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zero. carry this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes john prepares to be the first ever north korean leader to cross the border meeting south korea's president. for historic summit. demonstrations in armenia as the opposition keeps up its push for power with more talks planned for friday. russia bring syria including children to the hague to back its denial of a chemical weapons attack in june. and the u.s. court finds entertainer bill cosby guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home.

the countdown is on to the historic face to face meeting between north korean leader kim jong un and south korea's president moon j.n. kemas left and is on his way to the meeting which is due to get underway in about an hour and will greet cam as he crosses into the southern side of panama june border village little sky a range of issues including pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs chamber james space that is joins us live now from pleasure so james can you give us a bit of a a bit of a rundown about how this is supposed to play out today james can hear me. it appears that james i we have not connected to him but james has been doing extensive reporting preparing for the summit for the past week or so so here is her support and we'll connect with him in a moment. when you walk around pyongyang everywhere you seem to go you hear military music blaring from shops and loudspeakers some of the drums beating

particularly heavily it was arguably the tensas time on the korean peninsula in decades september north korean foreign minister re yong 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 in 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 us 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 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 otoh 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. al-jazeera pyongyang. and now we have connected with our change space who is live in pause you and james the question i want to put to you is if you can kind of give us a quick rundown of how this is supposed to play out today some of it obviously will be very very public other parts will not can you give us a quick rundown. it's been very very carefully planned very well choreographed and it's already underway because kim jong un has already

left pyongyang on his journey down towards the d.m.z. the demilitarized zone we're expecting then in to come along this highway behind me making his way to the other side supreme leader kim and then will be taken by car to the north korean side he will then wark between some huts there's a series of hearts which are actually built across the demarcation line in fact at least one of those hearts has a meeting table where in the past north koreans and south koreans as well as the u.s. have met to discuss problems in that room off the table is in north korea half the table is in south korea while supreme leader kim will not actually be going in that room he'll be walking between two of the huts known as team two and t three the c. stands for temporary although they've been there for a very long time and then halfway between their hearts there is

a concrete line at that point he will step over that concrete line meaning that he becomes the first north korean leader in history since the korean war to enter south korea that's never happened before he'll walk a little further than to what's known as the peace house and that is where they're going to have substantial discussions over the coming hours it's a long series of discussions two different sessions a morning session and an afternoon session of course this isn't the first time that there have been talks between the north and the south it is the first time a north korean leader has come to south korea although we only go one hundred fifty meters inside south korea for this visit there were two previous summits and they did make some minor improvements to the situation some achievements from those some . long term it's been a history of failed diplomacy as my colleague you know about reports.

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 junge 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. long 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. 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 to monroe 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 green 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 entire career and summit kathy novak al-jazeera soul. well since you've heard kathy novak there talking about the south korean president we've seen him i told you he was about to be on the move these are pictures of his convoy leaving the blue house that's the presidential palace in seoul on his way past where i am to

the meeting at the d.m.z. as he left the blue house he was greeted by supporters certainly many people very happy about the efforts that he's carrying out here his approval ratings and fluttered around a bit but they are still pretty high and worth remembering that this is a president who's only been office for less than a year and whose previous sesa certainly was not popular like this and certainly was discredited and eventually impeached and sent to prison all right james it's going to be a busy and busy night and it's a morning say close i'll come back to you shortly thank you. plenty more head on the news hour and clearing. more controversy for members of us president donald trump's administration. in sport the world change that could result in female athletes with high testosterone levels having to race against men

. in. the white house has released photos of the new u.s. secretary of state meeting the north korean leader i pompei i travel to pyongyang earlier this month as the cia director to lay the groundwork for a meeting between kemp and u.s. president on a trump pump aoe is now on his way to a nato meeting in brussels before visiting the middle east for the u.s. senate confirmed him as a top u.s. diplomat fifty seven votes to forty two and german chancellor angela merkel will visit the white house on friday as expected to urge donald trump to stay in the iran nuclear deal but the trip could be overshadowed by first controversy in the trump administration such as the white house doctors alleged drunk driving and lavish spending by his environmental protection agency administrator. 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 is a great man and a lot of going to be very very rarely he gets treated really unfairly 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 trump is going to join us live 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 mueller he was asked if he'll speak to investigators looking into whether his twenty sixteen campaign colluded with moscow i've taken a position and i don't have to take this position and maybe i'll change that 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. a u.s. senate committee has approved a bipartisan bill to protect special counsel robert muller from being fired by donald trump the president has repeatedly attacked mahler's investigation into alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election but the bill is highly unlikely to be passed into law senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has said he won't allow a vote on it and from what almost certainly refused to sign it into law armenia's parliament expected to hold an extraordinary session in the coming days to vote for a new prime minister. into a political crisis this week after former prime minister stepped down following major anti-government protests parliament says a vote will be held next tuesday to elect a new leader or nirvana robin forrester walker reports. and his movement a driven aims the republican party's grip. on five out of them but they believe it

and. even the head of the church of. students work to knock out the party's control of the education system. the students who become members of the republican party receive privileges benefits the student fees all knowing your work trips to those locations in turn ships so there is discrimination between an ordinary citizen and republican. students who didn't take root in your position we've been frustrated by the prospects of graduation on the republican party rule. said the population has emigrates into over the past decade many of them to russia where remittances they send home are an economic lifeline. russia may help decide the outcome of the current political struggle with. i mean his closest ally provides

a security guarantee against hostile labour's turkey and as a price russian foreign minister sergey lavrov met his armenian counterpart in moscow on the state for their part opposition leaders also help talks with russian officials this week crucial to the success of this movement is the opinion of since 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 their 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. i mean it's ruling elite has both a hostile public and an old ally that seems to be keeping out of the way robert

first to walk out his ear here for. a vigil has been held in nicaragua capital proposed testers have died in anti-government demonstrations and human rights office says some of them may have been unlawfully killed by security forces rights groups say at least thirty seven people have died the violence began last way from president daniel ortega floated a plan to overhaul pensions and the welfare system russia's taken a number of syrians including children to the headquarters of the chemical weapons watch talk to support its denial of an attack in the city and to match the witnesses were presented to the ok 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. another level. we were in the basement we heard cries in the street that we should go to the hospital we got scared 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. but it's lowered to me they've distributed fake footage sent out by the fake humanitarians called the white helmets we've seen it all we saw the a boran scenes of choking children choking victims of poisoning right after the seventh of april the grand propaganda machine of the western trio came into action the u.k. the u.s. and france so they got to go has more 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 in june when the alleged attack took place but what was quite striking is about 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 fix 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 the rule quite short there were very similar in terms of what they were saying a lot of the people that were presented there were working out the whole spittle 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. thousands of palestinians have attended the funeral of an engineer shot dead in malaysia last week

a mosque member was laid to rest shortly after his body was returned to gaza through the egyptian border stuff more from jabalya. a large crowd who turned out here in general you know to pay their respects to. the box the body you inside that mosque in the belief you were there is that if i knew the political leader ahmad sadri i'll tell you oh you know we go now in the malaysian capital m. common room for my two under you gunmen you want to modify the body of fact he. is now leaving the. coffin being escorted by the ceremonial police the. crowd here. was her to be taken to the cemetery where he will be buried. it's taken a while to get out of the body of the offer crossing. which is the south by egypt

and would couple of hours ago the news it was in the the people here in the masses of the leadership of hamas is that they are really countable and one of the senior leaders that israel. is israel of course denies any and. and the killing of the saudis but certainly the feeling is one of anger her the thousands of people have now made their way to the cemetery where the body has been laid to rest you can hear gunfire and salutes to. show who's now come back home he was born in jabalya and he's now been buried here . earlier the funeral also took place for a palestinian journalist who was shot by israeli forces while covering protests at the border twenty four year old hussein died on wednesday from injuries he

sustained during demonstrations two weeks ago he wearing a protective vest marked press at the protest hussein was the second journalist to be killed by israeli gunfire in a month they are special coordinator for the middle east peace process has called for deescalation in the region and its briefing to the security council nicholai a lot and offer urged all parties to step back from the brink there was wide ranging criticism of israel's action against demonstrators and gossip but also a spirited defense from the israeli ambassador and his u.s. ally mike hanna reports from the united nations investigation the security council chamber was packed as always in these quarterly briefings a number of observers ranging from the e.u. to the vatican taking part and looming over proceedings the ever escalating crisis in gaza where the death toll continues to rise among those demonstrating on the border with israel israel must calibrate its use of force and minimize the use of life lethal force should be used only as

a last resort hamas and the leaders of the demonstrations must keep protesters away from the gaza fence and prevent all violent actions and provocations the israeli ambassador maintained israel was exercising its right of self-defense even have an obligation to both there can i will citizens and we will do so well minimizing civilian casualties to the other side. the fact is that despite these impossible conditions the vast majority of those killed were confirmed members of the ruth organization no acknowledgement of that among the dead on number of children with an explanation of this left to israel's prime defender in the council the u.s. says always leaping to the defense of its close ally the ambassador claiming that how much should bear the responsibility for the children killed or injured anyone

who truly cares about children and gaza should insist that hamas immediately stop using children as cannon fodder in its conflict with israel the palestinian representative was adamant that the demonstrations are legitimate protest against continued israeli occupation and see why is the occupying power source or prized that the people would rise up to demand their dignity and freedom why is it so outraged that people would use all possible peaceful means to bring an end to its persecution at the end of the meeting it appeared the words of the special coordinator at the beginning all but forgotten his plea that everyone in the middle east needs to step back from the brink and heard or ignored by some means to join the mike hanna al-jazeera united nations. nineteen agers 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 were swept away by sudden heavy rains with seven others left and critical condition military helicopters and security forces had earlier declared the teenagers missing as they searched the riverbed in the remote desert and. at least twelve children have been killed in northern india when a train hit their school van the driver of the vehicle also died in happened at a rail crossing in the town a christian our other children were injured they were on their way to school and jarius senate has summoned president muhammadu buhari to testify about the government's response to recent communal killings on tuesday at least eighteen people died in violence between muslim cattle herders and christian farmers in benue state the government's been criticised for failing to maintain security u.k. politicians have approved a motion calling for the government to pursue a customs union in brixton negotiations the vote puts pressure on prime minister

theresa may who has ruled out the u.k. remaining in the terror free zone after leaving the block this country being false to experiment all the people's pressure with a free trade policy yes but we do not know what the costs will be the constituents of businesses in this country you might say is my faulty if we undermine and ignore the evidence for peace in northern ireland and we undermine the business of. party people in this country we will not be forgiven for j a u k labor m.p. cooper says britain must remain inside the customs union to ensure free movement of trade. at four hundred the reason our own of all the families to friends in ireland six thousand mores and eight thousand pounds which is to win from across the border without even breaking from athens to ever space from your woman's to scottish salmon britain does more than two hundred and fifty

billion pounds of export trade with european countries every year those businesses don't get stuck to the buddha don't pay for terry still pay an extra forms they can just say oh on through that is the friction the straight is so many of our manufacturing jobs depend on facebook has promised to be more transparent about political advertising in the u.k. its chief technology officer my chauffeur was questioned by a british parliamentary committee on the data leak involving cambridge analytic that is the firm accused of accessing the information of millions of facebook users without their permission he told the committee that facebook will require political ads to be clearly labeled. still ahead on al-jazeera more than forty british companies including major supermarkets pledged to cut using plastic by twenty twenty five. million to people on low incomes and you know that are about to be hit by the truck administration. and sport find out who's got the formula one world

title leader and his site. how i was still got something of a mixed bag of weather across north america still some rather heavy rainfall some light a spell of which is where the reason the price is the pulling away from the middle and six days up into that northeastern corner becomes the next one of the area here just spilling off the planes coming out of the rockies easing down towards the deep south and as we go on through thursday some bacon found was certainly a possibility common of the possibility of the odd tornado coming through as well but some just picking up ahead of that they say could be up to twenty celsius eighteen celsius in new york there will be some cloud of right just around maine pushing up into that eastern side of kind of the thirteen celsius for auto fire dry and sunny for toronto at about thirteen degrees for the west about twenty six in

seattle before back to around sixteen for friday often in well the tribe either though the one thing that we can be policed about so we're looking at a lot of dry weather to central pos by friday but the west the weather will make its way back towards stacie and seeing over towards a bit lad two states north carolina was saying some of that wet weather but further south with suspect they will stay fine and jobs and pleasant sunshine coming through the sunshine as per usual across the caribbean but we have still got some showers set to continue across the greater antilles so much of the week. the fact. hopeless on the planet and one that could soon be lost forever with an international team of scientists is determined not to let that happen without intervention. i would say to a vast now it's

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are watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now south korean president moon jan has left his residence in seoul he is on his way to that historic meeting with north korea's kim jong il it will break him as he crosses into the southern side of the damage on the border village and will discuss a range of issues including pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs. thousands of anti-government protesters are again demonstrating in armenia parliament has called and extraordinary session next week to vote on a new prime minister former leader search for q.c. and step down following days of protests russia has taken a number of syrians to the headquarters of a chemical weapons watchdog to support its claim that the gas attack and zuma was a fake more than forty people died in that suspect attack on april seventh. ok let's get more now on that historic meeting on the korean peninsula what exactly

will happen when these two leaders meet so kim jong un will travel into the demilitarized zone under very tight security to meet and making him the first north korean leader to cross the border since the korean war came will be flanked by nine officials including his sister who led. into this year's winter olympics after a meeting in the morning came in and will have lunch and planetree using soil from both countries and then the day will wind up with a dinner and a movie called spring of one under me and joins us now via skype from san francisco he is a north korea specialist an adjunct fellow at griffith asia institute he's also author of north korea and me and mark divergent paths and we appreciate your time very much what you say was the turning point that even opened the door for this particular summit to happen particularly considering where we were as an international community last year with all of the missile tests well there were

a number of turning points i think trumps very fiery speech at the u.n. general assembly made not only north korea but also those allies south korea nervous about the prospects of a conflict on the insula then kim's speech at the end of twenty seventeen where he declared his nuclear force complete and the moon's very carefully put together state craft where he used the olympics in order to foster a period of the tongue which conversation could take place being rolled important markers on the way to to this summit ok so let's talk about the summit what what would you say are realistic expectations of what could come out of this well. basically the two koreas can't really address the issue of denuclearization which sits at the core of the current iteration of the crisis on

the korean peninsula that is really an issue that can only be addressed by washington and pyongyang directly so i think what they'll do is they'll reaffirm some kind of commitment to the nuclear is a shame but leave the specifics. in the hands of donald trump's team that's that's working on the u.s. north korea summit but they are going to announce a number of other measures. those won't include economic exchanges or economic interactions because again jane knows that he can't violate u.n. or u.s. sanctions but i think we'll see things like humanitarian exchanges perhaps separated families being exchanged medical projects in the north there's there's a really there's another problem with t.v. that has flowed up in the last few years i think south korea would like to help and then cultural and sports exchanges that will continue this sort of goodwill

momentum that we've seen for the last couple months was that are the most pressure at this summit i mean it would seem to have become perhaps not i don't know. you know there's been a lot of debate in the press and among pundits about whether or not conjunction is approaching this from a position of weakness or a position of strength and i think the answer is that it's a little bit of both he does want to get out from under the sanctions regime that north korea's currently under. that regime does impact the spending power and quality of life of the classes that are most important to kim jong un. but also he did declare his nuclear force complete and demonstrated a high degree of proficiency but their long range missile technology last year and so i think he's in a comfortable position although he would do very well for himself and. the elite

appearing young if you can find a breakthrough here when jane you know he has a props a trickier set of concerns not only does he have to keep an eye on the united states and work what the u.s. is most concerned about but he also has to manage domestic politics in a way that of course conjunction does not so there are mid-term elections coming up in in the near future and if the summit goes well certainly that will give a boost to his party and his allies and he also needs to to make sure you know that this could be legacy building for him as well so there's a short term thing that he's focused on and then in the long term this goes well it will be extremely positive for his legacy absolutely when there's a when there's a democracy you do have to answer to people absolutely. abrahamian thank you so much for your insight will be calling on you again thank you thanks. actor bill cosby has been found guilty on all counts in a sexual assault or rape trial

a jury convicted the eighteen year old comedian of drugging and sexually assaulting a female friend at his home in two thousand and four john hendren has more. america's dad is now a convicted sex offender we are so happy that finally we can say. women are believed and not only on hash tag me too but in a court of law where they were under oath where they testified truthfully where they were attacked where they were smeared where they were denigrated. bill cosby. three words for you guilty guilty a get out that. the jury found bill cosby guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting andrea konstantinov his home fourteen years ago we are very disappointed by the verdict we don't they mr cross was guilty of anything and apply it is not over ending a late life spiral for

a barrier busting icon of american entertainment now silent we're. going to. the jury was apparently moved by testimony from five of caused more than fifty other accusers and i feel hot i like to get. the feeling i'm dreaming i feel like i. i feel like my faith in humanity is restored he is now the highest profile member of a rogues gallery of famous american men brought down by a chorus of accusers including producer harvey weinstein actor kevin spacey and news presenter matt lauer cosby fell from the last of heights he was a track star at temple university one of the first black t.v. stars bill cosby here in vale of bankable spokesman he's. the many voices of a tremble. using cartoon highlighting african-american kids little a groundbreaking black comedian who inspired those who follow us to build the show

thank. you kind of show and on the show that bore his name his fatherly advice and squeaky clean image earned him the title america's dad now faces up to ten years for each of the three convictions leaving the eighty year old to face nearly certain death in prison the fallen icon left with a show of defiance one last performance in a career that shattered the illusions of once adoring fans john hendren al-jazeera . behinds as an attorney and former baltimore city prosecutor she joins us from washington they say thank you so much for your time what was different and this trial compared to the other trial that that the jury arrived at a different verdict. i think there are a couple of things that were different the main thing that i think was different was really the meat to movement i think that usually whenever there's

a change in culture a change in thinking which usually doesn't take place in just a year but in this case the change was just overwhelming and once the public which is what the jury is made up of members of the public started seeing prominent men being brought down as a result of sexual allegations of sexual assault sexual harassment it became clearer that someone in the shoes of bill cosby could also be guilty now in our system of course the jury is not to really take into play anything that's outside of what's heard in the us in that courtroom but that's really an impossible task to just set aside what's happening in the country and really across the world in terms of the me to movement and hearing about all these other individuals that is the major change there with some other courtroom change so it's not just that

bill cost me changed his attorney he changed to the attorney mr mesereau who was the attorney tom mesereau who is the attorney who actually got a not guilty verdict for michael jackson in his sexual molestation trial but mr mansour oh i think he just overplayed his hand he was calling the victim a pathological liar he was saying this was like a lynching for me and as an african-american. finish that actually finish that sentence and then i want to pick up on what you know and then african-american i think i think to portray bill cosby's trial of the sexual assault case that of the lynching i mean that was disgusting to me so some of what you just said about what thomas said about the women who testified even now with this guilty verdict and with dozens and dozens of accusers there are still critics that will question the women or say yes but etc etc what would you say to people who say well why don't

women come forward sooner what do you say to people like that. i say it's very difficult i mean any woman who has had and there have been a lot of women including myself that i've never been sexually assaulted but i've been in situations where honestly years have gone by and i didn't tell anyone i'm not a psychologist i'm not a sociologist so i can't explain the why to that but i can say it's not uncommon whether it's because of shame or are just trying to put it past you were making pretended didn't happen i don't really know those reasons to tell people except that the reality is it happens and it's and they may perhaps be called a pathological liar by an attorney in a courtroom you know going forward because. now we're going to say well i think that was one of the things that cut against the bill and his defense because you

know what i always do is i let the jury come to those decisions they come to those the clues and so on themselves whenever you are i'd never say liar because when ever you call someone a liar even though we know they are maybe a liar it just is sometimes can be distasteful for the jury as opposed to letting them go back in the deliberations room and come to those decisions themselves so you put this in the context of the me too movement which obviously makes sense having said that going forward. how do you feel about what other cases might happen with other people that have been accused in this me too movement of it is there any reason for you to think that perhaps more women will get justice. you know issue of that's really a good question every case stands on its own merits i think that you can't take any parallel from the bill cosby case as to what would happen in other cases if his case had not been tried if constantia case had not been try with other five other

women who could basically support and under the law show that there is a pattern and a practice that mr cosby had i think that her case would have been not guilty if it was just her word against his word so you can always extrapolate what happened in bill cause case to what would happen in the future if other women bring charges because i think we still all family have the issue what he said she said he says it with consent she says it was not but in this case you had in the second trial you had five women who also supported what she said that it also had happened to them behinds thank you so much for joining us we appreciate it. thousands of people have been protesting across spain after a court cleared five min of raping a woman at the pump loanable running festival demonstrators south shouted shame and i believe you sister outside the justice ministry in madrid the men who were in a whatsapp group called the wolf pack were convicted of the lesser crime of sexual

abuse and given nine year sentences they recorded the attack on their phones and laughed about it afterwards you'll know some sort of this is not the running festival as a pastor and the people that come must come to enjoy it but not to do what the bills to animals the animals. about two million people in the u.s. who are on low incomes and receiving housing assistance are now expected to pay a lot more for their homes under the trump ministrations plan some of the poorest families may end up paying three times as much in rent christian salumi has more. nationwide some four million families rely on some form of federal assistance to pay for a place to live here in new york where there is a shortage of affordable housing tenants like samantha thompson are outraged by a proposal that could triple what many page month we are going to continue to fight to keep lots of cities because without them we will have a place to look at this

a sphere with the cost of going to give everybody a break that's ben carson she's talking about the u.s. secretary of housing and urban development better known as hud he made the proposal not long after being taken to task by congress for ordering a thirty one thousand dollars dining set for his office but he says the changes will simplify rent calculations and help control costs by raising the family monthly rent contribution from thirty percent of income to thirty five percent of income before tax the cap for the poorest families would rise from fifty dollars a month to about one hundred fifty three times higher according to hud that will affect around seven hundred twelve thousand households the changes will impact tenants not only in public housing complexes like this one but also those who receive subsidies for privately owned apartments the trumpet ministration says their goal is to give people an incentive to get higher paying jobs but housing advocates say it's the higher paying jobs that are lacking not the incentive to

work. our public housing residents here in new york city the majority of households have a working member this is not the problem the problem is that with work come or static wages and that's why low income families can continue to afford to keep up with private rental housing and the proposal comes after the president signed a tax cut bill that mainly benefits corporations in the very wealthy he says this will help workers by growing the economy but critics like city council member richie torres see it differently so i think the administration's policies represent an assault on the social safety net and the president seems intent on redistributing wealth from those in greatest need so those who have the greatest privilege and wealth congress will have to approve the plan however intense as well as local officials are vowing to take the fight to their representatives to stop it

kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. more than forty companies in the united kingdom a pledge to get rid of unnecessary plastic packaging in a bid to tackle pollution the businesses which include major british supermarkets have signed up to eliminate single use plastics by twenty twenty five they say by then all packaging should be reusable cyclable and. the voluntary plan politicians consider changing the way supermarkets pay for collecting and recycling plastic waste charlie angelo reports. were outside tesco is one of forty two british companies 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 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 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 its 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 expose the impact of plastic on aussies and wildlife and the critics say that this new tax is just voluntary 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 to trains. thank

you very much atletico madrid scored what could be a crucial away goal in the first leg of their europa league semifinal with arsenal the game in london finished one goal i think oh how the play and their code diego simeone it sent off just ten minutes into the game arsenal took the lead in the second half a through alexander has it but entendres munna scored

a late equaliser for the spanish team the return leg is in madrid next week. they have taken control of the other semifinal they beat rb is salzburg to nail in front he's united's manager says players will be listened to before they proceed with their controversial to me a ma on the second tier english team are due to play two games in a country that's been accused of human rights abuses against 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 really get those concerns and not double process so that it won't be down to me saying no you know go and just be something legitimate and maybe concerned about. and then look at the ninety's or the clerics has announced

a new rules that could mean that women would naturally high testosterone levels having to compete against men the decision is likely to have an impact on south africa's elim pick and while tapping customs to mania to mania was subjected to agenda tests by world clerics 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 cancer strong levels or change events at the station comes into effect on november the first. well the i w a f a says the ruling a will ensure fair competition and as the result of two years of scientific research it only applies to running events between four hundred meters and the fifteen hundred meters from any a competes in the eight hundred and fifteen hundred a fact that at least who want to participate must take a medication for at least six months they'll turn to vhs 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. i spoke to sports writer mike a robot i'm a who's covered the last seven summer olympics he says the media has already hinted that 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 fine or. not. offering to have the choice to take up medication or prefer not to you. know internationally or they can join the ranks very say oh of course she could be on the. defense to tell the score against what 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 a very farmer who's to say that she couldn't have some of the successes of a long distances off how does into the last eight at the barcelona open the world number one it would be to gamble garcia lopez and straight sets it's been almost a year since the da 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 a free to point that the buzzer technically banditry ninety eight or ninety five hundred. as a kid you always had those like those three two one moments you know when you're. being able to have one of those moments and also to kind of feel like shit like i was a kid all over again just. you know playing basketball. and. you know makeshift hoops and you know my socks as a basketball and you know making the noise you know. so that's that's what it felt like but both on your car those says it's still too early and the season to know if his team can compete with there are a must see this for the well title of the drivers are now in azerbaijan ahead of the fourth gone play of the year ricardo won the last race in time in our attempt

to save the the sebastian vettel ferarri finish and 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 championship 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 rose claims game seven of their first round series in boston is called four goals in all to beat the leaves seven four and close the series for three. lesser as well for me i will have more later on. for the news hour keep it here on the other side of the break.

colonel. was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distant shack

around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp say. the government raised our hopes and then abandoned us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government the fail. from prone sing forests with drones to surviving drought. award winning environmental solutions program woods homes never mind out of the very end of a real job but. meeting the people communities undergoing assertions addressing some of the greatest man might environmental problems threatening on the planet. a new season of birthright so to al-jazeera.