Hello im Maryam Namazie this is the news hour life from london coming up lebanons president urges saudi arabia to explain why saad hariri hasnt returned to beirut following his surprise resignation a week ago. The Transpacific Partnership lives on after eleven countries agree a call deal without the United States. Trump and on the sidelines of that same summits of asia pacific leaders and agree a way forward in syria. Days sports to war african teams that to join senegal and next years world cup will have the very latest as the qualifiers turn into spots in russia. Hello welcome to the news hour we begin in lebanon where its been seven days since the shock resignation of Prime Minister saad hariri which he announced on a surprise visit to riyadh the lebanese president michel aoun is calling on saudi arabia to clarify exactly why harry has yet to return to beirut following suggestions hes been detained and is under house arrest the saudis to fat in lebanon has denied this insisting however he hasnt returned because of security concerns so you know holder has the latest from beirut. Posters are springing up across the lebanese capital beirut expressing support to. The resigned Prime Minister whose fate really is unknown Uncertain Times in lebanon the country finding itself at a crossroads for the past year this country and toward relative stability in a very turbulent region but things have changed and lebanon finds itself in the middle of the saudi iranian rivalry playing out across the region its been like him for quite some time since two thousand and five i guess its when he really thinks things are really assassination. And we have two polls so there may be on the run and those who pose have people on the ground in iran has tons of those economics and theyre in the middle of all this i think and live under a lot of special part of the sions what they do best is that they they they lie and they say things. To make people and maybe scared and to put this like political pressure on everyone just to get what they want we are in a mainly sunni neighborhood hold many people here feel that the Current Crisis is going to march and allies them even further this in the community has long complained of iranian dominance in lebanon and now theyre blaming their own ally saudi arabia of robbing them of their leader. And. This we want to know the reason behind his detention lebanon cant handle this crisis dignity the detention of a Prime Minister is unacceptable and. This is a loss for all of lebanon hariri is loved by everyone we are all upset by his detention no one will accept what is happening this is humiliation we wont be quiet we will demand his release. So for the time being all of the different parties avoiding political escalation but the question is this rare unity will it be short lived. Members of the Transpacific Partnership trade deal of agree to move forward without involvement of the United States president all drawn withdrew support for the deal this year in favor of an America First policy which he hopes will save us jobs but on saturday the remaining eleven countries whose trade total three hundred sixty five billion dollars last year agreed on the core elements to proceed on the sidelines of the apec summit in vietnam when he has more from denon. The Asia Pacific Economic cooperation summit ended with yet another photo opportunity the twenty one leaders came together in vietnam on the back of a difficult year for trade that continued on the sidelines of a pic with canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau at the center he initially balked at a deal to push ahead with the Transpacific Partnership trade agreement involving eleven apec members but after further often heated discussions between government ministers all t p p members finally agreed on the core elements of the pact. All alone aversive agreed on the content weve maintained exactly the same high standards t p p twelve i think weve maintained a balance weve avoided opting for lower standards there are lots of areas where if you rush to agree high standards will be sacrificed but if you insist on high standards we can take a long time or some countries might drop out so all eleven countries are on board and this will send a very strong message to the us and other countries in the region that messages asia pacific countries see regional trade deals as the best way forward thats in contrast to the views of u. S. President donald trump who withdrew the United States from the t p p the Transpacific Partnership isnt finalized yet some parts of the deal still need to be negotiated but the fact that its still alive without the us combined with china is increasingly assertive role in this region means that this apec summit has come to a close with a sense that the United States is looking more isolated even the final statement from apec leaders was contentious and took longer than usual to finalize reportedly because of u. S. Concerns about the wording the leaders call for the removal of market distorting subsidies came after President Trump was highly critical of unfair trade practices during his speech on friday or the promotion of free and open trade and investment in the Pacific Region is a mission for apec member. Animes to maintain a pact is the key driver for regional integration. Despite the statement a pic again showed that the United States under donald trump has a different view on trade to most other asia pacific nations wayne hay aljazeera donning vietnam. Well u. S. President donald trump and his russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have agreed to a joint statement supporting a political solution in the war in syria the leaders met on the sidelines of the apec summit in vietnam where they reaffirmed their commitment to syrias sovereignty independence and territorial integrity they also called on all policies the conflict including president bashar assad to take an active part in the geneva process. Just now weve adopted that document with the prism of the United States its a very crucial document because we see it for some principle things firstly we continue the fight against terrorism in syria thats the most important for the United States and for us especially in light of recent tragic events which happened there its of the utmost importance that we reaffirm the sovereignty of syria its territorial integrity that after the fight against terrorism is over well start the political process under the auspices of the United Nations. Lets go to any gallica in washington d. C. Now for the latest in this joint statement with president putin comes at a very sensitive time for donald trump how is this being viewed in the u. S. Well its very much being viewed through the prism of the current investigation into. Top possible ties or collusion between a Trump Campaign and russia now the headlines here dominating any meetings between putin and trump are all about that relationship and whether that did or did not happen in the headline here today is that on trump believes flooded near putin when he says that he didnt meddle in the u. S. Election something his own Intelligence Community firmly refutes and says they have hard evidence to go against but remember robert millers investigation is still very much going on trumps former Campaign Manager paul metaphor is still under house arrest so that joint statement on syria from putin and from trump is really being ignored because domestically here in the United States its our investigation that is the focus that relationship between donald trump and lot of putin that is very much on peoples minds and what you see here is donald trump again being very nice about Vladimir Putin saying they have a great relationship and of course he wants to perhaps bring him on board to do with north korea but again in the United States that joint statement really being ignored and the focus really being on whether there was any collusion and how that relationship between Vladimir Putin and don trump is panning out over those series of meetings of hard in the past few months so an informal meeting important it took place but is there anything in the joint statement. Very Little New York i think one commentator here said no news here and many cliches meaning that what were seeing is a reiteration of what these two powers of talked about before there has been some movement on deescalation zones close to jordan but essentially everything in this joint statement has been said before and these are very difficult things to actually achieve free and Fair Elections in syria. Deescalation zones keeping cease fires going we have to see if that actually happens is a very complex issues and a very difficult area as we know but that in relationship between Vladimir Putin and on top of very important one i will have to see if those things actually happen on the ground but again here in the United States its all about those potential investigations into collusion and how Donald Trumps relationship with Vladimir Putin goes from here thank you very much Andy Gallacher in washington d. C. You know watching the news hour live from london much more still a tell you about the Program Thousands of polish nationalists rally in the capital warsaw in celebration of independence. But then he did what you wanted to do to me and i lived with a lot of anger and pain and i was crane. Their confidence when in fight back against actual violence in the democratic republic of congo. While champion crashes out on first lap of qualifying for the brazilian grand prix joe will have those details in sport. Now Iraqi Forces Say they captured one of the last remaining areas under the control of iceland a country to iraqi infantry divisions and sunni tribal forces carrying out the operation in Anbar Province its believed eisel fighters are holding ten thousand civilians hostage in the town of our iran can has the latest from baghdad. The operation began early on saturday morning as iraqi forces went in to the town of ramadi is described as a town however its a series of small villages where eisel fighters i have been holed up after they fled operations against them in ramadi and fallujah now this is on the border the Border Crossing with jordan which has been a strategic stranglehold for isolate managed to stop traffic coming in and out of that Border Crossing so this is quite key although were not expecting huge amounts of i saw fighters to be in the area the fact that they are still there means that they were controlling that territory and this is all about who gets to control the territory now were not expecting this to be as large an operation as weve seen perhaps say in mosul or against eisel in syria what were expecting is the operation to be concluded fairly swiftly in fact what militia sources are telling us from the ground in atlanta is that ramana has already been liberated that hasnt been confirmed by the joint Operations Command that also the joint Operations Commander told ill just say that theyre very concerned about civilian casualties and they want to avoid them so theyre going to go in and a step by step basis theyre going to surround romana first take ramana and then likely to move across the Euphrates River and into and do exactly the same as a tactic that weve seen the Iraqi Security forces before take over areas outside of the areas i still control and then use that as a staging post to go in now like i said were expecting this operation to take months or weeks its going to be likely it is going to take days and we will have a news within the next few days about the operation itself but the Iraqi Security forces very confident that this they can they can route i saw the last remaining stronghold in iraq. Now in our Development Saudi Arabia is saying that it has suspended the pumping of oil into bahrain after an alleged pipeline attack Saudis EnergyMinistry Says the kingdom is tightening security at its facilities following the blast bahrain is blaming the explosion of what it describes as terrorism linked to iran to iran denies the allegations. Yemen state airline says or resume International Flights almost a week after the Saudi Led Coalition shut down movement in and out of the country the blockade was in response to a whos in missile attack but the u. N. And aid agencies are demanding a full lifting on the restrictions to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in yemen ariana honda has the latest but. Her son is desperate to get out of yemen these pills of whats keeping his wife alive her condition requires treatment in egypt but on monday the airplanes were put on hold when the Saudi Led Coalition imposed a complete blockade from the lend ear and see it was in response to a Ballistic Missile fired into saudi arabia by humans who three roubles but not everything is hanging on this treatment it is critical for my wifes life humans National Airline says it will resume International Flights out of a ports in the southern cities of aden and say your own both of which are operated by the Saudi Led Coalition but that offers little relief for her son and his wife they live hundreds of kilometers away in the capital summer which is part of the sixty percent of territory under the controls they must prepare for a dangerous and difficult journey on a road papered with checkpoints run by both sides of the conflict. The who the rebels are backed by iran and troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh the saudi lead coalition of arab nations joined the war in early two thousand and fifteen launching thousands of the strikes in support of the government the Saudi Led Coalition says it shut down humans borders to stem the flow of arms to the who theses from around but the United Nations says the blockade has created even greater hardship for millions of yemenis already the poorest country in the region before the war the u. N. Says yemen is now. In the grip of the worlds worst humanitarian crisis around seventeen Million People dont have enough to eat every day seven million of them are on the brink of famine more than two and a half years of war has forced almost three Million People from their homes and left yemens infrastructure in ruins and since april more than two thousand people have died in the worlds worst outbreak of cholera. Hospital staff working in sanaa say things have never been this bad patients accommodated out on the streets and medical supplies now only trickle in. Our sufferings have doubled the shortage of medicine is getting worse and what aid is given out disappears the misery for people here is just getting worse. The u. N. And aid agencies say nothing but a complete lifting of the blockade will do without it they warn human could be just weeks away from the worlds worst famine in decades. And aljazeera. Thousands of polish nationalists have Health Annual march in the capital warsaw to mark Independence Day rally was largely attended by supporters of the ruling lore and Justice Party in recent Controversial Court reforms and refusal to welcome migrants has drawn criticism from the European UnionDavid Chaytor has more from warsaw. More than one hundred thousand protesters took part in this Independence Day march to the center of warsaw according to the National Television here in poland which would make it one of the biggest meetings of the far right near not these the white supremacist scene in europe since the fall of the berlin wall and the message here its been very clear its a message that poland is for the poles its an anti immigration message its also been. A ring into the mainstream of politics here even the he