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the great barrier reef. a lot of the new u.s. secretary of state might pump a zero has been talking tough on iran during his visit to saudi arabia the kingdom is the first stop of his three day trip to the region he's held talks with king sandman and crown prince mohamed bin sandman pompei o is looking for concerted international action to punish iran for its missile program that nuclear deal has failed to moderate the regime's conduct in many other areas i highlighted a few in fact read as only behaved worse since the deal was approved in yemen iran continues to support the violent cutely who the rebels by providing military equipment funding and training this is in violation of the un security council resolutions the who these continue to fire missiles into saudi arabia on

a regular basis targeting red sea shipping in threading threatening the saudi people while we will continue to assist saudi arabia with this defense the us and support its right to defend its own borders a political solution is the only way to advance long term stability in yemen and end the suffering and i know we agree on that. the us secretary of state told saudi leaders the gulf diplomatic crisis needs to end saudi arabia the u.a.e. bihari and egypt have imposed an economic on embargo on qatar for almost a year but they also stress to the foreign minister the gulf unity is necessary we need to achieve it. but i was reported extensively throughout the middle east region joins me now on the set so let's start first of all with the qatar blockade . he was sounding a note there of needing to resolve this. standoff at some point and in contrast to. the lack of unity that we heard

from that from the u.s. administration before it seems now that the americans are pushing for an immediate end to the g.c.c. crisis and the want to see the powerful which the nations united for different reasons because the they believe that it's instrumental for the us to maintain or to implement its policies in the region where comes to bring its ability to the conflict in syria solving the. deep resentments among the sunni communities in places like iraq and also brokering a peace deal between the israelis and the palestinians you won't be able to do this if you don't have saudis the qataris the bahraini is the iraqis all together that's a major concern for the united states of america. tell us and didn't have the ears of trump he was trying hard for almost six months to broker

a deal it didn't work this time saying one thing and the print the president was saying something but this time everyone knows that the ears of trump is very powerful within the administration and therefore this could be an indication that this time the u.s. is willing to see an immediate and to the crisis is going to happen overnight i don't think it really will take some time for all the parties to forget what happened over the last year the main issue though seem to be the need to present a united front in. dealing with iran and all the indications are that the u.s. is going to pull out of that iran nuclear deal next month where for the time being it remains to be seen whether countries like russia china and the e.u. will be on board they have voiced concerns saying that this is the best chance there was given to all the parties and that they would like to see it when tain't. the saudis and the americans see eye to eye when it comes to iran and more so for the saudis who are pretty much concerned because they consider iran's growing

influence to be some sort of an existential threat the accuse iran of destabilizing the region promoting radical shia ideology using the houthi fighters to destabilize the country just yesterday when pompey you arrived to saudi arabia the houthi said they had lost a son of eight ballistic missiles at the same time into. the kingdom of for them tougher sanctions is the best way to contain iran's growing influence in the region but as i say no one seems to be on board when it comes to a tougher stance when it comes to iran good to get your thoughts on the hashem thanks very much now pompei is next stop is israel where he'll be meeting prime minister benjamin netanyahu have a force it is live for us in west jerusalem so harry from everything pompei or has been saying on iran so far he's likely to get an especially warm welcome from netanyahu. well yes the israeli prime minister's always been to has already

been talking about him as a true friend of israel says there is a minute's importance in his visiting israel as part of his first foreign trip as u.s. secretary of state and of course as far as benjamin netanyahu is concerned the number one foreign policy priority is stemming what he sees as the growing threat from iran both from its nuclear weapons. potential in the future and also from iran's activities inside syria and so to hear the new secretary of state who owns hashem says hasn't got the same sort of semi detached relationship with the white house as his predecessor rex tillerson being so clear on the iran issue and really indicating that the united states is very likely it seems to be withdrawing from the iran deal come the deadline on may the twelfth that something that netanyahu has been arguing for for a long time many years in fact and so this will be an opportunity it seems for the

u.s. to lay the groundwork in the region for that decision one which we welcome very much here by the israeli leadership and are we likely to hear much on the israeli palestinian conflict from this meeting. well obviously what's been happening on the the gaza israel fence over the last few weeks is something which has been attracting a huge amount of attention around the world and indeed condemnation of israeli tactics of shooting out an arm for his protest as hundreds injured dozens killed so far the americans have been providing some cover to israel not putting the lion's share of the responsibility for those events on hamas in gaza so we wait to see if there is more talk of on those lines as for the potential of for any trump plan to be published there has been some reporting that that could also happen around mid may as well the palestinians obviously aren't meeting mr pomp just as they didn't

meet my pence a jury his visit here the vice president in january they have already through the palestinian president mahmoud abbas made it very clear that they will not be taking part in any kind of u.s. led effort they do longer see the united states as a broker but it may well be some kind of indication potentially from mr pompei on the likelihood of any quick publication or imminent publication of the trump plan and of course there will be a lot of talk about the u.s. embassy move from tel aviv to jerusalem netanyahu has already talked about that in glowing terms the the the date coming on the seventh anniversary of the creation of the state of israel that is something that both men will obviously be talking about and celebrating our aforesaid life first there in west risler how things. south korea says north korean leader kim jong un has promised to dismantle its nuclear test site next month the pledge was made during kim summit with president mungy in

on friday but there's no word about the future of north korea's ballistic missile program or whether pyongyang will agree to demands by u.s. president donald trump to get rid of its existing nuclear arsenal kathy novak reports from seoul. the world saw the smiles and handshakes on friday now the south korean president's office is revealing more of what was said behind closed doors at the historic summit south korea says kim jong un promised to close the pooncarie nuclear test center next month and invited american and south korean experts and journalists to inspect it days before the summit north korea announced it would shut down the site of all six nuclear bomb tests kim referred to speculation that test explosions had so badly damaged the site it couldn't have been used again anyway. should on chairman kim said when they come they will see that we have two bigger tunnels than the current test facilities and they are in good condition this

. the willingness to allow visitors to the test center appears to be another concession before the planned summit with donald trump and the north koreans by this is necessity but a condition for any kind of negotiations because if they don't see that the won't ever. happens nobody is going to talk to them moon phoned the u.s. president to brief him on the into korean talks the declaration signed there included a broad reference to denuclearize ation of the korean peninsula trump and moon agreed that more specific measures on getting rid of nuclear weapons should be discussed at the u.s. president's meeting with kim kim jong un is also reported to have said even though the united states is inherently hostile towards north korea once they talk with us they will get to know that i am not the kind of person to launch nuclear weapons towards the south or target the united states across the pacific south korea says

kim intends to eliminate another sign of division by changing pyongyang's time zone by half an hour to realign with the south north korea said it's clocks back three years ago saying then that japanese imperialists had imposed tokyo time when korea was an occupied colony moon also briefed japan's prime minister and told shinzo abyei that he had conveyed japan's willingness for talks with north korea a willingness kim jong un said was mutual kathy novak al jazeera sold. un security council delegation has interviewed more than one hundred range of refugees who fled a military crackdown in neighboring myanmar launched crowds of rain in july the road says the team arrived in the bangladesh in town of cox's bazaar that's where some seven hundred thousand ranger remain in makeshift camps charles stratford has been following events there. well it started

a very emotional response from some of the refugees that met with this delegation the small innings of british ambassador literally being held by a number of women who described. as being raped losing family members shot dead by forces the delegation were moved around the camp they were taken along roads along which times thousands of ranger refugees stood many of them holding up cards reading things like we want justice and we are breaking not being goalie it was very telling though in a press conference a journalist in the crowd asked the delegation members to raise their hands those who called the ranger refugees the ranger now of course the myanmar government doesn't call them ranger it doesn't recognize them as citizens of myanmar everybody in that delegation put their hands up in the chinese representative looked rather nervous but did not raise his hand i asked him afterwards why that was the case and

he said that china respects what the ranger call themselves whatever way you look at today's appearance it has been a big i open up for this united nations security council delegation and as i say they don't want to meet and march to morrow as this visit continues. as the head on al-jazeera we report from scotland where the coals for independence are gaining new followers after the u.k.'s brags it to see. a mentor thomas after recycling facility in sick the most of this waste words have ended up in china but china has now find that recycling produce like this leaving the industry here and helps way in the world in like. the spring sunshine across north acer over the next few days very little cloud to

speak of and it will be fine enjoyed sandwiches responding quite nicely to that sun shines to tokyo will get up into the twenty's be getting up to about twenty four celsius a little bit of cloud into southern possibly want to two showers easing across the east china sea korean peninsula general this area clowe will slide its way through is it go on through the next day or so times invited all stuck full back to around ten degrees celsius cloud coming down across north korea south korea should stay lots of dryness you can see still getting some decent temperatures there for japan tokyo at a soccer around twenty seven celsius that little bit of cloud that we have spinning out of the east china sea is affecting central parts of china shanghai still getting up to around thirty degrees celsius having said that general southwesterly push on now wins hong kong twenty eight celsius a good deal of dry and sunny weather here over the next couple of days that law of right that will stay in situ some showers there across indochina i want to say on the shop side showers too across the good parts of southeast asia the wettest

weather remains around thailand very heavy rain here for bangkok as we go through monday less wet by the time we come to choose. disillusioned with life in their own countries since the arab spring and looking desperately for a new sense of identity freedom and self worth tell it in any way i don't feel like system my own country the country dreamed about demonstrated for and sought to achieve many things al-jazeera world here's the stories of those deciding to emigrate in search of a new life and nationality passport to freedom on al-jazeera. hello

again you're watching al-jazeera minder of our top stories this hour the new u.s. secretary of state mike pompei hours called iran the world's worst sponsor of terrorism during his visit to saudi arabia he's on a three day trip to the middle east he's called for major changes in order for the u.s. to stay in the iran nuclear deal. south korea says kim jong un has promised to shut down the north's nuclear bomb test site next month they say the north korean leader made the pledge during friday summit but president. a u.n. security council delegation has interviewed more than one hundred refugees who fled a military crackdown in neighboring myanmar team is visiting bangladesh is cox's bazar where some seven hundred thousand ranger remain in makeshift camps. or

sixteen more refugees from camps in now you are heading to the u.s. under a resettlement deal between washington and australia the group includes afghans pakistanis and ranger the u.s. has agreed to take in around one thousand two hundred fifty refugees from australia's overseas prison camps in now and papua new guinea's mannus island but so far they've only allowed two hundred forty people refugee advocacy groups say the deal is a failure are divisions over breaks it are deepening between leaders in london and the scottish parliament in edinburgh the u.k. government wants to take back powers from the european union which scotland says should belong to a future independent state lawrence lee reports. known as the granite city it's a tough place a bit intimidating looking up at the unions don't like being told what to think. the ports attracts workers from all over the world's oil and renewables and the north sea fishing industry it's an important place for both scotland and the u.k.

and so the opinions of these people matter identity politics which seems to shape so much nowadays is very pronounced in aberdeen the people have voted by some distance to remain british in the scottish independence referendum but then in the brics it vote they said they would rather be europeans than simply british citizens and now it appears they can't have both and in this confusion it was crawfish national party thinks it may have another opportunity christian is a french national who married a scot and who now works in local politics with a party that wants independence from the u.k. if that sounds confusing then his explanation is that you identifies as being a european and so he believes do an increasing number of scots living here as an amazing discussion the discussion of identities i'm scottish i'm proud to be scottish i don't need to have a better word the usual french of course i'm french you can be bold for you can be

british you can be european yeah i'm a citizen of the world i got a message but it isn't me but it is such a thing then citizen of the world and i am one of them the latest polling suggests that forty eight percent of scots want independence from the u.k. and fifty two percent don't and when you look at voting intentions for an independent scotland it's clear that the young by a wide margin won't scottish independence while older people are against it it's the identical demographic splits to the brics it evokes the young identifies european the old see themselves as british the polls show that the younger people particularly are very disillusioned with the way that westminster is operated and keen to show that they are as european as anybody else in the last independence referendum four years ago the yes campaign lost by two hundred thousand votes but that was before breakfast. if the scottish independence movement wants another vote the chance to change the minds of people in aberdeen it will surely waits until it

knows the time is right and it breaks its sale scotland while the generations change they may still get their child's sleep al-jazeera in aberdeen a philippine president is calling on filipinos in kuwait to come home over allegations of worker abuse philippines banned workers from travelling to kuwait earlier this year after the deaths of seven filipino domestic workers in separate incidents deter taste said the ban is now permanent but two hundred sixty thousand filipinos are still living in kuwait both sides recalled their ambassadors last week after two filipino embassy staff were arrested for allegedly allegedly encouraging maids to flee are former president joyce banda has returned to malawi after four years of self-imposed exile that's despite the risk of arrest over corruption allegations banda fled malawi in twenty fourteen after losing power in the wake of the cash gate scandal that's where tens of millions of dollars were

stolen from the state hundreds of supporters were at the airport in blantyre to welcome her when she arrived from johannesburg he asked me. there's a what are the what is twenty two c. so i'm saying ever since i've been doing this work it up just explained not want to has written to me directly but a helpful one and of august. on the australian government has announced almost four hundred million dollars in funding to help save the great barrier reef climate change has caused water temperatures to rise which is killing coral on the world's largest reef victoria gate and he reports. it's one of the seven wonders of the natural world the australian government wants to ensure its around for future generations to enjoy we recognise that the reef faces a number of challenges we've had significant bleaching events in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen as we race around the world in the great barrier reef is no

different to with great stress research as say a third of the reef was cooked to death as water temperatures rose one degree above average in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen due to a combination of climate change and they only know weather cycle co reeves are home to around twenty five percent of ocean life but coral bleaching has destroyed nurseries for many kinds of young fish meaning only the toughest species have survived the bulk of the money will go towards improving water quality but not everyone has welcomed the announcement the problem with these things as i said with the ruth package is it makes people think something is really being done and it's amazing that the packages always come forward just a few months before the world heritage committee is ganymede again you know ask the say whether we should be put on the endangered list the australian government hopes it's conservation work will inspire other countries to follow its fleet we are

spearheading a group among some of the countries many of. the manage significant coral reefs in the care. being in the pacific in the indian ocean and they look to australia to provide the technical expertise to scientific research and the best practice management of the race but conservation groups say the government is ignoring the biggest threat to the reef climate change they want if emissions continue as they are the great barrier reef web civil life victoria gate and be al-jazeera let's bring in john tanzer in britain than via skype he is the oceans leader at the world wildlife fund international thanks very much for being with us so first of all your reaction to this decision by the australian government to provide nearly four hundred million dollars in funding to to to deal with there to be used on the great barrier reef is it enough well look at the tional investment is always welcome the

great barrier reef as you said in your introduction is under is under a lot of pressure and and it has suffered some decline significant decline in recent recently is dealing with problems of water quality problems so the impact of fishing and making sure that we monitor that's that's all very welcome. we need to establish how much of this is new money but to the extent that it will be directed at some of those basic problems then we must welcome it however i do want to say that the biggest issue as you mentioned in your introduction is climate change and putting band-aids on severe lacerations is unlikely to be to be a solution so we have to we have to move to deal with climate change much more aggressively than what we have in the past what would you want to see being done then. well i think we really need to pull at all stops on on climate change to cut

emissions obviously and also as the foreign minister mentioned many because this is a problem affecting coral reefs already on the world and we do need to see the international community move to invest both in terms of resources as well as political will in helping those communities which are most fun rable and which are on the front lawn of dealing with the impacts of climate change many of them in coral reef places rising sea level bleaching acidification these are all problems and it's going to require global if it if we're going to say we're going to save call race in the world it really is going to require a very you know audit in target if it. told us a little bit more about the bleaching that's occurring in the great barrier reef and how one of the different ways that that has affected marine life there. well it was quite shocking then i don't think anyone really predicted. rapid the

decline was going to be in the widespread loss of call rates that between twenty sixteen twenty seventeen quite dramatically large area bleaching declined death some recovery coming back but it's patchy and i think it was really a wake up call to all of us that this is not something that's happened going to happen in the future we don't have a lot of time if anything what we saw in the great barrier reef in two thousand and sixteen and twenty seven thing shocking but was a real opportunity a real i kept cool force in an opportunity to move to much more aggressive action we've seen impacts on a whole range of species it's not just the corals when the coal pile up sexually dawei severely stressed and distressed it impacts on a whole lot of other species some twenty four percent of marine boy diversity is associated with color race so you can imagine the ripple effects of that bleaching is quite quite widespread good to speak with you john tanzer in brisbane thank you

thank you now us australian recycling efforts are under threat after an announcement by china it's been importing half the world's recycled plastic and paper but china is not doing that anymore and as andrew thomas reports that leaves places like australia with no way to send much of they have recycled waste. after they put out their bins of recyclable rubbish most australians think no more about it but this is just the start of a process which is facing a crisis. in australia trucks bring the mixed plastics paper gloss and metal to a facility like this one to be separated until recently about haul the plastic and paper was then shipped to china chinese companies were importing and processing nearly half the world's prostate exam paper recycling but in january china's

government in effect banned the import of recyclable weist it had a loud in bundles that were up to ten percent contaminated meaning up to a tenth of a bale of one type of recyclable plastic could in fact be known recyclable material australian centers like this one had to do only a rough sift of the initial material the fact that it's made up of different plastics thought in itself is contaminated so you can say there's a bottle of water there that's my dad and i pay eighty material on the campus mind out of a different material. which is made out of a different material again a cap on the neck would be regarded as contaminated. china now says only north point five percent of each imported bond to compete so-called contamination there isn't a plant in australia that can produce a bundle that can pass that test even the operators of this new one in townsville call promise less than eight percent contamination the business model is broken the supply is a constant the demands being walked up. and yet there is

a real challenge to find a market for those free software tools in both the short term and the longer term. some of the oversupply is being taken by australian processes and the hof what they were the plastics and now taking away the bundles of paper for free but i can't take it so no one is admitting to stockpiling big mountains of plastic in paper or a fire risk creating breaks laws but the excess. has to go somewhere about ten percent of everything that comes into this facility. but can't be recycled i just found out put in like that and that will be landfill the concern now is that a lot more may end up in landfill those vials are ninety percent plastic that words have gone to china. those in the industry say long term this could be an opportunity for more sophisticated prosecutors like to boost within australia but in the short time they say they need in effect

a subsidy from government that means higher taxes to keep the big elections going andrew thomas al jazeera says. this is al-jazeera it's going to look at the top stories the new u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o has called iran the world's worst sponsor of terrorism and his visit to saudi arabia he's on a three day trip to the middle east pompei or has called for major changes in order for the u.s. to stay in the iran nuclear deal. nuclear deal that's failed to moderate the regime's conduct in many other areas i highlighted a few in fact the red is only behave the worse since the deal was approved in iran continues to support the violence the rebels by providing military equipment funding and training this is a violation of the un security council resolutions these continue to fire missiles

into saudi arabia on a regular basis targeting red sea shipping in threading threatening the saudi people. well we will continue to assist saudi arabia with this diversity and support its right to defend its own borders a political solution is the only way to advance long term stability gavan and then the suffering and i know we agree on that the u.s. secretary of state told gulf leaders that the told saudi leaders rather the gulf diplomatic crisis needs to end saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind an egypt have imposed an economic in bargo on qatar for almost a year also stressed to the foreign minister the gulf unity is necessary we need to achieve a south korea says kim jong un has promised to shut down the north's nuclear bomb test site next month they say the north korean leader made the plays during friday's summit with president moon j in a u.n. security council delegation has interviewed more than one hundred range of refugees

who fled a military crackdown in neighboring myanmar large crowds of range and lined the roads as the team arrived in the bangladeshi town of cox's bazaar that's where some seven hundred thousand range of remain in makeshift camps. the australian government has announced nearly four hundred million dollars to help save the great barrier reef large parts of it have been dying off due to climate change and coastal pollution the new money will go towards improving water quality and killing destructive stuff ish those are the headlines we're back in half an hour right now it's inside story.

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