u.n. special envoy to syria says the situation in it labe is set up for what he calls a perfect storm seven hundred mr at all the u.n. security council the expected military offensive against the rebels in the province will be an horrific battle the u.n. is warning of the worst humanitarian crisis since the war in syria began turkey's president meanwhile is warning of a bloodbath in its lead he's been in tehran as iran also welcomed russia's president for a summit on syria as a talks began iran's president has some rouhani emphasized the need for a political and military solution. to fight terrorism an adlib isn't an inevitable. part of a mission to bring about peace and stability and. we should make sure that the civilians are not the harmed in this process. we are fighting for peace war for war is a mistake from our point of view. the first plan peace talks in two years between yemen's government leaders and healthy rebels have hit a hurdle though the say they can't get authorization from the saudi erotic coalition decided to geneva the u.n. special envoy for yemen is already in switzerla

u.n. special envoy offers hope after talks to end the war in yemen called off. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching al jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up turkey wants it will not watch from the sidelines of an offensive against syria's last major rebel held area leads to civilian deaths. iran's summons iraq's ambassador for its consulate was torched during protests in the southern city of basra plus. i'm joined now in sweden a country anticipating its most important election in years the battle over values and identity with the rise of the far right. un brokered talks to end yemen's war have collapsed before the even began properly the government delegation is set to leave geneva after hoofy rebel representatives didn't fly in for the negotiations over safety concerns in the past half hour or so we have been hearing from the u.n. special envoy to yemen martin griffiths he put a positive gloss on where the talks had got to so far even though the who sees say we were not allowed to leave yemen because of airspace control issues live

u.n. special envoy is planned seems pretty hair brained a james was saying why would they move out of the cities into the country clearly there's no consensus of the talks in tehran can an offensive now be avoided politically. i think it's very difficult i think you know if you look at it if you break it down you have russia and iran basically saying that the syrian government will be taking back the province whatever happens and you have the turks saying well you know we're going to have to figure out a better way to do that rather than a military offensive but the problem is this stage it is that over the years under these reconciliation deals those rebels who didn't want to be part of the art of living under the government were sent to live and it was a let's say a so-called problem that the government was going to deal with later well we're at that stage now so turkey has the difficult task of talking to all these groups particularly those deemed as extremists as terrorists the group called hired to hedo sham formerly known as nusra seen as being linked to al qaeda while that has a lo

u.n. special envoy to syria says the situation and it's set up for what he calls a perfect storm staffan de mistura told the u.n. security council the expected military offensive against rebels in the province will be a horrific battle and it's warning of the biggest humanitarian tragedy at the end of the most horrible recent conflict in our memory came out turkey's president is warning of a bloodbath and serious as well he's been in teheran for a summit with his russian and iranian counterparts have agreed to meet once again in moscow spoke to us some little bit earlier from save the children who says it's working with other aid organizations to prepare for a worst case humanitarians an aria. it makes sense for us first aid organizations to come together to be calling for what we consider will be i mean joe boyd a humanitarian catastrophe and it lead because we asked aid agencies extremely stretched we're talking about three million people in. how much of them over half of them have already been displaced from other parts of syria living in the area in. syria which has the highest the high

u.n. special envoy to yemen telling us what went wrong. of course there in geneva the government delegation will leave that swiss city after rebel who see representatives didn't fly into the talks because of safety concerns who say they didn't have an aircraft or permission from the u.s. and saudi governments to leave the country the turkish president. says he may intervene of the expected syrian government offensive in italy it causes major bloodshed mr tweeted saying he would courts need to watch from the sidelines more participate in. such a game if the world turned a blind eye to killing trilateral talks in tehran with iran and russia on friday but the other one said any military offensive to retake the last remaining rebel held province could result in a humanitarian disaster iran's minister for foreign affairs has some of the iraqi ambassador to protestors in the southern iraqi city of basra attacked the iranian consulate there a week of violent demonstrations are seen several big buildings being set on fire at least twelve people ha

u.n. special general kofi annan and his home country ghana. passed away last month at the age of eighteen and the berries and a private ceremony a few hours from now. across from that awkward address is in the acro where that funeral is being held so it's like quite a large affair there with plenty of dignitaries in attendance. absolutely laura lots of dignitaries presidents a diplomats from around the world including the current u.n. secretary general mr and tony were terrorists we have presidents heads of states prime ministers those who cannot come are sending delegations from across the world from europe from asia from africa itself and of course the reception here is that of the mood here is that if some member agree. in fact kofi annan is being celebrated more than being mourned here in ghana because of his numerous

u.n. special envoy to yemen offers hope after another round of talks to end the war fails to take off. again i'm peter dhabi you're watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up a death sentence confirm for seventy five people a leading preacher among them over twenty thirteen sitting in the egyptian capital plus. iran's summons iraq's ambassador consulates is set on fire during protests in the southern city of basra also ahead. i'm joined now in sweden a country anticipating its most important election in new years a battle over values and identity with the rise of the far right. our top story the latest attempt to search for an end to the war in yemen has failed to take off the official government delegation is leaving the swiss city of geneva after waiting two days for the hoofy rebel representatives to join the u.n. brokered talks the goofy say they didn't fly to switzerland because of concerns about their safety they didn't have an aircraft or permission from the u.s. and saudi governments to leave yemen but the u.n. special envoy says he still remaining hopeful we're going to

u.n. special envoy so. lawson greste it's holding a news conference so let's just take a listen to what's talking to sources and we would then open the floor to a few questions. we apologize in advance we think it has to leave at five so we'll have in ten twenty five minutes for the remarks and for your questions mr griffith you have the floor thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you very much for coming and sorry slightly late. it's been a busy day. to make this first short statement and then as always our says i'm happy to announce some questions since my appointment it's been a race against time to face the complexity and surgeon see of the situation which affects as you know millions millions of yemenis i've been listening to given a reason leaders of opinion for the last seven months and i've had already discussed this with diplomats civil society women's groups members of the international community and political and social leaders revery out of human society and my abiding impression from there is

u.n. special envoy. airport and his hopes for new progress. the leaders of germany and turkey meet again but will the visit be enough to bridge their divide. i've never sexually assaulted anyone not high school not college not ever donald trump supreme court nominee vigorously defend himself before u.s. senators after his accuser stands by her accusations. palestine tells the u.n. general assembly the u.s. is no longer an honest broker in the middle east peace process. and we begin this news hour with a possible breakthrough in the yemen conflict the u.n. special envoy says he hopes to get the main international airport in the capital sana'a reopened the civil war there has left to close for more than two years in an exclusive interview with martin griffiths said he also wanted peace talks between the who these and the government to get under way after attempts earlier this month failed it's going to be within weeks i don't think we can allow it to be delayed until kind of over the horizon because the problem with that is and i've been reassur

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u.n. special envoy for syria stephan de mistura says that over ten thousand al qaeda linked fighters are in the area for a long time the usa has promised that it will separate the moderate opposition from the designated terrorist groups but this separation just hasn't happened and at this point it seems like u.s. officials are focused on raising the alarm about the syrian government's efforts to retake rebel held territories. syria must not drink with lid type it would prob and in fact the top administration has already made it clear that if indeed there is a chemical attack they already know who did it if there are chemical weapons that are used we know exactly who's going to use them john bolton trumps national security advisor says that the idea that anybody even the syrian government might use chemical weapons is just crazy. so apparently al-qaeda brought down the twin towers but they're just not evil enough to release some chlorine gas now the u.n. special envoy disagree is and says that the terrorists are very capable of conducting chemical attacks the government on one hand and most

u.n. special envoy g.m. says he's confident it will go ahead as planned. at this hour journey even before the start of the geneva talks to who claim they have the right to control and govern yemen their claim is rotten and puts pressure on the international community to deal with them what kind of peace can we have to start your group that does not believe in the rights of other people now curfews being imposed across iraq the city of basra in an effort to quell protests the authorities say people should not be on the streets after three pm local time within the last forty eight hours protests which have been ongoing since july of escalated a government building was torched and a major port nearby was forced to shut down at least nine protesters have been killed in confrontations with security forces since to say they're demanding jobs and better public services we can now speak to ride for me who is aligned with the influential share clerical. is a member of parliament for the iraqi communist party and he's joining us now live from baghdad thank you for t

u.n. special envoys yemen hopes the main international airport and the capsules close by the civil war for more than two years could soon reopen an exclusive interview with alex's or without zehra mohsin griffiths said he also wanted peace talks between the who thinks and the government to get under way. this month failed. it's going to be within weeks i don't think we can allow it to be delayed until kind of over the horizon because the problem with that is and i've been reassured this week reaching people here in new york that people lose the narrative of peace and once you lose the opportunity to talk about the settlement the narrative of war becomes dominance and that's what we must try to get away from i want to make an announcement about the opening of sauna airport if i can finalize that i want to make announcements about how we can get prisoners released both sides we made a lot of progress since geneva and i want to work the central bank of yemen and their counterparts in sana our own payment of salaries which is crucial by the way for the humanitarian issues well even as griffith

u.n. special envoy martin griffiths refuses to give up but he's hopeful that new talks could not take place of zeros but at smith reports. so yemen's foreign minister khalid money says his government is prepared to recognize the who is this as a political movement through a democratic process he says but what his government is not prepared to accept is the who thinks becoming the yemeni equivalent of a lebanese group hezbollah hezbollah is a heavily armed rainin backed group in lebanon and it holds considerable influence over political life in lebanon and you know and they're going to frequent with a show of the yemeni government made many concessions during the consultations include wait but there are a red line that cannot be crossed like not allowing in yemen what is happening in lebanon where a party like hezbollah creates hurdles in the political process now loom can and the government could accept the hooty this is a political movement within the political community in the country through a democratic process that reflects their true size and the foreign minister he's tweeted analog a

u.n. special envoy now what they're saying and they've published a picture of lease ground they signing a document which they who things say amounts to a memorandum of understanding they say the hoot is that they have gotten agreement to transport a number of injured people to amman over a period of six months for treatment for serious injuries on the battlefield the syrian government says it's intercepted israeli missiles fired at the mascot's airport state t.v. ad this video claiming to show air defenses at work israel has neither confirmed nor denied the report it says it carried out more than two hundred attacks though against iranian targets in syria in the last two years in the philippines at least twelve people have been killed by this year's most powerful typhoon mangle it has weakened slightly after it made landfall on the largest island of luzon in the early hours of saturday it's left a trail of destruction in the northern ca guyin province jimmy duggan is there. a food bank arrived just as predicted this is what its force pounding over most of northern luzon the early hours sa

u.n. special envoys plan to reopen san i have point and his hopes for new progress. train line train links between baghdad and fallujah restocked after four years in iraq. and later in sport team usa make a strong stop to the defense of their ride a compound the latest in the program. a palestinian president mahmoud abbas has the u.s. to reverse its decisions to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and the ending of funding to honor war in contrast the israeli prime minister used his speech to target iran he's accusing it of maintaining a nuclear weapons facility which iran has rejected to kinetic and to change space reforms. when the israeli prime minister. to the u.n. there was one thing he hardly talked about the palestinians he instead focused on iran claiming israel had discovered a new nuclear storage facility in tehran he then went on to boast about the strength of his relationship with the trumpet ministration so i want to use this opportunity to express israel's appreciation to president trump and ambassador here really for the unwavering support they pro

u.n. special envoy to yemen says he hopes airport will reopen next week martin griffiths made the remarks late on thursday meanwhile the government of. says it won't allow the u.n. mission to continue investigating human rights violations of the country it's accused the u.n. of bias after a report issued on alleged war crimes the conflict in yemen escalated in twenty fifteen when the saudi led coalition started backing the government and launched airstrikes against the hope these. well those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us faultlines is coming up next thank you very much for watching. twenty five years dr the thought of zero world tells the behind the scenes story of norway's rule the oslo accords they wanted to have what they froze in the ability and reveals how secret negotiations were skewed. misread is everything. and why they're still here to deliver on so much that was promised the price of all is low zero. for her. and the present one broke from somebody a. german robe or bureau. of the most. dollars in new york. brokers. so me oh you mean. there's a. little. i mean

u.n. special envoy for yemen is still holding out hope that these consultations talks can start but he doesn't know exactly when it could be saturday it could be sunday it could even be monday but you still holding out hope the question is exactly how long can the yemen government delegation sitting on their own here at this hotel in geneva how long can they actually wait when will their patience run out still on the ground in sun other yemeni capital is the who cheat rebel delegation there demanding the chance to put injured fighters on that plane for treatment in the amman the capital of moscow's but the yemeni government spokesman here told me this is not only the injured fighters they're trying to get on that plane let's hear what he said they said yesterday they want to. jets from yemen we have information from our side from there from santa those are not injuries they are a group of iranian and a group of hezbollah experts who were. ballastic missiles program that has been fired and they are training who theodahad they have been training for the for the last three days years it's been de

u.n. special envoy spent the morning in talks with the yemeni government delegation at their hotel in geneva but the rebel delegation still on the ground in yemen we are here to put something to the end of their yemeni suffering and but who are these proves that they don't want peace they don't believe in peace the u.n. special envoy for the amman here in geneva is still trying to square all these very difficult diplomatic circles but he does hope still that there is a chance for these peace consultations to go ahead but it's not known how long the patients of either who tease all the government will last. a tweet from the leader of the peace delegation mohammed abdulsalam in the yemeni capital of sana'a didn't simplify the problems the hooty delegation does not have an airplane so it cannot get authorized by the saudi alliance which also needs a u.s. authorization the united nations has asked for our participation in the geneva consultations the u.n. must address the americans and the british and deal with that hundreds of yemenis were back on the streets for the fourth successive day to de

u.n. special envoy to syria has been holding talks with representatives from turkey russia and iran. brazil's general former president louis ignacio the silver has been replaced as the workers' party candidate for next month's presidential election the former mayor of san paolo her dad will take over lula's says that he'll continue legal efforts to get on the ballot paper. and leaders from asian countries are in vietnam for world economic forum talks tension in the south china sea and the growing u.s. china trade war that used to top the agenda in hanoi. china's president xi jinping has met his russian counterpart vladimir putin in flooded vos talk that the eastern economic forum the three day summit is bringing together the leaders of russia china japan and south korea five thousand delegates in total from sixty countries are expected worries chalons is in flood of all stock. with the slight awkwardness of two leaders who probably don't spend much time in the kitchen sheeting paying hands bloody made through tin conducted some pancake diplomacy and blood of all stock the chinese pre

u.n. special envoy says he does remain hopeful we going to. take up the issues that we will have discussed here this is what i mean by we have begun this is what i mean by we have begun. it's too early for me to say when the next round of consultations will take place or will be held that's obviously going to be high on the agenda to so that we don't go through a repeat of this week and i think it's important to note that. answer also wanted to be disappointed not to be it's important to make that point very clear. we have had extensive discussions with their representatives. and did must got this past week and i've no doubt about that whatever you may think and they're very keen to take this process forward and so is the international community who are who are remarkably united anderson's has been covering the conflict in yemen he's monitoring things from neighboring djibouti will speak to him in a moment but first to david chase the engineer where the talks were supposed to take place david you've been speaking to a member of the yemen gover

u.n. special envoy to syria has been holding talks with representatives from turkey russia and iran. brazil's jailed for president lula da silva has been replaced as the workers' party candidate for next month's presidential election reform of sao paolo fernando how dad will take over says that he'll continue legal efforts to get on to the ballot paper. china's president xi jinping and his russian counterpart vladimir putin about to work together to ensure world peace and stability at a meeting in the russian city of lot of also talk a three day summit is bringing together leaders of russia china japan and south korea. china's vice premier has told amazing of asian leaders in vietnam that the united states policy of protectionism must be category. rejected the growing u.s. china trade war i am tension in the south china sea a top of the agenda at the world economic forum talks in hanoi event will also look at how the growing workforce around asia can compete as automation artificial intelligence develop around a thousand people are attending out of serious way today is to he joins us

u.n. special envoy for yemen martin griffin has just traveled throughout the gulf to set the stage for the next push for the u.n. peace talks we have also seen that the who things have said that they have been denied access to traveling to geneva for the peace talks and the saudis for their part have accused the who these of not showing up so there is a gap there between the two narratives yet you say there's a lot of pressure on these western governments to perhaps review their support for the sandy led coalition but it doesn't seem to have had any effect i mean with spain today of reversing this decision to stop this arms deal with saudi arabia what's the best way to you as you to influence these western governments the u.s. and others to perhaps influence them more in telling the saudi led coalition to reduce the number of civilian casualties in yemen what actions should they take. well what we are seeing is we're seeing concerted actions so for instance when the united states secretary of defense declared last week u.s. support for de war in yemen even though it's minimal is on conditi

u.n. special envoy for yemen says he's pushing for warring parties to return to the. an exclusive interview to observe it says among other priorities is also the reopening of santa and national airport to commercial access it's going to be within weeks i don't think we can allow it to be delayed until kind of over the horizon because the problem with that is and i've been reassured this week reaching people here in new york that people lose the narrative of peace and once you lose the opportunity to talk about a settlement the narrative of war becomes dominant and that's what we must try to get away from. u.s. centers have testimonies for nearly nine hours from donald trump supreme court nominee and the woman who's accused him of sexual assault when they were teenagers christine daisy ford says she's one hundred percent certain but cavanagh assaulted her allegations he strongly denies republicans say the committee will now vote on cavanagh's face later on friday i believe he was going to rape me i tried to yell for help when i did brett put his hand over my mouth stop

u.n. special envoy they say there who says that they have gotten an agreement to transport a number of injured people to amman over a period of six months for treatment for serious injuries on the battlefield the syrian government says it's intercepted israeli missiles fired at damascus airport state t.v. and this video apparently showing air defenses at work israel has not a confirm nor deny the report that this year's most powerful typhoon has killed at least twelve people in the philippines eighty seven thousand people were evacuated from high risk zones typhoon manhood what we can slightly after made landfall on the largest island of luzon in the early hours of saturday the storm is now headed toward southern china. hong kong's government says the storm poses a severe threat to the territory people have been stocking up on food and supplies regional airline cathay pacific has want travelers to expect up to four hundred cancellations over the next three days in the u.s. the marines the coast guard and volunteers are rescuing scores of people trapped after tropical storm florence slammed int

u.n. special envoy to syria stuff on the debate to the steerer has been holding talks with representatives from turkey russia and iran on diplomatic editor james pays reports now from u.n. headquarters in new york. these were the strongest comments yet by the secretary general on the situation in he warned that if there was an all out assault it would be the worst thing to happen in the syrian war which is already lost it more than seven years easily because the last so-called the escalation. it must not be transformed in to a bloodbath would an all out offensive on place which has such a large civilian population in your view amount to a war crime and i think what is important at the present moment is not to classify what was not yet kept and is to make sure that it doesn't happen which means it is important that those specially the city get into the us then the process find a way in which it is possible to isolate terrorist groups and it is possible to create a situation in which civilians will not be the price paid to solve the problem of it the secretary general spoke just hours after

u.n. special envoy on the one hand and syria. is to russia and iran and on the other hand and he's trying to dissuade. the russians and the iranians to stop the offensive but i think that's a huge tonic for sighed the feeling among so many. workers and the many caring she said that this. it's adult to come. ok journalist young india temperament joining us tonight from geneva with the latest on that warning of an offensive in the province don thank you many thanks. well both of sweden's main political blocs failed to secure a majority in sunday's general election the country's far right it recorded major gains the ruling center left social democrats and their allies took forty point six percent of the vote just more than the center right alliance which managed forty point three percent the populist sweden democrats that's the party that has ties to the neo nazi movement it surged into third place taking seventeen point six percent the far right party hopes to become kingmaker in any ruling coalition though both centrist blocs have

u.n. special envoy for syria has proposed a plan for extremist rebel fighters to withdraw from syria's edley province to avert what he called a bloodbath it live as the country's last stronghold of the government resistance president assad is the i thought to be preparing to launch a major offensive stuff and de mistura presented the proposal at a meeting of the un security council. meanwhile is a separate meeting to decide it libs fate iran russia turkey have been unable to overcome their differences iranian leader hassan rouhani hosted russian president vladimir putin and turkish president ventured type one in tehran turkey push for a cease fire which was rejected by russia and iran raising fears of an imminent offensive the three countries did however agree to keep talking aid agencies say an offensive against it leave could be the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in syria's a seventy year war if that catastrophe materialize president heard one said his country would not be able to help. turkey right now is hosting three point five million syrian refugees lib's population is three point

u.n. special envoy to syria said in terms of real politic they realize that plans could be overturned by the escalating conflict. but that no political process should be held hostage by anything aid organizations say in recent days three hospitals have been attacked one of them twice they're calling for human observers to be based in the province when there is a storm i would be told sick by the war stay in the payson and do this to survive in the case of it's not even a storm there is no guidance there is no instructions you never know what to do as a civilian this secretly film footage was taken after the fall of eastern ghouta earlier this year and shows young men who surrendered to the government being led in chains through the streets of damascus it's believed they were then conscripted into the army this digital artwork of life in rebel controlled territory in syria is going on display at the headquarters of the union of medical care in geneva it conveys the suffocating isolation of being under attack but nothing can convey the sheer scale of the suffering to come if the assault contin

u.n. special envoy to yemen mr griffiths says he'll meet soon with representatives in oman and then he hopes son are bought and initial report coming to us out of geneva says some medical evacuations have been approved yemen's foreign minister accused the use the movement of trying to sabotage negotiations if you couldn't be mad about. each time these talks face the wall of irresponsibility by these coup plotters these groups who are exploiting the international efforts of the yemeni government to reach peace they are being totally irresponsible the special envoy was unfortunately accommodating the coup plotters and giving them excuses the statements of mr martin griffiths with us and other partners had expressed his dissatisfaction with their unjustified position i feel i need to thank the government delegation for its work despite the many many provocations the turkish president says he may intervene if the expected syrian government offensive in. it causes major bloodshed wretch up to one tweet seats he would need to watch from the sidelines nor participate in such a game if the world tur

u.n. special envoy staffan de mistura called the situation a perfect storm saying a battle for it could be quote or a fake and bloody. all meanwhile a summit on the fate of it has ended without agreement with the leaders of iran russia and turkey saying that this continues to look for a situation that looks for resolution this it says the joint statement came after talks in tehran where the iranian leader hassan rouhani hosted russian president vladimir putin and turkish president. the three said they would consider ways for displaced people to return to their homes elsewhere in syria. aid agencies say an offensive against this province could be quote the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in syria's seventy year old war this is what turkey's president had to say. to you a lot of turkey right now is hosting three point five million syrian refugees it lives population is three point five million people now turkey does not have the resources or power to host a further three point five million people. ok to abuse a turkey correspondent yulia han standing by for us in istanbul yulia we heard ea

u.n. special envoy to syria said in terms of real politics they realize that plans could be overturned by the escalating conflict in it but that no political process should be held hostage by anything aid organizations say in recent days three hospitals have been attacked one of them twice they're calling for human observers to be based in the province when there is a storm i would be told sick by the war stay in the payson and do this to survive in the case of it's not even a storm there is no guidance there is no instructions you never know what to do as a civilian this secretly film footage was taken after the fall of eastern ghouta earlier this year and shows young men who surrendered to the government being led in chains through the streets of damascus it's believed they were then conscripted into the army this digital artwork of life in rebel controlled territory in syria is going on display at the headquarters of the union of medical care in geneva it conveys the suffocating isolation of being under attack but nothing can convey the sheer scale of the suffering to come if the assau

u.n. special envoy who says that he will travel back to game and to try to persuade them to attend these talks with the days. well i think it is it's sort of something i don't want to say bucks for the united nation and boy to go back to moscow. this school to attend to geneva alone they announced that they would attend on the sick this month two days ago and they didn't turn up that means that. i mean to me at least that it is very difficult for him to bring the group to the negotiation and very difficult to achieve a peace agreement in the country this is something i think it is like common point of view between most all the different parties different are not assist in the country or about which it is very difficult to achieve it because the who with these knows that peace agreement in the country will and the military and listen are looking at from the his point of view they say that the reason they didn't attend is because they'd had received no guarantees from from the u.n. from the u.s. and from saudi arabia that they would be allowed safe return to yemen once the talks were of. ok well

u.n. special envoy for syria has called on the russian and turkish presidents to solve the looming crisis. well i would like to take the liberty frankly myself to address myself if you allow me to through you. to president putin. and to president ok you have been there once at the beginning and i know because i was very much within the thing what happened at the end of the siege and the fighting of aleppo you were the ones who actually were able to talk to each other make a telephone call organize a formula that allowed the end of that horrible period not to be the worth of a telephone call between the two of you would make a big difference or the u.s. has warned that it will not tolerate the use of chemical weapons in italy province our diplomatic editor james bass what more for the united nations the u.s. has just assumed the monthly rotating presidency of the u.n. security council ambassador nikki haley has tweeted about the situation in the ad lib as has president trump both said they don't want there to be an all out assault but listen very carefully to her words when i asked her abou

u.n. special envoy for syria and i'm a story let's just take a quick listen to what here at the say on this incident. we call upon all parties especially when we're getting these type of positive given you regarding what could have been a dramatic military escalation to refrain from military action of those who are there would only be in the read the complex situation it's a pretty neutral broad statement isn't it to avoid any sort of escalation or further violence something to be expected from an official from the united nations but he does ask everyone to avoid military actions do you think that's going to stop israel continually targeting syria a sovereign state without having the u.n. mandate. well israel has never showed much respect for the un mandate so you and yours aleutians if you look at the there is allusions words for later to palestine for example all settlement activity as long as the israelis have american cover i think that this isn't going to stop however you have to refer to the same time that this time you know israel is risking an escalation with russia you know russia

u.n. special envoy for syria has called on the russian and turkish presidents to solve the looming crisis i would like to take the liberty frankly might serve to address myself if you're low on me to through you to president putin and to pollutant. you have been there once at the beginning and i know because the war very much ado with nothing what happened at the end of defeats and the faking of a liberal you were the ones who actually were able to talk to each other make a political call organize a formula that loved the end of that horrible period not to be do worth. a telephone call between the two of you would make a big difference or the u.s. has warned that it will not tolerate the use of chemical weapons in a province our diplomatic at the james base has more from the united nations the us has just assumed the monthly rotating presidency of the un security council ambassador nikki haley has tweeted about the situation in the ad lib as has president trump both said they don't want there to be an all out assault but listen very carefully to her words when i asked her about the situat

u.n. special envoy is attempting to try to calm down the fighting to try and really get some. sort of dialogue going having failed to get the sides together in geneva he's traveling to amman and on from there he hopes and from there to riyadh but this is a desperate situation he has a lot on his hands to try to calm this down. between the. two men. in the u.k. . ians he made the remarks at the eastern economic forum in vladivostok last week the british prime minister trees amaze said the suspects were members of the russian military intelligence service u.k. prosecutors issued a european warrant for their arrest russia denies it was behind the nerve agent attack in saul's free in march rory chalons has more from the conference in vladivostok. a big change in tact from him about the script now up until this point the russian government's or thorazine in the form of the foreign ministry has basically said that the identities of these two suspects are completely unknown to them well putin change that in light of all stock he said yes we've found them we know who they are they are

u.n. special envoy stefan de mistura calling for you know the rebels to leave the cities well that seems very unlikely this is why turkey is talking to the rebels to try and get them to distance themselves between the sort of more radicals and the moderates it is very very complicated indeed and of course we know by certainty that damascus is keen is determined to take back. and the russians and iranian support them in doing so and turkey is still doing everything it can to try the political route to try and stop that stephanie decker reporting from taqiyya thank you. in other news iraq's parliament is still in emergency session into saturday night as it tries to work out how to contain protests in the city of basra another curfew is now in place there have been weeks of protests over failing government services unemployment and corruption is all spiraled into a violent few days several major buildings set ablaze on friday that included the iranian consulate earlier in the wake of state t.v. building was also burned and at least twelve people have died during all of these demonstrations that.

u.n. special envoy to syria has said in the last hour that there is hope for the revival of the process two words a political solution to the conflict. i will goal is consistent with twenty to fifty four people some people think we have forgotten is there and the sochi final statement is to facilitate the establishment of a inclusive syrian led fifty m. own constitutional committee. people includes many issues but we have reached it boring to you too many circumstances. can be and should be reported for what we call. another news the taliban in afghanistan has announced the death of commander carney he fell under the hood conning network responsible for decades of suicide bomb attacks and hostage taking. and yemen thousands of people have demonstrated in the city of tires on monday demanding the local authorities take control of security protesters gave their support to the army and police units in their fight against the u.a.e. backed battalions of. us. reports and spanish media suggest the government will cancel a delivery of four hundred bombs to saudi arabia this is amid fears that they

u.n. special envoy can possibly get traction again for any form of peace talks or talks about talks involving diplomats and the fighters he is shy jeweled to be in amman and moving on from there hopefully he thinks to sana'a and from there to riyadh but as he knows the chances of getting a breakthrough seem quite limited. u.s. president donald trump has signed an executive order authorizing sanctions against foreign people or countries who meddle in the u.s. elections the trumpet ministration has faced months of criticism for not doing enough to prevent foreign interference in future american elections last month u.s. intelligence agencies warn that russia in particular is trying to influence and disrupt november's congressional mid-term elections. or russian president vladimir putin is encouraging two men accused of poisoning a former double agent in the u.k. to come forward the appeal came after putin admitted for the first time that the two suspects are russian civilians the kremlin has repeatedly denied links to the march attack in seoul's very against his daughter yulia britain's prime m

u.n. special envoy to syria staffan de mistura has been holding talks with representatives from turkey russia and iran russia's u.n. ambassador insists any offensive would be aimed at ending what he called terrorism and he says the syrian government has no intention of using chemical weapons yacob . allegedly president assad ought to be use of chlorine the syrian authorities have no intention of doing this they do not have chemical weapons once again we ask you to hear it when we're saying that the use of chemical weapons by damascus from a military viewpoint cannot be justified more than five point four million people have been issued storm warnings on the u.s. east coast as hurricane florence builds in the atlantic one and a half million have been ordered to leave their homes expected to be the worst storm in thirty years it's likely to make landfall in north or south carolina in the next forty eight hours. the number of people killed in tuesday's suicide bomb attack in afghanistan has risen to sixty eight more than one hundred others were injured in the blast near jalalabad the capital of

ok stuff indeed mr a special envoy to syria he was speaking from geneva there addressing the u.n. security council in new york and essentially and that she wanted we bring in james bias right away our diplomatic editor who was listening to that as well essentially james he said i've got a plan and stay with me on this it's about separating the terrorists from the civilians can you sort of talk through what he told us. yeah first thing to tell you is that he first wanted to present this in private to the security council away from the cameras that was his first suggestion at the beginning of the security council meeting the u.s. ambassadors taking an unusual step during her month presidency that all meeting should be in public and she said we're having all the meetings in public and mr de mistura said yes ok i'll present my plan in public and that's what you've just heard the plan he says is not his own plan he says it comes from citizens in a lip and the idea yes is to separate what he says is what he calls terrorists which is the fighters of the struggle from the civilians and th

u.n. special envoy for syria has called for calm. and game. has been stating that israeli jets struck a government facility near latakia russia has blamed israel for this even stated that israeli jets were targeting weapons shipments headed for lebanon that israeli security and it blamed the syrian government for the incident well we call upon all parties especially when we are getting this type of positive news regarding what could have been a dramatic military escalation to reframe from military actions elsewhere there would only exacerbate an already complex situation the north korean leader kim jong says he wants to produce a big outcome during three days of talks with south korean president and this is the first time a south korean leader has traveled to the north in more than a decade kim jong treated moon giant to a special concert after spending the day talking about north korea's nuclear program. china has announced a tariff i can sixty billion dollars worth of u.s. products that followed washington's imposition of increased uses on t

u.n. special envoy to yemen says he's hopeful the airport and sana'a will reopen next week martin griffiths made the remarks late on thursday meanwhile the government would rather months or harveys he won't allow the united nations mission to continue investigating human rights violations in the country he's accused the u.n. of bias after a pause he issued on alleged war crimes it says the u.n. turned a blind eye to who three rebel violations in its latest document. a person in prison says the u.s. is no longer an independent mediator in the middle east peace process with abbas use his address the u.n. general assembly to launch a strong attack on the on the u.s. and israel is very prime minister benjamin netanyahu focused his speech on iran china has accused the us president donald trump of slander after he said beijing was trying to meddle in the upcoming u.s. congressional elections trump told the u.n. security council this week that china was interfering because of his tough stance on trains. tesla c.e.o. elon musk has been charged with fraud he's accused of misleading investors with a

u.n. special envoy disagrees and says that the terrorists are very capable of conducting chemical attacks the government on one hand and. which is an organization reached by the council. already having deep would be team to produce weaponized chlorine it quickly stopped being a war about democracy let's put it that way so. there is no distinction and i think the united states news knows this it didn't matter to the united states who won so long as assad some social media to push an anti assad agenda we knew that syrian society was growing increasingly young and digits and that this was going to create disruptions in society that we could harness for all purposes that idea is proven to be so effective it's being used now i have an image offensive on it led by the syrian army i know my name in the poem and there's one from syria and my message delivered into that song today i think athenians oh it was just so nice to see my friends the minute they play seven and then you have hundreds of thousands of has a nice. name bisley. i thought i would have thought things out a bit into a duck or not

u.n. special envoy remains hopeful of future negotiations. we going to moscow to take up the issues that we will have discussed here this is what i mean by we have begun this is what i mean by we have begun. it's too early for me to say when the next round of consultations will take place or will be held that's obviously going to be high on the agenda it was so that we don't go through a repeat of this week and i think it's important to note that. and also wanted to be here they're disappointed not to be here and it's important to make that point very clear. we have had extensive discussions with their representatives . and it must got this past week and i've no doubt about that whatever you may think and they're very keen to take this process forward and so is the international community who are who are remarkably united. in. each time these talks by so with all of our responsibility by these coup plotters these groups who are exploiting the international efforts of the yemeni government to reach peace they are being totally irresponsible th

u.n. special envoy to syria said in terms of real politics they realize that plans could be overturned by the escalating conflict. but that no political process should be held hostage by anything aid organizations say in recent days three hospitals have been attacked one of them twice they're calling for human observers to be based in the province when there is a storm i would be told sick by the war stay in the payson and do this to survive in the case of it's not even a storm there is no there is no instructions you never know what to do as a civilian this secretly film footage was taken after the fall of eastern ghouta earlier this year and shows young men who surrendered to the government being led in chains through the streets of damascus it's believed they were then conscripted into the army this digital artwork of life in rebel controlled territory in syria is going on display at the headquarters of the union of medical care in geneva it conveys the suffocating isolation of being under attack but nothing can convey the sheer scale of the suffering to come if the assault continues d

u.n. special envoy disagree is and says that the terrorists are very capable of conducting chemical attacks the government on one hand and most of them which is an organization that the irish by the figure council. are having deep i believe claim to produce weaponized chlorine it quickly stopped being a war about. democracy let's put it that way so. this there is no distinction and i think the united states news knows this it didn't matter to the united states who won so long as assad lost the americans are looking for a way to let's stop the syrian and russian advance on it and prevent this conflict from being over the syrian government will. will be the responsible for chemical. regardless of who does them this isn't the first time that u.s. foreign policy has exact when it comes to al qaeda back in the one nine hundred eighty s. they called osama bin ladin a freedom fighter when he was battling against the democratic republic of afghanistan cia gave him guns and u.s. media cheered him on it seems now u.s. foreign policy regarding the al qaeda terrorists has gone full circle. art see new