Still robin youre watching the aljazeera news our life one headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. Were watching those votes lead a vote against us will save a lot threats from donald trump were just hours away from a showdown between some members of the United Nations and the white house plus. At this stage we believe that a deliberate act and i repeat that at this stage we believe he is i believe work act two people have been arrested after a car plows into a crowd in Melbourne Australia injuring at least nineteen. Also the cholera epidemic in yemen reaches one million cases in just nine months one of the reasons the wall told country its facing the worlds worst humanitarian crisis and this election day in catalonia its a vote many hope will finally result spains political crisis. Welcome to the news hour the United Nations will be debating a draft resolution rejecting president daal chance of recognition of jerusalem as israels capital starting in the next couple of hours now washington has already threatened to cut aid to United Nations members who vote against his actions mike hanna has more from new York Security Council staff pose with the secretary general for an annual photograph is called then its business as usual in the chamber like most other Member States those represented here unwilling to comment publicly on the extraordinary letters sent by u. S. Ambassador nikki haley ambassador did you receive the letter from nikki haley about the. Many letters and the majority view apparently summed up by one representative who was willing to comment that our position on this case has been very clear we had the opportunity to express ourselves in the Security Council so so thats our very strong and prince principled position as we did was one of the fourteen Council Members who voted in favor of the jerusalem resolution monday the veto by the u. S. Is accompanied by an angry statement from the ambassador what we witnessed here today in the Security Council is an insult it wont be forgotten what some would regard as a thoroughly belled threat driven home in a letter circulated to all Member States regarding the vote taking place in the General Assembly thursday. As you consider your vote the ambassador writes i want you to know that the president and the u. S. Take this vote personally she continues the president will be watching this vote carefully and has requested i report back on those countries who voted against us President Trump made clear what the possible consequences could be they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us while were watching this vote let them vote against us will save a lot. We dont care but privately many u. N. Members are outraged at the letters bullying and threatening tone and what was to be a vote condemning attempts to unilaterally change the status of jerusalem may gain even added significance in november more than one hundred fifty nations voted in favor of a resolution declaring all israeli actions in jerusalem as now and void as it was an occupying power a similar result in the General Assembly thursday would also be a sweeping international rejection of President Trump and his policies mike hanna al jazeera United Nations. Well the turkish and Palestinian Foreign ministers dismissed trumps threats and said no country should be intimidated humen know we were with the u. S. Says well track down who voted for what and well report to the u. S. President we will get the names of the countries one by one what we do by getting these will you allow invasions into those countries or you punish them the world has changed the notion of i am powerful therefore i am right has changed now the world is rising against the unfair from now on no honorable nation no honorable state will bow to such pressure. This is really you. Know. I dont think. You will be but we have reporters in washington d. C. Garza and jerusalem our White House Correspondent kimberly how it is standing by and so is malcolm webb in gaza but first lets go to her a force that in jerusalem the israelis have been working hard behind the scenes as mike hanna reported on trying to cut off the u. N. Scenarios like this by drumming up International Support i mean whats the mood of senior politicians. Well i think there is a recognition that this vote is likely to go only one way and that is why Benjamin Netanyahu has been coming out really just trying to ridicule the whole nature of this vote and undermine it saying the state of israel rejects this vote even before it is held never short of an insult or ten for the United Nations that the one hes using at the moment is calling it a house of lies and he is saying that there is wider changing of views among foreign powers towards israel and hes saying that that will eventually percolate its way into the United NationsGeneral Assembly as well that it took the u. S. Seventy years to recognize jerusalem as israels capital cert might take a few more for the rest of the members of the u. N. However at the same time as he is really trying to marginalize the importance of this vote hes also or least his government is lobbying very hard to try and head it off his Deputy Foreign minister has said just that there are immense efforts underway to try and change minds there are lobbying efforts to try and get people to abstain or even potentially vote against i think that theres also something to do with the way that the israelis have been treating lots of bilateral relationships in recent years that you know putting a lot of weight behind opening up new relationships in africa in south america improving ties with china and india with a view quite openly towards changing the way that some of these votes go down in the United Nations so there is some weight obviously with the israelis do give to what happens inside the u. N. Security council and the General Assembly on this particular occasion though given just how isolated the United Nations how isolated United States is even from its very close allies i dont think theres much expectation here that theyre going to get much traction in terms of getting people to vote against morsi what happens there lets move over to our colleague malcolm webb whos in garza and of course the palestinians have been angry since trump declared his governments position maybe whats the mood like there as we count the minutes and hours away until the u. N. General assembly meets. Well as you say people angry they still say theyre angry and greatly incensed as they have been for the last two weeks has been demonstrations most days since then on weekdays they tend to be smaller ones on fridays has been much bigger demonstrations on wednesday there was a couple hundred people gathered to protest against the u. S. Veto at the u. N. Security detail of the resolution at the u. N. Security council to maintain the status of jerusalem for wednesday a small crowd gathered here to protest that but a bigger demonstration is expected tomorrow the different factions different political factions here are all involved in the hamas spokesperson said there will be two demonstrations one in the north of gaza one in the south the pending what happens at the u. N. General Assembly Later today well be waiting to see how many people turn up for those demonstrations to see what happens tomorrow well leave it there with you for the moment. Go straight over to the u. S. And cuba how could our correspondent in washington d. C. And one can only assume that the white house is prepared for any eventuality because the Administration Hands very clearly set out its position and must have a press release set up for any eventuality. It certainly does but i think what everyone is watching is just how far of this bullying as its being perceived by the president is going to be received by some of the countries that are voting we certainly do know that the positions of some of those members of the Security Council will not change in this wider u. N. Vote for example britain france japan but as the other sort of smaller nations that certainly are being watched very closely because of course with this threat to cut off aid to countries in asia and africa and even latin america much more affected by such a tactic so certainly that is something is being very watched very carefully not just in new york but also in washington and around the world and the other thing that is being taken into account too is just how far these these threats with towards u. S. Allies are being taken and how theyre being received given the fact that dont campaigned on very isolationist policies but at the same time well its been known for some time now that he is not the most adept diplomat certainly this is just another underscoring of donald trump sort of inability to understand the magnitude of soft power in the effectiveness of that tool when offering aid how this works and building relationships and allies the recession right now donald trump has turned his back on but that also is sort of another scoring of the original announcement on december sixth when violated Just International consensus and also u. N. Resolutions there with regard to the status of jerusalem just briefly could believe i was. Down to the american. Domestic american. About the position of the. President. Well certainly you have to remember that these isolationist policies are what a very large swath of america supports americans right now have just watched the president pass a very relatively a popular tax package but at the same time are still looking to see whether or not it will improve their day to day lives and what americans are struggling what theyre not focused on is outside their borders so there is a certain element of the United States and the American Voter that supports what the president has said supports that and doesnt understand that concept of soft power and the tool of aid and doesnt understand why so many tax dollars are going outside the United States was so many are suffering so well there certainly at the diplomatic level and in the Academic Circles is concern for the president s policies on the ground on the american street there are many that support what he is doing or leave that fellow vets with you throughout the day things. Well south africas Ruling African National congress has passed a resolution to downgrade the countrys embassy in israel to a Liaison Office it says the decision is to give practical expression to the oppression full people of palestine. Police have arrested two people in connection with a car time. Crash into pedestrians injuring at least nineteen people its not clear what the motive walls but mobile police say there is no evidence of a link to terrorism so far from a hoax to. Panic in the streets of central melbourne on a busy thursday afternoon witnesses say an s. U. V. Accelerated into a crowd of christmas shoppers during rush hour it happened in the citys Central Business district just after a full thirty local time the area is close to mobiles main train station Victoria State Police say the driver was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed after his car crashed and came to a stop a second man was arrested. At this stage we have fourteen people injured and several i critique. At this stage we believe is it a deliberate act and i repeat that at this stage we believe it is i deliver it act however we do not know either my device and is still early stages of the investigation witnesses described how the car showed no signs of slowing down among the victims is a preschool age child immigration and Border Protection minister peter dutton said there have been five terror attacks in the country since the National Threat level was increased in september two thousand and fourteen of syrian authorities and now on high alert meanwhile police in melbourne have cordoned off the area as Police Officers carry out further investigations and a hoax that out is there are. Plenty more here on the news hour including defiance from bruce president the latest south american leader caught up in allegations of corruption with live in lima. And in sport regional politics hits the gulf cup football tournament saudi arabia withdraws from a press Conference Due to the presence of qatar based channels including aljazeera. At least four people have died after a ferry with hundreds on board capsized off the coast of the philippines now it was traveling from the town of in fund in case on province to police or island over two hundred passengers and crew have been rescued now the red cross says the number of suspected cholera cases in yemen has reached one million more than two thousand people have died from the highly contagious infections and see cholera outbreak began in april the u. N. Says the water on country is facing the worlds worst humanitarian crisis with eighty percent of its population suffering from a shortage of food clean water and access to health care. Well and jackie may is the middle east spokeswoman at the International Committee of the red cross she joins me now on skype from geneva good to have you with us its an incredibly exacerbated problem that yemen is facing what sort of problems are you facing as the i. C. R. C. To try to get aid into those areas that need it most. Well as you said in your introduction eighty percent of the young men that i did for locally were tell us is that health care or all of these not one Single Family yet thats it right now that we are able to bring humanitarian aid into the outreach even though it made it difficult to cross the front lines and bring these in everywhere by registering people at this point is that commercial or its another meeting in yemen this is a country of twenty seven Million People in the euro many then community is not in a position to gauge of all the needs of the whole country what we need is for commercially in words of food or fuel and of medicine to be three here and now you say that of course its not freely allowed to come into the country thats because of a blockade by saudi arabia so you have to be diplomats as well as humanitarians who are you going to try and put pressure on saudi arabia to lift that blockade so you can get aid into port like a date and aids. Well yes it is conflict that has almost its almost three years old now is a lot of respect for being who is of International Human and they all of the weve seen is a lot of respect from me in the sense that they were and what we do about them of course bringing aid in the field is also talking to all of those going on in the conflict and to the states that have a need for us on those got to remind them of their basic duties which is you get to fight but you have to restrain the civilian population you have to use that civilian infrastructure such a close does and schools and were just systems has not been that is indias got really and you have to allow people to have a system. And obviously food clean water and fuel to power in the us because a lot of beating me i would agree with you and every interview weve done with the i. C. R. C. They are fine words but practically you have a problem because obviously the diplomats the governments that are going on blockade in yemen. Exacerbating this problem of the International Community has again through the u. N. And through other major capitals of the world who have a lot of those that are blockading to lift the blockade so you can do your job properly you cant do your job properly at the moment and so i would ask you with the aid you have in the country in the yemen right now where are the problem where the problem areas for you where are you managing to get aid to where do you still need to get it to. Well we basically managed to get aid pretty much everywhere because weve been in yemen for a long that i trust us and we can cause a lot of lights that look and its not what were seeing the Global Images that again all that every human he didnt want us to get that we can not covered it needs we can only cover a small part of the needs we need commercially points and first and foremost we need fuel because fuel means was because running that scene is being getting that quoting it means whatever. You spoke of going out but got it out even though it is bigger than we did with the u. S. One hundred twenty seven yemenis and now theyre going to are doing yet though we see an outbreak of these d. V. D. s why because children have not been vaccinated and we want to know what next well we shall see what does happen for the moment its always good to speak to your lender secondly there from the i. C. R. C. Thank you thank you so voting is underway in catalonia a regional poll which may indicate the extent of public support for seating from spain separatist parties are pitted against rivals who want to stay part of spain a record turnout is expected paul brennan joins me now from barcelona attendance was expected to be hi paula and the votes very tight how has the day unfolded. Well its been