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eyes president donald trump says he hopes for a nuclear free world as planned step up for his anticipated face to face talks with north korea's leader kim jong un it follows revelations his nominee for secretary of state my pompei o has already met kim in pyongyang speaking at the summit with japan's prime minister shinzo abby trump says a campaign of maximum pressure on north korea will continue until it denuclearize is i will be meeting with kim jong un in the coming weeks to discuss the d. nuclear ization of the korean peninsula hopefully that meeting will be a great success and we're looking forward to it would be a tremendous thing for north korea and a tremendous thing for the world so we will be doing everything possible

to make it a worldwide success not just for the united states or south korea or north korea or japan but for the entire world. just because north korea is responding to a dialogue should be no reward maximum pressure should be maintained and actual implementation in concrete action towards denuclearize ation will be demanded this firm policy has once again been completely shared between us all cathy novak's joining us now from seoul cathay obviously north and south korea having their own regional summit as it were in a fairly short space of time how is the south reacting to the news that the u.s. has clearly been having its own direct talks with the north. well south korea hasn't directly reacted to that news that my palm peo was in pyongyang but i think

it is moving ahead at speed with plans for this intercourse summit and seems to view any progress in any dialogue with the north korean administration positively of course the administration of mungy and has long been pushing forward with a policy of engagement and dialogue and i would imagine that it sees any progress towards a meeting between donald trump and kim jong un positively what they have in common is both south korea and the united states are saying that denuclearization must be firmly on the table in any of these talks and it seems that north korea hasn't ruled out talking about denuclearization but what that means to north korea versus what that means to south korea or the united states navy different the united states wants north korea to do so mantel its missile and nuclear program whereas north korea when it talks about the asian tends to take a broader view and includes that it would be open to discussing it if it no longer

felt threatened by the united states and it wants the u.s. for example to remove troops from the korean peninsula so it's interesting then when you hear donald trump still leaving open the possibility that the talks may not happen if he's not satisfied that he is getting the concessions that he wants from north korea he was saying in that news current conference that there's still the possibility he may walk away so i think the feeling here in south korea is one of cautious optimism going into this into korean summit where they're cautious optimism is there a sense that south korea is going into this with a fairly broad an open ended agenda or do you think that actually has specific goals that it thinks it can achieve. there have been questions leading up to the summit in terms of the agenda because we don't have much confirmation coming from the north korean side we know that that working level and high level talks have been had in the lead up to the summit between north and south

korea drafting for example an agreement or a statement rather that it's hoped that kim jong un and could present so the questions around that are what is likely to be in that sort of statement of what south korea has been pointing out is that in the past there have only been two other into korean summits and then we saw emerge from that cultural exchanges economic exchanges the reunions of separated family members this time around the south korean government seems to be keeping the focus on discussing denuclearization and promoting peace on the korean peninsula in terms of a concrete agreement though that remains to be seen i think there is an understanding here in south korea that while this summit is positive it may lay the groundwork for the talks expected between trump and kim but any real concrete agreement is likely to be made between the united states and north korea cathy i want to ask you did it bring you back actually to the visit by mike pompeo because my prepared when he was head of the cia was very clear that he thought the u.s.

negotiators should be focusing on getting north korea to cut back on its long range missiles of course those are the ones that would hit the u.s. or more likely to hit the u.s. he was less focused on the shorter range ones which of course would bring the south korea in range of those missiles do you think that there's a there's a concern there in south korea that not enough is attention is being paid on the risks that are still faced by south korea under the japan as well in the region. i think broadly here in south korea there's long been an acceptance that this has been a defacto state of war between the two koreas that it was an armistice and not a peace treaty signed at the end of hostilities in one thousand nine hundred fifty three and people in south korea so we're kind of used to the threat posed by north korea when we had news of missile tests and even nuclear test japan though it seems was feeling more directly threatened because it saw those intermediate range

ballistic missiles flying over its territory and that's i think why you hear more of a hard line from the prime minister shinzo ave when he said there that north korea must basically not be rewarded for just showing up that the pressure must be maintained that it must be put to north korea that there have to be real concessions in service of winding back its missile program as far as south korea is concerned it's talking still in broad terms about promoting peace about denuclearization so whether or not the south korean government thinks it can extract any real concessions from north korea when it comes to that program i think that really remains to be seen because he thanks very much indeed. donald trump has also confirmed the u.s. is negotiating with north korea to release three american prisoners. the fact is that they do have three prisoners we have been talking about them we're negotiating now we are doing our very best as you know they've been there

a long time and it's harsh treatment we fought very hard to get auto warm beer back and when we came back he was in very. very bad condition was a very sad event and we are likewise fighting very diligently to get the three american citizens back i think there's a good chance of doing it we're having very good dialogue we will keep you informed but we are in there and we are working very hard on that. diplomatic editor james bays has more on that story from north korea's capital pyongyang. remember the trumpet ministration judges made me think by the domestic angle on the way that things are seen and heard this would be seen in the us as an important victory early victories getting these three u.s. citizens of korean descent who are being held in north korea. something and

remember these are people and one of them is being in jail since twenty fifteen but this is something diplomats would call an easy to live recall which would then and he create an atmosphere and just a more detailed process of negotiation on the need to clear a few diplomats i've talked to say they think that the north koreans may well be saving agrees three u.s. citizens for this very moment plenty more ahead on the news. going nowhere fast what's now delayed an investigation into the suspected chemical attack in syria plus. worries over the fate of migrants in the u.k. after the government deports caribbean residents. and marches towards yet another record in monaco later in this book.

has been nominated by cuba's national assembly as the sole candidate for president the first from outside the castro family in nearly sixty years and he's a voted to but the results won't be confirmed until thursday and that's when d.s. canal is expected to be sworn in but outgoing president raul castro will stay on as head of the communist party more from a latin america editor that he and human. serious a fish and and above all discreet rising up the communist party's ranks from the bottom fifty seven year old. is making history he's done it in part by never ever having tried to outshine or question fidel or raul castro as others once earmarked as their successes learned the hard way and i think they also first loyal . that he actually genuinely believed in her cuban revolution. as the

communist party secretary of his home province of viet lauder the earned a reputation for being open minded. women cool here is a hangout for young people including gays lesbians transsexuals and punks d. a scandal was by their side in the one nine hundred ninety s. when alternative lifestyles were severely frowned on. even after he rose to the top every time he came to santa clara one of the first things they do is come see us of them in he's the same unassuming humble person. maybe so but in most of cuba people know very little about the first man in six decades who will rule the silent whose name is not castro in fact he was the only candidate in the vote by the national assembly on wednesday. we asked this man would he vote in the selection process. let my silence speak for itself it's the silence of many cubans

. those who may be expecting a major shift will clearly be disappointed. that we're encouraging reaffirming and consolidating continuity which is very important for the defense of the revolution which today is being threatened and attacked by relationship with the us that deteriorated the truth is the b.s. colonel has been chosen not to reform but to improve cuban socialism if he can and does represent a generation younger than that of the castros he will have to answer to a power much higher than his own cuban communist party you see in human al-jazeera . dozens of demonstrators have swarmed armenia's capital for a sixth day of anti-government protests. they. just don't get it dozens of people have been arrested as police tried to clear yet of one city center which is being blocked by protesters for days that have been running throughout a million i consider circassian being elected prime minister following two terms as

president critics say it's a power grab it a surprise move turkey's president raised up to a proud one has announced that there will be early presidential and parliamentary elections on june twenty fourth the vote was supposed to take place in november twenty ninth team constitutional changes were passed last year in a referendum allowing turkey to switch from a parliamentary system to a presidential one those changes will only come into effect after june's vote funny how quote a manages the turkey project at chatham house i think tank in the u.k. he says public perception of the decision could decide the outcome of the election . this is the first time that the ruling party since assuming power in two thousand and two if it's the first time that they have gone for voluntarily and actively for an early election usually they they they prefer they were against any are the elections as a sign of weakness so given the worsening state of the turkish economy at the

government twenty with the present heir doing under willing party went for an early elections i think that in all like a pleased at this stage the likelihood is that the ruling party will maintain its majority in the parliament and type should will probably win the presidential elections however the key question is how will the voters perceive this early election will it will be perceive it as a sign of weakness as a sign of panic and therefore try to hurt to the ruling party or will they rally to the president won as a known quantity in turkish politics gunmen have opened fire on a u.n. team in duma in syria forcing their withdrawal they were assessing if it's safe enough for investigators to examine the side of a suspected chemical attack eleven days ago the head of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons or open c.w. says it's now unclear when the team will be able to enter the duma arrived in damascus on saturday they'll determine if

a chemical attack happened but they won't assign blame then a holder has more from beirut. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons confirming what a u.n. official told us earlier and that is the u.n. security team that entered tomb on tuesday came under small arms fire the o.p.c. w. also confirming that during their visit to one of the sites an explosive device was detonated now there were no injuries but the security team left the duma and right now the o.p.c. w. does not know when they can deploy their chemical weapons inspectors to do my the site of that alleged chemical weapons attack still b. c w saying any deployment will have to follow a security clearance from the united nations so it really raises a lot of question about the fate of of this mission now neither the u.n. nor the o.p.c. w. blamed any particular side for that shooting incident but tomorrow is under the control of the russian military as well as the syrian government both both of them

confirming a few days ago that they quote fully liberated the area from terrorists now both moscow and damascus have been accused by western powers of trying to prevent the inspectors from reaching the site and to delay and hamper their work accusations that both both moscow and damascus have denied but there really concerns about whether or not there is still hard evidence because it's been what twelve days now since that suspected chemical weapons attack will the evidence be still there some western nations even accusing russia of tampering with the evidence and another question is will the witnesses and survivors or doctors that the o.p.c. w. inspectors speak to will they be speaking freely or will they feel intimidated by the new authority on the ground so right now we do not know if and when still p.c. w. inspectors will reach duma. meanwhile syrian government media is accusing health and emergency workers of helping rebel groups but doctors say their focus is on helping injured civilians in a country where the government has regularly bombed hospitals on the bins of food

reports. as the bomb. yes full of people forced from their homes left parts of eastern after five years of siege and bombings government forces and allied militia moved in through assad government t.v. crews rushed to show how the enclave was run by rebel fighters they call terrorists the relentless bombardment force people in the ground into basements such as this one job or frequent attacks on hospitals meant even feet when it was being provided below ground level in the ration says only fighters were allowed in and civilians were prohibited ferrety supporting health institutions like this denied those claims all of them offer but we don't know what according to syrian media every organization helping the besieged population of almost four hundred thousand people was supporting terrorists but doctors say they're also demands that they treat people who need medical assistance irrespective of political or ideological affiliations the government says there was no medicine shortage in d.c. to the medics say the boxes of medical supplies brandished in regime propaganda are

misleading the situation in sudan was extremely dramatic. their needs were absolutely unique he was in and seeing the situation there medical colleagues that we were supporting him now they were clearly showing me as we passed the concern of not having enough medical supplies. the influx of tens of thousands to live in aleppo is making things difficult for an already stretched health infrastructure doctors at one hospital and collateral medics say five thousand people were dropped off on the first day of the evacuation most of the injured were hit by bombings and some had gunshot wounds to be treated in the hospitals only operation theatre in addition to the hundreds of cases the trauma and injuries they had to deal with pregnant women giving birth in cases of malnutrition it is dire it is definitely acute and once the arrival of the

displaced becomes more of a stable to do ation still the health system existing in the north western countries. when they did government it is not enough you don't have a specialist you don't have every in every health facility enough medical supplies back and medical workers are calling on un agencies to use the proximity to the capital damascus to rebuild and support the devastated health infrastructure now that the bombs are not falling there's no media attention on the health needs citing previous examples of neglect in aleppo in homs aid workers are warning of a looming health crisis for the tens of thousands of people left behind in feast with the whole population is viewed with suspicion of supporting the opposition some of it. is the turkey syria border the organization for prohibition of chemical weapons has rejected russian claims that traces of a second nerve agent were found in souls were in england for the former russian double agent segregates cripple and his daughter were poisoned the british

government has blamed russia but moscow denies involvement the u.k.'s representative to the o.p.c. w. once again rubbish russian suggestions that britain was behind the screwball poisoning what was really striking about the session today was the russian continues to provide huge amounts of disinflation to others including on this occasion a russian government official actually accusing the united kingdom of poisoning the scribbles and inducing them into a coma before they could poison them so that the o b c w could then go and investigate that is an outrageous accusation was made by a russian official in the a p c w today and those kinds of false narratives need to be stopped and the poisoning was also discussed at the un security council mike hanna has more on that. the council was briefed by the high representative for disarmament who confirmed the findings of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the o.p.c. w. that

a highly sophisticated nerve agent was used one which apparently could only be manufactured in a state sponsored laboratory the session was called by the united kingdom whose ambassador briefed the council on progress made in the investigation he used the russian term of our chicks as the family from which the chemical agent came and she was scathing about russian offers of assistance russia continues to be asked to be involved in the u.k. some dependent investigation it is quite clear that they are bases spectacled involvement and that their behavior has undermined their credibility in this as i said before this is an arsonist turned fine trying to trying to investigate his aim fire and a finger pointed at the russians from the u.s. ambassador we hope our colleagues on this council will join us as they have before and delivering a clear condemnation of the use of

a russian nerve agent on another member soil because unless we stop this now there will be more death and more scenes that nobody wants to see but a sarcastic response from the russian ambassador who was adamant that allegations of russian involvement were totally unproven put it president putin probably improved the national state may have been the rule the russians think may have sponsored they have been numerous suspect the russian state sponsor of the books yet again the security council divided along exactly the same lines it was when discussing an alleged chemical attack in syria. britain's house of lords has rebuffed prime minister to these amaze government over its plans to leave the european union they voted to amend the withdrawal billed urging the u.k. to remain in the e.u.'s customs union which allows trading without tariffs the

government's expressed disappointment at the vote the bill now goes back to m.p.'s in the house of commons will have to pass legislation to take britain out of the e.u. by march next year and the reason may says her government won't be telling members of the wind rushed generation to get out of britain they're the people from the caribbean countries who arrived as children after world war two a hardening of british immigration policy under may has led to fears that some could face deportation despite living legally in the u.k. for decades on sleep reports. it is the most extraordinary of coincidences that was become known as the windrush generation scandal erupted at exactly the same time as the commonwealth heads of government conference is underway in london it piled on the embarrassment for the british government which has had to explain to these countries leaders why u.k. citizens have been sent to places their parents came from two generations ago. a minister. having already accepted that the policy was indefensible the prime

minister took the opportunity to grovel in her own parliament as well these people british they are part of us and for those who have mistakenly received letters charlie sheen. i want to say to apologize to them and i want to say sorry to anyone who is being called it's confusion or i'm sorry to south africa. having already proved it's possible to deport british citizens from britain the government is now having to explain to these people europeans living in the u.k. why the same won't happen to them of the brics it is already sent a shiver through european politicians implacably opposed to brics that have called an emergency meeting for the coming days certainly often when trish scandal in britain we want to be sure that the same is not happening to our european citizens

and that there is no bureaucratic nightmare. faced with all this the home office which organizes things like visas and residency permits is trying to prove its competence it wants to create an app to simplify the process for people who should have the right to be here but who fear they will be unfairly dealt with. by him is that the campaign group called the three million the number of european union citizens in the u.k. mess a government minister on tuesday and say they're a bit more hopeful than they were we are a bit large it because the only. think so. and we still don't have any. we still don't have. all the details of how the process is going to be but i mean do you worry if they can make mistakes with british citizens they can make mistakes with europeans as well yeah exactly that one source of the home office told me much of the problems affecting the windrush generation came down to staff cuts among civil servants the other question is whether

a hard breck's it will distinguish between either skin color or nationality perhaps the most extraordinary thing about all this is the politicians who support the u.k.'s exit from the european union fond of saying that britain would be far better off doing business with the commonwealth because that's britain's natural friends and so on one level this does look pretty embarrassing for supporters of brecht's it but it has also raised the question if this is how the u.k. treats its friends the more does it mean for everybody else lawrence lee al-jazeera or the home office in london hundreds of protesters have marched in london over sexual violence in india the demonstration coincided with indian prime minister narendra modi's visit to the u.k. ahead of the commonwealth heads of government meeting has been anger over the investigation into the rape and murder of an eighty year old muslim girl in indian administered kashmir in another part of india a state legislator from modi's party the b j p is under arrest for raping

a teenage girl ever investigators in the us say a crack inside a jet engine caused tuesday's fatal accident on a southwest airlines flight shrapnel after it broke up smashed a window causing a woman passenger to be partially sucked out of the plane she later died the u.s. for airline regulators will issue an order for similar engines to be inspected in the next six months alan fischer reports. they know what happened they just don't know at this stage why a look at the damage shows one of the engines fan blades is missing the southwest airlines flight was at thirty two thousand feet when the left engine exploded sent shuttle flying shattering a window that caused immediate decompression and killed a female passenger from her seat through the window that had put her out there are that of course over there on the runway as well we've got our eyes. and your passengers are ok and are you as your airplane physically on fire barry had

a fire that started it. there are as far as my white house the victim has been named as forty three year old bank executive jennifer right in a mother of two half of her was out the window and so i made my way to or in a job to bring a real her back in. and it is just crazy to passengers walked on the woman for twenty minutes trying to stabilize her condition seven other passengers were also injured the engine has twenty four blades one was broken off at the base it was fine more than one hundred ten kilometers away there is evidence of metal fatigue where the blade separated. we located that a media place and sent photos to our materials lab in washington says west is a budget airline this is its first on board passenger death of its fifty one year history the seven three seven just went through a maintenance check on sunday the airplane in my opinion is proven as very reliable

so it doesn't create any doubt in my mind at least at this point around six months ago the engine maker ordered every airline that flies the seven three seven to check engines for signs of metal fatigue after another bleed through coffin engine southwest which only flies this type of plane is inspecting its entire fleet the federal aviation authority has called for engine inspections of seven three seven for every other airline alan fischer washington. still ahead on al-jazeera forced to become brides after fleeing the war i'm sad for the syrian refugees who are moderate office children to avoid poverty and. independence day celebrations in zimbabwe for the first time without robert mugabe . and the bad boy of english football is making a comeback father has got the details and the sport.

by this guy knowing if an asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. where hanging on to the spring warmth for eastern parts of china over the next couple of days little more cloud over towards the west still some showers there just spilling out of indo-china somewhat to weather so the possibility if you go on towards the weekend that will make its way little further race with so thickening cloud rolling through hong kong should be fine and dry more warm sunshine twenty six celsius getting up to twenty six for shanghai as well plenty of sunshine across southeast asia meanwhile not looking too bad across the philippines southern areas always seeing a little more clout that cloud just rolling further west which see is making its way across the southern parts of india china southern areas of vietnam cambodia could catch one of two shells necessarily the case two into thailand once again the showers they extend further southwards as per usual right down across malaysia into

indonesia some a lot of showers from time to time jakarta still seeing one of two heat of the day shallows temperatures at around thirty two degrees and this shows they also extend the way out to thailand pushing across southern parts of the big goal there are more clout there across southern areas of india easing over into us for lanka over the next couple of days for many it's fine and drivers and thickening cloud up towards the fall and all the snow over the mountains. the weather sponsored by cats are a race. that are over seven million lives in this war. each one a story. that one could be seen. that needed to be had that the monster be told. if this guy will be a witness. witness to the human being

to all things that i. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. every your. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour donald trump has threatened to cancel plant

talks with north korean leader kim jong un if they are not fruitful but the u.s. president says he looks forward to meeting kim and hopes the talks will be successful. but well the us kind of oil has been nominated by cuba's national assembly as the sole candidate for president the first from outside the castro family in the early sixty years and piece of voters but the results will be confirmed until thursday when he has canal is expected to be sworn in. and turkey's going to have presidential and parliamentary elections much alyea this year on june twenty fourth initially the vote was shadowed for november next year the polls will be held under a state of emergency it's going to be the first election since a vote to switch to a presidential system. the search for any and worlds has taken another big step for the launch of nasa's latest satellite the transiting exoplanet survey satellite or tess is the agency's most ambitious attempt in the search for worlds like our own

and gallagher has the details. lift off the space x. falcon nine carrying tess this isn't the first mission to search for new worlds but it may be nasa is most revealing for the next two years the test last light will take over from the kepler space telescope in search of alien planets whilst in orbit this new telescope will observe two hundred thousand of the brightest stars in the sky mission scientists say could discover twenty thousand new worlds now test is going to dramatically increase the number of planets that we have to study it it's going to more than double the number that have been seen and detected by by kepler and moreover. the planets that we're going to find will will span a much greater range of host star types then was the case for kelp or when the

kepler space telescope launched in two thousand and nine it transformed our understanding of planets beyond our own solar system based on its observations astronomers now believe the milky way is home to at least two billion potentially habitable planets kepler only observed a fraction of the sky tess is able to see far more the exoplanet community is very enthusiastic a vibrant community and there are a lot of people very eager to get their hands on the data and start doing some great science with it and i think you know i think that over the coming years we're going to see an enormous number of brilliant scientific results coming out of test data from across the entire community i'm really excited for the next sixty days mission scientists will be running tests and ironing out bugs as a satellite begins its orbit the first batches of data won't be released for months but if life is out there test maybe the project that finds it. al-jazeera the

u.s. senate has cleared the appointment of a republican congress member from oklahoma to head nasa republicans used to often accuse former u.s. president barack obama of neglecting not giving it enough funding for more of the politics behind nasa let's speak to jeff house he's executive director of what's called the revolving door project at the center for economic and policy research he's joining us live now from washington d.c. thank you very much for being with us donald trump once jeff bryden stein to head nasa provided signs not had an easy ride getting there why not. brian stein lacks the traditional qualifications for an administrator of nasa typically you want somebody who has a significant science and engineering background as well as skill proven skill administering a large enterprise ironically jim stynes greatest executive accomplishment is running an errand space museum back in tulsa oklahoma and it's kind of ridiculous

that somebody who's has such scant experience. in science or in running things is going to be put in charge of such a critical and interesting agency like nasa the voting on him was along pretty much along party lines apart from one republican who switched his vote at the final moment to be able to allow him to get in but do you think that the party line vote actually reflects say republicans feel about this appointment. you know this reflects the tensions within many members of the republican party people who understand the ways in which donald trump is running the country very poorly but people who also feel that they should be wall to the republican party which has become essentially indistinguishable from donald trump that there is really no gap between the republican party and donald trump and so you had senators like marco

rubio marco rubio is from the state of florida cape canaveral you know from which many of the most famous space missions was launched now florida nasa is very important to florida rubio knows that brian sign is unqualified to leave nasa and that is bad for the state of florida he has made this very clear and yet he voted for brian stein basically because he whacks the will to oppose the president even when he knows the president is wrong and then jeff flake of retiring senator from the state of arizona so someone who presumably trump has no web or a job where there is no worry about a future primary defeat. jeff flake who said scathing things about donald trump initially voted against bryden stein and then changed his mind and is that was the decisive vote and i don't think that flake and rubio were alone i'm sure many of their members of the senate republicans were aware that they were voting to confirm

someone who was not qualified under any normal standards of qualification and i think that they're acquiescence to an unqualified nominee is representative of the problems within the republican party under donald trump thanks very much for being with us jeff hos. zimbabweans have celebrated their first independence day without robert mugabe he is leader of the economy and upcoming elections are the big test for the new president reports from harare. it's the first independence day celebrations without robert mugabe is about his former president in charge the military forced him to resign in november. the new leader a missile when i got one lice independence flame which was first lit thirty eight years ago with the bobby gained independence from britain in one nine hundred eighty. after years of government corruption and mismanagement and demagogue his role when i go is under pressure to in crippling foreign currency shortages and

create jobs around. the world. and. when i go is pushing for more direct foreign investment to revive the economy some people warn that will not necessarily create jobs we need to have you know a targeted approach towards it because it's not just going to trickle down once the economy starts growing it's lost already be factored in to everything that happens in the country and of course then it's not only government's responsibility for job creation you've got to bring in the private sector you've got to bring in the workers. and now the challenge when a guy goes administration is organizing three day and credible elections later this year the main opposition leader nelson chamisa attended the independence

elaborations when mugabe was in charge opposition parties boycotted the event in protest some political analysts say this is a positive development the election would test the country's electoral system after complaints of rigging in previous years if the polls are credible in its national committee say they'll consider him the best thing in zimbabwe again the president's more immediate concern is managing people's expectations and frustrations teachers are threatening to strike if they pay and working conditions don't improve civil servants say they may do the same nesses in public hospitals have been striking for days when a guy goes response was to file all the nurses who refused to report for duty a move that puts more people out of work in a country was one of the highest unemployment rates in the world how to al-jazeera . the un refugee agency says it's alarmed by the horrific conditions faced by newly arrived refugees in yemen the agency says migrants and asylum seekers fleeing countries including somalia and ethiopia can face violence and sexual abuse some of

them are being kidnapped for ransom while others are being forced back into the same we're going to spend is the spokesman for the un refugee agency he says many refugees are falling victim to yemen's armed groups yemen has been transferred country in a country of this nation for people fleeing the horn of africa for many years. many somalis but also people from european and other countries in africa have been going to yemen looking for protection and some of them have also gone there with the hope of moving on to other countries in the gulf for instance or in saudi arabia or even to move on to europe but many of them are finding now because of the conflict they are stuck in yemen also because of the conflict many of them are being abused and exploited by different groups including smugglers and

armed groups that are holding them captive in some cases. extorting money out of them told to bring them raping them and we have seen horrific cases of this in detention in southern yemen specifically in the tension center in the garden and that's why we are so concerned that because of the. conflict in yemen many people are falling into the hands of criminals who are exploiting them. for the first time in a decade the number of malaria cases around the world is not falling nevertheless a summit in london wants to have the rates of the disease over the next five years on a b. phillips is there. the theme of this conference in central london has been very much that malaria is back having been a disease that was in abeyance the fight against malaria appeared to have been

going in the right direction in twenty sixteen we saw a very worrying trend more than two hundred and sixteen million cases of malaria worldwide an increase for the first time in many years and the reasons for that increase of various and they are complex drug resistance is spreading climate change meaning more areas of vulnerable to the malaria mosquito war and conflict making treatment extremely difficult in some particular places especially in africa it is africa that is at the forefront of the fight against malaria more than ninety percent of cases of malaria world wide are in sub-saharan africa earlier i spoke to chimamanda ngozi adichie the celebrated nigerian writer and i asked her whether she thought that malaria does not get the attention it deserves because it

is above all a disease of the developing world. where i grew up with malaria and malaria was very familiar to me we had malaria all the time actually if you went to a hospital when i was growing up everybody just assumed you had malaria. and malaria was the reason you didn't go to school it was the reason people didn't get . it was very much a part of our lives really i think it's a question of power it's a question of resources box and to think that there is some progress and that there are some people who. seem to be. trying making an effort chimamanda ngozi adichie talking to me here at the malaria conference where the big drug companies as you've been hearing african governments and western governments have been expressing their determination to combat this terrible disease katanas so. and a two and a half billion dollar deal with the u.s. for air defense technology it comes amid qatar's ongoing gulf standoff with saudi

arabia egypt slee and i did out about minutes and back rain last year the country finalized arms deals worth at least twenty billion dollars so don has filed a complaint against egypt to the u.n. security council accusing it of organizing a vote in a disputed border territory sudan's foreign minister says cotterell held part of its presidential vote in the holly arab triangle a territory claimed by both countries egypt the election in march so president of the reelected for a second time. after seven years of conflict in syria life for many refugees is only getting more difficult that's pushing some parents to arrange marriages for their daughters as soon as they can with a shotgun name reports from jordan's capital amman where child marriage is on the rise among syrian refugee girls. but mom was almost fifteen and living in a syrian refugee camp when her parents told her she was engaged she fought with

them for days before she agreed to marry she's now sixteen has a five month old daughter and another baby on the way she says she loves her husband but their lives are hard they work ten hours a day every day at a factory people say to me when you are still young you have a baby and you are made at this age. this is the normal life for my situation and i'm ok with that more than seven years into the syrian war life is becoming increasingly difficult for refugees forced to flee to countries such as jordan poverty is the primary reason driving families to marry off their girls. according to statistics from jordan's court system child marriage among syrian refugees primarily girls is on the rise in twenty fourteen fifteen percent of all syrian marriages included a child bride now it's thirty six percent last year jordan's chief justice

issued new stipulations allowing girls the right to demand a marriage contract with conditions including completing their education and working but the united nations children's agency unicef says girls need even greater protection and what we would like to do more is the convention as it really work with boards work with religious leaders and really promoting the right. to education that we need to break the cycle of poverty and prevent them from dropping out of school and going into our late night as but most says her biggest regret is dropping out of school at the age of ten she hopes early marriage in her family stops with her generation. i wish i could have continued my studies this is my destiny i want to let my daughter gets married young she needs to be twenty five or so it's still much responsibility. when asked about her dreams for the

future fatma says she just wants to live in one room independently from her in-laws natasha going to name a man. in nigeria a group of armed men has stormed the country's parliament and stipulate stolen a ceremonial mace. legislators were pushed out of the way before three intruders to seize the mace and weapons state local media reports say a suspended lawmaker ordered a group of his supporters to take the item which symbolizes the authority of nigeria's legislature he denies any involvement. and still ahead on al-jazeera boxing veteran money pocky zero says he still has plenty of fight left in him but explains next in sports.

and it's time for the sport his father thanks very much tennis world number one rafa nadal is through to the last sixteen of the monte carlo masters the spaniard is chasing a record extending eleventh title in monaco the defending champion was barely bothered by his opponent he swept aside al-jazeera down a slovenian straight sets six one six three down needs to win this tournament in order to stay top of the world rankings and not be replaced by roger federer face russia's karen couch and elf and the next rounds. these years will be the special situation for me i have been. outside of the competition. almost for five months i

play those that are there but nothing else since shanghai i didn't finish no one even most so yeah it is a very important one for me is important to start with with a big idea that helps. it wasn't so easy for former world number one know that chaka match the serve dated more than two hours to see all the foreigner quaritch it was a tight match but the two time champion came through seven six seven five to reach the third round of it she has been fighting an elbow injury will face fifty's dominates. football now and the title race in italy has been thrown wide open event as have lost their six point cushion over napoli being held by relegation threatened croteau knee while napoli beat it in a z four two it could get even tighter on sunday's napoli face you a away and napoli win would cut that gap to just one point both sides have five games to go. well they're set to be a chinese darby in the first knockout round of the asian champions league show ever

ground or face challenges and who booked their spot earlier on wednesday they did so by beating to she will result three two the result means they qualify as runners up from the challenge and have never won the competition but they're one of three chinese teams make it out of the group stage. young book one but had already advance they face the united next in group f. top side shanghai at last but are going through as group winners and will play kachina antlers all saying drew but go through as well they'll take on c one blue wings one of european football's most controversial characters is set for his first job in management joey barton will take over as boss of english third tier side fleetwood town ahead of next season barton who has one england cap will assume the role straight after his gap playing ban and seen made more than twelve hundred bets on games over ten years barton has in the past been suspended for punching an

opponent worn by the f.a. for homophobic comments and he's even spent six months in jail for assaults manny pacquiao insists his time isn't over as a boxer and that he can still fight at the very highest level paki i was getting ready for his first bout in more than a year the thirty nine year old will take on argentina as lucas mathias in july for the w.p.a. welterweight title the filipino was widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time but he's lost four of his last nine fights his last contest against australia as geoff bourne also ended in defeat. that's what i. saw. i would not predict this this is why i don't have prediction but. i will do my

best to doing good things in the earlier he spoke to the filipino boxing writer recall of areas he says paki o. is desperate to leave the sport as a winner. i think at thirty nine years of age he knows that he doesn't have a lot of time in some ways it's a gamble he's fighting for in his last nine fights and to many people who lost a job or and a unanimous decision really sticks in the minds of a lot of people i think manny moving on to a bigger stage which is national politics full time national politics he once was and. i think like any other big name athlete it's history knowing when to have you know there's always just one more fight one more game one more season deflating and i think. that's not getting out of the game a little earlier you know when you're still in the thick of it people tend to look also the bad when you're far removed from the game there's a better appreciation for all the athletes and i think we can look even at for

example michael jordan the basketball his last two seasons with the washington wizards and to well when people talk about him to the east and the three best of all time so even with mohammad ali and there's no reason why the same talking up like men you know you know he's fought a lot of fights easily the fight of the decade the first decade of the new millennium so i think his legacy is secure but he went from being sure of one of perhaps the greatest fireball and to be merely one of the greatest the dream debut season of the las vegas golden knights has continued in the n.h.l. playoffs the golden knights the l.a. kings won nothing to win their first round series the knights became the first expansive team in the hundred year history of the national hockey league to sweep a playoff series and its first season. olympians tommy smith then john carlos have been honored on the fiftieth anniversary of their famous protests at the one nine hundred sixty eight mexico games the american sprinters raise their fists in

support of several rights during the two hundred meter medal ceremony the international olympic committee force their expulsion from the u.s. team and banned them from future competition. in the face of adversity the struggle continues. now there's many of us look for comfort in none of. it see you can run but you cannot. and that's all your support for now more later some is it and is going to be here with more on all these stories including the latest details on that planned meeting between u.s. president donald trump and north korea's kim jong un. but for now. from planting forests with drones to surviving drought small fund. award winning

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