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zero. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes north korea says it will suspend its nuclear testing program a move welcomed by the west but some are still cautious. india's government approved the death penalty for child rapists after widespread anger over recent attacks. chemical weapons inspectors finally visit duma in syria two weeks after an alleged gas attack. maker aguas president and damage control is protests over controversial changes to state pensions turns deadly. i'm joanna in doha with the day sports

news boss alone to a moments away from winning their first piece of silverware this season as they leave savannah in the final off the copper del ray i'll have all the details coming up later in the program. ever since his rise to power the north korean leader kim jong un has focused solely on the development of his country's nuclear capability but on saturday he announced pyongyang's nuclear and missile testing program would be suspended and replaced by a new drive for economic growth and peace the reversal has been welcomed by most western countries including the us president was due to meet kim jong un for talks in the coming months but of those being cautious kathy novak reports. 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 chip picture we will discontinue nuclear testing an intercontinental ballistic rocket test firing from april twenty fifth. the north a new code test ground of the d.p. r. k. one also be dismantled to transparently the discontinuance of when you click testing it's welcome news for the u.s. 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 rubberstamp 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 clarify the 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 and to u.s. north korea summits. china has also welcomed the announcement while japan's prime minister it 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 can hear provocations against it cathy know that al-jazeera seoul. well diplomacy between the united states and north korea has gone through cycles of hope and disappointment before with pyongyang often renee getting in two thousand and seven

for example north korea agreed to shut its main nuclear reactor in return for a young and signed an agreement to dismantle its nuclear weapons facilities but missed the deadline in two thousand and eight the government demolished a cooling tower a symbol of its commitment to ending its nuclear program but two months later refused to allow international observers to visit suspected nuclear facilities the u.s. agreed to send food aid in two thousand and twelve after pyongyang said it would freeze the launching of long range missiles but that agreement ended when long range rockets were launched in early two thousand and thirteen joining us now via skype from virginia is greg skyla team who is the executive director of the committee for human rights in north korea thank you very much for speaking to us so the rhetoric that we've heard so far is quite positive you have an immediate suspension of nuclear and long range missile testing a major decision by pyongyang of course the u.s.

and other members of the international community of welcome this move but how much of the tough work still lies ahead. did a clear ization has meant two different things to the united states the un the international community and they came regime of north korea to us the gold standard has been c.v. id complete very feibel irreversible denuclearization and dismantlement of north korea's nuclear program to the came regime didn't clear ization has meant regional arms talks regional arms control talks basically they want to be the new soviet union based on the premise that they're a nuclear power if this is a first significant step in the process to a very far a reversible e. dismantle and dispose of north korea's nuclear program then this is history in the making however if we're going to stop here simply place so freeze on north

korea's nuclear program and accept north korea as a nuclear weapons state we will be creating a failure dangerous president of a state a rogue state that joined the nuclear nonproliferation treaty the n.p.t. ninety ninety five then pulled out of the n.p.t. and develop nuclear weapons and gain recognition as a nuclear weapons state we will have to follow very closely i don't think there is enough understanding or or transparency or let's say information around the entire range of nuclear or missile stockpiles in north korea has it is very unrealistic at this point so early in the process to expect that they will go beyond freezing the nuclear program but it does seem to be a positive stunt it would seem as though here we have a leader in pyongyang that is keen to make his mark in baps

a different way in comparison to his beat assesses. diplomacy is always a good thing talks are always a positive development no doubt about that also north korea's long term strategic goal has not changed the long term strategic goal of the came regime its fundamental strategic goal is regime survival moreover this regime has made it quite clear that it will not give up its nuclear weapons obviously it's short to medium term strategic objective is to weaken the sanctions regime grounded in a un security council resolutions aiming to halt the development and problem for ation north korea's nuclear weapons on the south korean side president moon is very interested in a resource of taping in a korean economic cooperation thus the scar of developments kim jong un's coming to

the negotiating table is the result of the maximum pressure campaign applied to north korea by the trump administration in collaboration with the international community we have effectively applied both economic and military pressure and through sanctions are they going to go on as it's i'm just curious because it is a fascinating time this this potential for a deal or at least an easing of tensions with north korea comes when we see the reverse happening with iran you can see or at least understand the rationale of preserving something of their nuclear weapons program when you look at the fact that iran which did do a deal in two thousand and fifteen with the u.s. has seen the relationship move in the reverse direction it's deteriorated and it's become increasingly belligerent. in the north korean case again

while i think that we all well come in or korean dialogue dialogue between the d.p. r. k. and the united states of america. being fully aware of the strategic objectives of the came regime being fully aware that this regime has zero diplomatic credibility i'm very skeptical remember the nine hundred ninety four geneva agreed framework of a violated the terms of the agreed framework and developed a new radium enrichment program same story with the six party talks same story with the leap day agreement of two thousand and twelve diplomacy is great we will have to continue to follow very closely we need realistic diplomacy based on a full understanding of the fundamental strategic objectives of north korea's kim regime and also based on

a full understanding of north korea's diplomatic credibility which is close to zero as of now we have to see how the process unfolds thank you very much and greg scarlett appreciate your analysis. on north korea calls its governing ideology jus che all self reliance on the country's nuclear program is a key part of that ad diplomatic editor james bays has 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 light the roads a quiet although all of them a little unfair. there is no doubt this is an extremely hardworking society everyone striving for the good

of this day this is how workers are essential. 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 check 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. for a live. opponent if there were no there for lying in bed and the poet nation the deaf the main point and the nuclear weapons of course yes we made the nuclear weapon by air or an effort bearing technique is the main point after taking . 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 che 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 stacked case 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 her a ray 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 deal if he does iran's president says his country's atomic energy body is ready with expected and unexpected actions as an iranian made the comments on state t.v. but he didn't elaborate on what that specifically means european politicians have been urging the u.s. not to abandon the two thousand and fifteen deal in which iran agreed to kobe its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions being lifted well now inspectors from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons have collected samples from the syrian town of duma two weeks after an alleged chemical attack that the inspectors have been staying in a damascus hotel until now been repeatedly delayed from visiting the scene by pro-government forces are accused of dropping a chlorine bomb france has accused russia of obstructing their entry more than

forty people died from exposure to chemicals after the attack according to the world health organization. meanwhile syrian rebels and civilians in a countryside area northeast of damascus began to evacuate to the north under a deal brokered with the government state t.v. says over three thousand rebels will leave three towns in eastern kalamunda 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 to the south of damascus pro-government forces oppressing their offensive against i sill in the palestinian refugee camp the un agency responsible for palestinian refugees says it's deeply concerned about the safety of civilians there that's as pitches emerged showing government planes bombarding the area. meanwhile un security council ambassadors are meeting in sweden to try to find common ground on the syrian conflict the u.n. secretary general says again that there is no military solution to this conflict.

i search we. need to go into syria you central to see first to understand that there is no military solution for the commission is political really need to fight through elections to. violations of international law the use of chemical weapons. even we can find a way when each attempt at the six cannot go on living we think you need to elation the logic to use clearly the war crimes that's an issue that fifty years from the face of the. lad for his hour the fight for water in the occupied territories palestinian pharma say israel is using it to force them off their land dealing with the destruction south africa clears up after three days of looting and violence in northwest province majesty united reached that twentieth english f.a. cup final joe will have those details in sport.

and his government has approved 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 that requires parliamentary approval within six months to become law in the meantime suspects can be prosecuted under the order and widespread protests in india following a number of high profile rape cases including the killing of an eight year old girl in kashmir. saying as a lawyer and women's rights activist in new delhi she says she doesn't think the death penalty will work as a terror and i think burson soon indians you learn even in when your people begin acting with impunity that they will not get punished and there is that you need the certainty of punishment oh well now other than this it be any video not

in the. there the investigation is not buried don't broccoli willy's don't collect y. good pieces of evidence in pieces and then the cases that were on in or it didn't so on so the serb forces who judges sponsible all of. their connection what bearing or boat. at least one person has died in violence between security forces and protesters in madagascar the demonstrators were rallying in the capital against new electoral laws which the opposition say and 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. as a researcher with the chatham house africa program he says politicians using the legal system against their opponents is nothing new. 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 it is serious so it really depends on how that's interpreted when reveller manana was president he used the legal system to prevent a challenger running against him rajoelina or another key player in potential candidate was the guy installed in the two thousand and nine crew 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 is being passed the toll would suggest that he too is equivocating a bit so there are real doubts as to whether the malagasy political elite a totally committed to the top priority which is to make a success or of this next election in twenty thirteen the end of twenty thirteen

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 with huge development problems. nicaragua's president daniel ortega has broken his silence as anti-government protests head into a second week of government say nine people have been killed in the unrest sponsored by controversial pension reforms so it's now speak to john heilemann who joins me from mexico city john how important is it that we're hearing now from the president to take a. while i think it's the address that probably a lot of nicaragua have been waiting for one way or another and when it finally came as you say off the food days of protests in which daniel ortega has been silent it wasn't very conciliatory towards the people there protesting he came out

not just by cabinet members but also by the police and military which tells its own message and then he said that the protests is a lot of them students and people are saying these young people really don't have any idea what they're doing and i'm paraphrasing they haven't seen the horrors of war of course nicaragua did go for a civil war in the past he basically accused them of being criminals said that they may be shadowy political parties that are behind them so there wasn't really an effort to reach out to the people that are protesting not just among our the capital but also in various other cities in the country and there have been deaths as well in these protests has been reports of the police but also you government organizations cracking down and the protest is this is going home right then tell us more about the underlying causes of these protests is it just about changes to the pension system. well that seem to been what

sparked this nicaragua is quite a bit of a failing social security system and the government decided that they needed to take five percent away from pensions and put that towards things like medical expenses but it really seems to be just the spark there's been political tension in nicaragua for quite some time and that's to do with the government basically being accused of undermining democratic institutions as mr will take to his clung on to power is now in his third term and also turning the presidency and the government into a little bit of a family business his vice president for example isn't so his wife. michael thanks very much with the latest from mexico city on those protests in nicaragua thank you very much john heilemann. family of a palestinian engineer in malaysia says he's been killed by the israeli intelligence agency mossad amasses confirmed that university electrify the was

a member of the faction has been no israeli response that. reports. this is to an identified gunman opened fire at. the thirty five year old palestinian engineering lecturer was ambushed as he was walking to was in the air by boss in the capital kuala lumpur colleagues of the university are shocked and by the killing so we don't see any thing dangerous week or the only thing that we can see of this. the only thing that could be is because of his expertise in his field of electrical engineering. a neighbor told reporters that he saw two european looking man nearby shortly before the shooting their family blame israel for the killing. of. the israeli mossad is to be held responsible for

that because the israelis can't tolerate any well educated arab and particularly palestinian mentality israel considers any well educated distinguished arab or particularly palestinian figure as the real big threat for israel how mass which controls gaza said was a member of the palestinian group has repeatedly blamed israel's spy agency mossad for targeting its members including into. a tizzy an expert in jone technology was shot in his hometown of us in december to police said the killers of one. posed as foreign journalists hamas said he was instrumental in developing drones and was a command of its armed wing. brigades. to land for you this hour meet the women in yemen who refuse to let a civil war stop them learning to read and write. excess baggage the online auction

that's offering guys a chance to own their own piece of aviation history. and in sports and as well number one rafael nadal is a win away from radical extending eleven a title in monte carlo dalla have back no. most of europe is still enjoying a burst of good springboards and temperatures really shot up there's been a difference in portugal circulating care of them in this part of the reason he has been pumping off the wall there was also bringing some pretty poor weather to the algarve windy and wet weather and as a bit of a dip in the temperatures here this cold front does mean what it says is introducing a different wind direction behind it so there's not a media parent there's i'm sure forecast whatever actually on saturday's in the low

twenty's in june of zero time to get through to sunday and monday that is rather more notes for cooling effect for the eastern side of germany through poland and ukraine back down below twenty eight in moscow is that only eight at the same time still not some more further was even that were seventy losses rain coming through the atlantic so although london look london looks fine on sunday at twenty two the time we get to monday karim's gone through down to sixty and has the rain make it so felt it in germany and ninety degrees so for most part it's pretty spring like you know it's happening in morocco spitting up by the time we get to sunday afternoon it'll be fine sunny twenty degrees a monday looks pretty good as well the same time the eastern side of the med the winds died down so karros cooled down a bit but still at twenty eight. from planting forests with drones to surviving drought but small funds al-jazeera has

award winning environmental solutions program which holmes never heard of back then to a real job but. meeting the people communities and organizations addressing some of the greatest man made environmental problems threatening our planet. a new season of earth rise coming soon on al-jazeera. he was the world's most wanted man the last meeting i had with him was off to a. bin laden was very nervous about nature had not met a western reporter before in part one of an exclusive two part documentary al-jazeera speaks to those who met osama bin ladin he never showed the hostility towards me of the west i knew bin laden on knowledge is either.

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 us president donald trump who hailed it as good news. international weapons inspectors and finally visited the syrian town of duma two weeks after an alleged chemical attack. and nicaragua's government says it's willing to negotiate over controversial social security reforms or prompted protests nine people have been killed in the unrest. now 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 clued a fourteen year old boy but at smith went to meet his relatives. that's right there are you. most mothers a good education marriage children. but a bullet to the head from an israeli sniper means this family now has to bury fourteen year old muhammad ali you along with those dreams. for there are no herbalists says the woman i used to tell him one day are living conditions will improve political divisions will and i've been pushing him to continue his studies despite everything. but how much was protesting near the gaza israel border fence at easter on friday if you 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 feels anger and breeds more killing a former israeli military spokesman responded please go to gaza engage hamas and get them to stop sending people to defense 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 an articulate but the brave the whole neighborhood

loved him never said no to anyone he just want to see our original village in israel. are going to just. buried the day he died the youngest victim so far of the palestinian great march of return bernard smith al-jazeera gaza israel has controlled water supplies in the occupied west bank since seizing the territory cheering in one nine hundred sixty seven war palestinians have long complained about not getting that agreed share and rights groups say israel is deliberately limiting water supplies to farmers in an attempt to force them out charles trafford reports this is a date plantation on one of the around thirty illegal israeli settlements in the jordan valley in the occupied west bank. in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven israel seized control of all water sources in the newly occupied territories rights groups say israel uses water to control palestinians and force them from their land

this video shows israeli authorities guarded by soldiers destroying a promised indian farmers water pipe they said he didn't have the license for it. when the whole the army came in the pipes were laid from the gate all the way down it was a new line the army destroyed it we were planting watermelons half of which died under the one nine hundred ninety five all slower colds what was supposed to be a five year in to remove prevent gives israel eighty percent of the water from three aquifers in the west bank. palestinians are supposed to get the remaining twenty percent but almost twenty five years later they still don't get that amount and the palestinian population of the west bank has nearly doubled around three hundred palestinian families used to farm the land in this area but in the one nine hundred eighty s. a number of illegal israeli settlements were built close by and in order to provide those settlements with water

a number of wells like the one you can see on the hill behind me were also built and it's because of those wells and the amount of water that they take that the vast majority of palestinian farmers have been forced to leave johnson dog me says his livelihood has been almost completely destroyed. the whole top of them with about if you take out water then give me an alternative which shocked by their politics and racism it's not normal it's inhumane to live there both or more israeli military training camps and firing ranges also encroach into palestinian farmland a water pipe runs up the mountain to an israeli army camp close to where port humble shot gracie's his sheep but he can't use that water and instead has to rely on costly to leverage by truck to all of the yes i feel desperate imagine when you see water next to you but you can't drink it even when it's coming from our land under the oslo agreement the palestinian authority has to buy water from israel and

all palestinian water projects in the west bank who quire approval from the israeli palestinian joint water committee unleased say it's weighted very much in israel's favor of the structure itself given that is there in their veto right in other words there's a lot in there they distribute their ability in an application to sixteen months is a lot in the department and i mean one of these the bottom i say is now the project will be kids. what's been described as israel's water war is killing off promise to be in agriculture at an alarming rate. food al-jazeera and the occupied west bank. south african president cyril ramaphosa as oss residents of northwest province to stay calm as he holds more talks with communities to try to end violent protests that erupted this week the protest is a demanding the resignation of a provincial leader who's accused of corruption and delivering poli ical services

catherine sawyer reports from my king. pinky being more cause baby is feverish she inhaled gas when police and protesters clashed but health workers in public hospitals are on strike and can't get help pinkie went to her mother's house in the city to give birth because life is more difficult in the rural area where she leads a can take measure to buy looters because. there comes the lies and those political things they pose as the things that they did not deliver you understand they didn't go there and get their build their houses and give people jobs when the jobs come from the government they dig people oh my god i have frustrations are shared by many people in this region and that's why they took to the streets and the greek they want better public services from the local government houses and

shops they also want it probably should be done to step down saying he's failed to do his job now also corruption allegations presidency ramos says he needs time to hold water talks with aggrieved communities and the provisional didas life is returning to normal in my hand but many shops remain closed people say they will wait for the outcome of consultations the president was asked for but they also tell us that they are impatient for answers and won't wait too long. though many of the grievances are generally in the part tests time violent rowdy morbus band allies the buildings and looted. it into just become the traders like a clean one toro are devastated everything in his shop was a the stolen or band this was his home too i do what i can now i'm hopeless you can see what's happening. i don't want money to remove it this is not easy to

remove to look these you can't replace reason not to some people see politics in targeted revenge attacks good in the wheel of what was supposed to be peaceful demonstrations. and have family tallis this is the result of pent up anger casting saw al-jazeera my can south africa. tens of thousands of people in armenia have joined protests demanding that the new prime minister step down president our men sarkozy on waded into the demonstration in your advance republic square to talk to the opposition leader may call a shinya on the demonstrations have now been going on for more than a week with the opposition saying that the new prime minister serge sex stand must step down he became prime minister after a decade as president the opposition says he's now effectively become armenia's leader for life. meanwhile in hungary thousands have been protesting against

government control of the media there the demonstrators say prime minister viktor or bands influence over the media helped them to secure a landslide election victory earlier this month is the second mass protest against or banned since the april eighth poll where the nationalist party took two thirds of the seats in parliament. the family of a policeman in myanmar say they've been thrown out of their home after he told a court that his superiors gave orders to entrap two journalists kept in most young men said on friday that he was told to hand over documents to the reuters journalists they were then arrested and charged with violating the country's official secrets act now the wife of the policeman says she and her daughter have been ordered to leave their police housing the rest of journalists are reporting on a crackdown by myanmar security forces that seen seven hundred thousand rangar flee the country. well state media in saudi arabia says security forces have shot down a toy drone in riyadh the.

yard online videos showed gunfire in parts of the saudi capital it's home to the royal palace leading to conflicting reports about what was happening but least in riyadh said king sound man wasn't in the palace at the time. well now we go to yemen way years of civil wars left many children without access to even the most basic education many women particularly of never had the chance to learn to read and write but in a rural part of thais province one group of women is determined to make up for lost time as marianna hand reports. they make this journey most days a long winding sometimes dangerous parts this is a remote area whist of the city of tire yes it's also one of the battle grounds of human civil war and with these women must go to reach the only place where they can

learn is that. we walk long distances past villages and valleys to get here we learn because we did not have education at least of a knowing about on a we didn't know any of the alphabets but facts to our teacher now we can read and write and we can also teach our children for some of these women this is the first time there put a pin to paper grandmothers mothers young women learning what most children might be taught in their food or second year of school and so hungry to learn that on this particular day more than forty women were crammed into a small building it's part of a media elka ladies' home she's the teacher and the creator of this makeshift education center as your own cost and in her own time she's taught dozens of women to read and write in math at the fair the education of women in the countryside is very low and i've made it my job to try to change that there is no support from

anyone i wish that all sisters anyone who is educated might do their bit to educate women and girls in rural areas a few children and rule to ease have made it to school in the last three years of human civil war. the rebels control much of the north including the capital sunbath . their president gainst government forces fighting in support of exiled president a bit of blue months or hardy and backed by airstrikes from a saudi led coalition of mainly arab states the power base lies in the south including the strategically important. port city of aden the province of thai ease with these women live lives right in the middle of their. own without us and most of the schools are closed now and we are in a remote area in this war so each occasion is a positive thing for women and stability widespread poverty and unemployment affect

all the women here elkan lady also teaches skills that have enabled students to generate their own income things like knitting and sewing for these women knowledge really is power media on one hand down to zero. a funeral has taken place for former us first lady barbara bush at a private service in houston texas she was remembered as a sharp tongued but caring person who is devoted to her family the current first lady melania trump iraq and michelle obama bill and hillary clinton were all amongst those in attendance barbara bush was the wife of the forty first us president and the mother of the forty third she died on tuesday. giving the eulogy former florida governor jeb bush said his mother was beautiful to the end and joked about her strict parenting style now to be clear her students were perfect. that's an understatement mom got

a sewer difficult times with consistent take it to the bank unconditional but tough love she called her style a benevolent dictatorship but honestly it wasn't always benevolent. it's the end of an era for europe's busiest international airport and a massive opportunity for air enthusiastic three years after it closed the contents of london's heathrow terminal one has been auctioned off. to the highest bidder neve barker checked in for an airport furniture parking. we've joined the plane spotters on heathrow airport perimeter because this could potentially be a big day for aviation enthusiasts the entire contents of the historic terminal warner up for sale the bidding is now become. my three thousand. nine hundred seventy nine let's roll again the first of two auctions is now well underway and squarely at aviation lovers most of it taking place here online i

think retro signs think novelty fixtures and fitment just looking at these items there seems to be strangely more interest in departure signs than a rival signs read into that what you will the problem is that many of these bids the sealed meaning the buyers don't know exactly how much they're bidding against the auction house responsible for all of this says the pricing these items is way too complicated there's simply no precedent for selling things like this. following auctions will focus on bigger assets including security machines escalators baggage carousel four thousand seats and one hundred ten check in desks things that might be useful to other airports it was once the busiest terminal in europe opened by queen elizabeth the second in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine and billed as the home of british airways at the time planes could only carry one hundred fifty people they can now carry more than five hundred at its peak terminal one handled more than nine million passengers a year but after the refurbishment of terminal two next door it became surplus to

requirements and closed its doors in two thousand and fifteen so what next for the terminal well heathrow staff are remaining tight lipped is expected to be dismantled in the coming years a relic of a bygone age giving way to a new bigger and bolder era in aviation. and ahead for you. homegrown patriotic action films feel the box office and clooney in china will have that story and then in sport will meet the kenyan cyclist hoping to become the first african rider to tackle an extreme race across siberia. if you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships. somehow time is aiming to replace america and go around the world full of chinese

and stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china part one on a just. one of the really special things about working for others here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story a feel we cover this region better than anyone else would get what it is you know it's very challenging but in the particular because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe.

welcome back the 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 in the first quarter of this year film takings topped three point two billion dollars and as adrian brown reports hope produce movies are the big attraction. for 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 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 just 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 sport now joe. thank you barcelona have clinched their first trophy of the season

after winning the copper tell right ok for a fourth straight year the catalans were up against severe in what turned out suites hotel a one sided affair goals for messi iniesta continuo and two from suarez sealed their five nil victory they also remain in pole position to seal the league title next week manchester united may have missed out on the english premier league titles their cross-town rivals manchester city but that gets a play for the english f.a. cup this season that's after they sealed their place in the final with a win over tottenham spurs went ahead through delhi alley but united's alex sanchez equalized before half time and herrera grabbed the match winner in the second half to put united through to a record equalling twentieth f.a. cup final they'll play either chelsea or southampton those two sides face each other in sunday's semifinal as seen from the plays itself. and when you deserve. specially against

a two like. spurs this. sink is even more. is even more important the more most. equal to the record for the most goals scored in a thirty eight game english premier league season as liverpool drew two two with west brom cell has netted thirty one times in the league and forty one times in all competitions this campaign a member of the chicago white sox baseball team is in critical condition in hospital after he suffered a brain hemorrhage that was during the game with the houston astros on friday pitcher for cork collapsed in the dugout and was taken to a nearby hospital in a state when the white sox said farquaad is stable but remains in intensive care ward. tennis now rafael nadal is one victory away from winning the monte carlo masters from eleventh time the world number one beat grigor dimitrov in the last four on saturday to set up a final against cain issue corey helen gleason has more. it's hard to believe that

monte carlo is just crap an adult second tournament of twenty eight seen the spaniard has been in trademark form this week on the show no signs of the hip injury that derailed his season at the australian open. thank you while number five grego dimitroff was the king of clay's latest challenge on saturday and the bulgarian ultimately had to bow down to an adult clay court superiority a fix for six one win and the thirty one year old has now won thirty four sets in a row on his favorite. thank you i think i need to play a little better tomorrow. i lost a little bit on the grass if. shots today comparing to yesterday on to before yesterday so i need to recover that for tomorrow and also i am focused on trying to make that happen japan's kain isha corey is the man who

stands in the way of medal winning his eleventh monte carlo tracy. the former world number four was out injured at the end of the one hundred seventeen but he looks back to his old self as he fought from a set down to beat alexander vera and reach his biggest final and name was. it will be a whole new challenge against the dog though he's only ever lost four of the seventy one matches he's played on the court telling briefing there. was any finals a woman says women's tennis elite team competition the fed cup got underway on saturday the united states people are to win the title last year but have their work cut out against france to make it back into the final in the best of five match series u.s. open champion sloane stephens got the united states off to a winning start as she beat pauline commenting a six seven six. but christina middle of it just then came from a set down to defeat coker vanda way and level the tie one one heading into day two

. meanwhile ten time fed cup winners the czech republic to the two love lead over germany stuttgart two time wimbledon champion pitcher curt of a got them underway with a six three six two win over germany number one you're good against curly to piscator followed that with a seven five six three victory against fellow for more world number one and to make over discover could put the checks back in the final for the first time since two thousand and sixteen when she takes i'm going to go on sunday. a kenyan cyclist is aiming to make history later this year as the first african to compete in the trans-siberian cycle race it's an extreme nine thousand kilometer event from moscow to vladivostok he's training in southwest kenya and his story is already one of achievement and survival. more on the world training for the world's toughest and most extreme bicycle race trying to get an extra.

on the fossil. record of what we've been. going through a lot just define myself as a weed in a survival. of the age of like. several days ago and then again my dad when i was of several months my dad was there watching the kind he drove on me and then here killing me being short there's always trying to help my dad i was shot four times the force trying to shut me up just then the second time they showed me their shoulder two more bullets were lodged in my chest i'm lucky that they didn't hit my spinal cord you know even getting to an extent of being taken to the mortuary before believing that i was dead and i overcame all that that means almost over and there was a reason especially pop us why i survived all that. the less privileged because he's my responsibility relieved that some of them have to be changed and they

believe if i go to bed at night having not changed the level boss on or inspired somebody positively then i wished it might be so if i don't have them if i don't inspire people then i'm nothing i can again i can be proud that i'm successful i can be successful at all. i'm putting myself through. i want to call myself but i'm not surviving them but we know. i'm a hero just as my dad told me when he was just about to die and. believing that or my hero isn't enough i have to prove it and that's what i have to do. and that is the support for now about to marry him in london all right joe thanks very much all that wraps up the news hour but a full bulletin coming up in just a couple of minutes roundup of all the day's top stories coming up shortly stay with us.

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