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to the news our us president donald trump is leaving himself plenty of wiggle room ahead of plan talks with north korea's leader kim jong un now trump says he'll walk away if the discussions of fruitful his latest comments came during a meeting with japan's leader as white house correspondent kimberly helka reports now from florida. as japanese prime minister shinzo law they wrapped up two days of meetings with u.s. president donald trump the parish reporters their relationship has never been closer. yet there some it held it trumps florida mara lago resort was largely overshadowed by news the trumpet once again sidelined america's top asian ally confirming he'd sent his cia director mike pump ale to secretly lay groundwork for a meeting with the north korean leader kim jong il and in a matter of weeks he just left north korea and the great meeting with him.

got along with him really well really really it's an unorthodox move for a nation that's traditionally consulted with japan on both matters involving north korea still as ah they saw security assurances truck made clear there's still the possibility talks with north korea's leader may not happen at all if the meeting when i'm there is not fruitful i will respectfully leave the meeting ave implored the international community and the united states not to reward kim just for showing up to direct talks but to demand concrete commitments to denuclearize. just because north korea is responding to dialogue the should be no reward maximum pressure should be maintained it's a promise trump says he'll keep and will work for the release of three americans currently being held by north korea 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. we have come a long way with north korea during their summit the two leaders enjoyed a game of golf still trump did not extend exemptions he's granted to other nations on the foreign imports of steel and aluminum but even as trump was highlighting what he believed to be a summit success overshadowing that headline was the news the confirmation of trump's pick for secretary of state was in doubt. a growing list of u.s. senators say they will not vote in favor of the confirmation of mike pompei o to be the next u.s. secretary of state it is a concern for the trumpet ministration given it is preparing for a historic tox with north korean leader kim jong un in a matter of weeks kimberly healthy at al-jazeera west palm beach florida where we have correspondents in north and south korea and in a moment we'll hear from kathy novak in seoul but first our diplomatic editor james

spader's has the latest from pyongyang the state controlled media here in north korea do not work at the pace of donald trump and his pronouncements on twitter and these news conferences so there's still no response to the secret visit secret until a few hours ago it might pump a zero to pyongyang all the latest statements that have come from the u.s. president from the north korean side the state media and the state news agency reporting that the central committee of the ruling korean workers party will be having a meeting on friday to discuss important historical developments now i don't think they are in anywhere going to change the course put in place by kim jong un the supreme leader for these negotiations with the united states what i think is happening is they're preparing the korean people for a change of course remember that for many years for decades the media here have

talked about the u.s. as an imperialist stick power as an evil power now they're preparing their people for a possible meeting between their leader and the president of the united states. south korean president is continuing preparations for his summit with north korean leader kim jong un next friday he has been speaking with executives of local media outlets at the presidential blue house it's part of a series of meetings designed to canvass the views of south korean community leaders and he told the group that the intercalary and summit must set the scene for a successful summit between the united states and north korea and that it must pave the way for denuclearization of the korean peninsula but many analysts have pointed out that historically north korea has taken a different view of what denuclearization might mean when compared to the interpretation in the united states or in south korea north korea for example might want it to can include the complete removal of u.s.

troops from the korean peninsula but president moon has said he does not believe there is a difference in the definition he told the group that north korea has expressed a willingness to completely denuclearize and he said that it has not proposed any conditions that the u.s. would find it difficult to accept but he did seem to play down any hopes of major concrete agreements being reached at the summit next week instead seeming to suggest it may be the first step in a bigger process let's head to the middle east now and to syria where scientists in a rebel held area near the capital have agreed to lay down their arms and evacuation deal negotiated by russia members of a rebel group known as the army of islam in will begin leaving within days but to the north opposition fighters in color moon are still holding out despite government strikes being given a deadline within the next twenty four hours to surrender or face a time talks between rebels and the government continuing in homs that's going to

very latest now we sent to a correspondent in neighboring lebanon reporting from the capital beirut i mean this new deal to move residents from another conflict zone seems to be nearing an end. yes do mayor that is a town northeast of damascus in the enclave they have agreed to surrender without a fight accepting an offer by the syrian and the russian military is for safe passage to the north of the country to rebel controlled areas in the north of the country they've laid down their weapons and according to rebel commanders the reason why they accepted this deal was to save the lives of the civilians because what the government told them was either you surrender you reconcile with the state or face an all out military offensive similar to what happened in eastern and for weeks. hundreds of civilians were killed so the rebels and agreeing to surrender now there are other towns in the region which haven't surrendered yet but the government has stepped up bombardment really applying more and more military

pressure so the government is using the threat of military action to try to bring about these surrender deals without having to go to battle the syrian army also telling i still i still controlling a number of districts in southern damascus that they have forty eight hours to accept the surrender deal or face a military operation so the government really in a very comfortable position and pushing ahead with its military solution to this conflict of course many global company been trying to continue the. w's investigation into do we know about the movements. well the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons they are saying that they do not know when they can deploy to do mother waiting for clearance from the united nations and what we understand is that a u.n. security team was in dumont choose the way they were inspecting the site of this alleged chemical weapons attack and they came under small arms fire now we heard the u.s. defense secretary accuse the syrian government of delaying and hampering the work

of the o.p.c. w.n. saying that they're tampering with the evidence and they're preventing these weapons inspectors from reaching the site in order to hide the proof now of course damascus and moscow denying this but clearly the o.p.c. w. has been in damascus since saturday and they haven't been able to enter duma for the moment they will continue with you. frank. meanwhile syrian government media outlets are accusing health and emergency workers of providing aid to rebel groups but doctors insist they focus on injured civilians in areas where hospitals are regularly bombed by the government as another binge of it as well. as the buses 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 what 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 charity 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 all 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 this is. extremely dramatic. needs where absolutely unique he was in and seeing the situation there medical colleagues that we were supporting him now that they were clearly showing me as we've asked 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 in collateral many 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 in india. these 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 steal the health system existing in the northwest or completely in they'd the government it is not enough you don't have a specialist you don't have in 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 if workers are warning of a looming health crisis for the tens of thousands of people left behind in eastern who could read the whole population is viewed with suspicion of supporting the opposition some of the. at the turkey syria border that the americans now are cuba's parliament has nominated the first presidential candidate outside the castro family in the early sixty years miguel diaz says succeed the outgoing leader raul castro or latin america today lucien newman has more from havana. tall serious 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 extra

royal oak street reprieve from god that he actually genuinely believed in her cuban revolution. as the communist party secretary of his home province of viet latta d.s. earned a reputation for being open minded. includes here is a hangout for young people including gays lesbians transsexuals and punk. dia's 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 to do is come see us at the minute 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 what he thought of the

selection process rather than 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. 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 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. al-jazeera than. plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including britain's queen opens a meeting of commonwealth countries in london as questions linger about the organizations and relevance. on the hunt for the next fark rebel leader on colombia's border with

ecuador who refuses to acknowledge a peace deal. and install a bron james and his brilliant best in the n.b.a. playoffs all those details coming up. now turkish president recipe or the one who has announced early presidential and parliamentary elections that will take place in june the vote which wasn't due until november next year will be the first since turkey changed its political system to give the president's office more power thirty one says the new system needs to be implemented quickly to deal with numerous threats like the country's fight against kurdish groups in neighboring syria. is a turkey analyst with the u.k. based think tank chatham house he says he expects the ruling party to maintain its vote share despite the government's changers. 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 or the elections as a sign of weakness so given the worsening state of the turkish economy at the government twenty with the present heir down and the ruling party went for an early elections i think that in all like at least at this stage the likelihood is that the ruling party will maintain its majority in the parliament and. on 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 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. stones president the government after a vote of no confidence in parliament now the cabinets performance last year was

described as un satisfactory the coalition put forward the vote citing poor execution of the state's budget and delay of several projects yemen has ordered the arrest of a commander who was running a u.s. camp in the southern port city they've been where african migrants were raped and tortured the u.n. refugee agency says it's alarmed by the horrific conditions faced by newly arriving refugees in yemen the agency says migrants of asylum seekers fleeing countries including somalia and ethiopia can face violence and sexual abuse some of them are being kidnapped for ransom while others have been forced back into the sea. india's supreme court has decided there will be no further investigations into the death of a lower court judge in two thousand and five b j p party president and it char was accused of ordering extra judicial killings a case that gained national attention sharp was discharged by the judge who took

over the case after the death of another judge bridge gopal how the christian lawyer however family members questioned the circumstances behind lawyers death alleging he was under heavy political pressure in the case which resulted in a heart attack a look priscilla is a senior resident fellow at the video center for legal policy joins me now via skype from bangalore a good to have you with us on the program sir while we seem to be aware of the sort of the basic facts and circumstances of the issue why does the question of political interference in the independence of the judiciary evolving around this case call so much controversy. it causes a lot of controversy because i would argue that on one of the most watched cases and you want people to be convinced. that it is say some of the most watched his in this it is really just this is going to there was still a decent now that here are the facts it was

a garden on the floor at least satisfied it goes by show that you are the church. and showers is just seems of fact shills there judge lawyer. and you judge as the way that journalists are and then other doesn't want to get rid of this judge and all that like so the question was on what basis was the only one of the circumstances of this judge to help us do it these are questions that have been done a little off the table and they want to call it is only something. it's unfortunate that the florida senate we don't want to say well. and really that sort of manifested itself just a few months back when we saw several senior supreme court judges make an open stand against the chief justice i mean it it directly relates to the process observed in the encounter case but and how they heard at the highest levels real question marks about the relationship between lower court judges and the higher

echelons of the supreme court. yes and i'm flattered message that has got out from the start it's up to. the supreme court. judge for the other thoughts to the message that is going up is that you know high profile a case like this with the market is there to the church this illegal or not stab a judge it was i think. if you don't know what the investigation sure does look like they actually did it i mean the happiest i'd be the happiest it is the systems well it is legal that this was something that was not good a lot of the audience but it wouldn't normally flow to even to have nor have all these this is a little bit of the it's not going to get sicker simply because the this this particular litigation and it's not just questions really then about the case itself and it's questions from the public because i'll be looking at some sort of revolt

or civil war within the judiciary and interred isn't this dangerous for india's legal systems a lot of judges at odds with the chief justice of the country. absolutely and i think the loading this judge is us. but. he is. joe the future of this issue that mistrust and desire for general of the other has made. yes it's absolutely more than well it was certainly the judge's job to worry. not the least this gives the first probably the impression a lot is not that he has all the issues but the orders longer some hollow egypt which will judge but this is slow. road and i never said you should really this is what is most disastrous for which the what does happen as this argument continues

to rumble on in india for the moment thanks so much for joining us from bangalore every show. britain's queen elizabeth has opened the commonwealth heads of government meeting at buckingham palace they are doing a twenty one gun salute right now all part of the pomp and ceremony leaders from fifty three the former british colonies representing one third of the world's population of there it's the first time in more than two decades the united kingdom is hosting the summit in london is looking for new trade deals with commonwealth nations as it prepares to leave the european union well jonah hill is following events for us from the british capital i mean how important is this meeting in twenty eighteen. i think that's a very debatable issue as you rightly say they are many is underway the guns of roaring away the first time in twenty years that the united kingdom is hosted. commonwealth heads of government meeting but after nearly seventy years since the

commonwealth was founded many people do wonder whether it hasn't lost its purpose and direction in the modern world supporters will tell you that this sort of friendly loose network of countries based on shared values and a common history is very important in an increasingly fractious world but critics say it's simply a historical anachronism founded to further the interests of great britain and of little use beyond that as the sort of rain the error. is it's not just as monarch but also as head of the commonwealth for the last sixty six years questions about its future are certainly in the air this year and there are those who say the change and reform is vital if it is to retain any sense of relevance in future. britain was pleased to take over this year's commonwealth meeting after. the tiny pacific island nation of. the government is keen to promote the post

breaks it global britain vision to the fifty plus other leaders many of whom it is hoped will become future trade partners. who will life for ninety three so it was an in or specious start for prime minister to reason made to find herself instead apologizing to caribbean leaders this week her government was forced to admit to discriminating against the children of migrant workers who arrived by invitation in post-war britain more than half a century ago i want to reiterate how much we value the contributions it's the. citizens. to the united kingdom and if you want to use that you can celebrate the ties between us and the connection. arrival of more than four hundred habit of making critics will see in the unfolding wind rush scandal much of what they say is wrong with the commonwealth today not only at

fifty three mainly former british colonies a third of the world's population with shared history and common values but also the sometimes blunt remnants of empire of questionable modern purpose and geo politically irrelevant they will during the course of this week be fresh commitments to shared problems like education climate change and malaria the values and cultural cross-over of the commonwealth on full display what they would be is much talk of democratic and human rights abuses among some members laws against homosexuality for instance tax havens and presidents for life nor of the gross inequalities that exist among these nations that sometimes seem anything but a commonwealth. central to the existence of the commonwealth has its leadership often seen as an extension of britain's royal family and serving british interests the commonwealth has been headed by the queen for more than sixty years. when that

era comes to an end as it must some suggest it will be time for democratic leadership to restore the commonwealth's relevance and ensure its survival. has to be. post brick sit by britain. well i mean that's certainly something that. cabinet ministers in this country even the promise to theresa may talk a lot about about trying to form deeper a new trade ties with certainly some of the wealthier members of the commonwealth developing nations like india industrial industrialized nations like canada and australia as a means not just of fulfilling this post breaks it global britain vision but also of replacing what it will lose britain from exiting the european union single market economists and experts say there's just there's no comparison essentially between the two there is some argument for the idea of a new platform for

a sort of soft power projection of a more coordinated foreign policy led by britain post breaks it alongside these commonwealth countries that is possible but any deeper ties between britain politically or economically will always give rise to all of these existing issues the paradoxes the problems within the commonwealth but i was explaining in my report there democratic deficiencies abuses of human rights and so on and of course as well often painful legacy of empire that some members of the commonwealth are still having to deal with as we saw with the wind rush scandal this week. continue to monitor events through the day with you jonah thank you. his here to tell us more about the weather and then we'll explore persistent inequality in nigeria's capital where pockets of poverty said next to paul. for jet engines after a deadly explosion in america. his dives in the mexican boxing star received

a six month ban find out why in sport. nice pink sky by the time my heart. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. well the heat continues to build across south asia in advance of the summer monsoon but a very interesting feature of this time of the year ahead of the monsoons arrival predicted to be average by the india met service by the way is that we get very severe storms across northeastern areas as that heat builds and you start to get a little bit increase in moisture and the shots come from kolkata where we've had significant problems as a result of the storms they're often drawing storms can be accompanied by tornadoes really active severe tornadoes and in fight over the last few days including up in

. parts of west bengal we've had fifteen fatalities as a rock salt of the combination of these storms and possibly some tornadic activity too meanwhile we've also had some heavy rain affecting more southern areas of india as a monsoon starts to pulse and once you see those storms moving away there near chittagong we have sixty plus millimeters of rain but also some significant rain being reported there's quite a bit of cloud across southern parts of india and sri lanka and that's going to continue to push north was given the chance of a few showers and again those storms still a threat over eastern areas but for many parts of india the main feature of mainz the stream heat forty two degrees in one for. the weather sponsored by cateye nice. from planting forests with drones to surviving drought small funds al-jazeera award winning environmental solutions program with tons never heard of the work that they're

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welcome back you're watching all of his arms over on the reminder of our top stories this news hour u.s. president donald trump has want to walk away from the planned talks with north korea's leader if they're not fruitful at a meeting with japanese prime minister shinzo drug has confirmed cia director my pump secretly went to pyongyang to meet kim jong il and also rebel fighters in demand northeast of syria's capital damascus have agreed to lay down weapons under a deal brokered by russia but the little groups are still holding out despite government stories. and britain's queen elizabeth the second has open. and the commonwealth heads of government meeting at buckingham palace leaders from fifty three mainly former british colonies representing one third of the world's population of there it's the first time in more than two decades the u.k.

is hosting the summit in london is looking for new trade deals with commonwealth nations as it prepares to leave the european union. to west africa where three men her storm nigeria's parliament and stolen a ceremonial mace. there was fighting in the senate as m.p.'s and security staff attempted to stop them and taking it away the ornamental days is the symbol of parliament's all thora t. indecisions cannot be approved without it the theft is being blamed on a politician who was suspended last week after a disagreement. and staying in the country nigeria's capital is one of the most highly modernized cities in africa but the original residents of the federal district of a boot are continue to live in homes built of mud and they complain that fundamental rights are being ignored as mohammed valid reports from the capital why should one up close and good discussions never cease in the village of pico outside the

nigerian capital since it was chosen to build a new capital forty years ago they say their social and economic status has continued to deteriorate they still live in humble mud homes without basic amenities. when i die as a beauty i have no medical care here and we have no functioning schools the teachers refuse to stay here and don't have electricity but water is our most urgent problem we had a bullhorn that soon broke down we almost never used it. and two other villages are around this place have up to three thousand people living in them the only source of drinking water they have is this might depend more than it are generously gave it to them for survival but they say the government isn't even considering sanitizing it and pumping it to their homes the spring is only a thin stream it takes time for the point to feel supplying the village with what to me is hard work by these women throughout the day there are more than eight

hundred villages such as pico surrounding of which are the areas called federal capital territory. more than one million nigerians live in b.f. city pockets of poverty side by side with posh new residential districts owned mostly by people who came from other regions to go out resentment period that if that is verging so you would and i live in the if you do it would are from order to sift it that's where they are calling to aid under lived in villages said to lay down yet did villages existed before even and you know what i'm going to now to fourteen or does it as a request for comment from the government was declined the other day and his community continue to demand reform but they say their voice is hardly head because they don't have any meaningful representation at the high level the constitution says the president is also a government f. city villagers doubt mohammed heidi has time to fix their problems they are.

in our own country do what of the matter that is nurses so far can't ability for the government able to do police. food justice. and democracy and what they're doing is no where in the world that the head of state will become to go but on the third day of the game it's not dying or let it go to please look good up with people you. governors did not have a government you do not have a meal so it is like they are deprived and they believe that it is only by instate in their people or putting them in this position of authority dudu will be able to make any meaningful impact without an elected mayor governor the local council or minister of city people say they feel powerless which means economic deprivation for them. i just i would make you dollars filed a complaint against egypt to the un security council accusing it of organizing a vote in a disputed border territory sudan's foreign minister says cairo held part of its

presidential vote in the hell am trying all the territory claimed by both countries the egyptian election in march saw president at the c.c. reelected for a second term. of all the local. we can not accept a joint ministration on what is one hundred percent sudanese soil is in should remain part of our homeland we will continue with our demand until it is fully restored this is our stand like it our troops have taken part in military drills in saudi arabia despite a major diplomatic rift saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain cut ties with eleven months ago accusing it of funding terrorism which cattle strongly denies he could tolerate defense ministry says the armed forces chief of staff attended the exercises closing ceremony at the invitation of his saudi counterpart qatar's participation was not announced beforehand twenty five other nations also took part in australia's great barrier reef is unlikely to recover from the marine

heatwaves that killed much of its call in recent years that's the. sustenance of researchers at the james cook university now they say a third of the reef was cooked to death as water temperatures rose one degree above average and twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen due to a combination of climate change and the el nino weather cycle now this cold bleaching they say has caused radical changes in the mix of life within the reef as only a few of the toughest species have survived scientists say the focus now needs to be on protecting the remaining coral by curbing climate change and water pollution the two things can happen when a coral breaches it can either regain its color at the temperatures drop in the following winter or if the bleaching is extreme which it was in the northern seven hundred kilometers stretch of the great barrier reef in significant numbers of the corals will die so this study involves revisiting the same reefs where we

documented the breaching in march nine months later and on average across the entire length of the great barrier reef we found that one in three corals died from the twenty sixteen bleaching event paul johnston is head of science that greenpeace international joins me now via skype from exeter in the united kingdom because have you with us let's just begin with. trying to save what's left of the coral what sort of percentages are we talking about and how important is it to be able to protect it. well we know from this study that quite a substantial number of the coral colonies populations were impacted by this. heat wave we know that quite a significant proportion of the corals in certain areas. this study is an important marker of the damage that was done so the barrier reef and it will also serve as

a marker show how they are likely to recover in the future because you now got something that you can make sort of comparisons to which is always a very very good thing rather than talking in some of the she's in generalities so it's a very important study and what it does indicate of course is that we really do need to be focusing very very clearly on doing all that we can to preserve the great barrier reef because otherwise i think you know if we don't do something to limit in some way extreme excursion excursions of temperatures progressive ocean acidification then the barrier reef itself is going to die out in due course it's a sin it's a big if i just interrupt it's a double edged sword really is it not because on one side you've got issues around climate change and then you've got a much more stocks and of manmade pollution getting into the sea you keep protecting the coral reef without at least dealing with the pollution to start with . you can't protect the coral reef without dealing with the issues that are

impacting on it and yes pollution from a number of sources is another issue that the reef is having to deal with it's under pressure in a number of different fronts and all of the pressures that you can alleviate on each of those different fronts will increase. in the longer term but fundamentally what we need to address this ongoing scenario of more intense ever increasing extreme temperature excursions which will be true to as we understand it currently climate change in action the australian government has come and a great deal of criticism from the un over not being able to as they say put protect the coral reef as much as they can the australian government would say that they're trying to do the best that they can but how much can they do within reasonable parameters knowing that some of the issues around the wreath are beyond their control. well i think the short answer to that is they need to such an example that mean the trader is one has some respects

a country at war with itself you know on the one hand you've got conservationists and an environmentalist who are very very concerned about the reef and want a lot of things done in order to maximize its chances of survival on the other hand you've got a government that is propping up the fossil fuel industry in the form of coal production and coal exportation on an international scale so this is really a very very conflicting sort of situation that so i think you know the first thing is the australian government really needs to show an example on the climate change stage by you know getting out of the fossil fuels market to the extent that it's in it. and then other things will follow from that hopefully but they do need to set an example at the very least albeit that what they can do is going to be a contributory thing rather than a resolution in itself coal reefs do exist under the water around the globe are

there any lessons to be in the way that call reef can be protected or even brought back from you might say annihilation. when it's very difficult to know exactly what the tipping point so when it comes to coral reefs i mean we do know that when they're physically damaged or that they damage by chemical pollution they can take a long while to recover in the actual species balance the communities that exist there after never quite the same but broadly speaking i mean what we need to do is make sure that corals remain within that comfort zone i.e. the temperatures rise to i will go too low to stop them living and marine reserves actually can play protected areas can play a very very big part in helping to ensure the resilience of corals and this is trust one of the things that we we have learned globally that you know if you have marine reserve you know take marine reserve is completely off limits to any form of exploitation than this can significant help marine ecosystems in general not just

coral reefs or with an event that. greenpeace thanks so much for joining us on al-jazeera. thank you very much for having me. the security forces are hunting for fighters who killed two journalist and driver nearly colombia ecuador border two people were taken hostage. hunting rebels in the jungle colombia had hopes these days were over. colombian an ecuadorian forces are searching for a rebel known as an eastham aged five hundred five his loyal to his group a spinoff from the revolutionary armed forces of colombia or far. as seen here refused to get behind the twenty sixteen paste deal with colombia that ended nearly fifty years of fighting the middle rank commander is one of twelve hundred cling to rebels still waging war with the government. which is really

a pretty strange this is an effort persistence we may not find out of today but it could be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow in a week or two we're not going to rest or stop this offensive. the manhunt began last friday after god chose group kidnapped civilians the government released this proof of life video of the husband and wife on tuesday ever last month to acquit dorrian journalists and their tribe the world so kidnapped their families appealed to garcetti for their release unsuccessfully the equip doring government says they did the military are trying to recover their bodies. we have our armed forces and also colombian armed forces on the other side of the border this generates greater security and each time the area of influence of big alto is being reduced. but on the political level the violence has become too much for ecuador beside funk dissidents like this the lane columbia's last rebel army ecuador has

been hosting pace talks to get them to follow fark into disarmament after fourteen months of negotiations it hasn't worked rebels continue to stage attacks. though because i have asked the foreign minister of ecuador to put the brakes on the conversations and put the brakes on our role as guarantor of the peace process well that does not commit to ending terrorist actions on wednesday columbia wristed one of got choice commanders the same type. the mission to find his boss on the colombia ecuador border is proving more difficult both governments say they want negotiations and a peace deal but for now it's guns that are doing the talking charlotte dallas. u.s. airline regulators avoided inspections of engine fan blades after a woman was killed by a mid-air explosion but she was partially sucked out of the southwest airlines

plane with an engine broke apart 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 i think you are you are better over there on the runway as well we've got us. and your passengers are carrion are you is your airplane physically on fire arafat a fire that started a. fire far as far as my house the victim has been named is forty three year old bank executive jennifer riot and a mother of two of her was out the window and so i made my way to earn 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 immediately 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 no 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.

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points and seven tina rebounds as craven ran out one hundred to ninety seven a point when is the best of seven series it's tied at one one. amazing shots early get into a rhythm. you know defense that i want to be and so i want to show you my guys involved as well but. i mean i'll just don't come in a game sentiment try to do this i'm a do that is just going to have as a for a game i play the game the right way and that's just a result of so. the houston rockets have gone to nothing op invalid playoff series with the minnesota timberwolves chris paul rebounded from a lackluster performance in game one he had a game high twenty seven points as the rock has prevailed one hundred two to eighty two. and they has been a cell for about the game one called me we talked a little bit and i said don't worry about it you know when it's automatic and i just know he will come back and be aggressive nothing to do so he doesn't sound so far and that's all it's a wednesday's other game so the utah jazz be the oklahoma city thunder to tie that

as their east three games coming up on thursday the defending n.b.a. champions the golden state warriors have a chance to go three nothing up against the san antonio spurs. the pittsburgh penguins a one win away from reaching the next round of the n.h.l. playoffs they beat the philadelphia flyers five nothing to go three one up in their best of seven series sidney crosby collected his fifth and goal of the series and became the penguins highest ever score in the postseason with one hundred seventy three. the san jose sharks competed a series sweep of the anaheim ducks they were two one winners and game four and advance to the second round where they'll face the vegas of cold nights. now the nashville predators are one win away from clinching then series with the colorado avalanche after a six two win the tampa bay lightning lead the new jersey devils three one off to victory in game four two more games coming up on thursday. rafael nadal will be

back on court in the next couple of hours as he chases a record extending eleventh the title the monte carlo masters the world number one pick his spot in the round of sixteen by sweeping aside the denny absolute venia in straight sets no down needs to win this tournament in order to stay top of the world rankings and avoid being replaced by roger federer russia's a current catch and of is his next opponent. this year's will be the special situation for me i have been. outside of the competition. almost for five mons i've played australia but nothing else since shanghai i didn't finish a no one event so here is a very important one for me is important to start with with a big idea that helps the democratic republic of congo's football league has been suspended and made a corruption scandal the country's football association president constant i marri

was detained this week as part of an embezzlement investigation he's also a thief a council member three other d.l.c. officials are being questioned over a one million dollars government payment that was intended to be used for the national t. and for clubs competing in continent competitions. boxing now into middle life fights a canelo alvarez has been banned for six months off to failing drugs test the twenty seven year old mexican tested positive to claim twice in february he's blaming contaminated meat as the cause it forced him to withdraw from the world middleweight title rematch against ghana. the ban has been backdated and alvarez is free to fight again from all this the seventeen. now several top american athletes have lost at the u.s. olympic committee and off the governing bodies for their failure to protect them from sexual abuse former gymnast jordan and jamie dunn show among other athletes

testifying before a u.s. senate subcommittee hearing in washington d.c. on wednesday the committee is reviewing how sports organizations that hound child sexual abuse follows the sentencing of former us agent gnostics team doctor laurie massacred serving up to one hundred seventy five years in jail for the hundreds of one. this is a case of powerful people protecting other powerful people it is up to you as powerful members of the united states and it's a hold them accountable and i believe you will no one should ever have to endure physical emotional or sexual abuse for the privilege of representing our country as athletes the c.e.o. that looks the other way or satirically where's your most is just as much akin in this game as the one committing the crime institutions need to be held accountable survivors need to be acknowledged without paul's reform the unjust muzzle will remain bound on children while safeguarding the pedophiles to roam free. football

fans in some parts of the world to stick a book is a big part of their experience of the faith the pennies ticket dates back to nine hundred seventy and allows fans to collect stickers of every competing player but a counterfeit program has been cracked by peruvian officials more than twenty thousand fakes tickets with seized by authorities and two people have been arrested they were worth three hundred fifty thousand dollars that is all this ball phenomenally to thanks very much to. now the search for life beyond earth has taken another forward with the launch of nasa's latest satellite the transiting exoplanet survey satellite or tess as it's known is the agency's most ambitious attempt to search for the world's reports. lift off the space x. falcon dime carry us this isn't the first mission to search for new worlds but it may be nasa is most revealing for the next two years that test 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 tess is going to dramatically increase the number of planets that we have to study. it's going to more than double the number that have been seeing and detected by by kepler and moreover the planets that we're going to find will will span to a much greater range of host star types than was the case for copper 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 community is

a very enthusiastic 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 the 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. maybe watch the al-jazeera news hour with me cell robin jane dunn is up next with a full half hour until and from me here on the news team thanks for your time and your company.

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the crossfire when rival gangs fight so parents and grandparents have started what they call a walk to try to take them from gang violence i lost my. go i also lost my there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several walking busses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards. every dude is being and it's being. measure to support those insurgents. to do things in secret. or politically embarrassing all of the colleagues that i knew to retire from the n.s.a. we could not stand by and see all the work that they had done being used for mass surveillance digital dissidents at this time on al-jazeera.