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court convicts the entertain a bill cosby on charges of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home. and you history begins now. after he became the first north korean leader to set foot in the south since the end of the korean war mr kim was greeted by the south korean president when gene as he crossed the line of demarcation dividing the two countries might also briefly stepped into the north side of demarcation line is not formally a border they then walked to the venue where the been holding their first face to face meeting between leaders of the two koreas in more than ten years james diplomatic editor live for this hour in part two so james we had that news conference thirty minutes ago from the south koreans interesting wasn't it because it went from they did this they did this they said this to some really compelling

stuff like when the railway is built and when you come to visit so it's all going according to plan. it's all going according to plan but certainly they've revealed some very frank comments from the north korean leader which i suspect will not get reported in north korea where you are constantly told that the country is better than any other and life is particularly perfect when they talked about comments that kim made to move about a possible moon visit to north korea kim said i would be honestly worried if you come it might be embarrassing bera seeing that the transportation is not good he then returned to the k.t. x. which is the bullet train here in south korea and so they didn't have anything like that in north korea and he said if he came he probably should come by air because the roads were inconvenient so admission there that you very rarely get from the

north koreans that life and economic life is not as good as it is here in the south certainly when i was in north korea in recent days they took us on the subway and told us how it was the best in the world well now very different comics coming from the north korean leader worth noting that the important images that we've seen in the last few hours were not shown live on the north korean media we assume that they will be edited and broadcast later and i think they'll be very careful which images they show but they certainly will be showing the historic meeting. technically they are still at war but this was carefully choreographed to create a new atmosphere of peace north korean leader kim jong un entered from the north side of the demarcation line the south korean president moon j in waited at the concrete block that marks the start of his country's territory.

a historic handshake. and then something in all the years since the korean war that kim's father and grandfather never did the north korean leader crossing into south korea. it was followed by a reciprocal gesture moon jay in very briefly crossing the line into the north. both leaders seemed relaxed and was smiling but of course they hope this summit is only the start of a process and that's likely to be complicated and will involve difficult negotiations. among the most head on today in this meeting i hope there is a new history written with regards to peaceful prosperity and i will approach this with a feeling of a brand new start i'd like to discuss all things as standing honestly and crudely i

would like to take this opportunity to say that i hope to have a very good conversation with president noon today honestly crudely and with intent to. come on. when the supreme leader across the demarcation line on this historic moment there is a mensa expectation almost all over the world and i hope this discussion is productive let's approach this discussion boldly in wishing for peace and i like to give something very big to the people looking at us we have all day to talk and that's to sell and make up for the ten years that we have left the past. very historic images there of this meeting the question though is whether they can go beyond the photo opportunity and actually agree anything and i think we have to be a bit honest here so far they have not agreed anything at all nothing has been decided at this summit there's talk of trying to start the work to have some sort of peace treaty to end the korean war because it never formally ended there was

just an armistice this or truce that was signed in one nine hundred fifty three and in these sort of talks yes you can get the mood there but the devil in the end is in the detail and the big detail that everyone is concerned about is north korea's nuclear program north korea all along or said it needs its nuclear weapons and its missiles to preserve its government so they get they don't get toppled or overturned and of course the other side the u.s. and south korea say no you must give up all your nukes and all your long range missiles getting down to the nitty gritty at some point in the future james many thanks well not everyone is happy about those talks and teen north korea protests have been taking place close to the surf korean city of power shoot where james is based for the next few hours close to where the leaders are meeting demonstrators want president moon the south korean leader to cancel the summit china correspondent adrian brown has more now on how the meeting is being viewed in

beijing. where pictures of this historic event are being shown live on state television here in china that's a measure of the importance the chinese leaders placed on this event of course china is about the only ally that north korea has there's is a relationship forged in blood between one hundred thirty and one hundred fifty thousand chinese troops died fighting on the north korean side in the civil war china though is taking a cautious approach it finds itself in an odd position on the sidelines of a major event happening right on its doorstep. now officially china has said that it welcomes the prospect of a korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons it welcomes the prospect of a peace treaty but where it's less hesitant is the prospect of a unified korea and china worries that a unified korea might perhaps be less friendly to china and perhaps some u.s. troops might remain on the soil of a unified korea. the view from beijing let's get

a broader perspective joining us on skype from singapore is graham on the web he's a research fellow at the rajaratnam school of international studies graeme good to talk to you again what's your main takeaway point so far well in relation to china their concerns are extremely real they ask themselves questions about what the future is going to look like if the korean peninsula is able to work its act act out and to unify did been have degenerated into the sixty year long steel meet between north and south creating a establish security buffer between china and india for the presence of american military forces in the region and so therefore it's quite understandable why the chinese government particularly under president xi jinping would be quite concerned about how changes in that security environment can possibly put at risk chinese national security interests ok they have clearly kept the dialogue and the level of

dialogue the intricacy of it incredibly simple to date but by definition surely when we start talking about the summit between north korea and the united states that dialogue has to get complex because then they have to start talking about things like the state of the economy in north korea denuclearization sanctions the relationship between pyongyang and beijing. certainly certainly did there's no running away from these issues i mean right now today's summit is more formed and substance is about getting the top of the relationship right there's been an immense trust deficit deficit between north and south korea in fact a trust deficit all around between all the stakeholders involved and that needs to be rebuilt before substantive discussions can be can be tackled head on but when once you get into those substantive discussions clearly beijing like tokyo will want to have a seat at the table and to articulate very clearly what their concerns are because

all their concerns will have to be squared off in order for. peace to be truly forged not just on the peninsula but in the region and so when we come back to china's role in china's concerns these things will it will be have to be discussed . we will have to unpack he's rather uncomfortable issues and it's going to be a long drawn affair that's for sure because the perspectives among a good number of countries in the region are actually quite divergent when it comes to what the end state in the korean peninsula ought to look like both leaders both delegations today obviously wanting to appear and they have been utterly utterly charming for mr kim how does he want to be seen to see want to be seen as a end of the leader or does he want to be seen as a leader who is part of the nuclear club i mean is that his his international political calling card. absolutely i concur with that assessment.

all the established you know historical precedence and logic here you like dictates that kim jong un has gone this far in investing in his nuclear weapons capability i mean carrying on from the work of his father and his grandfather you like and it just it's quite puzzling to think that he would want to or reverse that investment in time soon so what we can expect north korea under kim jong un to do is to negotiate towards. having the right to possess nuclear weapons as any other nuclear power today particularly in the u.s. france the united kingdom russia or china or india or pakistan and to and to be recognized for that by the same time to assure the international community that north korea bears no mel intent on or sinister intentions against any country in the world today and i think if you don't able to achieve that assurance that he has

no hostile intentions but at the same time it will to argue his case that he has a right his country has a right to bear nuclear weapons i think he might be able to achieve that outcome where north korea gets to keep what it has and to still achieve this perception recognition as a normal state as ever a pleasure talking to many thanks for joining us here on al-jazeera graham on web in singapore that well the white house has released new photos of the new u.s. secretary of state meeting the north korean leader mike pompei o travel to pyongyang earlier this month as the cia director to lay the groundwork for a meeting between kim jong un and the u.s. president donald trump shuttle for late may early june pompei and is now on his way to a nato meeting in brussels before traveling to the middle east the u.s. senate confirmed him as the top u.s. diplomat by fifty seven votes to forty two. in other news the armenian parliament is expected to hold an extraordinary session in the coming days to vote for a new prime minister the country was plunged into a political crisis this week after the former prime minister. stepped down

following major antigovernment protests the parliament says of votes will be held next tuesday to elect a new leader from yet his robin for a city walk. past and his movement a driven to end the republican party's grip. by one of them but 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. astonishment the students who become members of the republican party receive privileges they get benefits the student fees on the lower your work trips to those locations they get interned ships so there is discrimination between an ordinary citizen and a republican. take on that. students have the integrity to your position

movements frustrated by the prospects of graduation under the public party rule officially ten percent of the population his emigrated 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 in armenia i mean his closest ally provides a security guarantee against hostile labors turkey and azerbaijan russian foreign minister sergey lavrov met his armenian counterpart in moscow on thursday for their part opposition leaders also held talks 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 their 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. i mean is ruling elite has both a hostile public and an old ally that seems to be keeping out of the way first to walk out his ear. a vigils been held in the nicaraguan capital for protesters who've died in anti government demonstrations the u.n. human rights office some of them may have been unlawfully killed by the security forces rights groups say at least thirty seven people have died violence began last week when the president daniel ortega floated a plan to overhaul pensions and the welfare system but she later scrapped. still ahead on al-jazeera syria's children are forced into the spotlight as russia denies he used chemical attack ever prompt. plus venice plans new measures that would give

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north korea protests have been taking place closely south korean city close with the leaders are meeting. thousands of anti-government protesters are again demonstrating in armenia the parliament has called the store recession next week to vote on a prime minister the former leader of his youngest of the following days of protests . the american actor and stain of bill cosby has been found guilty on all counts in a sexual assault retrial a jury convicted the eighty 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 konstam dead his home fourteen years ago we are very disappointed by the verdict we don't they mr cross was guilty of anything and applied is not over ending a late life spiral for a barrier busting icon of american entertainment now silent for a bit because if. the jury was apparently moved by testimony from five of caused more than fifty other accusers and i feel the hot i like we're going to. be like i'm dreaming i feel like i. i feel like i'm 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 vail and bankable spokesman. the many voices of a trailblazing cartoon highlighting african-american kids little cause a groundbreaking black comedian who inspired those who follow us to bill cosby show thousand. cuts show and on the show that bore his name his fatherly advice and squeaky clean image earned him the title america's dad b. 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

people have been protesting across spain after a court cleared five men of raping a woman at the pamplona bull running festival demonstrates a shouted shame and i believe you sister outside the justice ministry in madrid the men who are in the hot sun group called the wolf pack were convicted of the lesser crime of sexual abuse and given me a sentences they recorded the attack on the telephones and loft about it afterwards the german chancellor angela merkel will visit the white house on friday and is expected donald trump to stay within the iran nuclear deal but the trip could be overshadowed by a fresh controversy within the trump administration kimberly hellcats explains. 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 very very rarely get 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 down 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 the 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 hey over a very important meeting on friday with german chancellor angela merkel can really help at al-jazeera at the white house now the remains of more than two hundred people killed in the one nine hundred ninety four genocide in rwanda have been

discovered in a village close to the capital the bones were among four mass graves on the outskirts of kigali there are some reports as many as two thousand people were buried there more than eight hundred thousand people were killed in the violence between two ethnic groups the hutus and tutsis. russia has taken a number of syrians including children to the headquarters of the chemical weapons watchdog to support his denial of an attack in the city of duma the witnesses were presented to the o.p.c. w. at the hague to recant what they saw on april the seventh russia says the syrian statement proves the chemical attack was staged allegations the u.s. and its allies deny it never level so right away. 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 to action the u.k. the u.s. and france so 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 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 the message 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 were all quite sure they were very similar in terms of what they were saying a lot of the people that were presented there were working out the hospital and it seemed to follow like a very similar situation that all of a sudden there were a lot of people who were being brought in from the shelter a bar of and then a lot of people who were being doused in water but that there was no evidence of any chemical attack but yet there was no scientific evidence to back that up it is only their word that we have to go on with that the military commander of eastern libya after his return to bring girls you know after spending two weeks in paris for medical treatment the seventy five year old renegade general was greeted with

the red carpet as he stepped off a flight from cairo there has been speculation about his health for possible successors to the commander who was the most powerful figure in eastern libya. the holiday island of bought a car in the philippines has been closed for six months clean up tourists have been banned from the island while the authorities improve the infrastructure and volunteers remove rubbish from this once pristine beach area the president rode ricotta thirty ordered the shut down this month after calling the resort a cesspool critics say that's an overreaction affecting people who depend on the island for their jobs the city of venice in italy is planning new crowd control measures to separate tourists from locals to in the may day holiday this weekend car parking spaces will have to be reserved and boats will not be allowed to mourn mark square it's the latest step to manage high visitor numbers which is putting a strain on the city of fifty five thousand people that are angry protests by venetians and calls to limit the arrivals of cruise ships simon calder is the

travel editor of the independent newspaper out of the u.k. he says the idea appears to be to put people off from being davis'. 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 he says 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 to venice which you can only get to eat it by water or by rail or across the pond. 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. this is our jazeera these are your headlines so far kim jong un has now become the first north korean leader to set foot on the southern side of the line of demarcation since the end of the korean war kim was greeted by the south korean president mungy and as he crossed the line of demarcation dividing the two countries they then held the first meeting between leaders of the two koreas in more than a decade kim told them that their countries shouldn't repeat the mistakes of the past the pair expected to discuss a range of this range of issues including pyongyang's nuclear program the white house says it hopes the talks will help bring peace to the korean peninsula. no you so much today in this meeting i hope there is a new history written with regards to peaceful prosperity and i will approach this

with a feeling of a brand new start i'd like to discuss all things as standing honestly and crudely i would like to take this opportunity to say that i hope to have a very good conversation with president moon today honestly crudely and with intent thank you so much. when the supreme leader across the demarcation line on this historic moment there is a man sex big anomalous all over the world and i hope this discussion is productive let's approach this discussion boldly in wishing for peace and i like to give something very big to the people looking out as we have all day to talk and let's do so and make up for the ten years that we have left us. not everyone is happy about those talks anti north korea protesters in taking place close to the south korean city apart jr where the leaders are meeting. in other news thousands of anti-government protesters are again demonstrating in armenia the parliament has called an extraordinary session next week to vote on

a new prime minister the former leader stepped down following days of protests. russia has taken a number of syrians including children to the headquarters of the chemical weapons watchdog to support its denial of an attack in duma the witnesses were presented to the o.p.c. w. at the hague to recount what they saw on april the seventh bill cosby has been found guilty on all counts in his sexual assault retrial a jury convicted the eighteen year old of drugging and sexually assaulting a female friend at his home in two thousand and four those are your headlines the news continues after the stream i will see you very soon. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you al-jazeera.