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Agreement and homeless in hollywood but the tech giant is number ailing a 2500000000. 00 plan to provide Affordable Housing and is for south africas Rugby World Cup winning team or a bouncer returned home fountains of fans away seeing the victoria Springboks Team will be live in johannesburg later in the park. So just as we go to air a power sharing agreement has been signed in yemen now it is between the Yemeni Government and southern separatists this is to do with aid in the southern parts of the country a deal brokered by saudi arabia is aimed at ending a power struggle in the south the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman says it is a step towards a political solution to end the war in yemen now this is something that had opened up essentially a new front in the yemen war which has been going on for years already and as we mentioned it did pit. Allies against each other saudi arabia and the United Arab Emirates so this is called the riyadh agreement and were going to take you through some of the details now has been brokered by saudi arabia during weeks of negotiations aimed at sharing power between present. Government and the Southern Transitional council the s. T. C. Under the plan yemens Prime Minister would return to aden to reinstate state institutions cabinet positions would be given to members of that Southern Transitional council the u. A. E. Backed separatist movement wanted to self rule in southern yemen and it turned against hatties government in august as its forces seized the city of a lot of information there but weve got catherine shock them with us now to go through some of it the head of the Yemen Department at the peace building think tank next Century Foundation and catherines also a former u. N. Security Council Consultant on yemen so catherine perfectly placed to talk us through this just broad brush 1st how significant how big a deal is this. Well i think it is very significant and if anything you would be i think of you present in a cornerstone for bringing peace to yemen together and i think this is definitely a very useful and i offers some degree of a consensus maybe not with everybody all not all the actors involved in this in this war in yemen but he some of them and i think you will allow for i think reason to return and if they must traits to all actors that peace can people cared and that a political agreement ken can be have in between different parties even though initially they were sitting on the very different sides of the river and everything seemed to separate them obviously with a bit of effort some pragmatism and a good dose of humor i think that it is it is possible they certainly have done it and i think its a good thing and if i may i think its its interesting to see how the f. T. C. Managed to actually implement some of the points that we discussed back in the 1990 s. When yemen decided to unite in between north and south but some of the points that the agreed upon were never actually implemented in terms of sharing power and so today its actually quite significant that the s. T. C. Managed to to return back to those points have them implemented by president had to and actually i think cement. A resolution a Peace Agreement that would last and is a pick bill on the crandon that answers people demands so how do the 2 im glad you mentioned that you know going back to the ninetys and the reunification because we have a very acute problem in southern yemen that started in or west but we have these long held issues as well as the to sort of come together with this deal in some ways. I think so i think some of the main issue of the secession is always had when it came to tucson a Central Government but that they didnt feel represented and they very much felt completely disenfranchised and they felt as well that all the Natural Resources that yemen had he put disposal way sensually spent on a particular heat in the north and that they were completely forgotten and that led to a great divide between the north and this house and yemen was never ever a nation state as such and so i think that today again is very significant because it proves that even though some degree of autonomy is not given to the south also allows for a Central Government to to be ruling over yemen in part to sit with equal participation if you will of all the different Political Parties which is quite healthy if you want to have a workable republican system which is yemen essentially so i think what we see is a transition from the 1st republic to truly the 2nd republic where political pluralism would be definitely cemented where people have a say in to have Political Representation but at the same time the Central Government is not giving away its suffering but its willing to share so that the country as a whole can move together forward which i think is absolutely vital when were talking about a countrys interest yemen that has been to fight it for a great many decades and i think the war if anything exploded those divisions and actually let them compete and this is creating an haas curry to this nightmare so far that has been on souls of gold but i think this will allow for a very very significant bridge actually take shape and take hold more importantly catherine would you mind staying there for me just for a moment im going to come back to you in a 2nd but i just want to bring in our diplomatic editor james byrds in new york and actually you can hear what he has to say as well hi james just take us through a little bit more of the detail of the deal and some of the reaction if you would. Well i havent seen the detail and i have to be honest neither have it seems members of the u. N. Security council because just moments ago on the floor below me here in u. N. Headquarters the Security Council were gathering for a separate meeting on bosnia certainly it was being left to me and other members of the media to break news of this deal to the ambassadors who certainly havent heard the news the only one who was prepared to react to us in the last few minutes was the german ambassador christophe hoys goodman who said he thought this sounded good but he hadnt seen the text of the deal and he wanted to read the text of the deal 1st also worth telling you that i spoke to one of those diplomats of the Security Council countries the 15 countries who actually do a lot of the heavy lifting organizing things behind the scenes they called the political coordinators and this particular political cord later said theyll look at the deal and there may well be discussion in the coming hours whether the Security Council should issue some sort of statement welcoming this deal but of course this is only a deal concerning the south of yemen and if you go back a year ago to the Stockholm Agreement things were not as serious in the south as they have been since that deal so it solving part of the problem but not many of the other problems in yemen and the central dispute between the 2 thieves in the government of yemen of course is not part of this deal we have one other statement in the last few minutes and thats from an important person this was very much a saudi deal that is being done also the u. A. E. Which was part of the coalition in this pulling back its forces clearly was involved the u. N. I think more of an observer but the u. N. Special envoy has put out a statement in the last few moments Martin Griffiths welcoming this deal congratulating the government yemen on the Southern Transitional council he goes on in the statement the signing of this agreement is an important step for a collective efforts to advance a peaceful settlement on the conflict in yemen listening to see. Southern stakeholders is important to the political efforts to achieve peace in the country of course his efforts since that deal in december last year in stockholm have centered on the port of who data and they havent managed to translate that agreement on who date or into a wider peace deal key issues like the transfer of detainees between various sides and other wider issues have been sticking points until now come all ok thanks for that james bays diplomatic editor and thanks also to Catherine Chatham who we spoke to via lets move on to other news just for now iran taking another step away from the 2015 nuclear deal president Hassan Rouhani says its about to start injecting your rainy and gas into more than a 1000 centrifuges and talk more about that later but this is just the latest fallout from the u. S. Decision to pull out of the agreement last year and still to jabari reports it is likely to put more pressure on the remaining signatories. The president has found rouhani arrived at this factory in tehran for an inauguration ceremony but he used the term announce enrons 4th and most significant step in scaling back its commitment to the 2015 nuclear deal more as far as a door on irans 4th step will be launched at the forto Nuclear Facility and i will advise the Atomic Energy organization to start as of tomorrow by feeding gas into the centrifuges i will also inform the p. 4 plus one of the step this new action will also be under the supervision of the international Atomic Energy agency for dont you clear facility is the only place where iran can and has produced 20 percent enriched uranium. Thats considered an important stage towards developing uranium with the potential for a Nuclear Weapon it has always been a controversial facility its existence was revealed to the world by iran in 2009 that was after the United States intelligence agencies alleged that there was a secret Nuclear Facility in iran and the president acknowledged that there are sensitivities surrounding the plant. This may increase concerns we know people are sensitive about a quarter when its centrifuges but whenever they uphold their commitments we will reverse our steps. Under the nuclear deal of 2015 for doe had become solely a Research Facility it was one of the most contentious points of the joint comprehensive plan of action or way agreed with world powers to limit Irans Nuclear Program Since the United States withdrew from the deal in may of 2013 and imposed the series of new sanctions on iran officials here decided to gradually reduce their compliance and they have been saying that if they are not able to sell their oil or to get the benefit of the transaction with the Global Financial system there is no benefit for data to remain a party of the new cardio that to president rouhani declaring in may that every 60 days iran will announce another step until the remaining european signatories uphold there and of the. This latest announcement will have serious consequences for iran and officials here are very aware of that but president rouhani has stressed that all these measures are reversible as soon as the european signatories of the deal so for compliance until then iran will continue to take these steps while the International Community continues its condemnations north of. Tehran. Ok were going to get technical for a moment here and look at what makes this move by iran so potentially provocative feeding you raney and gas into spinning centrifuges this allows a highly radioactive form of uranium it is called u 235 that can then be separated and split to produce power in Nuclear Reactors so you should 35. 00 makes up less than one percent of natural uranium gas it needs to be more potent than that shall we say it has to get to 3 and a half percent for the gas to become of commercial use so were talking Nuclear Power then and then to put that into further perspective fuel for a Nuclear Weapon needs to go up to between 85 and 90 percent of you 235 Daryl Kimball joining us now executive director of the Arms Control Association in washington d. C. Did that explain that a right did that make sense. I was very good ok now what does that mean we need the we need the. Dummies version from you if i can turn it that way as to what that means and i guess is this injection of the gas at high levels is this what the 2015 nuclear deal prevented in the 1st place. Well the 2015 nuclear deal limited iran activities in a range of areas and so what president rouhani has announced today is a breach of one of those many commitments that iran made to scale back and to limit under i. A. E. A. Supervision its Nuclear Program to ensure that it is not anywhere close to being able to amass enough bomb grade uranium for just one Nuclear Weapon so what is significant about the announcement today is that the deal expressly prohibited iran from injecting that you 6 gas into those centrifuge machines at the underground for doe facility iran was allowed to spin some of those machines for medical isotopes production for Cancer Treatment purposes which is important and legitimate what we dont know yet as of this morning is whether iran is going to accumulate low enriched uranium from those machines at fordo in the coming weeks and months and to what level are the iranians going to enrich the uranium if they. Dont accumulate large quantities if they just enrich to the lower level for Nuclear Power production the 3. 5 percent that is not that great that significant and worrisome a move but if it does accumulate more uranium if it does enrich to 20 percent that would be a very serious move overall i think this is a mistake this slow moving crisis is worsening both sides need to find a diplomatic off ramp before this slow moving crisis becomes an acute crisis but from everything youve youve described there. Is it to say that the you could have a slow moving crisis and i think thats the point im trying to make there that clearly iran is a long way away from getting anything close to what would resemble a Nuclear Weapon yet it is presented right now certainly by the United States as as a as an imminent threat as. Well iran is still at least 12 months away from accumulating enough bomb grade uranium to produce just one bomb and it would be detected long before the 12 months is up because the international Atomic Energy agency is there so the steps that iran has taken since may of this year to breach some of the limits of the j c p a way dont appreciably change at that time one. At least not now but in 6 months 12 months if it accumulates a significantly larger amount of low enriched uranium if it begins to enrich to higher levels closer to bomb grade then i would be much more worried what im concerned about right now is that there is no active diplomatic process to bring the United States back into compliance with the 2015 deal and to bring iran back into compliance president mccraw france was attempting in september and came close to an interim arrangement that would have had the United States allowing for iran to sell oil to European Countries in exchange for iran coming back into compliance with full compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal so far the United States has balked. The iranians have said that were not going to talk any further until the u. S. Comes back into compliance so im worried that if this crisis drags out we could be 12 months from now when the iranians take the 5th and 6th and 7th step away from the j. C. We could be approaching a much more serious political ration crisis Daryl Kimball really appreciate your expertise and perspective they thank you for joining us thank you. To iraq where the Human Rights Commission says 2 people have been killed and Dozens Injured in bouncer that is off to Security Forces opened fire on protesters camped at the entrance of the pool earlier 2 protesters were killed in the city of nasiriyah the sounds of people took part in the longest antigovernment protest so far and still angry about the weakening economy and corruption in a wrong move from touching and i mean back to earth what were seeing is an escalation by protesters because there is an impasse between them and the government protesters here in Tahrir Square released a statement on monday evening saying the entire government must go and that includes dissolving the parliament 2 which they say is what they missed for election rigging theyre calling for early elections and theyre also calling for an Election Committee that would have members free of Political Party affiliations the president has announced the Prime Minister either that he would resign once the successor was named he did not give a timetable for that word indicate word for lack of a new finance the president has also said that a new election law is going to be drafted a new Election Committee will be formed and the members will be selected based on credentials not Party Affiliations but again no timetable has been given the president has only said that a draft of a new election law is being worked on and will hopefully be submitted to the parliament for its review this week i spoke to a political analyst the and he says were dealing with a government that doesnt realize that its time is up that it wants to cling to power and protesters are flat out theyve been protesting on and off since 2010 and he says they no longer trust the process no longer trust the government and they will continue to stay in the square and so there are. They believe their demands are going to be bad. The netherlands has admitted carrying out an attack on a suspected eisel bomb factory in Northern Iraq in 2015 which killed 70 people the attack destroyed a neighborhood in the city of the time of. The dutch initially denied civilians and dutch f. 16 s were used in iraq and syria between 201416 then in 2018 as part of an International Coalition against. Here is a look at whats coming up for you on this news hour the push for another referendum Jeremy Corbyn lays out his brags of plan ahead of the u. K. Election. Salvage whatever they can people throw their belongings from the building as firefighters struggle to contain a blaze and cheerier in the sports trade is a melbourne cup horse race overshadowed by an animal cruelty and thats to get. Well more transcripts of depositions from testimony in and in the trump impeachment inquiry expected to be released in the United States this time to central figures in the program the diplomats golden salmon and kurt volker religiously pushing ukraine to investigate president Donald Trumps rival joe biden wealthy republican donor was rewarded with an ambassadorship to the you know European Union by trump he attended president of all the ms alinsky inauguration in ukraine back in may and then briefed trump after that the transcript say some and former ukraine envoy kurt volker discussed communications between trumps private attorney Rudy Giuliani and ukrainian officials with house investigators some testimonies as he did not understand until much later that giuliani was pushing ukraine to investigate biden it turned him from a tribe ally into a witness against him more from the now in washington just take a stroll little bit more of the the details on these transcripts and what it means for this to come out into the public eye now. Well i havent been released yet so were still waiting for them probably partial transcripts like the one released the ones released on monday which will give us more detail on what was said we do as you suggested know the broad outlines of the arguments and and much of the arguments from both men actually very similar it wasnt us we werent really part of this it was it was Rudy Giuliani who had been outsourced to see. It to be the main driver of ukraine policy by donald trump we were very uneasy about all of this we didnt think it was a good idea but this is what donald trump wanted so we went along with it they didnt know anything about any quid pro quo for military aid if there was a quid pro quo that was being discussed it was more about a white house visit for the ukrainian president. If he announced publicly that they would be an investigation into corruption possibly involving the bre some of the Energy Company that had come to biden joe bidens son is a bit to be a member of the board of governors that will get the visit but as far as holding up congressionally approved 400000000. 00 worth of military aid a bad burial of the stunning about that the problem with all of this that story is its been undermined by other witnesses by Text Messages released the question is were they were they just bystanders is Rudy Giuliani was carrying out some shadow Foreign Policy on the personal directive of donald trump not for the National Interest of the u. S. Or were they central and willing participants in what was going on between donald trump Rudy Giuliani and the ukrainians she had the continuing investigation which is now public all the hearings will be public whos expected next. I think its more like whos not expected next actually in fact we had wells griffith who was a member of the national Security Council he was a post of turned up for his deposition about an hour and a half ago or he hasnt turned up doesnt look like he will turn up hes interesting because he was actually part of meetings with ukrainian officials at the white house and then later this afternoon u. S. Time Michael Duffy is supposed to turn up he is part of the office of management and budget which would be part of the the infrastructure that would have helped hold up that 400000000. 00 of u. S. Ukrainian aid that he might be able to shed light on but hes not expected to turn up either but this is really just the latest i think that would make it 6 perhaps officials whove been prevented by the white house from testifying despite subpoenas the democrats they say look at their parent off if youre going to turn up that said were not we learn from our mistakes in the past were not going to go through like long legal procedures to try and get you to testify we will just take your knowledge appearance as part of the articles of impeachment as part of the obstruction of congress would add you in that said this isnt going to backfire for you if you dont turn up that just adds to our argument that youre trying to impede congress i will add that in to the articles of impeachment ok thank you for all of that she has returned the in washington. Her mother criminal trial of a long time adviser to President Trump has begun with jury selection in washington or to stone denies any charges of obstructing justice witness tampering and lying to the house of Representatives Intelligence Committee is accused of lying to politicians who were investigating Russian Election interference about alleged efforts to obtain Hillary Clintons emails in the 26 dean campaign. To the u. K. Where the main Opposition Leader is laid out how he plans to resolve the brags that crisis if his labor party wins decembers election Jeremy Corbin says he would negotiate a new withdrawal deal with you which would keep virgin more closely aligned with the bloc he would then put that deal to voters in a 2nd referendum where the other choice would be cancelling brings it all together with the u. K. Parliament will be suspended from wednesday ahead of that general election Opposition Labor Party launched its campaign in harlow and was there. Prior to launching his partys manifesto ahead of the upcoming general elections Labor Party Leader germy corbin chose to deal head on with the arguably the most divisive issue in britain today that is. As if speech in what its considered to be a strong live constituency in the north east of london germany quoting 3rd got his party would sort out what he described as the mess that is briggs its within 6 months of coming to power a century his plan entails renegotiating a deal with the European Union and then presenting god to you in another referendum whereby the choice that the British Public will have would be between this new deal and to remain essentially hes trying to reach out to all sides of british or the all sides of the british divide he said that whilst his critics may find that to be something negative he believes the only way forward was to unite the country people sometimes accuse me of trying to talk to both sides at once in the bronx today to people who voted leave and people who voted. You know what they did right absolutely dead right why would he want to talk to half the country. I dont want to live in half a country anyone seeking to become Prime Minister must talk to and listen to the whole country labor standards not just for the 52 percent or the 48 percent but for the 99 percent we drinking. Problem said that if his party was elected and brought into power that not only would they sort out breaks its within 6 months but they would also unveil in radical plan to essentially be a government thats would serve the 99 percent that would serve the many and not the few. The more Prime Minister Boris Johnsons conservative party has been accused of suppressing a report into accusations of russian meddling in the 2016 e. U. Referendum johnson is under pressure to release the document before the election on december 12th more on this with him haywood in london i thought i might be talking about u. S. Elections there for a moment but russian interference potentially in the u. K. Now. Well the governments really coming under a lot of pressure to release this report which looks into alleged interference by russians into the general election back in 2017 and the referendum in the same year now Dominic Grieve who chairs the committee which has put together this report says the report went to downing street on october 17th that usually takes about 10 days for it to then be published but its simply not being published now hes not alone in calling for it to be released other at the a former heads of m i 5 has also said theres no reason why the report shouldnt be in the Public Domain it has passed all the security clearances that it needs to it is simply downing Street Holding that matter up however in the house of commons earlier Emily Thornberry the Shadow Foreign Office minister said why is downing street doing this and she was told by a Foreign Office minister this is the usual behavior that the Prime Minister and the government need to look at this closely before it is released very interesting thank you for that emma haywood in london. Now for hours now we merge and seekers in nigeria have been fighting a fire that is now threatening to destroy a multistory Building People race to save their belongings after the fire broke out in the roof of the popular balogun market in lagos some people tried to fight the prize while others through their possession straight from the windows out of market stalls prevented firefighters from reaching the building for more than an hour we will keep you updated on that and. Still ahead though on this news on what is next for the worlds Climate Change agreement now the u. S. Is form of the start of the process of leaving and in sport the european rugby champions take a big hit on the pitch and we will have that story. And i once again not see much rain to speak of across the middle east at the moment weve had some well disposed of rains that weather just pushing away from afghanistan that menaced a little further north was in tears but to stand clear skies coming back in behind a little bit of cloud there around the coaxes around the black sea the caspian sea and that will continue for all its way further east with so where to stay to see the spoils of of rain there just around the caspian but not too much to speak of that a bit of cloud too just down towards key weight again you might just get a spot or 2 right out of that and then it thins and breaks brightens up with these temperatures and couple struggling to get to around 13 celsius by thursday to be about a more pleasant 28. 00 therefore by root in the sunshine a lot of dry weather pleasant weather there across the Arabian Peninsula not too much clout and right to speak of our latest tropical system thats now in the process of pushing back towards that northwestern corner of in the over the next day or so by skies continuing for many through saudi arabia here in doha getting up into the low thirtys once again low thirtys sunday a possible systems the. Sawed off south africa but for many its going to be a little colder than that will see temperatures in cape town of about 80 degrees a 28. 00 full. And rising. J. O. Youre at the mercy of the state but in the land of the free shareholders have a stake it is this profit motive that continues to interfere with Adequate Health care being provided to people who are detained incarcerated across the country salt mines investigates how the outsourcing of health care in american jails is impacting the lives and deaths of those behind bars sick inside on aljazeera until now the coverage of latin america and most of the world was about covering khuda todds tragedies as quakes and that was it but not how people feel how they look how they think and thats what we do we go away 5 and a half months of demanding it when its a case of system that was introduced to. Latin america to 0 has come to fill a void that needed to be filled. On the news here at aljazeera these are our top stories yemens internationally recognized government has signed a power sharing agreement with separatists the deal was brokered by saudi arabia and is aimed at ending a power struggle in. Iran is taking another step away from the 2050 nuclear deal president Hassan Rowhani uranium gas injection process started which was previously banned. And britains main Opposition Leader has laid out how he would fix the brigs a crisis if his labor party wins next months election Jeremy Corbyn says hes negotiating a new deal and put it to voters in a 2nd a friend of. The United States has begun the formal process of withdrawing from the paris climate a court that is of course the pact between 185. 00 countries which was set up in 2015 to fight Climate Change but it will take at least a year before the u. S. Can officially math in a small. June 27th and President Donald Trump announces that the us will no longer support a global agreement to limit Greenhouse Gases the United States will withdraw from the paris climate accord. The u. S. Is estimated to be the 2nd worst polluter in the world trump says the deal puts an unfair burden on u. S. Workers on monday the u. S. Began the Legal Process of pulling out the worlds worst polluter is said to be china its economy is heavily dependent on coal but its staying in the powerhouse agreement. We believe that Climate Change is a common challenge faced by all of humankind all members of the International Community should join hands to cooperate. Among chinas allies another signatory french president Emmanuel Mark wrong you know for the let me must confirm next year new commitments 420302050 the cooperation between china and the e. U. In this respect is decisive some believe Climate Change is happening naturally others say the driven by industrialization and human consumption environmentalists say the number of extreme weather related incidents is increasing there are 22 of the 50 states in the us who got Climate Action plans this 550 cities or who are doing so so in this sense trump does not represent the entirety of the us he represents the federal aspect of it which is which is really on the top leaving the Paris Agreement was a Trump Campaign promise that the u. S. Cannot officially withdraw until november 4th 2021 days after the next u. S. President ial election rob matheson. So remissions with us now a republican strategist on skype from washington just a little History Lesson 1st because obviously were just beginning the formal process now the announcement was made some time ago as we saw in this report why why would he do it when every other country is signed up does it simply come down to the old what is it promises made from is this kept mantra. Certainly it is very much along with that money however its also along with another muncher and thats america 1st its that america stands alone america does what it wants and america doesnt have to follow suit just because the rest of the world be doing something that is very very different than what weve heard during the Obama Administration and i say this because i have a lifelong pro conservation republican i believe that good stewardship of the earth of the environment is something thats actually a lot with Republican Values however this president despite him being a republican believes that that i thought least as the policies were served best whereas what the a bomb an administration said is we can lead the world we can be the change we wish to see and they did not deny Climate Change in the end box which is in the Republican Party needs of the year and is climate deniers and those who dont want to take Climate Action so its no surprise that President Trump would remain very very committed to this Campaign Promise particularly in light of that piece of an inquiry there is nothing to change his mind on this is that you know theres not because lets look at her this administration and act with again well lets assume i think weve lost so just checking the lines they know that picture has frozen completely thats a shame well try and and reconnect with rain if we can actually no i can see her just moving arena can you still hear me i sure can sorry about that i thought i was up there with you guys up there. I apologize you know its a its a funny time in washington we have a lot of climate deniers in this Top Administration a lot of people that dont want the federal level to take action. Lets risk one more question with youre in a while the line is holding and that is what can happen in a years time or at least maybe on for you if this process takes a year then were into potentially a new u. S. President s by the time the elections rolled around can it ken ken the decision be reversed by a buy in on a new president. Yes the what you all can be reversed however i believe that its going to be very impossible because im sitting in a moment where ive traveled the country and particularly back in my home state of West Virginia where president obama handily won the vote in 2016 there are people that believe that our Environmental Protection agency is actually harmful to the American People and they believe the President Shall be doing the right thing by taking away the power of the federal agencies to mandate certain regulations that would protect our environment they would help us drive down our climate of mission so i think it is absolutely going to be reversed by the president but that perfect house to be a democrat this administration is going to hold tight and theyre going to continue to pound the pavement no matter how many climate rallies take place no matter how many republicans in Congress Even speak out this president wants us out of that care of the fort and he is so happy that which all is taking place and he is never going to reverse that even though it is possible i mean a shot great to talk to you thank you for your time thank you at least 9 u. S. Citizens have been killed in northern mexico after members of a cantelupe in fire on their cars reports say the 3 women and 6 children had been living in a Mormon Community they were in a convoy of 3 vehicles Security Officials believe the gunman may have mistaken them for a rival gang Israels Supreme Court is uphill the government decision to expel a senior Human Rights Watch official. A u. S. Citizen was accused of supporting a Boycott Campaign against israel the court rejected his appeal to saying the interior minister had made a mistake in not renewing his work visa check either says that his deportation is politically motivated and an attempt to deal is just a miser critics of israels treatment of palestinians. These reilley government is essentially saying that mainstream advocacy for palestinian rights is not part of Free Expression in the country that it deserves a separate standard for review and if the Israeli Government gets its way today with Human Rights Watch who will throw next the precedent of this decision threatens to affect the work of many other advocacy organizations its a chilling decision that essentially puts the courts veneer of legitimacy and legality on the netanyahu governments policy to muzzle human rights criticism and dissent. At large. Now community in sierra leone has taken a Diamond Mining Company to court people in to say the government failed to protect them when it handed over their land to the Mining Company when the some families have been moved elsewhere hundreds i say they will fight against the action and addressed with this report now from. 4 decades is an old time when miners lived off the land in several years corner district. Until the arrival of multinational Mining Companies. In the shadows of one of the biggest mining for. These workers labor in the pits with the hope of getting a storm or 2 but they fear soon their homes and the pits will be off limits. The government has handed their property to the octu Mining Company to expand its operations. Janet bio is among the hundreds of residents whove been affected but we dont know. Why. They did not even allow us to pack our bags they sent down rocks and water should destroy our house our clothes money everything was covered in debris. Trouble began at the end of the countrys civil war when most people started returning home from refugee camps when most came back the. Place is now safe they start their rebuild their homes with proper documents the Company Challenge them that dealing with enough illegal homes protest followed in subsequent years killing and injuring a number of people. And more more who are strapped and killed during a demonstration in 2017 is buried right here in the middle of the street as a sign of resistance to the Mining Companies and government are suddenly on the start of i. Q. Is ations of abuse and displacement between the community the Mining Companies and the government has now escalated to west africas regional. Members of the Community Also claim their farms and water sources have been polluted by mining activity this. Has built a new homes for those who have been evicted. Gena time billy was given a 4 bedroom house instead of the 5 they were living in. She complains its small and that it leaks whenever it rains produced boy most house and farm have also been marked to be taken over but he vows to fight on all because he says the terms are unfair. By the economy by all of the i r people they are everything to do everything. Because they are money and yeah they are using our own lookout or it is against us because they have not. The community has taken its case before west africas Regional Court because they say the people have little faith in the Justice System here. An official of the Mining Company or at 1st denied knowledge of the court case later said he cant comment on the matter thats before the court. Or just part the lawyer representing the government of sierra leone acknowledged receiving the court papers but says the government was yet to study them. With a lot at stake many people here expect a trial to be long and hard. Armitage crease aljazeera could do separately on the chinese president xi jinping is put his support for hong kongs leader on show during a surprise meeting in shanghai she met caroline on the sidelines of a trade event on monday expressed a high degree of trust in hong kongs leader for her governments ability to tackle the months of antigovernment protests those protests in hong kong began in june of her plan a plan to allow extradition to Mainland China more from katrina you know in beijing. Carolan met the xi jinping on the sidelines of a Big International trade expo thats happening this week and they had what was really a very positive meeting now this follows 5 months of turmoil and increasingly violent protests in hong kong this has been a big source of concern and embarrassment from beijing but there was no sense at all of any reprimand or any displeasure from xi jinping to carry land in fact he expressed a high degree of trust and confidence in him government and acknowledged all the hard work that should been putting in to really try and calm the situation now this seems to really be a message from xi jinping to the people of hong kong and the rest of the world that carry land is there to stay as the leader of hong kong and that really puts to rest some speculation that they were preparing to replace or as a leader as early as the beginning of next year now many in hong kong are really going to be unhappy at this meeting and theyre going to see really it as further proof that kerry land is little more than a puppet of the government of beijing and president xi jinping ended his meeting with kerry lamb to say you know we really want you to continue these discussions with the people of hong kong to improve their lives which reflects what the communist party here believe about the protests that theyre not about wanting more democracy theyre not even political theyre really just about the frustrations of the people in hong kong about lack of Work Opportunities about the lack of things like Affordable Housing and beijing is hoping and they do believe that once those issues are addressed that these protests will start to peter out. Tech companies with billions of dollars have been under scrutiny for how they have contributed to a housing crisis in the u. S. State of california. Really which one has now putting some of its profits into providing Affordable Homes reynolds with that story. California has more Homeless People than anywhere else in the us last year there were approximately 130000 people in the state without housing a 30 percent increase over 2017 according to the most recent Homeless Count 59000 people in los angeles were living on the streets or in tent camps Rehab Centers or shelters in San Francisco the figure is close 210000 apple which is valued at 961000000000 dollars announced a 5 point plan that devotes 1000000000. 00 for an Affordable Housing fund another 1000000000. 00 in assistance for 1st time homebuyers and opening up 300000000. 00 worth of property apple own for low Income Housing development so weve been working on issues to prevent reduce and almost in the community for the past decade another 200000000. 00 will be focused on a San Francisco housing fund and support for that citys poorest and most vulnerable i think were actually have the dollars truly addressed in this action there for the house and but we now need neighborhoods and local politicians to welcome. New housing into their neighborhoods as Technology Companies expand their highly paid workers drive up the price of housing making rents an affordable for middle and low income households california has a chronic housing shortage in part due to restrictive rules on new development in many cities and towns the San Francisco bay area where apple is headquartered ranks as the most expensive place to live in the u. S. Apple c. E. O. Tim cook said in a press release that quote we know the course we are on is unsustainable and apple is committed to being part of the solution california governor Gavin Newsome called on other companies to follow apples example last. Month facebook pledged a 1000000000. 00 package of Housing Loans and grants in california and in june google announced a similar 1000000000. 00 effort to create Affordable Housing economists say however that by themselves the billions promised by Tech Companies will not solve the housing crisis extensive new Government Housing policies and massive Financial Investment are also needed they say robert oulds Al Jazeera Los Angeles still ahead on this news hour sports news. Coming tomorrow in johannesburg where thousands out some africans have come out to welcome back the springboks to the wind of the Rugby World Cup. The folk sport with the odd hope this parade would be in new zealand but still very popular when the feeling is that it might be slightly more in the Northern Hemisphere as it is south africas all conquering reputation are riding home after their world cup triumph in japan the scored a set to go on a 5 day victory tour around their country some of the players are now back in johannesburg safely she became the 1st black outs in some if the trophy after that win over england on saturday he though is due to arrive on a lighter flight in south africa 1st won the title in 1995 there was just one black player in the lineup clichy saying he now hopes this squad can truly be described as a national. While our correspondents are made a mill is life or is in johannesburg for me was sort of reaction can assume expect some victory so. Well that is the reaction from the our tom boy it would deserve to lose anything to go by the big great excitement was the springboks take that world across johannesburg cape town durban also important didnt want to lose the big way the captain of the team see a police chief is from now at the moment are some of the team members who have arrived one of them is solem up in feed is addressing a press conference and so far he has expressed his delight at winning but also talking about the importance of the win and what it means from him coming what it means they have a nice background and coming from the eastern cape he says once that won the world cup he said he felt like this means a lot to me and even the law to the people where i come from in the eastern cape and this world cup win is really about the underdogs in the Springbok Team its about how they try and how theyve overcome the odds that theyve faced and really about integration. And one of the biggest slogans has been together were stronger and this is key to the victory in that South Africans be ignited and this is certainly an eventful occasion that all South Africans want to celebrate and thats weve seen thousands of people here at the airport we expect thousands tens of thousands more in the streets of major cities welcoming the swimming squad back for me to remember the images of 995 do you think this team could be just as powerful a catalyst for change in the country beyond the sporting field. Planted that is certainly the hope but back in 909495 pardon me that when was the man said the symbolism behind it with the former president Nelson Mandela also the captain of a team at that time Francois Pienaar that that image of unity and so forth the way forward was very important for South Africans in this particular case integration is important as i mentioned in that this is a team that has been the most integration so far its been lived by a black captain by the very 1st time in more than a 100 years of the springbok history so there is great expectation that it would be a catalyst for change what happens in reality though is an important question for many South Africans we travel to Port Elizabeth in the eastern cape where some of the squad members are wrong and there is a lot of talent in provinces like that a lot of black players who dont have as much of an opportunity as players who come from a more privileged background players who dont have proper fields dont have equipment sponsorship really very little supporting and having to do. To get a place in the squad like the springboks and so they are a lot of questions around inequality and not really about rikan story tricking into sport in many areas in south africa for me to my life. 1st the great scenes in johannesburg is that South African Rugby World Cup winning team arrived thanks for nader. Our european rugby champion saracens have been found guilty of breaching salary cap regulations the english team have been docked 35. 00 points and fined close to 7000000. 00 an investigation found the premiership title holders had failed to disclose player payments for the last 3 seasons seems in the English League are limited to spending 9000000. 00 on player salaries per season 8 of the england squad that lost to south africa in that World Cup Final play for the club saracens have said they will be appealing. This punishment which leaves them extraordinary position of minus 26. 00 in the table it doesnt reflect well on saracens it doesnt reflect well at all on english rugby to have their champions in that position the team thats one of these silverware being accused of cheating doesnt reflect well thought can saracens come back from this if they dont win the appeal well theyd be in danger of relegation and you might lose this huge club from the english premiership but what the bosses of english rugby have done here is said we will not tolerate any breach of salary cap regulations at all where they are saracens are not defending champions live a full can say the big step towards the knockout stages of the European Champions League on tuesday they host belgian champions gang kids and field youre going club could rest some of his big names ahead of his teams top of the table clash with Manchester City in the premier league coming up on sunday nobody has to tell the boys their cities on sunday tomorrows game so we have big numbers and ambitions in this in this competition tomorrow night and. Its an open group still pretty much everything possible. That game one of its own choose the bassline or another of the early kick offs they play slavia prague germanys dorman heist and in london its the kids of chelsea against the kids of. In the n. B. A. 44 points from james harden help the Houston Rockets beat the Memphis Grizzlies 10 rebounds and 6 assists to drive with his 44 points easy and see a 330 point game and he passes Allen Iverson score 50 on the only time its houston winning one im certain its one. Price going in brooklyn is the next big be the only pelicans 1352125 shillings the branding graham with a career high 40 points in this one but 39 points are not a system call you have an injured group claimed him out of school. Ok that is it for me thank you eddie more than be in the next news outing 100 hours g. M. T. And more news with me in a couple of minutes time. 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The deals been signed to end fighting in southern yemen pitted saudi arabia against its allies. But were going to santa maria here in doha with the world news from aljazeera no backing down irans president announces new steps that will move teheran even further from the 2015 nuclear deal also a renegotiated e. U. Withdrawal deal and another referendum britains main Opposition Leader lays out his brags of plan ahead of the general election