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this is. welcome to the news. of the next sixty minutes a nuclear free korean the message from a history making day as the leaders of north and south korea sign an agreement to work together towards peace. the first north korean leader and sixty five year to cross into the south and all the news. projects talks with. him all continues days after the prime minister resigned plus . three words.

the man known as america's dad. was convicted of sexual assault. history is made. at this moment the leaders of north and south korea along with their spouses are getting ready to sit down for formal dinner after a day of talks and symbolic gestures the just signed an unprecedented declaration calling for a peace treaty that would replace the armistice that's been in place for sixty five years well early on friday morning kim jong un became the first north korean leader to set foot in the south since the end of the korean war in the nineteen fifties command south korea's president planted a tree and a gesture that's meant to symbolize peace and after that they sat down and began talks aimed at reaching an agreement on issues including nuclear program well the

joint declaration by the two leaders has laid the groundwork for future progress both sides agree to refrain from the use of force and to end hostile activities by ground air and sea loudspeakers will also stop propaganda across the demilitarized zone family reunions a promise for august and there are plans to develop road and railway links connecting north and south korea the two sides agreed to work towards a permanent peace treaty through talks involving the u.s. and china and they also agreed to pursue a common goal of a new clear free korean peninsula. i feel that we are part of one family and both countries will have a new policy of cooperation after years of disputes we are here today to say that nothing will make us different again and i will say this the north koreans and the south koreans are now she. airing one spot on the map and they represent one

country in one way or another and we hope to achieve the ambitions and hopes of both countries. well we have two correspondents following the story of china correspondent jane jane brown is live in beijing with reaction from the government there but first let's go to kathy novak who is live for us and podger in south korea so they have agreed cathy as will be reporting to complete denuclearization but do we know what that means when that might happen. that remains the question after this agree this statement from kim jong un and moons a and elizabeth there was a lot of detail in this joint declaration for example about ending the armistice and working towards a permanent peace regime about pursuing meetings with the united states and the possibility of a meeting between the koreas the united states and china because it was north korea

china and the us representing the united nations that signed that armistice so that was ending the hostilities at the end of the korean war in one thousand nine hundred three so the hope is now that the koreas can move on toward a more permanent peace treaty so that was detail on that there was detail on monday and the president of south korea planning a reciprocal trip to pyongyang in the autumn details about family reunions for members of separated families but to your question on denuclearization that's where some of the detail was missing there was a commitment to a nuclear free korean peninsula but it has often been pointed out that the definition of denuclearization historically to north korea has meant something different there than it might mean to the united states or indeed to south korea we heard from lunging in recently that he doesn't actually believe that there is a difference that he does believe that north korea is committed to real denuclearization and of course this meeting. follows the announcement from north

korea in recent days that it will stop nuclear and missile tests and it will shut down a nuclear test site so going forward the question will be what will that denuclearization mean will it be something that is verifiable and irreversible that's something that the united states once we might have to wait and see and that may also be something that will feature prominently in the expected meeting that would be coming up in late may or early june between donald trump and kim jong un here's more from our diplomatic editor james bays. 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 jay in 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 the kims father and grandfather never did a north korean leader crossing into south korea. it was followed by a reciprocal gesture 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. no longer than most men on the dame's this meeting i hope that there is new history written with regards to p. for prosperity and i will approach this with the feeling of a brand new start i'd like to discuss. honestly and frankly i would like to take this opportunity to say that i hope to have a very. conversation the president today honest frank and within ten.

when the supreme leader cross 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 up we have all day to talk and let's do some make up for the ten years we have. so a lot of symbolism today we saw the leaders planting a tree together at the d.m.z. using soil from either side of the border and now they are sitting down to a banquet with their wives their symbolism their two for example a chef from pyongyang has been invited to prepare cold noodles that are a specialty of north korea and there is this roski on the menu that's a nod to kim jong un's time as a boy at

a swiss boarding school so the symbolism continuing even into dinner elizabeth kathy thank you very much for that for now that joining us live from well the chinese government has a pool to what it calls the coverage of the two korean leaders and taking the step china correspondent adrian brown is joining us live from beijing so applauding as we mentioned adrian how else is it looking on what is happening and what's happened in the. pledge to denuclearize. yes i think the response from china has been both cautious but also positive and that cautious note was there in the comments of the foreign ministry spokeswoman who spoke to foreign journalists just a few hours ago she said she applauded this historic moment and also appreciated the courage of both leaders also saying the china hopes of both men can now begin a new journey to peace now before today's historic developments china had said that

it supported a nuclear free korean peninsula it supported reconciliation it supported a peace treaty where china is a bit more hesitant elizabeth is on the issue of a unified korea because china doesn't know whether a unified korea would be good or bad for it but at least now it seems that china is in a sense back in the game because that declaration referred to the four party talks that could take place later in the year involving both koreas as well as russia and china because you know china has not had a seat at the table on friday it's found itself in the unusual position of being on the sidelines of a major event happening right on its doorstep and what china wants to avoid i think potentially is being outmaneuvered diplomatically by washington so china wants to maintain its influence over north korea you know relations between pyongyang and

beijing as we know have been very strained during the past few years they have had a real falling out but at the end of the day china doesn't want to lose the influence that it has over north korea so that was why kim jong un was invited perhaps someone does a better word to beijing at the end of march and that allowed president xi jinping to i think demonstrate that in the she can relationship kim is very much the junior partner and it also i think demonstrated that china wants to be near. center or any peace negotiations now there was talk of course today of of a peace treaty being signed between the two koreas but in many ways that peace treaty can't be signed unless you also have the signatures of the united states and china and remember china is a signatory to the nine hundred fifty three armistice and would be expected to be a signatory to any peace deal and also remember that you know it could be difficult

for the united states to to sign a peace deal within that narrow time frame because of domestic politics. yes of course the new secretary of state and a national security advisor in the united states adrian we will have to leave it there for now that's our china correspondent adrian brown joining us live from beijing thank you well the white house released a statement after the summit in south korea says we're hopeful the talks will achieve progress towards a future of peace and prosperity for the entire korean peninsula the united states looks forward to continuing robust discussions and preparation for the planned meeting with between president dhananjay trump and kemp and the coming weeks but not everyone is happy about those talks and north korea protests have been taking place close to the south korean city of podgy mia where the leaders were masing the demonstrators want president to cancel the summit. the peace between murdering. is

a disguised peace which means i will hand over south korea to murder of kim jong un's north korea and set up a federal system under the korean unification flag which means reunification under communism. but a rally in support of the summers has been taking place and part due to a large crowd watched the turn on the large t.v. screen and they say they hope to see improved relations well koreans whose lives have been affected by the ups and downs of relations between pyongyang and seoul spoke to al-jazeera. if by one in a million chance north korea announces did nuclearization to the world truly gives up the nukes then it's very good however i don't think they would they have been threatening us with nukes and said they are willing to have a nuclear war with the us are not go they wouldn't give a new north korea things that we counted that coaching will be converted to that a free and democratic nations people will be hard to control they will lose their

standing in the international stage i don't think they will give up the nukes. i do . we hope that we can close the why didn't go and relax the built up tension through the expansion of the into green economic corporation for example the case on industrial complex in america. which could once again become the stage for peaceful coexistence and cooperation i believe that's what our nations will bring. for the summit as a political and diplomatic milestone for the korean leader's own became north korea as well in two thousand and eleven after his father kim jong il passed away details about the thirty four year olds do limited but he said had studied in switzerland although that's never been confirmed under his leadership in north korea has carried out for nuclear tests and fired sixty one ballistic missiles which led to more international sanctions south korea's president and within that the last year after the impeachment of part going hey the sixty five year old is a human rights lawyer he was born on

a small island off south korea south coast to refugees who fled north korea during the korean war and compared to his predecessors he does take a more moderate approach he has campaigned to engage with his neighbors to the north and to denuclearize the korean peninsula well let's get more on this now and speak to talk out in beijing he's a father in the nuclear policy program at the ecology thing health center for global policy very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so a pledge to do in the clear eyes but the devil will of course be in the details which we are still waiting on the south korean president who says that there's a lot of discrepancy between how he and the north korean leaders see denuclearization but what do you make of that. by saying north korea has i think south korea has already achieved its goal even before this meeting south korea so basically it is pursuing two goes to be achieved one

is a general commitment to the long term goal or did you guys edition the second. a commitment to this process of denuclearization has to be a phase two one and we see all of these two major elements being included in the joint declaration basically north korean sanscrit agreed that they share this go of democracy should without establishing any clear and explicit timetable or deadline for achieving that and secondly they also said the process needs to be phased which means they can start to with the these steps in the near term such as freezing north korea's nuclear in the saudi government and hopefully in this process will be engagement some trust can be built in the long run and could lead to more radical steps towards the long term goal of nuclear disarmament and do you think that is something that will happen that the north koreans will freeze their nuclear program how genuine do you think kim jong un is here.

i think enjoying an is sincere in freezing its nuclear and missile capabilities is to go at this moment is to make the international community took a step to the nuclear reality so the more advanced a nuclear capabilities to north korea continues to develop the harder north korea will be able to achieve go and also north korea has already attained a basic a but are still credible nuclear deterrence by the end of the twenty seventeen after three successful i.c.b.m. tests and north korea also appears to have a nuclear device that is small and a light enough to be mounted to the top of a ballistic missile so north korea has already obtained the basic technology it does not need to go further took and to conduct additional tests all those additional tests will for sure breanne north korea. economic sanctions that will

possibly create economic crisis in north korea and do you think that if they do manage to at least freeze their program at this time all that and all the language that we've seen in this pledge be sufficient for the u.s. administration and those two you know new very hawkish figures and that the new secretary of state the new national security advisor ahead of the meeting between kim jong un and president trump that's going to take place over the next month or so. i think of course washington wants to achieve nuclear disarmament once and for it wants an immediate a nuclear disarmament of north korea high over at this moment i don't see washington have being extra leverage it can use to force north korea to make further new care concessions and north korea was very smart can join north korea adopted a very smart strategy can join came to beijing and did met with chinese president

xi jinping before he met with the president to mourn and to me to present later because north. korea china relations has been greatly improved as a result of the beydoun some age now source korea has china's support and even if the summit meeting with president failed i don't think the u.s. would be able to resolve to the military option china would be strongly opposed to that russia would strongly oppose and south korea would also strongly oppose so under those circumstances i do think military option is real is really realistic and also even if the u.s. wants to greatly step up the economic punishment on north korea without chinese support without chinese full cooperation and if north korea is smart enough to refrain from further i.c.b.m. a nuclear test there is no way that there will be another u.n.

security council resolution imposing additional sanctions on north korea other words the messman pressure campaign has reached highest level and i think north korea economy can survive under existing songs and regime other words north korea has already secured a softer landing it is great to get your thoughts on this that is joining us live from beijing thank you we have had more ahead on the news hour including a gruesome reminder of the verandah genocide mass graves discovered. could hold more than two thousand bodies russia bring syrians including children to the hague to support its denial of a chemical weapons attack and. and support from college athletes to multi-millionaires the best and brightest of american football on a selected at the n.f.l. draft.

and so on to other news to mania now with the acting head of government has rejected talks with the opposition to stays before parliament still to choose a new prime minister it follows days of political turmoil but saw the sudden resignation of promises against him a major anti-government protests but opposition leader in the call question the on of pushing for the vote of republican party to relinquish power but acting. now says that he is the only possible candidate let's go to our correspondent robin foster walker who is joining us live from the capital yet of on talks were supposed to take place today robin they've been cancelled why is that what's going on. yes they weren't exactly. but mr kind of pity and chose not to show up this is the second time he's been invited to sit. with nico passion in your position but his seat was empty this morning in the hotel where there was due

to be open transparent in front of the media and. said really that this was a missed opportunity an indication that the government. was fully run by the cia who resigned earlier this week i was not. interested in having the negotiations but mr. seems to also be playing his cards. there's a bit of a tussle there really going on to see who. really is going to to you know except the situation on the ground mr. insisting that they will they will be a vote in parliament next week. the next prime minister. but he's not prepared . to do what he calls sort of you know fear really by sitting down with the opposition movements. and in the meantime continues to

hold forth and to insist that he is. to be the next prime minister who will help media transition. into into a true democracy with an interim government with enable would allow for free and fair elections which would then be held and that he hoped would then bring. a new system a new political system towards. armenia and so what is the strategy now from accomplishing and fucking opposition robin. well he's about to head off. to the second city which is called a couple of hours north of here in yet of. where he wants to demonstrate that he doesn't just have the ability to get tens of thousands of people out onto the streets of the capital but to show that armenians throughout the country supports

his movement and he's also called for a rest period because he knows that people. from coming out they have consistently come out over recent weeks in huge numbers to show their support for him he wants them to save their energy for that all important vote on tuesday in parliament and exhaust. his supporters to come out and show their support again on tuesday to surround the parliament and make it clear. that he is the people's candidate because he doesn't get elected as the next prime minister he's threatening to boycott any future elections maybe table cities again creates a sense that this is very much an ongoing power in armenia between this opposition movement that seems to have the people power that seems to have the support of many many armenians fed up with the republican party who had govern this country for

twenty years but the republican party is not willing to simply relinquish control its given. it is not going to just roll over and capitulate and so we're in for the possibility of a difficult few days ahead for armenia all right robin thank you very much for that for now that's robin foster walker with all the very latest live and thank you. for the un's human rights chief has told israel to stop using excessive force on palestinian protesters in gaza saying that about hussein also called on the government to bring those responsible for death and injuries to account for thirty six palestinians have been killed in weekly demonstrations on gaza want to with israel over the past month more than five thousand have been enjoyed many by live fire. now the committee organizing the demonstration said this week's marches being dedicated to the thousands of young people have come to protest it's being court

revolutionist youth friday correspondent stephanie live from the gaza israel borders and what are we expecting today stephanie. well it's the fifth. march a great return this is all basically with having the same message yes it started with commemorating law and day which means basically when palestinians lost their land one thousand nine hundred eighty eight also you know the naacp but this is what they're looking ahead to the basic message here is that most of the. people in gaza are refugees they have lost their land they have lost their homes and they want to go back but more realistically is the highlighting of their plight here in gaza let me just show you where you are and what's been happening these tents have been set up over the last couple of weeks that there are to the back of us but what you're seeing ahead of us is really what is putting the pressure on israel so i mean it's probably showing you the fence now behind that you'll see israeli sniper positions now these are the ones that have colds somewhat of international

condemnation of using excessive force using life fire just yesterday we were at the funeral of a second palestinian journalist killed here by those israeli snipers also children a young boy a fourteen killed so what we've seen this morning and it's only just getting started friday prayers of only just finished as we've heard these really forces in arabic with loudspeakers telling the boys you see closer to the fence to move back what they're trying to do is put palestinian flags on that fence they're throwing stones they're burning tires they've been doing this for weeks now what people here will tell you is that the situation has become so desperate in gaza that they have nothing to lose this is what israel calls a buffer zone they have deemed these three hundred meters a no go zone certainly it's sort of become what some people will call a kill zone because here these railways. are using impunity i'm just being told there is some movement behind the border what they've been doing even this morning we've had a couple of sniper shots randomly in this area and now behind you also see the car

that uses tear gas but again it's early days but we will be seeing more and more people coming here throughout the next couple of hours and they will tell you that certainly now at least the world is watching just a little bit on gaza and what these people almost two million people smashed into a tiny strip of land the economy is desperate the young people here elizabeth almost sixty percent of them are unemployed i've been covering gaza for years and really you can say safe to say that it is. the worst that it's been since hamas took over the strip about eleven years ago stephanie thank you very much for that for now that stephanie decker with a nation close to that gaza israel border she's monitoring those protests for us throughout the day. and if you're moments we'll have the weather withdrawal but still ahead on the news hour the aftermath of the controversy and brush and there are calls for changes to the country's immigration laws why donald trump's plan to

nominate the white house physician to the cabinet of pot and and school of. the golden rod continues for vegas hockey team in a remarkable debut season will be here with more. from the. to the city. i think you may well know there was heavy rain yesterday in the west bank and beyond israel it was finals assyria this big system here one of the consequences of the heavy rain there was not just flash flooding which on forty took of levon people's lives it also took out one section of israel's separation wall only one section but it undermined it with the site. before it rained there was something of a had something of a dust storm the whole thing wraps up so you tend to get strong winds then the rain falls in florida that happened in damascus and then the rain fell so those been

some minor flooding in damascus so useful rain for some but the haboob is maybe the most dramatic if you go for the south and this is q a this is what the happy books like from the it is a tall wall of cloud the face of cold front you don't see it except the fact the ground is covered in dust because that's the ground level that's what you tend to drive into and if you're one of the few lucky ones you can also landed this landing and this is in riyadh goes right into the heart of the storm obviously landing got a round of applause and quite dramatic at the end now that this is not all over as it happens there is still more in the way of happy to come and re currently training in bahrain but it's pretty widespread. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. he was the world's most wanted man the last meeting i had with him was off to the. bin laden was very nervous about nature did not match

a western reporter before in part one of an exclusive two part documentary al-jazeera speaks to those who met osama bin ladin he never showed the hostility towards me of the west i knew bin ladin on all diseases. and then reported wealth on the. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the you're.

going to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour and these are our top stories the leaders of north and south korea have signed an unprecedented declaration that ng such a pen and piece on the financial everglade to push for four way talks and while the took over as the u.s. and china the ultimate goal is to transition from the sixty five felt missed us to a peace treaty meanwhile and to north korea protests have been taking place close to the south korean city of poggio near where the late as a may say the demonstrations one president were to cancel the summit. i mean his acting head of government has rejected talks with the opposition just days before parliament to choose a new prime minister opposition they to call a shiny honest pushing for the voting republican party to give up power. now

american actor and t.v. star bill cosby has been found guilty on all counts of his sexual assault trial a jury in pennsylvania convert to 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 they get. a jury found bill cosby guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting a konstantinov his home fourteen years ago we are very disappointed by the verdict

we do 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 for. the jury was apparently moved by testimony from five of caused more than fifty other accusers i feel the hot i like to get. the feel like 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. news presenter matt lauer cosby fell from the last use of heights he was a track star at temple university one of the first black t.v. stars bill cosby here in vail bankable spokesman. the many voices of

a trailblazing cartoon highlighting african-american kids little guys a groundbreaking black comedian who inspired those who follow us to the show. to. 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 illusion that one see during fan john hendren. former n.b.c. news anchor tom brokaw is being accused of inappropriate conduct towards of female coworker and the one nine hundred ninety s. then divest a war correspondent of the time claims that brokaw grabbed her by the way during a meeting and tried to forcibly kiss her in a hotel she backed up her account by showing reporters journal entries that she

says the russian at the time of the incident protocol has denied the allegations. now the remains of more than two thousand people killed during one thousand nine hundred ninety four genocide have been discovered in a village close to the capital the bonds were among four mass graves buried nearly twenty meters below ground in the outskirts of the suspects to where the checkpoint was set up during the genocide more than eight hundred thousand people mostly from the tootsie minority killed in the violence between the two ethnic groups. pledge areas said it has summoned president mohamed to behati 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 question farmers and benue state. government's been criticized for failing to maintain security. in seventeen countries including bush in the u.s. and france have accused russia of a kurd propaganda exercise after it brought a group of syrians to europe to support its denial of

a chemical attack in burma russia presented more than a dozen people including children at the headquarters of the chemical weapons watchdog to recount what they saw it says their statements prove that the april seventh and sort of staged a joint statement by the seventeen countries said there was indisputable evidence that a chemical attack took place in 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 they started pouring water on me at the hospital i don't know why after that they took me to a different place. they've distributed fake footage by the fake humanitarians called the white helmets we've seen it all we saw the a borat scenes of choking children choking victims of poisoning right after the seventh of april the grand propaganda machine of the wisdom trio came to action the u.k. the u.s. and france now the u.k.

government has recently apologize for the way many elderly people from the caribbean before rushing with deportation and denied public services the so-called scandal opened up a debate about russians relationship with its former colonies now the descendants of paper from the che cost islands hope the proposed new law can go out there brochure citizenship and then barbara explains. doris miller's r. came to britain from the rishis eight years ago she lives with her oldest son and works as a hospital cleaner but she's had to leave two other sons and a daughter behind as a second generation shakos islander she's a british overseas territory citizen but that doesn't pass automatically to her children how we wish mike to take it possible for me there will call and work and look off to us all together i speak to them every day we talk like video call on skype but why dan had gone. i cry

because it is really far back in the late one nine hundred sixty s. and early one nine hundred seventy s. britain kicked out the people of the che cause archipelago in the indian ocean so the u.s. could build a military base on diego garcia the largest island they were forced into exile in the seychelles often living in poverty but in two thousand and two a legal change allowed verma and their children as well as a small number born between certain dates to apply for british citizenship and now a community of several thousand lives here in crawley south of london but hundreds of them don't qualify for a british passport and the local member of parliament is now proposing legislation giving them that right and cutting the cost involved from fourteen thousand dollars to less than three thousand later generation born in russia born in the seychelles don't under normal nationality law have an automatic right to you cases and shit through no fault of their own because their ancestors were forcibly exiled from their home island so really what this proposed change in the law does is to

recognise unique set of circumstances that at the moment is dividing families one of those families ever said gays two years ago sharon america's national came to the u.k. with her two children to join her husband he has a u.k. passport but they don't they were given just eight days to stay and now they're living in limbo after being threatened with deportation for my uncle matt it's a very traumatic situation i'm always stressed these days i don't even like going outside to take my kids to school because i think the home office might turn up and deport us i can't work and that makes things worse my husband works day and night so we have no family life. the big irony in all of this is there's been a sustained campaign by this community to be allowed to return to live on the silence that you're gossoons here in the u.k. has spent years trying and failing to get the right to return to what they call their rightful home but at the same time many feel they're being doubly punished by a legal situation which keeps them and their families apart. people like doris are

hoping the renewed focus on immigration from commonwealth countries will help their families in their push for the right to british citizenship barbara al-jazeera cruelly in southern england. let's get more on the down bring in tom in london he's the chair of the advocacy group change our support association very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so what are you and your association hoping for today is the british parliament to debate the bill i believe it's the second reading about to change our islander's rights to british citizenship. so yes that's right is the second reading of the bill today in reality the bill is the twenty eighth on the order papers the twenty eight bill in the parliament up to debate today so the chances of it actually being debated are quite slim so what we would really like to see is some urgency shown by the government and some backbone shown by a rod we want to see the government support the bill and find time in the parliamentary

agenda to debate and get it passed and why is that what is the situation for change as islanders who are living in britain today. but we're in this ludicrous position which of course ins have been campaigning for their right to return for over half a century and the government of continually denied them that rights so more recently when an act was passed in two thousand and two as you explained a number of chick austen's were given the right to settle in this country but they brought with them their children and the people who came up just trying to build lives of themselves in this country and trying to contribute back to this country and they're being prevented to find absolutely woefully inadequate legislation you're in a situation where hundreds of she was in children are being brought up in the u.k. and once they reach our goal of being threatened with deportation back to the richest a country many of them haven't visited since they were little children all they're being detained in immigration detention centers like dolls with which is frankly disgusting so is this government then do you think is it perpetuating the wrongs

committed by their predecessors rather than watching them and why isn't there more pressure if it is the twenty eighth i said bill today why isn't there more pressure to do something about this. well we're applying as much pressure as we can with the bill we're seeing support from every single party that's represented in the u.k. parliament but you've got some community been calling on the local m.p. to. see this issue and it has been recent this soon this issue very aggressively. it's a shame that it's not more widely known reason why i don't see the government showing the willing that they should be but hopefully that will soon change let's go to thank you very much for your time on this that is tom go ahead joining us live from london thank you. now more than forty british companies have pledged to get rid of unnecessary plastic packaging in a bid to tackle pollution the firms which include major supermarkets have signed up to eliminate single use plastics by twenty twenty five and by then they say all

packaging should be reusable recyclable or compostable the voluntary scheme comes as politicians consider how much supermarkets should contribute to the collection and the recycling of plastic waste more now from charlie angela. test goes one of forty two companies and supermarkets would have signed up to the u.k. plastics voluntarily they are agreeing that by twenty twenty five their plastic bags that food packaging like this covering bananas 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 resign may has promised to eliminate avoidable waste by twenty forty two as part of a national action the government is just 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 it's being called the blue planet effect of the televisions. series by so david asman by which is exposed the impact of plastic on all seas and wildlife and the critics say that this new tax is just bought in trade as a way of forcing it the public is committed to change already seeing people replacing our plastic shopping bags for usable close ones and taking their daily coffee in a reusable cup expecting retailers to commit to to trains. now just days after french president emanuel backhauls has a german chancellor angela merkel will be at the white house on friday. she's also expected to donald trump to stay and vanya clear day and bought the trip could pay off a shadowed by new controversy and the trumpet ministration committee held at reports from washington. 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 greeted schoolchildren in the white house rose garden trump defended jackson is a great man and a lot of going to be 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 or 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 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 donald 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. investigators looking into whether his twenty sixteen campaign colluded with moscow i've taken the position that 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 still ahead to on the news hour. was. and the on the road plays the windows of the billboard latin music awards backstage and slapping back how this alligator refused to allow professional golfers to place for what's coming up with jordan's ball.

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now last vegas has been shaking to latin visa's top stalls took to the stage for the billboard lashon music awards. for breaking muscle picked up the twentieth anniversary show on the last side with the new and old daddy yankee made the awards race taking home eight prizes including songwriter of the year and solo artist of the year and the big one is a plato's arena who was named artist of the year louis fall and also went to home happy bagging seven awards including hot latin song of the year for his head track seato and his collaborator on that song justin bieber also walked away with seven awards including crossover artist of the year. right it is time for sport now joe thank you very much also in vegas last chance at a trophy with also has been put in danger after a one zero zero draw with that had to go madrid in the first leg of a europa league semifinal will leave at the end of the season after twenty two

years as manager atletico how to play and their coach diego simeone they sent off just ten minutes into the game took the lead in the second half through alex and. antoine griezmann scored a late equaliser for the spanish team a crucial away goal that the return leg is in madrid next week. you know the only advantage of that resort you know exactly what you have to do. over there and you have nothing to lose you have to go there and really you have to play to win the game well in the other semifinal masai have taken control they beat all the south spoke to nil in france dimitri payit set up both of those goals the return legs for both of the semifinals will take place next thursday. now the owner of the jacksonville jaguars says the team's winning record in london has contributed to his bid to buy london's wembley stadium so he can has made an offer of eight

hundred forty million dollars to purchase the venue from the english football association the jag us have played there since two thousand and thirteen winning the last three games the purchase suggests a permanent move to london could be on the horizon. wembley you just don't hear the mix of you know it's great for the job so i think very generally how we play there you just think about it we read in a season one of them isn't one we won five two years ago one of them is the one. why because and i asked the players and i asked the consciousness. because we can't be energy we have the themes or you have a full stadium. dozens of young american football players have become instant millionaires after the opening day of the n.f.l. draft now this event is held once a year where n.f.l. teams get their pick of the brightest young talent players on allowed to be paid

during their years of college athletes making for a major windfall the top draft pick was bacon mayfield a quarterback from oklahoma who won the heisman trophy as the best player in the college game he's headed to the cleveland browns and is guaranteed a cool thirty two and a half million dollars. the milwaukee bucks have forced a deciding game seven against the boston celtics in the first round of the n.b.a. playoffs but yes that's a good combo lead the box with thirty one points and thirteen rebounds the celtics could have reached the second round with a win but it was the boxer came out picked his ninety seven to eighty six and it's going to take so in boston on saturday. something crazy man i mean is doing to this point. you know the current in boston is rather just like there are here some news from the great game i mean there's no secrecy the team is going to do is just so it's not about oh well well saturday could also see the return to the court

for steph curry the golden state warriors star resumed for practice for the defending champions after recovering from a sprained left knee he could be back for game one of the western conference semifinals and that is against the new orleans pelicans. stephanie good today practiced family. no restrictions. upgrade them to questionable. see how we responds tomorrow. is agree and we've got to put him through another practice tomorrow we want to string together some days before we. put him into a playoff game but. it's getting better now the remarkable debut season of the vegas golden knights is continuing in the national hockey league the knights were the first team to put their spot in the second round of the stanley cup playoffs but that nine day break did them no harm they thrashed the san jose sharks seven nothing the sharks heaviest loss in playoff history game two in the best of seven

series will be played on sunday. to. see. if it's their penguins won the opening game of their second round series of the washington capitals they came back from two goals down for a three two victory the penguins scoring all of their goals in a five minute span in the third period. a street outside the home ground of the boston red sox will be renamed because of its association with the baseball teams racist past your keyway was named in honor of former owner tom yorkie in one nine hundred seventy seven under his leadership the red sox were the last team in baseball to sign a black player twelve years after jackie robinson broke the racial barrier with the brooklyn dodgers city officials in boston voted for the passage outside fenway park service to its original name of jersey street. rafael nadal is in quarterfinal

action at the barcelona open late so he'll be hoping to extend his record breaking run on clay the world number one he had more garcia lopez in straight sets in the last sixteen on thursday it's been almost two years since adele dropped just that on clay he won his thirty nine and forty eight sets in this when they're down the pace so back in qualifier martin place and in the last. it was all happening in the first round of golf's classic in new orleans on thursday the tournament is slightly unusual in that two player teams compete against each other while number five justin rose teamed up with sweden's henrik stenson but found himself in the water birds i wanted to save his outfit he took a leaf out of his playing partners book and stripped down to his underwear stenson headlines any to the same thing a few years ago in a tie for twenty first but not only is rose brave for stripping down on live t.v. it turns out he was risking more than just his modesty as the waters around the

course are infested with alligators the course even has a three legged one nicknamed tripod one of his friends was sunning himself on the eighteenth and refused to move despite rules officials throwing a rake and i'm proud of our attitudes. oh dear well that is all yours for for now more later is that you very much now that's it for me elizabeth promise of this news hour dennis will be back in a moment with more of the day's news but for now before we go let's take a look at some of the moments from the historic meeting between the leaders of north and south korea.

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