year every day and it has to be done by everybody by governments by community organizations by the u.n. system. and by individual men and women and boys and girls and how we live our lives. the only hospital and account for thousands of dollars who sought refuge in mauritania is set to close in a few weeks doctors without borders is planning is pulling out as planned to after six years but without a confirmed replacement refugees fear they'll lose vital services that are keeping people safe my on a hunger for. a simple building providing the most basic of health care it's part of the operation run by doctors without borders all remain safe and the embedded camp home to fifty seven thousand refugees that includes the only hospital but that will close down in a few weeks in a safe is pulling out saying it's time to hand the job to another. we have been in them barrack him for six years and now that we've met the urgent needs of the people the situation is stabilizing we've always said we'd leave in september twentieth we extended that to the end of this year to give the people time to find an al

pointed by the un human rights council which is pretty much the highest human rights body within the u.n. system and i am appointed as a kind of global watchdog at least that's how the media presents me and my job is to monitor and assess how people are doing with respect to their right to housing in countries around the world so it's a global mandate and i look at things like homelessness the adequacy of housing the affordability of housing forced evictions those sorts of things my job is also to kind of develop the right to housing to some degree to right thematic reports to help states understand what does the right to housing actually mean and how can it be implemented in a practical way. i also try to hold states accountable to their human rights obligations not an easy task but certainly a really important one and in this day and age let's start with the basics you talk about the right to housing where is it written down that everyone has a right to housing yet so it's in the universal declaration of human rights for example article twenty six everyone has the right to an adequate standard

treaty the iran deal we've seen various on happiness going forward with different parts of the u.n. system that they may end up removing so much of their involvement with the international community that the north's a full player of the united nations and on that point i think the next big battle is going to be over the un's budget and if the u.s. doesn't pay its share of the u.n. then the whole international system is in some considerable trouble james thanks very much james diplomatic editor there as the assembled presidents and prime ministers and the german chancellor of course angela merkel there serenaded by rebels bolero first performed in paris opera november nineteen twenty eight we'll get you more on those commemorative events a little later i'm sure here on. other events and stories of course being played out in paris the white house says mr trump and his turkish counterpart mr erdogan held discussions on how to respond to the killing of jamal khashoggi turkey's president has previously said an operation . killed a journalist was ordered in saudi arabia at quote the highest leve

security council has that power the human rights council has that power and i and colleagues in the u.n. system had been calling exactly for that in independent international investigation into the circumstances of jamal khashoggi his death and the united nations has dedicated november the second as a day to end impunity for crimes against journalists how much has the killing made this day even more significant. well that's a very good point so today is a day that annually the united nations and individuals around the world recognize that crimes against journalists almost as a matter of course go unpunished and that's true not only for the killing of jamal khashoggi but for dozens of journalists around the world who have been killed over the last several years i think the situation that we see with jamal khashoggi murder is that this is a situation where turkey evidently has evidence of his murder and it is at least apparently investigating the crime seeking the participation of the saudis but from from all appearances it certainly seems as if this is not a full and independent investigation an

year every day and it has to be done by everybody by governments by community organizations by the u.n. system and by individual men and women and boys and girls in how we live our lives . police shooting has sparked protests in the u.s. state of alabama crowds gathered outside the mall near birmingham after police said method that shot the wrong man there on thursday night twenty one year old was killed by an officer responding to another shooting at the mall they now say the victim wasn't the gunman the suspect remains on the loose. as taking through some of the headlines here and al-jazeera now french president emanuel micrometers condemned violent protests been demonstrating against rising fuel prices the so-called yellow vests protest began last weekend at the since bread across the country bruno is a university researcher in paris he says anger has been brewing over the president's failure to deliver on promises. french people consider and many people consider that they have too many tax when at the same time the public. expenditure goes don't people don't want to read why do they pay so

human rights council which has pretty much the highest human rights body within the u.n. system and i am appointed as a kind of global watchdog. how the media presents me and my job is to monitor and assess how people are doing with respect to their right to housing in countries around the world so it's a global mandate and i look at things like homelessness the adequacy of housing the affordability of housing forced evictions those sorts of things my job is also to kind of develop the right to housing to some degree to write thematic reports to help states understand what does the right to housing actually mean and how can it be implemented in a practical way. i also try to hold states accountable to their human rights obligations not an easy task but certainly a really important one and in this day and age let's start with the basics you talk about the right to housing where is it written down that everyone has a right to housing yet so it's in the universal declaration of human rights for example article twenty six everyone has the right to an adequate standard of living incl

year every day and it has to be done by everybody by governments by community organizations by the u.n. system and by individual men and women and boys and girls in how we live our lives and this is why the work to end violence against women is very much at the heart of the women's work and mandates that we do with our partners because we do know what works to end violence against women the campaigns can help draw attention to the issue but the real work on the ground is where the transformative change will happen and that has to do with implementing awesome policies having access to justice for victims and survivors we need to make sure that women who experience violence have access to essential services whether health legal psychosocial support and most importantly perhaps we have to prevent violence before it starts and this means working with individuals from you know to teach them about respectful relationships and to teach them about gender equality and this is how we will effect the change that is the that and i we've also seen some pretty alarming figures here around female genital mut

human rights council which has pretty much the highest human rights body within the u.n. system and i am appointed as a kind of global watchdog. at least that's how the media presents me and my job is to monitor and assess how people are doing with respect to their right to housing in countries around the world so it's a global mandate and i look at things like homelessness the adequacy of housing the affordability of housing forced evictions those sorts of things my job is also to kind of develop the right to housing to some degree to write thematic reports to help states understand what does the right to housing actually mean and how can it be implemented in a practical way. i also try to hold states accountable to their human rights obligations not an easy task but certainly a really important one and in this day and age let's start with the basics you talk about the right to housing where is it written down that everyone has a right to housing yet so it's in the universal declaration of human rights for example article twenty six everyone has the right to an adequate standar

as a system holding back a recent u.n. draft resolution which could help give some relief to the devastating along the three year long conflict in yemen washington reportedly proposed to perspire the plan until possible talks between the saudi coalition and who think rebels take place in sweden at the beginning of december the draft was initiated by the u.k. and offered to promote a restart to peace talks between those involved in the war in yemen the resolution to we deadline on removing barriers that would prevent humanitarian aid reaching the country and also calls for attacks to stop in all civilian areas or introducing a cease fire of one of the worst hit areas the port city of her data meantime the u.s. secretary of state highlighted washington's positive influence on the crisis in yemen so far. the suffering in yemen grieves me but if the united states of america was not involved in yemen it would be a hell of a lot worse so the arabia says its military operations in yemen are aimed at fighting terrorism but interna

u.n. is backing a whole two weapons delivery system and wish that it's always a good step and will benefit civilians men and women and children who have nothing to do with the war conflicts between her but ultimately saudi arabia receives and have fraction of its weapons from germany needed the us know britain its top supply is say they'll stop selling weapons to riyadh. this is deja vu news live from berlin still ahead on the show guatemala was a volcano a fire erupts for the fifth time this year and thousands who've already lost their homes a lot of once again are forced to flee. and they've escaped geodes but now poverty is forcing desperate desperate syrian refugee families to send their children out to work the u.n. says some one hundred eighty thousand refugee children living in lebanon or forgoing an education to work long hours for as little as two dollars a day no place has a higher concentration of syrian refugees than lebanon's bekaa valley did abuse abraham travel to a un camp there and has been looking at the plight of one family that's shared by many others it is six in the m

u.n. is trying to do is change the system from within and it starts from a constitution and free elections but so far the syrian government is not cooperating all right reporting from us donna thank you. south sudan has been at war for much of its existence and now a report from a u.k. government backed research organization says a network of shell companies in the us israel and uganda helped the country get weapons that's despite a u.n. arms embargo investigators with conflicts armament research found that nearly three million rounds of ammunition delivered to south sudan's army came from. weapons were also sent from two other european union nations and one military aircraft came from the u.s. during the shipping process documents wrongly indicated uganda was the final destination of the arms but once the cargo arrived in uganda the shipment was illegally transported to south sudan and speak to mike lewis in london he's the head of regional operations of conflicts armaments a research thanks very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera talk us through the mechanisms you used first of all to

pointed by the un human rights council which is pretty much the highest human rights body within the u.n. system and i am appointed as a kind of global watchdog at least that's how the media presents me and my job is to monitor and assess how people are doing with respect to their right to housing in countries around the world so it's a global mandate and i look at things like homelessness the adequacy of housing the affordability of housing forced evictions those sorts of things my job is also to kind of develop the right to housing to some degree to right thematic reports to help states understand what does the right to housing actually mean and how can it be implemented in a practical way. i also try to hold states accountable to their human rights obligations not an easy task but certainly a really important one and in this day and age let's start with the basics you talk about the right to housing where is it written down that everyone has a right to housing yet so it's in the universal declaration of human rights for example article twenty six everyone has the right to an adequate standard

try to actually block launder transactions from entering the financial system and it's a massive failure may according to the u.n. despite all the efforts of we're doing today to combat money laundering we're able to capture less than two percent of longer transactions and this is actually one area where wreck tech regel triptych knology where we will to use some of the latest technology including artificial intelligence to actually deal with these regulatory obligations not only more effectively but also more efficiently and actually we're able to foster a i not only to reduce the number of false positives but actually do a better job in tackling one of the biggest issues we have today in brother financial services related to that on really when you talk about ai and really it's almost the same issue and finance i suppose and that's big data we have a guest that comes on pam peck citron we call her the data wrangler and the amount of information out there is just crazy and we talk about you know being hacked and all of our information got going up how does big data play into the financial tech sector not just w

u.n. calls on the international community to protect media professionals and allow them to do their jobs. out of the latest storm system the western med isn't as violent as the last one is producing a lot of rain you get no idea from the amount of cloud that shot by catch or suggest is heavy rain once again he's over it silly but the winds aren't a strong so well the something for you anyway we end up with the rain still persisting over italy for another twenty four hours at least and it runs out for the agency to slovenia again something austria parts of switzerland to the west of it things are rather better is not looking anything like it's cloudy stormy or weds in fact temps in which it could reach eighteen degrees and in london in sunshine in the eleven the warmth of eastern europe has dissipated to some degree of two or twenty one in bucharest not convinced that will last for much longer would typically teens or below elsewhere and yes it's still raining west and it's only come saturday maybe not quite as heavily now that circles having the western med and the extension that means rain in tunisia and algeria seems

u.n. observers having to come in and supervise these elections. what is the systemicorruption, where is that coming from? >> let me give you one more figure in addition to the ones you mention. in the year 2016 to 2017, in california, almost half a million people called for jury cutie said they were not united states dash jury duty say they were not united states citizens. those rolls come from voter registrations. this is massive fraud, democratic secretaries of state who have no interest in purging the roles contribute. in some states like georgia, secretary of state perjing the roles, you have better outcomes despite what the gubernatorial candidate said. what republicans need to do in the next election cycle is be vigilant. people voting who don't have a right to, people signing papers, dilute the vote of every citizen, a fundamental right. i'm an immigration, myself, mark, and to me this one of the most precious rights of our democracy. we need to safeguard it. >> mark: you use the word vigilance, when people try to exercise vij lenls at polling stations and in e

the distribution of kobe taishan quick systems of the of the war parties in the government all that is possible i think the u.n. will go with the old fashioned way they want to have a new constitution then they want to have elections and then they want to have a conciliation and i doubt that this is going to work bring about success immediately but i think stopping the war stopping the fighting the mumbai men and providing humanitarian assistance that's the first power to you then you can discuss and you put it through a single solution ok right now all we have are signals coming through unfortunately we're also hearing that the flooding is playing up again in her day the signal from saudi arabia came in a speech day by king solomon his speech there was the first since the killing of that journalist jamal khashoggi by saudi agents he made no direct mention in his speech of the murder or allegations that it was ordered by saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon also known as m.b.'s this as germany imposes entry bans on eighteen saudi citizens believed to be connected to the shorties killing let's listen to what

hundred of them were intercepted by the iron dome missile defense system one person died and several were injured inside israel and the u.n. secretary general is urging all sides to exercise restraint in what is some of the worst spine and since the two thousand and fourteen war it was triggered after an undercover israeli special forces team killed a hamas commander and several other palestinians inside gaza let's get the latest from there is harry fawcett who is in our west jerusalem bureau harry bring us up to speed for us with the situation this morning ah things calm or not. well i mean in relative terms i suppose somewhat calmer from the very height of this is it went through from yesterday afternoon in say yesterday evening but there has been more violence overnight more israeli air strikes more rockets coming out from gaza as well and just as we were coming to our i got confirmation from our producer inside gaza that the policy health ministry there has concerned another death overnight inside gaza that brings the total to four to five days from the yet of the the popular front for the liberation of palestine and

court system without financial help, if not coming from the u.s. or the u.n., then somewhere? >> well, indeed. and that's one of the things that's been interesting about this sort of short-term very tentative agreement is that there's been no financial request from the mexican government at all so far. what they have said is there's more than 100,000 jobs in these border states that need filling, so these migrants can go towards filling these factory jobs. these fabbctory jobs are nowher near as well paying as american factory jobs but they need the workforce to stabilize the economies of these border states. so they believe this will help do that. but again, this is short term, and if we're looking at 100,000 jobs and more than 100,000 migrants, then those migrants really pile up at the border, then we have another crisis. >> do you see that congress would have to get involved in this process, approving this kind of, you know, possible agreement? >> i think if you make permanent changes in these kinds of laws, the idea of an asylum seeker setting foot in the united states, th

u.n. political process that involves a new constitution and free elections is about curtailing his powers and changing syria's system of government. that is why damascus is resisting the un committee's work and mandate it doesn't want a new charter as we produce something. important and be a political to start a process war in more than forty years for reasons of course for instance we have been using. the so-called asked in a for is about undercutting and sidelining the un but russia can't formalize the syrian government's victory on the ground without the international community that means damascus will have to give up at least some political power for now however it is showing no intention of doing so that when asked in a georgia's opposition party says it doesn't accept the results of wednesday's presidential runoff which saw a former french diplomat elected as the head of state so amazed me is set to be the country's first female president she was born in paris parents fled georgia in one nine hundred twenty one following its an exception by soviet forces there are many was posted to the georgian capital as the

u.n. political process that involves a new constitution and free elections is about curtailing his powers and changing syria system of government. that is why damascus is resisting the un committee's work and mandate it doesn't want. this we produce something. and be. in. the so-called asked in a format is about undercutting and sidelining the un but can't formalize the syrian government's victory on the ground without the international community that means damascus will have to give up at least some political power for now however it is showing no intention of doing so. still ahead on. recognition on the international stage. alor remains financially ready for central and southern china what clad there was over hong kong is drifting out of the way what reserve the himalayan himalayan platters hide doesn't produce any significant rain or indeed snow for these temps you don't ally snow or top twenty in shanghai twenty five in hong kong or want to show us what develops in the west and sichuan hunan that it was easy but there just a good scotching i think lotteries fine and dry picture it is throughout southeast asia

u.n. political process that involves a new constitution and free elections is about curtailing his powers and changing syria system of government. that is why damascus is resisting the un committee's work and mandate it doesn't want a new charter is we produce something constructive or important and be a political to start a process war in in more than forty years for reasons of course for instance we only see. the so-called asked enough for is about undercutting and sidelining the un but russia can't formalize the syrian government's victory on the ground without the international community that means damascus will have to give up at least some political power for now however it is showing no intention of doing so that if. asked in a the us senate is expected to debate next week on whether to and american support for the war in yemen it comes after a majority vote on wednesday to go ahead with the measure and what's been described as a rebuke to the trunk of ministration meanwhile the u.s. humanitarian chief is in the yemeni capital sanaa for three days of talks is calling for a cease fire he's also meeting with

u.n. context this is something that i think european countries and the united states and canada need to get together and discuss because the system we can we started to construct in one nine hundred eighty nine ninety ninety one is no longer working and we're back to a divided europe so we need to look at ways that we can get out of this and that division line i would argue exists not only bits been a russia and western europe but to some extent it's already being built it's been the e.u. and the united states european pronouncements for more security south sodomy for a european army i think they're clearly triggered by the change in the white house but the quick my question to you is whether you think the europeans are still hoping to kind of way donald trump out or should we take them as a real substantive change in the european security pose i don't think the europeans have made a decision on that on what how long or what sort of direction the trumpet ministration is going to continue in and what they want to do with this what what i see from my perspective i participated in some very sharp negotiations with our european allie

u.n.. how is trump trump hader p-1 overnight said hey here's a system of how we stop islamic radical terrorism because it's going back on your societies today in western europe and the united states. look at the improvement we have made in just two years. look at the revocation of the physical caliphate of vices that was done in conjunction. remember since 2014 isis had 8 million people under slavery. they have oil wells that they were taxing people. i that was trump coming together with the muslim world to destroy it. in addition it was the beginning of an alliance of beginning of a partnership and as perfect as it is in that part of the world the airport in israel and the united states and the nations of europe to stop the expeditionary expansion of hezbollah and iran. the third was to assist the arab world in any way understanding just like christianity they had to do it to go through its own enlightenment. and yet trump's smeared every day as an islamophobe and a hater. he is anything but and it's his actions, his actions. look, it's the signal in the noise. he puts it out every day. the n

to desire just what sort of electoral system they'd like to see and is there is the expectation journal or attending the conference right now will be behind that u.n. plan and will be in support of it. well that's the drive that's the ambition that's the key goal of this conference to bring everybody all sides foreign powers and libyan actors in line behind this new u.n. plan they've been a series of u.n. and western led plans over the years since the fall of moammar gadhafi they've all failed the sense of it has been that they've tended to be western led drives to fall forced a position or a solution on the libyans this conference seeks to turn that around and allow the libyans to decide for themselves that the new u.n. plan as i say takes a conference the idea of a national conference to libya next year for the libyans to make their own minds up and the hope is that at least at this point they could rally everyone behind that position and take out of the equation some of the opposing forces inside and outside the country that have been pulling this country in opposite directions right turn a whole thank you search teams are now trying to recover

u.n. planet for seize a national conference early in the year in libya lowing libyans themselves to decide what sort of democracy they want to see a parliamentary or a presidential system to decide on an.

u.n. how does trump get to be called a hater help said here's the system of how we stop the financials or radical islamic terrorrum because it's blowing back on your societies today. in western europe and the united states. and look at the improvement we have made in just two years. look at the eradication of the physical caliphate of eye. in 2014 isis had 8 million people under slavery. they had oil wells, taxing people. that was trump coming together with the muslim world to destroy it. in addition, it was the beginning of an alliance, beginning of a partnership, as imperfect as its is in that part of the world with the arab world ask israel and the united states and the nations ultimatesly of europe to stop the expeditionary expansion of hezbollah in iran. and the third was to assist the arab world in any way in anyway way, understanding they have to do it just like christianity had to do it. to go through it's eneven lightment and yet trump is smeared every day as an islamophobe and hater. he is anything but. and it's his actions, his actions, his actions -- look, the snag and the noi

u.n. and u.s. special envoy and imaging organizers were taken a lead in the international system and also the many, many donors around the world including the u.s. government who have responded with humanitarian aid. unfortunately the aid comes the donations of food and fuel and water and medicine is a sufficient the issue is access. the ports being open at full capacity. last year in november of 2017 does a complete blockade of hodeida port. that was alleviated a little bit but that extent port access is far below pre-2017 levels. that that means in 11 months there's been a decrease in the coalitions that billy to permit ships into the port of hodeida. that's an obvious solution is increased the military capacity of the port come to open the airport, et cetera. those are really the solutions for the mention crisis involves access in addition to the food eight and the other aid itself. congress has focused on three basic responses to this humanitarian tragedy and oversight and engagement and levels of discussion in congress have been really unprecedented. i would argue yemen that the fes one of top

u.n. plan which would foresee a national conference taking place early next year getting the libyans themselves to decide what sort of election they want to see what sort of parliamentary or presidential system they want to see deciding on an electoral law and then moving towards a vote by the middle of next year this is the plan being put forward now will they all rally behind it that's the key question that will determine at least a minimal benchmark of success for this conference the russians and the americans we know have informally said they approve of the plan i imagine with all of the others will fall into line is something that's being discussed pretty much as we speak all right john hall thank you at least forty two people have been killed in california and the worst wildfires in the u.s. state history investigators are searching for human remains after more than six thousand homes were destroyed in the town of paradise on thursday d.n.a. labs are being used to identify victims and firefighters are still trying to contain wildfires that hit both of these states and this is jennifer your clinton has this update from westlake village in los angeles county. some of the evacuees here in

u.n. plan it for seize a national conference early in the year in libya and allowing libyans themselves to decide what sort of democracy they want to see a parliamentary or a presidential system to decide on an electoral law and then a date for a vote aiming for something by june of two thousand and nineteen will they all agree that's what i think everybody will want to see out of this the russians and the americans have already informally said they back the plan khalifa haftar are of course a reluctant participant so we were told the general from the east but he's at the table he's part of the process will be part of a solution that i think is what everyone will want to find out still ahead on al jazeera iran's foreign minister says he has credible information that saudi arabia . officials sprains foreign secretary says it is ninety five percent complete but is that final five percent that's. hello there it's going to turn a lot cooler for some of us in the northern parts of age or over the next few days so thanks to this weather system head it's gradually slipping its way southwards and behind that it's going to be a lot colder than it has been so for all of the top there a

u.n. envoy looks at the possibility of a national conference to take place in libya early next year so that the libyans themselves can decide what sort of election they want to hold what sort of systemthey want to see parliamentary or presidential they don't even have an electoral nor as yet that's going to be finalized as well and then a period in which a vote may take place between may and june of next year it's a pretty tight timeline in itself i think one of the biggest questions that will emerge here and hopefully be answered is quite how this country can achieve that sort of timeline so riven with violence with divisions among ethnic groups among warring militias town from town region from region and with foreign powers weighing in as well apparently pulling the country in opposite directions take a look now at my reporter looking at the outlines of this summit and some of the complexities of the libya situation. when nato bombs help rebel fighters to open throat gadhafi in two thousand and eleven it was far from the end of libya's try. seven years later the country is divided between warring militant groups and opposing political factions each claiming control of vast swathes

u.n. that there is a partisan reading of the bill we have actually in france one of the most generous we're one of the most generous if you were rights groups one of the most generous system in terms of exceeding to citizenship what the president has said is that we need to increase efficiency of procedures in part in great part to be more human we have people in france who wait for ten years to have a decision made on whether they have a right to asylum claim or not that's unacceptable which is why in this budget for instance we're investing much more in all those different aspects choosing whether somebody has deciding making the arbitration whether somebody has the right to refugee status or not then investing enormously into those people who have the right to refugee status so that they can integrate society much quicker all of this is articulated not only in their bill but also in the bunch it. the reality is the whole row there is a very different according to. the practice is to return migrants who cross into france from italy in. unaccompanied children with no thought for their safety or for france's duty to offer them protection that is why earlier in the year th

u.n. is notoriously anti-capitalism and sovereignty. naomi wolf once said that really, it's the environment, climate change, all these issues through which we're going to change the capitalist systemace? >> they're trying. they certainly had a block in the road that occurred, a bump in the road that occurred a couple of years ago. >> what happened? >> well, we got a president that wasn't going for it. and he promised to get out of the paris accord on climate change. that's an agreement that was hatched in december of 2015 in which the nations of the world submit what are called voluntary plans to reduce their emissions, so for example, we volunteered to reduce our emissions a pretty substantial percentage. the indians volunteered to increase their emissions. the chinese volunteered to increase their emissions until 2030, whereupon they might level off. the president looked at that and said this is a bad deal. what i just told you, doesn't that sound like a bad deal? and he got out of it. meanwhile, what country on earth reduced its emissions the most? of all the nations on earth, u.s. of a. >> this would have formalized an agreement where we're compelled to lower, and the chinese

tamper with the whole human gene system the gene pool thank you very much for your insights on this controversial development an issue thanks. and the latest figures from the u.n. show that russia is suffering the worst hiv epidemic in eastern europe and central asia more than a million russians are living with the virus moscow says its chief and ninety eight percent success rate in preventing mother to child transmission but for children with hiv the outlook is bleak in the third and final part of our series on russia's hiv aids epidemic you're rachet two reports from a children's home in chile of bins where youngsters who are hiv positive live together with others not affected by the virus. it's only morning in children's home. it is the same routine every day. the same medicine the same dose every morning. i forty boys and girls live at the home there between four and seventeen. and to be in a sick little pluses and minuses that's what they call hiv positive and negative children here. with. a clue why it is that when we open this home eleven years ago hiv positive children lived separately from the divine we had ripened sofas and no carpets we clean the di

system works. the real burden of accommodating the world is borne by the countries that border areas of crisis. many of which are not signatories to the human dimension. best the u.nconvention. -- the u.n. convention. these humanitarian agencies depend on the united states to do their work. close to 69 are million displaced persons in the world today. over one third of whom are believed to be refugees. expected to grow, especially as a result of accelerated climate change, which acts as a threat multiplier, exacerbating political conflict. since the vast majority of refugees have never been and will not ever be resettled in countries like the united states , past administrations have recognized that the united states needs to be a top donor to humanitarian agencies like the unhcr to help them find a durable solutions. in 2017, the u.s. was the top donor, donating $1.4 billion so that they could provide the basic shelter, water, food and education. robustabsence of a more resettlement program, basically, unhcr has become all the more important. even they can only do so much. some refugee camps are larger than u.s. cities. and their long-term impact on countries and

systems collapsed in venezuela. many are free fleeing in a life or death fight and many in dire need of medical care. to put it in perspective, the u.near more venezuelan would have fled their country than those who have escaped from war torn syria. nbc's kerry sanders just off the u.s. navy hospital ship "comfort." what did you see while you were there? >> reporter: well, to give you sort of an example of the crisis, and you will build on this, let me take you over here. this is the world food program and you can see lined up here, they're providing food to those who need it. these are some of the refugees in this region. but with the numbers that you are talking about, we are talking about a tremendous need. 1,500 a day here for breakfast or lunch. you can see here it's putting a strain on colombia which is where i am right over the border. let's take you off the coast here and as you can see that there is the "comfort." that is the naval ship just off the coast and what they have done is brought it into this region and there are helicopters going back and forth, back and forth, picking up those refugees from venezuela who have thi

systems in crimea as the crisis with ukraine escalates. talks in astonished to find a solution for the war in syria and with no progress and the u.n. is calling it a missed opportunity and far as well have all the sport including made after twelve drawn games and a series of tie breakers magnus carlsen finally retains his world chess crack. u.s. senators have voted to debate a bill seeking to withdraw support for the saudi coalition in the war and yemen if i'm president donald trump the bipartisan vote ignored warnings from the secretaries of state and defense that it would be a mistake and damage u.s. saudi relations senators are also calling for more transparency on what the intelligence community knows about the murder of journalist. mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . the yeas are sixty three the nays are thirty seven this was the senate and good fourteen republican senators joined all forty nine democrats in recommending that the bullshit be discussed on the senate floor in all probability a debate that will happen next week it's a direct repudiation of the white house which it sent both the secretary of state and the se

u.n. planet for seize a national conference early in the year in libya allowing libyans themselves to decide what sort of democracy they want to see a parliamentary or a presidential system to decide on an electoral law and then a date for a vote aiming for something by june of two thousand and nineteen will they all agree that's what i think everybody will want to see out of this the russians and the americans have already informally said they'd back the plan khalifa haftar are of course a reluctant participant so we were told the general from the east but he's at the table he's part of the process will be part of a solution that i think is what everyone will want to find out britain's prime minister is holding talks with senior cabinet minister is aimed at approving the brics at withdrawal agreement to resume a says her government is working extremely hard to save the deal with the european union on monday may told finance officials that negotiations were now in the endgame a senior member of may's cabinet has said a deal could happen within the next two days lawrence lee has more from london. british governments in the european union keep insisting that it's all ninet

u.n. together in coalition and security councils. to make sure that people will behave within the norms of morality and humanity. so, i pray that these systems are here for the next thousand years. there are a lot of cyber effects that can occur that amount to warfare without launching anti-militaries. >> -- entire militaries. >> i think the definition of kinetic effect is to your point the philosophical component of what is war and what is not. as we were talking about -- how the emergency how they apply that to cybersecurity -- it does become what are the cascading affects and what is being taken away from the person. this could cause an outcry. this is like the elections. before i asked people -- it is a boat -- why do we care in that sense? the people get into philosophical things about voting. it becomes a sense of anxiety within a country. that is the psychological aspect. is that the kinetic aspect? if you start to make people question democracy that we hold so tightly that is our base and foundation, then does that become the connecticut -- the kinetic effect. in france there were riots. so, i think it is a matter of affecting human