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unlike the prior administration we will not look like the bad scope of. the new us secretary of state might come pale calls for unity as a wrong dominates discussions on his first trip to the middle east. and welcome to the program i'm in there's a problem also coming up. 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 for a safe return to myanmar during a un visit to their camps in bangladesh and the strain he announces hundreds of millions of dollars to help protect the great barrier reef but environmentalists say it's just a drop of the ocean. the

new 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 but speaking in the cell the capital he urged the kingdom and its allies to resolve an almost here long standoff but that u.s. officials say iran is exploiting to boost its regional influence. reports. on his new international trip the new u.s. secretary of state sent a message to iran. called for sanctions criticize the ballistics messiah program and blame for destabilizing the middle east. like the prior administration we look like that scope overruns terrorism. it is

indeed the greatest sponsor terrorism in the world and we are determined to make sure. that nuclear weapons. 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 where we 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 would use saudi arabia is supporting the policy of president trump towards iran 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 to block any u.s. a town to in their words sabotage the nuclear deal. the gulf cooperation council the powerful and which regional bloc and a close u.s. ally remains divided the u.s. wants and and to the crisis of the blockade of qatar the new york times reports told saudi officials enough is enough to stop the book a

they also stressed to the foreign minister the go theory is necessary we need it which even. the us where we use the term month long disagreements. with qatar will undermine the chances of bringing stability to the region and finding a solution to the middle east peace process. and pompei next stop is as well for meetings with prime minister benjamin netanyahu has among the fiercest critics off the iran nuclear deal. i'll 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 for now he's joining us live from west jerusalem it's been a very short visit what speed on the agenda harry. that's right and it's still under way the two men are meeting now and it's going to be

a totaling about four hours before pomp air gets back on his plane and heads to amman jordan in the initial greetings which were televised. said that he had a special place in his heart to israel benjamin netanyahu saying that he was proud that he had chosen israel to be part of his first international trip as secretary of state but by far the priority as far as israelis are concerned seems to be the one shared by mike pompei on this visit this talk about iran the growing threat as the u.s. and israel see coming from iranian activity in the region not just as he was talking about in saudi arabia with the fighters in yemen but as far as israel is concerned iranian activity inside syria and so all this talk of trying to get sanctions together to stop ballistic missiles being spread by iran and so forth that is very much along the same hymn sheet that benjamin netanyahu has been

reading from for several years now and any sense that the u.s. is going to pull out of the j.c. p.o.v. the iran nuclear deal on may the twelfth which is the deadline by which donald trump has to make that decision that will be hugely welcomed by now as and you know he may get that on may the twelfth the embassy move from tel aviv to jerusalem on may the fourteenth and then we wait to see if a around the same time the u.s. will release its suppose a trump plan for progress on the peace process between palestinians and israelis of course there is a total rejection of any such plan already from the palestinians so outraged by the egypt declaration of jerusalem as israel's capital by the united states by dawn from in early december there is no there was never any possibility of a meeting it seems between pompei and the palestinians a senior palestinian official saying that he didn't seek one and even if he had the palestinians would not have met him thank you very much for that that is that harry

forth joining us live from leicester with them. that's the want of all the news that alan's north korea's leader has promised to dismantle his country's nuclear testing site as soon as that's month that's according to the south korean government but says kim jong un made the pledge during his summit with president on friday but there's no word about the future of north korea's a ballistic missile program or whether they agree to get rid of their atomic often kathy novak reports now 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 pull the 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 joining shit 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. 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 the necessity. for any kind of negotiations because if they don't see that the want. 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 agree that more specific measures on getting rid of nuclear weapons should be discussed at the us 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 abbay that he'd conveyed japan's willingness for talks with north korea a willingness kim jong un said it was mutual kathy novak al-jazeera sold. the syrian army has captured a string of villages from u.s. backed syrian democratic forces near the iraqi border. south of the country the government has announced a deal with opposition fighters to evacuate areas around southern damascus near the

palestinian refugee camp the deal with the syrian government comes amid an army offensive to push out of the area activists believe half of the refugee camp 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 visiting band of the haitians interviewed more than one hundred four hundred refugees who fled a military crackdown in neighboring myanmar where large crowds of a hinge on line the road as the team arrived and. that's where some seven hundred thousand one hundred remain in makeshift camps. this new show. they must be allowed to go in conditions of safety it may take some time but we would like to hear from the government of how we choose 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. child stratfor

said this update from the cab. well it started a very emotional response from some of the refugees that met with this delegations the smalling the british ambassador literally being held by a number of women who described him in tears being ranked losing family members shot dead by me and my full series the delegation were moved around the camp they were taken along 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 playing 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 religion 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 called themselves that whatever way you look at the days of paints it has been a big eye opener for this united nations security council delegation and as i say they go on to me on march the morrow as this visit continues. still ahead on the. fighting intensifies in a conflict that's been going on for seventeen yes and plus. a report from scotland dependence again traction i think you case and frank said decision. we got some rather wet weather into central parts of china staying very disturbed here all the way over towards shanghai south of that general dry there will be

a few showers just around the gulf of tonkin into the child into vietnam central parts of it now looking a little disturbed over the next few days with the usual seasonal showers kicking in whether that stays in place as we go through tuesday if anything it will be a wetter still down towards hong kong twenty nine celsius with plenty of sunshine plenty of sunshine too across much of south asia the heat does continue to build as one of the lively showers to into southern india interest flanker and also up towards bangladesh dacca fifty five millimeters of rain in twenty four hours and it will stay wet here as we go on through the next couple of days and see some really wet weather in place as we go on through monday going to choose day in the showers not really too far away central pass come back into india we are getting about forty degrees quite widely now little less hot down towards the fast southeast conditions temperatures into the low thirty's that may well into the mid thirty's across the raven potential or we have got a lot of cloud just down towards yemen towards the gulf of aden so

a chance of some showers here further north is fine and dry doha with a high of thirty five. stories generate thousands of headlines. with different angles from different perspectives. the only evidence that russia was responsible for this separate the spin from the facts that's why on god's states or in the misinformation from the journalism the issues here go far beyond one data mining company and one election with the listening post on al-jazeera.

it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera 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 port for new sanctions against iran and speaking in the saudi capital to the kingdom and its allies to resolve the standoff with that u.s. officials say iran's exporting. south korea says kim jong un has promised to shut down the north's nuclear test site next month they say the north korean leader made the pledge during friday summit with president. and the u.n. security council delegation has interviewed more than one hundred. who fled a military crackdown and the scene is visiting back on the bases cox's bazar with some seven hundred thousand remain in makeshift camps. well thousands of people have also fled the northernmost state where there's been more fighting between

government forces and rebels aid agencies say they feel a civilian strapped in the area without access to food or medicine as many as one hundred ports the search should bother. it was part of a conflict and caution state that goes back seventy years. these are fighters for the kitchen and dependents filmed just last month patrolling the on klav in the remote northernmost region of me and and just within sight of government forces. and i am one too as long as the burmese 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 last territory. 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 in 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 me and it's not diversity is at the heart of conflict right across the country when me and madge gained full independence from british rule in 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 nick 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 unrest has displaced mr mason hundred

twenty thousand could chin. 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 we're 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 groups have signed peace deals with the government 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 data agencies are calling on the government to allow them access media on one hand al-jazeera. philippine president of the river the third there is calling on filipinos in kuwait to come home and made allegations of abuse well that they said a ban on. because traveling to quote is now permanent but two hundred and sixty thousand filipinos are still living in kuwait and many have already returned home

since the dispute began a few months ago when seven domestic workers were killed in separate and sit ins both sides recall their ambassadors last week after two filipino embassy staff were vested for allegedly encouraging maids to flee their kuwaiti employers homes. past the ones in the swat valley region of pakistan are holding their latest protest against what they say are decades of oppression by security forces demonstrations started in february after the police killing of an aspiring model police said he had ties to the taliban but no evidence was found pashtuns say thousands have been unjustifiably killed over the years or disappeared. gunmen have killed at least forty ethnic twice in northern mali the attacks on friday and saturday were in the narco region on the border with the share the regional government has a gunman linked to al qaida targeted mostly young men and two remote desert villages where rebels and al qaeda linked groups have been fighting for six years

both seeking to control the region rebels known as the movement for the liberation of a wild declared independence in april two thousand and twelve that was just after president obama due to money today was pushed out in a coup but three months later they lost to the al qaeda linked group being imposed chivian no one publicly destroyed many muslim shrines in early two thousand and thirteen from stepped in and helped mali and forces take back the region two years later mali's government settled on a peace deal with twelve rebels but violence persists despite the presence of french troops and un peacekeepers france says northern mali has now become a haven for isis fighters nia quote is the executive director of the african immigrant caucus and he says these latest attacks are an attempt to provoke the twa reg's into a larger conflict. the. hard. conflict.

we care of our government has really ever seen in be burned is in marrying to sixty because there are. new groups have always do want to be a war and their own country it is very hard for. that molly is to accept and relieve for all of africa to our serve 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 did for this as you mentioned a few years back they assigned the most recent. peace deal with the government with peers to be holding why will the terrorists target them it will seem that. they are trying to get the two arias to once again pick up pick up the gun and the stuff belies the government of mali i think may be the reason why

they are trying to target the two aren't saying get them fighting again. divisions are the bricks at a deepening between the u.k.'s national government in london and the dozen scotland's parliament in the u.k. voted as a whole to leave the e.u. most scottish wanted to to remain inside the block and now there are new questions about whether scotland will eventually call its own way lawrence leave opponents now from aberdeen aberdeen's knows the granite city it's a tough place a bit intimidating looking at the unions don't like being told what i 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 he 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 to use you a 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 a 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 want scottish independence while 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 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 a chance to change the minds of people in aberdeen it will surely waits until it knows the time is right and it breaks it fails scotland while the generations change they may still get their child's al-jazeera in aberdeen. till mania now we're opposition activists are holding a march blocking roads leading to the capital supporters of. a push in parliament

to select ten as the country's new prime minister when they vote this week mass demonstrations forced a longtime leader said exactly on to step down robin foresty a walk of a ports from the city of thor. 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 traveling 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 because. they. 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 long be a 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 spotted by his revolutionary line which. i do not want our only people who have fallen. to the protests in recent days it was based on is somehow different you could feel the excitement i can see the ads you see placed the hopes and the expectations on the face you know these people you want so the message being smart people movements 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 these i mean then dignitary. heard the news. saw the car update system it's changing. this was the moment mr. announced to the crowds that the republican party looked to be fielding a candidate of cheese steak. but now power does seem to be with the people of the robin first you will come out zero zero. a second much has been held in nicaragua to demand justice after the recent killing of anti-government protesters at least forty three people were killed during demonstrations against social security reforms the un says security forces may have unlawfully killed some protesters president daniel ortega has now stopped plans to overhaul the welfare and pension system. to australia now the government has

announced almost four hundred million dollars to help save the great barrier reef large parts of the very thing die off due to climate change and coastal pollution but tory 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 race 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 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 nino weather cycle car weaves 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 heading a group among countries many of my own and 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 best practice management of coral reefs but some say the government is ignoring the biggest threat to the reef climate change we really need to pull at all stops on on climate change to cut emissions obviously and also as the foreign minister mentioned many could this this is a problem affecting coral reefs all round the world and we do need to see the international community move to invest both 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 gayton be al-jazeera. hello again all of us have a problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera the new u.s. secretary of state mike pompei a has called for unity in the gulf as he visits the middle east seeking support for new sanctions against iran and speaking in the saudi capital he urged the kingdom and its allies to resolve the standoff with cutters that u.s. officials say iran's exploiting they also stressed to the foreign minister the gulf unity is necessary we need to achieve it. south korea's has been 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 with president. the syrian army has captured a string of villages from us back syrian democratic forces near the iraqi border

meanwhile in the south of the country the government's announced a deal with opposition fighters to evacuate areas around southern damascus near the palestinian refugee camp the deal comes amid an army offensive to push out of the area activists many of the camp has been destroyed in a week of violence the u.n. says some three thousand five hundred people have fled the camp. a u.n. security council delegation visiting bangladesh has interviewed more than one hundred a hinge of refugees who fled a military crackdown in neighboring myanmar or large crowds of. says the coxes bizarre that's why some seven hundred thousand remain in makeshift camps. in. safety it may take some time early. here. and we will do everything we can.

progress in trying to come together to take decisions that. many in opposition activists are blocking roads leading to the capital ahead of another big rally supporters of nicole pushing for parliament to select him as the country's new prime minister when they vote this week mass demonstrations force longtime leader christiane to step down. those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us the listing post is coming up next thank you very much for watching. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the. al-jazeera. the lawsuit filed by the democratic national committee against

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