this is al-jazeera. hello again from doha everyone i'm come out santamaria this is the news hour from al-jazeera air and sea ports remain closed in yemen despite the saudi promise to lift a blockade and let some aid in also where police in papua new guinea raided a controversial australian detention camp and start forcibly removing refugees in zimbabwe the stock markets lost six billion dollars in a week so can a new president rescue the ailing economy and i didn't mean as navy says there may have been an explosion on the submarine that went missing more than a week ago. so the u.n. says saudi arabia has not followed through on its promise to lift a two week blockade. yemen's main international airport and one of its big seaports that is putting millions at risk of starvation and disease was on the lead coalition fighting in yemen had announced it would reopen the sunnah airport and the port of her data by thursday to allow in much needed aid but the red cross says there are now five cities without clean drinking water in the north son and her data those two cities we mentioned baiter again just those five cities puts two and a half million people at risk of a new cholera outbreak and other water borne diseases the u.n. says the blockade has aggravated an already die situation twenty one million people are in need of a this is being called the world's worst humanitarian disaster mohamad judging as our report. many expected that come thursday aid would be flowing once more through her data one of yemen's major ports saudi arabia announced on wednesday it would ease its blockade of yemen's air and sea ports and that within twenty four hours humanitarian supplies would resume arriving in her data where around eighty percent of yemen's food imports are delivered as well as via united nations flight to the capital sanaa on thursday u.n. officials still weren't totally sure when they'd be given access to restart bringing supplies to yemen we were told that the litigation received assistance. so we could in the applications or quest for the ships to come into the boards and also for flights to come into the committee going in syria to some also to bring it to our stuff so we would think things are normal procedures to get more of a light and we will see those places and those in the morgue for the recent opening of the ports as well as notification is it of the actual operational costs not. other aid workers have told ages either they welcome the saudi announcement but don't believe it goes far enough yemen the most impoverished country in the middle east is facing a number of crises. a cholera epidemic that has seen over nine hundred thousand suspected cases since april the largest outbreak ever recorded and the u.n. says seven million people are on the verge of famine and that severe acute malnutrition is in danger in the lives of almost four hundred thousand children plus the latest danger an outbreak of the potentially fatal disease diptheria is threatening children and the elderly in the central city of. not just human as it is said things are actually. the fuel shortage in the countries that he says you know we want to try meeting the fuel is a comedy this weekend is by necessity ghoulish and to a looper issues that. now as the u.n. grows yet more concerned and a humanitarian crisis becomes even more dire yemenis in desperate need wait for answers and aid. does either. we heard from alex divonne earlier he is the executive director of the world peace foundation and he says the international community has failed in its response to yemen habilis in yemen is the famine crime of our generation it is the destruction of an entire country true gradual degradation of its economic infrastructure its social welfare infrastructure the deprivation of food it's not as though the deliberate intent of the saudis and the reason that allies has been to create starvation but the way in which they have conducted the war has had that foreseeable result and their priority of conducting the war in the way they want to has consistently overwritten any humanitarian sensibility even up to today and clearly. unless nature so may not only to bring in urgently needed humanitarian assistance to open the port to open the airports to be sure to revive and rebuild the health care infrastructure but also to to rebuild the basic economy this is going to be a disaster that will last a generation if the united nations declares famine in a particular place it does cause a humanitarian outcry does call cause international agencies to say we must and to does generate publicity but there are no legal mechanisms there are no political or legal obligations on any government to act to prevent famine and this is clearly a shortcoming over many decades we have seen huge progress in overcoming famine in fewer famines less lethal famines and then in the last year or so that progress is being reversed because of the callous indifference of a number of governments around the world. in other news saudi backed syrian opposition groups have agreed to form a fifty member delegation that will attend next week's u.n. sponsored talks they again demanded the resignation of president bashar al assad during the conference on syria's future in riyadh but assad stepping down is not a precondition for negotiations meanwhile russia is planning to reduce the number of its troops by the end of the. this meeting one of several diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the fighting in syria you've got the talks in sochi russia president vladimir putin hosted the leaders of iran and turkey at the criminal wants to see assad support a political solution and it has planned a conference next month to achieve that but observers say it is unlikely assad would negotiate you've got the next round of u.n. backed talks to begin in geneva that starting on tuesday and the process running and. the latest round of talks there between opposition groups and government representatives the scheduled for early next month the major outcome from those has been the creation of the four so-called deescalation zones inside syria or mohamad chatah is a professor of conflict resolution at george mason university he joined us on the news hour earlier and said the agreement in russia actually raises complications for the next geneva talks. the question we should ask is what influence or what the real power mr de mistura has in bringing an twistin some using all the possibility towards the same time we have. or the meeting that becomes like a precondition step before geneva at the same time and the other question that we also should we should also entertain is how far the russians the turks and the iranians are helping the geneva process so unfortunately the geneva process is. being challenged more and more because we have four major crises within one we have the political crisis about syria and who should with that . should remain in power or not you have the humanitarian crisis half of the put it population is i.d.p.'s or even here is that unknown about half a million of casualties then you have the security crisis that is now being here out of the by all of the regional and international powers i'm talking about i said so everybody is trying to maneuver or to handle one segment of the crisis from this and the fourth one which is woodson in the or making it more difficult for jenny of . their time if occasionally of the latent cold war between the regional powers between the saudis and iranians and turks. now almost eleven hundred migrants were rescued on wednesday in the mediterranean sea by various age groups coast guards and e.u. patrol boats the german charity sea watch says its boats are now on their way to italy with two hundred fifty four refugees on board the group includes a newborn baby picked up with its mother after being delivered on one of those rubber boats libya of course one of the main transit countries for migrants trying to get to europe but many who are heard it on those boats never make it across the med instead they are picked up and returned to libya mahmoud of the law had reports now from a detention center in tripoli. these migrants were rescued by libya's coast guard in the mediterranean and brought here to this detention center in the libyan capital tripoli now they are from several african countries and they say they have fled war poverty and unemployment in their countries some of them say they have nothing at all to live on in their own countries they have taken a tough journey through the desert and they have paid people smugglers to get to libya to try to cross the mediterranean to europe authorities here say that these migrants add more pressure to the already troubled local economy the migrants are being taken care of by authorities here they also have to go through medical check and the international organization for migration helps deporting those who want a voluntary return to their countries with security and financial collapse in libya human trafficking and smuggling have become a groom trade not only african migrants who risk their life but also many libya locals paid people smugglers to get to europe through the mediterranean despite european efforts to monitor the mediterranean this crisis does not seem to be ending any soon until order and stability prevail in libya. many migrants who get trapped in libya though are often sold into slavery and as such are wonders government says it will offer some of them refuge become incitement and say how many refugees the country's willing to take hundreds of thousands traveling through libya often held by smugglers and forced to work for little or no money the libyan government is pledged to investigate the allegations that my concern being sold off . from the head of the presidential council to the interior ministry and the department working against illegal immigration dealing with this issue there have been instructions to form an investigative committee to find the truth and capture those responsible and take in the courts to be punished now twenty four hours ago we were getting the first news out of mannus island in papua new guinea about refugees being forcibly removed from the now closed detention center facility run by australia there these are some of the pictures that we had through protests ongoing this detention center as we said had been shut down however four hundred refugees had chosen to stay and this was them being forcibly removed we're going to get an update on the story now as we look at these pictures because andrew thomas our correspondents there he is on the line from mannus ireland what is happening now what's changed in these past twenty four hours. well it does now seem that what happened on the reporting was the beginning of the. removed well sadly. australian roderick the person. who still bad thing on the right side came out values now seemed like the first of many possibility at least six hospital e.g. have left them for a day and there are reports that the refugees have now been removed but not the sort of scale that would have been able to independently transfer i'm not yet. nevertheless started the refugees that we have spoken to inside and those that have been taken out so. now telling us the game itself back stay on the stand and say it's going to be close but they are now willingly despite that some of the video on friday on your media again from inside the person here show immigration officials and police wielding bullets from traces striking where you chiefs are a bit of a contradiction that the refugees say they know the game is up i'm not going to leave willingly and gets in the chance that seem to share them being forcibly remarks are still a bit of a on clearer picture and it's cool too much happening a long way from our cameras along with physically on mine a small island on the prison within a naval base and there are many checkpoints and so stop us getting anywhere close to where the you can see big old city being shops and things not all signed ok i have to keep asking this on this story andrew is clarification when we say they're being removed and going where are they going to be it is an island where they suspect. the trunk. they're turning to the only real town on the current account called laurent which is where i am right now it stops also now as well as away from that place and what's happened is that we all start really on the run twice and was found to be unconstitutional by a couple you can you call over a year ago and australia said fair enough we'll close it down i'm going to study the government they have built four hundred sixty exclusive tonnes of accommodation in the town with the papua new guinean government and the push to run now the refugees that i want to start a corporation they say it's not ready yet and frankly some of it is and we've seen having machinery still building code or some of it is pretty it's not luxury or it's but it's adequate for the refugees also cite there's a fair bit of safety in learning how to have been attacked from refugees in the past but could be absolutely mixed but main reason the refugees don't want to believe that i'm a christian because they are making a stand they are holding a crisis they are making the point that they don't want to be your group one person approaching to what they see as respectively another this morning town doesn't have balls and trying to bring the answer pleased as you say this is a romance on an interim note country and i don't see any cause for problem like this and they want to make as much noise as certainly if they feel transferred from one place to another to be absolutely honest this is not you will respond text than it is about the shoe dying just in terms of the long lived here and now andrew thomas is on man asylum thank you for that update he talks about well the protests and what happens to people you might remember if you were watching around this time yesterday we spoke to beth who is bush cheney who is a refugee on man a father and we've got him on the phone again now the who is can you hear me all right. so tell us where are you now and this moment i am in one of the near present time. you sort of roll. here and what is there tell us about it compared to where you were. morning the police. talked. to some of the refugees. in that time talking to. remove them by force to the new prison camp. on one complex. refugee more. police. may be a refugee board made. for. each mission mean a peaceful protest more than one hundred for more than point. where. peaceful only. i think i think. the government was younger our money it's responsible. saying i'm the one responsible because the australian government too caused by force to be silent being kept present com for more than forty years. force people and people those people and the refugees who are being recalled. by national as a refugee by some national no. right to. apply and therefore is to keep protesting way you on now and if you do what do you expect would happen to you given what you've seen happen in the last twenty four hours. we know i have any plans to. do a protest. against you know people. strange police in a prison camp. a lot of people. traumatized mind. where shall i. be to relocate them to. prison camp. yes we are refugees camps after which i don't know how many are trained in miami patient but many people who were traumatized. some of them are. injured so. whole situation is. there is thank you for talking to us again and it must be a very stressful time for you there but thank you for giving us those firsthand accounts let's move on the first images of robert mugabe and his wife grace have been released since the form of zimbabwe in the to resigned on tuesday mcgowan has been granted immunity from prosecution under a deal brokered as part of his resignation security and political sources have told al-jazeera the agreement guarantees his safety in zimbabwe and means he won't go into exile they're saying he wants to die in his home country was about the stock market has lost six billion dollars in its main index of some forty percent since last wednesday when the military seized power leading to the government stepping down as a mob when they are hoping that emerson. who will be sworn in on friday can turn this economy around andrew symonds reports on how badly. a soldier trying to sort out the gridlock in harare is russia. just over a week ago the army was engaged in a military takeover with armored cars deployed on these streets the pace of change here has its people still trying to take in our generation of all thorough syrian rule by robert mugabe could be passing to the man sitting beside him here in different times. and emerson moon and back where i had sworn loyalty to mugabe over many years in many different roles he was part of the fight for independence that came in one nine hundred eighty after a fierce bush war against forces from the white minority government of what was then rhodesia later he was also part of security operations that crushed rival liberation forces in meant to be land but he denied any part in massacres that saw thousands killed the new zimbabwe brought better education and health to the masses wouldn't get why rose in the ruling zanu p.f. party and he enjoys the support of many war veterans who led the campaign of violence against white farmers. those actions took zimbabwe into a new century and it's been one in which people have seen decline and ruin hyperinflation corruption food shortages in what was the breadbasket of africa even the loss of its currency and rampant unemployment on every street you see young people and often well educated but without jobs they're optimistic now but with reservations about one of gagra i want to hear the change of the political system from the autocratic to most. political system moon god why is seen as a man who's smart on business he's masterminded a move east meaning dealings with china and economists think he may deliver if he's bold with appointing the right people the former president. based on petrol it'd be really nothing to do with competence and what people can do you know can deliver so we're hoping that when you then go to a team that he's going to responsible for driving the economy is going to be different team and let him give confidence to the international community but also confidence locally people are what they have now is a real sense of anticipation this president will have to prove himself not just by words but actions and soon they've suffered too long with shortages on food on fuel to mention a few but most of all that anything else a shortage of hope it's going to be a hard act but a new president is about to set out on a journey that may not only bring new hope but better fortune to people who feel they deserve so much better and are simmons al-jazeera harari. here's what's coming up on this news hour we'll look at why a statue in san francisco's chinatown is straining relations with a city in japan also an n.f.l. game in washington reignites controversy this is the redskins taking on the new york giants in a traditional thanksgiving game those details coming up a little later. the families of forty four crewmembers of a missing submarine are furious at the argentinean government as fears grow over their fate the navy's announced that a possible explosion was detected near the last known location of the san juan but the vessel still hasn't been found these are some of the emotional scenes that they multiplied a naval base where relatives are gathering many accusing the government of deliberately keeping them in dark and letting the crew operate a submarine that was too old to navigate here is daniel schwimmer now at the plant a naval base in argentina have you got any clarity on this one daniel was there an explosion has that been confirmed is there any word on that the the mariners themselves. very little clarity i must say i mean the lights are still on at the naval base behind me but it does seem as though all hope has faded for the future of those forty four crew members i mean the information came about in a very strange way. the un body the monitors nucular tests in their base in vienna in austria they told the argentine ambassador in vienna that there had been an explosion eight days ago about three hours after the last communication at the submarine had with the argentine north dorothy's why that in for take information took so long to reach argentina is still in doubt that's something that certainly angered the families when they heard about it early this morning so there is still some confusion everyone here is talking about the indications that there's was a explosion but still haven't categorically come out and said that there was they haven't spoken with it me about the fate of the forty four crew members the huge search and rescue operation involving up to ten countries with planes with ships with underwater rescue equipment is still going on they have said this they're going to carry on searching for the submarine the. one outs or something like four hundred thirty kilometers out in the south atlantic ocean even if it is at the bottom of the sea they were saying that the submarine was sailing very close to the continental shelf about two hundred meters below the surface very close to that shelf the waters then did something like three thousand meters so if it is at the bottom of the sea it could be anything between the two hundred and not three thousand so this is the say the search and rescue operation continuing but hope for the future for the lives of those forty four certainly seems to be fading among the families among the population of argentina daniel there is talk about the age of the submarine being a factor here how old was it was it old for a submarine. it was all for a submarine it was built in germany west germany has it in him was in one nine hundred eighty three then commissioned by the argentine navy in one nine hundred eighty five it was refitted about thirty years later. twenty years later to serve another thirty years so the idea was that it would be serving it would be sailing until the twenty thirty's this was a diesel. yet but we just hold there and see if we could get back but it looks like the line has completely frozen anyway you get a good update on the situation as daniel has travelled to model parts on this story now the leader of germany's social democratic party is under pressure to help form chancellor angela merkel's government martin schulz met the president after talks to form a new administration broke down on sunday he is under increasing pressure to start coalition negotiations with mrs merkel dominic cain reporting now from berlin. it's been a day of meetings for the social democratic party leader martin short's first with his senior colleague the president of germany frank fattush fine meyer which was called at the request of the president basically to see whether mr shultz feels there's any possibility of being able to find a solution to the political and past that has developed since the weekend when the coalition talks between the other main parties collapsed and then there was a meeting for mr schultz with his senior party colleagues on the s.p.d. the social democrat board later in the afternoon the point to be made there is that mr schultz has been implacably opposed until now to the idea of another grand coalition with angle america's christian democrat party but increasingly voices of senior social democrat colleagues of his have said well look actually if there can't be a government of a different political hue maybe we should go back into government with angela merkel because germany needs to billet that's the point to make here that there are very many other factors at play not least on the european scale given the importance europe germany has in the e.u. given briggs it talks and other important european matters that will require a stable government in germany. well grabber break on the news when we come back by pink taking the world by storm but regulators are taking notice as well and later in sport a brazilian football star sentenced to nine years in prison for right that story and the rest of the sports still. sky by the time. there is the sun sets in the city of angels. hello it's getting surprisingly wet in southern china once again we've had for a couple of days rain focusing in the southwest united and where we've got great high this of it is snowing but largely we're talking rain a lot of it and there's more rain still barreling into the coast of vietnam in housing the still existing flooding but if anything the rain might edge bit further east or form if you like further research hong kong's involves sixteen degrees but a wet sixty. land a long way as well thirty degrees in shanghai and a dry picture in a cloudy one but this wind direction is wrong this time the air we should be seeing the northerly come back it's just temporarily taking a break to the south of that to the active wet season is very obvious big white clumps of cloud where the heaviest rain is now has been concentrated in singapore malaysia southern thailand recently malacca shows an example of hundred twenty eight millimeters some of that i think in the last twenty four hours and that's a substantial matter and even for the wet season there's more to come in the same sort of area with more of a concentrated i think developing concentration circulation the job or the lack of equally bring a lot of rain in the next day or. that remains the monsoon have not got to why the northeast breeze picks it up and i think the concentrated rays like to be in sri lanka. the weather sponsored by cattle face. captaining a leading used team at sixteen years old takes determination. to that staying on top of your game at school. the whole family bands together and shares the sacrifices necessary for a son to have a shot at becoming a professional footballer. the home game at this time. when the news breaks it was an announcement few were expecting to hear by announce my resignation as prime minister from the lebanese government and the story builds i can't stop thinking about the bullies my life when people need to behead. hundreds of thousands of. ethnic cleansing for bangladesh al jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news on and on line. on the news i hear at al-jazeera let's take you to the top stories officials in new guinea have now removed all three hundred seventy eight refugees from a former australian prison camp on manna silent. the facility was closed three weeks ago power was cut the refugees have been refusing to leave saying they fear being attacked by locals. the un says saudi arabia has not. followed through on its promise to lift a two week blockade on yemen's main international airport and a major seaport as well it had said it would reopen some airport and the port of data by thursday the u.n. says this blockade is worsened yemen's humanitarian crisis. and the argentinean navy says a possible explosion was detected near the last known location of the submarine that disappeared more than a week ago families of forty four missing crew members are furious of the argentinian government as fears grow over their fate. cambodia's ruling party has been left unopposed in parliament after the supreme court dissolved the main opposition party last week this is the latest in a series of movies and it cracking down on any criticism of the government but as rob mcbride reports from cambodia's capital some opposition groups are not giving up. under the flight path into phnom penh airport this modest house is now the headquarters of one of the few organizations opposed to the cambodian government the grassroots democratic party is just two years old it doesn't have any m.p.'s and is trying to build a base to support candidates in next year's general election. institution is not good. many in cambodia i. think journey will take longer than expected but somehow you need to accept and face. the party has already faced difficulties in the main committee room a portrait of its founder ken lay murdered last year in what many believe was a politically motivated killing. he was a fierce critic of long time prime minister concerned. his ruling party is now virtually unopposed in the national assembly and a number of seats from the defunct c.n.n. r.p. are being given to his allies but the government insists democracy is alive and well nine million people have the right to walk they can go to vote and they can. they can do. what they want and. join a contest unless that party becomes a threat say critics at the former headquarters of the c.n. r.p. all evidence of its existence has been raised it was the headquarters for a party that got three million votes at the last election and that nearly toppled the government the party made more gains in local elections last summer which it was the trigger for prime minister hun sen to take action. in the countryside c.n.r. peace signs remain alongside the ruling party of one thousand. but by the time cambodians go to the polls next july there will likely be no trace left that seems as inevitable as the winner of that election. is there a dump. in bangkok for us now kingsley abbott a senior international legal advisor for the edges of a program with the international commission of jurists i thank you for your time i think it might be worth just recapping for viewers who are just coming to this story the justifications given for dissolving an opposition party is it as simple as well they came close to toppling us so let's get rid of them. well the decision of the supreme court to dissolve the sea and up the is just the latest manifestation of the human rights and rule of law crisis gripping cambodia and while the allegations heard in the supreme court have an air of unreality about them a color revolution in fact the consequences for millions of people are very serious they've now been denied the right to choose their elected representative and for to vote for them in the upcoming elections and their other concerns with the supreme court decision to the law allowing the supreme court to dissolve political parties was amended just weeks before the supreme court dissolved to see an r.p. and the president of the supreme court that presided over this hearing also sits on the same committee of the ruling party and so there's a clear conflict of interest which makes a mockery of the whole legal system in cambodia at the moment so is there an opposition really i mean our reporter there was talking to these small groups like the grassroots party who want to oppose this government but do they really even have a chance. i think that's an interesting question whilst the c n r p now has ceased to exist legally and more than one hundred of its senior membership is banned from political activity for more than five years another way of looking at the sea and the it is that it is its underlying supporters and that is millions of people who have voted for it for them in the past and may potentially vote for them again in the future so the concern because those people are still there is that this human rights and rule of law crisis that i described may still have a long way yet to play out one of the next elections due in cambodia i'm wondering if it even matters now if this is the way that the supreme court can rule. the elections have been sit down for four july next year and. if they take place in the current environment where astley. is absent of human rights then the international community absolutely should not be validating them all political economic and legal options should be on the table and these elections are important not just for cambodia but also for the region let's not forget for example that thailand has also indicated that it may be holding elections in november next year and i'm sure that thailand which is currently under a military regime will be watching the cambodian elections very carefully and also the international community's reaction to them. who's got the influence you know i think about other crises in the region you talk about north korea and it's you know the onus goes on china to do something about them who potentially has the influence over cambodia. well there are many points of influence obviously china has influence as we all know but those who have provided the most support to actually setting up the elections next year is also japan and the european union so there i think is an opportunity for them to walk away from the elections next year in light of the supreme court decision also we're looking for leadership from within the country from judges from lawyers within the departments who don't like the direction that cambodia is going in and lastly there's a lot of concern to be had about the justification that the government is putting forward for these actions saying that they are consistent with the rule of law and that's something we've seen increasingly from one saying from the ministry of justice from the ministry of foreign affairs and actually from within the region and that idea has to be challenged head on because the rule of law is not about simply obeying to mystic laws the international community has all the international commission of jurists has worked on defining the rule of law since the one nine hundred fifty s. and the three pillars of it are quality and accountability and predictability passing laws which are not discriminatory including on political grounds and ensuring that the laws both passed and implemented in a way that's consistent with international human rights loren standards i think they are but we thank you for your time on this topic in cambodia thank you very much. lebanon's prime minister has described the political crisis following his resignation announcement as a wake up call on his urge the lebanese to put their country first santeria he suspended his resignation following his return to beirut on wednesday his surprise decision to quit in the first place was announced in saudi arabia two weeks prior it was seen as part of a regional power play between saudi arabia and iran and a holder with more now from beirut the political crisis has eased but the main problem between the two major political alliances the pro and pro hezbollah camps has not gone away hezbollah's arms and the groups this issue and to militarily intervene in conflicts beyond lebanon's borders have long divided the lebanese political differences that are unlikely to be resolved anytime soon. i believe an agreement can be reached to stick to the disassociation policy lebanon should stay away from all the conflicts of the arab region we need a new disappear because of politics i'm not. just like. i'm the one with the ball game somebody is playing with them all controlling them and many. of them is standing by him so three weeks ago lebanon found itself yet again on the brink prime minister resigned while he was in saudi arabia it was unexpected even his closest aides were shocked to stay in the kingdom was mysterious many in lebanon including the president accuse saudi arabia of forcing him to resign and holding him hostage last week he left for paris after french mediation he came back to stay he then decided to suspend his resignation saying he wants to give time for dialogue so what happened many here believe it was not an internal lebanese affair can he do when you can be a major powers you small opposed to avoid direct conflicts which is the case between iran and saudi they each supporting some. groups in lebanon to fight the battle for example the saudis are using prime minister hariri to pressure iran and hezbollah. have. groups and many of them are supported by foreign powers and none of them is sticking to dissociation policy here nor are they working for the interests of lebanon. as foreign minister has made a keynote speech at a counterterrorism conference in london a blockade against qatar is now approaching its sixth saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind in egypt all accusing her of funding terrorism which denies the hunted and says the country remains committed to eradicating all kinds of terrorism. wants constantly. active approaches to the global threat on terrorism and a change. since two thousand and four. steps to cut off the us of terrorists by developing the legislation at the property just with a framework and improve our financial monitoring system. and its ideology must be a stick approach by coming by combining tough security measures with more. we cannot succeed. with more from london with that conference happens. although the main theme of this conference here in london is combating terrorism and how to confront groups like isis on to eradicate the threat that they pose to governments around the world there is an underlying theme behind all of this which is the g.c.c. crisis the fact that qatar has called organize this event is significant because how has been accused by the blockading countries who have laid siege to qatar for almost six months now of actually sponsoring terrorism or the puppet government wants to achieve through organizing an event like this is to say that not only are those like you say asians but in fact the president governments and other authorities are at the forefront of combating terrorism and violence extremism as it's called together with partners like the united kingdom the united states and the european union so that's in itself is significance we are hard statements not only from the foreign minister but also british ministers like the birds responsible for the middle east and the foreign office here are saying that obviously the push to fight or to combat terrorism will require a lot more cooperation would require a lot more resources by all parties in the region and in the international community obviously the fact that the g.c.c. itself is not in unison is severely divided is something that is troubling as far as a lot of the politicians are concerned. now a new statue in san francisco commemorates the so-called comfort women during world war two and in doing so it's straining ties with a socket in japan which is san francisco. rob reynolds has the full story. the statue in san francisco's chinatown neighborhood shows three somber young asian women holding hands while an older woman looks on from below. activists say it symbolizes the hundreds of thousands of women and girls mostly from korea who were abducted and enslaved in imperial japanese military brothels before and during the second world war eighty nine year old young so levy is one of the few surviving so-called comfort women she was kidnapped from korea at age fifteen and forced to work in a bra in taiwan where one woman would be forced to have sex with as many as one hundred or more soldiers every day. activists in south korea and the united states say the government of japan has not issued a sufficiently sincere apology for that brutal war time treatment activists have set up dozens of similar memorials around the world angering the japanese government. the comfort women issue has been deviled japanese south korean relations for decades despite repeated efforts to agree on an acceptable apology and reparations for survivors now it has damaged u.s. japanese friendship as well the mayor of osaka japan's second largest city severed its sixty year old sister city relationship with san francisco mayor hero for me yoshimura said san francisco breach of trust with osaka by officially accepting the privately funded memorial as city property he called the decision japan bashing japan's prime minister. shinzo has called on south korea to remove similar memorial statues but south korean president in his refuse also casts doubt on a twenty fifteen agreement meant to settle the comfort women issue saying the korean people cannot emotionally accepted a traumatic legacy of war echoing down through generations robert oulds al jazeera electronic cigarettes are becoming more and more popular there are millions of users around the world now and the states in the us are trying to regulate what has become a multi-billion dollar industry and they're implementing laws that would treat them more like traditional tobacco cigarettes and is on their reports now from new york . up close it looks like cigarette smoke. but this is coming from someone who's babying from an electronic cigarette to understand what babying is look no further than frank de gras because it his store in new york that is all he sells ten years ago i think is when i first started by the really exploded maybe you know a three or four years think of it is smoking but with flavors everything from cinnamon to watermelon to coffee the flavors derived from a variety of oils that babe arises there inhaled from an electronic device it's estimated about twenty million people in the world bape half of them are in the us de gras says customers often use beeping to wean themselves off tobacco cigarettes well we won't know for twenty years but people who are using it now across the board will feel better look better moving better i think than we thought people walk into the store and say i would never be able make this walk from my car to the store shelves till now. but health advocates say the chemicals in babying are dangerous oftentimes people that use these products are under the impression that they are safe that is just water but the u.s. surgeon general has said that it's not just water that is potentially harmful last year the european union decided to regulate the cigarettes the same as tobacco even placing a broad ban on advertising of beeping products there is a lot at stake. blowing smoke electronically is big business cigarettes now represent a two point five billion dollar a year industry the global market is expected to reach as high as thirty two billion in the next four years while the industry is growing so too is this scrutiny new york is now the eleventh state in the u.s. to enact a ban on babying anywhere cigarettes are prohibited most shop owners say that these new rules at least here in new york city will defect their business because most people that vapor are smokers or former smokers that have been used to these rules for many years health officials everywhere continue to face how to regulate the new baber smoke increasingly in the air gabriels on dough al-jazeera new york. still ahead for you on al-jazeera. i'm late weddings with the samoan wagner squad preparing for a guy against england here in london have been declared bankrupt but there's more to the story than not. a look at what's happening in sport nies far. thanks very much the washington redskins are currently hosting the york giants and a traditional thanksgiving n.f.l. game but the match itself has reignited controversy the host team the redskins is a name many people see as a slur against native americans alan fisher has more. or many have been preparing the feast simon moir smith has been preparing the protest he says he will highlight the forgotten story of thanksgiving so we call this the justice for natives rally because of the omission of the murdered and mutilated native. and the thanksgiving narrative people don't know about it don't talk about it you know it's a very whitewashed myth made comfortable narrative for people. that has been simmering anger to over the name of the team in washington the redskins there's been a concerted effort to have it changed opponents claiming it is blatantly racist the american psychological society said such names and mascots are harmful but the union says the name is here to stay of you backed up by the majority of fans in several polls when you've got a mascot major n.f.l. football team that are boiling us down to this one representation one very represent racist representation on a holiday that's also supposed to honor the relationship that colonial governments have with native americans for us it's just all off the team's name was the big controller say in the sport in recent years but the focus this season and last has been more on players taking in the joining the national anthem to protest racism we're going to talk about police brutality and we need to include natives in the discussion right now that dialogue is very much black and white but it's not natives are more likely to die at the hands of police those who are protesting say this is about more than just the name this is about celebrating an imagery and the behavior that was cruel and grotesque when people native to this land men women and children were literally skinned for money changing the name they insist would be a first step that would be something they could celebrate alan fischer al-jazeera at the home of the washington redskins. brazilian forward has been sentenced to nine years in prison for rape or being convicted of taking part in the gang rape of an albanian woman in milan in two thousand and thirteen an italian court ruled that the thirty three year old and five other brazilians assaulted the woman who was twenty two at the time after plying her with alcohol in a nightclub or being you know who currently plays with atletico men arrow in brazil pleaded not guilty the his lawyer and has never appeared at any of the court hearings in italy he denies the charges and says he will appeal the decision. the favorites to win the europa league arsenal suffered an upside to their group game against cologne but will still progress as group h. winners are some vendor made eleven changes for the trip to germany and watched his side go down one nil they win the group because red star belgrade drew against a bar table saw a brazilian side gremio has taken the upper hand after the first leg of the cope at liberty to doris a final this is the biggest club football competition in south america they were hosting argentinian side lanas who are competing and their first final lanas held firm until the eighty third minute when midfielders came off the bench to clinch a one nil victory. heading to the second leg and when a serious next wednesday hoping to clinch their first copa liberty doors title since one thousand nine hundred five. with very strong on home soil will be without people or opponent also knows that we are stronger at alvin i believe that the final is there is no way goals rule we just need one goal to equalise a final. the samoan rugby team are going through difficult times on and off the pitch as they prepare to face a strong team in london samoa haven't won an international this year and the rugby association declared itself bankrupt a claim being disputed by world rugby bosses al-jazeera is only welling's reports well as you can hear the samoan saying preparing here in southwest london for the game because they are already very good spirits be a little surprising considering the problems they have hard with the prime minister of the countries also ahead of the association coming forward and saying we just don't have the money huge concern for the sport and they've got this big fight against an england team who are winding high second in the world rankings and genuinely trying to challenge the marty all blacks one of the best teams in the world right now and you know this. for us to get us one or get a good performance. over here it's you know the prospect when they met while this summer and same have been in england there has been a development on their financial story which is that won't be cited by all being supported that they do have the money that they're not bankrupt and we will do everything it can to make sure they're ok i mean we did see with a twenty twenty three rugby world cup going to france that was for financial reasons that was i world rugby could support the smaller nations who are struggling . in the middle i want to stay out of this and say look it's between samoa and world rugby and this that the england players would give some of their considerable much thousands of dollars what doesn't that's going to happen as for the much itself and i'm trying not to disturb the players going through every saying here. they had a disappointing defeat against for my new and i haven't won this year so they're really going to need to step it up against this england side unlikely to when we think back to the days when some are over eighteen well cup finals in the ninety's but what people want is to put in a good performance because there's so much talent out there. it's very. well al-jazeera. boys are having fun so. that's why we play rugby do you think. they saw play your best performance of the year. but this is the one way to. do it. and that's all useful for now more later. jordan's along with the latest here on al-jazeera in just a moment. one of the really special things that working for al jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for us as you know it's very challenging there but it is but the killer because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. with over forty thousand people killed under his rule it took twenty five years to bring him to a court of law. but why for so long with such a brutal dictator considered an ally of the west you're reporting to the congress that the press there were engaged to a plan just look at 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