for diplomatic relations. the dutch ambassador should be immediately deported and pakistan should go back to its ambassador this is our simple demand and the government should meet it but it seems others have different retaliate in the lives within a day a man was arrested at the main railway station in the day after he allegedly posted on facebook that he was going to parliament to target builders. the former pakistani cricket then posted a video on twitter offering twenty thousand euros for builders murder. builders himself tweeted crazy that this happens after an

says the court doesn't have that jurisdiction lawrence lee with us from the hague. it's known as the peace palace but the chance of the court here the highest legal body of the united nations bringing an end to the hostile environments between the u.s. and iran was never going to be highly. lawyers from both countries have presented their cases to the course iran arguing that the american decision to pull out of the nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions broken agreements of friendship between the countries dating back to nine hundred fifty five traced the moment to a corner make pressure. sense to certain that this view through diplomatic means did not succeed. iraq had no other choice but to seize the international court of justice with the president's request on sixty two large because of nato and they said sanctions were crippling the iranian economy in areas ranging from investment in renewable energy to aircraft parts oil exports and the iranian currency itself the measures are intended to and do bite deeply into key areas of iran's economy and they also bite int

this was isn't yet clear but it is at least a reminder that no security can protect everything lawrence lee al jazeera london ceremonious been taking place in sierra leone to remember the victims of the dead to say to one slide they killed more than a thousand people a year ago today the victims died after torrential rains and mountain morgues hurtling down a mountain on the outskirts of the capital freetown surrounding villages were crushed with more than three thousand people losing their homes the government's been criticised for not doing enough so we have them auckland interest was at the ceremony in freetown. a few hundred. to commemorate the. more than one thousand two hundred. just a few one hundred meters from where we. are now the situation is such that the emotions are still people cry for the. people who don't seem to have. given the problem of. decent burial actually calling out for the government to at least move the debris and examine those bodies to be given a decent burial as soon as they can now with met and lady who was married only seven months before the disaster struck

argues that the court has no jurisdiction to even hear the case lawrence lee has more from the hague. well they serve this hearing it's been the united states state su iran's core allegation that the us has been in breach of this obscure nine hundred fifty five agreements of friendship between the two countries by the reimposition the sanctions and the overwhelming overarching all human from the u.s. side is that iran's argument is entirely deceitful because it's effectively confusing legal and political arguments in the us his argument is that iran's complaint isn't really about the nine hundred fifty five agreement it's all bus about the united states pulling out of the nuclear deal and re imposing sanctions and based on that it says the call doesn't actually have the power the jurisdiction to rule on this it's also effectively trying to get the case thrown out before it gets any further but they have at the same time addressed iran's complaint that the u.s. has been guilty of unfriendly actions by re imposing sanctions bargain that in one thousand nine hundred ninety and all the go

security and nuclear materials as well but in terms of saying the case has absolutely no merits lawrence lee at the hague there south sudan's foreign minister says rebel leader react russia has refused to sign the final peace deal with the government it was hoped that years of conflict would end after a breakthrough was reached with president salva kiir both sides had agreed on a power sharing deal an end to fighting in sudan's capital khartoum last month. u.k. prime minister to recently is in south africa looking for new trade opportunities as a country leaves the european union but its her uncomfortable attempts to get footloose with schoolchildren in cape town that's dominating a lot of the online chatter so far one twitter user quipped i hope her negotiating skills are better than her dancing ability that better be prime minister may wants to make for in the biggest investor in africa from the developed forms major shall travel to nigeria and then kenya. the queen of soul aretha franklin is lying in state in her hometown of detroit members of the public are lining up to view her casket s

can carry on anyway a friendship treaty from one nine hundred fifty five quite a different time lawrence lee thank you very much live at the hague still ahead on al-jazeera curfews in person parts of the hall as anger over a police investigation brings mass protests and a heated political time in france as the environment minister quit saying his government is failing to do. hello the vigorous thunderstorms that we've seen recently in greece and floating around turkey satellite picture reveals them are about to become rather less decreases all the energy is transferred to the other side of the mediterranean over spain tickly western front to the area of low pressure is associated with increasingly warm air and the whole lot is pushing up some big thunderstorms the west in france and i think further north with the heat now the moment you see that's the dome of warmth and in the middle of europe what i suppose germany poland is deep down to twenty or below that scandinavia too with the water either side of that i think anything that cooler weather will try and push each is not get very far the

received death threats since the announced a competition to draw cartoons of the prophet muhammad lawrence lee has our report from the hague. the netherlands self-styled european capital of tolerance but populism and its full clown with islam are resurfacing again kid billed as leader of the far right wing freedom policy seen here before last year's elections as announced a competition to help him plaster the walls of his office with cults too much of the prophet mohammed that. the news of the stunt reached pakistan with predictable results one political party call for diplomatic retaliate. because the dutch ambassador should be immediately deported and pakistan chicago back its ambassador this is our simple demand and the government should meet it but it seems others have different retaliate in lines within a day a man was arrested at the main railway station in the hague after he allegedly posted on facebook that he was going to poland to target builders. and a former pakistani cricketer then posted a video on twitter offering twenty thousand euros for villas murder. villas himself tweeted c

that i still may have been responsible even though no group was so far claimed responsibility lawrence lee has the story. kabul has been relatively peaceful in recent weeks but this was bad as anything the city has witnessed in months that's all it was a private building in the town where young men and women were studying for university exams the classroom was destroyed along the way all of it a testament to the ferocity of the attack the suicide bomber is assumed to have targeted them because they was shia and so suspicion immediately fell on. its has done this sort of thing before though not often with such devastating results that it's that serious questions about the emergency response. the student at the training center or. came out and just after four o'clock i had a huge explosion i rushed back to my class i saw dozens of dead bodies and wounded people for about thirty minutes there was no police presence at all no ambulance service and people were carrying the wounded students to the hospitals told them the ambulances did arrive to do what they could so by the time they got to hosp

and cordoned off the injured people aren't believed to be in a serious condition correspondent lawrence lee is there live for us this hour lawrence just paint a picture for us what's going on there right now. well this is the cold this been thrown around is that as you were describing if i just turn play this way where it happens milbank runs parallel to the river thames and down there past the tree line on the right hand side of the british house of parliament now this happens i reckon it's about half a kilometer down the road from here so that's the extent of the cold and you can see from here because there's too much traffic it is too far away but there were opposite the parliament on the a green space that some t.v. crews brought coliseum to the british breakfast shows the time reporter described hearing a loud bang and so they actually filmed a lot of the immediate aftermath of it so we do know a lot of what happened already even though the police investigation is underway. and what we've seen in the pictures demonstrates is that a small silver hatchback car was driven apparently at so

could run out of food and medicine and major airports could shut down lawrence lee has. there was a time during the long saga of brics it's when prime minister to resign may used to say maybe it is best to do no deal for britain is better than a bad deal for britain said on many occasions that no deal is better than a bad deal by which she meant that falling out of the european union without a trade deal was better than one which didn't reflect the referendum results but now it's becoming clear what no deal might look like and it's giving people the shivers. the power has grabbed everyone's attention is the possibility of food shortages the u.k. imports fresh food from places like the netherlands no deal would mean the food might ross if it's stuck in queues at the border. the fear of the economy shutting down prompted heathrow airport to borrow well over a billion dollars in case it brings in no income at all for two months after bricks hits the airport is contemplating the events of planes not being able to fly over european airspace and therefore not land in london no

this was isn't yet clear but it is at least a reminder that no security can protect everything lawrence lee al jazeera london. still to come on the program food and supplies for civilians are running low five days into a bloody battle for control of the afghan city of gaza any. flash flooding in the northern philippines forces fifty thousand people on their hands. hello and welcome back we have an area of low pressure which is giving some very heavy rain across the far south of china and also influence the weather across much of indochina and indeed across into the philippines so we look at the forecast you can see the circulation giving heavy rain for hong kong and further towards the south and west getting into northern parts of vietnam to this whole flow is really encouraging more showers to be facts in the philippines certainly northern areas salutes on is looking particularly wet at the moment and we've got plenty of heavy showers again for me i'm are looking wet in yangon and staying that way through thursday but you see that low pressure center moving to northern vietnam so some floo

year old foreign war and british citizen police are searching three properties in central england lawrence lee has the story the palace of westminster is a sleepy place in august as the politicians are on holiday here during rush hour this was the scene as heavily armed police swooped on a car which had apparently been driven deliberately into the crush barriers surrounding the parliament the force of the collision clearly seem to have crumbled the whole from of the small car it's only occupant showing no resistance as officers calmly took him out and led him away the question is who is he and what was his motivation and why pretty was deliberate it wasn't it was over you know for you it was very. this video taken from on high some distance away shows the car seeming to drive normally before swerving violently across the road and then veering again through the security barriers when coming to a stop to police officers had to jump clear to avoid being his. as he crossed lie.

of plotting what it calls economic strangulation lawrence lee has been following the proceedings in the hague. the iranian side spends its three hours of court time here on monday trying to do two things in front of the judges first of all to explain how very damaging the american sanctions were everything from issues to do with renewable energy projects aircraft parts car manufacturers who now couldn't invest in iran sports going down the debasing of the iranian economy all of these things a direct result of the american sanctions program their lawyers said but at the same time trying to link that back to a nine hundred fifty five very obscure trade agreement sixty three years ago signed between the u.s. and iran a treaty of amity of friendship and a friendly behavior beside between the two countries and the iranians saying that the sanctions regime has broken the treaty of amity the lead lawyer for the iranian side made it very clear that they had no choice but to come to this court because all of the political and diplomatic avenues it simply fails trace the moment to a corner make p

into security barriers the suspect is a twenty nine year old foreign born british citizen has lawrence lee. the palace of westminster is a sleepy place in august as the politicians are on holiday here during rush hour this was the scene as heavily armed police swooped on a car which had apparently been driven deliberately into the crash barriers surrounding the parliament the force of the collision clearly seemed to have crumpled the whole front of the small car its only occupant showing no resistance as officers calmly took him out and led him away the question is who is he and what was his motivation in my opinion it was deliberate it was or. it was no over information we knew it was a direct hit this video taken from on high some distance away shows the car seeming to drive normally before swerving violently across the road and then veering again through the security barriers and coming to a stop to police officers had to jump clear to avoid being hit. as he crossed lanes and accelerated to point his car parliaments the driver plowed through a group of cyclists at least one was injured

of plotting what it calls economic strangulation lawrence lee joining us from the hague day to lawrence has a playing out today. well the americans just started speaking of about five minutes ago but in many ways i think they're in they've got an easier job on their hands than the iranians did on monday yesterday the iranians had two similar tenuously argue first of all the sanctions that the americans imposed on them when they pulled out of the nuclear treaty were extremely debilitating things like a lack of inward investments there that the difficulty of iran's work sport oil the collapse of its currency renewable projects and being shelves at craft parts not being able to be imported deals with companies like boeing going south all these sorts of things but they also had to argue that all that was in breach of this relatively obscure nine hundred fifty five agreement between iran and the united states which calls for amity or friendly behavior between the two countries and they say the court should block the american sanctions because they're in breach of this nineteen fifty five agr

even if ultimately it's likely to be unsuccessful thank you very much for that for now that is lawrence lee live with the latest from the hague thank you. now the u.n. security council has discussed syria and the threat of a government offensive in the last remaining rebel held province western governments say russia is trying to sow confusion by saying rebels and province may stage a chemical attack and blame it on government forces the torah gayton be report this morning through russia called this emergency meeting of the un security council to warn the syrian rebels supported by western governments might stage a chemical attack then blame it on syrian government forces western diplomats dismiss that idea as ridiculous i think even the egregious stand russian propaganda this is an extraordinary fake news story of course we are not going to do anything remotely a kin to a chemical weapons attack we take our chemical weapons prohibition responsibilities extremely so. western governments say russia's claims are meant to say confusion and pave the way for yet another chemical weapons massacre

confidence in the government's negotiating abilities is at an all time low the story now with lawrence leethere was a time during the long saga of breck's it when prime minister to resign may used to say maybe it is best to do no deal for britain is better than a bad deal for britain so i said on many occasions that no deal is better than a bad deal by which she meant that falling out of the european union without a trade deal was better than one which didn't reflect the referendum results but now it's becoming clear what no deal might look like and it's giving people the shivers food shortages if fresh produce rots at the border already stockpiling tins is actively being talked about what airports closed down heathrow has borrowed a billion dollars to protect itself against grounded flights would no deal mean economic collapse because businesses without taking the contingency plans big money factures would close up shop they'd need to be used if since they started leave on mass the pound which tumble as we've never seen before with the government survived things like giant manufacturers s

collapse in neighboring laos killed at least twenty seven people and displaced thousands of homes lawrence lee. saying and man maher while global attention is focused on the run hunter crisis there's a warning about another group also facing persecution fortify rights says the government as blocking aid to tens of thousands of captions displaced by a civil war in the northern state of catchin on the chinese border there has been fighting there since a ceasefire between the main mar military and the caption independence army broke down in two thousand and eleven the conflict began in one nine hundred sixty two when the military took control of that area before the report found there are one hundred six thousand caption displaced by war living in one hundred forty camps they face government imposed restrictions to health health care food shelter and sanitation and so far this year approvals have been given to less than thirty of the five hundred sixty applications to deliver catchin aid david is with fortified rights the group that came out with this report and he is calling for the internationa

collapse in neighboring houses killed at least twenty seven people and displaced thousands of us lawrence lee. realities kevin coverage and systematic have in this part of the world is used to monsoon rains what could have been the factor this time to make this happen well this is what we do know show that back in the end of july into the early parts of august we had seen incredible amounts of rain across that region so much so that one hundred fifty thousand people had to be evacuated during that time i want to show you what consulate book looks like right now across the region this is the climatological graph on when they see the heaviest rain of so july and august are the peaks here for months in season so because it was even a little bit heavier and a little more extreme than other years the the amount of pressure on that dam could have been extreme and that could have. led to the collapse of that causeway so of course we don't know if it was weather but we definitely do know that there was the weather element was a big factor here in the monterrey and are they getting a break now one for

collapse in neighboring houses killed at least twenty seven people and displaced thousands of us lawrence lee. criminologist kevin corriveau joins us now there have been monson's are unfortunately something that people there are used to how did that play into what happened here what do we think what we know in myanmar was that the image why at the beginning of august they had some extreme amounts of rain across the region one hundred fifty thousand people were actually displaced i want to show you just what we had seen in terms of the clouds right there a lot of clouds in the area right now though we're going to be seeing more of that activity to the north but normally this is monsoon season we know that we did have quite a bit of rain just in the last several days as well that did put stress on the spillway spillways normally can handle the excess water in this case unfortunately it doesn't look like the spillway was capable of handling and just let go and the so now there's all these people that are displaced are they going to be having to deal with more weather like this well the monsoon g

studies that suggested vaporing could actually help people stop smoking conventional cigarettes lawrence lee has more. so no denying the popularity of a ping in a cigarette now days in the u.k. places like this have sprung up all over the country and almost three million people nowadays in the u.k. routinely use the cigarettes as a less harmful thing to do they assume than conventional smoking of course the science is a little sketchy and opinions are mixed the report this week suggest that the cigarettes are actually more harmful than people think they might be on the basis that they can cause lung infections but now an officially sanctioned report by a government committee here suggests that not only already cigarettes are actually much better for you than conventional ones but they could even be used to help people give up smoking completely just like patches and nicotine replacement and that sort of thing and even further the authors of this report suggests that the health service hasn't made the proper distinction between conventional cigarettes and these cigarettes and that it could ev

cyclists before ramming into security barriers the suspect is a twenty nine year old british citizen lawrence lee reports the palace of westminster is a sleepy place in august as the politicians are on holiday here during rush hour this was the scene as heavily armed police swooped on a car which had apparently been driven deliberately into the crash barriers surrounding the parliament the force of the collision clearly seemed to have crumpled the whole front of the small car its only occupant showing no resistance as officers calmly took him out and led him away the question is who is he and what was his motivation in my opinion it was deliberate it wasn't it was no difference. to you it was a direct hit this video taken from on high some distance away shows the car seeming to drive normally before swerving violently across the road and then veering again through the security barriers and coming to a stop to police officers had to jump clear to avoid being hit. as he crossed lanes on accelerator to point his car at parliament the driver plowed through a group of cyclists at least one was injured

could run out of food and medicine and major airports could shut down lawrence lee has. there was a time during the long saga of brecht's it when prime minister to resign may used to say maybe it is best to do no deal for britain is better than a bad deal for britain is that on many occasions that no deal is better than a bad deal by which she meant that falling out of the european union without a trade deal was better than one which didn't reflect the referendum results but now it's becoming clear what no deal might look like and it's giving people the shivers the power has grabbed everyone's attention is the possibility of food shortages the u.k. imports fresh food from places like the netherlands no deal would mean the food might rots if it stuck in queues at the border the fear of the economy shutting down prompted heathrow airport to borrow well over a billion dollars in case it brings in no income at all for two months after bricks hits the airport is contemplating the events of planes not being able to fly over european.

questions than answers with the bricks at issue lines we thank you very much for that for now that's lawrence lee joining us live from london. to india now where floodwaters are receding in the state of carolina which has seen its worst flooding in a century more than a million people in temporary relief camps after their homes were washed away there's been no rain for the last four days but vast areas are remain underwater more than two hundred people died this month after torrential downpours began hammering carola setting off devastating floods andrew thomas has more from kara. the rise in the official number of dead is not because people are dying now it's because bodies are being found of those who died at the end of last week and over the weekend as the floodwaters recede and people are clearing out the months those bodies in some cases within it a political argument is now going on india as well between the state government in kerala and the national government in delhi delhi has turned down the financial assistance of countries predominantly in the middle east where many. your from carol

this was isn't yet clear but it is at least a reminder the no security can protect everything lawrence lee al jazeera london. now the largest and most comprehensive report into child sex abuse by catholic priests in the us has been released in pennsylvania the report details allegations of assaults on minors by those described as predator priests it also suggests there could be thousands of victims spanning a seventy year period the grand jury report also reveals cover ups ordered by senior church officials including cardinals at the vatican. to see church officials routinely and purposefully described the abuse as forcefully and wrestling and inappropriate contact it was none of those things it was schild sexual abuse including rape. comedic kind grown men priests against children. above all else. they protected their institution and all cost. kristen salumi was at that news conference. the attorney general for the state of pennsylvania described a systematic cover up at the highest levels of the church in pennsylvania one that went all the way to the vatican in a report that is considere

this was isn't yet clear but it is at least a reminder that no security can protect everything lawrence lee al jazeera london. of saucer office an assistant professor at nottingham university and a specialist on terrorism and religious extremism we appreciate your time very much what if anything does it say to you that this person who's been a drug arrest of this person is late twenty's is not cooperated with police not saying his name not saying why he did it does that say anything to you. well i think this is consistent with what i think happened in this case if you look at the way this attack was conducted in comparison with the attacks we had last year it does seem to be the actions of a very confused and disturbed individual without the benefit of any planning for example when he drives around the the one way system around westminster he was in the right lane to go into the barriers had he wished to but he went the the wrong way and then turned towards oncoming traffic if that point there had been a bus or a lorry he would have gone nowhere he would have crashed into them but he manage

this was isn't yet clear but it is at least a reminder the no security can protect everything lawrence lee al-jazeera london around one hundred cars have been set alight in sweden in what police say was an organized night of vandalism masked gangs torched the cars in towns and cities across the country police in gothenburg were the most and that highest number of cars were burnt say they've arrested several you know arrests have been made but sweden's prime minister has vowed to punish those responsible. so they're also a beef about mug i am furious that the question has to be asked of those people what the heck you doing who do you think you are you destroy the whole area for the neighbors for the children on their way to preschool that have to see these cars burned this is completely unacceptable. a ceremony has been taking place in sierra leone to remember the victims of a devastating mudslide that killed more than a thousand people a year ago today the victims died after torrential rains sent modern rocks hurtling down a mountain on the outskirts of the capital freetown surrounding vil

around the area have now been sealed off counterterrorism officers a leading the investigation lawrence lee has more now from london. it's a very very quiet here there's no politicians around there all the central london is very quiet because it's all the days. if it was a deliberate attack and in that sense it's kind of come out of nowhere. and it doesn't look like it's been tremendously successful from the point of view of the perpetrator for all that clearly if you want to have the police will want to know why why they didn't have anything about it on their radar. who might have been responsible for. the weakness of the turkish currency is starting to affect other emerging markets the indian rupee hit a record low just hours ago and currencies from argentina to south africa all fell on monday the turkish lira has fallen by more than forty five percent against the u.s. dollar this shia. fighting is continuing in the afghan city of ghastly more than three hundred people have died over the past few days around half of them civilians according to the un afghanistan's military is sending rein

this week on iran's case and whatever they do decide may easily be ignored by the united states lawrence lee al-jazeera the hague but. a suicide car bomb in iraq has killed at least seven people and injured others the attack. the border with syria the target was a checkpoint manned by the iraqi army and allied fighters. the u.n. security council has discussed syria and the threat of a government offensive in the last remaining rebel held province western governments are saying that russia is trying to sow confusion by saying rebels and the province may stage a chemical attack and then blame it on government forces but toyah gate and the reports this morning. call this emergency meeting of the u.n. security council to warn the syrian rebels supported by western governments might stage a chemical attack then blame it on syrian government forces western diplomats dismiss that idea as ridiculous i think even the egregious stand russian propaganda this is an extraordinary fake news story of course we are not going to do anything remotely a kin to a chemical weapons attack we take our chemical wea

argues that the court has no jurisdiction to even hear the case let's go live now to the hague or lawrence lee is covering this a lawrence what's going to happen today. well you said both sides have had their first say in over the course of today and tomorrow both sides then get to have a second go at it as well and for the iranians the task at hand is to try to answer the very serious points that the u.s. side made on chews day first of all you know the u.s. said well look you the iranians say we're guilty of unfriendly behavior under the terms of a treaty nine hundred fifty five or what about you iran since the islamic revolution of the taking of american hostages and support for the syrian government and his boller in attacks on israel and this sort of thing how can you accuse us of being unfriendly and they also accuse the iranians of deliberately mixing up political and legal things because the americans said that the iranian complaint isn't a legal one at all it's a political complaints about the u.s. pulling out of the nuclear deal and re imposing sanctions and therefore as you say they

leading some to suspect that might have carried out the attack but no claims have been made so far lawrence lee reports. has been relatively peaceful in recent weeks but this was bad as anything the city has witnessed in months the target was a private building in the town where young men and women were studying for university exams the classroom was destroyed along the way all of it a testament to the ferocity of the attack the suicide bomber targeted them because they was shia and so suspicion immediately fell on. its has done this sort of thing before though not often with such that was taking results that are to the us to serious questions about the emergency response. you student at the training center i came out and just after four o'clock i had a huge explosion i rushed back to my class i saw dozens of dead bodies and wounded people for about thirty minutes there was no police presence at all no ambulance service and people were carrying the wounded students to the hospitals pulled out the ambulances did arrive to do what they could so by the time they got to hospital the lines of body b

collapse in neighboring laos killed at least twenty seven people and displaced thousands of others lawrence lee. plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including send money now argentina asks for a multibillion dollar advance in emergency funds as inflation saul's and it fears a new crisis also endangering much more than the economy why iran stopped to say u.s. sanctions will have a deadly effect and in sport serena williams that's a paper brown with sister venus at the u.s. open. but doctors in iran say sanctions imposed by the u.s. are endangering lives they say they can't get enough drugs to treat patients foreign companies are able to sell them medical supplies but new banking restrictions are making that harder samus rob a reporter from tehran. here at ash has been struggling with hemophilia since he was born it's a blood disorder that his parents know means he will never live a normal life. but the medical treatment he gets at this clinic gives him a fighting to. bring in to have that report from tehran to go straight to moscow and to listen to sergei lavrov foreign minister f

collapse in neighboring laos killed at least twenty seven people and displaced thousands of us lawrence lee algy. well staying in me and more are while the global attention is focused on the reaching a crisis as also warning another group is also facing persecution forty five right says the government is blocking aid to tens of thousands of kitchen displaced by civil war in the northern state of kitchen on the chinese border now there's been fighting there since a cease fire began with the million mark military on the kitchen independence army broke down in twenty eleven. a fragile ceasefire in libya appears to be holding after an appeal for car by the government. three days ceasefire came into effect on wednesday after days of fighting in libya's capital tripoli between rival armed groups. the un envoy to syria has called for the setting up of a humanitarian corridor to allow civilians to leave the last rebel held province but russia's foreign minister says opposition fighters there need liquidating so good lavrov said that they were using civilians as human shields and call them terrorist

on the scene and a man was detained a nearby underground station has been closed by the police lawrence lee is our correspondent tracking that story for us lawrence what else do we know. sorry i lost you i lost you for a second then just as you came to me i'm speaking to you from. a road junction of millbank which is the right of the house to commented on the times and lambeth bridge nonstick raised and that's where the police called and he's the moment that's where the major been pushed back to the car that crashed into the barriers outside the common there's a good three or four hundred meters away from me as a police helicopter overhead a number of police cars and and another emergency services on the scene it looks as though they have it on the control because as he was saying no one was was killed a man was taken away in the incident in that sense. but the police are clearly taking it very seriously because i think they're working on the assumption that this wasn't an accident and was a deliberate attack and the the space that the car ended up in was almost like a kind of a run off are

lawrence lee? >> hi. >> hello. >> so thanks for maintaining one of the cycling and running routes in the world. i have my gear in the bag, so this evening, when you leave, please say hi to me, i'm meeting my running club at the base of the stairs here. this morning, when i was packing my bag, i was reading in the new york times morning briefing that there's another incident in london when someone used an automobile as a weapon to deliberately target and run over innocent pedestrians and cyclists in the public realm. so when these type of incidents happen, it makes the world news, and you know we're reading about it here in san francisco. and officials are quick to respond over night, you know, helicoptering barriers, security personnel to protect the public realm, and you know, there's no discussion of cost and time. it just happens. however, when, like, nonsensationalistic tragedy occurs in the public realm, the news fades into the background. people continue to get killed and injured on our stree

could close down the gauche ations remain deadlocked just months before britain is due to pull out lawrence lee reports there was a time during the long saga of brics it's when prime minister to resign may used to say maybe it is best no deal for britain is better than a bad deal for britain said on many occasions that no deal is better than a bad deal by which she meant that falling out of the european union without a trade deal was better than one which didn't reflect the referendum results but now it's becoming clear what no deal might look like and it's giving people the shivers. the power has grabbed everyone's attention is the possibility of food shortages the u.k. imports fresh food from places like the netherlands no deal would mean the food might ross if it stuck in queues at the border. the fear of the economy shutting down prompted heathrow airport to borrow well over a billion dollars in case it brings in no income at all for two months after bricks it's the airport is contemplating the events of planes not being able to fly over european airspace and therefore not land in london no

pakistan as the public politicians even a former cricketer all voiced their anger of a support from lawrence lee. the netherlands self-styled european capital of tolerance but populism and its full plan with is long resurfacing again a kid billed as leader of the far right wing freedom policy seen here before last year's elections as announced a competition to help him plaster the walls of his office with culture of the prophet mohammed. the news of the stunt reached pakistan with predictable results one political party call for diplomatic relations. the dutch ambassador should be immediately to politics and pakistan should go back its ambassador this is our simple demand and the government should meet it but it seems others have different result the asian lives within a day a man was arrested at the main railway station in the day after he allegedly posted on facebook that he was going to parliament to target builders but a former pakistani cricketer then posted a video on twitter offering twenty thousand euros for villas murder. villas himself tweeted crazy that this happens after announcing a

parliamentary report which also recommends that doctors be able to prescribe medically licensed cigarettes lawrence lee has the details. so no denying the popularity of a ping in the cigarettes nowadays in the u.k. places like this have sprung up all over the country and almost three million people nowadays in the u.k. routinely use the cigarettes as a less harmful thing to do they assume than conventional spoking of course the science is a little sketchy and opinions are mixed the report this week suggest that the cigarettes are actually more harmful than people think they might be on the basis that they can cause lung infections but now an officially sanctioned report by a government committee here suggests that not only already cigarettes are actually much better for you than conventional ones but they could even be used to help people give up smoking completely just like patches and nicotine replacement and that sort of thing and even further the authors of this report suggests that the health service hasn't made the proper distinction between conventional cigarettes and these cigarettes and that i

this was isn't yet clear but it is at least a reminder the new security can protect everything lawrence lee al-jazeera london still to come here on al-jazeera flash flooding in the northern philippines forces fifteen thousand people from their homes plus head on will come descending that connection we visit the community radio station in paris helping refugees to tell their stories. how this what appears to be a wall of much cooler marching across europe i would have to say again but the difference between the temps is ahead of it and behind it means if you do some very big sons jones more recently over italy but over the next twenty four hours or just slowly across the ages it further south into was greece throughout the balkans with the rain line she's not one for the north heading east to look towards moscow actually had it quite warm behind it dropping about ten degrees and scandinavia as heat wave is gone but we are fighting temperatures rising again in france in the british isles up to the high twenty's that started sort of sustainable we're back down to twenty the day after so it's f

this was isn't yet clear but it is at least a reminder that no security can protect everything lawrence lee al-jazeera london still to come. flash flooding in the northern philippines forces fifty thousand people from their homes. connection to the on the community radio station in paris helping refugees to tell their stories. hello again we began our forecast in the levant and western parts of asia where the weather picture is looking pretty settled at the moment much as you'd expect fine conditions for toronto thirty six back that up at forty three so a bit of a fairly brisk wind given the risk of some lifted dust otherwise we've got fine conditions around the eastern side of the mediterranean and she had on through into services also fine across the caucasus recent days we've seen the threat of showers there but they've all gone so fine conditions across the bulk of this region so let's move on to the rhodian potential here weather conditions looking fairly quite low forty's across the western side of the peninsula for medina and mecca but a hot one here in doha with the wind still fairl

this was isn't yet clear but it is at least a reminder that no security can protect everything lawrence lee al jazeera london. afghan civilians in the city of galle are running out of food and water as the battle between government forces and the taliban continues for a fifth day at least four hundred people have died in the violence raising new questions about the afghan government's ability to assure security in the country show at best reports. residents of gaza a flee from afghanistan's new front line in the war between the taliban and the military. the taliban was stationed at the building inside gaza in the city near the office of the provincial reconstruction team and government forces were firing mortars towards them but the mortars were hitting the residential houses. the assault started with a taliban attack on the police headquarters early friday morning over five days it is morphed into a city under siege a well stocked taliban against the afghan military which has us is support two hundred seventy thousand people shelter in their homes running out of food and water without powe