i can't tell you what the u.s. policy is towards north korea vying for power what they want to deter an attack from the united states as the u.s. struggles to define its foreign policy lines examines the potential fallout so we don't see really is a strategy designed to get those talks started and those if they expect a surrender siren fury trumps north korea crisis on al-jazeera. harvester.

two weeks after a suspected chemical attack and duma international inspectors reach the syrian site and take samples. all of them are the says al jazeera live from doha also coming up al-jazeera goes inside north korea. with. between north and south only reporting. plastic ragu as president strikes a defiant tone as violent protests continue to rock the capitol. hill energy.

to several delays ends national inspectors have finally been given access to the scene of a suspected chemical attack that took place in syria two weeks ago the syrian government and its ally russia deny responsibility for this attack and alleged cover up inspectors will not be assigning blame only be trying to this time and whether an attack took place. diane reports. the wait is over inspectors but the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons given access to the area of the alleged chemical attack in duma samples were collected but delayed access to the site is raising questions about the quality of the evidence and whether syria or russia cleared the scene the visit comes a week after o.p.c. w inspectors first arrived in syria the u.s. and france have accused russia of blocking the investigation to buy time for mr la . who is who is a master of making these type of organs i mean he would get up and stand in front

of you for hours and tell you that well it could just as equally be you know borsch and learning from a flying saucer you don't know that and you know it's the kind of logic which says you know if they offer an alternative explanation which you can't prove is wrong. tends to you know whittle away at the more dominant or maybe more than forty people reportedly died in a suspected chemical attack on april seventh the u.s. france and the u.k. retaliated by bombing several syrian government sites russia and syria have denied the use of chemical weapons they also deny hindering the investigation once the samples of the suspected chemical attack are analyzed inspectors will submitted their report to the state's parties to the chemical weapons convention depending on the findings and inspectors could make a second visit to duma. the young al-jazeera saudi arabian security forces say they shot down a toy drone near the royal palace in the capital riyadh.

video posted online appears to capture the sound of gunfire in the area officials say king salam was out of the town at the time of the incident an investigation is underway yemen's here to rebels have previously tried to fly bomb carrying drones into saudi arabia. western powers are welcomes north korea's announcement that it will suspend nuclear and missile testing the news comes less than a week before north and south korea hold a rare summit discussed a need denuclearizing the peninsula arabia. western powers are welcomes north korea's announcement that it will suspend nuclear and missile testing the news comes less than a week before north and south korea hold a rare summit to discuss to need denuclearizing the peninsula indians and force them from their land. this video shows israeli all storage is guarded by soldiers destroying a promised indian farmer's water pipe they said he didn't have the license for it

if you were in a jewish 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 slow colds what was supposed to be a far of year in to remove greenland 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 from the permanent normal it's inhumane 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 hon'ble shot gracie's his sheep but he can't use that water and instead has to rely on closely to live or ease 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 analysts say it's weighted very much in israel's favor the structure itself given that is there in their veto right and other words there's a lot in there they distribute the man i believe kitchen to sixteen months is that in the aftermath and i mean one of these the bottom i say is now the project will be hit what's been described as israel's water war is killing off palestinian agriculture at an alarming rate. zero point. egypt is the extent of the sanction of al jazeera journalist who is hussein by

a forty five days egyptian national was arrested whilst on holiday in december two thousand and sixteen he spent nearly five hundred days in jail yet to be charged hussein is accused of broadcasting false news with the aim of spreading chaos strongly denies the allegations and his government has approved the death penalty for people convicted of raping children under the age of twelve that follows widespread protests over a number of attacks in june the rape and murder of an eight year old girl in kashmir prime minister narendra modi's cabinet approved the order but it needs backing from parliament within six months to become law in the meantime suspects can be prosecuted under the order. yes i do think that there should be strong legal actions against particularly the victim is a minor one but i didn't think that did. we already have laws in this country what is needed is a conviction of the green it was a decision it is a good decision in fact not only for girls under twelve years old also for those

older than twelve years old every rapist deserve it the death penalty should apply to every offender. at least seventeen people have died after two dragon boats capsized in southern china state television says around forty people were pulled out of the water alive of being practicing ahead of a race on saturday the cause is still unknown to organizers have been detained. at least ten people have been killed in nicaragua and four days of protest spot by controversial pension reforms and greg as president described most of the demonstrations taking pot as young criminals john heilemann has more. president will take to finally came out and address the country after full days of protest in nicaragua and what he said wasn't that conciliatory towards the protesters became outflanked not just by his cabinet but also by military and police figures which in itself tells a story of what he had to say was that the protesters might have shadowy political

figures the hind the so that didn't really seem an address. attempting to reach out to the protestors to try and find some sort of dialogue and these are protests the aren't just happening in the capital managua but also in several other cities in the country the spark that really lit them seem to have been about changes to the social security structure mechanisms in the country but also there's been tension in this country before then president will take is seen by n.g.o.s and also by analysts have been undermining democratic institutions in the country in the bid to hang on to power he's now in his third consecutive term he's also been accused of turning the government into a bit of a family business his wife is also the vice president of the country now what we have to see is what's going to come next are the protests going to escalate is there going to be any attempts at dialogue and some people in the could argue are

asking will the army be a center on the streets to try and deal with this which would definitely represent some sort of escalation. yes president donald trump is accusing former f.b.i. director james comey of leaking classified information in his memoirs has been promoting his new book in which he portrays trump as an ego driven liar it was true up fired by trump last year as the f.b.i. investigates alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election. the american football player has won amnesty international's annual ambassador of conscience award two years ago cap and exhausted 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 mc award recognizes what it calls an inspiring contribution to helping human rights is the people's unbroken love for themselves that motivates me even when faced with the humanizing norms of

a system that can lead to the loss of one's life over simply be. hong kong is far behind the rest of china when it comes to renewable energy only zero point one of the city's power comes from green sources but the government is now looking to harness the power of the sun if a pilot project proves successful to paula reports. tire is hong kong's oldest surviving fishing village but it's becoming a new frontier in the territory when it comes to energy. the circle pointed families set up need to electricity to run the water pumping system i chose solar panels as it would generate just enough energy as the pump doesn't need to make the dried seafood products this village has become famous for last year they discovered another benefit when the world wildlife fund set up solar panels in the village cheap clean energy problem if they can't afford to install anymore not without government funds they don't will have to financial support and then they also don't

have to you know extract of policy to motivate them to have to almost system the hong kong government is looking at investing in green energy this pilot project is successful this could be one solution clover cove is one of seventeen reservoirs in hong kong the solar panels power the nearby water works facility the water supplies department has been very hard to integrate as the green technology an operation to mitigate the impact of the climate change. other than harvesting the solar energy from the sun there are lots of benefits from in soaring to solar p.v. system currently only zero point one percent of hong kong's energy comes from renewables compare that to seventeen percent in china seventy eight percent of electricity comes from fossil fuels it's the city's biggest pollutant but environmentalist say hong kong has the potential to turn that around a recent university study found that a quarter of the city's three hundred nine thousand buildings are suitable for

solar panel installation if used effectively the buildings could provide ten percent of hong kong's energy consumption cutting carbon emissions by three million tons a year companies that invest in green buildings get tax breaks at the moment though there are no clear incentives for small businesses or households the praties from tommy's aquaponics farm go to scaffold. nearby his next project is to fill rise the entire operation but he says he can't afford to go all green until there's a change in government policy if you go palin are jazeera hong kong. this is al jazeera these are the top stories international inspectors in syria have collected samples from the scene of an alleged chemical attack in the town of duma two weeks ago it follows a week of delays which france is blaming on syria's ally russia saudi arabian

security forces say they've shot down a toy drone near the royal palace in the capital. that he said online appears to capture the sound of gunfire in the area officials say king solomon was out of town at the time of the incident and the investigation is underway yemen's who the rebels are previously tried to fly bomb carrying drones into saudi arabia western powers are welcome north korea's announcement it will suspend nuclear and missile tests u.s. president donald trump says it was good news but japan is more cautious saying it must lead to concrete action the family of a palestinian engineer who died in malaysia says he was assassinated by the israeli intelligence agency mossad and palestinian media reporting that funny al bunch was shot close range by two motorcyclist as he walked towards a nearby mosque in kuala lumpur a mosque has confirmed that it was a loyal member of its party who made important contributions in the energy field

international committee of the red cross says one of its workers was killed in the yemeni city of tires on saturday who died after a gunman opened fire on his car the hood was in charge of the organizations detention program and was on his way to visit a prison when the attack happened. india's government has approved the death penalty for people convicted of raping children under the age of twelve it was widespread protests over a number of attacks including the rape and murder of an eight year old girl in kashmir prime as an arranger modi's cabinet approved the order but it is backing from parliament within six months to become law and us president donald trump is accusing former f.b.i. director james comey of leaking classified information in his memoirs came he has been promoting his new book in which he portrays trump as a quote ego driven liar he was fired by trump last year as the f.b.i. investigated alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election those are your headlines stay with us faultlines is next

getting to the heart of the matter if most of the turkish cypriot people called you today and says let's have would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification would look like were to people peaceful unification is the only option for prosperity you. hear their story on al jazeera. january thirteen.