Hello im down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. To cheers and jay is some National Police and two of spains biggest banks pull out of barcelona. We must not allow iran to attain to obtain Nuclear Weapons President Trump gives his strongest him yet that the u. S. Will drop its support of the Iran Nuclear Deal plus. Im daniel why i am very important where with the real draw of the United Nations Stabilisation Force patients are asking what next. They are not a nations annual report on children and conflict strongly criticized both sides in the war in yemen it accuses the Saudi Led Coalition and who the rebels of killing and maiming children in the conflict at the same time the report admits the coalition has taken action to improve Child Protection mike hanna has more from the u. N. The report focuses on children in conflict across the globe in countries ranging from afghanistan to colombia to syria mali myanmar and more the list itself showing how widespread the p
If ali yeah and the Catalan Leader a few days ago appealed for mediation for outside mediation sonia any any nike heard of that. But on one hand the president has been quite vocal of the idea of having mediation and there are reports that perhaps whistle and or diplomatic efforts from switzerland would try and see over these kinds of dialogues but the Prime Minister mariano the hoya in madrid for him its a fact i completely said there was absolutely nothing to discuss if the discussion is to be centered around the possibility of catalonia being independent than that is contrary to the constitution say him he said always that its a legal issue catalans a saying actually its a political issue for them meanwhile they are still there back channels going on using representatives from the Roman Catholic church there are reports also that. And has been entering into discussions with the Vice President of the region itself in a way to try mediate its way out of a crisis to prevent it from goin
Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons the norwegian panel praised the group for working to prohibit the use of the weapons comes amid tensions around north Koreas Nuclear program. Russia says it hopes the u. S. Will make a balanced decision on whether to remain engaged in the Landmark International deal to curb Irans Nuclear Program President trump has accused iran of not living up to the spirit of the deal in twenty fifteen and both sides in the war in yemen are strongly criticized in the u. N. Annual report on children and conflict the study Led Coalition of the rebels are jointly accused of killing and maiming children. Well the u. N. Special representative for children and conflict said she wasnt put under political pressure over this report. I really have not felt the pressure i have mine my skin is so thick that i feel it but i i have not been pressurised by anybody on. Earth i think. A. Its always interesting to take on a new job ive tak
The hearing will come to order. I think committee is privileged to see our distinguished chairman joining us monopo. I thank him for his leadership on africa. So great to see you and thank you for your ongoing leadership and for yesterdays important briefing on nikki haley our ambassador to the United Nations and a major portion of that important briefing late in the afternoon was on the congo. So thank you, chairman royce. The democratic republic of congo was supposed to conduct elekdss one year ago this month to achieve the required transition of political power by december 19th. However, after years of stalling on making preparations for elections, the government failed to hold elections last year and relied on a provision that he could not step down until an election was held. Our Ranking Member have had had ongoing meetings with the roc officials, including high level people who have flown to washington and time and time again we haved a monished them stick to the schedule and ins
Thank you so much chairman, smith, Ranking Members for organizing this hearing and for inviting me. Im a researcher and officer of Political Science at columbia university. Over the past two years dip mats, politicians have focused mostly on the political crisis around general elections and on the struggle for power. Were so preoccupied with the up coming elections that were diverting our attention awae from the many other issues that are causing violence in congo. And were wasting the opportunity to tackle these issues. Based on peace building and several years of working in congo, i believe and i will show you in my state, theres a better way to help revise these conflicts. There are many other caws of violence beyond the electoral political issue. And by acknowledging democracy and peace do not always go together. The two most important measures congress can take are to increase the United States support to peace building and to put local actors in the drivers seat. The delay of Hol