well they're online which is a very new sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sept there are people that little choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera coming. up. i mean this is different whether someone is going for some of this very rich it doesn't matter we think it's how you approach an individual and that's what it is a certain way of doing it a conscious. story and die out. north

korea says it will stop all and that's a prepared. welcome to live from my headquarters in doha. also ahead new calls for an investigation into israel palestinian protesters. killed in friday's demonstrations syria's government moves to areas of. the capital and. the president. north korea says it will stall. and tests to pursue peace and economic growth

instead the announcement has been made ahead of planned summit south korea and the united states and while u.s. president describing it as very good news japan's leader is being more cautious about reports from south korea's capital. north korea regularly tested increasingly threatening ballistic missiles last year including weapons that could have the range to hit the united states in september it conducted its most powerful nuclear bomb test now north korea says those tests are over so it should ship picture we will discontinue nuclear testing an intercontinental ballistic rocket test firing from april twenty fifth. the north a new contest ground of the d.p. r. k. one also be dismantled to transparently the discontinuance opinion. it's welcome news for the us president who's planning to meet north korea's leader kim

jong un within weeks donald trump tweeted 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 look forward to our summit state media says kim jong un made the announcement as he chaired a meeting of the workers' party central committee a gathering to rubber stamp the supreme leader's decisions it was at a similar meeting five years ago that kim unveiled his signature policy to prioritize the development of nuclear weapons and the economy the message from the leader now is that weapons program development is complete and the focus will shift to the economy currently under pressure from a u.s. led sanctions campaign. would you call kim jong un cara fight the now that the case position as a wall of level politico ideological and military power has been successfully established it is the strategic line of the workers' party to concentrate all

efforts of the whole party and country on the socialist economic construction kim is apparently seeking to cement his position on the world stage following his meeting in beijing last month with china's president xi jinping talks with cia director mike pompei o in pyongyang and ahead of a historic summit with south korea's president monday and on friday south korea welcomed the announcement calling north korea's decision meaningful progress for the denuclearization of the korean peninsula the president's office said it will contribute to creating a positive environment for the success of the upcoming intercourse rian and u.s. north korea summits. china has also welcomed the announcement while japan's prime minister was more cautious. it's never thought of a 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 north korea's promise to stop weapons testing didn't go that far it pledged to never use nuclear weapons unless there are nuclear threats and you clear provocations against it kathy novak al jazeera soul. to other news the palestine's ambassador to the united nations is calling for an independent investigation into israel's use of force against protesters four palestinians including a fifteen year old boy were killed by israeli gunfire another day of demonstrations on gaza's border on friday there have been funerals for the latest casualties fifty nine people have died in four weeks of protests calling for palestinians right to return to their ancestral lands from gaza burnet smith reports. they've become a feature of the weekly palestinian confrontations with israel's military this friday the wind was with the protestors 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 from. i don't care about the injury even if i lose my legs this will not stop me coming back what happened here what people often reminded them about cause we've come here to get our right of return. but. in this with giving something under the. i'm here to show my enthusiasm and to inspire the young guys to continue their struggle. was he does every week hamas is leading. 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 their mission is that when these protests on may the fifteenth these towns will be the border between gaza and israel but after four weeks now 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 scars. to syria now where rebels have reportedly agreed to withdraw from their last stronghold near the capital at some of south of damascus and includes the palestinian refugee camp the areas being divided between rebels highlighted here in green and i some showing in black while the rebels are said to be moving out there's no word yet on what i saw will do. and as more rebel territory falls to syria's government the u.n. is trying to restart talks that it hopes will lead to peace any new negotiations

would see the regime and its allies in a stronger position than ever as roy chalons reports from moscow. 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 side's 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.

diplomatically russia can afford to attempt to pull. in hostilities with the us is on the ground much is going its allies way following the fall of eastern ghouta to syrian government forces damascus is moving against the remaining besieged enclaves of rebel activity one by one therefore. the un's envoy to syria who was in saudi arabia turkey earlier in the week has now come to moscow next will be a rom 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 priority for the u.n. chick that did it for the sick the general and he coming here and doing dish. in various capitals in very much in moscow is that player. did temperature

seven to mr a maybe 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 from of ski he thinks de mistura is right to still be pushing for dialogue but feels that the scramble for syrian territory by russia turkey iran and the u.s. has changed the game beside. them. the most decisive argument the last one less real forces and troops 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. al-jazeera moscow.

now russia's ambassador to the u.k. is doubling down on his country's assertion that the suspected chemical attack was staged the u.s. and its allies accuse russia and syria's government of removing evidence from and are false and witnesses to lie to support their allegations but alexander vanco says he has proof that a syrian boy who appeared to be one of the children choking and videos was coaxed into it by an aid organization. facts presented but the syrian government and russia to show that the incident had been deliberately stage have been ignored this is the we have a lot of this kind of footage from the russian television and of course of from the international one this is the story about the boy his name is. and he is eleven years old so basically what happened that day when the whole so-called chemical attack was staged he was brought he was called by the white helmets to the to the

hospital he was offered some swedes kuki is something and he was part of the staging of all the so-called chemical attack you see in this boy it's you know it's the image after the stage and he was with his father. south africa's president is promising to address long running problems of the countries no of the protests against a regional leader have descended into riots and looting catherine so i reports from the city at the center of the violence. i. residents of mccain 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 there demanding the provincial leaders

. whom they accuse of failing to do his job and to the scene 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 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 month 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 in to and looted and 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 was meeting they tell us what happened to their shops had nothing to do with genuine demonstrations nor did they bring them what their political problem but they are not involving 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 mike kang south africa. coming up in the next fifteen minutes the u.s. president's political rivals try

a new approach and digging deeper and has alleged ties with russia plus. more violence and nicaragua well where demonstrators the demanding an end to pension cuts. the nice pink skies by the taj mahal. or is the sunsets in the city of angels. alan's weather story for europe is largely a happy one spring is with most people big open skies here but of an obvious curl of cloud that's producing rather poor weather in the algarve season portugal poor if you don't like winded raymond probably don't to be honest this time the temperatures in the middle to high twenty's in many places but there is that little cold front is very weak but it's there indicating a change of wind direction from eastern europe not currently temps are forecast to be in the twenty's leave the potent ukraine but for take you forward

a couple of days i'm just mixing out to show you this is just the sunshine but the temperatures then for tomorrow go down below twenty all because of that northerly breeze really not much of a cold front action to be honest but a few showers break out here and in fact these you see underneath the twenty seven in paris thunderstorms wondering around it's that warm so far now clearly when you have been killing off the coast of portugal it tends to affect morocco it's doing exactly same here are not seeing huge totals from rainfall but it's not as warm as it could be ninety nine or about because of the breeze in the sunshine there's a lot of the mediterranean is on shore breeze too says twenty three in benghazi at the moment about thirty in car over that breeze will have a telling effect it will cool down just a little bit tomorrow. the weather sponsored by cateye base. three stories generate thousands of headlines. with different angles from different

perspectives. this is the only evidence that russia was responsible for that separate the spin from the facts that's why i only got. the misinformation from the journalism the issues here go far beyond one data mining company and one election with the listening post on al-jazeera. good to have you with us on al-jazeera and these are our top stories north korea says it will stop the. missile tests china and the united states are welcoming the announcement to the head of summits planned for next month. the united nations is

calling for an independent investigation into. force on protesters. a fifteen year old boy killed by israeli gunfire and another day of demonstrations on the gaza border on friday and syrian rebels have reportedly agreed to withdraw from their last stronghold of the capital the government says the area. surrendered reached. the us democratic party is suing the donald trump campaign and russia for alleged collusion in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election they accuse moscow of contacting trump's advisors and telling them about a cyber attack that leaked damaging information about his democratic rival hillary clinton the lawsuit also names wiki leaks and its founder julian assange. has the full story from washington. it's an unusual move but not an unprecedented one democrats have 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 like 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. cuba's new president is promising to defend the socialist revolution while also modernizing the economy. skeptical about whether they'll see many improvements on latin america editor lucy and human reports from the capitol hill vada. 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' wage 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 put it's

a necessary change concedes medium leyva a longtime opponent of the cuban government. in fact after watching thursday's presidential handover of power from broadcast to discuss the only changes she expects are on the economic front. on the emotional level i don't feel any change i hope i'll feel it some day when our society really opens up and i have the right to participate 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 have than. of these five people have been killed and dozens injured during days of anti-government demonstrations in. protest as allegory about social security changes including pension cuts john heilemann reports.

antigovernment protests in are unusual but they're happening now. it started when pensions were cut by five percent and employees social security contributions were raised slightly to ekiti i am here because i am indignant i mean indignant at my grandparents' house going to receive five percent or less of that 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 they 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 out 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 and. 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 undemocratic rule now many nicaraguans are making their voices heard and the protests are expected to continue john homan how does either. demonstrations have been swelling in armenia against the appointment of former presidents. as prime minister crowds have been rallying for more than a week the opposition accuses them of clinging to power after he served a maximum of ten years as president under revise the constitution approved in two thousand and fifteen many of the presidential powers were transferred to the prime minister's office. now britain's prime minister has promised compensation to members of the wind generation affected by new immigration measures they emigrated

from caribbean countries following the second world war and who now wrongly being threatened with deportation and refused medical care or protesters in south london say tourism is government needs to do more nothing barbara reports from london. well 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 now there are be 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 . now new york's most famous film festival is showcasing its highest number of

female feature film directors at seventeen year history the tribe beca festival was founded in an attempt to help revitalize lower manhattan after the attacks of september eleventh that has since grown into an international event as christian salumi reports there was plenty of local flavor to. films by women and about women have the starring role the seventeen tried back a film festival which opened with love guild a time when i thought that all i wanted to do was work a tribute to comedienne and saturday night live star gilda radner directed by lisa dop aledo. but one of the things interesting about the festival this year is that we really try to have fifty fifty parity so forty six percent of our narrative films are directed by women and you get a different perspective with strong women characters which is something i take facial muscles and his body posture like zoe this year's centerpiece film aside if

i romanticize about finding love in a world of technological artifice that also has an of the moment feel different. with nearly one hundred feature films plus shorts t.v. and online works not to mention the live music an artist talks there's a little something for everyone to try back out this is an international festival but it gets its name from its new york neighborhood as well as a spirit of activism. i don't know what kind of tipping point we're at the work of the new york times grappling with how to cover an adversarial president is featured in the closing night documentary called before the state well to shorts surviving theater nine and notes from dunblane give voice to the survivors of mass shootings in the country's gun control debate continuing the festival's tradition of socially relevant selections new york itself is going to have a tradition of filmmaking people here is certainly gritty and so i think you could

see some of that character in the programming and some of the kinds of people that the first award tracks. even international issues come with the new york perspective like the short film salaam about a syrian palestinian woman who drives the city streets for a living while awaiting life or death news from home it's a story about an immigrant made by an immigrant child back i was the absolute power affects premier venue for my film because this is a new york film it's you know celebrating all of the different cultures that we have in new york. it's celebrating the fact that this is a liberal city festival goers try back up provides a window on the world and the cutting edge of culture with plenty of new york attitude christian salumi al-jazeera new york. and just a reminder that you can always keep up to date with all the news including ops and

entertainment features on our website that's at al-jazeera dot com. again on the nose of the headlines on al-jazeera north korea says it will stop all nuclear and missile tests to pursue peace and economic growth instead of china and the united states are welcome in the pledge ahead of summit planned for next month . we will discontinue nuclear testing and intercontinental ballistic rocket test firings from 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 worldwide disarmament and the joint international desire and efforts told to halt testing. will never use nuclear weapons nor transfer them or nuclear technology under any

circumstances unless there is a nuclear threat against. the united nations is calling for an independent investigation into israel's use of force on protesters palestinians including a fifteen year old boy killed by israeli gunfire another day of demonstrations on gaza's border on friday at least thirty nine people have now died in four weeks of protests. syrian rebels have reportedly agreed to withdraw from their last stronghold of the capital the enclave as in the south of damascus and includes the palestinian refugee camp. at least twenty civilians have been killed by a saudi led coalition air strikes in yemen the strikes targeted a village in a western district of five yemen has been locked in a three year war between iran backed with the rebels and a saudi led military forces which support the government of president. hadi.

south africa's new president has called for calm after days of protests that have turned violent in a northern city demonstrators are demanding the resignation of. the us democratic party is suing the donald trump campaign and russia for alleged collusion in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election they accuse russia of contacting trump's advisors informing them of a cyber attack that leaked damaging information about his democratic rival hillary clinton also names wiki leaks founder julian assange and those are the headlines the listening post does next. getting to the heart of the matter if more stuff i can do 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. rescue workers. suffer. right now. were the cause. was.