Again its good to have you back well here across parts of northern asia we are watching Tropical Storm top make its way towards the north bringing very heavy rain across the vehicle islands and the threat is also going to be not only for japan but also for the southern part of south korea notice every rain here we do expect to see here on sunday the storm is going to move quite quickly up here to the north into the north east and across the area we could be seeing anywhere between 400. 00 and possibly 425. 00 millimeters in about 72 hours so flooding is going to be a big risk across that area for tokyo though not looking too bad a cloudy day for you at 29 degrees well for the eastern part of china were looking quite nice actually for a Central China as well plenty of sun in the forecast all the way down here across much of the south and for hong kong that means a nice day for you at 31. 00 degrees really staying that way as we go towards monday up to the north though your temperatures are coming up with one hand saying attempt of 30 degrees there and then the philippines are looking better were going to be seeing some clearer skies finally coming your way well be seeing a shower or 2 here on sunday with attempt a few of 30 degrees but by the time we go towards monday most of the philippines will be clearing out there so a plenty of sun in the forecast but plenty of clouds down here towards the south which are carda clouded a few with a temperature of 33. 00. Singapore is being accused of expanding its coast and in the dredged satins of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia and literally vanished its a big business smuggling you say and when they go to take the sand there in killing the sand is our parent you say this beautiful beach but behind it is something thats not so pleasant the tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sandals at this time on al jazeera. Youre watching aljazeera a recap of our top stories this hour thousands of people have been protesting across egypt calling on president abdel fatah sisi to resign their reports one person has been killed in the Northern City of montserrat after suffocating from tear gas. More u. S. Troops and Missile Defense systems are being sent to sarge arabia and the United Arab Emirates to defend against what it calls the rain in aggression iran denies american allegations that its responsible for attacks on Saudi Oil Facilities last week yemen to the rebels have offered to solve all attacks on saudi arabia as part of a peace plan their political leaders. Say is a fighters would stop targeting the kingdom but only if the saudis reciprocated in yemen have claimed responsibility for the attacks on saudi arabias Oil Facilities you would be equally as we reserve the right to respond if they fail to reciprocate positively to this initiative the continuation of this war will not benefit any side on the contrary it could lead to dangerous developments which we do not wish to take place we say this knowing that the ones who would suffer more are the enemy nation. Meanwhile the who fees are celebrating the 5th anniversary of their takeover of yemens capital irani was held inside now on friday on the eve of the socalled september 21st revolution thousands more people are expected to fill the streets on saturday in hong kong protesters have fought with police during what was expected to be a peaceful rally riot officers formed a barricade as thousands of people march towards government offices some demonstrators have been seen throwing stones towards police and setting up barricades on kong is in its 4th month of protests that began with opposition to a proposed extradition law which has now been scrapped meanwhile probate supporters have torn down socalled lemon walls named after the late beatle singer john lennon the attacks on posters calling for political reform raises fears of further conflicts between rival groups and some are using song to boost morale and drown out the opponents star clock reports. Its a chin thats been embraced by the prodemocracy movement in hong kong. In the streets in Shopping Centers sports fields at a public rallies glory to hong kong has become the unofficial anthem of these demonstrations its. Maybe its the medium for people to keep up the moment but its been very motivating song to begin with. It says a lot about democracy and freedom were fighting for. It by only have 4 verses but its lyrics have captured the imagination of protesters it phrases like tears in our land democracy and liberty and after months of demonstrations its energizing weary protestors and boosting morale this is their in the 7 business to make nice to fight for and let you know youre weighing the composer has chosen to. Anonymous but the marching style chain has gone viral with more than a 1000000 views on you choose either english and japanese versions to. This orchestra or has a novel adaptation complete with gas masks goggles and helmets. All decided to grow up and produce. Wealth. To hopefully. Call. Song has become a tool for both sides of the political divide holding chinas National Flag these people declare their patriotism to the Central Government in beijing singing the Chinese National anthem woman. No matter where i am i am always proud to be a nice we want to tell the word the china our beloved motherland will be stronger and better in the future. Hearing people bursting into song is becoming common in hong kong but as the child rises so too have templates both sides trying to drown ask each other. The extradition bill may be withdrawn but these protesters want including greater autonomy from the mainland. The 1st china celebrates the 70s anniversary of the founding of the peoples republic of china the cats will show a united front for the prodemocracy groups plan to protest in a day that many expect will end in further on wrist sarah clarke aljazeera hong kong. And with only 7 days to go before president ial elections in afghanistan the taliban is stepping up its attacks and while many hold that an election will provide stability others fear it could make a bad situation. This election are physical limits of afghanistans Ethnic Diversity testing allegiances and divisions at a time of growing instability. The front runner is the incumbent president. A pashtoon from the countrys largest ethnic group. But like the other 16 candidates in this race hes carefully picked running mates to get support from other ethnic groups. Theyre scared of the unity of this team scared of our plans for government gandhis Vice President ial running mate is a prominent whom he hopes will take votes away from his biggest rival dr abdullah abdullah. Hes served in all afghan governments since the overthrow of the taliban in 2001 at this rally received backing from one of the major pashtoon tribes. Our main purposes we use the selection and this campaign as an opportunity to share different voices different hopes different visions with afghans a former warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum from the community is also backing up dela. This election is a reminder of the countrys decades old conflict with another former Prime Minister and warlords standing for election. But playing god so many fault lines this election has the potential to worsen an already precarious situation still it offers the chance of a new start. Over many purposes we use this election in this campaign the sniper trinity to share different voices different hopes different vision with us as a former head of afghanistans spy agency drama tool an appeal is a fierce critic of the governments in demick corruption and also accuses gandhi of misusing official resources to help him campaign in spite of his unpopularity johnny has the advantage of being in power and can take credit for what little progress over the past 5 years able to bring together probably more groups than almost in this diverse country many say hes the only choice at a time but few options Robert Bright aljazeera couple. The u. K. Minister in charge of bracks said says he is optimistic after a meeting with the European Unions chief negotiator Stephen Barclay says there is a call common purpose between the u. K. And the e. U. The talks focused on the contentious irish border issue negotiations are said to continue on monday when friends from mr Boies Johnson me see you Council President donald tusk at the United NationsGeneral Assembly at least one person has died during the latest mass protests in haiti. But. A riot police fired tear gas at demonstrators in the capital Port Au Prince has seen days of protests demanding the resignation of president. Hes accused of corruption. Now schoolchildren have skipped classes to join the largest ever Climate Change protest organizers said 4000000 people of all ages took part worldwide teenage a climate activists credit fund is helping lead the week Long Campaign from new york april and is on the reports. The young people are fed up and took to the streets of new york to say its time for adults i dont need to acknowledge Climate Change but instead to do something about it youre only 17 years old why is it important for you to be here today this will be movement is youth led and were the ones who are going to be affected the most by Climate Change because be at the longest time ahead of us and were the ones who by traditional means dont have much political power actions like this show that we have a voice in our futures here ive written 0 hour in red lipstick oh it means that this is really like youre our like no more time left to act on Climate Change because people around the world are already being affected they are taking their message straight to older people in positions of power like it this climate strike in washington d. C. But in america new york is the focal point on thursday a giant melting glacier was projected on the side of the United Nations headquarters as well as word scroll down the side demanding action on Climate ChangeWorld Leaders are gathering at the u. N. Next week for the annual General Assembly. But it was the noise on the streets friday and to make those World Leaders take notice easily hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating through the streets of new york city right now mostly young people this is happening in over a 1000 different cities throughout the United States but not only here locally as well. Across the Pacific Islands many of which are already experiencing the impact of rising sea levels a pledge to fight Climate Change there are protests in australia were several 100000. 00 people skipped School College or work to take part and in india more demonstrations and a groundswell of global existent passion for action also seen in south africa. All told demonstrations in more than 150 countries. Even experienced activists say they are learning from the youth i have to say they can communicate much better that maybe of us they creativity innovation and the way their image dies the numbers of young people that are coming every country will be that the last 6 months ive been so inspired theyre now saying its no longer a matter of trying to bring attention to Climate Change but rather what to do about it gabriel is on doe new york. And gretta says its clear people want to see action from well leaders meeting at the u. N. And this monday World Leaders are going to be gathered here in new york city for the United NationsClimate Action summits. Was. The eyes of the world it will be on them they have a chance to prove that they too are united behind the science they have a chance to take leadership to prove they actually hear us do you think they hear us. We will make them hear us to go and our new environmental show planet s. O. S. Begins within hours here on aljazeera at 1730 g. M. T. On saturday to make sure you check it out now they are marriott of colors home to all sorts of marine life but coral reefs are under attack Global Warming is being blamed for causing sea temperatures to rise which kills the coral as a problem in the red sea but scientists in jordan are developing techniques that could repopulate reefs and force from the port of aqaba. When dr phil watt enters the wet lab at the marine science station he knows that the future of the worlds corals is not guaranteed so experiments are carried out in these tanks that take advantage of quality spawn in the red sea where nearly 200 species of hard coral have flourished this is that is a lot of photos for that is the old what we have done so far is this something meets in the c. B. D. We call them blue books or we think in the you put out a one method involves coral engineering combining fragments of different species of coral each resistant to a different type of disease or other stress factor within a few years they fused together into one creature that stronger than any one part a small miracle of nature all the learning and experimentation here begins with the basic lesson for us all many people and there will be do not be allies what is the nature of. Some people think that those on the stones present in this is some of those things out of finance and they dont know how much they are. And thats why in many cases they can them without even knowing that killing those beaches jordan only has 27 kilometers of coastline along the red sea waters of its commercial hub are shared by israel egypt and saudi arabia along with ferries fishermen and hundreds of thousands of visitors every year these clear waters are the main reason why tourists come to the gulf of aqaba and the researchers here are preparing for the worst theyre growing corals even breezing and storing them just in case Climate Change wipes out threaten populations this yellow turban area is much bigger than any human gliding past it bigger corals are found here but this one is about 5 centuries old some day its hoped the cultured corals will outlast us all red sea varieties are proving to be resilient to Climate Change and warming seas the scientists practically boast. Theyll be the last to die back in the lab maysoon and her colleagues constantly monitor the reefs health ensuring that pollutants along the coastline are not adding stress to the creatures below too often Development Comes with an ecological cost there is a high school tis the old on christie dust to the talked with coral and when they are in contact with coral. Tourist which is why Scientists Say its crucial to keep them at ease especially since the reefs are home to a quarter of all marine life and are schapelle aljazeera. So again im fully back to over the headlines on aljazeera and thousands of people have been protesting across egypt calling on president abdel fattah to resign their reports one person has been killed in the Northern City of months after suffocating from tear gas ramadan musri is the chairman of the media and jennas in program of the Doha Institute for graduate studies he says its too early to draw conclusions some people are suggesting that this might be an indication that there are those within the Security Apparatus who are sympathetic to the protest movement sympathetic to mohammed ali the man that youve been talking about all morning this is certainly a possibility id like to let it play out a few days before i make any conclusions on that the mubarak era Security Apparatus was sometimes you know they took a sort of a hands off approach and then another times they they crack down brutally. More u. S. Troops and Missile Defense systems are being sent to soggy arabia and the United Arab Emirates to defend against what it calls the rayney an aggression iran denies american allegations that its responsible for attacks on saudi oil found so week ago meanwhile yemens hoofy rebels have offered to stop all attacks on a b. As part of a peace plan that political leader. Says fighters would stop targeting the kingdom but only if the saudis reciprocate it in yemen with these claimed responsibility for the attack on saudi arabias Oil Facilities. In hong kong protesters are fought with police during what was expected to be a peaceful rally why officers formed a barricade and thousands of people march towards government offices some demonstrators have been seen throwing stones towards police and setting up barricades on kong is in its 4th month of protests that began with opposition to a proposed extradition all which has since been scrapped the u. K. Minister in charge of rex it says hes optimistic after meeting with the European Unions chief negotiator Stephen Barclay says there is a common purpose between the u. K. And the e. U. The talks focus on the contentious irish border issue fed to more news on our website as always aljazeera dot com coming up next year its inside story to stay with this. Its blame tehran for the attack on Saudi Oil Facilities now the u. S. Says its building a coalition against iran but can that guarantee security in the gulf region or would deploy missy be a better choice this is inside story. Below into the program on iran come on the gulf region is on the edge whos responsible for last weeks attacks on saudi all infrastructure which have led to accusations from all of the different sides the u. S. And saudi arabia say iran is behind the iran card strikes but they who thiis in yemen say they are responsible and theyve warned of more to come the u. S. Secretary of state visited allies in saudi arabia and the u. A. E. To hold talks with their leaders mike said it washington was seeking a peaceful resolution to the crisis but blamed iran for seeking an all out war irans foreign minister says the u. S. Is preparing to use iran coincidence as an excuse to attack his country and that her own ready to defend itself. There will be more sanctions were we we have set about a course of action to deny iran the capacity and the wealth so that they can conduct their terror said to provoke to prevent them from conducting their terror campaigns and you can see from the events of last week theres still more work to do were going to continue to drive towards that end. You cannot fail to see the failed policy of giving money to this regime but what happened. Saudi arabia irans foreign minister has responded criticizing americans involvement in the war in yemen Mohammad Javad zarif tweeted a list of crimes he accused the saudi led and u. S. Backed coalition of committing in yemen saying 4 years of bombing has left 100000. 00 yemenis dead millions at mt nourished and suffering from cholera but when yemen carries out retaliatory strikes on Saudi Oil Tankers the u. S. Calls it an unacceptable act of war in another tweet zarif says iran has been more responsible calling for peace and security in the gulf and putting forward peace plans for yemen and syria. Lets bring in our guests and now that hashmi is the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver hes joining us here in doha Mohammad Marandi is professor of american studies at the university of tehran and he joins us from tehran and Adolfo Franco is a republican strategist former adviser to senator john mccain he joins us from washington d. C. A welcome to you all id like to begin in d. C. 1st with adult franco now what were seeing right now is a fairly impotent reaction from washington to these attacks on the facilities were seeing a lot of the blame game going on its being blamed on the iranians that he say it was actually them but no real reactions there has been some sort of sanctions the u. S. Has always prided itself on securing oil out of the gulf its been a 30 year relationship that way has that now changed no not at all and i do not believe its been a weak response and i dont think the full response has yet to be heard the president obviously has been briefed in fact extensively yesterday and today will actually be presented with a a series of options and those. Options range from frankly full out military strike in retaliation against iran to we were everything to additional and more strength than sanctions youre absolutely right we have a longstanding stand a decades old policy of alliances with the gulf states and will continue to protect their assets their security theres no question about doing so however the United States will not act unilaterally without consultations as secretary pump beo has done precisely as with those allies to see the scope of what they deem to be an appropriate response this is clear aggression by iran we know the origin of these come from the north northwest thats not the geography that would point to yemen and even if it were yemen which it is not of course that would be iranian sponsored and controlled as is the situation in hezbollah and in other places where they use their proxies so this is clearly iran in every shape way and form the response of the United States is yet to be heard there are u. S. Senators calling for a very Strong Military reaction toward iran and the president has said everythings on the table and as he has said the other day were locked and loaded meaning hes prepared to do a military response as necessary and i havent run in teheran the u. S. Has looked and loaded it clearly blames iran for all of this is iran so were supposed to believe that a swarm of drones and missiles either crossed the persian gulf or came from the north of the persian gulf all the way down. Across of passing by u. S. Military bases. Mabel ships and the huge military presence the western countries have across the Persian Gulf Region and then the saudis with hundreds of billions of dollars of american weapons base of all over the place and all of them directed modern most of them directed towards iran because thats how the saudis have spent their money over the last few decades yet none of these drones were detected none of these missiles were detected i dont think anyone here takes that very seriously when the americans sent a 200000000 dollar drone into iranian air space as a few months ago minutes after it entered the iranian airspace it was downed by an iranian made surface to air missile so perhaps the saudis should buy iranian made products instead of American Made products and then there is the other argument that until now whenever drone strikes were carried out by the Yemeni Resistance and the m. In the armed forces them western pundits would say that these weapons came from iran and they were sent to yemen and yet that narrative suddenly has disappeared in this attack so while the strikes have become more and more impressive over the last few months deeper inside saudi territory. With greater personal precision suddenly there they no longer make that claim about yemen so no one here believes the american argument and we know how the americans falsify information for the sake of their own Foreign Policy agenda but if the americans make and america it is it is true that the americans are allies of saudi arabia theyve been allies when they helped create. When they hell and then the blowback was 911 theyve been allies when the saudis have been spreading extremism across the world because it was in the interests of the United States them theyve been allies for a very long time thats absolutely correct let me bring in a deal for frank there is this idea that the saudis are very embarrassed that the hes managed to mount an attack such as this and a sis convenient to blame iran thats what were hearing from the iranian side so theres something illogical about my colleagues rationale he just said that it was implausible that something could attack so drones could attack saudi fields because theyre armed to the teeth and the sophistication and this is just impossible yet. They can be coming from yemen and somehow thats plausible either its implausible and this was all a set up by saudi arabia in the United States which you know if you believe conspiracy theories ok but the evidence is otherwise since the material that has been examined is iran and thats not what i said so if if the if the draw if the drones can be and you just said that that plausible to believe that that saudi you were a little uneasy would not be protected by surface to you im going to give you just in. The event that that is not exactly how many and he said actually what he said was the no one no one of the American Forces that were based on theres a lot of them in the region notice these swarm of drones coming over lets just leave it there for a 2nd we bring in another harsher. Clearly there is big differences on both sides when it comes to the narrative here is there a political way out of this or are we at the stage where somebody is going to have to attack somebody else somebody elses capital while there is a political way out of it and just and it speaks to the point that was just discussed with your other 2 guests. What we need right now is a International Independent u. N. Led commission of inquiry to determine culpability and then accountability for the attack on the Saudi Oil Facilities now it would be good to hear from the government of saudi arabia as though whether they would support such a un led independent inquiry because when it comes to un led independent inquiries in the context of the war in yemen theyve strongly opposed those independent inquiries and the Islamic Republic of iran has also had a horrific track record when it comes to pursuing in accepting the results of u. N. Lead independent inquiries with respect to regional destabilization and im talking about what the u. N. Has said and done with respect to irans horrific involvement in syria so i think thats one way of resolving this issue thats the way forward. In terms of the broader political conflict that we see unfolding right now that has brought this region to the precipice i think were in desperate need of diplomacy the problem is that theres very few options that we have that we can pursue with respect to a diplomatic settlement the United States and iran dont talk to one another. Donald trump has surrounded himself with a bunch of war hawks that have been very reluctant to preach suit diplomacy although donald trump and i hate to say this but donald trump to his credit has opened the door to a dialogue with iran unfortunately the authoritarian leaders in tehran have no interest in pursuing dialogue so i think this this is i think the Sticking Point that needs to be resolved if we want to get away from a disastrous war that were on the precipice of franco would a u. N. Inquiry satisfy this u. S. And ministration. I would be all in favor of that i cant imagine the administration wouldnt as well but theres only one problem with that. And principle that sounds nice theoretic through the theory theoretical point of view the point is this i think iran as it is in the past would just reject it so what this is at the at the end of the the at the end of the day un so therefore i dont know how long that inquiry would take it would be contested theres no question the results of it thats not somebody that everybody would they would automatically. Be in the un a body that anyone would necessarily respect and what would be the remedy afterwards i say after this long it would take a while theres a long inquiry iran actually was the culprit then what happens in terms of do we have a military strike 6 months from now and retaliation so thats one problem but but the comment made about diplomacy is an important one its foreign minister sorry for who has taken diplomacy and the. Company has taken them off the table when the instructions have been given to speak to no american official President Trump is never said that he said just no american official including the visuals in new york there were some in our in washington who had advocated to revoke the visas for if the iranian delegation to even travel to the un meetings tomorrow next week in new york and that was rejected by President Trump i think president trouble is open to the dialogue the problem is youre iran but at the end of the day the culprit in the region for the instability is iran we know that whether its in syria 11