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rafael nadal continues his balls for the record eleventh monte carlo masters trophy but not my joke of it she is going home after losing in the fourth round i'll have all the details coming out. the south korean president says the north has expressed its commitment to complete denuclearize ation it comes as u.s. president donald trump warns he'll walk away from planned talks with north korea's leader if they're not fruitful the meeting is expected to take place next month or early june cia director and scepter state nominee might held a secret meeting with kim jong un in pyongyang earlier this month as part of an effort to lay the groundwork for talks trump says he hopes they'll be a success but adds he is willing to cool them off if not. if i think that it's

a meeting that is not going to be fruitful we're not going to go if the meeting when i'm there is not fruitful i will respectfully leave the meeting and we'll continue what we're doing or whatever it is that will continue but something will happen on diplomatic editor james bays is inside north korea with the latest there is clearly plenty for both sides to continue to discuss one of the things they must work out is the venue for this historic summit where are they going to meet could it be here in pyongyang some diplomats i've spoken to say that might be giving too much to the north korean side for a u.s. president to actually step foot in this country could it be in the the militarized zone where that intra korean summit is taking place in one week's time could it perhaps be in china in beijing again diplomats saying that that would effectively

give china a seat at the table something the u.s. may not like there are other countries neutral countries that are offering to be a venue for the talks we have norway we have sweden one in the region that's been mentioned is the capital of mongolia battle then you get what they might get out of a first summit most observers hope that there would be after a big meeting a process an ongoing process to deal with all the details but both sides would probably want something out of a meeting of this level and certainly the u.s. will be concerned about the three u.s. citizens of korean descent who are being held prisoner here in north korea president trump has already mentioned them and the fact that he's working to get their release. the south korean president says his north korean counterpart went to demand the withdrawal of u.s. soldiers as a precondition for denuclearization america's military presence in south korea has

been a major sticking point in negotiations with john yang kathy novak has more from seoul 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 cuba's new president has vowed to continue the socialist revolution is the nation turns the page on nearly six decades of castro rule. has been sworn in by m.p.'s in havana as rome castro stepped down after ten years as president there is concern is the first cuban leader born after fidel castro's nine hundred fifty nine revolution and also the first not to fall to that. the people's mandate given to this legislature is to ensure the continuity of the cuban revolution in a crucial and historic moment marked by advances in the development of our economic

and social model perfecting and strengthening our work in all aspects of the life of the nation. on latin america newman joins us now from havana and see how much change we would expect under the new leadership. hello lauren but i think i would describe it this way we have a new chapter a new younger generation beginning to take over in cuba but the script is more or less the same and that was really the message to both cubans and the rest of the world both by miguel the scandal and by the outgoing president raul castro they underscored over and over again that it's continuity that they are that people should expect that the cuban communist party will continue to set the guidelines and these are guidelines that have already been set in the party congress and that won't change presumably within the next three years and probably the most important part of all is that they also clarified that relic astro may not be the president

but he will continue to call the shots as the leader of the communist party is so very interesting different but not as much as some people would have thought joining me to talk more about this now is former cuban diplomat and political analyst carlos are so that i can lose i would like to ask you first of all really what what do we expect from me gilby a scandal who said very recently that his main challenge was the ideological one is that really would cubans want of course of course that's they but was not welcome because well she was what they want to hear is what is he going to do about the economy. but this is the guy the type of. rhetoric that the garbage usually like the rhetorical call. how can you explain contiguity if you're the president obviously they're doing this so they want to avoid that but let me tell you this there have been changes in cuba introduced by around the us canada has been there

all the time now the problem with the changes that i will castro has introduced some of them are quite well and once in in terms of the signing but not in terms of implementation oldcastle has drawn against a lot of resistance in the implementation of the of the special you've got to make your dating of the economic model. with this change. a leverage that raul castro doesn't. mean direction they have got is it these canary is still going to have the same what some people call dinosaurs leading the cuban communist party not only around castro but my challenge to die in the in the central committee i mean there are a lot of people there who are those who are resisting the changes you just mentioned who are going to remain there yes but these guys accepted the design the

problem has been in the implementation now these kind of is going to be a charge of the implementation because many of these guys are going to remain the communist party ok and the police little but listen to these these kind of it's going to be a member of the police the president of the council of state and the price of the council of ministers most probably he will have but certainly he's not going to have mr much i'll be as a as a vice president most probably he will not have. as a vice president so obviously he will have some leverage to do with the team both role castro and the us can tell more or less gave the impression that the us carol is going to pick his team so younger younger people maybe some technological there is money don't worry you're somewhere around there who will probably be in the council of ministers but most of the economy is mostly people who advise the

government they really that something has to. most probably he will have more leeway now because he will be in charge of the two government bodies that decide what are the policies right now what about the united states there was a very strong message sent by both relic castro and the s. can and about the united states saying that donald trump was returning to the days of the monro doctrine it was rather aggressive yeah well we already saw it in the clash between vice president pens and foreign minister bruno rhodri as sadly at the summit of the americas in lima two weeks ago i think yes it's remember these guys were born and raised in a country embargo by the united states so they have they don't cross the united states many of these guys don't cross even they don't even trust obama they think obama was kind of on their mining which we talk so they're going to be hard now

something very interesting has happened the cuban government up they really should be to take a very pragmatic point of view not not not participate in this muscling gain. they got trump initiated when he to resize we'll kasra after fidel castro passed away a few days after he was elected so the younger one was being very pragmatic and now they have ratcheted up the discourse i agree i agree you have to talk. because mr trump has no leverage with cuba the only river a cheat can have is a lift the embargo is he's not going to do that what leverage those he has he has. so he tried to do something he said he was going to reverse everything he could reverse everything because there really is i think right now a consensus in the american elites that they that the obama policy was right and

that they should go. and especially among officials in the paint all state department here in the cia so these guys want to continue they want to go back to the to the obama thing and that why not explain why don't trump couldn't break with cuba nevertheless he subcontracted to marco rubio about that what happened with the acoustic is it and he did he did a break with our breaking this is this is this equation ok i'm going to have to leave it there ok let's have so and i thank you so much airing your insults insights with us all right lauren but there you have it out of an interesting period certainly and as the rest of us are going to has just mentioned we're going to have to wait and see just how much independence the new president of cuba will have back to you and this is. coming up on the. already overwhelmed with the wounded hospitals in gaza prepare for more casualties

from fighting with israeli forces. a tale of two cities why villages on the outskirts of nigeria's capital are resisting the push for modernization. and as for the broader it is brilliant best in the n.b.a. playoffs or details coming up in sport. hundreds of rebels who are holed up in an area near syria's capital have agreed to lay down their arms in an evacuation deal negotiated by russia members of a rebel group known as the army of islam the war ready started leaving demand but to the north opposition fighters in kalamunda still holding out despite government strikes so no harder reports from neighboring lebanon. they surrendered without a fight rebels and to mayor have agreed to leave accepting an offer from the syrian

and russian military for safe passage to rebel areas in northern syria hundreds of fighters are to be evacuated along with a few thousand of their family members they didn't want to repeat of the pro-government alliances military assault against what was once the rebel enclave of eastern quarter but. after the brutal regime displays that people often used to it now wants to do the same here sold to prevent further destruction we accept the surrender this will save the lives of civilians. as part of the deal the rebels handed over there medium sized and heavy weapons the town in the region northeast of damascus has been under siege for years more than one hundred thousand people live there half of them internally displaced the deal avoided a military offensive. the army and its allies are now giving the rebel factions that control the other towns in the enclave twenty four hours to surrender or face

a stepped up bombing campaign the pro-government alliance has been using the threat of military action to force their opponents to lay down their weapons without a fight it has given i still forty eight hours to leave the districts the armed group controls in southern to ask us or face an all out military offensive those districts are under siege and the army has sent reinforcements to the front lines. and in the past seventy two hours and after months of a relative lull in the fighting the opposition controlled northern countryside of homs was heavily bombarded. they started a military assault on northern homs and neighboring southern hama to pressure the negotiating committee that represents the opposition to surrender these areas are supposed to be deescalation zones agreed in a star no we're looking for a solution that doesn't involve the military option. the opposition is in talks

with the russian military a cease fire is now in place until negotiations resume on sunday the pro-government alliance wants the enclave returned to state to rule the opposition however is hoping for a long term ceasefire agreement. the people in the northern countryside of homes don't want their town to be destroyed we don't want war we want peace and we don't want to be displaced that is what we want but if the regime and the russians launch a military assault rebel commanders have said they will fight back rebels are increasingly under pressure their territories are under siege the syrian government and its allies are in a strong position and are clearly pushing ahead with a military solution to crush the rebellion. beirut. syrian state media is accusing health workers of providing aid to rebel groups but doctors say they're only helping injured civilians in areas where hospitals are bombed by the government some have been debated as war from gaziantep on the turkey syria

border. as the buses full of people forced from their homes left parts of east and 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 very prohibitive ferrety supporting health institutions like this denied those claims all of them are awful 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 medics say the boxes of medical supplies brandished in regime propaganda are

misleading. was extremely dramatic. the needs were absolutely unique he was in and seeing the situation demi police that we were supporting him now 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 if one hospital in collateral many say five thousand people 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 healthiest. them existing in the northwest are completely

in they did gov it is not enough you don't have a specialist you don't have in every in every health facility enough maybe good 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 a level of harm if workers are warning of a looming health crisis for the tens of thousands of people left behind in east if you could read the whole population is viewed with suspicion of supporting the opposition probably. in the turkey syria border. iraq has launched airstrikes against arsenal targets in syria promised to hide in about his office says iraqi fighter jets carried out a deadly raid against arsenal fighters in the border area syrian and iraqi forces have driven eisel from nearly all of its previous territory iraq has stepped up its

campaign to clear remaining arsal held areas this week russia says that syrian government forces found german chlorine containers and british smoke grenades in the eastern ghouta region where suspected chemical attack was carried out syria and its russian backers deny that government forces were responsible for the attack in duma earlier this month claiming the incident was staged by britain a spokesman for russia's foreign ministry says syrian soldiers found those containers from germany and the smoke grenades made in salzburg the english town where a former russian spy and his daughter poisoned last month's. security forces have fired tear gas at protesters outside the senegalese parliament while angry m.p.'s inside forty over proposed changes to electoral laws demonstrators and opposition members fear the proposals will block many candidates running in next year's presidential election because huck has more from cycles capital dhaka.

inside the national assembly are lawmakers debating a law that has brought parts of the city center of the capital to a standstill schools are closed roads are shut down i can smell tear gas that was fired moments ago to disperse an angry crowd of protesters members of the opposition the police have also arrested some of them now what's this law being debated inside well it requires for anyone running for office to have at least sixty seven thousand signatures to be illegible to run a political campaign now why is this important well there are three hundred political parties in senegal if this law passes through the national assembly and that would be the end of it for most of them and some members of the opposition accuse the president of tweaking the constitution ahead of the presidential campaign this would bring more support to his political party human rights organizations accuse the government of heavy handedness of using the security

forces to clamp down on the opposition arresting some of them firing tear gas unnecessarily and making protests illegal in a democracy at stake for many this isn't just a law being passed it's about protecting democracy and the reputation senegal has as a long standing democracy in africa a palestinian cyclist from gaza has been forced to abandon his dream of representing his country at the asian games after his leg was shattered by an israeli bullet to you when you're old is one of several palestinians you had to be amputated after being shot by israeli forces. say the israeli government refused to let me be sent to the west bank to receive treatment he was among thousands of people who've been rallying for weeks to mark palestinians expulsion from their ancestral lands. ospital already lacks supplies to treat the wounded and more injured are expected when protests demonstrated again at the gaza israeli border on

friday and its myth is that sheaffer hospital gaza's hospitals are full of young men with injuries where the bones have been shattered by israeli bullets and this is mohammed he's twenty four years old and he was injured two weeks ago on across the other side of the room is nasser also twenty four with the same injury and one of the problems the hospital house is it's running out of these metal rods this operator is that they have to put on the like to try and keep the bone in place while it heals and at the other end of the room is seventeen year old mahmoud he was injured three weeks ago this poor guy's in is not in a lot of pain and with me in dr is dr takes it all tunnel one of the major surgeons dr first of all you've got enough equipment to treat these sort of injuries and those of us with a noise enough because we have waited for tons of the external fix here to suit shut one of us could have surgery and a patient like and mahmoud what are the chances for him what sorts of what might

happen with him who were injured in the pretend artery and vein and may have a destructive of the mustn't the left of the born sinner fix it or mom would know we had for amputation above me if this vision dance fear that was fun or is that maybe is the c.e.o. of the limb are you ready for tomorrow. i don't know. dr thank you very much for talking to us the hospitals all of them concerned that they haven't got enough equipment to give the people the treatment they will need when they come in with those leg injuries. yemen has ordered the arrest of a commander in charge of a refugee camp in the southern border port city of aden where african migrants were raped and tortured the u.n. refugee agency says it alarmed by the horrific conditions faced by newly arrived refugees in yemen it says people fleeing countries including somalia and ethiopia and face violence and sexual abuse some of them are being kidnapped for ransom

while others have been forced back into the sea country troops have been taking part in military drills in saudi arabia despite a major rift between the two gulf nations saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain cut ties with a year ago accusing it of funding terrorism which qatar strongly denies gaza says its armed forces chief of staff attended the closing ceremony of the exercises at the invitation of a saudi counterpart of his participation was not announced beforehand twenty five other nations took part riot police in chile have used pepper spray and water cannon to disperse protesters who are demanding an end to profiteering in the education system for as a controversial judicial ruling last month chinese constitutional court struck down an earlier decision that would have banned universities from operating for profit is the first mass student rally under the new government of president sebastian pinera no criminal charges will be filed over the death of pop star prince

the musician was found dead at his home near minneapolis in twenty sixteen official cause of death was an overdose of the painkiller fentanyl which is fifty times stronger than heroin state and federal investigators been looking into who supplied the powerful opioid to prince so there's not enough evidence to charge anyone. despite the intensive law enforcement investigation there is no reliable evidence showing how prince obtain the counterfeit why couldn't least with that know who else may have had a role in delivering the counterfeit like it into prince. therefore without probable cause and no identified suspect the carver county attorney's office cannot file any criminal charges involving the death of prince. head of the program including. heads of government. to pick.

a parent. worried about the wrongness. welcome back a look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia we're going to see some rain developing across the eastern side of the mediterranean as we had from friday into saturday so some heavy rain likely across parts of turkey maybe into northern parts of syria further south she cloud around iraq but generally it should be dry meanwhile further towards the east we've got a fair amount of code still around the caspian sea and the chance of one or two

showers on the southern side the snow over. stan and also because it sounded so should clear away during saturday and weather conditions not looking too bad a state here in the arabian peninsula not a great deal happening thirty four degrees expected in doha variable amounts of cloud might see more and where clover is a couple of days we were a little bit cooler on the other side the potential mecca has been up to forty degrees and if i do it back up close that again the weekend wears on we will down in southern portions of africa we've got largely fine conditions for south africa itself going to ferment a cloud towards eastern cape but want to move northward across much of mozambique through into zimbabwe zambia and across into angola weather conditions looking fine fine for the south across much of namibia highs of twenty one in winter with your highs of twenty one degrees in cape town. from promising forests with drones to surviving drought small fun. award winning

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a lot of stories on al-jazeera the u.s. president warns he'll walk away of talks with north korea's kim jong il an olive fruit for a south korea says the north has expressed a commitment to complete danial their eyes ation. cuba's new president miguel diaz has vowed to continue the socialist revolution as a nation moves on nearly six decades of castro rule. and fighters in the rebel held town of demanded syria's capital damascus to handing over their weapons under an evacuation deal. queen elizabeth has appealed to the commonwealth heads of state to appoint her son prince charles as the next leader of the bloc the queen has been the official head of the alliance of britain's former colonies since nine hundred

fifty two or the title is not hereditary the u.k. has been hosting more than fifty commonwealth leaders to try to strengthen trade ties as the country prepares to leave the european union it is my sincere wish that the commonwealth will continue to offer stability and continuity for future generations and we'll decide that one day the prince of wales should carry on the important work started by my father in one thousand nine hundred forty nine by continuing to treasure and reinvigorate our satiation and activities i believe we will secure a safer more prosperous and sustainable world those who follow us are u.k. correspond bonamy phillips is live from will bring house in central london do you know the queen will get her wish over the succession will it be prince charles or not. i think it probably will lauren yes it's

unusual for the queen to make a plea very personal plea but you might argue that this is a time at which she has quite a lot of leverage she's generally held in affection and respect by the almost fifty commonwealth heads of state who are here she is a woman of great age and she is the hostess all the splendor of buckingham palace and windsor castle and this evening we heard that the canadian prime minister justin trudeau obviously a heavy hitter in commonwealth terms said that he backs the idea of prince charles taking over of course eve a prominent commonwealth countries say india say nigeria pakistan came up in opposition to that idea it will that would put the british in a very awkward spot but there is no indication of that and we expect a formal decision on friday and how relevant is the commonwealth these days.

well i think to some extent questions about the commonwealth's relevance always haunt this organization it evolved from the british empire the british empire has long gone and yet the commonwealth goes on now there was a time say back in the seventy's eighty's when you had the struggle over apartheid in south africa or the future of radio which became zimbabwe that common law summits really mattered and the politics resonated not so much these days there's a risk it can end up looking a bit nebulous looking around for worthy causes a lot of talk about ocean conservation at this summit having said all that paradoxically it is an organized organization that is often derided but when countries are excluded from it all or leave for a period let's say like gambia like pakistan on on a number of occasions like nigeria like zimbabwe now which is making overtures to

get back in countries tend to want to come in and in fact the organization has actually expanded beyond the british empire with countries like mozambique coming in in recent years and what about there the brics effect how does that affect how you came to interviews the commonwealth. what i think it means that the one country that the commonwealth undoubtedly has an increasing significance for is britain ever since britain voted for brics it politicians who want to brag of argue that it's time for britain to relinquish its colonies that there's enormous economic potential if it were to do so in reality however if you look at the depth of britain's economic ties they are far greater with the european union and those much talked about bilateral deals with india ross trail usa are probably years away and behind it thank you very much. france's interior ministry says almost one hundred twenty thousand people have

attended rallies against president. brought police used pepper spray and tear gas against protesters in paris it's the latest in weeks of demonstrations by railway employees public sector workers and students against president because planned reforms for public services and universities early this week where workers resumed their rolling strike adding two weeks of train delays across the country has been with protests in paris. this is the second time. that workers from across the public sector come together with students to. form a street protest they are angry with the government everett's reforms over the public sector but also called for universities what they say is that the government is trying to take away the working rights that their working conditions will be worse than they were in the boston for the students they are angry with the government because the government wants to put in place a selection process for universities well grill way workers all of the full brunt

of these demonstrations they are very angry with the leadership of government because they say the government is trying to take away the special privileges they've had for many years such as a retirement on the other the president in the government said that these reforms necessary needs to change in order to cut to create opportunity and to reduce unemployment and what we have seen over the past few days is the presence of. really. fancy. television interviews which is why bring him he's going to this in the street and try to speak to them directly to try and find his position is determined to see these through because from is going to be if he doesn't get. to continue the rest of his very ambitious refer. the continuation of his presidential. early and police are investigating an assault on two young men in which the attacker was. heard shouting anti semitic abuse one of the victims was

wearing a jewish skull cap as the mccain now reports as part of a trend of increasing anti-semitic that activity in the german capital. it was an unprovoked attack in broad daylight a sustained assault on young men on the streets of the german capital and the reason because one of the victims was wearing a skull cap normally worn by jews in fact he's an israeli palestinian is not jewish but was wearing the keeper as a sort of experiment to see how safe the jews are in germany following the attack the victim described his reaction. which could be i stayed relatively calm but i was terrified and i trembled into now or later all the time it was really upsetting and was very stressful. what happened here is part of a rising tide of anti semitic acts in the german capital in recent years police say that the number of such crimes nearly doubled in the period between twenty thirteen

and twenty seventeen while one leading jewish organization says it recorded an increase of nearly sixty percent incidence last year one eminent member of the jewish community in berlin says recent events have shaken people. but i don't see a show that i don't see show well of at home and we feel totally unsafe because we've been asking ourselves where we can allow ourselves to be recognized as jews previously it used to be said that there were some so-called problem areas of the city where as a jew it wasn't safe to wear a skull cap or have a visible star of david but now it seems there's a risk even in the prosperous parts of bill and the government has been quick to react to the news when a list will be. talkin the federal government will do everything we now have a representative for jewish life in germany because we have very glad that there is jewish life in germany for the fight against. and this is also be done with over

and determination this is of course the tablet incident in recent years the jewish community in germany has been growing with some estimates that around ten percent of built their lives in the capital now some fear their flourishing community may once more be under threat dominic came. early in a new report says the great barrier reef has suffered a catastrophic die off off to marine heat waves killed much of its coral in recent years and researches that australia is james cook university say it's unlikely ever to recover they say a third of the reef was cooked to death as water temperatures rose one degree above average in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen due to a combination of climate change and the el nino weather cycle or the coral reefs make up less than one percent of marine environment the home to around twenty five percent of ocean life but coral bleaching has destroyed nurseries for many kinds of young fish in the only the toughest species of survived scientists say they are now

fighting to protect the remaining corals by curbing climate change and water pollution but they want to the definitions continue as they are the great barrier reef won't survive. we're joined now by skype by a short external he's a marine biologist from the marine conservation society here in the u.k. thanks for being with us so were you surprised at all by the findings in this study no it's the case that corals all over the world not just a great barrier reef or bleaching bleached significantly in the late ninety's there's been two or three events in between the ninety's and the current or the most recent episode so it's not that surprised so what do you think needs to happen to make a real difference well it's obvious we've got to stop the meeting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that's clear or the other factors are a little bit. negligible but really in in comparison to the global warming and also

there are some areas of the great base to our resilience work in the multi as well and some of those are showing resilience we've got to protect the last remaining best is that can actually be supply other areas of reef with that i've seen that recently have been a number of attempts to kind of create perhaps mechanical barriers almost you know things are floating films that reduce the reduced effect of how how realistic is it to do that on a large scale it's not i mean these are really just. pet projects related to the intensity in the scale of this drama that's unfolding in our lifetime i mean when i was a kid i was diving the great barrier reef and it was a tragedy it is nothing less than an environmental drive today and it has to be taken as a priority by our politicians. courage by the fact that there's a lot of effort at the moment to talk of trying to reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in the ocean is that a sign that people are actually working up to the kind of damage that's happening to our oceans. so little bit of window dressing really i mean what we really need

to do is dr drooling in u.k. waters over vast areas of armoring say there is ninety five percent of our marine protected areas stop trolling we need to stop global climate emissions and need to reduce the impacts of carbon emissions are our behavior change and politicians have to be held to account to restrict these are it's a pity to waste to go back to that to the effect that they have found in the study i mean how much of it is how big a part does el nino play in in this. recent study has shown they tried to track the impact is in the past they had little effects so it's definitely the case that the exacerbation of carbon dioxide emissions with el ninos which are a natural phenomena are caused into problems john allen thank you very much indeed for your time today thank you thank you and here's capital is one of the most highly modernized cities in africa but the original residents of the federal

district of a budget continue to live in homes built of mud many accuse the government of ignoring their fundamental rights of our reports from the big. white showing up well and good discussions never seen 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 audacity i have no medical care here and we have new functioning schools the teachers refuse to stay here i don't have electricity but water is our most urgent problem we had a call 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 i mean is hard work by these women throughout the day there are more than eight hundred from a just such as pico surrounding of which the area is called federal capital territory more than one million nigerians live in the f. city pockets of property side by side with posh new residential districts owned mostly by people who came from other regions to go out resentment geria that if it is virgin so if you were not living if you treat people from order to sift it that's where they are calling the eight hundred i lived in villages settler towns yet do 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 null d. and his community continue to demand reform but they say their forces hardly head

because they don't feel the representation at the high level a constitution says the president is also government of city villagers doubt mohammed will heidi has time to fix the problems we have. in our own country or do what of the matter that is nurses so far can't ability for the government able to do police. food justice. and democracy to walk there is no where in the world that the head of state will become to go one of the territorial again it's all dying away let it go said please look with up with the channel it people here have their own governors did not have a governor they do not have a meal so it is like they are deprived and they believe that it is only by instate in the people putting them in this position of authority that they will be able to make any meaningful impact without an elected mayor governor a local council or minister of city people say they feel powerless which means economic deprivation for them. i just. nigeria.

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a note of nasa as latest satellite the transiting exoplanet survey satellite or tess is the agency's most ambitious attempt at finding all the worlds i think out of the reports. liftoff the space x. falcon dime 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 that test sounds like 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 a much greater range of host star types than was the case for cup 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 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 and gallica al-jazeera. for.

lauren thanks where we start with tennis where world number one rafael nadal is now three wins away from winning a record extending eleventh title at the monte carlo masters playing his first tournament since suffering a hip injury at the australian open in january the spaniard eased past russian current catch enough in straight sets on thursday to reach his fourteenth quarterfinal event down must win it to avoid losing his top ranking to roger federer. fans had been hoping for a first meeting of the year between a doubt and novak djokovic in the last eight but in his comeback from an ongoing elbow injury the former world number one lost a close three second test with world number seven dominant team the twenty four year old austrian making it through taste first quarter final in monte carlo where

he'll face that down for the first time since losing to him in the semifinals of last year's french open. meanwhile while number four alexander's vera was made to work for his place in the quarterfinals in an all new german encounter with young men it struck spare of dropped the second set that came through in the end to set up a showdown with frenchman rashad gask a cascade earlier knocked out severities older brother show. and while number five grigor dimitrov also had to battle to reach the last eight the ball garion coming from a set down to get past germany's philipp kohlschreiber dimitroff will now take on well number ten a belgian for a place in the semifinals. lebron james reduced to sue pup of four months to help level the clifton cavaliers n.b.a. playoff series with the indiana pacers the basketball star scored twenty points in his first twelve minutes alone on wednesday he finished with forty six points and

seventeen rebounds as cleveland ran out one hundred to ninety seven point winners the best of seven series is tied at one one. amazing shots early going to rhythm. defense and i want to be in two and i want to tell you my guys involved as well but . don't come into games and i'm a try to do this i'm a do that is just going to have as a for a game i played a game right away and as a result i saw the houston rockets have gone to nothing up in their 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 rockets prevailed one hundred two to eighty two. and they use been a cell for about the game one call me we talked a little bit and i said don't worry about it your way is automatic and there's no he will come back in be aggressive nothing to do so he doesn't start so far and

that's all it's a wednesday is over game so all the utah jazz beat the oklahoma city thunder to tie the series three games coming up on thursday the defending and be a champions the golden state warriors have a chance to go three nothing up against the san antonio spurs the pittsburgh penguins are 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 goal of the series and became the penguins highest ever score in the postseason with one hundred and seventy three. the san jose sharks completed a series sweep of the anaheim ducks they were two one witnessing game four an advance to the second round where they'll face the last vegas golden knights. the nashville predators are one win away from clinching their series with the

colorado avalanche after a six two win the tampa bay lightning lead the new jersey devils three one after victory in game four two more games are coming up on thursday. organizers of the london marathon are urging runners to reconsider dressing up in costumes sunday's race is said to be the warmest on record forecasters have the temperature peaking at twenty three degrees and officials are concerned about his heat stroke the world's top athletes who will set off earlier on sunday are more about setting a new record time daniel will try to defend his title for a time marathon winner. three time olympic track gold medalist kenenisa became. what motivated me of course. until today maybe as you know i. called of called i don't know when and where

but. what makes me hungry you know. football fans attending matches at this year's world cup in russia will be able to watch replays of incidents reviewed by video assistant referees on big screens inside stadiums football's world governing body for hope it will make video replay technology more spectator friendly as it's used at the world cup for the very first time the system has been criticized for being confusing for fans during trials in domestic competitions this season. he's normal before you start using something that is new more not well known by many it is no longer someone could be a speck skeptical about. what we can say. the goal is clear. can avoid. big mistake to be committed and this is the target

and this is something that has to be understood by everybody well for all fans in some parts of the world to stick a book is a big part of their experience of the world cup the panini stick dates back to nine hundred seventy allows fans to collect stickers of every competing player but accounts if it operation has been cracked by peruvian officials more than twenty thousand fake sticker books were seized by authorities and two people have been arrested they were three hundred fifty thousand dollars and was set to be sold in peru and europe. all right that is so useful for now but to lauren in london. jerry thank you very much a great reminder you can catch up with a list for town of mosul unusual reporting on check out our website that's i'll git out is there a dot com. that's it for me daryn ted if that's news maryam namazie will be here in a minute with another round of the day's news by from.

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investigates on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. every your. getting to the heart of the matter if not stuff like in g. the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification of look like there are two people think the peace for unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera. playing.