Listen: News in Brief 27 May 2019
"This is the news in brief from the United Nations. No way safe in Yemen. The head of u n children's fund UNICEF said after an attack in the city of ties claimed the lives of twelve civilians, including seven youngsters the latest victims of the country's more than four year war in a statement condemning reported airstrikes on a petrol station in the southwestern city on Friday, Henrietta, four said that the children who died were aged between four and fourteen the attack in the east of ties pushed up confirmed child casualty numbers in the war-torn country to twenty-seven in just over ten days according to miss four, who warned that the actual numbers are likely to be even higher since March twenty fifteen UNICEF has confirmed that at least seven thousand three hundred children were killed or seriously injured in Yemen, amid clashes between supporters of Yemeni President abd, Raby, Manso, Hattie and Hootie opposition groups, the development comes as U N Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for caution and restore. Saint from belligerents both in terms of actions. And in terms of rhetoric in response to questions last Friday about president had as it reported criticism of U N special envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths mister, Gutierrez spokesperson reiterated these secretary-general's full confidence in Mr. Griffiths and his work, the spokesperson added that a letter to the Yemen, president from mister Gutierrez, also underlined, the UN's commitment to the ceasefire deal. Agreed in Sweden last December to the Libyan capital Tripoli now where the shelling of civilian targets in densely, populated areas of the city has been condemned by UN's mill. The UN support mission in Libya, in a statement issued amid intensifying conflicts in and around Tripoli instigated by forces, loyal to general Kelly after on the fourth of April on smell reported that a compound that was hit by an S strike had been used by members of Libya's UN recognized government. In addition, the mission expressed serious concern at the reported kidnapping of a member of the high council of state from the cast. Been guess Shia neighborhood, in the capital, along with two more attacks against ambulances carrying medical staff, which claimed the lives of two health workers, since the offensive on Tripoli began more than five hundred have been killed, including at least twenty nine civilians more than two thousand four hundred people have been injured and some seventy five thousand have been forced from their homes, the majority civilians with half of the displaced women and children. And finally, with more than half the world's people. Now living in cities, what innovations can be found to make their quality of life better. That's the key challenge that delegates must find answers to out the first UN habitat assembly, which began on Monday in Nairobi during the week of discussions, all one hundred ninety three UN Member States are expected to adopt global norms, and policies that will guide. How cities and communities are planned managed and governed in a message to the meeting u n chief Antonio Guiterrez wondered about sixty percent of the urban infrastructure needed by twenty thirty is yet to be. Built this could create opportunities for inclusive growth and sustainable low mission development. Mister Gutierrez said in a video message, but he also warned that without well planned, and managed cities, rapid and unplanned organization could generate severe problems such as pollution crime, inequality disease vulnerability to disasters. And a lack of affordable. Housing cities also count for about seventy percent of harmful emissions, worldwide, according to the UN secretary, general who insisted that these challenges can be overcome. Daniel Johnson, UN news."
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