this is really an attack on itself is a lot of this understanding of what's supposed to be the context of hugely important. to serious debate out front at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera and line from studio here at al-jazeera headquarters in. santa maria welcome to the new rocket and the mentally deranged. that is what they called each other remember across the miles but now kim jong. un calls to meet face to face after the u.s. president accepted kim's invitation but exactly are we looking at here is it

a potential breakthrough in the north korean nuclear crisis or. from the us also on the grid inside a free not correspondent takes us into the northern syria region at the center of a battle between turkish forces and kurdish fighters while in the more has made it through but the government. has not stopped and india supreme court has decided to allow so-called passive that is the removal of treatment which then hastens a person's death and then the decision that has provoked plenty of heated debate including online where euthanasia is the top story in india we've asked many of you what you think of the passive euthanasia court really. that's the hash tag. you're with the news grid streaming online through facebook dot com and what

a difference seven. makes remember last september when u.s. president donald trump talked about totally destroying north korea if the us was threatened he called north korea's leader kim jong un the rocket man well now trump accepted an invitation from kim jong un for a face to face meeting and meeting which would be unprecedented in nearly seventy years of animosity between the two countries we are starting the grid this evening with this report from rob mcbride. this fast moving diplomatic saga has seen many extraordinary twists and turns then the announcement to beat them all south korea's special envoy emerged from a meeting with the u.s. president to reveal trump says yes to kim president from. the briefing and said he would meet kim jong un by may two or cheap prominent the lucrative. seizing the moment south korea's president mungy in has been quick to

credit both north korean and u.s. leaders or the trumpeter to norman denuclearization m.p.c. on the korean peninsula are beginning to be realized i believe the lympics and paralympics as well as our endeavors for peace will help create a new global peace all the credit should go to those people around the world who wish for peace judy. moon's liberal government says the way is now open to achieving denuclearization of the korean peninsula through peaceful means something almost inconceivable until recently but many conservatives say it's only been made possible by the u.s. threat of force so i think the south koreans and the north koreans kind of put their heads together and said well we need to come up with something otherwise we might all end up having u.s. rockets landing in pyongyang where they're acting out of fear or seeing an

opportunity much credit will go to south korea. special envoys went to pyongyang on a mission of hope bringing back a landmark agreement and seoul exploited its good fortune in hosting the winter olympics just when the world needed a path to peace it's still early days but this is being seen as a major diplomatic achievement for south korean president moon jay in building on the goodwill of the winter olympics two remarkable effect as the paralympics get underway south korea will be hoping these games continue to work their magic as it did in the winter olympics north korea is sending a team of paralympians sport and politics mixing it seems with the beneficial outcome at least they are dialing their stock into each other then in all i think sport playing their part in nor putting the door from then on it's up to the politicians until now south korea's politicians and diplomats only have to plan for

the agreed into korean summit at the panmunjom truce village at the end of april a first in eleven years now they face the prospect of a first ever summit between north korean and u.s. leaders rob mcbride al-jazeera south korea has kimberley now our white house correspondent. kimberly where did all this come from i mean i woke up this morning read all my notifications and thought hang on this that something doesn't feel right here. all right this wasn't even on the white house schedule on thursday canal it was a surprise even to white house staff it wasn't just reporters like yourself and myself that got a little bit caught off guard by this one look we start to see some signs late in the day on thursday when the south to south korean envoys were spotted here on the campus of the white house we understand they went in to meet with h.r. mcmaster the national security advisor and that's when president tribe who

certainly understands how to produce a good story may not always understand the fine points of diplomacy but i understood there was an opportunity and bite at the south korean envoys into the oval office and that's where they relayed their message directly from the north korean leader of this desire to meet but then it gets a little bit stranger even after that because the president apparently quite excited about the potential for a diplomatic breakthrough went to the white house briefing room where he has never been before picked his head in where there were only a handful of reporters because the day was essentially over and for twenty nine seconds convey this message that there would be this announcement catching all of the reporters off guard apparently excited because as we point out this has the potential to be a breakthrough and of course donald trump will be the first sitting u.s. president to meet with a north korean leader the last president to go was not in office the first one was jimmy carter who went in one thousand nine hundred four he went back twice after that of course bill clinton also went in two thousand and nine to free two u.s.

journalists so certainly this is being catching a lot of attention but also caught a lot of people by surprise the tar mine is interesting campbell i think donald trump said it would happen before maybe you will by mary or something like that i wonder between now and then i mean do you think everyone will play nice. donald trump and his staff have said nothing changes in terms of u.s. policy we've heard in rob mcbride's package just before our discussion here really what many people credit for this potential breakthrough is the fact that the u.s. put kind of in place a different strategy when donald trump came to office something he promised in his inaugural speech in fact and that would be maximum economic pressure which we've seen through sanctions and also diplomatic isolation in conjunction with the international community so that's exactly what has happened and the united states says there will be no brakes in terms of the strategy moving forward until this meeting the other thing that the united states says it's expecting from north korea

is the commitment that north korea made earlier in the week you'll recall when there was this clear commitment to denuclearize that there would be a refrain from any sort of testing of nuclear or type weapons or missiles and also to this understanding that those joint exercises between the united states and south korea that were delayed because of a lympics well those are still going to carry on and there's has to be a recognition that that is going to happen so this is what kind of differentiates the policies of the past this is why there is some optimism but also there's a recognition here in washington this is a bold move but it's also a risky one. all right kimberly bookshop you never know what's going to come on the conan next at the white house clearly out that in washington d.c. he is scott snyder now senior fellow at the council on foreign relations specializing in u.s. korean relations in all for all of south korea at the crossroads nice to have you with us scott you know a lot of the analysts who i spoke to certainly prior to the olympic games when

things started to come together between the two koreas at least and we have the joint. meetings and all of this people saying oh don't get too distracted here it's only small steps it doesn't mean much start to wonder today maybe it did mean maybe all this groundwork has been laid and we're now reaching this point well there was groundwork i think laid around the opening and closing ceremonies of the olympics but there were also a number of diplomatic missed connects between the u.s. and north korea. instances in which the south koreans failed to put north korea and the united states together in the same room and it really has only been this visit by the south korean special envoys to pyongyang the gaining of these particular commitments in terms of self-restraint by north korea to. not continue with testing and understanding the exercises that i think made it possible for them to come to washington and express and deliver this invitation the

president trump seems to have accepted i'm getting quite a few comments there from our viewers now there's a lot more work to be put on just scott sorry to interrupt you dan i just want to reach a couple of them janice's said i see historic instances of north korea holding out the carrot and then pulling it away not convinced this is a sin c.-a overture and that is another thing i've sort of heard around the place the idea that you can't trust north korean things that all sounds good but they don't have a great track record here. i think it's important to recognize the right now we have a breakthrough in the form of an announcement but we don't really have a diplomatic breakthrough in terms of solving the nuclear issue with north korea and there is a lot of work to be done president trump is putting himself on the front end of this process when normally the u.s. president is the closer and so that means that the job of president trump and the north korean leader is going to have to be to try to bring about some kind of

convergence of interest between the two countries that can enable a diplomatic negotiation over denuclearization what do you think about the two personalities involved here kim jong un and donald trump both strong personalities let me put it that way but also donald trump a man who i think a lot of world leaders so far realize well if you flatter him then that can help you along the way and i wonder if that is an element of that here the idea that donald trump could be the first sitting president to meet with a north korean leader but we certainly see an element of susceptibility of flattery in the way that the announcement was made and also in the desire to give president trump credit for setting this up the north koreans could try to play on that but what is really striking to me is that these are two leaders that have shown themselves to be quite risk acceptant and so in that way

i think that they are both basically coloring outside the lines by even considering the possibility of a meeting without time for very much opportunity it's just set up or to create a basis for some kind of bureaucratic understanding that could lead to a breakthrough scott's not it's been a pleasure talking to you thank you for your time today for joining us in washington thank you. what a fun one. where you've taken you're taking a different direction even from from donald trump and kim jong un yeah well folks are in line are quite interested in this story north korean donald trump are trending in the u.s. as you may expect many online are wondering now how did we go from nuclear threats to a proposed meeting let's start with this clip from the american t.v. program the late show with steven kull there. here's the deal after his big tariff announced for this afternoon president trump came on to come on air and do this or

release well how is this how we find out he he announced it in front of the white house he said that there is going to be big news on north korea and we just got it tonight we learned about an official invitation from kim jong il to meet trump wow. this can only mean one thing dennis rodman is going to get the nobel peace prize. so who is dennis rodman he's a former n.b.a. star and one of only a few americans to have met kim jong un and donald trump he met kim several times on a trip he calls basketball diplomacy he praised donald trump's plan of meeting kim he said quote well done president trump you're on the way to a historical meeting no u.s. president has ever done please send my regards to marshal kim jong un chump and rodman call themselves friends on twitter too and rodman appeared twice on trump's reality show celebrity apprentice rodman even took trump's book the art of the deal

to pyongyang as a gift for kim jong un on his last visit back in twenty seventeen rodman's role with north korea is trending online with many wondering what this will mean for trump's talks we want to hear from you on this if you think the talks will happen and if they do what you think they will achieve you can write me directly at leo harding a.j.c. or use our hash tag get it already getting thank you lee already getting some comments coming through on the hashtag ajay news good lots of you feeling a bit cynical about this one but i like this comment from todd on facebook who said the only reason north korea is developing nukes is to be taken seriously at the table in the fact the trumps agreed to meet him legitimizes that made and that is something which i've definitely heard a lot about today the idea that the reason north korea has got these nukes is to say hey we want to be taken seriously we want to be seen as equals not with all these sanctions in the mattel asians on us it is just so many strands to pull out here and there's a lot of watching to do before

a well may i think they're talking about this meeting could happen at a.j. english on twitter if you want to drop a tweet to us in the thread there or facebook dot com slash al-jazeera for the live stream where you can comment as you go all right let's move on. trucks from an aid convoy which ended syria's eastern ghouta on friday morning have begun to cross back into government held territory these thirteen red cross trucks cross the front lines into. duma in eastern huta bringing in food and supplies despite the heavy shelling continuing the delivery was postponed on thursday because of fighting but earlier the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights had reported no overnight is strikes or shelling on these think the first time in ten days they were able to say that remember more than nine hundred people have been killed now since the government offensive began almost three weeks ago in a hotel with more from beirut in lebanon. thirteen aid trucks arriving in the besieged enclave of eastern the united nations delivering much needed food to the

people who are trapped in a war zone enough food for twenty thousand people far from enough this is an enclave which is home to at least four hundred thousand people according to u.n. estimates but the food was supposed to have delivered supposed to have been delivered on monday but the united nations was unable to offload the trucks because of shelling so they're hoping to be able to complete their mission today on those trucks there were no medical supplies surgical kids trauma kits this is what medics have been requesting for some time now this bombing campaign it's nearly three weeks now if you look thousand people have been wounded but the government really does not allow medical supplies into besieged areas because they say they will be used to rebel fighters who are wounded the situation there's an uneasy calm in eastern overnight no airstrikes no shelling some are saying that this is a positive side maybe a goodwill gesture as both sides engaged in behind the scenes negotiations this is

what we understand the pro-government alliance insisting on the rebel factions that they need to surrender that they need to leave the stand with them for this military campaign and they are not ready to discuss anything else and they're not ready to compromise and it seems that the rebels are running out of options they've lost a lot of ground and the suffering really is immense inside the suffering among civilians we obviously focus a lot on these the group of three weeks this will be going on but as you heard on thursday's grid. it's still a major flash point just to put it on the map is right down here near the capital damascus but we're talking about right in the north this of a as i call it a flashpoint almost afraid there right on the border with turkey. now the turkish president reject type one says his troops have the northern syrian town of offering under siege and will enter the city center quote at any moment

that's after the turkish military seized control of the town of jim davis which was held by the u.s. backed y p g five is the kurds turkey and allied syrian rebels are trying to push those kurdish fighters from the area but our correspondent alan fischer you saw yesterday well it's been embedded with turkish troops inside syria today in a place where they are but loot southwest of gin that is take a look at his report. we drove into syria with a turkish army escort they decided where we would go the destination the village of dead one of the first retaken from kurdish militia by the free syrian army supported by the turks in the operation named all of brunch sitting in the shade the children waited for the truck to distribute its boxes the date here has been the scene for a while in a small building a makeshift doctor's office treating a lot of minor injuries anything serious in the transfer to turkey for further treatment. for some who knew nothing but war. it's

a new and frightening experience. then it was time to hand out the aid but i am an animal family's name was called and someone stepped forward some fairly tall enough to carry it home but people are standing here waiting patiently for the aid to be handed out that is they say they waited long enough for the aid to arrive but they don't mind waiting that little bit longer. each box is on oil and sugar and flour and sanitary products enough to last the family three weeks when required hundreds of men are since the f.s.a. came we are receiving aid it is enough for us it's enough six years we lived under the why p.g. there was the aid material should be a little bit more because of the number of people here and the number of people in those families some of them received aid but one or two boxes are not enough for one family because they're all gathered in one house the turkish red crescent says it's doing what it can with what it has. up to but we came to the area

yesterday and assess the needs of the village residents who are prepared food and hygenic material for everyone. every so often the growing shakes with the sound of artillery fire the big guns pointed south in support of the ongoing military operation the children told me they don't like the noise they may have grown up with the war but it's something they will never get used to. alan fischer al-jazeera dead balut not in syria to be saying inside syria isn't it. we're going to look at the u.s. steel tariffs story now donald trump has followed through on his threat to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports actually despite warnings of a global trade war just think about this five countries these ones are going to canada mexico germany china japan they supply the u.s. with over half of all its imports of which steel is obviously a major component now for the moment canada and mexico will be exempt from the new

levies but you can imagine over here in china in japan there is a lot of consternation they say they are resolutely opposed to the steel tariffs and as john hendren now reports leaders around the world and on capitol hill actually back in washington a calling this the first shot in a coming trade war. or a defiant donald trump fulfilled a promise that helped make him president the american still loman image astri has been ravaged by aggressive foreign trade practices it's really an assault on our country. the qs ing china and other countries of dumping cheap steel on the us market in an attack on american industry he said punitive tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum many of the countries that treat us the worst on trade and on military are our allies as they like to call them. so we just want fairness

the controversy old plan would take effect in fifteen days exempting canada and mexico as they renegotiate the north american free trade deal with the u.s. and reserving the right to change the terms for other countries which changing things something the steelworkers that helped put trump in the white house over his promises of protectionism is going to bring steel back. had his own protectors been over a hundred million dollars and alone in kentucky in granite city illinois hundreds of workers laid off when the u.s. steel plant closed two years ago will be going back to work but on capitol hill the plan was criticized as the first shot in a certain trade war i'm disappointed in is what i should say because we just passed a tax bill and this kind of flies in the face of democratic senator dick durbin compared it to dropping a bomb on a fleet a fellow republican senator jeff flake vowed a bill to reverse the tariffs in canada the foreign minister faced questions about

whether the deck was being stacked against her free trade negotiation team her answer was diplomatic we think a win win win outcome for all three countries is absolutely possible and not going to go shooting table we are absolutely defending and standing out for the national interest at the european union talk was much tougher to hang and that's sort of we are now imposing tariffs on motorcycles harley davidson on blue jeans the visor on bourbon we can also do stupid. newly planned even tariffs on those in other u.s. products are designed to hit swing states in american elections florida ohio pennsylvania that trump's republican party will need to hold congress in midterm elections later this year despite days of opposition trump remained a man of steel tariffs yes i'm going to give even if you needed a reminder to sign them john hendren zero washington well the european union says

the tariffs break rules that have been set by the world trade organization and that while it would prefer to negotiate it's not afraid to retaliate what is not that we are looking for a battle we didn't secure prepared for one thing your opinion is peace project we have dialogue and compromise as our got. that is the whole idea with the union we didn't ask for this what we are asking is to our american friends and others work with us work with us to strengthen the international organization the global playbook as the video set said here they much need to change yes let's work to do that to get the to shape the future globalization give all of us work together we should do this now as well now if the u. united states decide to do this this is unfortunate and we would do everything we can to convince that that is wrong if it does happen we will have to take some measures to protect our jobs and workers as well and then you've got south korea and japan condemning the tariffs as well south korea one of the biggest exporters

of steel to the u.s. . we would actively consider filing a complaint to the world trade organization with agreement between major countries the trade minister kim chung already discussed this with the european union trade commissioner. could do with her it is extremely regrettable that the measures were decided i believe there is a concern that a broad trade restriction mechanism on the grounds of national security could disturb not only the us but also the global steel and aluminum markets including those in the asian region and it could also cause a grave impact on economic relations between allies japan and the us as well as the multilateral trade system overall and the global economy and further to the steel and aluminum tariffs there is the prospect of a us china trade war regular al-jazeera contributor richard job it had darien has written about that out for al-jazeera dot com and he says what's clear is that

almost overnight the u.s. has transformed from a preeminent advocate of free trade into a protectionist villain in the eyes of our friends and foes have a read of it for yourself it's in the opinion section i.v. to search for us china trade you'll find that quick break from us here in doha as we get some more international news headlines from julie macdonald in months. kemal funky now i saw claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in the afghan capital kabul seven people were killed and several of the wounded so when the bomb went off near a crowd of shia protests as they were commemorating a political leader from the shia minority un's urging the international criminal court to prosecute those committing atrocities against me and was religious minority is also calling for me and was governments who i want to see into northern rakhine state to investigate so-called acts of genocide mean mars been accused of bulldozing mass graves to cover up evidence of crimes against humanity the end human rights chief has suggested the philippine president should seek psychiatric

evaluation zaid rather hussein was referring to a court petition filed by rodrigo deterred government last month which accused the un rappler to and all this of being members of a key communist rebel group human rights watch says the allegations have put our and some six other six hundred other people in danger. this is of course unacceptable for a special operator. acting on behalf of the international community whose expertise is sort by the human rights council to be treated in the sewer and who promote expect the human rights council to respond accordingly and really makes one believes that the president of the philippines needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric evaluation this sort of this this sort of common reed is unacceptable it's been seven years since japan was hit by an earthquake that caused

the tsunamis a crash into its coastal cities killing more than twenty thousand people so that huge concrete walls a big built along the coastline protect against huge waves bought some say the new barriers are too high could have an impact on tourism off maps and explains. for fishermen atsushi frizzy to the open waters of the to haul coal coast swelling beneath a hazy blue sky where he earns his living pulling oysters from the sea there. but when he returns to the shore the rolling hills of his home have been obscured by high concrete walls. i feel like i'm working inside a fence it feels like we're in jail even though we haven't done anything bad. in the two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami wave slammed into coastal cities two thousand people were killed in that so she is home the focus shima nuclear reactor was swamped leaking radiation into the surrounding land and sea their

original tsunami badia was just four meters high but the waves just swept right over it now japan is building sea walls fifteen meters high they offer more protection but not everyone thinks they're worth it just kind of called the board today at the local i think about fifty years ago we used to bring our kids here and enjoy the beautiful ocean and bay area while. driving but there's not even a trace of that left or to a thing that has knocked me to where i don't think we need a seawall if we could see the wave coming we could shout run but because of the wall we can't see anything. many local authorities refused to give planning permission for new homes until the wolves were built the would do the begin to build after the construction of the seawall was confirmed i was able to get permission to rebuild my bed and breakfast that is why i can't say things like the wall should be lower or we don't need it it's thanks to the wall that i could rebuild and now i have a job and the oyster fishing has improved because this is now me stood off the seabeds some complain to resume will be affected because the walls obscure the

views but others say they're willing to pay that price for protection from mother nature rob matheson al jazeera that's it for me here in london for just now it's back to come all in doha thank you julie we'll see julie again in about half an hour's time just a quick comment before we go to the break actually it was a question a facebook question from ben in australia who asked is the u.s. considering stopping joint military exercises with south korea until it's meeting with north korea i've been trying to find out. nothing specific about that but kimberly was telling us before from the white house that for the united states it's very much business as usual and you business as usual until this meeting happens that means sanctions and could quite possibly include cooperation with south korea on those. war games or military exercises i guess you call them if you want to get in touch there's a number plus an uncivil five zero and triple one four nine on telegram and on whatsapp the hashtag is. major news this is the news great if you're watching us on

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some eighteen degrees as a high in beirut and then as you move the forecast through into sunday germany following conditions around this area we have had some fairly brisk winds results in some lifted dust but i think that said jerry disappearing now here in the arabian peninsula it is pretty warm at the moment with temperatures of thirty degrees already on the other side of the printer similar picture with temperatures well up into the mid thirty's there for mecca now is handled through into sunday not much change expected here temperatures still staying above average so let's head across into southern parts of africa where it's looking very fine across much of south africa botswana and through into the we've got some heavy showers across northern parts of some via lusaka may see some downpours some showers also across parts of zimbabwe so harare seeing the downpours a come back into south africa it should be fine for johannesburg high cyr expected to reach twenty two. they suspected money laundering operation but this time it was different. an

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. arrive in kenya on the next stop of his tour of africa he is visiting five nations the aim of strengthening security and economic time spent much of today friday in djibouti a vital partner in america's fight against terrorism in the region we'll check in with catherine so i now who's in nairobi water is expected to be on the agenda for the secretary of state in kenya catherine. secretary telephone is right now having this meeting with president hu to yatta at the state house after that he's going to be going to another location to address the media and then we're going to know more about what exactly they discussed but we expect that they're discussing of course a comic for ties economic partnership between china and the u.s. so we have to listen is going to talk about like he's done in other countries is this is unlike ethiopia he's raised concerns about the nature of the trade

partnership between china and africa and i think that is something he's going to raise with the whole thing outre as well we expect he's going to talk about security they're going to talk about security in the region particularly the fight against terrorism the fight against specifically al-shabaab the group in somalia that is fighting the government and african union troops there ten is an important country in the important part in this fight has contributed troops to the african union as well but also importantly. we also expect them to discuss the political situation in the country particularly coming off the back of a very acrimonious election where many many people died in post-election violence and nice work use of using very high handed ways to deal with protesters during that period and then it's actually interesting when you talk about that because

this morning i believe it was this morning there's a meeting between president kenyatta and ran a reading of the opposition leader with a sort of very the hanssen agreed to move on together and then you have surprise surprise the u.s. secretary of state arriving on the same day as well i wonder if this is more than coincidence. i think it's more than a coincidence kemal and this meeting really has come as a surprise to many of us a lot of kenyans was shocked to see the two leaders meeting particularly after they've been speaking on complete opposite ends while loading the same that's still only meet the president on the agenda will be electoral reforms in a new election i would never say no i want to talk to the opposition leader about development model so this is a complete about time and i think it's possibly timed to coincide with this visit by secretary telephone as you know the u.s.

has been a very critical own both sides and how they handle they've handled the political situation during the election very critical on decisions that have been made by the opposition critical of particularly the swearing in the mopes who are in need of rylan people president back in january where you know the u.s. saying that the constitution has to be followed there is a president in place and also critical of how we're looking at that and his government handled reacted to that swearing in closing down media stations and you know arresting opposition leaders so i think this is perfectly timed and kenyans are higher saying that they really want to know what really was discussed behind those closed doors between reloading and who can nasa and going forward how what the end game is really going to be come out. things are really

a coincidence catherine story in nairobi thank you for your ex to listen in kenya at the moment now here is a reporter from adult just earlier in the day looking at richardson in djibouti he's here with the united states still cares about africa. but u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is too is all about what african leaders over didn't know about the threat but mr sharon's approach to the continent counterterrorism is top of the agenda what human rights and democracy take a box that the u.s. military presence here does facilitate a very quick response to terrorism and violent extremism that threatens both of our countries but as well it threatens the region and stability in this region wherever that threat may come from his toys also about pushing back up the perception that suffocates not a priority for the u.s. especially after the democratic comments reportedly made by the president about

african countries in generally tell us those two also comes at a time that the u.s. has been up flung and outspent by china which has provided billions of dollars much of it in loans for infrastructure projects which african leaders have struggled to fund themselves its he ain't djibouti host to complement america's the largest and most important military base in africa the issue of cheney's influence is most pressing for the u.s. home to about four thousand plus suddenly including special operation forces complement to act as a launch pad for u.s. operations in yemen and somalia but china has built a military base just a few kilometers from the americans and back on signs that the ports recently seized back by djibouti from its you. could be hunted about to china a move that could have consequences for u.s. military and intelligence assaults in the horn of africa. behind closed balls tell us all swarm djibouti that china was pushing it deployed into debt so it is

manageable we invested in a very strong and good infrastructure and we hope that this commercial infrastructure will be able to help us pay back to our debt so we are not that worried but we have we keep an eye on that america's military presence in africa is expanding as it sounds special forces on drones to help governments in western and is the parts of africa fight groups such as boko haram on al-shabaab as sort is china's military role as it deploys policemen and soldiers on peacekeeping missions on the continent the u.s. military has now put competent china along with russia at the center of its national defense strategy mohamed atta al-jazeera djibouti and this is a really interesting story india's supreme court ruling that terminally ill people can refuse cheers to refuse i should say medical care like some pictures here this

is in there a little bit distressing really but her name is schonberg used to be a nurse was left in a vegetative state for more than forty years after being beaten and sexually assaulted by a hospital worker her death in twenty fifteen sparked a national debate in india over the legalization of euthanasia well thank you veronica and we heard from little bit early human rights activist and author in two thousand and nine she launched the movement for euthanasia in india and became involved in our in this case. investigating museum debtor's wonder if you are in debt. or if you are in a poor market which in which see a glass or scale has just us being in first or on a ventilator the pulling the plug a tree where you will not come out of it. well and that's the to me is the debt has already they firmly not on your bed. yes so what we're dealing with here is passive

euthanasia that is to say the removal of treatment and then the person's health would decline to the point of death you've also got active euthanasia which is different they collect mercy killing sometimes and countries do tend to make a moral distinction between the two of these was running through some of them europe first the netherlands luxembourg switzerland belgium permit euthanasia which means the doctor administers the medication that kills the patient in fact belgium is the only country that allows miners of any age to choose euthanasia with parental consent euthanasia is illegal in most of the us but in twenty fifteen california joined oregon washington vermont and montana in permitting is this to die and this is when a person sometimes a physician provides the knowledge and or means to commit suicide and then a year later canada will surpass the laws allowing doctor assisted dying in other words i don't to helping a very sick patient in their life but without directly administering the deadly drugs that does not apply to the mentally ill though i want to tell you about south america twenty fifteen colombia became the only latin american country to allow

youth and asia which is of course opposed by the church there so it's one of the sort of clear all that up about what is what when we say euthanasia leo we're talking passive euthanasia which it could be considered sort of less controversial than the others but still gets a lot of people talking it does get a lot of people talking in this case particularly in india it's one of the top conversations online at the moment it's actually the top conversation online in india so many are welcoming this decision by simply using the hash tag euthanasia in arguing why they think this is a step forward a user here tweeted and saying that the right to life in crew includes the right to die with dignity this move will lead to a new movement in protecting the rights of individuals this person says regulating this is as important as allowing it now we've also been talking to some folks out of india take a listen to what some of you had to say. i think of this is you should have come in a long time ago in india i like to buy fairly in pieces of i do not suffer to the

pain of chronic incurable diseases but i do make an informed and educated decision by yourself and by the family members who get for you in your supreme court has gone demanding the right to live with the logic and the music they do groovy indignity i believe that this is a step in the late edition because every person has a date for the party and this raid needs to be respected and everybody in this corner and all other ways has a date today with dignity and we all need to respect that in that direction while others still have concerns about the implementation of the law take a listen to the humans and david dignity however it is to be seen how long. they do permission their patent on family members to pass on this will it go to the government. to ensure that there is no mishandling of this war deep for personal benefits we saw similar concerns on line near them

during here for example say newton asia might be better than a deep sleep or an incurable coma but i just hope it does not become a fall point given our indian ways with twistin loss if you're in india we want to hear from you can get in touch with us for the hash tag thank you. we've got karunanidhi with us now who is a supreme court lawyer in india joining us via skype from new delhi and we thank you very much for your time what is it not let me put this why how long has this been a controversial topic if you like in india and what is it in the end that brought the supreme court to this decision. i mean i think it's been about a decade or so and i are not excuse i think that you described earlier was something that really got people quite upset because here was someone who was you know. as you mentioned the facts are upsetting who was a sort of sexually assaulted and was in a coma essentially

a persistent vegetative state for a long long time i think of being a forty three years and. have to be sort of sustained on a leg support system and so it has to be it has been something that people have been thinking about for a long time but this particular position is. i think quite a long overdue and what it's based on is the right to bodily integrity and so. the idea that the right to life includes the right to live a dignified life and that also means the right to. in very very particular circumstances snowdon your. the death that i mean this was inevitable that we're only today but a death that is imminent is on the way it's a scheme that's being. reported on laid down really is the is the scheme of advanced directives and they didn't call it

a living will they call it an advance directive so actually if if you wish to see him if i were to not want to be you know kept on life support systems you know where you know through a feeding tube for a particular period if i had done the illness or if i reckon this is a current i'm sorry to interrupt you just want to ask you something else is there a concern about it being abused here about the idea of someone who has an example who is maybe very poor in concept or family and doesn't want to warmers look after me or feel that a cancer wants to sort of invoke this there what measures are in place to stop that sort of thing happening. actually you know i think a lot of people. you know i'll wire it because in part because the haven't read the judgment because it's by five hundred forty pages and i read the operative. and there is a whole scheme please so all that idea is that why you are in sound mind raped you

. go to a magistrate postured judicial magistrate of first class then you senior put i mean you know it's a trial court but it's a responsible person training responsible courts and you have two witnesses and you execute that you know that wish that the keep it and that when you are in. when you have delayed threatening. disease more you end up as vegetative state of the bus and then to a point to. have to existence for you if you can't get that a cigar yourself and be able to do that then. a panel of doctors can be appointed and. you know the doctors will need to be involved in any fears and then you know the various spec do's have been certified as a psychiatrist would be more of a neurologist would be invited and i think some of them you know don't quite know that the brain death law was was biased in that i think in one thousand nine

hundred three then the transplantation of human organs that recognise brain that so that's already already recognized that her brain death that you have they are and i'm going to maybe they were top of some of the news today thank you so much for your time we really do appreciate it. ok so say no more stories for you insurance for nature this is the latest idea to come out of this year's world ocean summit in mexico it means dozens of kilometers of coral reefs and beach on mexico's caribbean coast can then be insured to help preserve them and reduce the impact of hurricanes rapid payouts will be triggered when storm force winds reach a certain speed first time of this protective value has actually been monetized we've got john holman with us now in cancun john how much about is the damage to asian resources like coral reefs there where you are well in this area we were in the mexican coast that goes on to the caribbean in the entire caribbean area the experts estimate that come from reefs is going down from about sixty seven seventy

percent to five to ten percent in some places and they say that that's really due to be in a fact from all angles warming seeds is one of the things over fishing lutes it's coming from agriculture so we're trying to in the resort town here from match tourism spilling into the sea that disrupts the delicate ecosystem with the cold and then you add to that hurricanes where we are and throughout the caribbean really hurricanes are a major threat to knock out the father of the coral at a single glance so all of that is really combining the coast under threat just well why does well three inches of course on the charts this is a global problem as well john just quickly what about the sick insurance idea that they something tangible i guess coming out of all this conference. it definitely does come out of the. summit but now it was announced last night what they're

hoping is that this thing can protect the court at least in the case of hurricanes it's quite it's a pilot scheme kirk the mess of american reef which is the longest in the western hemisphere just trying to ensure the mets can stretch it that what they're going to do is stand up a trust fund of government academics and n.g.o.s that are going to minister that insurance money from taxes on hotels one of the causes that one of the the ways they're going to get that money together now when the insurance pays out from a big insurance company that's yet to be made that will then. clean up some of the reef but that trust fund is also going to have a pot of money that's going to grow year on year and they're going to use such replenish and repair that as needed so they're hoping that they can apply that this this free in mexico then little by little they can start extending that of the reefs in the world john heilemann in cancun at the ocean summit thank you john lots

of content down to zero dot com on oceans and pollution this is a recent one on coral reefs actually it shows a new research more than eleven billion pieces of plastic litter the corals in the asia pacific alone and this is a really good on lots of interactive content for you in there as well with a look at from misfits guy who writes for al-jazeera dot com and it is under the climate s.o.s. tag at al-jazeera dot com of course i'm tweeting all these links as well throughout the show at kamaal a.j. the. some a is here to talk sport robert brought into a little bit earlier paralympic games starting in south korea we're going to talk about paralympic games and of course arena williams i loved your gift yesterday by the way. so the biggest winter paralympics in history is officially underway the opening ceremony took place in freezing conditions north korea will be making his games a debut but a north and south korean athletes march separately at this event the two countries united for drawing to a session at the last month lympics at this time the north

a had wanted disputed islands to be put on the unified flag but the south disagreed a record of five hundred sixty seven athletes from forty eight countries will be competing along with north korea georgia and has at the sun have athletes at the games for the first time eighteen medals are programs and six sports all pine skiing snowboarding power ice hockey will to occur and the nordic skiing events of cross-country and bias along as a with the winter olympics russian act lisa deemed a drug free by organizes will be able to compete as neutrals around thirteen russians that will be all must have had at least two anti doping tests and the posix months well here is the heat map showing how many people are talking about the paralympics and of course the opening ceremony on social media well over twenty thousand people have been tweeting using the world has tag paralympics in the last

twenty four hours most of the chatter online coming understandably from south korea and japan but also from north america and parts of western europe as well. been mentioning earlier to come out so we know williams has returned to competitive singles access with the win williams is back six months after the birth of her first child her opening round when at indian wells setting up the possible court we union with her sister venus and a recent reports. the biggest name in women's tennis is back on cools serena williams returning to action at the indian wells tournament in california prior to this match against kazakstan zarina d.s. the twenty three time grand slam singles champion hadn't played a top level tour event since winning the australian open at the start of last year i was. her only appearances since the birth of her

daughter have been in doubles going so exhibition matches but that famed fighting spirit soon removed was williams winning in straight sets dutch play a key key persons in round two assist of venus a possible third round the permits. i was almost going to cry because i missed my daughter and i was just like you know but i pulled myself together and i got to do . what it was i was really and when i was really happy to be out there you know just play tennis again. victoria as a rank i was also back on pool after a prolonged absence the former world number one taking on routines at the option. the polar russian is involved in a custody battle which means she can't leave the state of california so this is a rare chance for her to compete at a top level chore event. which parts of this match that sits on brown slam champion

haven't played competitively since appearing at wimbledon last year as a ranker winning this match in straight sets i mean richardson al-jazeera. there's been a lot of reaction on social media about the return of the two moms the sports journalist model tweeted that all you want to know why serena williams is a once in a lifetime ask each a girl a human inside of her gave birth to the human almost died after giving birth and is currently on the pro tennis court competing with a wall number fifty three and one of the world's biggest journeys just six months later while former world number one victoria as a rank i was fighting back the tears as she stepped onto the court or center court she tweeted this what an emotional moment this was that thank you all much of very much up for much so wonderful a warm welcome it means the world to me and that's it for me and about to come up thank you it's been a packed news grid today hasn't it thanks for watching thank you for joining in as well the hashtag if you want to get in touch with us.

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