at this tin shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp say i'm going to be up at the gallop the government raised our hopes and then abandon us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand and five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government failed. inmates learning from other inmates acquiring knowledge that could set them free. through legal education classes and mock tribunals vegetation has led to start growing results you've been in prison for fifteen years. but that was. teaching empowerment kenya part of the rebel education series at this time on al-jazeera.

a cautious welcome from world leaders as north korea says it will immediately suspend its nuclear and missile tests. down makes dreamily hard working. every one striving for the good of the state we get rare access to pyongyang and look at the philosophy of self-reliance which north korea's nuclear program is a key part health. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up chemical weapons inspectors find a visit to my in syria two weeks after an alleged gas attack. opposition supporters clashed with police in madagascar during a protest against new election laws. and

home grown patriotic action films fuel a box office boom in china. north korea's announcement that it will immediately stop all new missile test has been welcomed by western leaders u.s. president donald trump described him jong un's pledge is very good news while european leaders say it's a good first step but some are being more cautious especially japan kathy novak explains from cell. 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 cheer pictures we will discontinue nuclear testing an intercontinental ballistic rocket test firing from

april twenty fifth. the north a new contest ground at the d.p. r. k. will 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 care a fight that now that the t.p.r. 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 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 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. well let's check in on the reaction in washington with alan fischer so this decision by pyongyang certainly sets a positive tone ahead of that much anticipated trump him meeting alan but the hard part is still ahead. well there's two ways to look at it first of all the north koreans have a history before big summits of offering things that they never follow through on so while the is pleasure in the united states there is no delight because they want

to make sure that what the north koreans are promising they will actually follow through on and just twenty four hours ago maybe slightly longer than that donald trump was saying look if we don't get something concrete this summer if i'm in the summit i don't think it's going well then i will respectfully walk out of we don't think there's going to be anything to it then i won't even go and that may have been enough to have the north koreans promise that they will denuclearize the korean peninsula no they've done this in the past but it's been tied into the idea that american troops would have to leave as well from the positions and so korea and the demilitarized zone this time the north korea saying that's not a condition which is probably just as well because the americans simply would see that as a red line that it could not cross this may all be part of the build up that we've seen with my compeer who is the cia director but the man donald trump would like to be the next u.s. secretary of state going to north korea over the christian easter weekend and

holding talks about setting up the summit the american administration the trump administration was very keen to point out that this was an intelligence meeting rather than a diplomatic meeting making sure that they don't cross any lines before my pompey is confirmed if he eventually is the secretary of state and interesting as well that donald trump's reaction was this is good news for north korea and for everyone else not taking personal praise for it because a lot of people have been seeing the north koreans are really moving into this position because donald trump has been so strong in them and making sure that sanctions are in place and seeing that he won't bite don't from their threats so it's interesting that donald trump hasn't gone full with and said wasn't a great word managed to convince the korean. to do so clearly there's a lot of talking to be done if the two leaders finally get into a room together the north koreans would be very keen to see that because this would be their most high profile public meeting since battling albright who was bill

clinton secretary of state went to north korea many many years ago thank you very much alan fischer with all the latest from washington well north korea calls its governing ideology a jew chair or self-reliance the country's nuclear program is a crucial part of that and diplomatic editor james base was given rare access to the capital pyongyang and has more on this self-reliance philosophy. welcome to pyongyang certainly the cleanest most orderly and probably the most controlled place i've ever visited. rush hour in the city yet the traffic is like the roads of quarks although all of them a little comfy. down mix dreamily hardworking society everyone striving for the good of the sky this is

how workers center. revolutionary slogans flags and drums. in this city the portraits in the statues tell the story of this isolated nation run by three men all from one family. the grandfather and the country's founder kim il sung the father kim jong il. and the son the current leader kim jong un who told he's too modest to have mosaics made of him but he's everywhere on the state controlled media on television and in the newspapers. in the center of the city the tallest landmark the jew che tower jew chair your self-reliance is the governing principle of this nation of twenty five million people our guide explained it's not about self-reliance of the individual but instead that individual koreans must do

all they can to make their nation self-reliant we are holding still for live. apple in the febrile out there for lying in bed and the socialist power nation the death of the main point and the nuclear weapons of course yes we made the nuclear weapons by our own effort baron technique is the main point of that to take . for years north koreans have been told the nuclear program is something that will keep their country strong and that the us is their mortal enemy both the messages that will now need modification as talks approach under some of the stiffest international sanctions ever imposed north koreans say jew chair or self-reliance is the answer. in the subway trains inherited from east germany a growing old a handful of new carriages were produced in north korea we were told this seat was

designed by kim jong un himself. it seems the leader takes direct interest in many areas of national life he made a visit to the main shoe factory at the plant producing the korean national dish kimchi made of pickled vegetables we were told the air conditioning system was supervised by the supreme leader and as an old people's home we were told he was the architect of this staircase such benevolence is of course matched by total respect kim jong un has never granted an audience to the international media he's never given an interview i got about as close as an outsider can get to him i was attending a performance of a visiting chinese ballet company in pyongyang when supreme leader kim entered the theater the crowd clapped continuously a standing ovation with cries of horror a ray a ray it only stopped when he himself signaled with his hands james phase

al-jazeera pyongyang. well president trump's efforts to reach a nuclear agreement with kim jong un come as he threatens to pull out of the iran nuclear deal if he does iran's president says his country's atomic energy body is ready with expected and unexpected actions on rouhani made the comments on state t.v. but he didn't explain what that would specifically mean european politicians have been urging the u.s. not to abandon the two thousand and fifteen deal in which ironically to curb its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions being lifted. now the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has confirmed that its inspectors have now visited the syrian town of duma two weeks after an alleged chemical attack that inspectors who've been holed up in

a damascus hotel until now have been repeatedly delayed from visiting the scene where pro-government forces are accused of dropping a chlorine bomb bronzes accused russia of obstructing their entry more than forty people died from exposure to chemicals after the attack according to the world health organization. well syrian rebels and civilians in a countryside area northeast of damascus have started to evacuate north under a deal brokered with the government state t.v. says over three thousand rebels will leave three towns in eastern color moon over the course of the next three days it's the latest in a string of evacuations around the syrian capital that have seen more than sixty thousand people displaced as the government takes control meanwhile to the south of damascus pro-government forces there are pressing their offensive against eisel fighters holed up in the yarmouk palestinian refugee camp the u.n. agency responsible for palestinian refugees says it's very concerned about the

safety of civilians there pictures emerged showing government planes bombarding the area. well now at least one person has died in violence between security forces and protesters in madagascar the demonstrations were rallying in the capital one ton an hour riva against new electoral laws which the opposition says a meant to stop a candidate from running for president the city's hospital says at least sixteen others have been injured in the violence so joining me now is paul melis a journalist and associate fellow at chatham house africa program thanks very much for taking the time to come in so campaigning is well on the way for this election and as we can see that has been have also been clashes between police and protesters do you expect to see more violence and instability in the months. well i think it really depends what happens in the next few weeks if after the laws have been finally confirmed and perhaps adjusted a bit more they've being voted through the senate and so on there is some signal

that the main candidates will all be able to take part despite the fine print of the laws then it's possible that we'll have a reasonably calm run up to the election but a lot depends on interpretation one of the key clauses of the laws is that the former president marc ravalomanana could be excluded because the law will ban people who have a conviction from running for president but the conviction that he has was really very questionable one he was out of the country having been overthrown in a coup it was a political trial many people don't think of it is serious so it really depends on how that's interpreted and his supporters are incensed by that which is why they're taking to the streets does that make it less likely that this will be will be pushed through i think the biggest pressure actually will come from the international community because after of eleven on

a was overthrown in two thousand and nine madagascar had four years of political transition with an unconstitutional government aid fell dramatically trade links with the us for example slumped the effect on the economy was catastrophic now the international community finally through african mediation managed to restore democracy they don't want a repeat of that so what they want is an election that everyone recognizes as legitimate and whatever the fine print of the law in reality that means that the major candidates have to be able to be seen to take part because if they don't madagascar could face civil disobedience for a long time and the current president if he's reelected would have a questionable it gets messy it would be difficult for the. one is to treat him as a normal president as they do now the thing the main players recognize that we seen there is clearly a lack of trust between the opposition and the government and the police have been

using heavy handed tactics with protesters do you think that the three main candidates are going to look at this in this process and say yes this is something we'll invest in will the president's or not that's encouraging because when reveller manana was president he used the legal system to prevent a challenger running against him russia a leaner another key player in potential candidate was the guy installed in the two thousand and nine coup and spent four years procrastinating over the restoration of democracy in the hope that he could create conditions that would keep him in power the current president and he has the mere fact that this legislation has been passed the toll would suggest that he too is equivocating a bit so there are real doubts as to whether the malagasy political elite the totally committed to the top priority which used to make a success or of this next election in twenty thirty in the end of twenty thirty in democracy was restored in a meaningful process that people could expect to accept as legitimate but it really

doesn't seem certain that everybody buys into the need to repeat that and loud development and recovery to go forward because it is a very poor country we've huge development problems thank you very much for bringing us some insights on a story that we don't get to hear that much about poor many from just mouse. much more to come for you on the program a palestinian family mourning fourteen year old mohamed are you the youngest victim gets an israeli gunfire on the gaza border. and he made a stand by taking any now american football or calling cap and it takes amnesty is ambassador function somewhat. hallow the rain is back in china again developing quite nicely long the yangtze

valley and of course there was rather why did not go from shanghai wester to the next and so expect attempted to be suppressed as the rain falls very heavily spreading down towards but not reaching hong kong which remains humid and thirty degrees the heaviest rain the last couple days has been down in the southwest corner of that as well two showers it's now an all too dry picture that is the through into china as well but the daily showers are deforming now on the eastern side of india and bangladesh to kabul shock even again these deadly thunderstorms there not leaving a huge amount of rain and i would fifty to seventy five millimeters typically little less not of initial pradesh which is where it's been wet as well but of often passing showers here and maybe down in carolyn's frank it's a dry picture it's a picture of rising building heat supreme monsoon he forced to not pull dennys cool down recently because a change in the wind direction but a cloud but i think by tuesday we're back up to forty even in delhi on the arabian

peninsula we forecast a bit of an increase in the breeze that will likely bring dust out of the empty quarter of the eastern side of saudi through back writing counts are that most likely i think during sunday. 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 vine photo what they want to deter an attack from the united states as the u.s. struggles to define its foreign policy field lines examines the potential fallout we don't see really is a strategy designed to get those talks started because if they expect to surrender fire and fury trumps north korea crisis on al-jazeera.

welcome back the top stories this hour north korea's decision to hold nuclear and missile tests has been welcomed by leaders across the world including the u.s. president donald trump who hailed as his good news international weapons inspectors a fine even if it's at the syrian town of duma two weeks after an alleged chemical attack. at least one person has died in violent clashes between security forces and thousands of opposition supporters protesting about new electoral laws in madagascar. when are hundreds of nurses a protested in zimbabwe's capital after more than sixty thousand were fired over strike action to force major public hospitals to close and nurses say patients are paying the price cattle up as her diane reports. was

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 we love our country we love our patients please do not make us suffer anymore do not make up this and suffer any more you 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 and three hundred dollars a month before allowances we have to take out money from our own pockets to buy make space a 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 they're dismissal was ordered by vice president constantine or she went who believes the strikes are unreasonable and politically motivated since the strike

began the opposition has laid out 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 happening there was because when i would have been in for patients full of people that is an 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 e.l.o. pay so the young al-jazeera. police in armenia say they've arrested more than seventy people including two suspected of making bombs as anti-government demonstrations in

the former soviet republic and a second week thousands of protesters are calling for a new prime minister serge sarkozy and to step down their own happy at what they see is a power grab by the former president who's changed the political system to give himself more power now india's government is approve the death penalty for people convicted of raping children under the age of twelve after widespread outrage over a number of recent attacks the order was approved by prime minister narendra modi's cabinet but requires parliamentary approval within six months in order to become law in the meantime suspect can be prosecuted under the order there's been widespread protests in india following a number of high profile rape cases including the killing of an eight year old girl in kashmir and another case involving a ruling party politician. palestine's ambassador to the united nations is calling for an independent investigation into israel's use of force against protesters four

palestinians were killed by israeli gunfire on a fourth consecutive friday of demonstrations on gaza's border they include a fourteen year old boy who has become the youngest victim of the violence which has already claimed thirty nine lives but its myth went to meet his relatives in gaza. that's right there are you had dreams for some most mothers a good education marriage children but a bullet to the heard from an israeli sniper means this family now has to bury fourteen year old mohammed are you along with those dreams. while they're in the herbalists says. i used to tell him one day living conditions will improve political divisions will and i have been pushing him to continue his studies despite everything. mohammad was protesting near the gaza israel border fence at easter polya on friday. if he was throwing stones they probably weren't very big

this family video from last year shows mohammed at the zoo he slight aged just thirteen here it's hard to imagine six months later he posed a serious threat to the israeli military. death prompted an unusually strong reaction from the u.n. special coordinator for the middle east peace process nicholai martin off said it's outrageous to shoot at children how does the killing of a child in gaza today help peace it doesn't it fuels and breeds more killing a former israeli military spokesman responded please go to gaza engage hamas and get them to stop sending people to the fence stop palestinian incitement and organize riots at the border and donald trump's advisor to the middle east stepped in a full investigation by israel of mohammad are you to death is underway as we mourn the tragic loss of a young life we must all resolve to avoid causing more suffering by responses to his death. mohammed's father says he couldn't stop his son joining the protest for

palestinian rights what doesn't. he was always smiling always teasing to me his father who was a not a kid but to brave the whole neighborhood loved him never said no to anyone he just want to see our original delusion israel. was. buried the day he died the youngest victim so far but the palestinian great march of return bernard smith al-jazeera gaza. the family of a palestinian engineer who died in malaysia say he was assassinated by the israeli intelligence agency mossad palestinian media reporting that foggy al bush was shot at close range by two motorcyclists as he left a mosque in kuala lumpur nasa has confirmed that bush was a loyal member of its party and made important contributions in the energy field. the funeral is taking place the former first lady of the united states barbara bush

a private service is being held in houston texas so celebrities and political dignitaries including barack obama and bill clinton have been in attendance first lady melania trump is also there are a bush was the wife of the forty first president of the united states and the mother of the forty third she died on tuesday the american football player calling kappa nick has just been announced as the winner of the human rights group amnesty international's annual ambassador of conscience award to years ago captain extorted kneeling during the u.s. national anthem played before all n.f.l. matches in response to the disproportionate number of black people killed by police the amnesty award recognizes in their words an inspiring contribution to health and human rights. eighth annual beijing film festival has just concluded in the chinese capital at a point time for the domestic film industry chinese box office sales have for the first time surpassed those of the united states and as

a dream brown reports movies are the big attraction. the tagline is unashamedly patriotic anyone who offends china will be killed no matter how far the target is. the book the film is wolf 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 it's 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 patrick the blood 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 jacketed 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 the top stories for you now north korea's announcement that it will immediately stop all nuclear and long range missile test has been welcomed by western leaders u.s. president ronald chant described kim jong un's pledges very good news while european leaders say it's a good first step but some of being more cautious especially in japan alan fischer has more from washington the north koreans have a history before big summits of offering things that they never follow through on so while there is pleasure in the united states there is no daylight because they

want to make sure that what the north koreans are promising they will actually follow through on russia's foreign ministry says inspectors from the organization for the pride of chemical weapons of arrived in the syrian town of doomer two weeks after an alleged chemical attack there. the inspectors who have been in a damascus hotel until now have been repeatedly delayed from visiting the scene where pro-government forces are accused of dropping a chlorine bomb. in other developments syrian rebels and civilians in a countryside area northeast of the capital damascus have started to evacuate to the north of the country under a deal brokered with the government state t.v. says over three thousand rebels will leave three towns in eastern column moon over the course of the next three days it's the latest in a string of evacuations around the syrian capital. and at

least one person has died in violence between security forces and protesters in madagascar demonstrators have been rallying in the capital on time and now we vote against new electoral laws which the officer says meant to stop their candidate from running for president the city's hospital says at least sixteen more people have been injured in the violence so we'll bring you more on that story and everything else in an explanation which is in about twenty five minutes time as also more right here al jazeera dot com faultlines fire and fury is next.

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