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this is zero. zero i maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes was. armenia's protest leader called a pause in his campaign of civil disobedience after the ruling party appears to offer an olive branch. i still says it carried out an attack on libya's electoral commission which killed at least sixteen people. after eight hundred fifty three killings in sixteen years of violence the basque separatist group says it has completely disbanded. and president tramplings is yet another lawyer and is reported to be hiring the man who defended bill clinton jeering his impeachment. in sports safety concerns dominate the build up to the champions league semifinal.

was a. goal it. also was not the stadium to reduce the risk of being its rights. welcome to the program our top story armenia's opposition leader has suspended protests for thursday after the ruling party appeared to back down on its refusal to pick him as prime minister. opposition leader nicole passion yun told his supporters a rally in the capital yerevan that the issue has practically been solved it follows reports the government will support any candidate for the role of prime minister if they secure a third of parliamentary votes earlier on wednesday demonstrators in the capital roads to a standstill and block buildings showing their anger offer

a public can party members refuse to elect the call of the top job on choose day himself led tens of thousands of armenians through the city in an act of civil disobedience robin forced to walk as more from yerevan. the movement that nichole passion and calls the national movement that we have been calling the opposition movement but which has become clear represents so many armenians wanted to send a message today with a general strike they shut down all the streets they closed off the roads to the international airport the metro wasn't running all the cities and towns also had protests administrative buildings was surrounded ministry's was surrounded and the message that they wanted to send this movement was to the republican party the governing party that yesterday had rejected the call passion the kind of shit you're prime minister that message appears to have got through because the

republican party had that special session and they decided that they were going to support nicole passion the end not in as many words they used a clever way of saying that they would by saying that they would back the candidate with thirty five votes well or more which is the requirement for somebody to be put forward as prime minister in the armenian parliament and it's nicole question again who has those thirty five votes from the other political factor factions if not more and so the republicans have said they will not put forward a candidate and they will support a candidate and that six boy tens of thousands hundreds of thousands perhaps he is back on the streets to see me celebrating this momentous news and now the hugs resting on the republicans holding true to their word that they will see their hero the man who has led them all the. micko passion and appointed as prime minister

a newly leader for armenia and you future for the armenian people. but child care is the founding director of the regional studies center an independent think tank based in yarra van joins me via skype. from me on meeting capital thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us how do you explain the sudden change in the position of the ruling party from their refusal to buy and call passion and to now saying they they won't block his bid for the premiership. well in many ways mariam as robin's introductory piece has a lab aerated this was a sign of desperation in many ways the ruling republican party was increasingly out of touch with the political reality of the country and a deepening sense of mistrust among much of the population and therefore in this latest round of political bluff if you will we saw a widespread campaign of civil disobedience that demonstrated the potency of

so-called people power and what this actually demonstrates is a rare example where peaceful nonviolent demonstrators were able to force out in the french the incumbent government nevertheless that could have been the easier part the real challenge now is in terms of governance and the necessity for compromise and consensus in the face of the dangerously high expectations and some what do you mean by consensus what needs to happen now for that to be a smith transition of power potentially to passion and then this sort of condition fam to be able. to be able to govern in a stable way well there are two steps first of course is this second lalan ballot in six days where an interim premier or prime minister will be selected by the parliament there for the next stage after such a move would be electoral reform a scheduling of a snap or extraordinary early election to reflect the new political reality but in

many ways the challenge there is also in terms of the reality that are as a country that has not had a free and fair elections for over a decade the political culture is not quite prepared so in many ways the challenge here is actually forging a consensus a broad based coalition government perhaps technocrat the nature that could be capable of true we can. you speaking there about the potency of people power is the flip side to that that perhaps people's expectations are too high if they are wanting to see a sudden and dramatic improvement in their daily lives could they end up turning against. well what's interesting is the paradox on the one hand dangerously high expectations will challenge him and his new government to deliver to the people and to deliver immediately what's important is the other side of the paradox partially

neon is already or a political figure in armenia with a unique combination of charisma plus political problem or occupation therefore he's seen by the masses as one of them as one of their own hence more of a walk through of time and patience but nevertheless it will be a challenge in the early period to at least demonstrate statesmanship in leadership . thank you very much for sharing your analysis with us we do appreciate it richard care and founding director of the regional studies center joining us there from your van but you now i said has claimed responsibility for an attack on the headquarters of libya's electoral commission which killed at least sixty people several gunmen including a suicide bomb a storm the offices in tripoli and set fire to the building a commission has been registering voters out of elections expected before the end of the year hanna hawkster reports. attack was

targeted the electoral commission headquarters on wednesday morning on a suicide bomber detonated explosives before shooting began the assault comes days after the un pressured libya's leaders to hold elections by the end of the year the international quartet the e.u. arab league african union and the un met on monday to promise assistance in organizing the voting despite the quarter optimistic talk of improving security libya remains divided. the un backed an internationally recognized national called government in tripoli was formed three years ago. as the prime minister but he struggled to establish the authority of his government beyond the capital pitted against the government of national accord in the west is the tobruk administration in the east under the control of the self declared libya's national army its commander general healthy for have to control all rich east and its vital export

terminals he recently shrugged off election talks and urged libyans to trust his army instead to leave him and i want you to trust the army it will lead you to what you aim for i know you want a real life not a semblance of a life that results from elections have to has expressed disdain for the government of national accord in tripoli government leaders in the capital say that before elections are held libyans should agree on a new electoral law and a constitution and if the so. they want to turn their back on past agreements and take us all the way to new elections. have to me which is supported by usa in egypt is more powerful than troops based in tripoli in the general he recently returned home after medical treatment is widely seen by his supporters as the only libyan leader qualified to end years of infighting. there. in u.s. joint israel's prime minister in condemning comments by the palestinian president benjamin netanyahu accuse mahmoud abbas of anti-semitism and holocaust denial for

a speech on monday to the palestinian national council and it suggested historic persecution of jews in europe and been caused by their own professions rather than that religion. they said they said that. hatred against jews was not because of their religion it was because of the social profession a different issue so the jewish issue that has brought against the jews across europe was not because of their religion but because of the social professional relates to usury and the banks. some news from iran west state media saying that at least seventy six people have been injured after an earthquake hit the country's southwest a magnitude five point three quake struck near the remote mountainous city of cis ask some seven hundred kilometers south of tehran state media says it caused extensive damage to roads and buildings hospitals in the nearby town of yes suge have been evacuated. the boss except which is group at a has announced that it's disbanded and tear it declared that all of its structures

have been completely dissolved the organization led a violent campaign for sixty years for an independent basque state between northern spain and southern france. at or killed more than eight hundred fifty people between one hundred sixty eight and two thousand and ten before declaring a ceasefire a year later handed over its weapons last april bringing western europe's largest majora last major armed insurgency to a close at the embalmer has more from san sebastian and spain. well this statement from matter doesn't really come as a surprise to many people here in spain but the tone of the communication is interesting it contains the following phrase the conflict did not start with and does not end with the end of bettors journey now this comes in the background of an apology in april for matter to some of the victims of its actions people that had to said did not deserve to get caught up in its actions editor said at the

time that it would be announcing its dissolution sometime in may of course it's held responsible for over eight hundred deaths since nine hundred sixty eight that was the year that it claimed its first victim here in san sebastien a secret police chief but over the years it put off more and more people who were perhaps sympathetic to the independence movement for example in one thousand nine hundred seven there was a big bomb in a barcelona supermarket that killed more than twenty people including a pregnant woman actions like that really did horrified the public and since then there was a big internal debate within her as to the future direction and now after last year's. action where it actually gave up a larger arms cache in the southwest of france most people believe that. basically doesn't exist that didn't exist except on paper now they say they're

completely dissolving all of their structures well associations of the victims of better want to hear about many unsolved murders which they hold responsible for. with the news hour live from london still ahead for you. while the health organization warns nine out of ten people are breathing in polluted air with deadly the worst city in the world. also worries in los angeles why taps could soon run dry in the city of angels and then later in spore we'll have the latest from the n.b.a. playoffs as steph curry makes a big impact in his return from injury. now the white house lawyer representing president trump in the russia probe is retiring at the end of the month the president's legal team for the special counsel investigation is already experienced eye turnover of staff type called is expected

to be replaced by emmett's t. flood the veteran washington lawyer who represented bill clinton during his impeachment so for more on this let's go to our white house correspondent kimberly how kit what does all this need for the way trump plans to approach them in their investigation. well certainly in terms of the style between ty cobb who encouraged the president to be more cooperative in terms of the russian probe and then the style of his replacement and that flood who is known to take on a more adversarial approach you can get the sense of what the legal team is preparing for and that is a very combative relationship moving forward with the special counsel overseeing the russia probe robert muller but certainly in terms of this change it's not a complete surprise according to the white house in fact had been discussing his departure his retirement in fact with the president for

a number of weeks and will and his duties at the end of the month what this means though is in essence is that there is a centrally a gearing up with these shake ups of the legal team of a potential subpoena by the special counsel robert muller and certainly this is significant because as you point out there's been a quite a bit of shake up we saw the departure of another presidential representative in terms of john dowd his personal attorney and the replacement of the former mayor rudy giuliani coming on board the president's team supposedly to negotiate the terms of any potential interview with the special counsel robert muller and then adding to that this week we had the revelations of what some of those questions might look like relating to not only questioning the president in terms of whether there is obstruction of justice but also whether or not there was any collusion between his campaign and russia something that he has repeatedly denied right and

that concerns there about what the inconsistency in these sudden changes could mean for the legal team. well there's no question in all of this when you step back from it we've had another day where we've woken up to washington to a flurry of presidential choices it's clear the president is feeling frustration over this ongoing probe that he thought would be wrapped up by now and also the course of it seems to be causing him quite a bit of that of frustration in fact oh and one of the flurries of tweets this morning he in fact said that he essentially threatened to get involved with the department of justice he has no question there have been ongoing concerns about whether or not he would fire the deputy attorney general roger rosen side and certainly if the president were to get involved as he's threatened to do that would be a misuse of presidential power even of obstruction of justice so the president clearly

a once again using social media to deny any wrongdoing to call this a hoax and a witch hunt something that he has been doing frequently but the intensity with regard to that seems to be increasing thank you very much from the white house can really help with all the latest in all the developments president trauma's former personal doctor has denied writing a twenty fifteen letter of a promise trump would be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency dr horrible steen said the that trunk dictated the home letter it also said that trump's bodyguard carried out a raid on his offices in february last year removing all of trump's medical records . the rapper kanye west recently made headlines over his support for donald trump well now he sparked more outrage on to suggesting slavery in the united states was a choice west made the controversial remarks during a television interview saying when you hear about slavery for four hundred years that sounds like a choice l.a.

to tweeted that his comments had been misinterpreted. two black men who were arrested at a starbucks in philadelphia have settled with the city for a symbolic one dollar each last month fresh on nelson and robinson were arrested for being in starbucks without ordering anything the men were led away in handcuffs off the manager called the police the incident sparked a big backlash around the u.s. over racial profiling officials have also promised to set up a two hundred thousand dollar program for young entrepreneurs the u.s. state of iowa has just passed the most restrictive abortion ban in the united states making it illegal as soon as a heartbeat is detected in the fetus that can happen as early as six weeks before many women even know that they're pregnant a republican controlled senate voted twenty nine to seventeen to pass this bill both supporters and opponents say it's aimed at triggering

a challenge to the one nine hundred seventy three supremes court ruling which established the u.s. constitutional right to abortion. now an alarming new report from the world health organization says as pollution is killing seven million people globally each year and it is still rising and it warns that the inequality between the world's rich and poor is widening its updated estimates reveal that nine out of ten people worldwide are breathing in with high levels of pollutants the most rapid deterioration of air quality is situated in south and southeast asia with more than seventy percent of course cities impacted by this but it's new delhi that is the world's most polluted city with indian cities making up fourteen of the twenty worst for outdoor pollution the w.h.o. says the rising pollution leads to an increased risk of stroke heart disease lung

cancer and also chronic and acute respiratory diseases like asthma and you're going to aim has our report. pollution has become a silent killer stalking people outside and even inside their homes from exposure to smog from industry or traffic fumes to smoke from cooking the world health organization says seven million people die from air pollution every year nine every ten persons around the wall are breathing air that these know all too respecting the recommend that the guidelines of government go for and quite the w.h.o. says pollution worldwide increased by eight percent and there's a pollution gap between rich and poor countries. data collected shows people in low and middle income countries in southeast asia and the eastern mediterranean are

breathing in the most polluted air on the planet while the lowest levels of pollution were measured in cities in europe the americas and the western pacific more encouraging news is cities across the economic spectrum were able to reduce pollution levels by more than five percent in the past five years for the time being because of the mill graphics and because of the speed. and because probably if they lack of political will in some countries we are not moving speed that we would like to see the w.h.o. says reducing industrial smokestack emissions increasing the use of renewable energy taking mass transit and walking and cycling can expedite efforts to make the air we all breathe cleaner natasha going to aim al-jazeera. sara cullen brand is research on an issues at the international institute for environment and development joins me in the studio now thanks so much for coming in so the w.h.o.

says air pollution is killing seven million people around the globe every year and it's still rising how how bad is this problem and how much worse could it get. the problem is dire particularly as cities are growing faster urban populations are growing and urban economies are growing and with that all of the causes of air pollution so particularly in places like south asia sub-saharan africa and southeast asia we will see much worse air pollution in the u.s. to come unless we see a major change in open planning. it's difficult to answer this question because you know we speak about the globe and so many different countries and different continents but the trend of urbanization that you describe that's been going on for years for decades even why was steps not taken to try and curb the impact of pollution before now urban planning is really hard to get right particularly when you have cities growing quickly in places that don't necessarily have the resources or the capacity in government to cope with that population growth and so the places

where you have the worst appalachian other places that are already well advanced along the urbanization curve but haven't kept up in terms of things like clean power decent housing safe public transport so then is it too late for cities lie beijing or new delhi to do anything about it absolutely not of course london is famously famous for its historical pay supers and it's terrible smaug and london still has a problem with air pollution but it's become much better since the one nine hundred fifty s. so there's absolutely hope for beijing new delhi and the other cities that are struggling and whose responsibility is this is it about local governments is it about the may oral sort of figures or is it is it about national governments who need to really evaluate local and national governments working together because they have a different set of powers local governments are responsible for getting the basics of urban planning right your spatial planning about who lives where where jobs are where industry is but national governments need to empower them and resource them so that they can act effectively and they also need to make sure that the money

reaches local governments to do things like build bus systems or build clean power systems can you describe the effects of pollution on a health on our bodies or in the near term anyone who lives in a polluted city will. the effects of things like irritation of your eyes nose and throat headaches nausea in the long term unfortunately the long exposure to air pollution has much more severe consequences hot disease strokes bronchitis pneumonia can all be caused by prolonged exposure and so then do you. tell me about those who are worst affected was speaking about. countries in the south and southeast asia but as always it it's the poor segments of the population that feel the effects the most absolutely and the poorest feel it the worst in two ways the first thing is that the very worst episode is concentrated inside people's houses when those people depend on cheap fuels like chalk hole and wood and so the poor people who can buy cleaner fuels will have the worst effects but the other way in

which the poor are seriously affected is that they are more likely to live in polluted parts of a city so near a power plant or near a highway and they're more likely to work after office so for example a street vendor is a construction workers and so even where they haven't caused pollution from private cars they're still lacking to feel the worst effects thank you very much sarah cullen brenda from the international institute for environment and development thank you. well now india's top court has criticised the government for failing to protect the taj mahal from pollution a marble monument has been slowly yellowing because of industrial smog while insects also leaving green stains on the walls supreme court justices have given prime minister narendra modi's government a week to respond the taj mahal was built in the seventeenth century and is often visited by world leaders on state trips to india well now cities around the world are struggling with the effects of climate change one of the biggest challenges is to ensure clean drinking water now and in the future as part of al-jazeera is first

series rob reynolds reports from los angeles on the looming problems for millions of californians. an estimated eighteen million people now live in the los angeles metropolitan area on land that was once largely arid this sprawling city has thrived despite the lack of an obvious large source of water nearby los angeles is history is tied with water this place was able to grow and expand and become one of the largest metropolises in the world because we brought water here the second phase of i think los angeles is growth now is going to be with the new normal with the expectation of less water over time and more people how can we sustain economic progress and sustain life itself here in l.a. las water comes in by aqueducts from the san joaquin river delta to the north the sierra nevada mountains to the east and hoover dam on the colorado river four hundred kilometers away but all three sources are in decline we have seen pressure

on climate change which has been right down seen winter snowpack over time the snow if you're not falling for it small team to quickly and the early months and then were dry in the summer months the solutions to los angeles is water dilemma according to its mayor are conservation recycling and better use of local sources of water conservation was proven effective in the recent multi-year drought when l.a. residents reduced water use dramatically we have plenty of water in los angeles it's whether we choose to use it efficiently and effectively recycling waste water is another challenge about sixty percent of our equivalent water usage every day we treat clean and then wash out to the ocean that means that we could have sixty percent more water if somehow that water came back to us if we could just take that water make sure as many places do that it is sanitary to drink and then bring that to the homes that we have contrary to popular belief it does rain in southern

california but currently that rainwater goes to waste it's one of the pervert. things about l.a. is that we've engineered this incredible system that whenever one drop of rain drops outside of our city we know how to grab it take it use it but anything that actually drops inside our city we quickly wash it out to the ocean instead of reusing it for ourselves that's what we're changing and that will ensure a life for you know centuries to come challenges that must be met to keep the city of angels from running dry rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles and of al-jazeera still ahead i want the state department get a swagger back. we don't promise was in his new top diplomat have asked to restore american prestige across the globe. why a gold rush in south sudan is making the economy lose its glitter. and in sport action from one of the most thrilling come backs in this year's n.h.l. playoffs.

welcome back to take a look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia you see this area of cloud moving across iran and iraq that's going to give the threat of showers during the course of thursday also some snow for the hindu kush where across some of the stands got cloudy skies transfer kuwait at times or at least the side of the mediterranean the weather conditions cherry not looking too bad beirut there sunshine and twenty eight degrees and then heading through friday weather conditions remain fine and pretty warm brighter conditions in baghdad at that station the risk of showers will be decreasing here in the arabian peninsula we may see a little bit of that cloud time so i think through thursday rather cloudy in katsav but across the rest the printer still going to be very very warm indeed highs there of forty one in mecca heading into friday i think will lose the cloud temperatures

still or thirty eight here in doha across into southern portions of africa weather conditions generally looking farm we have got some showers close across the eastern cape at the moment i think the risk of showers will continue for durban at least during the course of thursday and we have got a few showers across northern parts of zambia into zimbabwe but otherwise weather conditions generally looking dry and find that fine weather continues course and go down through the movie and back into south africa and on friday we're expecting a high of twenty one in cape town. he was the world's most wanted. the last meeting i had with him was off to the. bin laden was very nervous about nature had not met a western reporter before in part two of an exclusive two part documentary al-jazeera speaks to those who met osama bin laden he never showed up to the

cheatwood near the west already knew bin ladin continues. fresh perspectives new possibilities. thing in this jenin is just one of the rooms that you have to understand that the whole hospital looks like the debates and discussions that when you make about commentary misinformation distance the rumors and false messages award winning programs take you on a journey around the globe. only amount to see.

a come back a look at the top stories for you now plan to antigovernment protests to thursday and cancelled in armenia after the ruling party is still softened on its decision to block the opposition leaders bid to become the new prime minister. responsible for an attack on the headquarters of libya's electoral commission which killed at least fourteen people in tripoli. on the basque separatist group that has announced it has disbanded in an open letter it declared that all of its structures have been completely dissolved. now pope francis has apologized and sent to victims of the clerical sexual abuse. scandal in chile and asked for forgiveness it comes off to four days of meetings at the vatican with three of the abuse victims the head of the roman catholic church admitted last month that he made mistakes in the handling of the crisis and said he was quote part of the problem one of the victims spoke to the media often meeting with the. we were able to speak french and

respect to the pope we talked about difficult issues such as sexual abuse abuse of power and especially the cover up of the family and the ship's realities that we do not refer to as sims but as crimes and corruption that do not end in chile but are an epidemic an epidemic that has destroyed thousands of lives a british company at the center of facebook's data privacy scandal is closing down cambridge analytic i hit the headlines in march after a former employee revealed how the company used data from eighty seven million uses for donald trump's presidential campaign. the founder of s.c.l. group which is a british affiliate of the firm says both companies were shutting their operations hundreds of women in england may have died prematurely from breast cancer after a computer error in the national screening program the british government has

revealed that around four hundred fifty thousand women aged between sixty eight and seventy one would not invited to their final routine breast screening it's estimated that up to two hundred seventy women may have had their lives shortened because of the ara the health secretary has apologized calling it a serious failure breast cancer screening is meant to be off the two old women aged fifty to seventy in england every three is. bush's opera house has voted to give parliament the power to stop any breaks it deal that restores a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland which would be in violation of a peace deal that ended the conflict that it puts even more pressure on prime minister to resign may who's facing a revolt from within her own party of the breaks it a group of around sixty m.p.'s from hooting conservative party have spoken out against her favored plan for a customs partnership with the e.u. post breaks it the proposed customs deal would be aimed at preventing a hardboard of being restored there carino checkpoints between northern ireland and

the republic. and we will be leaving the customs union we want to ensure that we can have an independent trade policy we also want to ensure that we actually we deliver we are committed to delivering on our commitment of no hall border between north. and ensuring we have as frictionless trade as possible with the european union. meanwhile the european union has announced its budget plans for life off the bracks it the european commission is proposing a new six year budget for the year is twenty twenty one to twenty seven one and a half trillion dollars it includes major increases in spending on items like border defenses and foreign aid but there are no details on how the twenty seven remaining nations will cover the twelve billion dollars a year that the u.k. currently pays in the international monetary fund says saudi arabia needs oil prices to go up to around eighty five dollars a barrel in order to balance its budget the kingdom has projected

a fifty two billion dollars deficit some analysts say the recent recovery in oil prices could ease pressure on riyadh enough for the pace of economic and fiscal reforms to slow. sudan is assessing its involvement in saudi led military operations in yemen this is according to the sudanese defense minister he says studies are being carried out by the armed forces command has been growing criticism in sudan's parliament over its role in the conflicts or at least three thousand sudanese ground troops and several jets fighting in yemen as part of the saudi led coalition global military spending is on the rise according to a new report out of sweden but russia is bucking the trend with its expenditure for lng for the first time in almost ten years its longtime rival the united states continues to be the world's biggest spender and is expected to fork out even more this year around honda explains. two hundred and thirty dollars

that's the amount of military spending last year for each person on the planet it adds up to almost two trillion dollars or two point two percent of the world's economy military spending in china rose the most last year based on the latest figures from the stockholm international peace research institute all sipri the twelve billion dollars boost leads a twenty nine year upward trend in asia china's two hundred twenty eight billion dollar budget is being spent on some big ticket purchases aircraft carriers don't come cheap china has bought one and his two more under construction contrast that with russia which cut its military spending last year by twenty percent the first drop in almost ten years sipri says that's because of economic constraints at home but russia remains a major player in conflicts including three years of a strikes in syria to beg the assad regime saudi arabia is driving

a rise in military spending in the middle east a nine point two percent increase makes it the world's third largest spenda but the world number one remains the united states at six hundred ten billion dollars the u.s. forked out more in its military in two thousand and seventeen than the next the six countries on the list combined there was a downward trend in spending from two thousand and ten but that plateaued last year under a u.s. president donald trump the report's authors predicts the pentagon budget will rise this year. my home buyer has been officially sworn in as the new u.s. secretary of state at a ceremony at the state department in washington he says he wants the department to get it swagger back and insisted that north korea missed commit to dismantling its weapons program says it's time to solve the problems on the korean peninsula once and for all right now we have an unprecedented opportunity to change the course of history on the korean peninsula. they underscore the word opportunity we're in the

beginning stages of the work and the outcome is certainly yet unknown but one thing is certain this image astray she will not repeat the mistakes of the past our eyes are wide open it's time to solve this once and for all a bad deal is not an option the american people are counting on us to get this right we are committed to the permanent verifiable irreversible dismantling of north korea's weapons of mass destruction program and to do so without delay which china's foreign minister is on a two day visit to north korea during which he could meet leader kim jong un one years trying to ensure beijing gets a larger role in the next round of nuclear diplomacy with its traditional ally pyongyang last week kim and south korea's president when jai invalid to completely denuclearize the korean peninsula adrian brown reports from beijing. it's eleven years since the chinese foreign minister last stepped foot in north korea a measure of the strain in relations between these allies and now of china's desire

to repair them one year is in pyongyang five days after the historic into korean summit when kim jong un and president mungy in agreed to pursue denuclearization of the peninsula and the peace treaty one will be hoping for a detailed briefing on the results of that meeting john on the east. china has always insisted on denuclearization peace and stability on the korean peninsula always insisted on finding a solution the response to the appropriate concerns of all relevant parties through dialogue and negotiation thanks. unusually last friday chinese leaders found themselves on the sidelines of a major international event happening on their doorstep and they won't be part of the planned meeting between president donald trump and kim jong il either not even to analysts say china's president who met kim jong un in late march wants to ensure

that the chinese aren't left out of future talks that could possibly include the united states and i want to make sure that in early warning these questions china will have a secure seat and that negotiating table it is hard to believe that china won't play a role in any future discussions it is inferior at least the only ally that north korea has and china was also a signatory to the one nine hundred fifty three armistice that ended hostilities on the korean peninsula but not the state of war that still exists between the two koreas adrian brown al jazeera in beijing. a judge dealing with the case of two reuters journalists in myanmar has refused to throw out the testimony of a police whistleblower journalists were arrested in december while investigating pieces and rock einstein. they're accused of violating state secrecy laws by acquiring official documents but a policeman who is appearing as

a witness last month told the court that one of his senior officers gave the documents to the journalist to entrap them the officer will testify again next week . egypt's military court has renewed the detention of journalist a smile iskandar on me for another thirty days he spent almost nine hundred days behind bars without being convicted al jazeera journalist mom which is saying has also had his jail time extended is been imprisoned without charge for almost a year and a half al-jazeera and international human rights organizations have repeatedly called on egyptian authorities to release the journalists now dozens of migrants from honduras guatemala and el salvador spend a third night outside the u.s. port of entry on the mexican border only a handful of people in a so-called migrant caravan which angered president trump have been let across to seek asylum in the u.s. money spoke to some of them at bam makeshift camp in tijuana. oh.

over the last month this group of central american migrants has attracted international attention many of them fled their homes in honduras el salvador and guatemala to reach the u.s. southern border. but only a few steps away from where the so-called migrant caravan has camped outside the border crossing dozens of other migrants share similar hopes of reaching a safe place to live. in. this former taxi driver who fears revealing his identity is from the mexican state of the truck on now camping under a plastic tarp with his wife and children he says he was forced from his home after eighteen of his colleagues were killed by criminal groups over span of two months when. you can't work at night even more because you might get shot many people have died and their bodies cut up there have been shootings between criminals where many children lost their lives it's innocent people they get caught in the crossfire the mexican states like detroit can where many of these people are from so for record

rates of homicide and violent crime the stories they tell are no different from those fleeing violence in honduras el salvador or guatemala but have failed to capture the same attention international human rights observers like madeline penman say these families have a right to be heard but mexican asylum seekers and central american asylum seekers playing situations where their lives are at ways we think that a few dozen families is not a threat to the united states is not a is not in any way a criminal act and it is not a crime to seek asylum in the united states especially when your life is at risk if you think the migrant caravan has become the topic of fierce debate among american politicians and media pundits but residents of the one are accustomed to seeing a constant flow of individuals seeking asylum to the u.s. throughout the year it may range from a few dozen to several thousands at a time while these asylum seekers from mexico and central america continue to wait outside the u.s. border. for their names to be called record levels of violence in their home

countries ensures that thousands more will take their place after the cameras have gone one resident follow al-jazeera they want to. the many people in south sudan panning for gold is the only way to make a living at the glittering prospects seem to benefit the government as most of the precious metal is quickly smuggled out of the country from the eastern states have kept what about morgan reports look at people and his friends come to this stream every day and spend long hours panning for gold there hoping to find even a few tiny specks of the precious metal to support their families they did you know no idea. i come here to make a living i sift through the sand and look for gold because it's the only way for me to feed my mother and father if i find some specks of gold i sell it and get money to feed my family. the twenty year old says he can make about thirty dollars a day if he finds a gram of gold and in thousand dan where the inflation rate is more than one

hundred twenty percent that's a fortune the value of the south sudanese pound has tumbled because of the economic crisis caused by the four year long civil war for many here selling gold to traders is the only way to survive but the government is losing out because of the inflated economy minus sometimes preferred to sell gold to traders themselves without going through a government body the gold is that smuggled across the border and sold for higher prices robbing south sudan of its wealth less than half a dozen companies have licenses to mine for gold in south sudan the civil war has discouraged many companies and miners working for themselves preferred to deal directly with traders who prefer gold instead of the declining currency. but only comes up here so sudan's currency is not accepted everywhere things are becoming expensive so if we can find any other currency like gold yes we'll take it to keep up with inflation. the size of south sudan is gold reserves isn't known and

fighting has caused more gold to go abroad in the middle of the garbage my brother traders come from uganda and kenya and buy gold from the miners people find gold in abundance but the traders give them thirty dollars while we give them twenty then men as won't come to us we are supposed to get at least five cages every two weeks but we don't get even one we are trying to control the borders but we can't lack of control which makes it easy for prospects are such as look at people to get a better price from traders than they would from the government allowing them to buy more food for their families people more going on to their own. five years.

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now with. thank you so much myron rolle roma and liverpool have just kicks off the second leg of their champions league semifinal little pull in a strong position so made their first champions league final in eleven years they're taking a five to advance it into this game romulo remember overcame a similar deficit when they knocked barcelona out in the quarter finals while last week's first like a downfield overshadowed by an attack on a liverpool fan sean cox the fifty three year old is still in hospital in

a critical condition and two it's holly and man have been charged over the incidents are one of the earth. i. will close to ten thousand liverpool supporters are in the italian capital for this game police have said the fans could be kept in the stadium for up to three hours after the final whistle to allow time for roma fans to disperse earlier on i spoke to one gerada right surfer romas official website he explained why there is a long history of violence amongst a minority of his club's fans. romas history with wogan ism is unfortunately something that rises in the eighty's it's prominent in the ninety's in the early two thousand it's also there with something like well that's called the derby of the old so it's not sometimes it's isolated and there's incidents we don't hear about well but those are more minor instances may you know we say minors and

stabbing but yes usually not intended to morally harm somebody from the president to our fans in indonesia to around the world where all upset with the hooligans who do that and basically we're such you know loving fans and when there's that select few that ruin it for everyone we all get thrown under the bus on an international aspect international limelight unfortunately but that's not the case if you talk to most from the camps in the most loving and doring of their club you know in italy it's different we don't have that friendship with other clubs roma fans tend to you know we hate other teams that's that's just how it is in italy it's company. you know love of your own city or the winner of wednesday's game face ryoma trade off for they reached the champions league final for the fourth time in five years a big mistake by byron goalkeeper fun all right the decisive moment in that semi alright allowing the ball to roll through his legs at the sort of the second half time bends and lots of advantage to score his second goal of the game and finish to

chew on the knights in madrid with royal three full three on crickets or two this year but to look it's been a crazy match by the same time a very beautiful it's been a beautiful show for the fans for football we need to congratulate our rivals because they've done a great job that we started with difficulties letting it go and we just couldn't find our way you know little second half was much better to score the second goal and we played even better if. we did that. it was quite apparent to the reverse of the best steve but yet vivid and the able to use them. i'm very very disappointed in the result generally speaking both teams played really well it was a beautiful display of football it was a world class football match steph curry has made a triumphant sense and be a action golden state's star money's missed six weeks with a knee injury helping the defending champions take a two nothing lead over new orleans in the western conference semifinals he came

off the bench and he scored twenty eight points terry hit five three pointers in twenty seven minutes of play and got seven rebounds game three will be in new orleans on friday. was a good night for it to happen i mean it's going to be an emotional boost anytime stuff steps on the floor after an absence but this was a good night for a given that we won game one comfortably and we had a feeling you know new orleans was going to come after us pretty hard so. perfect timing really came in you know slow first quarter for us and everything changed as soon as he walked on the floor the cleveland cavaliers have taken a one nothing lead in the series with them winning by a point in. getting a game high twenty six and everyone in the first like to be. a myth a. lot of open three is that they were going under. a lot of floors in

a way. you know because it is dangerous heading game seven not being demobbed are going to get on the court this morning here yesterday as well so. they're. trying to get away now an investigation in brazil has uncovered allegations of abuse of young gymnasts by a former coach he denies the accusations the case coming just months after former sports star. makes it to molesting some of the united states top athletes john heilemann reports. dozens of brazilian gym nurse have accused a former coach of the national team of sexual abuse among them the pan american games gold medalist. that psychological pressure on a ten or eleven year old boy he sent for me and when i went to the bathroom and he told me to take a bath or relax ok i took the bath and suddenly he entered into the bathroom and got into the bath like if we were two children playing the accusations emerged in

a global t.v. news investigation from under the cover your lopez denies them he's since been fired from his job in the sports community center up. to the point of that kind of accusation i have nothing to say they have to prove that. i know that i have my conscience clean because i never raped anybody i never molested anybody in the way it's been told it comes on the heels of another scandal for me usa team doctor larry nasser admitted that he molested some of that country's top gymnasts more than two hundred fifty women and girls say here abuse the the allegations against mr lopez and now being investigated by the south pole public prosecutor's office john homan now does it are in the n.f.l. playoffs the washington capitals beat eastern conference rivals pittsburgh four three in game three of their second round series but capsules forward some wilson has been ordered to face a disciplinary hearing for his illegal head shot on zach last in the race and was

ricky now needs surgery for a broken jaw also suffering from concussion and is expected to be out for the remainder of the playoffs alex evasion scored the winner in impressive style for the capsule for just over a minute left in the third period in any series to one. and that would affect jets came back from three goals down speak to the national credit is seven fourteen game three of their second round series they need to want. to take a look at this from brazilian defend him a sense of how to be physically restrained and dragged from the pitch after being sent off during a jamie game. in japan some source first lashing out at turkey kicking him in the back of the leg then pushed his aren't saying mate so i try to restrain him i and then some sources or some opposition coach says his team still managed to win three one despite his sending off. just to let you know liverpool have gone one up in the second leg of the semifinal study armani with the goal of

a sixty what now on our get back to marion now in london thanks very much andy on now he may be the most eloquent french leader in decades but president emmanuel microns usually impeccable english seems to let him down during a trip to australia made a bit of a power when thanking the australian prime minister malcolm turnbull and his wife gerry good news conference wanted to send you for the welcome thinking you and your delicious wife for your warm welcome the perfect organisation of this trip thanks to unicef think you very much mr prime minister. it's a bit of a slip up you could always be west admit that wraps up the news out of myself but my colleague laurie and taylor will be with you in just a couple of minutes with much more the day's news stay with us.

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