of the press around the world people in power the top u.s. general in afghanistan about his plans for defeating by the taliban and an isis insurgency. struggling with security issues and economic uncertainty iraq is finally set to hold elections as an unseen global battle rages for resources beneath our oceans we all skip the seabed is a territory still to be claimed commemorating seventy years from now but al jazeera examines what has changed in the past seven decades on both sides of this conflict made on al-jazeera he has no passport yet he's politically active in two thousand trees i was the only one who got the power of peaceful transition because they're much part you know part of the world some people think you are stupid the crazy if you do that mikhail saakashvili former president of georgia and next governor of the odessa region in ukraine talks to al jazeera.

this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome to the al-jazeera news hour live from my headquarters in doha with the elizabeth purana coming up in the next sixty minutes. the prior administration we will not look like that scope of terrorism america's new top diplomat presses for unity in the gulf as he must to support for new sanctions against iran. north korea's leader promises to close his country's atomic test site a pledge that falls short of what the world wants one hundred refugees demand guarantees a safe return to myanmar during the year one visit to their caps in bangladesh and a strain he announces hundreds of millions of dollars to. help protect the great

barrier reef but environmentalists say it's just a drop in the ocean. new u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o has underscored the need for unity in the gulf as he visits the middle east mustering support for new sanctions against iran speaking in the saudi capital he urged the kingdom and its allies to resolve an almost year long standoff with cutter that u.s. officials say iran is exporting to boost its regional influence. reports. on his new international trip the new u.s. secretary of state sent a tough message to iran my comp a zero cold for top of sanctions criticize the in banias ballistic missile program and blame them for destabilizing the middle east. i don't like the prior

administration we will not look like that scope overruns terrorism. it is indeed the greatest sponsor terrorism the world and we are determined to make sure it never possesses a nuclear weapon. message raises many questions about the future of the iran nuclear deal it was widely praised as a breakthrough one signed three years ago but president barack obama's successor has repeatedly said the deal is for donald trump's due to decide next bomb on whether or not to restore sanctions on iran a move that many wary might undermine the nuclear agreement saudi arabia is also calling for more sanctions on iran accusing to herat of using proxy fighters in yemen to destabilize the kingdom. feet a key thing and i wish it was saudi arabia is supporting the policy of president trump towards or. and we support the efforts related to the iranian nuclear case

which we need to minimize we also need to see more inspections of iranian nuclear sites i think the problem with iran should be sorted out by imposing more sanctions on iran for violating international law and violating the ballistic missile accord and for interference in neighboring countries. but the u.s. faces many challenges as it tries to rally international support for further iran sanctions the e.u. warns against scrapping the nuclear deal russia and china have vowed to block any u.s. a town to in their words. the nuclear deal the gulf cooperation council the powerful and which regional bloc and their close u.s. ally remains divided the u.s. wants and and to the g.c.c. crisis of the blockade of qatar the new york times reports pompei all told

saudi officials enough is enough to stop the qatar book a they also stressed to the foreign minister the go theory is necessary we need it which. the us where we use the term month long disagreements the saudi led porter to have with qatar will undermine the chances of bringing stability to the region and finding a solution to the middle east peace process. and palm pairs next stop is israel from meeting to prime minister benjamin netanyahu who is among the fiercest critics of the iran nuclear deal. i will discuss with him the developments in the region on the growing iranian aggression and of course on the nuclear agreement with iran on which there is going to be a decision soon let's go to our correspondent harry forsett now he's joining us live from west jerusalem so what are we expecting from this place that harry. well it's going to be

a short one just four hours or so before my comp is wheels up on his way to amman jordan but it's one that benjamin netanyahu at least says is of immense importance the fact that he has come here as part of his first international trip as u.s. secretary of state and the language he's been using on iran the kind of messaging that we've been getting out of washington as well that we heard from the french president manual mccraw after his state visit to the u.s. is saying that he thought the trump would pull out of the iran deal this is very much in alliance in alignment with what benjamin netanyahu wants to see he has long been complaining about what he sees is in action in the face of a growing iranian threat both in terms of a possible future nuclear weapon and in terms of its activities within syria as well and so that's something that prompted talked about in saudi arabia as well not just about the nuclear issue but also about iran's other activities in the region

so he is calling pompei a true friend of israel and it may well be on may the twelfth that this is laying the groundwork for a decision from the white house that will be very much welcomed here just two days before the u.s. embassy moves from tel aviv to jerusalem potentially around the same time we might see the trump plan on the peace process as well there is no meeting with the palestinians just like mike pence when he came here the u.s. vice president in january there's no meeting between pump and the palestinians one senior palestinian official telling media here that none was sought and none would have been given had indeed sort of meeting with senior palestinian palestinian leaders thank you very much for that for now that is how for that joining us live from west of her slim we are going to get more on this we're joined by mary javedanfar israeli analysts and iran lecture at idle fool has lingered at the private university and is joining us live from kind of in very good to have you with. on al-jazeera so as well and heard the new secretary of state's first trip in

that role is to saudi arabia and then to israel which is of course the same thing that u.s. president what do you make of that at this time ahead of the u.s. decision over whether it's staying in the iran nuclear deal well to be honest elizabeth i'm not sure that you know this is an indication as to whether america is going to walk out of the iran nuclear deal or not we don't know but what i can say with much more certainty is that my compeers visit to saudi arabia and to israel is part of forming a broad this strategy with regards to two other aspects relating to iran one of them is that iranian missile program the saudis are extremely concerned about any potential iranian help to the who these some see the missiles being fired by who these are iranian we don't know but there are others saying that even if they're not iranian does you run in technical support being given to the who these and this

is making the saudis extremely concerned and they are pushing for more sanctions meanwhile in israel not just the turn yahoo but also the israeli left wing party merits. recently that we don't want an iranian presence in syria so there's consensus on that so there is the issue of the issue of iran's presence is syria and i think these are the main two issues that there will be focusing on for now we have to wait and see of the may twelfth to see if trump is going to walk out because it's also a viable possibility that he won't what are the changes that the u.s. wants to keep saying that they have to be changes to the deal in order for them to stay in it but do we know what it is that they actually want. you know elizabeth that's a very good question because. we first of all it's not they they keep producing contradictory statements and it's none of them are confirmed as the official u.s. position one of the issues we hear is the change in the sunset clause you know some of the some of the activities by iran for example regarding the quantities of known

ritu raney and or regarding the advancement of the centrifuges have a have a shelf life of ten years on with someone of the me to fifteen years with the goal of normalizing iran's nuclear program eventually but america wants to change that and changing you can change that without bringing the deal because they are one of the essential pillars which the which the deal is based on however we could see supplements to distil for example issue of sanctions against iran's missile program a presence in syria these one these won't be undermining the deal as long as they don't bring back the sanctions which were removed when the nuclear deal was signed but if mr trump wants to reimpose the oil sanctions the central bank sanctions the swift sanctions or to renegotiate a sunset deal that's basically undermining the deal and that basically means the united states will be walking away from the j.c. pure way if it decides to make such demands and if they did do that do you think

any of the other countries that are part of the deal including iran would walk away from it too because none of them have indicated that they would do that. this is the complete difference with north korea and north korea trump international coalition you have the chinese with him on iran it's the opposite he doesn't have the chinese and the europeans with him and if trump even walks away from the deal not sure it's clear that the iranians will be walking away from the deal because this deal is very important for iran's economy it's also very important for the e.u. relations with iran as well as chinese iranian and russian or iranian relations so the by walking away from the deal president trump could end up isolating america instead of hurting iran which could explain why four former heads of the israeli defense forces have come out recently saying that they are against america leaving the deal one of them includes the form is really the first one is the most who was very much against the deal but now he believes that walking away from the do would be against israel's interests mr jadwin unfired is great to get your thoughts on

this marriage out and for joining us live from tel aviv thank you thank you. let's move on to other news now in the syrian army has captured a string of villages from the u.s. back surgery and democratic forces near the iraqi border and meanwhile in the south of the country the government announced a deal with opposition fighters to evacuate areas around southern damascus and the palestinian refugee camp the deal with the syrian government comes amid an army offensive to push i saw out of the area where activists believe half of the camp in the area has been destroyed in a week of violence the u.n. says some three thousand five hundred people have fled the cab. a u.n. security council delegation has interviewed more than one hundred one hundred refugees who fled a military crackdown in myanmar large crowds of revenge and lined the roads as the team arrived in the bangladeshi city of cox's bizarre that's where some seven hundred thousand one hundred remain in makeshift camps. this is

a new show. in myanmar they must be allowed to go in conditions of safety it may take some time but we would like to hear from the government to me and how we used to work with the international community and we will do everything we can the security council to see progress and trying to come together to take decisions that help doing. correspondent charles street said said this update from the camp. when it started a very emotional response from some of the refugees that met with this delegation the small in the british ambassador literally being held by a number of women who described in tears being raped losing family members shot dead by. the delegation were moved around the camp they were taken along the roads along which times thousands of british refugees stood many of them holding up

cards reading things like we want justice and we are not bengali 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 religion of course the myanmar government doesn't call them or injure 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 the china respects call themselves whatever way you look at today's events it has been a big eye opener for this united nations security council delegation and as i say they go on to me and martha morrow as this visit continues plenty more still ahead on the news hour including a report from scotland where calls for independence again and traction off to the u.k. suppressant decision seeking asylum by my friends from central america headed to

the. u.s. border may find their troubles are far from over and sports and early contender for the catch of the season and major league baseball. north korea's leader has promised to dismantle his country's nuclear testing site as soon as next month that's according to a south korean government which has come out on may the pleasure during his summit with president moon jay and on friday but there's not a word about the future of north korea's ballistic missile program or whether there's a grade to get rid of their atomic os at all 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 pool in getting

a 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 to join should only chairman kim said when they come they will see that we have to figure tunnels than the current test facilities and they are in good condition this. the willingness to allow businesses to the test center appears to be another concession before the planned summit with donald trump and the north koreans by this is the necessity. for any kind of negotiations because if they don't see that the want every. event and 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 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 well let's

get more on this now and bring in said david warren he's joining us live from london he served as the british ambassador to japan from two thousand and eight until two thousand and twelve and is an associate fellow at chatham house very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so the japanese have been the most cautious about this report what is it that they want to see from the north koreans. well the japanese are cautious because they want their interests to be reflected in the peace discussions which now go forward they want the denuclearization discussions to focus not just on intercontinental ballistic missiles which can hit united states but short range missiles which can threaten japan they also want the unresolved issue of the japanese citizens abducted by north korea in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's to be on the agenda as well twelve of those individual cases have never been accounted for and they want to be careful that the peace discussions

reflect the broad international framework for discussions on peace and denuclearization which of course have been going on and off for the last twenty five years so the japanese while they welcome the events of friday and they welcome the commitment of the two sides to peace in the nuclear eyes ation i think remain privately skeptical of the spectrum until they see the details while we are expecting more detail when kim jong un meets with the u.s. president donald trump in the coming weeks and the north korean leader has also said that he is willing to meet with the prime minister is that something that you think as likely to happen and then would that be an opportunity for japan to represent its own entrusts and the in this dispute it. it could well happen i think the japanese would be happy to take those discussions forward

they have of course had contacts at the highest political level in the past with kim jong un's father but they're aware that these summit meetings have happened before albeit in north korea rather than south korea and prime minister will have been at pains to ensure that president trump understands japan's concerns as well as the broader concerns of peace and security in the region in his bilateral contacts with the president the week before last it mar a lago i think that would be happy to have these discussions indeed keen to have them with kim jong un but he wants to ensure that those taking part in the negotiations understand that we should be negotiating from a position of strength with north korea and that north korea is in this situation of beginning a thaw in part because economic sanctions have begun to bite and because they have gone as far as they can with the nuclear capacity building program and their own

nuclear testing facilities now do seem to be quite badly degraded and if north korea is at the position that we're saying it now because of those economic sanctions and because they are beginning to bite how important do you think it is right now that those sanctions remain and place until we see some real progress on denuclearization until they actually do shut down that nuclear bomb testing site. well my personal view is that it's important that they do stay in place i think that the japanese and i think that the other parties to the discussions need to be will be concerned about the concessions which will have to be made in order to secure north korea's concrete commitment to denuclearize ation what does north korea want in terms of the united states withdrawing or reducing its troop commitments in south korea and the region more generally what does it want in terms

of removal of economic sanctions that enable the north korean economy to begin to grow again because it's increasingly clear that kim jong un is now trying to shift the gender away from nuclear towards a framework which allows the north korean economy to grow japan will want to ensure that south korea and the us are not so mesmerized by the prospect of peace exciting though that isn't that the pictures from the penguin drum on friday were stored really exciting and not so much my eyes by that they're prepared to make concessions which ultimately make the region a more fragile environment rather than a safer one says a vine is very good to get your thoughts on this that said david vine joining us live from london thank you. now sixteen more refugees from camps and naldo are heading to the u.s. under a resettlement deal between america and australia the group includes afghans pakistanis and one hundred the us had agreed to taken around one thousand two hundred fifty

refugees from australia's overseas present camps and out of and papua new guinea's man asylum but so far they've allowed only two hundred forty people. government has announced almost four hundred million dollars to help save the great barrier reef where large parts of the reefs have been dying off due to climate change and coastal pollution but toyah gate and he has the story. 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 seven as we race around the world in the great barrier reef is no different deal with researches say a third of the reef was cooked to death as water temperatures rose one degree above average in twenty sixteen in twenty seventeen due to a combination of climate change and the weather cycle co reaves

a home to around twenty five percent of ocean wife 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 the australian government hopes its conservation work will inspire other countries to follow its lead we are spearheading a group amongst countries many of. you manage your significant coral reefs in the caribbean in the pacific in the indian ocean and they look to australia to provide the technical expertise to scientific research and the management of the coral reefs but some say the government is ignoring the biggest threat to the reef climate change we really need to pull at. stops on on climate change to cut emissions obviously and also as the foreign minister mentioned many because this is a problem affecting call race or round the world and we do need to see the international community move to invest but in terms of resources as well as

political will while additional investment is welcome conservation groups womb that if emissions continue as they are the great barrier reef won't survive victoria gate and be out there. it is time for the weather now with everson and things out warming up in north america yeah long last liz's been a long cold winter by the end of this week we may well see temperatures in new york touching twenty nine celsius a feeling more like summer if the truth be known that does of course bring problems of its own though it is quiet and fine across much of north america as you can see largely clear skies some fabulous weather but up towards the northeastern corner just cincinnati's inside of canada this is the same in new brunswick this is actually a street and you can see both certainly the more at home here than bicycles and very tricky conditions and that's because that warmth which has led to a rapid thawing of what snow there was as we go on through the next few days that

we more of the same coming in we come across into central pass here's where we have high pressure acts as the lid on the atmosphere prevents the cloud from rising and we get the clearest skies and the sun of course does have some warmth of the moment with dragging the war right up across the central plains now we're seeing temperatures really picking up with the pack twenty four degrees thirteen in chicago that's a little below the average but it will improve here as we go on through the next couple of days to twenty one in chicago to go on into monday just notice a system just spilling in from the northwestern corner to be some snow just sliding in from the rockies twenty five in chicago on shoes day but with this line of cloud and right look at that temperature contrast just five degrees celsius there in winnipeg so we'll have to watch out for severe storms and that means tornadoes liz thank you very much every now a second march has been held in nicaragua to demand justice after the recent killing of anti-government protesters i think forty three people died during

demonstrations against social security reforms the u.n. says security forces may have killed some protest is following their outcry president down at a fake us stop plans to overhaul the welfare and pension system. opposition activists are blocking roads leading to armenia as capital. another big rally support was nicole push on pushing for parliament to select him as the country's new prime minister when they vote this week on mass demonstrations forced longtime leader. to step down robin foresty a walk of reports from the city of an outdoor. this convoy has all the euphoria of a victory parade one that stretches for kilometers. while the capital takes some rest the opposition movement is travelling to the regions to show the republican party that the whole country is now behind one bad week.

on tuesday there will be a crucial vote in parliament to decide on a new prime minister and the crowds know who they want for the job they call passion. and. we. began this movement with a two week walk across all media in april the cold medians to join him and reject the country's unpopular leader said. the former journalist but. critic and served jail time for his activism. but while his faction is only a minority pollard's the simple message has attracted thousands frustrated by the political elite and to spoil it by his revolutionary life which. i have no power only people who have fallen. to the protests of the season was based on is somehow different you can feel the excitement i can see the ads you see

placed in the house and the expectations on the face you know these people you want the best things are being on the manse i don't know he's here we just didn't want to give each other he gives the power to us to the people not just the one person or two people but to everyone that's why we love him so so it is changing all this and i mean then dignitary only. heard the. saw the car update system it's changing. this was the moment mr. announce to the crowds that the republican party looks be fielding a candidate and choose state. power does seem to be with the people of robin first you will come out zero balance in. coming out in the second half of the news our fighting intensifies in

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good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news these are our top stories the new u.s. secretary of state has called for unity in the gulf as he visits the middle east mustering support for new sanctions against iran speaking in the saudi capital of the kingdom and its allies to resolve the standoff with u.s. officials say iran as explored saying. south korea's kim jong un has promised to shut down the north's nuclear bomb next month they say the north korean leader made the pledge during friday's summit with president. and the u.n. security council delegation has interviewed more than one hundred refugees who fled the military crackdown on the team. with some seven hundred hundred remain in makeshift camps. well thousands of people have also fed the most stage where there's been fighting between government forces and rebels aid agencies say they feel civilians trapped in the area without access to food or medicine as many on

the reports the surge in violence is part of a conflict and caution state that goes back seventy years. these are fighters for the kitchen and dependents army filmed just last month patrolling the enclave in the remote northernmost region of me and and just within sight of government forces . until as long as the burn me is keep coming at us we have to keep fighting just as the two weeks later these fighters were being bombarded me in mass military reportedly pounding rebel positions with these strikes and artillery in response to catch and threats to retake the last territory of. kitchen rebels say they've been defending the right of the mainly christian minority to control the resource rich region for more than fifty years they accuse me and must soldiers of decades of atrocities and employing technics similar to

those allegedly used by government forces against revenge and rakhine state burning down houses shooting people and raping women the government of me in my denies the accusations. if not diversity is at the heart of conflict right across the country when me and my gained full independence from british rule in one thousand nine hundred forty eight powell was unexpectedly handed to the majority berman's a deal that excluded numerous it's not minorities including the kitchen the country has been at civil war ever since age of the hundred thirty it's knit groups and me and my have the kitchen is one of the most powerful a seventeen years cease fire deal with the kitchen fell apart in two thousand and eleven and fighting resumed the decades long un reste has displaced needs to make one hundred twenty thousand could chin land she thing now they don't fire at the front line they fire at random anywhere so we don't know where they're going to

drop her so scared we don't know if it will happen when we're asleep that's why we're so scared we can't sleep at night. some armed it's not groups have signed peace deals with the cup. meant others including the kitchen have not they say they don't trust the process or the government and have joined an alliance of rebel groups in the north now they're engaged in some of the worst fighting in decades but it's difficult to assess media access is strictly limited and aid agencies are calling on the government to allow them access media and al-jazeera to mali now where gunmen have killed at least forty ethnic twa rigs in the north the attacks on friday and saturday where in the minako region on the border with the share the regional governor says gunmen linked to al qaida targeted mostly young men and two remote desert villages. and al qaeda linked groups have been fighting for six years both seeking to control the region where bulls won as the movement for the liberation of hours of declared independence in april two thousand and twelve that

was just after president mani today was pushed out in a coup but three months later they lost to the al qaeda linked group called. impose sharia law and publicly destroyed many muslim shrines in early two thousand and thirteen france stepped in and helped mali and forces take back the region two years later mali as government settled on a peace deal with the rebels but violence persists despite the presence of french troops and un peacekeepers france's northern mali has now become a haven for i saw the fighters on the equator is the executive director of the african immigrant corcos and he says these latest attacks are an attempt to provoke the tar eggs and to a larger conflict. that two our eggs have a hard. conflict and disagreements with whichever government has been embalmed ever scenes independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty because there are says

separate ethnic groups have always i do and i do want to separate they want their own country now that is very hard for that mali is to accept and relieve for all of africa too i said because it is based on welfare and ethnicity and there are only five percent of the mali in population and they will be landlocked and so they have always argued it and for this as you mentioned a few years back they signed the most recent. peace deal with the government here is to be holding why will the terrorists target them it will seem that. they are trying to get to arias to once again pick up pick up the gun and belies the government of mali i think that may be the reason why they are trying to target the two aaronson get them fighting again

now group of five hundred refugees and migrants from central america about to reach the u.s. border after a month on the vase thinks that they're escaping from violence and persecution robin's reports from san diego. handful of migrant rights supporters marched through downtown san diego near the end of the two hundred twenty five kilometer journey on foot from los angeles to showing solidarity for a group of hundreds of migrants from central america traveling to you or the us mexico border while the trunk administration is going to meet refugees at the border with guns and walls we're going to meet them with open arms and open hearts once the. migrants reach the border they will ask for protected refugee status in the u.s. says an attorney accompanying them on their journey even have to show that you will suffer persecution in your country of origin and based on your race religion

nationality political opinion or because you are a member of our particular social group. because the central american migrants are fleeing rampant violence and not persecution as north traditionally defined are well they may find it difficult to obtain asylum. central american countries have some of the highest murder and violent crime rates in the world we spoke to raina came from el salvador last year she asked us to disguise her identity for fear of reprisals against family members back home she fled after criminal gangs attacked her family and i love my son in law they left his dead body on my doorstep they shot him fifteen times he was only twenty three years old than our entire family all of us were targeted once rayna reached the us she requested asylum then spent the next nine months in detention rayna is waiting for

a hearing to decide whether she will get asylum she has no doubt about the fate that awaits her family if they're sent back. i'm certain we would be going to our deaths u.s. president donald trump harshly denounces groups of central americans traveling to the u.s. calling them dangerous and the border patrol has begun subjecting migrants to harsher treatment like separating children from parents in detention reyna as a message for drunk. president that all i would tell senor president trump to have mercy on us and to give us an opportunity to live for migrants like for asylum is a matter of life or death robbery or san diego. hamas is blaming the palestinian authority for the attempted assassination of the prime minister last month in gaza. hurt while five guards were injured gaza's rulers

say three of the authority senior officers planned to vote side bombing of his convoy but the palestinian president is blaming hamas for the attack. put fon says has offered his condolences to the grieving parents of a british target has died after a divisive legal battle alfie evans case sparked a medical ethics debate that's resonated far beyond the u.k. had a hawkster explains why my gladiator has laid down his shells and gained his wings at two thirty am evans father took to social media to announce his twenty three month old son has lost his battle and passed away on saturday morning the parents added they were heartbroken and thanked all their followers for support. the toddler had spent the last eighteen months of his life in intensive care being treated for a red to generative brain disorder doctors ever seen his care argued further

treatment for the terminally ill child was futile prolonging his discomfort and that he should be able to die peacefully. under british law courts can intervene when parents and doctors disagree over the treatment of the child. the head of the catholic church got past the involved and met with alfie's parents and appealed for their wishes to be followed. italy even granted citizenship so he could be moved to vatican hospital to keep him alive on a ventilator if british courts allowed him but a judge ruled in the local doctor's favor to end his suffering a move condemned by officials in the largely catholic poland who criticized the health service in the united kingdom the paper is one of the first to respond following the announcement of his death and he posted his sympathy on twitter he went on to preach for sound ethics and science but century eluding to the evans's case to want this to inform them entirely in this situation it is fundamental that

we improve our awareness of the ethical responsibility in respect of the human kind and the environment in which we live while the church applauds every effort in research and application directed to the care of our suffering brothers and sisters she is also mindful of the basic principle that not everything technically possible or doable is thereby ethically acceptable this is not the first time the pope has gotten involved in a case pitting parents against the british state last year the british high court ruled a tummy ill baby charlie god's life support be switched off mourners gathered to pay their respect to our evans short life but his death has reignited an international debate over who should decide for end of life care for sick children . al-jazeera. now divisions of objects that deepening between the u.k.'s national government in london and leaders in scotland's parliament in the u.k. voted as

a whole to leave the most scottish voices opted to remain inside the block and now there are new questions about whether scotland will go its own way laws leave imports from aberdeen. aberdeen's known as the granite city it's a tough place a bit intimidating looking at battalion is don't like being told what to think the ports attracts workers from all over the world for 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 both 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 identified 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 is i me but it's such a thing than 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 will older people are against it it's the identical demographic splits to the brics it votes 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 any. in the last independence referendum four years ago the yes campaign lost by two hundred thousand votes but that was before if the scottish independence movement once another votes a chance to change the minds of people in aberdeen it will surely waits until it knows the time is right and if it fails scotland while the generations change they may still get that seans barnsley al-jazeera in aberdeen where the sports news still ahead on the news will tell us about the n.f.l. drafting its first. athlete.

to. the finals. we headed to jerusalem bureau covered israeli palestinian affairs we cover this story with a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of this story we have a presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to be a journalist to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global diplomacy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens there matters.

well strain is recycling efforts under threat after an announcement by china it's refusing to continue taking much of the world's plastic and paper for processing under thomas reports from sydney. 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 all the plastic and paper was then shipped to china chinese companies were importing and processing nearly half the world's plastic some paper recycling but in january china's

government in effect banned the import of recyclable weist the cattle out in bundles that were up to ten percent contaminated meaning up to a tenth of a bio one thought the recyclable plastic could in fact be known recyclable material australian centers like this one had to do only a rough safety of the initial material the fact that it might. up a different plastics thought in itself is contaminated so you can say there's a bottle of water there that's my dad i pay eighty materialis on the campus my dad of a different material and you've got the libel which is made out of a different material again so the liable account i'm on it would be regarded as contaminated. china now says only point five percent of each imported bond competes oakland 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 can't promise less than eight percent contamination the business model is broken the supply is a constant the demands being walked out of that house and yet there is

a real challenge to find a market for those responsible in both the short term and the longer term. some of the oversupply is being taken by australian processes paying under hoff what they were the plastics and now taking away the bundles of paper for free but i can't take it away no one is admitting to stockpiling big mountains of plastic in paper or a fire risk creating them breaks laws but the access has to go somewhere about ten percent of everything that comes into this facility is wiped but can't be recycled i found out put in by like that and that will cause a landfill the concern now is that a lot more may end up in a landfill those vials are ninety percent plastic that words have gone to china continental. those in the industry say long term this could be an opportunity for more sophisticated processing of us like levels 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 city. right it is time for sport now his job elizabeth thank you mr adie's driver valtteri bottas is closing in on think tree at the formula one azerbaijan graeme pray he holds the lead going into the final few laps in back having overtaken pole sitter sebastian vettel during a pit stop while champion lewis hamilton sits in third place but it's been a disastrous race for the red bull's daniel recalled i ran into the back of teammate max to step in as they fought for a fourth position and both of them have crushed. outs the playoff picture is becoming clearer in the n.b.a. there's just one spot remaining in the second round after the boston celtics but their progression they beat them walking bucs one hundred twelve to ninety six in a decisive game seven of their series about how you want to playoff series since two thousand and one and twenty six points apiece from al horford and terry rashida

ensured the drought would continue the celtics are one of the league's youngest teams with an average age of twenty four and a half they face the philadelphia seventy six ers next. golden state warriors open the second round of the playoffs with a one hundred twenty three two hundred one victory over the new orleans pelicans that's despite the absence of steph curry who intends to return from a knee injury for game two later le bron james is cleveland cavaliers face a decisive game seven against the indiana pacers and the houston rockets begin the best of seven series with the utah jazz. the boston bruins have made a flying start to the second round of ice hockey stanley cup playoffs they thrashed the tampa bay lightning in the opening game of that used to the conference semifinal patrice bergeron and rick nash each school twice in the six two victory. wells where the sanitary sharks beat the vegas gold myself to two periods of

overtime to level the series at one one two games coming up later the pittsburgh penguins can take it to no lead with a win over the washington capitals as can the winnipeg jets who face the nashville predators baseball fans were denied a much anticipated showdown between japanese stars must the hero to makkah and show tommy tommy was missing from the l.a. angels lineup against the new yankees because of a minor and sprain yankees pitcher to market took the opportunity to steal the limelight he struck out nine batters across six strong innings yankees eleven one winners in this game. meanwhile the catch of the year nominee from the atlanta braves game with the philadelphia phillies i should. be going there to get. i. thank you phillies outfielder duble harrar with this remarkable effort to prevent a home run philadelphia needed more of that the braves were for one windows in this

game a one handed american football player has been dropped as the n.f.l. for the first time she came griffin had his left hand amputated when he was four years old because of a birth defect that prevented his fingers from developing now twenty two years old the linebacker was selected by the seattle seahawks in the fifth round of the draft he joins his twin brother who was signed by the team as a cornerback last year barcelona could clinch the spanish football league title later they're eleven points ahead of atletico madrid so all they really need is a draw a single point from their match with deportivo la coruna on sunday to win their twenty fessler league or crown it would also be their third title in four years manchester city sealed the english premier league title weeks ago but their reaction against west ham and lead to no through leroy sanya and an own goal from the hammers declan rice but the big game with the daisies manchester united take on

arsenal now united will want to win to secure their second place in the standings but perhaps more interesting lee will be the reception given by united manager joe is a marine you know his arsenal counterpart also langer who's leaving at the end of the season after twenty two years now they've had a frosty relationship for years stretching back to when marine year was in charge of chelsea it's certainly kept journalists and fans and to taint. i don't really read. what you say is but i'm on dice told me i find it odd two for two disconnected reason reality and respect food you know years especially since. i'm not because eighty years without. a piece of silverware that's why i love it all i think boring it's ten years without a doubt of that sort of war he. played against arsenal. and

the only ones he didn't are respecting of course i respect him a lot and i don't want to go into india or do you should leave me and give me a little bit of peace for my find the reaks and not try to push me into a final confrontation you know i want to go peacefully. and. we knew as well because he's a great manager let's hope they can be nice to face that as it was for for now. thank you very much for that now finally this bulletin argentina as i know when a side is bought for has opened on a political note organize a say there's been a drop in book sales as inflation leaves people struggling to afford the basics has more on what they're doing to keep people reading. they want to cite his book fair began with a protest against the government of president. was. students protested

against education reform and the president of the book foundation used his initial remarks to draw attention to a drop in book sales in the country. we are demanding a decrease in taxes that takes our competitiveness in the region we are sorry to say that the government is not buying the books it usually does imports of increased exports remain the same they want to cite his book fair is one of the most important in the spanish speaking world the place where authors and publishers reach out to the public. says he tries to be here every year. it is important to be here and gain new clients our challenges to edit new titles to get people interested it is a sacrifice because it's not cheap but worth it because we make connections with people from all around the world the theory lasts for about three weeks and authors from all over the world are expected to show up among them to know. the prize winners about

a million people are expected to visit this book fair this year but argentina's economy continues to struggle with high inflation among other problems and that's why the organizers are giving all sorts of incentives so that people continue to buy books there are events for children as well so san antonio says she comes with her family every year. but why this is the most important event of the year for us we come during the week because it think it is cheaper and we wait for the fare to buy the school books because we get much better prices here a major cultural event that organizers hope won't be tarnished by the political differences that exist in argentina they said well i just want to cite us and that does it for this news hour but i'll be back with a full of news bulletins just a couple of minutes thank you very much for watching. australia's multibillion dollar international student industry is booming but it

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