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zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero i marianna mozzie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes security ramps up as kim jong un prepares to become the first north korean leader to end to the south since the korean war. president trumps don't deal with george's nomination to head veteran affairs off the allegations he overprescribed drugs and drank on the job. russia ratchets up its efforts to prove duma wasn't hit by a gas attack taking a group of syrians to the chemical weapons watchdog in the hague. thousands protest across spain after five men known as the wolf pack and cleared of gang rape in time flown a. world athletics rewrite the rules for some female

rather as those with actually high testosterone levels are told they may have to race against men. in just three and a half hours the leaders of north and south korea a jew to come face to face from his story meeting. in will host kim jong il and the south korean border village of john on friday morning they will discuss a range of issues including pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs its hope the meeting will help ease tensions on the peninsula ahead of a meeting between kim and the u.s. president on trump planned for may or june so let's look at how that day is set to . told kim jong un will travel into the demilitarized zone on the tight security to meet 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 cold spring of one a diplomatic editor james bays is in pudu 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 but 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 really young 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 u.s. 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 leaders 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 rio ho 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 oh 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. winter obama is a former state department diplomat specializing in north korea he says the summit could lay important ground work towards convincing to abandon its nuclear program well i think first and foremost the industry and summit is going to be a big spectacle it's going to be about generating the optics of a very positive relationship between the two koreas so that it provides momentum heading into a potential summit between u.s. president donald trump the north korean leader kim jong un the bigger question is whether that could lead to any sort of concrete agreements and i'm not expecting very much from the into korean summit but there may be the seeds planted for further progress and further dialogue coming from this i think kim jong un has recognized that there is a tactical opportunity in the fact that his nuclear weapons program has progressed to a very advanced state he also recognizes that there is opportunity in

a south korean president who wants to engage with north korea and the u.s. president who wants to be seen as a deal maker and so maybe that will prompt some flexibility from north korea. that he also understands that. you know complete denuclearization is the priority for pyongyang but it may be flexible at a lower level below that threshold or five days into korean summit will be only the third of its kind in history first was held in two thousand during the so-called sunshine era and now the followed seven years later despite peace declarations that both summit well of korea pressed ahead with the development of its nuclear weapons program kathy novak looks back at those events and what might be different this time round. he was the architect of the so-called sunshine policy the koreas had been technically at war for fifty years but in two thousand a liberal south korean president kim dae jiang backed by the clinton administration

in washington was promoting in gage meant warmly welcomed into enemy territory by then leader kim jong il kim jong il had been north korean leader for six years and was fresh from his first overseas visit to china with pyongyang on the world stage fascinated citizens across the border watched events unfold on television. the europeans keep saying that i live like a recluse thanks to president kim's visit i'm liberated from reclusion. this three day display of friendship culminated in an agreement and one of the south korean president a nobel peace prize among the promises reunions for families separated by the korean war and a joint business park at kaesong just north of the border. but global politics weren't on their side. in two thousand the u.s. had a change in administration from clinton to bush and the hard line policy became prominent the results of the two thousand summit weren't sustained. don young was unification

minister under the next south korean president roh moo hyun who continued his predecessor's sunshine policy in two thousand and five chung delivered an invitation to kim jong il for another summit and two years later president roh stepped over the border with then chief of staff the current president and watching on. your team and this line is the wall that has been dividing our people for the last half century this will demolish the four be the wall and heal our people suffering. it was two years after north korea pledged at the six party talks to give up its nuclear program in exchange for economic aid kim and rose signed another peace declaration agreeing to implement that six party deal but it was never enforced. on october fourth two thousand and seven there was a great agreement after the south korean presidential election two months later that great agreement went straight to the garbage. north korea conducted nuclear and missile tests conservative south korean president shifted to

a tougher policy and relations deteriorated now liberal president moon j.n. is reprising language from two thousand and seven about ending the armistice and building permanent peace what may be a key difference this time is like u.s. president donald trump moon has only been in office for a year and has more time to implement any agreement and for the first time a u.s. north korea meeting is expected to follow the injure korean summit kathy novak al jazeera seoul. now the white house has released photos of the new u.s. secretary of state secret meeting with north korean leader kim jong un might travel to pyongyang earlier this month the cia director to lay the groundwork for a meeting between kim and u.s. president donald trump is now on his way to brussels for a nato meeting before visiting the middle east it comes just hours after the u.s. senate confirmed him as the top u.s. diplomat by fifty seven votes to forty two let's get more on this now from diane

estabrook in washington of course we knew my palm bio had visited north korea but what is the significance of these photographs being released now. well i think you maybe hit the nail on the head when you just mentioned that this these pictures were released just hours before he was confirmed by the senate this afternoon and there were some questions earlier this week as to whether or not he would sail through the confirmation process although he did i think it sort of buttress the support that president trump has for tom peo he made that trip while he was still cia director although he had been nominated for secretary of state showing the confidence that the he has in pompei oh sending him over to north korea on this mission to sort of lay the groundwork for the summit the confidence that he has in pomp a.o. something that he really never had it didn't seem in rucks tillerson the former secretary of state and we had in the hearings pompeo being quizzed

aggressively by a congressman on his views on things like north korea and of course iran what kind of secretary of state can we expect pompei zero to be. well definitely a much more hawkish secretary of state than rex tillerson and he has a much closer relationship with president he was one of his favorite cabinet members when he was the cia director so he has his confidence in somebody that trump respects but he has courted controversy he's made controversial remarks about muslims about homosexuals he has challenges ahead of him he's coming in at a time where he has this potentially iran nuclear deal syria and he's hitting the ground running he's off right after his confirmation today he's hitting the ground running going to this nato summit in brussels and then he's going to be doing

a short tour of the middle east with stops including israel so definitely it sounds like he's going to be a much more activist secretary of state more so than rex tillerson and definitely somebody who has the president's ear and president strong president trumps confidence all right thank you from washington diane estabrook well the german chancellor angela merkel will with is at the white house on friday and is set to issue the same plea as a french counterpart for president trump to stay in the iran new kid deal but the trip could be overshadowed by new control to seize in the trump of ministration such as his doctor's alleged drink driving and lavish spending on travel by another member of his innocence white house correspondent can really help it reports he was the u.s. president's doctor and trump liked him so much he wanted ronnie jackson to take a cabinet position as secretary of veterans affairs but after mounting allegations

that he drank on the job and handed out opioids like candy jackson withdrew his nomination on thursday well greeting schoolchildren in the white house rose garden trump defended jackson. it's the latest in a series of appointments and nominations that has opponents questioning the president's judgment the real blame here falls on the administration for once again being sloppy and careless in the vetting process on thursday those accusations continued against another member of trump's inner circle the environmental protection agency administrators scott pruitt's been accused of lavish spending on travel and security as well as giving raises to friends your actions are an embarrassment to president trump and if i were the president i wouldn't want your help i just get rid of you and in another distraction trumps personal lawyer michael cohen refused to answer questions in

a court case related to an affair the president allegedly had with a porn star cohen's decision has led to questions about whether he's covering up something on behalf of trump. in an angry tirade on a morning show on thursday truck defended his decisions but he also fueled another controversy the russia investigation led by special counsel robert muller he was asked if he'll speak to investigators looking into whether his twenty sixteen campaign colluded with moscow i've taken the position and i don't have to take this position and maybe i'll change but i will not be involved with the justice department all of this surrounds the president as important decisions need to be made on north korea and iran and also hangs over a very important meeting on friday with german chancellor angela merkel kimberly help at al-jazeera at the white house in all the developments a u.s.

senate committee has approved a bipartisan bill aimed at protecting the special counsel robert lowe from being fired by president trump when his investigation to russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election has been repeatedly attacked by trump but it's highly unlikely to be passed into law senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has said he wanted to allow a vote on the bill and president trump would almost certainly refuse to sign it into law. with the news hour live from london much more still ahead active bill cosby is found guilty on all counts in his sexual assault trial. the french government launches a plan to improve life for the ten percent of the population in the country's deprived suburbs and then later in sport find out who's got the formula one while title leader in his sights. moscow has taken a number of syrians to the headquarters of a chemical weapons watchdog in the netherlands to support their claim that the gas

attack in duma was fake the witnesses were presented to the. 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 among those at the briefing. 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 i started pouring water on me at the hospital i don't know why after that they took me to a different place. to go has more on this from the hague. 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 were present at the hospital when the alleged attack took place but what was quite striking is that the video and 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 the 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. this is founder and editor of a worldview an online publication focusing on the middle east and russia joins me now live via skype from birmingham thanks very much for taking the time to speak to us what was your view on the testimony we heard today from the victims of the alleged gas attack on the syrian town of duma their statement that that attack was staged. if you want me to be blunt it was russian show and it was a russian script. i know that people suffered and duma these people may have suffered but there's a couple of important pieces of background here the first is is that russian personnel after the chemical attacks on april seventh took away medical personnel who remained in burma they took them to an interrogation center and they told those doctors and medical personnel that they did not give the right story if their

families could be at risk they could be arrested some of those medical personnel then appeared on russian state t.v. they could have been the person that we saw today the eleven year old boy haasan via regular that there's no what evidence do you do you have that you you have activist you have local journalist who have brought that story out you have residents of dumas who have brought the story out you have people who have now had to leave the area that are in northern syria who confirm them so we have them from multiple sources we also know that one house on the of the eleven year old boy was presented on russian to t.v. supposedly saying there had been no chemical attack occurred the company bias father that in fact that interview was in damascus it was at the syrian arab army officers club were russian personnel are stationed maybe it was a legitimate account but it was striking that was done out of military facilities and we also heard from your court now is just i just thinking about your your first comment that you made there and do you think it's it would be a somewhat risky. p.r.

strategy whatever you want to call it on the part of the russians given that these witnesses are likely to be interviewed by technical experts that will be a detailed examination of what they are saying with the evidence that does exist in the investigation that is now being carried out so that if there is any fulls heard in that testimony it is likely to be exposed. it's risky but remember a couple things first of all as your correspondent said today when questions were put to these witnesses the questions were largely cut off or very much restricted and indeed it was the russian representative who sort of took over the conversation secondly remember that if protocol was followed these people should have been interviewed by the o.p.c. dublin spector's first before they appeared on t.v. before they were presented to this body but the russians made sure that the inspectors did not get to these folks first that means that they may have already

been approached they may have already been told or coerced into that we don't know that for sure but it does mean that when the inspectors approach them they cannot be sure that they're going to get a full story is a risky strategy absolutely and of the russians reply for precisely the reasons that you mention their statements and their testimony is going to be scrutinized robustly particularly by the a b c w who is to do you think that it is perhaps a bit too soon to completely dismiss out of hand everything there were every detail that was said about what took place in demand given the fact that you know an investigation is still is still ongoing. let me go back to what started this and what i know from sources in dumont from sources who were nearby on the night of the attack doctors first responders local journalists activists residents also the about eighty five people were killed and hundreds were wounded by two types of

chemical attacks by helicopters only one side has helicopters in the conflict ever since them for the past nineteen days the effort by the russians and by the assad regime has been to try to sweep that original story away is not necessarily to convince us that when there was no chemical attack but more to say that we will never know the truth truth for certain because let me have one other thing this is beyond the witnesses but russian personnel went into the side of the attackers very soon after they occurred and according to local sources and i trust these local sources the russians removed evidence in other words the attempt was there to try to cover up what had taken place does it mean that we will be one hundred percent sure that is sars you carried out these attacks no we won't be because an inspection has been blocked by the russians but what we saw today there are in a bloodless lifting still says in conflicting eyewitness reports as to what happened but of course the investigation into what took place there in the syrian

town of duma. get it to hear the findings of that but really do appreciate your views today scott lucas joining us there from birmingham. military commander of eastern libya after his return to benghazi after spending two weeks in paris for medical treatment seventy five year old was greeted with a red carpet as he stepped off a flight from cairo in the past fortnight there's been speculation of a half those health and possible successors to the commander who is the most powerful figure in the east of the country. reports from nigeria say boko haram fighters have tried to storm the northeastern city of my degree gunfire and blasts were heard in the outskirts of the city earlier this month boko haram fighters clash with soldiers in an attack that left at least fifteen people dead meanwhile nigeria's president mohammed who bihari has been summoned by the senate to testify about the government's response to a spate of recent communal killings violence erupted between cattle herders and farmers in

a central nigerian community on tuesday where at least eighteen people were killed yes collation has raised questions about the government's ability to maintain security. and they've been huge protests across spain off to five men were cleared of the gang rape of a woman at the two thousand and sixteen pump loanable running festival after a five month trial the men who belong to a whatsapp group called the wolf pack were convicted of the lesser crime of sexual abuse and given nine year sentences hundreds of protesters gathered outside the court challenging it's not abused its right. there's nothing some for mina's is a party the people that come must come to enjoy but not to do the wolfpack to. their animals and the mullahs because so for more on this we can speak to meghan beat lee a journalist from barcelona who's been covering this case thank you very much for speaking to us can you explain to us help us to understand why people are so angry about the sentencing. well business social salt is

a big issue in spain like it is and most parts of the world but it's heavily under reported here and this is a case made headlines for the past two years and while i think many people unfortunately were not hoping to see a verdict that would actually see the men face justice it just confirms what made it will leave that the justice system will not defend women facing these kinds of situations and can you just explain from what we know of the case. the men were convicted of the lesser crime of sexual abuse why why was this conclusion reached it's a very second conclusion the whole case really hinged on proving whether or not the victim and consented to having sex with these men through trial the defense tried to prove various ways that the woman i'm concerned having sex and only later

growing embarrassed by the news wanted to change her mind they did this by presenting a piece of evidence such as socially your post up or ostensibly believe a normal life free of trauma. which many people found pretty repulsive and so the difference between sexual abuse and what they call here aggression or rape is that use of violence or intimidation which the magistrate that the judge has concluded the men did not use on this woman in order to have sex with her can you tell us what happened to the woman according to her testimony that he years ago during the running of the bulls festival she met these men who are strangers to her poor at the event they led her to an alleyway and then proceeded to have sex with her before leaving the scene once she was alone she made her way to the streets and found people call for help. how prevalent avi's types of sexual

crimes that are in spain you are saying that it's an issue there and of course we have seen a movement online but we've seen it right across the globe tell us about the sort of cases that we see there. loosening her glint in festival such as the running of the bulls and many you know there's in fact a study recently said that spain was at the bottom of the list in europe of countries in which women felt free to report these cases. thank you very much meghan bailey for a brain more context information around that particular case in the issue thank you . now a jury in the u.s. state of pennsylvania has found active bill cosby guilty on all counts in his sexual assault retrial the eight year old comedian once known as america's dad was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting a female friend at his philadelphia home in two thousand and four be lashed out and

yell profanities at the prosecutor it all stem to be taken into custody immediately i feel like i'm in humanity is restored. this is a victory not just for the commonwealth of pennsylvania not just for the them in the case on your consulate not just for the sixty two of us publicly known to. survive for the bill cosby's drug to still take it is that you all crimes against women but it's also a victory for all sexual assault the buyers the bell and mail it is a bit deeper womanhood so i have for you on the program and i have all the latest from amin e.o.f. protests to say new elections have to be called then his plans major crowd control measures as the italian city prepares for an influx of large numbers of tourists this weekend. and in sport rafael nadal aims to extend his record breaking high turnout we'll have that story and more.

hello we are still hanging on to some pretty warm weather into the balkans is ing over towards the black sea east and 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 a lot of there were raving about the twenty seven that we saw here further south when they were that twenty seven twenty four their form of trade for the time being central as well is where the heat is twenty nine cells 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 rain a little warmer less cold so we say in the london twelve cells it is spring after

all eighteen imagery to the temperatures to fall away here and 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 i would for a little bit of cloud there into northern areas of a little bit of where the easing away from here twenty three celsius in chivas that's a bloody shower as they were towards the sinai peninsula recently but it's hot in cairo at thirty one degrees. disillusioned with life in their own countries since the arab spring and looking desperately for a new sense of identity freedom and self worth let me in anyway i don't feel like system my own country the country dreamed about demonstrated for and sought to achieve many things al-jazeera world hears the stories of those deciding to emigrate in search of a new life and nationality passport to freedom at this time. discover

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story face to face meeting between the leaders of north and south korea so the talks will ease tensions out of the meeting between kim and the u.s. president donald trump they to this year. ronnie jackson donald trump's personal doctor a nominee for u.s. veteran affairs secretary is which is 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 a chemical weapons watchdog to support their claim that the alleged gas attack in duma was fake. the stories we're following a palestinian journalist who was shot by israeli forces whilst covering protests at the gaza border has been laid to rest. saying died on wednesday from injuries he sustained while covering a protest two weeks ago around a thousand people attended his funeral in gaza it's the second journalist killed by israeli gunfire since protests in the region began late last month. and thousands of palestinians joined another mass funeral in gaza for an engineer who was shot

dead in malaysia last week a mass member. was laid to rest shortly on for his body was returned to gaza through the egyptian border stephanie decker has more from jabalya. a large crowd who started out here in just my year to pay their respects to. botch the body. inside that most of the grief we are is that it was highly highly are you the political leader. now that the street clearly is almost a week ago now in the malaysian capital bamako close by to oh no you got man on a motorcycle the body. is now leaving the. coffin being escorted by the ceremonial. police the. crowd here. was the to be taken to task cemetery where

he will be buried the it's taken a while to get the body of the off across the. course of the job by egypt only a couple of hours the let you listen to the. hearing the message from the leadership of the house is that they are really countable one of the senior leaders. israel of course denies any and acts in the catholic. church but the feeling is one of the thousands of people have now made their way to the cemetery where the body has been laid to rest you can hear gunfire in salutes to friday. now come back home he was born. and he's now been buried here nineteen ages have died in flash floods in southern israel during a hiking trip to the south of the dead sea the truckers who were from

a pretty military academy was swept away by the sudden heavy rains with seventy seven others left in a critical condition military helicopters and security forces have been scouring the zakat river bed in the remote valleys of the new get negev desert for another student who is still missing. or heavy rains has caused widespread flooding in cape town which is in the midst of its west drought in a century roads were blocked and properties flooded across the south african city but the rains of offered some relief to cape town residents who are facing major water restrictions off to two of the driest years on record authorities warn the city could run completely dry this year if winter rain failed to arrive but those fears have now eased. amin his opposition leader has invited the country's acting prime minister for talks out of an expected vote in parliament next week to decide who will be the country's next leader it called passion young led a protest movement that forced former prime minister sarkozy on to resign and now

passion and says he's ready to lead the country from yerevan robin forrester walker reports. that his movement a driven to aim for the republican party's grip. they believe it and. even the head of the church have profited at the expense of its citizens. students' work to knock out the party's control of the education system probably. start students who become members of the republican party receive privileges and get benefits the student fees on the lower your work trips to those locations in turn ships so there is discrimination between an ordinary citizen and republican. students have built her group to the opposition movement frustrated by the prospects of graduation and the republican party rule officially ten percent of the

population has ever greats and over the past decade they leave them to russia where remittances they send home are an economic lifeline. russia may help decide the outcome of the current political struggle with the media's closest ally provides a security guarantee against hostile labors turkey and azerbaijan russian foreign minister sergey lavrov met his counterpart in moscow on stage for their part opposition leaders also helps weeks with russian officials this week crucial to the success of this movement is the opinion of that amir putin's kremlin publicly it is recognised that this political crisis is an internal affair and not some perceived western backed color revolution there are two reasons for russia being a troll one is that they realize there meaning need security alliance with russia and there's a consensus in their meaning that whatever happens and you or me i'm going will

have to work with russia and the second reason is that russia learned lessons from ukraine they learned that supporting an unpopular ruler is not going to help but. it's ruling elite has both a hostile public and old ally that seems to be keeping out of the way the first of all how to see. the french government has launched a plan it says will tackle the discrimination and deprivation faced by people living in por suburban areas about ten percent of france's population live in regions with high unemployment crime and poverty it was at the launch of a new strategy in paris. what the man behind this report former ministers only bono says that what is needed is a big bang for the suburbs a completely new way of thinking now bono was tasked by the president a man on mark want to come up with recommendations on how to improve life for people in some of france's poorest districts now probably says the what the french

state must do is stop seeing the suburbs and as a problem but as a solution a source of opportunity he says what's needed is an investment of fifteen billion euros on education literacy vegetal literacy mobility transportation jobs and apprenticeship schemes and also urban renovation better housing facilities he wants to see that the suburbs become hot spots of excellence and education culture and sports where we visited one suburb in the town of heaven in normandy and we spoke to residents. like many towns in france ever has a charming historical center but on the outskirts the districts crammed with social housing unemployment is high here and people's hopes for the future are low or looking mean some local officials wants to improve things but it is not easy to get the government invests in northwestern happen will ever change here it's always the

same there's no jobs regional council address at azeri is trying to bring change he has a vision of areas like this prospering. with it all and. we are building houses that people can buy. successive governments have tried and failed to address the problems in the suburbs president emanuel marc calls government is proposing a new action plan it's consulted local officials like greece at a salary to find out how best to invest in jobs transport and education he says what's needed is a whole new approach. from america we have to stop. only is a poor is a bore and keeping all the ethnic communities together putting everyone in towers we need to explode yes we have sinking we need to scatter social osing throat towns were to serious need to be liked and it was a part of rent some say one answer is to stop seeing people in the suburbs as a problem but rather as a solution. this company trains people in laying fiber optic cables in the bosses

say there's a huge advantage to being in this area because there are plenty of young people who need work. support and many people who have been marginalized in life unlucky himself competence so we told him look this is a cure it could be a solution you're capable you can learn of and most of these trainees are unemployed but nearly all are expected to find work after the course. heard about this from someone who'd done this training before he told me it was great he advised me to take it up because it be easy to find a job afterwards to what extent the government's new plan will change the suburbs and improve their image is unclear what people want here is to be reconnected to a society that they feel has forgotten them natasha butler al jazeera if. now venice is planning unprecedented crowd control measures which will separate

tourists from locals in the city this may day holiday weekend visitors driving over the main bridge into the city might be stopped if they have not reserved a space in one of the car parks if the main pedestrian routes to the popular reale to bread jensen mark's square gets too busy tourist will be diverted down alternative streets leaving the main roads free for locals and approaching st marks from the water will also be tricky as boats will not be allowed to more near the square either so for more on this i'm joined in the studio by simon calder his travel editor of the independent newspaper in the a thanks very much for coming in to speak to us i saw you looking at that map very intently of these measures aimed at why is this happening well this is a no i think pretty squarely not the sort of people who might be thinking let's fly to venice for a romantic weekend it's aimed at people from maybe slovenia maybe from austria.

maybe but various in southern germany who with a public holiday weekend coming up are thinking great let's jump in the car will find a cheap hotel and then we'll just drive into venice for the day which is going to be very very crowded and the idea is it's really just kind of we don't need you we don't want you particularly if you're a day visit or you're not pretty much to the party and so therefore we're going to make love to serve a little bit uncomfortable which i think is very sad because of course you saw that you showed that map and these tourist route you're going to be following the joy of venice is actually stepping away from the tourist trail no it sounds as though we might not be able to do that it's interesting that they that they will be prevented from doing that it's not just pedestrians that will be diverted to alternative routes it's also you know one of the main things about then this is being in the boats and that's going to be restricted as well is this i mean is this necessary for public safety is this extreme that they have cited public safety i'm not sure that's the case it's simply yes there needs to be crowd control but there's other

ways of doing it i mean the thing is as we saw from the geography of venice it's perfectly possible to levy some kind of charge here maybe between april and september you say anybody coming into venice which you can only get to either by water or by rail or across the pond. or. everyone has to pay ten euros per person that means if you want to go there free just go between them october a march i mean it is one of the most gorgeous places on the planet of course and many of us want to go and see it but i think probably managing demand suppressing it with we money is probably fairer than just say right we'll let you go but you only have to walk down these particular streets is there a president for precedence for this as it happened elsewhere in other cities in europe no but over tourism is very much being talked about in

a number of cities. particularly dubrovnik the pearl of the a.t.f. take its no need something croatia they have a serious problem with cruise ships if you get two or three large ships docking at the same time then tens of about ten thousand people can all be poor used to the old town at the same time barcelona have been lots of protests about the way that the peer to peer. accommodation sites are spoiling the the the place for real citizens and on the other to majorca as well and we've even had suntory in the beautiful greek island say enough is enough too many cruise ships but that's fine if you're an island and you don't want so many cruise ships just say no but of course many of the traders will say yes please send to suborn. thank you very much simon calder appreciate it from the travel editor of the u.k.'s independent newspaper. well the holiday island of baraka in the philippines has been closed for a six month clean up terrorists have been banned from the island while the

authorities improve the infrastructure and volunteers remove rubbish from the once pristine beaches president roger go to terra teo ordered to shut down this month after calling the result a cesspool critics say it's an overreaction affecting people who depend on the island for their jobs. it's painful for us to lose our jobs and it's also sort of even though i don't have my own family i support my siblings now this is happened we can't do anything but accept it. for us our a plastic promise on forty british companies out to slash their use of harmful packaging and it's for the bron james proves timing is everything is his teammate and live in the n.b.a. playoffs. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together.

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forty two u.k. companies including major supermarkets of page to tackle pollution by committing to cutting class to ease over the next seven years they signed up to the u.k. plastics packs a promise to make all their plastic packaging reusable we cyclable possible by two thousand and twenty five china and explains. where 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 but not on those will be fully reusable recyclable and some possible now these companies account for eighty percent of the

plastic packaging used in u.k. supermarkets so the impact could be in the room and the prime minister to reason may has promised to eliminate avoidable plastic waste by twenty to forty two is part of the 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 of humanity is public concern about plastic waste that is driving the agenda it's being called the blue planet effect after the television series by so david asman which is expose the impact of plastic on aussies and wildlife and the critics say that this new tax is just bought and true there's no way of forcing it the public is limited to change already seeing people replacing their plastic shopping bags for reusable close ones and taking their daily coffee in a reusable called expecting retailers to commit to trying to time now for the sport

with santa. thank you very much marion watch that accommodate scored what could be a crucial way a goal in the first leg of their european league semifinal with arsenal the game in london finished one all i think or how the play and their code diego simeone it sent off just ten minutes into the game arsenal took the lead in the second haul for through alexander has it but entendres mun scored a late equaliser for the spanish team the return leg is in madrid next week. have taken control of the other semifinal they beat r.b.s. ellsberg to nail in front of. united's manager says play will be listened to before they proceed with their controversial to me a ma on the second to english team are due to play two games in a country that's been accused of human rights abuses against its right into minority we have to go and do our job. so if there are

concerns they have to be legitimate concerns and then there has to be things put in place to get those concerns and not double the process so that it won't be down to me saying no to you know going to be something legitimate and maybe concerned about and then the pope will put in nine days. well the clinic's has announced a new rules that could mean a women know with naturally high testosterone levels that having to compete against men the decision is likely to have an impact on south africa's elim pick and roll champion caster semenya to mania was subjected to a gender test by world medics in two thousand and nine and was banned from competing for almost a year under these rules it's likely she will have to take medication to lower her to the floor levels or change events the decision comes into effect on the first.

while the either they say the ruling will ensure fair competition and is the result of two years of scientific research it only applies to running events between four hundred metres and the fifteen thousand one thousand five hundred metres the mania competes in the eight hundred and one thousand five hundred watt affected athletes who want to participate must take medication for at least six months the alternatives include running longer distance events or against men. well caster semenya hasn't officially responded to the rule changes a but she did tweet this message i'm ninety seven percent sure you don't like me but i'm one hundred percent sure i don't care. only i spoke to sports writer michael robotham a who's covered the last seven summer olympics he says the mania has already hinted she may switch to running longer distances. well when she she ran in

the gold coast recently she was. winner as expected in the eight she also won the fifty other major. she said afterwards that she talked about going on longer runs and how she could see in so moving feeding into longer running were to risk a little bit of a hint of where i want to start maybe because the obvious option that she has if she is unable she can either take the medication which would be prescribed for athletes with higher levels levels of fun or. not. offering to have the choice to take up medication or for prefer not to. know internationally or they can join the ranks very say or of course she could the only . events that the scar can swear should be done so she'd look to the five thousand to ten thousand now she'd be taking medication maybe but she's still

very far to say that she couldn't have some of the successes that. longer distances are how those into the last eight at the barcelona open the world number one that beat the game all garcia lopez and straight sets it's been almost a year since the bell has even dropped a set on clay he won his thirty ninth and fortieth consecutive sets and this latest one. the bron james and the cleveland cavaliers are just one win away from advancing to the second round of the n.b.a. playoffs the team scored forty five points in game five against the indiana pacers in the bronx and reach a point that the buzz that in this event the trick ninety eight hundred ninety five for fifty. years as a kid you always had those like those three two one moments you know you keep being able to have one of those moments and that's what it kind of feel like feel like i

was a kid all over again just. you know playing basketball. and. you know i would you know makeshift hoops and you know my socks as a basketball and you know making the noise you know. that's just what it felt like the bulls on their car though it says it's still too early and the season to know if his team can compete with her are you must see this for the world title when the drivers are now in azerbaijan ahead of the fourth goal employee of the year one the last race in time no attempt to leave this of us in vettel ferarri finishing down an ace i'm not thinking about the chairmanship in that sense obviously i want to think about being there. but yeah it's naturally because we won never unlike all can you fight for the chairmanship now but it's still early but i think we proved if we're there we can do a lot with it. the boston bruins have eliminated the toronto maple leafs from the

n.h.l. playoffs the bruins that came into a game seven of their first round series in boston they scored four goals in a row to beat the leaves seven four includes the series four plate. and that's it for me back to maria. thanks very much sana well now an update to all non top story the north korean leader kim jong un has left pyongyang for that historic summit with his south korean counterpart lungi in official reports from the case c.n.a. news agency saying that he is committed to an open and frank discussion and to achieving peace prosperity and reunification of the korean peninsula will have the law on that summit which is that get underway in just a couple of hours from now and.

just. as it approaches its first year how has the gulf crisis affected the states of the gulf cooperation council are there any indications of resolution. what is the nature of the new regional and international alliances amid the raging conflict in the middle east. will increasing social unrest lead to a new revolutionary wave in the arab world. as the countdown for the end of the palestinian cause started what is the likelihood of. excess of that which is known as the deal of the century. what role has the media played in the region's issues.

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