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korea says it will suspend its nuclear and missile tests and shut down a test site. down the archives al jazeera live from doha also coming up. new calls for an investigation of israel's use of force on palestinian protesters after four people were killed and friday demonstrations. there is government moves on the remaining rebel held areas near the capital plus. us. taking china by storm the patriotic favor but domestic sentiment. says it will stop all new korea and intercontinental ballistic missile tests an announcement comes ahead of a meeting between north and south korean leaders in six days time u.s.

president donald trump tweets at that it's very good news for north korea on the world. state run t.v. news issued a statement on his commitment to end all nuclear tests on the peninsula. 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 cable joint international desire and efforts for total halt to nuclear testing. he 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. . plans prime minister sounding a more cautious note. thyrsis never thought of that 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 kathy novak has the reaction now from seoul south korea says it welcomes north korea's decision to shut down its nuclear test site and to suspend nuclear and missile tests the announcement was made at a meeting of the central committee of the workers' party chaired by the leader kim jong un and it seems to represent a significant shift five years ago kim jong il unveiled his signature policy which was a jewel track of pursuing development of the nuclear weapons program and also the economy well now kim seems to say that the nuclear weapons program development is complete tests are no longer needed and the shift can be made towards focusing on the economy the question though is how will north korea be able to do that while it is still under intense campaign of sanctions imposed by the international community

japan has said that campaign of maximum pressure must continue until north korea changes its policy japan's prime minister shinzo ave has said he welcomes this announcement but added it must be followed by complete verifiable irreversible dismantlement of north korea's nuclear and missile program denuclearization is expected to be high on the agenda when south korea's president and meets kim jong un on friday and castro has more now from washington d.c. . 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 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 say well who is the publisher of the magazine korea exposé he says an official statement from north

korea was over june. the world was actually hoping to see if north korea would do something to indicate that it's sincere about the nuclear bomb is a shown and in a way it received precisely that this morning let's not forget that until now what we have heard about north korea's intention to commit to the nuclear radiation has been secondhand we heard it through the south korean special envoys who visited in early march and we also heard that through the chinese state media. when kim goldman made us have surprise visit to beijing in late march so in a way it was time for north korea to make a clear public statement about its intentions and we did receive it although we need to be clear that they did not actually say anything about being committed to the nuclear radiation what they said was they are going to suspend experiments missile launches and are going to use it on this day provoked and they're not going

to transfer it but there was nothing actually about what they're going to do with the existing stockpile of the nuclear weapons to actually has in position. how the united nations 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 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 fun especially for ports was. 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 muscle to show that 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 calls we've come here to get our right of return a lot of people states. but 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 gaza 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 be love. this friday the count was moved three hundred meters closer to israel the ambition is that when these protests

climax on may the fifteenth these turns 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. burnitz with al-jazeera scars. syrian rebels have reportedly agreed to withdraw from the last area near the capsule that's not in government hands the surrender of the enclave in south damascus which includes the yarmouk palestinian refugee camp or put the entire region around the capital back under syrian government control the army is continuing to bombard the area until a full surrender deal is reached. here's rush limbaugh over syria says chemical weapons inspectors should do their job as quickly as possible and without any interference staffan de mistura has held talks with russia's foreign minister in moscow where a challenge reports. following last week's anger over syria

moscow seems in a restrains mood in an interview with the russian state information agency foreign minister sergey lavrov suggested last week's u.s. air strikes had been within limits acceptable for russia because. they were informed about where our red lines are including geographical red lines on the ground in any case the results show they have not crossed these red lines. and he said neither sides generals would be drawn into open conflict in syria. i'm sure the need to president putin nor president trump will allow this to happen they are after all leaders who have been elected by the people and they are responsible to these people for peace and calm muted is for quizzed. diplomatically russia can afford to attempt a pause in hostilities with the us is on the ground much is going its allies way following the fall of eastern ghouta the syrian government forces damascus is

moving against the remaining besieged enclaves of rebel activity one by one their fall in. the un's envoy to syria who is in saudi arabia and turkey earlier in the week has now come to moscow next will be iran de mistura is assessing whether the foreign powers involved in syria's war are ready to restart the un facilitated political process he acknowledged that recent days have been rough we had a very dangerous and very difficult and very tense week and. it pray already deep for the u.n. secretary general and give. coming here and doing this. in various capitals and very much moscow is the player refused to lower the temperature so hundred mr a may be doing the different grounds with the intention of getting the geneva peace process back on track but there are those who question

just how much life there is actually left in this particular u.n. sponsored format people like analyst dimitri for a love ski he thinks de mistura is rights to still be pushing for dialogue but feels that the scramble for syrian territories by russia turkey iran and the u.s. has changed the game besides realize that i'm bored and by this the most decisive argument the last one less real forces and troops and on the ground. and with bashar al assad feeling that perhaps a total defeat of the rebellion is within his reach there's no obvious reason for syria's president to return to the negotiating table right now rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. the us has released its annual report on the state of human rights around the world several countries were singled out for alleged violations russia is accused of site stifling dissent and using brutal security tactics

including torture report also highlights abuses in chechnya the annexation of crimea and interference in the internal affairs of western countries china is under fire for suppressing freedom of expression and restricting civil society syria's government is accused of atrocities against its own citizens including repeated use of chemical weapons then the focus is on the treatment of its range a minority more than seven hundred thousand have been forced to flee a military crackdown but rights groups have criticised the report saying it pays far less attention to sexual and reproductive rights than previously. jordan has more now 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 descent and 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 so has hair on al-jazeera and outcry in zimbabwe also thousands of now says a violent. book stricken protests that have taken a decade to an end nicaragua. from the clear blue sky of the doha morning. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city of love. welcome back as we take a look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia for is back to stan and also for kazakhstan weather conditions looking good tashkent there

twenty five degrees celsius fair amount of cloud around the caspian sea one of two showers likely but you notice this area of rain across parts of turkey which will be extending into iran and iraq as we move through into sunday syria two scenes mowbray's of rain elsewhere on the eastern side of the met jerry looking good beirut should enjoy sunshine and highs of twenty degrees of course lots of sunshine here in the arabian peninsula and hot with mecca coming in at forty degrees celsius on this side of the peninsula we're looking at thirty five degrees in doha and thirty two in abu dhabi so the weather conditions pretty static at the moment so let's head across into southern portions of africa where again it's looking largely fine here a lot of sunshine here a long way north before you start to pick up the showers for some zimbabwe in zambia across in town golan through namibia down towards south africa all looking fine little bit of cloud across the eastern cape but otherwise weather conditions looking good there johannesburg highs of twenty four degrees and then into central parts of africa some heavy showers across east africa south asia's also in the gulf

of guinea and we expect he wanted to downpours to be affecting the prevail. the weather sponsored by cats are always. getting to the heart of the matter if well 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 would look like a lot of people think the peace for unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera. the arab.

as reminder of our top stories this hour north korea's official news agency says the country will stop an intercontinental ballistic missile tests the move down its main nuclear testing site. has tweeted that it's very good news for north korea the world's. 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 the gaza border. syrian rebels have reportedly agreed to withdraw from. the government controlled the army is continuing to. indonesian fishermen have rescued a boat load of range of refugees thousands of kilometers from their homeland around

one hundred people. but they were reportedly. around seven hundred thousand. state. and crackdown began. refugee camps in bangladesh where hundreds of thousands of ranger sheltering from save the children says work is continuing to ensure the refugees kept dry and safe . so we've just started the crazy monsoon period here. so that means we've had a downpour of rain yesterday i've been here for five months this was the first down four of rain i've seen since december and it immediately quoits line of flooding in the camps and mighty passage rights to start so so we're seeing a new phase of of misery descend on the captain called is off today today this is going to have an enormous impact from things like access so walking around the camp

so basically people will commonly on what is hard fate clay what i saw yesterday was that when the rain fell on the clay it became so even just getting through a today is now going to become difficult we've been reinforcing hillsides so that they're now covered in sandbags and most importantly we've been looking after the needs of children so children as i'm sure you would imagine are the most vulnerable in these situations save the children if you're working around the clock to help prepare local communities would being asked trying to in hillsides with sandbags and with stairs to make sure that people can still access critical services when the rain stopped we've been providing children with the supports they need to make sure they can keep back sixteen education and vital places to be safe and we've been distributing things like show tickets to make sure people can strengthen their

fines against what we expect to be trench will reign over the next six months. there's been a dramatic twist in the trial of two men modulus covering the crisis with a policeman saying the arrest was a set up the journalists are accused of violating a state secrets law by acquiring official documents if found guilty they could face fourteen years in jail but a policeman bearing as a prosecution witness told the court that one of his senior officers gave the documents to the journalists too and trapped them hundreds of workers rallied and zimbabwe's capital to speak out against the recent fahringer of more than sixteen thousand protesters say hospital employees and patients are paying the price for the country's struggling health care system. and reports. these nurses want to go back to work they went on strike hoping for higher pay and better working conditions instead they got fired by the government. patients.

do not. want to go back to work. medical teams say they are overworked and underpaid in public hospitals medication and resources are limited patients are sometimes asked to bring their own supplies lower paid nurses earn less than three hundred dollars a month before allowances we have to take out money from our own pockets to buy the next place in compost you name it really patient so it's not only about money for them this is also the resources at the hospital more than sixteen thousand nurses across them are now out of a job their dismissal was ordered by vice president constantine a few when he believes the strikes are unreasonable and politically motivated since the strike began the opposition has laid our problems with the country's health care system you can't come in and say you are open for business things are happening when they're not having those because when i don't have

a union for patients for people that isn't acceptable. five months after taking over as president emerson god while faces a weak economy and a struggling public health care system the strike is seen as yet another challenge in his young presidency i'm just deeply concerned that if we if we don't stand up in solidarity with the nurses and we don't push to have this health care crisis resolved then many more people will die. the government says retired nurses will replace those on strike but some nurses association says the dismissals are invalid in the meantime hospitals are understaffed and patients are paying the price cuts yellow piss of the young al-jazeera south africa's president who are opposed to has become the mediator in growing protests in northwest province demonstrates the demanding jobs better housing roads and hospitals but also calling for the resignation of the regional leader in their queues of corruption police fired

rubber bullets at demonstrators who staged protests for a third day present cut short his trip to the u.k. to deal with the rest. has been a rally in britain's capital to show solidarity with the wind trust generation they emigrated from caribbean countries decades ago but many are affected by new laws clamping down on illegal immigration question as prime minister has apologized but protesters say more needs to be done at the barber reports from london who very personally this demonstration is being held in windrush square in brixton and many of the speakers have been outlining the distress and 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 pretty 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 her 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 the hands but people here say they want to see compensation for loss of earnings when people have lost their jobs they want. relations with anybody who has been sent abroad and they want damages paid for the distress neither of the people 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 had 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 . police say three people have been killed in demonstrations against pension cuts a policeman a protester and a pro-government activists have died in the violence the government ordered five m. dependent t.v. channels covering the demonstrations to stop broadcasting gentleman has more. antigovernment protests cynical are were are unusual but they're happening now. it started when pensions were cut by five percent and employees social security contributions were raised slightly. i am here because i'm indignant i mean ignorant of my grandparents who are going to receive five percent or less of their already anemic bench and after having poor for forty five years that is not money that are being limited that is money that they already paid so you bother me and it bothers me and it could not remain sitting any longer several people have been killed

a many others injured in running battles between protesters and police street barricades have been thrown and students have occupied at least one university the government sought to restrict coverage of the protests cutting the signal of at least three channels which was showing the independent media say that's a clear violation of the freedom of the press in. these are acts of repression and unexplainable censorship by the government the government has been very secretive in releasing information to the public but this censorship is at a new level the vice president and first lady. has described protesters as trying to destroy the country her husband long term president danielle ortega has been accused of an increasingly authoritarian and un democratic rule now many nicaraguans are making their voices heard and the protests are expected to continue john homan how does either. yes democratic party is suing the donald trump campaign

and russia for alleged collusion of the twenty six thousand presidential election they accuse russia of contacting trump's advisers informing them of a cyber attack that leaked negative information about his democratic bible hillary clinton but also it also involves wiki leaks and its founder julian assange as the democrats accuse him of warning the trump team in advance before publishing the information on clinton box office receipts in china have outstripped the u.s. for the first time in the first quarter of this year film takings topped three point two billion dollars the big attraction is the best six films there jim brown reports. the tagline is unashamedly patriotic anyone who attends china will be killed no matter how far the target is. the film is warrior two set in a fictitious african country it's about a chinese special forces veteran who single handedly rescues chinese and local

citizens. citizens held by western mercenaries. the film taps into a growing mood of national pride in today's china and features close replicas of many of the latest weapons used by the chinese military but the current wave of patriotic films is not the result of government pressure insists one film scholar. chinese mainstream films are not controlled by the garment its achievement was not made through government policies such a huge growth of the box office and a huge market cannot simply be created through some policies of government documents. this week the stars of china's film industry are attending beijing's annual film festival which began in two thousand and eleven among the films nominated for an award is another with a strong patter yogic theme but one which depicted gay love was dropped. films

reflecting government thinking are likely to become more prolific in the years ahead that's because the body that regulates china's film and t.v. industry is being scrapped that job is now going to be done by the communist party's propaganda department a further sign of how power is being centralized under president xi jinping for justice workers and students across the country were recently ordered to watch a stirring new documentary called amazing china it hails the country's technological advances and military modernization and echoes president cheese made in china initiative which aims to make china a leader in key technologies by twenty twenty five and the movie industry knows what role it has to play adrian brown al-jazeera beijing.

with al-jazeera these are top stories north korea's official news agency says the country will stop all nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests and move includes shutting down its main nuclear testing site. that discontinuance 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 prosecution against the d.p. r. k. . president donald trump tweeted it's very good news for north korea and the world japan's prime minister however is sounding a more cautious note. it's not a thought it's from the north korea's announcement is forward motion that i'd like to welcome but what's important is that this motion leads to a complete verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of north korea's nuclear and

missile programs i want to take a close look at that. 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. syrian rebels have reportedly agreed to withdraw from the last hour in a capsule that's not under government control the army is continuing to bombard the enclave and south the mosque us until a full surrender deal is reached it means president bashar al assad is in his strongest position since the early stages of the seventy year war. there is democratic party is suing the donald trump campaign and russia for alleged collusion in the twenty six thousand presidential election accuses russia of contacting trump's advisors informing them of a cyber attack but negative information about his democratic rival hillary clinton the lawsuit also involves wiki leaks and its founder julian assange. south africa's

president has become the mediator in growing protests in northwest province demonstrations are demanding jobs better housing roads and hospitals but also calling for the resignation of the regional leader whom they accuse of corruption the president cut short his trip to the united kingdom to deal with the rest those are your headlines i'll be back with more news after talk to al-jazeera algeria's very. reality yes it is forcing hard work on. modern day slavery. every day. very fascinating country but very difficult to understand from the outside. been living here for sixty years i know very well what's going on and i go our dear and powerful country and even you .