states detonated dozens of atomic bombs in the marshall islands when the us was ready to clean up and leave at least nine hundred seventy s. he picked the pit that had been left by one of the smaller atomic explosions and dumped a lot of cutrone and other radioactive waste into the pit the bottom of the. soil there was nowhere for her to line it and therefore the seawater is inside the dome when the stone was built there was no factoring in sea level rises caused by climate change now every day when the tide rolls out radioactive isotopes from underneath the roll out with a. really. we're not. we're talking.

north korea says it will suspend nuclear and missile tests and shot down a test sites. and of them. also coming out. for an investigation of israel's use of force on palestinian protesters after four people were killed and friday demonstrations. syria's government moves on the remaining rebel held area near the capital. and cubans contemplate a new era with a president who isn't named castro. will begin on the korean. potentially where north korea's official news agency says

it will stop all nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests the announcement comes ahead of the meeting between north and south korean leaders in six days time u.s. president donald trump tweeted that it's very good news for north korea and the world on north korea's state run t.v. news has issued a statement on pyongyang his commitment to end own nuclear tests on the peninsula to each. chip we will discontinue nuclear testing and intercontinental ballistic rocket test firings from april twenty first the northern nuclear test of the d.p. r. k. will also be dismantled to transparently guarantee the discontinuance of nuclear testing that this continuance of the nuclear test is an important process for the world wide disarmament and the t.p.r. cable joint international desire and efforts were told to halt its nuclear testing the d.p. r. k. will never use nuclear weapons nor transfer them or nuclear technology under any

circumstances unless there is a nuclear threat or provocation against the d.p. r. k. o. japan's prime minister is sounding a more cautious nose. was never thought of north korea's announcement is forward motion that i'd like to welcome it but what's important is that this motion leads to complete verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of north korea's nuclear and missile programs i want to take a close look at that right kathy novak is following this story for us from seoul so i can hear japanese are overly enthusiastic at this point what's the south korean government saying. the south korean government has welcomed this decision saying it represents meaningful pros progress towards denuclearization of the korean peninsula remember this is just days before in the south korean president is due to sit down for a historic intercourse summit with north korea's leader kim jong un and the south koreans have been saying that denuclearization will be the focus of that meeting

along with improving into korean ties in promoting peace here on the korean peninsula so the south koreans seem to be viewing this positively in the first instance but the point that japan's prime minister seems to be making there is that even though this is a very significant shift in north korea moving on from the regular tests of ballistic missiles that we were seeing last year the test of its most powerful ever nuclear bomb now north korea says that the testing will end but what it is saying is the testing will end because the nuclear weapons program is complete kim jong un the leader's policy had always been a jewel track of promoting the nuclear weapons program but also promoting the economy and now he seems to be saying that he's happy with the nuclear program there's no more tests needed and the focus can shift towards the economy so this is the tone that north korea seems to be taking as it goes into that meeting with south korea's president well look let's look at that meeting it's next friday as you say historic meeting between the two koreas but what realistically

a people hoping will come of it is. there has been so some talk of coming to some kind of peace agreement that can move the peninsula on from the armistice that marked the end of hostilities in one nine hundred fifty three in the korean war of course these two countries remain technically at war because the hostilities ended with a truce and not a peace treaty so there's been some talk about how can this be progressed to some kind of agreement to keep the peace here on the peninsula and of course as i mentioned denuclearization of course that word is up to interpretation whether you talk to the americans the south koreans or the north koreans or indeed the japanese who we heard there saying they want complete verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of the nuclear program but all one sense that i get from the south korean government is they seem to be suggesting that the that the main not much concrete in terms of a real agreement might come out of the into korean summit they'd be happy enough

that it could lay the groundwork for the summit that is expected between donald trump and kim jong un to kind of set the scene for that really because of course that meeting is still not confirmed and we had just days ago donald trump warning that if he wasn't satisfied that something fruitful would come out of a meeting with kim jong un that he would be prepared to walk away ok got the novak and so thanks very much and have more now from washington d.c. . reports. very soon after north korea made its announcement president donald trump took to twitter saying north korea has agreed to suspend all nuclear tests and close up a major test site this is very good news for north korea and the world big progress exclamation point look forward to our summit and this summit that trump mentions it would be the first face to face meeting between the u.s. head of state and the president of north korea and it is scheduled to take place

either next month or in early june and trump's optimistic tone comes on the second day of what seemingly is good news coming out of north korea for the u.s. negotiators it was just thursday that south korea indicated north korea had made some indications that it no longer would demand the u.s. to withdraw troops from the korean peninsula as part of these negotiations now trump has surrounded himself with some hard line advisers namely john bolton the national security adviser who has said that nothing north korea says should be believed so certainly it is expected that these advisers will be cautioning the president not to be too optimistic preparing him to walk away from the table if negotiations don't go the u.s. is way which president trump has indicated he is willing to do christopher hill was the head of the u.s. delegation to the six party talks from two thousand and three to two thousand and nine on the nuclear korean nuclear issue he says north korea is not so and is

welcome but also counsel caution. i would. issue a few cautions here first of all the way he's selling it is to say we have already completed our nuclear program we're all set to go we have of him who are well aware who go he tested more that's not the first time said that he could certainly be playing a role in a process of even if he was a ship but it could also simply be poring over sense of we're nuclear power or don we don't he tell us it's nothing anyone can do about it so i'd be a little caution but secondly with respect to the shutting down of the test side to be where they've had some six nuclear test there have been widespread reports in the media and elsewhere about the fact that you know he may be entering its final phase of the shelf life. test would cause

a collapse of the wound there's a lot of concern about just the ecology there so i'm going to be a little cautious with all that said it is clear that we are better position today than we were before. the united nations is calling for an independent investigation into israel's use of force on protesters it comes after four palestinians including a fifteen year old boy were killed by israeli gunfire in another day of demonstrations on gaza's border have been funerals for the latest casualties thirty five people have died in four weeks of protests calling for palestinians right to return to ancestral lands from gaza but especially for ports. they've become a feature of the weekly palestinian confrontations with israel's military this friday the wind was with the protesters as clouds of smoke from burning tires drifted over israeli positions. but it's not enough to stop israel

snipers and volleys of tear gas. others who you might think would be put off after previous experiences have instead come back for more. i don't care about the injury even if i lose my legs this will not stop me coming back what happened here won't people up and reminded them about all cause we've come here to get our right of return and a lot of states. but. us. in this with giving something another day. i'm here to show my enthusiasm and to inspire the young guys to continue their struggle. for. the as he does every week hamas is leading garza yassin was visited the protests a prime target for israeli snipers he'd have been easily spotted by the drones above but was protected by the crowds below. this friday the congress moved three

hundred meters closer to israel their mission is that when these protests climate's on may the fifteenth these tents will be the border between gaza and israel but after four weeks no demonstrations there's been nothing in the way of concessions from the israelis that would improve the daily life of palestinians living in gaza . with al-jazeera cars. as fast a fence says hamas is wasting its time trying to gain the upper hand in the conflicts. we have all the support from the army from the chief of staff and everybody that something the other side must understand there is determined and trained behind which are determined people support the army and he had to their residents of communities adjacent to gaza who are determined and ready to give all their brick to the army this combination can't be beaten and it is a waste of time

a waste of their if it i expect gaza residents to take their destiny into their own hands and not be led by hamas who are misleading them the us has again warm syria's president about the use of chemical weapons defense actually james mattis made the comments while meeting his japanese counterpart it comes a week to u.s. led strikes on weapons facilities in syria they were in response to a suspected chemical attack in duma on the seventh of april syria and its ally russia deny it happened the full support of that regrettable but necessary attack on. his research and engineering part of his. weapons program weapons of mass destruction right he would be all advised to ignore the international community. and we stand ready to address anything in the future. here as nearly as vowing to defend the socialist revolution and modernize the economy but many doubt they'll be any significant improvement under president

miguel diaz kell latin america listen human reports. getting their daily bread cuban style with your ration card in hand one roll per day per person at a minute state subsidized price a system that dates back to the soviet union. in recent years the government has been forced to cut back on ration card items but there's still rice beans sugar salt and occasionally meet aid with cuba's national currency that. if we didn't have this option those on a workers' wages could not afford to buy almost anything. you can also use pesos to buy fruits and vegetables. but for almost everything else from shampoo to shoes you need a c. you see the cuban government's version of hard currency on an average monthly wage you can purchase thirty c.

you see not enough to fill a car with petrol cuba's dual currency is a monetary abnormality that stunting economic growth and scaring off investment. and like the ration card doing away with it is a must if cuba's new president to me. is going to make good on his promise to update cuban communism what is the government hasn't already done it it's because merging these two currencies into one is much more complex than it sounds in a country where the state is supposed to always provide it's going to make life much more difficult for cubans who are already struggling. and eliminating the dual currency system will devalue the pace or but it's a necessary change concedes medium leyva a longtime opponent of the cuban government. in fact after why. thursday's presidential handover of power from broadcast rule to dia's can l. the only changes she expects are on the economic front or almost on the emotional

level i don't feel any change i hope i'll fill it someday when our society really opens up and i have the right to participate in no matter my opinions. the transition to a post castro era does not contemplate political change but reforming the state run economy to make it more rational and effective could be almost as revolutionary to see in human. still ahead here on out there a president of south africa returns home after violent protests in the northwest and province. and democrats in the u.s. try a new approach to finding out how the truth about donald trump and russia a lawsuit.

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the way of cloud and the threat of rain for parts of the bahamas down into south america showers much she expect certainly some heavy showers of parts of peru and up into ecuador further south looking largely dry and find out it could be a cloud around northeastern parts of argentina twenty six and one is aries. fast furious and sometimes fatal mongolia's child jockeys are risking their young lives riding to win are they being exploited in the name of tradition one on one east investigates on al-jazeera. jersey or. where ever you are.

hello again you're watching on their hands reminder of our top stories this hour north korea's official news agency says the country will stop all nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests and moving clear down its main nuclear testing site japan's offensive. should lead to any easing of international pressure on pyongyang. the u.n. is calling for an independent investigation into israel's use of force on protesters comes after four palestinians including a fifteen year old boy were killed by israeli gunfire in another day of demonstrations on gaza's border. and syrian rebels have reportedly agreed to withdraw from the last hour into the capsule that's not under government control

the army is continuing to bombard the enclave in south damascus until a full surrender deal is reached. us democratic policy is suing the donald trump campaign and russia for alleged collusion in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election they cues russia of contacting trump's advisers informing them of a cyber attack that leaks negative information about his democratic rival hillary clinton the lawsuit also involves wiki leaks and its founder julian assange the democrats accuse him of warning the team in advance before publishing the information on. magical heinous following events in washington d.c. . it's an unusual move but not an unprecedented one democrats sued over the watergate break in and they did get some money on the day that richard nixon left office in disgrace now the lawsuit is against russia russia's intelligence service and some russian citizens it is difficult to sue a sovereign nation in the united states but it is possible difficult but possible

it also sues wiki leaks and its founder julian assange and it really targets people very close to the president president donald trump not named in this lawsuit because it's really hard to sue a sitting president but his campaign is named along with his son don jr son in law jerry cushion or his former campaign chairman paul mann afford his advisor roger stone and former campaign aides george papadopoulos and richard gates now the complaint alleges that the trump campaign colluded with russia to steal and publish e-mails from the democratic campaign workers in an attempt to help trump win the presidency much of what is in this lawsuit was already known but there are a couple of things that we didn't know for example it says it alleges that in late twenty fifteen that far back that european intelligence services said that they were witnessing some suspicious communications between russian operatives and members of the trump campaign that they notified the u.s. about that again at late two thousand and fifteen it also goes on to say that the hack was earlier than we previously thought that it happened again in twenty

fifteen and it wasn't just the computer system it was the phone system that was compromised so some new details in this lawsuit this could be seen as a dangerous move if people perceive that it is in any way going to interfere with special counsel robert mueller who is investigating potential collusion between. the term campaign and russia but it also could serve the purpose of putting just another venue to get the information out there there's growing concern that the special counsel will be tampered with or could possibly be let go if this lawsuit is allowed to proceed this basically puts before court before jury all on the record exactly what happened in the twenty sixteen campaign and it also serves as putting even more pressure on people in trump's orbit they're already facing pretty high legal bills and legal issues and this will only add to that. bruce fein is a former us associate deputy attorney general he says it's unlikely the democrats' lawsuit will become a substantial threat against the trump administration there's

a two for the element to this on the one hand some may view it as just another partisan effort because it's obviously the democrats who brought the lawsuit on the other hand it does give another burst of publicity and it shows for the time being that you have a very beleaguered president he's now fighting three or four front war instead of a one or two front war but my belief is that no matter how sound the case is in the long run when there is no activity and i can guarantee you bring me back on in two weeks they'll be a grant of a stay in motion if there is no new moves it will really not have much more than a twenty four hour effect the u.s. has released its annual report on the stage of human rights around the world several countries were singled out for alleged violations russia is accused of siphoning dissent and using brutal security tactics including torture the report also highlights abuses in chechnya the annexation of crimea and interference in the internal affairs of western countries china comes under fire for suppressing

freedom of expression and restricting civil society the syrian government is accused of atrocities against its own citizens including the repeated use of chemical weapons in manama the focus is on the treatment of its range of minority more than seven hundred thousand being forced to flee a military crackdown but rights groups have criticized the report saying the latest edition pays far less attention to sexual and reproductive rights than previously muslim jordan has more from washington d.c. . it's the forty second time that the u.s. state department has released its annual human rights reports on conditions in countries around the world and as with every year the reports are controversial as for countries themselves the reports covered the areas that one might normally expect including perhaps a more critical than expected attack on russia's handling of human rights john

sullivan is the acting secretary of state the russian government continues to quash dissent in civil society even while it invades its neighbors and undermines the sovereignty of western nations we once again urge russia to end its brutal occupation of ukraine's crimean peninsula to halt the abuses perpetrated by russian led forces in ukraine's donbass region and to address impunity for the human rights violations and abuses in the republic of chechnya the report does outline that there are still many questions about the way that israeli military forces treat palestinian civilians and about the ability of the palestinian authority to prevent attacks by palestinians on israeli citizens particularly in the occupied west bank these reports are already being dissected and already human rights organizations around the world are taking

a very close and skeptical look at the trumpet ministrations ability to invoke and to try to protect human rights south africa's new president has become the mediator and growing protests in northwest province demonstrates as a calling for the resignation of the region's lead. sawyer has more from mike hang . residents of mike hang in the northwest province wait for the outcome of a meeting between president cyril ramaphosa and the provincial leadership. people in several paths of the region have been protesting for days now they say they want better houses jobs and an end to corruption they're demanding the provincial leaders suprema home appeal whom they accuse of failing to do his job and overseeing corruption to step down the president catches his trip to the u.k. where he was attending a commonwealth heads of state meeting to deal with the situation having listened to all the imports we have decided that we would like to engage further

with a number of other people particularly members of the community. not only in my he but also in the northwest what i can assure you now is that even if all of the monologue met we are not going to summon the will going forward streets are deserted but evidence of the violent protests is everywhere. so this is one of the areas where protesters had blocked the roads using running tires and anything else they could find police have been trying to clear this road we've also seen shops that have been broken into and looted the situation here is still very tense this petrol station is in one of the hot spots a group of young people is say to have done this many shop owners are devastated. i don't know how to start over i used all my money to stock the shop to get.

others whose businesses were destroyed comped at the heritage house where the leadership is meeting they tell us what happened to their shops had nothing to do with genuine demonstrations. there is doing what their political problem but we are not in building them and we are not just doing anything you're just doing business residents of this region continue to wait for answers but these are difficult issues that may not be fully resolved fairly soon catherine saw al jazeera making south africa indonesia a freshman have rescued a boat load of ranger refugees thousands of kilometers from their homeland a group of around one hundred was brought ashore an arch a province it's not clear how long they'd been at sea but they were weak they were reportedly weak and mole nourished seven hundred thousand ranger have fled states many by land since a military crackdown began in august there's been

a dramatic twist in the trial of two men ma journalists who've been covering the range of crisis with the police when telling the court their arrest was a setup wallonia and chores. accused of violating a state secrets law requiring official documents if found guilty they could face fourteen years in jail but a policeman who is a pairing as a prosecution witness told the court that one of his senior officers gave the documents to the journalist to entrap them. or only or our very surprised the truth has been revealed in this way we thought from the beginning this case was a set up but we didn't expect the police would testify like they have this testimony will be a very strong support for the defendant's case. thousands of armenians are protesting what they see as a bed by their former president to cling to power one hundred eighty people have been arrested as protesters blocked roads leading to the capital at demonstrations began eight days ago when parliament moved to appoint former president served as

prime minister had ruled since two thousand and eight and only step down is present this month limit prevent him running again for the two thousand and fifteen referendum shifted executive powers to the prime minister's office. a rally has taken place in south london to show solidarity with the wind rushed on aeration immigration from caribbean countries decades ago but many of fall in a fall of new laws aimed at clamping down on illegal immigration british prime minister teresa mayes apologized but protesters say more needs to be done at the barber reports from london. very potent lead this demonstration is being held in wind rush square in brixton and many of the speakers have been outlining the distress of the damage caused to the so called wind rush generation people who arrived as young children in the nineteen fifties and sixties here who were british but in later years have struggled to prove when asked to do so that they did have

the right to stay here as british citizens of course one of the big gripes is that a number of years ago landing cards from ships coming from the caribbean to britain were actually destroyed by the british home office to resume a the prime minister has come under pressure she was home secretary. there to the current home secretary amber rudd has also faced calls for her to resign now the government has apologized profusely said that they are getting masses in my hands but people here say they want to see compensation for loss of earnings when people have lost their jobs they want the agent reports reactions from anybody who has been sent a broad. they want damages paid for the distress now they're a prepaid pool here in britain in their fifty's and sixty's who have been refused things like treatment for cancer they have not only lost their jobs but in some cases they have hard breakdowns they have suffered mental health problems because

of the fact that they have been threatened with being kicked out of their own country this is a problem that affects tens of thousands of people and it's not going away quickly . and without zero these are our top stories north korea's official news agency says the country will stop all nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests and include shutting down its main testing site. that this continuance of the nuclear test is an important process for the worldwide disarmament and the t.p.r. cable joint international desire and efforts for total halt to nuclear testing the d.p. r. k. will never use nuclear weapons nor transfer them or nuclear technology under any circumstances unless there is a nuclear threat or paf occasion against a d.v.r. . yes president donald trump tweeted it's very good news for north korea and the

world japan's prime minister is sounding a more cautious knows. north korea's announcement is forward motion that i'd like to welcome but what's important is that this motion leads to complete verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of north korea's nuclear and missile programs i want to take a close look at that. palestine's ambassador to the u.n. is calling for an independent investigation into israel's use of force on protesters that comes after four palestinians including a fifteen year old boy were killed by israeli gunfire and another day of demonstrations on gaza's border. syrian rebels have reportedly agreed to withdraw from the last area near the capital is not under government control the army is continuing to bombard the enclave in south damascus until a full surrender deal is reached it means president bashar al assad is in his strongest position since the early stages of the seven year war he was democratic party is suing the donald trump campaign and russia for alleged collusion in the twenty six thousand presidential election and accuses russia of contacting trump's

advisers informing them of negative information about his democratic rival hillary clinton the lawsuit also involves wiki leaks and its founder julian assange. so africa's president. has become the mediator in growing protests in northwest province demonstrators are demanding better jobs better housing roads and hospitals the president cut short his trip to the u.k. to deal with the rest of those i had back with more news here on al-jazeera after one a one. on counting the cost trade war a real war and rising debt find out why the i.m.f. and the world bank a warning of risks to the global economy what saudi arabia is ideal world price and the castro year end. but an economic blockade remains. the cost.