to jerusalem. you're watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters and. also ahead the u.n. security council asks all parties in yemen's war to work towards a durable cease fire. not quite out of the woods spain withdraws an international warrant for the former president of catalonia but he may still be detained if he tries to return from self-imposed exile and fueled by strong winds california wildfires forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. hello the u.s. president appears to be forging ahead with his plan to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital spite global condemnation of the move donald trump has called the leaders of palestine israel jordan egypt and saudi arabia to inform them of his intention to shift the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem the palestinian president says it will have dangerous consequences while the saudi king is warning it will inflame the feelings of muslims shihab rattansi reports from washington d.c. . but. at the white house there was no sense of the international uproar that's been caused by donald trump's forthcoming speech announcing the u.s. is recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital but a six month delay on moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv this is a campaign promise to keep trying financial donors like last vegas casino magnate sheldon adelson and his right wing evangelical base whom the president needs now more than ever as his popularity ratings plummet. throughout the day the president briefed the presidents of the palestinian authority and egypt and the kings of jordan and saudi arabia it was reported that or counseled him against his decision which led to this question at the state department briefing i'm wondering if you can say that the that he's gotten the support of anyone for any decision that he might make so again i'm not going to characterize those conversations and some of those calls i can tell you that the conversations both in person and over the phone at least on the secretary's part have been a frank exchange of ideas that's it i'm going to leave it at that the president will speak when he's ready to minutes later the white house press secretary was similarly callie about the decision i'm not going to get ahead of the president's remarks that he'll make tomorrow to say other than israel which thinks that this move is twenty two years overdue that all of the feedback he's been getting from world leaders is overwhelmingly negative so no again he spoke with five leaders that's hardly indicative of everybody across the globe mr president the fifth leader the president called was the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu israeli politicians have welcomed decision on jerusalem the israeli mayor of the city said the embassy move could take two minutes simply by switching the sign on the current u.s. consulate in west jerusalem that the u.s. has chosen not to do so may be significant but with reports over the weekend that the president's middle east envoy george bush is pushing a saudi backed plan that gives israel formal control of all of jerusalem wednesday's announcement appears to be in keeping with the direction of the trumpet ministrations emerging middle east policy she had al-jazeera washington. well israel claims all of jerusalem as its united capital palestinians want east jerusalem to be the capital of their future independent states no currently currently has its embassies in jerusalem and the international community including the us doesn't officially recognize israel's jurisdiction over or ownership of the city. and if. this is going to move. this is again. it would give it. maybe the end of the peace process. well as you've been hearing there has been strong condemnation and concern from leaders around the world about the intended move here is some of the reaction. mr trump jerusalem is a red line for muslims. we will follow the struggle to the very last moments with determination and we could even go right up to cutting our diplomatic relations with israel. for. the council of ministers rejects this step and expresses its utmost concern regarding this step as well as the moving of the american embassy to jerusalem the iraqi government warns of the consequences of this decision on the stability of the area and the world ignoring the rights of palestinians and the arab and muslim world and other religions. there are indications that the united states in the coming days will recognize that a city with famous capital by the way without consulting with europe we all know what far reaching consequences a step would have germany's position on the should remains unchanged the solution a did a solution problem can only be found a valid negotiations between the two parties now they want security council has appealed to all sides in yemen to recommit to a un led political process to end the conflict and its warning the country faces a catastrophic famine and close to a million cases of cholera councils pushing for unhindered humanitarian access in particular their call on parties to immediately provide safe rapid unhindered and sustained commercial and humanitarian access to the populations of all affected governorates. through all of yemen's ports and airports most importantly who data and airport the member of the security council urged all size to uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law. meanwhile the exiled son of humans ousted president . says he will launch a campaign against the whole thing movement that killed his father. has called for revenge meanwhile thousands of gathered for a show of strength in the capital sana'a and. the killing. has plunged yemen into even more uncertainty the ousted president dominant political force for over three decades was killed in an attack led by who the fighters on monday had been in an alliance with the iranian backed rebels for more than two years and his death sparked intense fighting on the streets of the capital sanaa. the clashes were ongoing the entire night until the morning if someone stepped out into the street or fled they would have a bullet hit them in the head chest or body but. on tuesday thousands of supporters filled the streets of sanaa celebrating what they called the end of the crisis but yemen's challenges are far from over the saudi led coalition which supports the internationally recognized government led by a man who are hardy has said it will still strike rebel targets and how to use urging yemenis to rise against the who these ladies. and i call upon all of you with an open heart and a strong will to turn the new page and to get rid of such a nightmare let's put our hands together to end the control of these criminal gangs and to build a new united yemen. so that in the who pushed out how these government in january two thousand and fifteen and set up their own administration prompting the saudi led campaign against them since then the country has been split between the who the rebels in the north how these administration in the south and forces loyal to saleh . his death could mark a turning point and the conflict getting worse a conflict which has already killed nearly. ten thousand people put yemen to the brink of mass starvation and triggered what the united nations has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis we remind all parties to the conflict that deliberate attacks against civilians and against civilian and medical infrastructure or clear violations of international humanitarian law may constitute war crimes. a former military officer became president of north yemen in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight after a coup and in one nine hundred ninety when the north and south reunited he was elected as the first president of the newly unified country he was ousted in two thousand and twelve during the arab spring uprising that managed to stay in the country and wielded considerable power behind the scenes at once like in his involvement in yemeni politics is dancing on the head of snakes and while it's not yet clear who will succeed him or what his death will mean for the fighting on the ground or the future of yemen one thing appears certain is nearly three year war is unlikely to come to an end anytime soon. we've been telling you about the u.s. president donald trump and to appears to be forging ahead rather with this plan to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem we do expect him to make an announcement on this on wednesday let's put this in perspective and speak to him a hoodie he's a professor of journalism at the american university of beirut and senior fellow at harvard kennedy school and he's joining us in fact from boston thanks for joining us on al-jazeera so we've been playing out some of the international condemnation over this plan declaration by trump and certainly there has been arab condemnation but beyond the condemnation what can arab states actually do and what will they do if trump goes ahead with this declaration. what they could do is quite significant diplomatically economically and other ways strategic relationships being adjusted if they really wanted to make a statement what they will do is probably almost none of that because this is been the great tragedy of the modern arab world that arab leaderships have expressed a lot of rhetoric on issues like jerusalem like palestinian rights like other issues but haven't really followed it up with with action and you've got arab states now including some of the powerful ones in the gulf trying to set up relations with israel which the united states is directly trying to promote so this is the great tragedy the reals real deep story here is the ineffective nature of arab leadership in addressing the challenge of zionism to the modern arab world they haven't been able to make war they haven't been able to make peace and this is the consequence an american president who expresses almost total disdain for the rights of arabs and muslims in jerusalem for the sentiments of arabs and muslims and for international law and all you're going to get is as declarations which are already getting about a day of rage and demonstrations in the street and the united states doesn't particularly care about this what about hamas is positioning movements like hamas so we heard the organization come out and say that the u.s. embassy move would quote cross every red line. well movements like hamas could or islamic jihad or other militant groups like that could take action by firing some rockets into israel to to make a point but the problem with that is historically over the years the israelis have retaliated with massive attacks against civilians mostly in gas and other parts of the arab world lebanon for many years they did it so the destruction that is suffered in the arab areas is so massive that it probably is disproportionately not worth the symbolic resistance that hamas puts up and we're like we may see that again so it's clear that symbolic military attacks against israelis or even individual attacks killing israelis as happened in jerusalem for many months earlier this year and last year will not achieve a resolution of the problem if the political leadership of the arab world starting with the palestinians do not muster the collective will of their people and the political economic and other rights that they have and assets that they have to engage the israelis either to make war to make peace preferably to make peace that's equitable to both sides if that's not done then the israelis and the americans or at least the right wing israeli leadership like netanyahu and the americans under the new leadership of trump will do whatever they want you know the message of trump is sending us is that the arab world has become the first dispensable region in the world that the entire arab region matters to nobody what we feel doesn't matter our rights don't matter our voices don't count we used to be invisible people now we are dispensable all of us for the sake of time let me just jump in there i think jerusalem it's an important point you're making and i mean just for the sake of time let me ask you this because we're hearing from american media at least earlier this week we heard that saudi arabia presented. with parts of the trumpet ministrations peace plan and that. reportedly included a palestinian state without jerusalem as its capital so is what we're seeing now with the plan declaration by trump part of that peace plan being put forward by the united states i kind of doubt it i mean if we are seeing that then we are all in much worse trouble than even we think we are because this would be catastrophic if the united states wants to negotiate with arabs and palestinians for an equitable peace agreement with israel i think everybody is prepared to do that but to unilaterally take these kinds of steps that are clearly opposed by the virtually the entire world and have been opposed by all american administrations up till now is not the way to do it the people leading the american so-called negotiations are very structurally linked to the right wing in israel the settlements group people like jared questioner and others so there's a clear problem here in terms of the united states taking actions that are against international law against the vast majority of the will of the people in the arab countries and and probably will get away with it also this is according to a poll that just came out in the u.s. by shibley telhami at the university of maryland fifty nine percent of americans want the u.s. to be evenhanded in the palestine israel dispute and sixty three percent of americans oppose the u.s. embassy being moved. to jerusalem and further eighty one percent of americans think that american presidential policy in the middle east should be guided by experts on the region not by family members or personal lawyers as trump is doing now but i repeat again the real bottom line here is the incompetence of arab leaderships all right on the hoodie good to have you with us on al-jazeera thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera the legacy of the fall close relatives a fall an argentinean soldiers finally get a chance to pay their respects. beneath pink skies by the taj mahal. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. hello there for many of us in the southeast in parts of china the weather is fine unsettled at the moment it's also not quite as cold as it has been so shanghai should get to around twelve degrees on wednesday and by this they will be up to thirteen so this was the south there has been a fair few showers just working their way on to the coast of vietnam but i think even these drying up on thursday so this should be well settled weather heya of a towards the south and there also heavier showers here thanks to an area of low pressure that's actually working its way away from the region but it is dragging plenty of showers behind it so still for some of us in southern thailand it does get very wet there for wednesday for thursday as well so watch out for the area of rain here for the south also some showers to be found here but generally they will be in tell us why some sunshine so it won't be rain throughout the day if we head across towards india hey we've got one weather system that's working its way up the west coast that is ok and it's gradually now making its way towards the northeast and it is disintegrating as it does say still going to bring us some very heavy downpours that could give us a problem with flooding but as that one fades we have another system that's pulling itself together in the bay of bengal and that one's gradually running its way towards the northwest because not many of us along the eastern coast are going to see some heavy rain on thursday. the weather sponsored by the time. if you are in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships. that somehow time is aiming to replace america and around the world well the chinese and. these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for the coming war. at this time. top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. president donald trump appears to be forging ahead with his plan to shift the u.s. embassy in israel to jerusalem from tel aviv that's despite warnings from members of his own administration and several arab leaders palestinian president mahmoud abbas says the move will have dangerous consequences if the u.n. security council those appeal to all sides in yemen to recommit to a un led political process to end the conflict it's warning the country faces a catastrophic famine and close to a million cases of cholera these security council is also calling for unhindered humanitarian access. kuwait's foreign minister has told the leaders that the bloc remains crucial to regional stability and cats are on kuwait where the only gulf nations would sent heads of state to the summit in kuwait city others were represented by ministers or by deputy prime ministers this is the first summit after saudi arabia bahrain and the u.a.e. imposed a blockade on cats are in june june reports. while the announcement that this year's gulf cooperation council summit would go ahead as planned in kuwait came as a surprise to many it also brought renewed hope for a diplomatic breakthrough that might be in the gulf crisis upon his arrival in kuwait on tuesday but that is a mere shift i mean been hamath then he issued a statement expressing sincere gratitude toward kuwait's emir. and his wishes for the success of the current summit stressing that the current situation in the region required the council's members to band together against all odds and challenges but even before the summit officially kicked off the divisions were very much on display. first the united arab emirates announced it had formed a new economic and military partnership with saudi arabia that would be separate from the g.c.c. then saudi arabia the u.a.e. and decided not to send their respective leaders to kuwait it could be that it is embarrassing for some of the leadership of the country is the quartet work i think anthony has. to turn up. and therefore they sent a lower level but it could be that they're just wanted to have this. just to show that they actually still exist and this summit is going to take place but nothing else is going to have an which is a really disappointing in that case. in the end a summit that is usually slated for two days ended after only a few hours kuwait's emir said his country will continue mediating in the dispute for just so we're going to crucially you recent months of saying a lot of trouble but the wisdom of my brothers of the leaders of the gulf countries managed to calm things down and now meeting today will lead us to continue playing the role that will live up to the aspirations of our people in order to have certain mechanisms to sort out disputes with guarantees that will allow everyone to abide by these rules. added that the gulf has faced painful and negative developments over the past six months due to the rift it. six months to the day since the beginning of the blockade against some here in kuwait say the fact that representatives of all member countries actually showed up means that this summit should ultimately be considered a success others however say that today's developments call into question the g.c.c. and institution which at its core is meant to highlight regional unity will be able to survive much longer. wait while spain has dropped its european arrest warrant for the former president of catalonia who is currently in belgium but still faces charges over the succession vote in october campaigning has begun for regional elections that could decide the future of catalonia independence movement karl penhall reports from barcelona. goal clear for the candidates this is the together for catalonia coalition its main policy is to break away from the rest of spain their leader carlos pleased to vaunt deposed head of the catholic government can only appear through video link he's in. belgium. is the start of an electoral campaign that will be very short and very. and we must make this a special campaign. these seats have been left empty. for former ministers they all fled to brussels when spain shut down the catalan government and imposed direct group spain withdrew an extradition request for them on tuesday but at home they still face charges of rebellion and possible sentences if. all these when a majority. of independent green. he's never think. about it would probably be. a standby but i don't think that these situation will arise gathered in a discotheque for its campaign launch the right wing or people's party is anti independence and in favor of staying part of spain young supporters say the issue is split society and disrupted they belong to the independent parties when a majority of our mind is not going to be really taken me so if they were in. the study just thinking and our careers i just leave here just mean another country in the working class suburbs the catalan socialist party tries to occupy the middle ground. party leader there is criticised what he sees as spain's heavy handed crackdown on catalan separatists but at the same time he rejects calls for an independent catalan republic. it's been shown that the independence movement has caused deep divisions in catalan society it's driven companies out of the region and we want to recover economic prosperity after. two and a ha weeks of political rallies and gatherings the length and breadth of catalonia is a campaign that promises to be hard for him. but catalan separatists a defiant as they sing been around them. a rebel song this speaks of breaking the chains of spanish oppression. pinhole al-jazeera. well three men in malta have been charged with the murder of a leading investigative journalist daphne karunya who's reporting focused heavily on corruption in the island nation was killed in a car bombing in october seven more suspects are still being questioned after police made ten arrests on monday the man charged with her killing pleaded not guilty in court hundreds of argentinean soldiers who were burrage anonymously on the disputed falkland islands have been identified relatives and now have the chance to bring the remains of their loved ones home to raise about reports from want to. know michael made his brother a lot of though was nineteen years old when he went to war and was killed. that was thirty five years ago and norma has traveled from the remote north of argentina to the capital to find out whether her brother's remains have been positively identified. i am very anxious them very upset because i'm not sure whether they have found him my mother died a few months ago waiting for this we need to know and be able to give him a proper burial we need to know whether they have found him in. argentina and the united kingdom went to war when argentine troops invaded the british controlled. which the argentines called. during the two months of fighting two hundred fifty five british troops and nearly six hundred fifty argentine soldiers were killed about twenty percent of the soldiers killed in that war where an identified buried in graves marked only by a simple message i didn't try and soldier only known to god according to a report by the international committee of the red cross out of one hundred twenty one graves eighty eight of them were clearly identified the relatives of those who were killed during the war were brought here to this building where they informed whether their loved ones were among those identified. they would be there has been working identifying victims in war zones for decades he says working on the islands was not easy. it was a complex process that took a very long time but the red cross formed the team that involved experts be different specialties from all around the world working on the islands was difficult because of the conditions there but it was successful. what made possible the identification process was an agreement between the u.k. and argentina with the assistance of the red cross. this agreement was based on humanitarian law and it's an umbrella that unites all those aside from the conflict that exists between countries that we will have to resolve but also shows that when the end benefits everyone the objectives can be achieved it. on tuesday not a model mace was told that her brother in law out of the was among those identified she's now hoping to eventually return her brother to the disputed islands where he was killed to be buried in agree with a stone that will be our he's name. european union finance ministers have revealed a blacklist of international tax havens many of the countries named are small caribbean and pacific islands but behind the united arab emirates also made the list that u. says seventeen jurisdictions in all are not cooperating on tax matters a wildfire in the u.s. state of california has forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes the blaze northwest of los angeles has burned more than eighteen thousand hectors more than one hundred fifty structures have been destroyed with many more at risk it's the worst year on record for wildfires in california a tanzanian artist has become the first black woman to win britain's most prestigious award the turner prize sixty three year old. is also the oldest person to receive the honor the judges praised him and pottery work as uncompromising in tackling issues including colonial history and racism the zanzibar born artist who lives in the north of england will receive thirty three thousand dollars. hello again they had lines on al-jazeera the u.s. president donald trump appears to be forging ahead with his plan to shift the u.s. embassy in israel to jerusalem from tel aviv despite warnings from members of his own administration and several arab leaders palestinian president mahmoud abbas says the move will have dangerous consequences. the position of president this is very good and if. this is going to be. this is a good. maybe it was the end of the peace process. back from. the gulf cooperation council summit that was supposed to last two days has ended after only one it's the first time members got together since saudi arabia a hurricane and the u.a.e. imposed a blockade on cats are in june while kuwait's foreign minister says the bloc remains crucial to regional stability only kuwait and qatar sent heads of state to attend. the u.n. security council has appealed to all sides in yemen to recommit to a un led political process to end the conflict its warning country faces a catastrophic famine and close to a million cases of cholera the security council is also calling for unhindered humanitarian access three men have been charged with the murder of a leading investigative journalist in malta daphne karunya whose reporting focused heavily on corruption in the island nation was killed in a car bombing in october the men charged with her killing pleaded not guilty in court the lebanese prime minister saad heidi has withdrawn his resignation after talks with opposition leaders how do these shocking announcement to step down while visiting riyadh last month raised fears regional powers were once again using lebanon as a proxy battleground those are the latest headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next they with us. yemen's ousted president who is known for political cunning and shifting loyalties but on monday time ran out. how will his death impact the escalating conflict and humanitarian crisis.