isis at home or abroad. in a two part series. tells the story of canvassing of joy into the episode to. face. at this time on all to see. if you're in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships. somehow time is aiming to replace america and around the world well the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china part one on a josie. passing

the boston raul castro hands over keep his presidency to his prostate miguel d.s. come out. of amber this is our sara life and also coming up south korea says the north may be willing to give up its nuclear weapons even as the u.s. doesn't if the u.s. doesn't withdraw its troops from the peninsula plus. russian officials are working with the syrian regime to deny and to delay these inspectors. arrest rate between the u.s. and russia ratchets up over suspected chemical attack and duma and. i'm malcolm webb and it's very province in the democratic republic of congo tens of thousands of people here since the beginning of the militia attacked their villages did things like this.

cuba has any president to six decades of castro rule. on thursday since leaving eighty six year old raul castro last in america. reports from havana. a historic moment without the story shifts chapter but with a similar script. under-supply president raul castro passed on the baton to his chosen successor. clearly not be governing alone. or going to the generation off adel and raul remains intact comment army general role castro will remain the first secretary of the communist party and as such will lead the major decisions of our country now and in the future. he is canelo is a communist party cato cording to castro has passed all the tests of loyalty to the

cuban revolution. but the real end of the castro era will take another three years from the safe it was probably when the eight party congress and the gradual and orderly transfer of our main responsibilities is made to the new generations it is then if my health allows that i will become just one more soldier along with the cuban people defending this revolution. on the streets there was no commotion and little excitement. i love them then i magine they won't be any drastic change anytime soon but something will change for better or worse. in there i'm not watching this i hope there's a change for the better that's what we're all hoping for. with an israel and subsidies almost gone dius canel needs to transform cuba's ailing soviet style economy he is alive or we generally means that he knows how to work this is ease

he knows the mechanics of the system but he's taking over added difficult time of renewed tensions with washington under president donald trump and while the us colonel does represent a generational shift here in terms of the crucial relationship of cuba's powerful northern neighbor it's back to the old cold war days you see in human al-jazeera how that. brenna is a professor of international relations at american university in washington d.c. he thinks cubans want someone with a new perspective boast of the country has been born since one thousand nine hundred fifty nine and in fact a majority of the national assembly. the majority of actually the central committee is now younger than the is going on so i think that there are people are ready for a new generation i don't think they want the older generation to continue ruling

what was interesting is that he picked as his vice president a person of the older generation salvador valdez mesa seventy two years old but i think that was a bow to the older generation he picked a man who is not personally charismatic has no personal authority it was more symbolic to make him the first vice president. south korea's president of moon j. and says the north expressed a commitment to complete denuclearization this comes as u.s. president little trump wants to walk away from planned talks with north korea's leader if they are not fruitful the meeting is expected next month or in early june cia director inspectors say 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 many of the details of that plan meeting are still unclear as to james' bases inside north korea with the latest. there's

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 and 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 that 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 to what they might get out of the 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. chemical weapons inspectors are still waiting to entertainer in syria to investigate this is specks of chemical attack us as russia is deliberately holding them up to tamper with evidence. and reports. access denied inspectors but the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons are on standby we need to ensure the area duma a visit to the side of the alleged chemical attack has been delayed for days the investigation start the white house says russia and syria are trying to buy time.

to tamper with evidence we believe it is an effort to conduct their own staged investigations russian officials have worked with the syrian regime we believe to sanitize the locations of those suspected attacks and remove incriminating evidence of chemical weapons use security concerns delayed the inspection a u.n. risk assessment team says it came under fire as a try to clear away for the inspection days later inspectors are still waiting to go in the u.n. says discussions are taking place in damascus to ensure the o.p.c. w team can go in safely and as quickly as possible i think you could understand the ju-ju. the volatility of the situation the dangers involved we don't want to telegraph what will happen but the discussions and planning is ongoing. more than forty people were reportedly killed in the alleged attack almost two

weeks ago syria and the strongest ally russia have denied the use of chemical weapons they also refute hindering the investigation was going to. its absolute rubbish a lie that russia prevents inspectors from entering duma we don't know what made them think that from the beginning we were sincerely interested in sending o.p.c. w. inspectors there we made public statements of that moreover we contacted the syrian side so that all documents including visas were provided to the inspectors as soon as possible. the u.s. u.k. and france retaliated by bombing several syrian government sites now it's not just western powers that are keeping a close eye on the pending inspection all the parties have agreed to allow the o.p.c. new teams access unfettered access immediate access to these sites you know we can't get around the fact that the syrian government and the russian allies control the territory we're talking about a race against time as concerns grow that possible evidence of the alleged attack

may be tainted or even disappear before inspectors begin their investigation cuts to lopez so the young al jazeera. latest syria dispute comes as donald trump's new national security adviser held his first meeting with russia's ambassador. to washington d.c. with the appointment of john bolton as the new national security adviser a big looming question had been what impact that may have on the u.s. a stance toward russia and now two weeks into the job it appears that bolton may be pushing the administration in a more aggressive direction according to the white house bolton met with the russian ambassador to the u.s. today in the u.s. in the white house and listed several points that the russians would need to address in order for relations to improve between the two countries topping that list is the russian meddling the u.s. presidential elections of two thousand and sixteen also the russian attack on

a former russian spy in the u.k. and the situations in ukraine and in syria now it is has not been uncommon for president trump to undercut the public statements of his advisors we saw that happen earlier this week with the ambassador to the u.n. however the fact that the now smit of bolton's meeting with the russian ambassador came straight from the white house itself is indication that bolton has the administration's backing and yemen forces loyal to the former president fighting with the former hoofy allies for control of a key outpost the battle for the red sea port of the first of its kind between the two sides since his he's killed in december accusing him of betrayal a change in the allegiance fine prose forces out of complexity to a three year conflict has killed ten thousand people and displaced three million of those. iraq has launched air strikes against eisel targets in syria the government

says its final jets carried out what it calls a deadly raid against the armed groups in the border area syrian and iraqi forces have driven i saw for most of the territory it once held iraq stepped up its campaign this week to clear remaining pockets of eisel territory the first case of a u.s. citizen detained accused of joining i saw has taken a new turn a judge in washington d.c. has blocked the suspects transferred to saudi arabia where he also has citizenship the unnamed man was detained was allegedly working with eisel in syria last year he's been held in iraq for seven months without charge the case is seen as a test of the trunk of ministrations pledge to get tough on americans who fight for groups united nations says more than one hundred thousand people have fled their homes natori province of the democratic republic of congo since the beginning of the year following attacks by militia but the government says only about

a tenth of those people have been displaced and that is in control of the crisis welcome web of the conflict area and it's really a province and sent this report. rochelle good to see will never know her two older sisters militia killed them with machetes before cutting her he met her family in this camp for displaced people in the democratic republic of congo they fled their village when the militia attacked who ran into more fighters down the road. cut off her sister's arm her father told us how his wife was killed. i was running behind my wife and children they grabbed me and started cutting me with machetes then they caught my wife and started cutting her to that she was pregnant and they cut the baby from a snowman. many of the people in the camps tell similar stories of attacks by men from the lendu ethnic group we went to some of the villages they fled these are the remains of one family's home they fled when the attackers came and their

possessions were left behind the attack is set the house on fire they did the same in the house next door as well another family lived here and they ran a business they were repairing motorcycles and selling spare parts also completely destroyed and it's a similar story of destruction if you go down the street many of the homes on this side belong to people from the hammer ethnic group they weren't the only targets just across the road homes and businesses belonging to ethnic lendu were destroyed as well. as being conflict between the two ethnic groups in the past in the one nine hundred ninety s. in two thousand uganda and rwanda for the congolese government to control of eastern congo in a touring hammer and lendu militias were their proxies tens of thousands of civilians were killed but now look on a safari told us there is no conflict between the two groups he's a lendu he says he hated him and neighbors here in his house when the militia are

attacked like many he thinks politicians planned the violence to further postpone congo's over to elections and the world progress is what they were waiting for elections so we can have new leadership this is our will but the killing started without reason this was already prepared for lin do with him or to start killing each other i consider this a deliberately planned conflict the government denies this since the attacks began its sense all just to take control of the villages. and you don't if you it's difficult to identify the enemy right now army intelligence working to identify who killed and burned houses and who was behind the massacres we've arrested some militia who are already facing justice. the army says the area is now secure and people should return some have many more have not because they still don't feel safe because they have nothing left to return to malcolm webb al-jazeera is tory

province in the democratic republic of congo. so has had. protests in the coastal village has become a symbol of the palestinian struggle class. and i'm most of it been a member for at least. a jam and the u.s. accused of treating two black men like criminals. we still go to see whether or not too far away from parts of north america we should see temperatures starting to recover a little not really feeling that spring like that into the northeastern corner so that eastern side of town is also getting up to around six celsius on friday hopefully as we go through the weekend we may even get up towards double figures

new york at eleven degrees just about into double figures at least it is dry across that eastern side of north america central areas still seeing some rain some snow there spilling off the rockies only twelve celsius for denver and that cooler wetter weather starting to dig in as we go on into sas a eventually will move across the deep south some useful rainfall making its way through here still a little bit of snow on the back it's cold enough and also close to double figures not degrees celsius toronto just about getting there may well we got to a good deal of dry weather into the caribbean but some wet weather to say particularly around the great around to this little line of cloud here that will stretch its way right down and soon to regular costa rica into panama some heavy opposed to find possible in jamaica southern parts of cuba the range of these as we go through sassed i still a chance of some showers moving further north woods into guatemala but lost the fine for the lesser antilles.

to one predictable deja's i've been working on north korea policy for almost thirty years i can't tell you what the u.s. policy is towards north korea vying for power they want to deter an attack from the united states as the u.s. struggles to define its foreign policy front lines examines the potential fallout so we don't see really is a strategy designed to get those talks started because if they expect a surrender fire and fury trumps north korea crisis on al-jazeera. again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour cuba's new president says he'll continue

the socialist revolution us any six decades of castro rule the galaxy s. canal was sworn in on thursday and he succeeds eighty six year old strike. south korea's president says the north claims it will give up its nuclear program without a precondition of removing u.s. troops from the south comments from n.j. and followed a warning from the president donald trump that he'll walk away from talks but don't with leader if they're not fruitful. and russia has denied accusations from the us that is trying to delay in sas inspectors getting to the size of a suspected gas attack just awaiting access to the area duma almost a week there by more than forty people were reportedly killed in the last attack in syria almost two weeks ago. more protests are expected along gaza's border with israel on friday as palestinians continue weeks of demonstrations ahead of a key anniversary the fifteenth of may is when they'll mark seventy years since the

start of the first arab israeli war and the formation of the state of israel was on thursday thousands of israel's arab minority rallied and protest demonstrators gathered at a small coastal village that has become one of the symbols of the palestinian struggle for a full set was that. of thousands of people arriving here in this field near the town of athlete this is designed to symbolize the right of return by palestinians to their original homes original villages which they lost so many of them hundreds of thousands of them in the creation of the state of israel in one nine hundred forty eight it is a moment known by palestinians as the now. the catastrophe they're choosing this day the day that israel celebrates its seventieth anniversary to make this point a mormon might be here in solidarity with all these people demonstrating for their

right to return to their independence is a catastrophe so this is about for we're here to remember and to teach our children so they will keep the memory alive. that it was more than five hundred villages with demolition. people who were displaced and people who were killed this is catastrophe humanitarian political heritage historical and national. the message this year is every year is that the independence of israel equals the catastrophe for the palestinians but this year it's being uttered with an extra feeling because this is the seventh year anniversary of nine hundred forty eight it's also the year in which donald trump intends to move the u.s. embassy to what he calls israel's capital jerusalem golan a movie. is still a jewel in a suit we all praise the historic decision by president trump to recognize jerusalem as our capital and to move the embassy there of the world's biggest power

thank you mr president thank you america well done a. lot was the israeli prime minister kicking off our national celebrations after sunset on wednesday their celebrations which have continued throughout thursday with a ceremony at the president's residence also military fly past over jerusalem and indeed millions of israelis taking to the parks and the beaches to celebrate a national holiday a very different picture here of course where that same historical legacy is viewed through an entirely different prism a prism of pain and catastrophe seventy years on. sydney's president omar al bashir has fired as foreign minister after he spoke out about the government's failure to pay its diplomats abraham granddaughter embassy staff hadn't been paid in months in the sudan a foreign behind in paying rent for many of its diplomatic missions sudan is short of foreign currency and is facing an economic crisis the central bank has been forced to devalue the sudanese pound twice since january. south africa's new

president has cut short his trip to the u.k. to deal with violent protests back home is calling for calm in northwest province where demonstrators a demanding the region's leaders step down they accuse supra him of palo of corruption and demanding better jobs and housing improved roads and hospitals oppose it was attending a meeting of commonwealth leaders in london. france's interior ministry says almost one hundred twenty thousand people have rallied across the country against president emmanuel macro police used pepper spray and to gas against protesters in paris is the latest in a series of demonstrations by public sector workers and students against mccall's planned reforms from paris and talked about the reports. there was some clashes between protesters and police but overall the march in paris was peaceful public sector workers and students were united in anger against the government's plans to reform public services and universities they say the changes would reduce their

rights. where parents. will fight for our beliefs we may not win but we won't surrender and. we support the royal workers and the social movements this cherry much injustice we have to mobilize people against the president's reforms it was a similar picture in some other cities across france including math say and we are the government wants to overhaul the national rail company law s.n.c.f. which is deep in debt and scrap some stuff benefits rail workers say that's unfair that the benefits of compensation for unsociable hours and low pay for the government needs to stop treating us like fools by saying that they are open to dialogue each time the president or a minister speaks they say we're ready to talk about everything but we won't change our mind. concept a dialogue the french president says that these reforms are necessary to reduce high unemployment cut debt and create opportunities but he must convince the french

public of his agenda which is why over the past few days he has been on something of a charm offensive my calls given to read television interviews and on wednesday in eastern france he spoke to protesting grell workers. i respect people and i've always respected the rail workers i've never insulted darrelle workers we need this reform distance if needed some analysts say the protests are macros biggest political test since being elected media a year ago when they're not cannot back down on these reforms because if it backs down in front of the strikers from the railway company it's over for him he cannot reform or anything else until the end of his mandate to read. since opinion polls suggest the time it is turning in my favor with more people supporting the reforms than the strikes but that's unlikely to deter trade union leaders workers a promising growing strikes for several months

a few people here intend to give up the fight in time some. al-jazeera paris. thousands of people have been protesting in the swedish capital over a sex abuse scandal linked to the organization that awards the nobel prize for literature they're calling for members of the swedish academy to resign after eighteen women made accusations against the husband of one of its leaders police are investigating allegations that the case has exposed deep divisions within the academy there is that accusations of patriarchal favoritism. thousands of students have marched the chalange capital santiago demanding an end to profit making in higher education police used pepper spray and water cannon to disperse demonstrators as the first mass student rally under the government of president sebastian pinera last month chile's constructional court struck down a law that would have banned universities operating for profit it's a blow to reforms providing free tuition for low income students in the act and by

in the areas free to sesa. their opinion has banned meat imports from several suppliers in brazil in a move that will hit more than a third of the country's exports to europe the european commission says the measure was adopted because of quality control issues affects twenty brazilian processing plants mostly dealing in poultry the country lost hundreds of millions of dollars last year over a tainted meat scandal that prompted many countries to block imports yes but this company has fired three of its software after two black men accused them of racial profiling that is of the men being kicked out of the gym have gone viral gabbers on there has more. two black men going to their gym to work out but instead they find themselves treated like criminals in a series of videos that went viral. said he and a friend were asked to leave

a fitness club in new jersey despite the fact they were members and checked in at the front desk to have multiple phones with this quote from a membership right here a standing o. scan and a gun and the reason i'm the only person on that's going to go and i have been a member if it at least eight years ago because the. police a man who appeared to be the gym manager called the police nobody was arrested but the two men say it was a clear case of racial profiling by the gym employees in a statement the company l.a. fitness it mid fault saying in part regrettably our staff unnecessarily escalated the situation and called the police rather than work through it clearly this is a long time member with a current ballad membership we are currently exploring potential training content and opportunities to better train our staff the incident comes amid controversy at a starbucks store in philadelphia after the store manager asked two black men to

leave because they hadn't bought anything it emerged that they were waiting for someone to take part in a business meeting the incident led to several days of protests and a boycott starbucks hash tag on social media after an initial defending his officers bill of health his police commissioner on thursday apologized to the arrested men and so messaging is important and i feel miserably in this regard. i implore a lot like many other folks but there is still no excuse starbucks has also apologized and said they would close nearly eight thousand stores next month for one day for racial bias training for their employees as for l.a. fitness three employees involved in that incident have reportedly been fired gabriels on. new york. and finally a u.s. citizen has made history by costing a vote in the chamber also holding her baby. this month tummy tuck with became the

first senate and then the to give birth wealth and office she brought along ten year old miley poll on thursday and she voted against president nominee to run nasa senate rules were changed just a day earlier to allow babies on to the chamber floor but it seems that this particular baby is treating the historic moment like it's no big deal. the judge threw. her little meal before we got a little sleep but what she did help her it meant so much to be accountable it isn't mom and beauty do my job at the same time plenty more on all the day's news can be found on our website twenty four hours a day being updated. with

these our top stories cuba's new president says he'll continue the socialist revolution after nearly six decades of castro rule. was sworn in on thursday he succeeds eighty six year old raul castro. is the first cuban leader not to have force in the one nine hundred fifty nine revolution. south korea's president says the north claims it will give up its nuclear program without a precondition of removing u.s. troops from the self the comments from moon j. in full a warning from president donald trump that he'll walk away from talks with north korea's leader if they're not fruitful the meeting is expected next month or early june russia has denied accusations from the u.s. that it is trying to delay international inspectors getting to the site of a suspected gas attack in syria they're still waiting for access to the area and duma almost a week or so they arrived more than forty people were reportedly killed in the

alleged attack almost two weeks ago was going to. its absolute rubbish a lie that russia prevents inspectors from entering duma we don't know what made them think that from the beginning we were sincerely interested in sending o.p.c. w. inspectors there we made public statements and that moreover we contacted the syrian side so that all documents including visas were provided to the inspectors as soon as possible south africa's new president has cut short his trip to the u.k. to deal with violent protests back home so around opposers calling for calm in northwest province where demonstrators are demanding the region's leaders step down accuse supremo of corruption. thousands of students are. very demanding an end to profit making in higher education. and demonstrators it's the first. in the new government of. president sebastian pinera . and the. import from several supplies in brazil in

a move that will hit more than a third of the country's exports to europe the european commission says the measure was adopted because of quality control. twenty percent in processing. poultry the country lost hundreds of millions of dollars last year ever tainted meat scandal. continues. stay with. us president said he knew charis on imports of steel and alum in europe for us. today to try to run ten times faster than we bring you the stories of the. world we live in. this time. january thirteenth.