That as an advantage not just in terms of the asymmetry on the ground but also in terms of the trip administrations position effectively giving a green light for israeli colonization activities in the city ben thanks for coming on we do appreciate your time ben white there in london. The hard pilgrimage for millions of muslims in saudi arabia is coming to a close its the worlds biggest annual religious gathering performing the stoning of the devil ritual some willing to sacrifice animals to mark the beginning of each holiday on saturday more than 2000000 climbed the sacred hill of mount arafat they prayed and recited the koran. Security remains tight in indian administered kashmir although some restrictions are being used to allow people to celebrate Paramilitary Forces continue to patrol the streets of surrender they were deployed before the Indian Government revoked the autonomy of the disputed region on monday telephone and Internet Connections are still caught a brief lifting of the lockdown on friday was met almost immediately with protests. To yemen where separatists in the south of taken effective control of aden the seat of the internationally recognized government a cease fire was called on saturday night but it appears to be broken by a Saudi Led Coalition air strike the u. N. Says at least 40 people have been killed in the last 4 days of fighting laura birdman lee has more. Great battles of braced for 4 days in yemen 2nd 58 and since who the rebels took over the capital sanaa in 2015. Aden has been the seat of the countrys internationally recognized government now key areas including the president to palace have fallen to southern separatists analysts say their goal is to win back the independence the south lost in the 2 yemen sea knighted in 1990 this is what they have been no fighting for since 2007. Thats about their. More than 10 years now that since they have been demanding their separation. And their. Chance at the moment though it is their and their lives. Also the regional. National and International Circumstances will be. Their failure this is what is highly likely to happen the separation this flag represented south yemen when it was independent between 1967 until 998 Group Doctors without borders is calling the city a battlefield. After dozens of the soldiers were killed in a hooty attack on aug 1st sudden separatists accuse the internationally recognized and saudi backed president of failing to protect them and called for the government to be overthrown. Many people have fled atan others are trapped in their homes including this aid worker we hear the sounds of mortar shells from time to time without knowing the source or the target to be hit some houses in the city are directly hit or fire fragments into houses or the cars for example a group of men sitting in a cafe history they were helped by a mortar shell the battling side who once part of a Saudi Led Coalition theyve been fighting hutu rebels in northern and western yemen for more than 4 years the latest violence threatens to open a new front in the 5 year war which just killed tens of thousands of people. 6 about a manly aljazeera. Still to come here on aljazeera. Questions are asked after a disgraced American Finance here is found in his prison jail cell. And could an alleged war criminal become the next president of sri lanka well have the latest from colombo. Hello again this hour do want to start here in north asia and give you an update on our Tropical Storm the kima as it has making way towards the north bring some very heavy rain across much of that area just in the last 24 hours some locations have still picked up well over 200. 00 millimeters of rain and the rain is going to continue as we go towards the next 2 to possibly even 3 days so our storm is now entering the yellow sea and its going to be weakening slowly but still a lot of rain expected out ahead of the system as well as over here towards the east affecting parts of north korea as well monday heavy rain is going to be the big problem and on tuesday the rain is going to start to ease the storm is going to start to weaken probably down to a tropical depression strength but still we are going to see him john yang with very heavy rain in your forecast and some to their of about 31 degrees where across parts of china things are looking better for shanghai that storm is exiting so conditions are going to be more sunny for you winds are dying down as well across much of Central China though those temperatures are up into the mid to high thirtys and many locations will haunt at 36 degrees there over here towards chengdu at 37. 00 degrees plenty of sun continuing across much of the region but down here along the coast we are going to see some showers for hong kong with attempted there of 32 degrees in taipei at 36 for you. Scholar and lawyer. Thinker. And politician. Radical and prisoner in a 2 part series aljazeera world tells the story of one of the most enigmatic figures in saddams turbulent history. Whose influence is still felt in events in the country today sit down ill to robbies life and politics on aljazeera. The watching aljazeera live from the heart your top stories the police in hong kong fired tear gas that antigovernment Protesters Thousands of people are filling the streets to demand greater autonomy from china its the 10th straight weekend a bomb rest. Israeli police have injured dozens of palestinians inside the al aqsa mosque compound unrest began when right wing jewish groups demanded access to the site under the status quo agreement socalled theyre all the only allowed in on certain days. The cease fire in southern yemen between separatists and Government Forces appears to have been broken thats after a Saudi Led Coalition air strike hit an area around aden separatists took control of key positions on saturday. A former defense secretary accused of war crimes is hoping to become the countrys next president around hes being held in colombo where go to buy a rajapakse as candidacy has been the last by his brother and formerly the sri lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa to by rajapaksa has been accused of overseeing atrocities during st lankas decades long civil war in elfin and as has more from colombia. Rajapaksa oversaw the defense machine in sri lanka he was a former military man he had left the country during the war spent over a decade outside the country but came back with his brother took over as president and basically had to free him in prosecuting that war the difference was that he didnt have the kind of restrictions politically and you know in other spheres he could basically have a free reign he put in hes planned hes considered a good administrator ive now there have been accusations that the Sri Lankan Military had sort of committed human rights abuses basically that war crimes were conducted during the war v. C. Both sides would refuse to vote up or shadows following go top in rajapaksa but right now in terms of his sort of followers its all about he being able to bring sri lanka back on track the u. N. Secretary general has confirmed a car bomb attack has killed 3 u. N. Employees in libya the explosion in the eastern city of benghazi happened moments before a u. N. Convoy passed through the area the u. N. Security council has meant to discuss that attack and the latest developments in libya i join others in condemning in the strongest terms todays attack on the u. N. Convoy in benghazi we send our deepest sympathy to the families of the victims u. N. Exists to help and protect people and attack against its representatives is an attack on the International Community at large and we salute the work the uns millis doing in libya at the same time as the assistant secretary general said scores of libyans have also been injured safely the libyan representative coming convey my countrys condolences and sympathies to his country and to his people. Well since that attack on the u. N. In libya there has been more violence rocket fire has injured 3 people at tripolis main airport best despite the declaration of in the troops the eastern warlord honey for half the says his forces will commit to a ceasefire for the next 4 days he launched an offensive in april against the internationally recognized government in tripoli. Thousands of venezuelans have taken part in a protest against u. S. Sanctions after new measures came into force this week the president Nicolas Maduro addressed supporters at the rally in caracas he says his country will resist what he calls the u. S. President s quote racist government talks were planned in norway this week between mr madoff and the Opposition Leader but my daughter has pulled out in protest. Its the my daughter has also really hundreds of his supporters the not big message of defiance against american sanctions however his critics say that message will do little to help venezuelans suffering form from severe shortages of essential goods those living on an island once dubbed a paradise reportedly trying to survive on just a few cents per month a series of reports many on toss island are finding it hard to feed their families. The island of toss in the lake of monaco a walk in northwest venezuela was once a tourist destination. Now its residents are struggling and so people like pina are trying to help out we went with him to. House her brother george is 33 hes autistic hes also undernourished this will be his only meal today. I need help he has no bed to sleep we have no diapers his situation is getting worse every day nobody helps us hes been losing weight and we can barely feed our family and what complicates the situation even more is that your god has a problem in his throat but there are no doctors to diagnose him his source says there are many cases like his around the island and even though hes trying to lend a hand its not been easy well. I dont have much but i started to ask people to give me just one spoon of rice to feed them times are difficult for everyone nobody has much food to give away those who take care of their relatives with disabilities are suffering and cannot give much. His tools is also helping out at least 8 others in this island of around 10000 people many have already migrated somewhere else because of food and medicine shortages good told the water sanitation plant is broken and there is no gas or electricity. If we went to the house of my kailee just seen a mother of 5 she has no money to buy her children clothes or diapers even though her husband works as a fisherman she says they barely have enough to eat people here are desperate they dont have Running Water they dont have gas and this is the only food they have for the whole family the situation is so dire that they were forced to sell this window in order to be able to buy medicine for the children. Michael lee says all government help has been gone for months the venezuelan government says boxes of subsidize food but theyre not arriving fast enough. For the little food we have is because we were given one government box last week after 6 months the government is gone and if they have something they give it to people that vote for them we dont vote because we dont have an id. Economy say the crisis in venezuela is caused by a drop in oil prices corruption and mismanagement of government resources. Its the 1st crisis that last so long in an Oil Producing nation its the 1st oil nation with hyperinflation and its the biggest collapse of an economy in a country that did not go to war the impoverishment in the country is brutal now with an increase in u. S. Sanctions many fear the situation will deteriorate even more on saturday precedent or lead a protest against the United States the sanctions implemented by donald trump and Opposition Leader one way will. All of the smugness all of this brutality has been requested an openly supported by this despicable outlaw traitor to the homeland named one dog but in the island of course most people say the crisis began before the u. S. Sanctions theyre desperately waiting for a solution that will help them survive there is a war ill just see here dos island venezuela. Amasses been held in a Mexican Border city to all of the victims of the opacities shooting catholic bishops yet at what has presided over the service has been a week since the attack that killed 22 people and injured dozens more most of the victims were hispanic. Questions are being asked over how an american financier was apparently able to kill himself while being held in a u. S. Prison cell on suicide watch Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in detention on saturday he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges the f. B. I. Is investigating his death she has returns he has more from washington. Jeffrey epstein faced a maximum of 45 years in prison for the trafficking of girls as young as 14 to his homes for sex he pleaded not guilty after being denied bail last month the 66 year old had been found unconscious in a cell with marks on his neck and reportedly placed on suicide watch however there are conflicting reports as to whether he was on suicide watch when he was found hanged in his new york jail cell Early Saturday Morning epstein worked in finance reportedly managing other peoples food chains he presented himself as a billionaire and he lived an extravagant lifestyle but the source and extent of his own money is obscure his Social Circle was extensive and influential documents show former president bill clinton britains Prince Andrew and donald trump were all acquaintances and before he became President Trump called epstein a quote terrific guy he likes beautiful women as much as i do trump said and added quote many of them are on the youngest side however since epsteins arrest the president has distanced himself i was not a fan of yeah yeah and you watched people yesterday saying that i threw him out of a club i do want anything to do with it now is many many years ago it shows you one thing that ad think that they have along with allegations that he supplied young girls to his circle of influential men all denied by the man in question just on friday thousands of documents were unsealed from a legal case against one of his associates that alleged a young girl was forced to have sex with quote many powerful men including numerous problems american politicians Business Executives foreign president s and a well known Prime Minister and other World Leaders and quote epstein was 1st indicted in 2007 on similar charges that could potentially have led to him spending life in prison yet he served only 13 months in a private wing of a county jail in florida following a plea agreement under the terms of that deal investigations into his activities were ended and the extent of his crimes and who else was involved concealed the federal prosecutor who negotiated that deal with Alexander Acosta who subsequently became Donald Trumps labours. Secretary he resigned following renewed scrutiny of that plea deal it would be selfish for me to say this. About it. Rather than if they are right now even after epstein is released as a registered sex offender he mixed in elite circles but in july federal prosecutors ordered his arrest again his house was searched and evidence seized its expected that civil proceedings will continue against epsteins state and perhaps the truth of who epstein was will be settled hence the aljazeera. This is down to 0 these are your top stories the police in hong kong are trying to drive protesters off the streets they fired tear gas the rallies which have not been authorized the city is now in its 10th week on west bank to the Civil Service demonstrating of the International Court to make arriving to us aware of their campaign. Is that the police have been accused of using tactics which are inappropriate being heavy handed the protesters say its a town right brutality and not seem to have made the situation worse and brings more people out onto the street but then you get people on the conservative pro beijing side that said look these are thugs these are people who are ruling hong kongs future come on get tough with them youve got the tools to go out there and show them whos boss and i think maybe we have seen a bit of the latter on this particular day Israeli Police have moved into the al aqsa mosque compound in East Jerusalem after a standoff with palestinians at one of the gates to the holy site at least 37 people have been injured although shippers have now left the area the trouble began when right wing jewish groups demanded access to the area. A cease fire in southern yemen between separatists and Government Forces appears to have been broken after a Saudi Led Coalition air strike hit an area around dayton and separatists took control of key positions on saturday the u. N. Says at least 40 people have been killed in the 4 days of fighting. For mr lankan defense secretary accused of war crimes is hoping to become the countrys next president around is being held in colombo where go to buy a rajapakse as candidacy has been announced by his brother and formally these 3 lincoln president Mahinda Rajapaksa go to buy a rajapaksa has been accused of overseeing various atrocities during sri lankas decades long civil war the hard pilgrimage of millions of muslims in saudi arabia is now coming to a close its the Worlds Largest annual religious gathering performing the stoning of the devil ritual some will later sacrifice animals to mark the beginning of. On saturday more th