Going on in this country i think its a disgrace trumpeted reality after allowing the u. S. Congress to release a memo that accuses it of abuse of power and its investigations into his president ial campaign the Saudi Led Coalition is accused of the highest number of child deaths in yemen french play sending reinforcements after a violent gun battle between rival groups of migrants in cali also. The father of three of Larry NassersAbuse Victims tries to attack the former u. S. Agent gnostics dr as he appears in court. On far as smiling doha our top sports story Caroline Wozniacki crashes back to earth as the world number one suffers her first defeat since winning the australian the. U. S. Congress has released a memo accusing the f. B. I. Of abusing its power and its investigations into Donald Trumps president ial campaign the memo was commissioned by the republican devin newness its alleges that the f. B. I. Admitted that a dossier on trumped compiled by a former british agent was an essential part of an application for surveillance of trump aide cotta page last march the regime agent who compiled the dossier with Christopher Steele who the memo says told a Senior Justice Department of. Mishal that he was desperate for trump not to win the election the white house says the memo raises serious concerns about the integrity of the f. B. I. What democrats say the memo is aimed derailing special counsel Robert Lowell is investigation into the trunk campaigns alleged links to russia. I think the more i think its terrible you want to know the truth i think its a disgrace whats going on in this country i think its a disgrace the memo was sent to congress it was declassified congress will do whatever theyre going to do but i think its a disgrace whats happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things whats going on in a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that so i sent it over to congress they will do what they are going to do whatever they do is find it was declassified and lets see what happens when that schedule official his life is now in washington and lets start with the dossier and the memo says it was politically driven and that the f. B. I. And the Justice Department as relied on it but what can we really tell from whats in this memo that this investigation was just driven by this supposedly biased document. Well we can tell from the actual memo that the investigation into carter page started before the memo was published. And certainly before that before the court was asked to grant a warrant so thats a problem for the republicans the critics say that this is really just selective that a fight so war goes in front of the court normally is around forty pages what we have here are only four pages and therefore this must have been selectively cherry picked to low the republicans to put forward their case not only that the republicans on the Intelligence Committee also refused permission for the democrats memo rejecting all of this to be published as well there are those who see that quite simply if someone goes to the f. B. I. And suggests that there has been some wrongdoing then the f. B. I. Really have to investigate that and i was speaking to an f. B. I. Agent just a few hours ago who said when that happens we never see what are your political leanings we might make it clear to the court if we go to sing a warrant but we never ask that in the first instance we go and see if theres any basis of that and then we start to investigate and certainly that position is upheld by the f. B. I. Agents association you see they are not partisan what they do for the facts to honor their or it seems like an extraordinary decision by the president to release this what was a classified document what kind of reaction has it shrink at. Well interestingly enough in washington the reaction is largely part design the democrats think this was a bad decision by the president they think it undermines both the f. B. I. And the Justice Department while many republicans are very much in favor of the saying that the Russian Investigation was biased from the very beginning and many people are saying that the militant vesta geisha should be closed down by the end of business on friday but there are two voices that are very interesting to listen to one is john mccain the veteran senator who of course once upon a time was a republican president ial candidate he said that this memo essentially undermines both the f. B. I. And the Justice Department all that does is handle when to Vladimir Putins russia and another interesting voice tree go to somewhere in the back of your mind you think that name rings a bell he was the congressman that organized and ran a number of inquiries into the assault on the benghazi compound in libya which of course was a big issue for Hillary Clinton he is a republican he says as far as he can see from this memo it does absolutely nothing to undermine the middle investigation and so there are republicans who think the memo is out the republicans can make a song and dance about it but it still doesnt change the fundamental issue which there is an investigation into possible collusion between the Trump Campaign and the russians and a long way from way you are away from the washington bubble for those of us sitting watching almost feels like they hate getting close to the president from this investigation and thats whats really going on here is that the sense really and there is even suggestion that there will be sacked over this is that what youre hearing inside that thats what the push is all about when it succeeds. Well miller cant be sacked by the president its got to come from the acting sort of from the Deputy Attorney general and stein who appointed them Rod Rosenstein can be sacked by the president and hes certainly mentioned in this memo and that is why theres such a firestorm there are republicans who say theres enough in that memo to suggest that Rod Rosenstein was acting with impartiality and therefore should be fired how does this all play out well youve got to remember that five of the six people who have been involved for any part of this investigation have been fired or attacked by donald trump there are those who say yes this is getting very close to the president this is all about muddying the waters and part of the partisanship i was telling you about is that republicans and Trump Supporters will see look weve told you this the sure is that this investigation is flawed this is all about undermining donald trump democrats will say theres absolutely nothing in this and interesting point of view was put to me by an independent who said look if there is nothing in this if there is nothing in these allegations why dont the republicans just step back let the democrats do what they want to do and when nothing is uncovered then the republicans will be handed a huge political when the fact that theyre making so much noise certainly disquiets a number of independents who think that this still has some work to play out and that Robert Miller should be allowed to do its job and the moment it seems that the majority in washington still think Robert Miller should be allowed to get to the end of his inquiry it would be bad news for donald trump if you put enough pressure in Robert Miller to resign or to be fired many thanks alan and im sure that would have very much have to be careful briefing of what was happening today in washington d. C. Still to come on the aljazeera news hour the exiled former president of the multi says hell run again after the Supreme Court ordered the release of nine political president s troop build up in sudan as now countries work to prevent a water wool over africas biggest hydroelectric dam and in sports we get a rag limits of the joint north and south Korean Hockey Team that will compete in next weeks Winter Olympics. Aljazeera has obtained a un report which says the Saudi Led Coalition has the greatest responsibility for the deaths of dozens of children in yemen last summer it says Coalition Airstrikes were responsible for the killing of sixty eight children and the wounding of thirty six others from july to september the report found there were twenty to thirty Coalition Raids every day some targeting schools and homes it also points the finger at her feet rebels blaming them for the deaths of eighteen children and for wounding twenty nine other. Reports. The un report obtained by l. Dizzier says the Saudi Led Coalition was responsible for killing sixty eight children and wounding thirty six others from july to september and found there were at least thirty Coalition Air raids every day some targeting schools and homes as well as the saudis the u. N. Blames truthy rebels for the deaths of eighteen children and wounding twenty nine others the u. N. Describes whats going on in yemen as the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in the world and the conflict is making an already dire situation even worse its not just affecting children its affecting our everyone i mean its affecting seventy five percent of the population so our concern is that as long as complete continues we are going to see more and more. Secure were also going to see more and more humanitarian needs and rights as well. The. United nations Childrens Fund also known as unicef says more than five thousand children have been killed or injured in the war an average of five children a day since the conflict escalated in march two thousand and fifteen unicef also says that more than eleven million children are in need of humanitarian assistance and nearly two million children are suffering from acute malnutrition recent outbreaks of diptheria following the worlds worst cholera epidemic have further threatened more young lives aid workers say the International Community must do more to stop the conflict 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 at west beaking to families who are fleeing their homes because of violence and constructing houses out of plastic bags with a political solution looking likely any time soon many worry that already suffering children will be exposed to even more violence and trauma how much does either. The u. S. Defense secretary says the Syrian Government would be ill advised to go back to violating the Chemical Weapons Convention the chum Prime Minister nation is not ruling out military action to deter president assads forces after a third suspected chlorine attack in fifteen days in eastern guta Stephanie Decker has more from antakya in Southern Turkey near the border with syria. 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 lloyd with inhalation of the gas. This is renewed aggression by the regime using gas against a place where people lived and duma this is the third 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 u. N. Estimates eastern is home to around four hundred thousand syrians starving and malnourished getting aid to these people is fraught with challenges the u. N. Special envoy to syria says that there is a desperate need for humanitarian pause in eastern gouda 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 of jazeera. And local media says the latest air and artillery strikes any single have killed funny people including a child further north an airstrike has hit a vehicle carrying a family trying to escape the fighting in aleppo as southeastern countryside is believed seven people were killed some of them children but equal sources in syrias hammer province say a hospital built inside a cave has been destroyed Syrian Rebels say repeated bombings penetrated through twenty meters of rock protecting the hospital and enclave in hama is still under rebel control but Government Forces are fighting to retake it along with a larger chunk of rebel territory to the north no casualties were reported at least one thousand migrants are feared to have drowned off the coast of libya when a boat capsized off the city of zora Pakistans Foreign Ministry says its confirmed the deaths of eleven of its citizens the International Organization for migration says three people survived when a durrell is head of communications at the International Organization for migration and joins me now live from geneva thanks very much for talking to us here on aljazeera i think many people might be surprised that there were pakistani migrants on this boat leaving libya at least off the coast of it whats the route that these migrants are taking to get. But thank you for inviting me we dont really know the route but presumably they flew possibly to a country which has ease of access from pakistan it might have been a flight to sudan for example which adjoins libya we dont know but its relatively straightforward to do that and the smugglers are willing to put people on any plane possible if people are willing to pay airlines are also willing to accept a tragedy is that they didnt go into a country where this terrible exploitation taking place because the countrys really not stable and theyre at the mercy of smugglers who put people even income waters really overcrowd them into what seems to be a rubber dinghy and the tragedy ensues lot a lot of guilty people in this process and just are still with saying that the reason is the pakistanis are coming through libya what is it there that theyre heading for leaving do you get a sense as to why that they are making this passage trying to get into europe and theres nothing unique about pakistanis and bangladesh has been supplying lots of people are third in in line guinea comic creator nigeria people from the global south are heading north because of the huge inequalities in income and the and the hope and belief that they will do better when they get to the developed world if they get there a lot of that is fueled by social media because people are able to tell lies in social media and invite people to a dream really dream about the route it doesnt exist or if it does they certainly are going to get access to it and just you know because so many are returned home he talked a little bit there on the overcrowding of the boats obviously were also looking at the weather this time of year what kind of numbers are you currently saying about people trying to make this treacherous crossing still on the scene in the throes of winter well its curiously the number of pakistanis is now number three in the in the socalled league table of countries trying to reach europe so theyve moved up quite a bit but so far you know weve got about. Two hundred fifty people so far in this new number its really tragic and six thousand people have come across to europe so far through the roof so its really no different to last year and what were seeing is more tragedies because mothers are willing to try anything they can to make money or. Theyre really grateful for your time thanks very much an adorable speak to us from the. Good the french government is selling more riot police to the northern port of cali after a violent gun battle between rival groups of migrants five people were shot with four in a serious condition in hospital after eritreans and afghans for for more than two hours over food handouts Natasha Buckler has the l