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we were equal to serve the. rest of the region a strong warning from donald trump's new factory of states as he kicks off his trip to israel. hello i'm so tired and this is al jazeera longing for long also coming up north korea pledges to dismantle its nuclear testing site as soon as next month or this monday the new armenian prime minister huge protests ahead of a vote in parliament to choose a new leader. and a boost for the great barrier reef australia emmaus four hundred million dollars to ensure the survival of one of the world's great natural one.

donald trump's new secretary of state has kicked off his tour of the middle east with a strong warning for iran my pump aoe is now in israel after visiting saudi arabia is his first international tour after taking on the role of america's top diplomats earlier health talks with the israeli prime minister in tel aviv and has warned iran against escalating any threats towards israel we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east remains the united states is with israel in this fight and we strongly support israel sovereign right to defend itself regarding the j c p a way present terms are pretty clear this deal is very flawed he's directed the administration traffics it and if we can't fix it he's going to withdraw from the deal it's pretty straightforward israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says

his country stands side by side with the u.s. over iran i appreciate the president's leadership and your position on stopping iran from acquiring nuclear weapons i appreciate the president's and your position on stopping iran's aggression in the region that aggression has grown many fold since the signing of the when you people thought that iran's aggression would be moderated as a result of signing to do the opposite has happened and iran is trying to gobble up one country after the other iran must be stopped well how are for such as life for us in west jerusalem harry the official line is that the deal is still on the table it must be improved it's been described as deeply flawed but was the impression you got today with the with the press conference at least in the message that the new secretary of state was bringing that it really was dead in the water. that it's

hard to interpret it differently given what's been said by both in belgium then in riyadh now in jerusalem presumably his next stop a man as well this very much seems to be if not definitive does preemption of a decision to pull away from the iran nuclear deal at least a very clear warning shots fired across iran's bows certainly as you say the u.s. is maintaining that no decision has been yet made the new national security advisor john bolton was on the airwaves in the states this morning u.s. time saying that that decision had yet to be taken but the indications from pompei o have been pretty clear that unless something really unexpectedly major happens in the intervening couple of weeks less than two weeks by the may the twelfth deadline that the united states is very ready to walk away from it and that is something that of course benjamin netanyahu is welcoming hugely you heard that language there

in that last clause about how if people thought the nuclear deal would moderate iran's behavior that they were so disappointed that is very much the same language that was using in riyadh just a few hours earlier so that the language between the two it ministrations almost at the changeable benjamin netanyahu has long been arguing for this kind of policy from united states it looks like he's about to get what he wants it is a fleeting visit no suggestion that he's reached out to the palestinians for any discussion if they did reach out what they would there have been any kind of decent reception for. one senior policy officials been talking to the media saying that no such request for a meeting came from the new u.s. secretary of state and had there been one the palestinian position resulting from donald trump's declaration of regarding jerusalem being the capital of israel that he may under some of the six that the position of the palestinians remain the same

that they would not have any dealings with the current u.s. administration on the peace process and that the same the same situation as obtained with mike pence his visit in january would have done so again pompei or did talk as they both did about the moving of the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem on may the fourteenth coinciding with the seventh anniversary of the declaration of the state of israel saying as well though that the final borders or boundaries within jerusalem had yet to be determined through negotiation and the united states remains committed to a final settlement to the israeli palestinian conflict no mention though of what we've been seeing in gaza hundreds of people injured dozens of people killed by israeli sniper fire during those protests along the borders in recent weeks that is due to build up to that may the fourteenth date and so we're likely to see further

such protests for now the united states is really maintaining the israeli line on those that they are large the force of hamas the consequences of those protests going to torture her a hard fourth of their life as in western and well for more on this let's talk to al-jazeera is senior political analyst i want bashar who's joining us here and just on that very mention that higher was talking about there about the fact that the first thing you mention with celebrating the move of the embassy to jerusalem the fact that he didn't shout for any kind of dialogue with the palestinians doesn't bode well that this new secretary of state is going to bring future harmony to the particular region absolutely. especially as diplomats and really this is the the ultimate definition of a diplomat that be able to handle things that everyone is preoccupied with the fact that the washington post reports that more than two thousand two hundred young palestinians are injured and the fact that there are dozens of dead killed by

israelis on the very vicinity where the secretary of state is and for him not even to address it it's as if the palestinians are the ultimate present absentees in this equation at the same time he's listening to prime minister netanyahu speak of how the common values of the united states in israel is freedom and democracy certainly the palestinians will not agree with this the fact that they are incarcerated occupied oppressed and shot and killed so can does not bode well with diplomacy and we know what's going on in the middle east at the moment all the talk is about iran every. sort of decision to go and to talk to the various leaders in the middle east that might bump a.o.s. as made in the last few days is focused on iran why is it suddenly this is the main focus to the detriment of everything else you know whenever any new administration comes in they tend to focus on one major over arching

global topic or enemy or axes of sort in the region for the trump administration is iran and hence everything else all the ducks would have to line up for the very particular axes which is the united states versus iran good versus evil democracy against islamic fundamentalism the forces of stability and peace against the forces of violence and instability also so forth and so saudi arabia is of course is an enthusiastic partner in this partnership against iran israel is an enthusiastic partner. turkey is not so enthusiastic and that's why the first step of course was with turkey and then you have a whole bunch of other. potential partners are hesitant like jordan like to like egypt and so on so forth where i think they don't have the united states needs to bring together in this axis and as i said this is not of course the first

year in fifty eight the united states asked everyone in the region to say against or for of egypt in sixty eight was against or for terrorism and the palestinian liberation organization in seventy is it was khomeini in eighty eight it was saddam ninety eight it was bin laden and so on so forth always naming a demon and asking everyone to be with the united states or against it i'm just briefly the last something closer to home my space if this this message the hate took to the sound is that the blockade with cattle hostile and how do you think the saudis i'm reacting to that i think ultimately they're going to have to respond as i keep saying over the last year you know it's very hard to to climb down a tree and when you're on the gulf it's very hard to climb down a palm tree but be that as it may i think the saudis kind of shyly timidly have been sort of trying to do something about that not so much so that the united arab emirates and egypt but ultimately they can have to do something it will not go back

to what it was before june two thousand and seventeen it probably might be a cold piece of sort a sort of normalization of minimum sorts of relations but the warmth that we've seen before i think we're not going to see again because the problem with all of that sue is that so the. standard not only to be an intergovernmental confrontation or crash or a problem they turned into a people people and i think that's going to take time to heal now and it's going to get a thought thanks very much. north korea is set to dismantle its nuclear testing something to soon as next month south korea's government says the pledge was made during king jiang meeting with him on friday as well as a series of gestures from pyongyang apparently aimed at calming tensions on the peninsula kathy novak reports so. 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 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 you don't shit on chairman kim said when they come they will see that we have to 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 the necessity but it can dish up 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 its 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 me that

he'd conveyed japan's willingness for talks with north korea a willingness kim jong un said was mutual kathy novak al jazeera soul. opposition activists in a mania are holding more rallies ahead of a vote in parliament on choose day to choose a new prime minister and then rounding that protest leader nicole passion and be chosen to leave the country the previous prime minister says to gas and resigned a week ago after demonstrations against him play taken on the job after spending and decades as president let's get now to robin forrester walker who is in the gallery on many a second largest city and there have been major developments from him today as least with regards to whether the protest leader can indeed go all the way. while everything seems to be going. the right way for nicole. and who up until this point has been. in. a really extraordinary

movement that began with him walking from a from from not far from here all the way to year of and nobody thought that he could that he could do this that he could achieve the resignation of the previous prime minister and he did and in that time if anybody said well he's going to be the next prime minister you know most people would have laughed at the the idea and yet now suddenly we are facing the possibility that armenia could have a new leader as early as tuesday because he has been put forward by his movement as the people's candidate and it seems that all the main factions the main political groups in the parliament are going to support that nomination and especially the importances the republican party the governing party that said. the unpopular leader who resigned last week. it is his party and they control power in armenia

widely and they now have said today that they will not stand in the way of nichol. becoming prime minister and that really is an extraordinary developments because every day it's got a little bit more tense but nobody quite knowing how things seem to pan out and then we get these concessions he actually had a conversation with them today and this is possibly why we're now finding ourselves reaching this development because they've obviously managed to come to spy hop's some form of agreement which is why they're stating that they are potentially about him so right now that's all the political colleagues falling into place that what about the people of amin here doesn't really have universal support that they're going to want to see him in that position. yeah you know look we're in the queue marie and. i mean a second largest city and we've been reporting on a story here today which i hope you will be bringing people. in the next couple of

days about the earthquake that took place here in one nine hundred eighty eight some of us will remember that event when in which a great many people were killed and many many more were homeless and what's extraordinary is that thirty years later in this town we still have over ten thousand people living in substandard accommodation and when i say substandard i'm talking about shocks really you know dripping water coming through the roof. no electricity no running water and you have to ask yourself the question why has it taken thirty years for people to be living on that in these conditions not to have had some help well they will tell you the reason why and the reason why they would they would put fairly fairly and squarely to blame the governments who that has failed them successive governments over the years and in particular the republican party that has run this country for the last twenty years and this is. why it's not

just to people but this is why there is so much widespread discontent and frustration with the present political system and this is why because it has really been able to galvanize so many armenians and bring them out onto the streets this is why he is the people's candidates and why he is now expected to take up the reins of power on choosing if everything goes according to plan but there is still obviously two days to go we don't know yet if that is going to be the case but certainly this is a very exciting time for all media and it's people and they've been testing time is running fast they walk of that speaking to us from cameroon you are watching al-jazeera still ahead. with. that why not come out ahead of stream brutality revenge or refugees telling u.n. security council team how they fled a violent crackdown. on the matter of life or death to central american migrants seeking asylum in the u.s.

they may be turned away from the border. we got some rather wet weather into central parts of china staying very disturbed here all the way over toward shanghai south of that general dry there will be a few showers just around the gulf of tonkin. in the charter into vietnam central parts of vietnam with 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 that's continued to build was 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 mar 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. australia's multibillion dollar international student of history is booming but it has a dark start one when used examines widespread revelations of sexual assault on foreign universities to. visit.

with every. welcome back reminder of the top story seven al-jazeera secretary of state mike compare says the u.s. is deeply concerned by what he calls iranian aggression in the middle east one payer is meeting israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu after earlier of holding talks with the saudi king in riyadh and north korean leader house was promised to dismantle his country's nuclear testing sites as soon as next month kim jong un says he'll invites international observers to witness the shutdown and opposition

activists are holding war protests in armenia ahead of a vote in parliament on choose day to choose and in prime minister the u.s. backed simeon democratic forces say they've stopped the syrian army from taking several villages along the border with iraq the statement was made just hours after the syrian army said it had retaken the villages meanwhile the government says it's made a deal with opposition fighters to evacuate areas around southern damascus the syrian government launched an offensive in the area last week to push i so want. the u.n. security council delegation has interviewed more than one hundred one hundred refugees who fled the military crackdown in myanmar the group led by britain peru and kuwait's has been assessing the situation in bangladesh crowds over henge outlined the roads as a team arrived in the town of cox's bazaar that's where some seven hundred thousand

refugees have been living in makeshift camps the solution must lie 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 choose to work with the international community and we will do everything we can to security council to support progress and trying to come together to take decisions that help there he can get several hundred refugees and migrants from central america are about to reach the us border after a month on the road they say they're escaping violence and persecution and that conscious but once a reach the us it's unlikely that shambles will be over runnels reports from san diego. handful of migrant rights supporters marched through downtown san diego near the end of a 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 lure the us mexico border while the trumpet ministration 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 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 or they may find it difficult to obtain a siloed 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 and 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. the night that he and i'm certain he 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 drum. and sing a precedent that all i would tell senior president trump to have mercy on us and to give us an opportunity to live for migrants like her asylum is a matter of life or death rob reynolds joins me now live from the site of the e.c. zero border crossing just south of san diego so one of the san diego for charlie agents in fact the chief one that came out saying we're very welcoming in our country but like our own house we expect all those who enter to come through the front door i don't answer questions on a sleigh what does that mean. well i'm not quite sure what exactly that means i mean because these migrants who've come from central america by all accounts their intentions are to come to the

border and not try to creep in you know by scaling a fence or crossing a river or walking through the desert or anything of that nature sue they plan to come here present themselves to u.s. border authorities and request asylum asylum is a part of international law and u.s. law and countries are required to consider asylum for people who say that they're being persecuted on various grounds including for their religion their political beliefs or belonging in a certain group the problem that these migrants may face is that they don't fall within those traditional categories of persecution their fear as we pointed out in the story is from the extremely severe violence back in their home countries where they are subject to extortion to threats. the homicide rates are incredibly

high and so they're fleeing to come to the united states for safety what will happen is that they will be. processed they'll the names will and details will be taken and then most likely they'll be put into a detention facility waiting for an administrative procedure which will happen probably in several months where they will appear before a judge they don't have to have they don't they don't have the right to an attorney in that hearing which is notable but then they determination will be made as to whether they are in fact eligible for asylum and refugee status in the united states. or around speaking terms that from time. on the phone to. the sixteen refugees will be transferred from campus in one hour to the u.s. under a resettlement deal between the u.s. and australia the group includes afghans pakistanis and the u.s.

have agreed to take in more than twelve hundred refugees from australia's overseas prison camps in a room and papa new guinea's menace island so far they've allowed only two hundred forty people and refugee advocacy groups say the deal is a failure. now the australian government has announced a new cash injection to help save the great barrier reef it's placed almost four hundred million dollars in funding to restore water quality and protect coral climate changes caused the water temperatures to rise which is killing coral on the world's largest reef victoria gates and 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 were keen eyes at 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'll need no weather cycle co reaves a 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 the things as i said with the ruth package is it makes people think something is really being done and it's amazing that packages always come forward just a few months before the world heritage committee has got a made again you know ask to 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 lead we are spearheading a group among some of the countries many of the time to manage 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. mismanagement of. the conservation groups say the government is ignoring the biggest threat to the reef climate change they wanted for missions continue as they are the great barrier reef won't survive victoria gate and be al-jazeera. the top stories here on al-jazeera the united states says it's deeply concerned by what it says is iran's ambition to dominate the middle east the new secretary of state might can pay zero made the comments after meeting israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in tel aviv is that in

a flying visit to the region having visited saudi arabia first we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east who remains the united states is with israel in this fight and we strongly support israel sovereign right to defend itself regarding the j c p a way present troops are pretty clear there still is very flawed he's directed the administration traffics and if we can't fix it he's going to withdraw from the deal it's pretty straightforward north korean leader kim jong un is willing to give up nuclear weapons if the u.s. commits to a formal end to the korean war and promises not to attack the north that's according to south korea which says kim made the promise to its president at friday's historic summit kemas also promised to shut down the north's nuclear test site in may the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say they have repelled the syrian army from taking

several villages along the border with iraq meanwhile the government says it's made a deal with the opposition fighters to evacuate areas around some in damascus. opposition activists in armenia are holding more protests ahead the votes in palm and on choose day to choose a new prime minister the previous prime minister. resigned a week ago off a month's protests against an opposition on demanding that nicole. be chosen to replace. those are the headlines to stay with us here on al-jazeera one i want to coming next.

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