million people in need of food assistance well i'm joined now by al jazeera seen at blizz con is marwan bashara and so marwan amid this terrible destruction and loss of life is that any way that the international outcry can be channeled into some sort of path of peace in yemen for the time being it's been all rhetoric and very little action. and clearly a lot of the western powers have influence over what goes on in yemen and in the region in general are somehow complicit with saudi arabia they've been arming saudi arabia the united arab emirates. president from called that beautiful weapons when he was sitting with the crown prince of saudi arabia so clearly there's a lot of arming going on this proxy war as you mentioned in the report iran supporting the whole with the saudi arabia supporting its own clients and getting involved militarily in the region. the the u.n. security council in needs to step up russia and china i'm sure will be interested to get this thing resolved but the united states france and the u.k. need to get involved because regionally the arab league has basically

facing legal action for fusing possible holiday tenants based on their ethnicity french journalist marwan me haji who is of north african descent claims that when he tried to book an apartment in march say his reservation was canceled without explanation but when he got a friend who he describes as having a quote good french name to try and book the same property he was told it was available for hire after posting his story on line he says hundreds came forward saying they'd been treated the same by other landlords you know all air b.n. b. responded saying it's sorry for what happened and underlined that it does not tolerate any form of discrimination we discuss the incident with a french lawyer and a paris based political commentator. i think there's a problem with part of the foreign committee usa in the large sense today in france which has got a bad image and some people would rather not rent than rent to people who got this bad image and particularly within the north african community is giving some are jews who are racist people who don't want to see enough african post in their hou

and joining me now is there a senior political analyst marwan bashar amman good to have you on set so we heard there from the u.n. asking for the violence not to escalate there are millions of people there we've also heard from turkey asking for some consideration for the refugee situation do you think russia is likely to listen to either of us no i mean there will listen but i'm sure there will hear exactly the pleas from various capitals including. in other places washington and so on so forth because you see from the very beginning the russians have been quite consistent since september two thousand and fifteen when they intervene militarily in syria they've said many different things and they've heard different things and they seem to be meaning different things but they were very consistent the military comes first political comes second humanitarian comes third they were also very clear that there is no war in syria you know russia is but one of the only countries in the war that refuses to take the fiji's from syria because there is no war in syria according to the russians the

none of the politicians trying to end the war in yemen i think that's the million dollar question marwan well and say they're trying to end but they're certainly not enough with if there if there was some will on the part of the saudis and the iraqis and to some degree on the part of the whole fees then we might have had some way forward certainly the u.n. has been involved in as you heard earlier and very forth that the u.n. envoy wanted to get everyone together on the table in switzerland and the beginning of september unfortunately this has been tried before and failed before that us three years. clearly those who support saudi arabia and autumn of saudi arabia the united arab emirates and those who support and on the host these need to realize that this continuous killings of twenty thirty sixty forty people on an on in a country that is one of the poorest in the world to be devastated like that this needs to end you know wars need to have expired ration dates wars need to have set the nimitz in the end of the day the international community as if it wants us to call it work while th

canadian marijuana is stocks -- marwan a stock climbed high today -- marijuana stock climbed high todaywelcome a bloomberg reporter from toronto. we have already seen big booze players get in and purchase these companies, who is up for grabs? constellation brands have the big investment in canopy last week and cores have done a joint venture in the space. a craft brewery owned by heineken is also looking to do cannabis beverages. there is a quickly growing interest in this. in terms of the canadian companies being targeted, there is speculation today that a free ya --ld be a major one fre freya could be one. there's a clear connection between a free -- afria. another small canadian company can has another executive and marketing officer coming from diageo as well. this industry is pulling executive to the realm -- executives to the realm of the canopy world. the second biggest player after canopy is another target. they stated they are intent in entering the cannabis infused beverages space. scarlet: everyone is looking for growth and they see it. do we have a sense of what kind of grow

the parts you see here in yellow of more in what to expect in the coming weeks in syria we spoke to marwan cumberland head of policy analysis at the arab center for research. it will be the future of it will be been very much on the understanding between the russians and the turks because. these collisions on an airplane is the only remaining the exclusion zone from the atlanta process because the other three exclusion zones have been actually retaken by the syrian regime so the fear now is that the region the syrian regime will be starting some sort of a myth the offensive against the but right now the russians seem to have given some assurances to the turks that this will not happen soon but it might happen in the future because the russians are saying we will help the syrian regime actually regain control over all of syria and this is actually is also tells us something about the eastern of the fleet these areas which is under right now under the control of the kurdish forces we have seen in recent weeks talks direct talks between the syrian regime and kurdish forces in which could this