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security ramps up as kim jong un prepares to become the first north korean leader and to the south korean war. hello i'm watching al-jazeera light from london also coming up president trump's adult to withdraw his nomination to had veteran affairs off the allegations he overprescribed drugs and drank on the job russia takes its version of the alleged gas attack in do much of the chemical weapons watchdog in the hague. act a bill cosby is found guilty on all counts in his sexual assault trial. and thousands protest across spain after five men known as the wolf pack are cleared of gang rape and pumped lonna.

final preparations are being made from historic face to face meeting between the leaders of north and south korea lungi in will host kim jong un in the south korean border village of jump on friday morning they will discuss a range of issues including pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs it's hoped the meeting will help ease tensions on the peninsula ahead of a meeting between kim and the u.s. president donald trump planned a may or june so let's look at how the day is set to unfold him and will travel into the demilitarized zone on the tight security to meet one giant in making him the first north korean leader to cross the border since the korean war kim will be flanked by nine officials including his sister who led pyongyang's delegation to this year's winter olympics after meeting in the morning kim moon will have lunch and plant a tree using soil from both countries the day will wrap up with dinner and

a movie called spring of one. our diplomatic editor james bays is in part due on the south korean side of the border. the final rehearsal took place in the south after noon body doubles playing the role of supreme leader kim and president moon both sides very keen that the choreography is just right because of the camera angles and the images but also because of the important question of security this is quite a remarkable event when you think what has happened on the korean peninsula in recent months the fact that tensions have been so high here last year particularly during the summer last year and really a remarkable turnaround of events bringing us to this first of two possible high level summits what changed what allowed room for diplomacy i've been gauging that at the u.n. in new york in european capitals and here on the korean peninsula i filed this

report from the north korean capital. when you walk around pyongyang everywhere you seem to go you hear military music blaring from shops and loudspeakers last summer the drums of war beating particularly heavily it was arguably the tensest time on the korean peninsula in decades in september north korean foreign minister ho headed from his ministry here to new york to give his speech at the annual meeting of world leaders at the u.n. ahead of him in the speaking order the new president of the us the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. al-jazeera has learnt that hours after that speech foreign minister re sought a brief meeting with the u.n.

secretary general antonio good terrorists at the end of the meeting the north korean invited a senior united nations official to pyongyang a trip the un had been trying to arrange for over a year at the beginning of december jeffrey feltman then the un's head of political affairs made a visit to pyongyang and meetings with north korean officials feltman suggested that kim jong un use his new year's speech to strike a more conciliatory tone he suggested too that the winter olympics which are about to be staged in south korea would be a useful occasion to improve relations it's not clear whether the north koreans listened to his advice but they did the things he suggested the leader's sister kim yo chung's visit to the olympics change the atmosphere between the north and south starting a diplomatic dialogue there was another important back channel to sweden's foreign minister margot will strum authorized expanded conversations with the north koreans

at one point had been planned for foreign minister to meet the then u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson in stockholm that plan changed when president trump surprised his own officials saying he wanted a face to face meeting with kim jong un and then secret dispatched his cia director mike pompei o. to pyongyang to begin the negotiations i've been speaking to diplomats at the u.n. in new york and here on the korean peninsula strategic discussions here in north korea are made at the highest level and done in secret but everyone i've spoken to believes that the bellicose speech by donald trump at the u.n. general assembly was what kickstarted the current diplomatic efforts james per hour just era pyongyang. even talking to koreans from both sides of the border about their expectations of the summit is what some of them had to say. he there are no good will i wish for the summit is that our people can travel back and forth and

live together. but the ones are that he completed nuclear weapons and his missiles can reach qualm what's left as a leader he must inspire loyalty and twenty three million people will be given loyalty no because they are on the verge of starvation following the sanctions. knows this so he came to the table with denuclearization card. for more than two years the relations had to be in frozen and we couldn't access to a case on the street complex so finally on the twenty seventh the summit is scheduled that would mean that after the summit the economy issue will be discussed and the kids i mean those through complex will be the top priority i am full of sorts anticipations. president transpersonal doctor and nominee for the vacant post of u.s. veteran affairs secretary has been forced to take himself out of consideration for

the post often mounting misconduct allegations ronny jackson who was also white house physician to barack obama and george w. bush was put forward for the position off today the chill can resigned in march but the u.s. navy rear admiral has now withdrawn from the running off to claims he crashed a car while driving under the influence of alcohol and overprescribed drugs let's get more now from our white house correspondent kimberly how do we know about these allegations and the reaction of the white house to them. well the white house had been all week because the intensity around these allegations against ronnie jackson continued to kind of excel rate the white house saying that these are essentially are the opinions of some former employees of the physician and as well that they had been disgruntled but they became overwhelming today the fact the revelations of the crashed car following

a secret service party that dr ronnie jackson attended where he was allegedly intoxicated before crashing a government vehicle and also very serious allegations about handing out prescription drugs like candy now we should point out the doctor ronnie jackson is denying these allegations saying in fact that they are false and fabricated but certainly serious questions about the president's judgment with regard to his nominations not just about his personal physician to become the veterans affairs secretary of course that name now withdrawn but the e.p.a. administrator the environmental protection agency and scott pruitt still allegations swirling around him with regard to his lavish spending on travel on security and whether or not he handed out raises to his friend so certainly the white house trying to portray this as as men who have been thoroughly vetted and we should point out the case of the physician he had been a vetted and had worked in prior ministrations but this is

a different type of vetting for the confirmation process and apparently allegations just too much and that was the result of that he withdrew his name from the process and president obama has been speaking on his favorite news show folks and friends about ronnie jackson he made comments about but also making other remarks that could potentially be harmful to his legal battles. yeah a pretty fiery wide ranging interview we're certainly used to the president tweeting on social media early in the morning but this was a very lengthy interview where the president really leashed a number of his frustrations including with the ongoing russia probe certainly some of the shocking things the president had to say was that he believed the former f.b.i. director james comey of whom of course he fired that he believed he was a liar a leaker and guilty of crimes but most notable is what he said about sort of the

stern warning he gave the department of justice still overseeing that investigation namely the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and also the special counsel robert muller saying he's going to keep a kind of a hands off approach for now but that could change and that essentially means obstruction of justice or impeding investigation if he were to fire either of those two men something that wouldn't sit well with the american public i can tell you because there's this feeling the president is not above the law despite the feeling that he may be able to take actions to shut down that investigation so the president not very happy although he did get a little bit of good news his pick to be the next top diplomat the secretary of state might pump aoe has now been confirmed and already apparently heading off to brussels saudi arabia jordan and israel so certainly in advance of the north korea talks and also the fact that there is that big decision to be made on the iran nuclear deal certainly the president feeling perhaps boid by the news that he now has his top diplomat in place thanks very much from the white house kimberly home

kit. well a u.s. senate committee has approved a bipartisan bill aimed at protecting special counsel robert miller from being fired by president trump when his investigation into russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election has been repeatedly attacked by trump but it tiny unlikely to be passed into law senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has said he won't allow a vote on the bill and president trying would almost certainly refuse to sign into law. now moscow has taken a number of syrians to the headquarters of the chemical weapons watchdog in the netherlands to support their claim that the gas attack in duma was fake the witnesses have been presented to the o.p.c. w. at the hague to recount what they saw on april seventh russia says the syrian statements prove the chemical attack was staged allegations the u.s. and its allies strongly deny a young syrian boy was at the briefing. at the level. we

were in the basement we heard cries in the street that we should go to the hospital we got skeered we went to the hospital through the tunnel they started pouring water on me at the hospital i don't know why after that they took me to a different place so in a gaggle has more from the way. well the only evidence that we've managed to see here in the press conference is really videos and effects witness statements that they say what president at the hospital and when the alleged attack took place but what was quite striking is that the video and the picture evidence that they presented was accompanied by their own take on it which was talking about evidence for example how it couldn't have been real picos the damage didn't fit the . the attack had been described and there was a lot of condemnation of the of the white helmets condemning them as an act as a terrorist group supported by the u.s. and the u.k.

without any other evidence backing that up as well but what was quite striking about the statements that were provided by the seventeen syrians that were brought including that of a young boy son was that they're all quite short they were very similar in terms of what they were saying a lot of the people that were presented there were working out the hospital and it seemed to follow like a very similar situation that all of a sudden there were a lot of people who were being brought in from the shelter a bar of and then a lot of people who were being doused in water but that there was no evidence of any chemical attack but yet there was no scientific evidence to back that up it is only their word that we have to go on with that still a convoy that's confound picking up the pieces where in somalia as people we build their homes and their lives after the deadliest attack in its history. and a plastic promise more than forty british companies found to slash their use of

harmful package. hello we are still hanging on to some pretty warm weather into the bowl kins hazing over towards the black sea some record breaking heat for the likes of croatia for example but much cooler air spilling in across western parts of europe over the next few days little bit of cloud there that will bring some rather heavy rain in across england wells is ten celsius in london not that of they were raving about the twenty seven that we saw here further south we near that twenty seven twenty four there for madrid for the time being central as well is where the heat is twenty nice else is there for rome twenty five in bucharest want to live the showers with those high temperatures smile the wet weather to into ukraine we will see that clearing away twenty degrees there in kiev as we go on sas day fourteen in

moscow with some bits and pieces of cloud of rain a little warmer less cold so we say in the london twelve cells as it is spring after all eighteen imagery to the temperatures to fall away here notice some right just flooding in across the bay of biscay not too much rain to speak of now on places across northern parts of africa for a little bit of cloud there into northern areas of a little bit of fair weather easing away from here twenty three celsius in cheetahs had some lively showers over towards the sinai peninsula recently but it's hot in cairo at thirty one degrees. he was the world's most wanted man the last meeting i had with him was off to the. bin laden was very nervous about nature did not match a western reporter before in part one of an exclusive two part documentary. speaks to the met osama bin ladin he never showed up to the cheatwood many of us

are you belong on all dizzy. welcome back a look at the top stories this hour final preparations are being made from historic face to face meeting between the leaders of north and south korea it's hoped the talks will ease tensions ahead of a meeting between canada and the u.s. president donald trump like this yeah. ronnie jackson donald trump's personal doctor and nominee for u.s. veteran affairs secretary has quit his bid for the post after being accused of several instances of misconduct and moscow has taken

a number of syrians including children to the headquarters of the chemical weapons watchdog to support that claim that the alleged gas attack in duma was fake. now nineteen ages have died in flash floods in southern israel during a hiking trip to the south of the dead sea the trackers who were from a pre military academy was swept away by the sudden heavy rains with seven others left in a critical condition military helicopters and security forces adelia declared the teenagers missing as they searched the river bed in the remote valleys of the negev desert. about his opinion journalist who was shot by israeli forces while covering protests at the gaza border has been laid to rest. died on wednesday from injuries he sustained during demonstrations two weeks ago stephanie decker has the latest from gaza. a large crowd has gathered here in the jabalya refugee camp to pay their final respects to ahmed abu hussein he is the second journalist killed by israeli

sniper fire now he was brought back into gaza overnight he start flying in and the mosque where people are paying their final respects his press vest his bulletproof vest that he was wearing at the time when he was shot is with him. there is video of the incident when he was shot april thirteenth that shows he was standing in a crowd far away from a fence when it appears that he was specifically targeted is laid on me before that they know the. gunshot which means they know that this gun is going to kill business this is the point. and yes it has not been killed by they have been met by the israeli snipers. but the same twenty five years old is now the second palestinian journalist being

laid to rest and has drawn some international condemnation calling for an independent investigation the israeli army says it does not target journalism that it's going to look into the details of their deaths but certainly anyone you speak to here on has a very clear opinion that these are deliberate targets that the israeli army that these snipers are deliberately targeting them to try and stop them from protesting everyone here will tell you even people we've spoken to have been shot before that they will return to the protests that they want their rights just like everyone else they feel forgotten and they believe that through these protests for once finally there is some international spotlight on their plight. a vigil has been held in iraq was capital for dozens of protesters reportedly killed in anti-government demonstrations the u.n. human rights office says some of those who died may have been victims of unlawful killings by security forces the violence began last week when president daniel ortega floated a plan to overhaul pensions and the welfare system. the armenian parliament is

expected to hold an extraordinary session next week to vote for a new prime minister the country was plunged into a political crisis this week after. stepped down as prime minister following massive anti-government protests adamant says a vote will be held on the first day on the first of may to elect a new leader but protests are continuing in the capital with people demanding snap parliamentary elections probably forced. on. well everything seems to be. the way in the right direction for. a party. towards. power by the opposition. those votes you know i'll give you somebody is going to go ahead next week do. what they need for a majority. the next prime minister.

running a transitional. free and fair elections if he's promised to deliver something that has been. so everything seems to be going the right way for all extensive thousands of protesters once again but on the streets wanting to show that this opposition still has its momentum. looks to be the case. the republican party. said that they were ready to. discuss this without anything. and so really this is where right to date. to seize political parties other political parties in the parliament. this

opposition movement. a jury in the u.s. state of pennsylvania has found actor bill cosby guilty on all counts in his sexual assault we trial the eighty year old comedian once known as america's dad was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting a female friend of his philadelphia home in two thousand and four cosby lashed out and yelled profanities at the prosecutor that asked him for him to be taken into custody immediately. now have been huge protests across spain after five men were cleared of the gang rape of a woman at the two thousand and sixteen pamplona all running festival after a five month trial the men who belong to a whatsapp group called the wolfpack were convicted of the lesser crime of sexual abuse and given nine year sentences hundreds of protesters gathered outside the court chanting it's not in it's right. or not i'm sorry there's nothing there's some for me you know this is a party the people that come must come to enjoy but not to do the wolfpack to it

there on a ml's. ministers from more than seventy countries have committed to new measures to fight the funding of terrorism french president emanuel hosted the meeting issuing a plea to ministers to work together to fight a common enemy david chase reports from paris president emmanuel macross singled out al qaida and i saw the so-called islamic state as the main enemies that have to be confronted delivering the final address of the conference on the financing of terror he called for a new chapter to be opened a new methods used to neutralize them. or to thank you all for your commitment by coming here particularly the middle east and all those who accept their different points of view and who accept to commit to this new method it's necessary it's a first we must maintain this we must implement this we must make it last. it's been estimated the so-called islamic state made one billion dollars

a year when they controlled the oil fields in iraq and syria no one knows where those funds have gone but what is known is that the cost of mounting a terrorist attack has been dropping dramatically like the attack in the square of lori was a weapon that was used to kill more than eighty people paris's public prosecutor france or estimated the attack in the french capital an event but twenty fifteen which killed one hundred thirty people cost around one hundred twenty thousand dollars some experts are now warning that the fight against the financing of terror groups has proved largely ineffective they can easily transfer money without using the international banking system which proved too easy to trace i am hoping that as a result of this conference there will now be a more nuanced approach to terrorist financing and we are moving away from the model that was developed in response to nine eleven but that might not be as

effective when we're talking about new actors president macross said that terrorists must be fought wherever they are found it but some of the measures are hurting charities trying to bring aid to civilians in conflict. as one relief worker put it it's now easier to send a weapons to syria than medical equipment or school supplies david chaytor al jazeera powers at least three thousand civilians across mali have either been killed or injured by improvised explosive devices over the past three years last year was by far the worst largely because of a massive truck bomb in market this year that killed more than five hundred people six months on things a sony returning to normal as i'm going to do reports from the capital. already shoes kilometer five junction is one big construction site the huge craters left by the massive truck bomb last october felt on the road paved again such is

the resilience of the people of somalia. some of the least were wise in the construction of his family's hotel that was completely destroyed to death at the though our we have no option but to rebuild not doing so would mean we have surrendered and given up in life. a truck bomb exploded at the busy market during rush hour it was powerful enough to damage buildings hundreds of letters an explosion killed more than five hundred people injured hundreds. the wost single attack a somali history was blamed on al shabaab fighters who are waging war for years. there's not much more money to be upon us are still very low the consequences yet to be fully understood six months on doesn't suffer from last year missing and for their relatives there's still no teacher of the law here ali has just returned from turkey where he was taken for specialized treatment for body functions he was

selling cigarettes and candy on the roadside when the bomb went off his wife and two of his children died rather larry. given i'm not fully recovered as you can see but i'm through is to come back to work my children need to eat and then they have a psychological effect on long suffering citizens who've never seen anything like the kind of you know many say they're more scared since then venturing out only wanted some really less time to hate the house will smith i will never forget what happened here it's gives me every day every time i see traffic congestion anywhere i had light from the past same in and choose to walk away. once normal africa and beyond as a tranquil under literally prosperous city successive waves of violence in the past three decades have. to david used mark to remove additional to. the capitals rebuild destroyed again and again resume from the use. of thought cycle continues

from mohammed atta while jazeera pollutions somalia. the holiday island of baraka in the philippines has been closed for a six month cleanup juries have been banned while the infrastructure is improved and volunteers are move rubbish from the beaches president undergo to tell tale ordered to shut down this month after calling the resort a cesspool. forty two u.k. companies including major supermarkets of touch to cut back sick use of the next seven years they've signed up to the u.k. plastics back to promise to make all the plastic packaging reusable recyclable oakum possible by twenty twenty five charlie and explains. we're outside tesco is one of forty two british companies and supermarkets that have signed up to the u.k. plastics voluntarily they are agreeing that by twenty twenty five that plastic bags that food packaging like this covering been on those will be fully reusable recyclable and called possible that these companies account for eighty percent of

the plastic packaging used in u.k. supermarkets so the impact could be in moments the prime minister to reason may has promised to eliminate avoidable plastic waste by twenty forty two as part of a national action the government is a vicious and it should be because the threat to the environment is so severe that this is a global problem and it needs a global response when you consider that the amount of plastic we produce each year is equivalent to the entire weight a few about this is public concern about plastic waste that is driving the agenda is being called the blue planet effect of the television series by so david asman which is exposed the impact of plastic on all seas and wildlife and the critics say that this new tax is just bought in three there's no way of forcing it the public is committed to change already seeing people replacing their plastic shopping bags for usable close ones and taking their daily coffee in a reasonable cost that expecting retailers to commit to trains to. was more in

everything right hand home is the address. but look at the headlines now final preparations have been made from historic face to face meeting between the leaders of north and south korea and will host kim jong un in the south korean border village of on friday morning they'll discuss a broad range of issues including pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs and diplomatic editor james bass is in poland you on the south korean side of the border. the final rehearsal took place this afternoon body doubles playing the role of supreme leader kim president moon both sides very keen that the choreography is just right because of the camera angles of the images but also because of the important question of security this is quite a remarkable won't when you think what has happened on the korean peninsula in

recent months the current the tensions have been so high here president obama's personal doctor has withdrawn himself from consideration for veteran affairs secretary after mounting misconduct allegations ronnie jackson is accused of crashing a car while driving under the influence and of over prescribing drugs. moscow has taken a number of syrians including children to the headquarters of a chemical weapons watchdog to support their claim that the gas attack in duma was fake. russia says the syrian statement proves the chemical attack was staged allegations the u.s. and its allies strongly deny a palestinian journalist who was shot by israeli forces while covering protests at the gaza border has been laid to rest and i will hussein died on wednesday from injuries he sustained during demonstrations two weeks ago. a vigil has been held in nicaragua as capital for dozens of protesters reportedly killed in anti-government demonstrations and human rights office says some of those who died may have been victims of unlawful killings by security forces. and a jury in the u.s.

state of pennsylvania has found actor bill cosby guilty on all counts in his sexual assault we trial the eight year old comedienne once known as america's dad was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting a female friend his philadelphia home in two thousand and four cosby lashed out at the prosecutor who are imprisoned immediately as the headlines the stream is next.