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You with the news grid live on air in streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com and weve all seen the pictures havent we the ones of children suffering through war and weve almost universally reacted with the thought this should not be happening children should not be part of grown ups wars and yet as you see from these sorts of pictures and as were going to tell you about on todays news grid it is happening and in some cases its seemingly happening deliberately first yemen where al jazeera has obtained a u. N. Report accusing the salvia coalition of causing the majority of killings and injuries of children there over the summer it says the Coalition Response was responsible for killing sixty eight children and wounding thirty six others during bombing campaigns from july to september and it found there were up to thirty Coalition Raids every day some actually targeting schools and homes but it also points the finger at the hooty rebels blaming them for the deaths of eighteen children for wounding twenty nine. On top of all this both sides are accused of recruiting children as child soldiers so lets start with the thoughts of this is very megan she is a protection and advocacy advisor on yemen at the Norwegian Refugee Council told us earlier that the International Community must do more just to stop the conflict. This report details children who have been killed in attacks in violence but it doesnt account for the millions of others that are affected by the conflict including thousand that have. Hundreds of thousands that have been affected by cholera children that are not able to go to School Children that are on the brink of dying of starvation so id like to think itll be taken seriously but it remains to be seen i it is astounding to me that we have a United NationsSecurity Council that has not commented on yemen in now more than seven months that the scale of suffering in yemen is incomparable that we have twenty two Million People in need a west peaking to families who are fleeing their homes because of violence in constructing houses out of plastic bags and people dont have enough to eat theyre forced to eat whatever they can find this this sort of suffering is inexcusable and wed really like to see some action taken from the u. S. The u. K. And the United NationsSecurity Council that were seeing that all parties to this conflict have complete disregard for the impact of the conflict on civilians and the numbers might be increasing or decreasing but we can never be absolutely sure what those numbers are because some of these areas are so hard to reach in any case any attack that impacts civilians or forces them to leave their homes is clearly in violation of the rules of war and something we call on parties to to stop immediately. So that was a little earlier today in a moment were going to be speaking live to a professor of child and adolescent Mental Health about the long term effect all of this has on children so send in your questions hash tag as i could of course it could be on twitter at i j english look for the tweets there and reply in the thread at facebook dot com slash aljazeera if youre watching the live stream plays pop your comments in there as we go along or send us a question on whats happening plus months of full five hour one triple one four nine well this war in yemen is already having a toll on children of course but for those who have disabled magine that comes with a whole more set of challenges look at us. By the minute the idea this time in the not when the mom said. This time and the man on the on the not. Forgotten when the minister met her on on the island now you are lucky that when the nine yes i do i can i know by then they know they i would honestly i dont know how yes. But im i i i get them and now i shall pass by your side larry i imagine and to me its sad imagine my. So thats yemen think about syria too of course almost seven years of war there driving the largest refugee crisis in the world and of course impacting millions of children we see these the latest numbers which we found from unicef the United Nations childrens. Charity as we look at the numbers here sorry for the resolution there but in syria six million children affected out of a total of thirteen and a half million and the numbers just get more well it works in a way when you think about people have had to leave their homes three Million People nearly three million simply forced to leave their homes five point four million more than five point four million are syrian refugee children there are just so many of them the numbers dont get any better and in fact those are the most up to date numbers as you see there just drag it over a little bit two thousand and seventeen humanitarian results those numbers from unicef right up to date well still with syria the United States is now taking a tough stand against suspected chemical weapons attacks in syria something which affects children but everybody of course. Ministers not ruling out military action as well to deter Syrian Government forces after a suspected chlorine attack in duma on thursday Stephanie Deca more with more on that from antakya in Southern Turkey near the border with syria. Eastern water is one of the socalled deescalation zones but it doesnt feel like it on the ground this is the last rebel held area close to the capital damascus the siege by Government Forces for years now allegations of another chlorine gas attack doctors say patients showed symptoms in lied with inhalation at the gas artery that are the. This is renewed aggression by the regime using touring gas against a place where people lived in two months this is the food chemical attack in fifteen days. The u. S. Has reacted concerned about the Syrian Governments Chemical Weapons Program and capabilities its chemical weapons should have been destroyed after decommissioning deal brokered by russia five years ago that followed what the Obama Administration said was a red line chemical attack in the same rebel controlled area which killed at least one thousand three hundred people the trumpet ministration has taken a more active approach in reaction to an alleged chemical weapons attack in North Eastern syria in april last year the u. S. Fired fifty nine tomahawk missiles at a syrian airfield where they believe the attack originated and now the americans are hinting they suspect the Syrian Government still has chemical weapons. The un estimates Eastern Ghouta is home to around four hundred thousand syrians starving and malnourished getting aid to these people is fraught with challenges the Un Special Envoy to syria egeland says that there is a desperate need for humanitarian pause in eastern guta he added that both the Syrian Government and the armed opposition are failing hundreds of thousands of civilians who are stuck in these besieged areas it seems almost seven years into this war and despite the political meetings taking place many thousands of kilometers away it is the military option that remains the priority for all sides Stephanie Decker are just there and. We return now to our focus on children we have is joining us a professor of child and adolescent Mental Health at the university of leicester and we thank you for your time so. Its hard to know even where to start with this sort of story but tell me about the immediate effects that all of this has on children a child whos going to school has living a normal life and suddenly bombs start falling from the sky. Exactly thats the first question is to try to make sense of of the catastrophe event but that does not mean that we cannot put some kind of structure and different stages up helping children no matter how difficult the circumstances are show you to show i get you out i to think of the immediate effect when the humanitarian exposes is the priority. But then we have to direct impacts on children why nice that what they obviously experience what they see what happens to them and to their loved ones but we also have being direct exposure to trauma which can be more subtle or less reasonable but actually quite difficult to break that peace through the loss of Community Supports and impact on their parents and School Schools its a big point and were actually going to be talking more about schools a little later theres an Education Summit going on but the fact that school is usually the one constant in a childs life they can rely on that in a way im going to go to school five days out of seven take that out of the equation what happens exactly say its as if we taking away the key protective factor the safe haven in a childs life and the next question is how we can get a place that weve seen within the constraints of the courts leaked the safe haven is this some kind of normality while the conflict goes on and thats extremely difficult of course does it ever go away im just wondering about you know in your experience in your. Research that youve done with a child who has grown up i mean do they ever as i say does it ever leave them. Well there will never forget and i think the same applies to all types of trauma from National Abuse neglect Domestic Violence all the you know the west human disasters that people experience but here were talking about the emotional impact and were talking about children and adults cup prosody to leave normal life and then he said believe very strong evidence that can do that the question is how long this goes on for and the chain of events and vulnerabilities and traumas that it will leave im just reading some notes here talking about psychology helping on several levels. Again. The just such delicate people children that theyre absorbing so much and then so much going on for them putting a level of psychology on top of that and treat i mean again how does that how does that help how careful do you have to be. Yes and then actually absorb a lot more than we think even very Young Children in just that will expects to in different ways that will not that thick you lay so it can be mixed what they absorb so you may think a child is behaving well and they have not suffered any trauma so psychology Mental Health costs. In the modern well cause a lot more level such you mentioned a lot more opportunities to help its not just through direct interventions which obviously many important but they may not be possible for a while anyway they may not be available so the Different Levels are doing still safety to do to change environments were talking about whether it have huge a concert with schools to make them which centered to train hugh money daddy and stuff not to become psychologist but to take two to adopt the second show shall perspective a lot of what were doing in our training in a program i work on called when i when its what Children Program and then ask weighty building their lives to to build that is really a sort of schools communities again that hes a lot psychology can offer to develop strategies within existing supports not create new ones and then we have the other levels of. New programs which are brief cycle education coping strategies programs which nonspecialists can deliver us on this Electronic Component that and of course what you indicate at the beginning of interventions by specialist for those who do not respond and if they are available of course so much for young people to deal with is an honest post on this i thank you for your time and for your expertise on this. Where to start with this one a down to zero dot com in the archives theres so much strong content so just picked out a couple of recent ones of that this interactive piece here on series childrens of warner really does cover all the bases weve been talking about the issues of schooling of potentially being recruited for war the psychological toll so theres that one in the interactive section and theres also this council which we havent talked about today individual stories from children who have in some cases survived multiple was just think of what theyve seen think of the impact it has had on them you will find their stories and so many more by searching for children of war at aljazeera common you can use the filters to narrow down your search into different sections of the website. Who but if the heavy stuff isnt very important stuff for us to deal with moving on to something completely different the white house which is expected to release a memo reportedly accusing the f. B. I. And Justice Department of misleading a judge this is during the investigation into the alleged russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen president ial election it is a document prepared by republicans on the House Intelligence Committee. The f. B. I. Has objected to to its release those saying it is misleading and it reveals sensitive intelligence information perhaps no surprise we see this from donald trump as a tweet from just a few hours ago the top leadership in investigators that the f. B. I. And the Justice Department havent this is the important thing politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of democrats and against republicans something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago so thats his latest salvo saying that the whole process has been politicized can really help that outside the white house hello kimberly i guess everyones on tenterhooks waiting for this one. Thats right but i think you said it well in your transition there at this washington nonsense really put into context comparison to the story that precedes this but yeah washington has got itself into a bit of a tizzy over this one it really has been gaining steam all week has both sides really essentially behaved like children pointing the fingers at one another politicizing a process over this memo that was drafted at the political level the House Intelligence Committee and congress sent to the white house the white house has taken a look at it with its legal team redacted sections and now all of washington talking essentially about when a memo is going to be released i mean certainly the president has a stoke the flames with his tweets essentially lining him up against some top Law Enforcement officials that he appointed thats what often makes all of the story so absurd but in the midst of all of this there are some concerns if in fact it is proven that the department of justice and f. B. I. Was in some way weaponized in the twenty sixteen president ial campaign or to the Obama Administration but democrats say no thats not what this is about this is really about essentially trying to undermine something far more serious and that is the probe into whether russia meddled in the twenty six thousand u. S. Election or whether or not the Truck Campaign pain kulu did but theres one more thing that might be really of concern in all of this too is whether or not these tools have been used in some way to violate Civil Liberties and that is a perhaps another unintended consequence of all of this when its released but of course we dont know until we see it is an issue and certainly the fact that these players we talk about the white house the Justice Department the f. B. I. There will supposed to be on the same side on play what weve seen is only institutions thats against each other and that is that is serious thats potentially destructive. It is that its really astonishing to see the president in direct defiance with these bodies you have to remember just a few days ago it was that the f. B. I. Director Christopher Ray who released a statement saying he had grave concerns about this memo being released but at the same time the chief of staff john kelly here at the white house along with the president pushing on to make this public but heres the thing that could happen in all of this it may not have the explosive effect that the president s intended and could fall flat in terms of the public reaction and outcry in fact weve heard that from some Top Republicans already the speaker of the house paul ryan saying about thursday even john kelly telling the president that in fact this may not have the implications for National Security that the president is suggesting but what weve seen is the preside