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this is zero. zero zero zero this is the news hour live from london coming up. i mean years protest leader calls a pause in his campaign of civil disobedience after the ruling party appears to offer an olive branch. at least fourteen people are killed in an attack on libya is electoral commission i saw have claimed responsibility. after eight hundred fifty three killings and sixty years of violence the boss separatist group says it has completely disbanded. president trump loses yet another lawyer and is reported to be hiring the man who defended bill clinton during his impeachment. in

sport liverpool will play round with dread for this season's champions league title liverpool beating roma seven six on our grits to reach their first final in balls in a decade. i mean is 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 yan told his supporters at a rally in the capital yerevan that the issue has practically been sold it follows reports that the government will support any candidate for the role of prime minister if they secure a third of parliamentary vote. and you know on wednesday demonstrations in the capital raids just standstill and blocked buildings sharing their anger at after republican party members refused to elect me to the top job on tuesday session and

himself led tens of thousands of armenians through the city in an act of civil disobedience from enforced you walker has more from you than. 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 were 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 you know and who cares those thirty five votes from the other political five factions if not more and so the republicans have said they will not put forward a candidate and they will support the candidate and that's why tens of thousands hundreds of thousands perhaps of on his 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 his prime minister annually lead

a new future for the armenian people. and he's the founding director of the regional study center an independent think tank based on he told us it was undoubtedly people power to prevent it in government to back down 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 the deepening sense of mistrust among much of the population 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 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 regions that we should. i saw has claimed responsibility for an attack on the headquarters of libya's electoral commission which killed at least

fourteen people and commission based in the capital tripoli has been registering voters as head of elections expected before the end of the year and a host of reports. attack was targeted the electoral commission headquarters on wednesday morning when 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 the oil rich east and its vital export terminals he recently shrugged off election talks and urged libyans to trust his army instead of the german 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. after his army which is supported by us in egypt is more powerful than troops based in tripoli the general who recently returned home after medical treatment is widely seen by his supporters as the only libyan leader qualified to end years of infighting. there. iranian state

media says 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 sister act 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 sewage have been evacuated the british company at the center of facebook's data privacy scandal is reported to be closing its operations cambridge analytical hit the headlines in march after a former employee revealed how the company used data from eighty seven million users for donald trump's presidential campaign nigel oakes the founder of s.c.l. group which is a british affiliate of the firm says both companies are now shutting their operations. basque separatist group eta has announced that it is disbanded their own as a campaign violently for sixty years for an independent basque state between northern

spain and southern france it killed more than eight hundred people before declaring a ceasefire in twenty eleven and surrendering its arms last year that in baba reports from san sebastian. in the end it came in the rather mundane form of a letter dated the sixteenth of april to various basque organizations a long awaited announcement that the group that waged a violent campaign for independence for five decades was disbanded for good and what it called its historical cycle. its fifty years since claimed its first victim a secret police chief here in the basque coastal city of san sebastián the announcement that it has this binding comes as no surprise to anyone here but many people do hope it marks the beginning of a new era the name of that police chief was called last d.s. his daughter says people like her are still waiting for a real apology. p.r. is the way that no matter in principle it's good news that they're not killing more people of course it's great news that there are no more victims but there's

absolutely nothing to thank for. it's a formed in the late one nine hundred fifty s. in response to the crackdown on bus culture by spain's dictator francisco franco in one thousand nine hundred seventy three they killed his heir apparent prime minister luis cairo blanco public attitudes hardened and opinion even inside split when the group killed twenty one people in a barcelona supermarket in one thousand nine hundred seven and a series of arrests of better leaders in both spain and france weaken the group significantly. last month which had observed a ceasefire since twenty eleven did apologize to what it called innocent victims of its bombings and assassinations but that wasn't extended to the families of people in the security services or politicians who were among the more than eight hundred killed by it or over the years for some people in spain's basque region the latest announcement is a missed opportunity and even the latter in terms of society i don't think we're

going to notice much change and at a personal level i don't believe in it because there are many missing did people there are many assess the nations that have not been clarified there are many victims that have not received compensation for their part campaigners for the rights of prisoners currently in jail across spain and in france hoping they'll soon be able to serve their sentences near their families in the basque region so this is not closure but it has reenergize the debate on where the basque independence movement goes from here nadine barber al jazeera. let's get more on this story joining us now on this year's dr public tina's who's a lecturer in spanish studies at ast university thanks for coming in so how significant historically do you think this disbandment of better is i think overall obviously that the solution of the cease fire is obviously good is good news is very very significant for the history of spain overall i think the news today about you know the disappearance of fed us not necessarily surprised as they've said they

were going to do this is a significant. in symbolic day but the influence of the has been declining on of the last few years so there was the was a day that was going to come sooner or later and we know that in their statement they said we wish to show our respect for those who were killed or wounded by it and those who are fit to vote on that would truly sorry does that go further than they've gone in the past and apologizing or not really i think it does go a little bit far a little bit further than that in the past but at the end of that they are i'm sure the victims a lot of the victims really won't care about those those this kind of words of support of the end of the day. you know it was it was a very long conflict the last the for many many years and there were victims of other also victims of the of the state of the repression that was against that in the persecution of its or in the basque country while it documented so overall it is a conflict where there were hundreds of victims on all sides and it's you know is never going to get better in that sense i mean did you think i mean some in some cases

when there are these kind of armed groups that then give up their arms there are kind of political solutions attached to that do you think in this case that she there is an absence of a political solution or do you think there is a sort of i think there is a change in a political strategy and i think the idea here is that i don't think the solution has been reached in terms of a basket possible bus push for independence of further autonomy from the spanish central government if anything what we've seen recently that's aluna is that these problems have not been solved yet i think what we see here he said is perhaps a change in strategy and a change in approach from the whole umbrella of movements or part of society the ones for the basque independence or at least for the basque autonomy from the spanish state and how big a movement is that much of an appetite is there for any further bask in the image that is the million dollar question the same way that it's ink that saloon you know we just really cannot tell until there is a proper referendum with proper campaigns or just really cannot sell of there's a real appetite a real push towards independence either in the bus going sure got the money and to

go back to the to the kind of better disbanding and the kind of end of the military side of things that were. you mention that the victims and that some of them don't get the answers they want is there any kind of avenue for them to pursue some kind of justice it did pains me to say but i just don't think there recently way any way forward the reality is that for the last few years has been a very weak an organization and the reality is that i don't think anybody really knows how many members of were really. so sure there was something resembling a leadership but at the other day this is a very decentralized organization as well as we see in that report right there is that are going to say tonight has had many splits throat is history so it's really really hard to actually pinpoint who is to be blamed for activities up to maybe twenty thirty years ago so i think it's very very very difficult i don't. think you very much for coming to office thank you. coming up on this news hour from london. how the gold rush in south sudan is making the economy it's clear to. me the

central american migrants sleeping rough on the us mexico border in the hopes that the u.s. will bring them asylum. and it's for a running total france champion faces more questions about a taping investigation. has been officially sworn in as the new u.s. state at a ceremony at the state department in washington he said he wants the department to get its swagger back and insisted that north korea must commit to dismantling its weapons program bio says it's time to solve the problems on the korean peninsula once and for all. now we have an unprecedented opportunity to change the course of history on the korean peninsula i underscore the word opportunity we're at the beginning stages of the work and the outcome is certainly yet unknown but one thing

is certain. this him a distraction 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. said more on this joining us live from washington d.c. is doug bandow he's a senior fellow at the cato institute and specializes in foreign policy and civil liberties he also worked as special assistant to president ronald reagan and at his head is editor of the school magazine inquiry thanks for being with us so it does seem from what we've seen so far that my point has style is quite different from from tennyson's how different would it be the state department compared what i think we're going to see at least two differences one is he's far more assertive you know rex tillerson you know was almost retiring didn't really talk to the press

you didn't see him very much it was very much kind of a back you know kind of back room kind of guy bump aoe is clearly much more active much more extroverted you know so i think we're going to see him constantly he's going to be testifying he's going to be are going around the world speaking to the press the second thing which is also very important is he has a very positive relationship with the president so if you look at michael pump out today you think he's speaking for the president if you talk to rex tillerson you never knew if he spoke to the president if he spoke for the president there were major differences between them their personal relationship was not close as far as we can tell michael pompei a has a very good relationship with the president so that gives him a lot more clout people will give him more credibility more credence when they speak to him so it's a major difference and so when you when you talk about the relationship with john being being better do you see him as someone who would rain trump a new tool will we be influencing policy which is sort of going along with what

trump ones. you know it's very hard to rein in the president he resists that one of the reasons he appointed my pump aoe i believe is he was tired of having rex tillerson trying to rein him in certainly there are some differences in terms of what mike pompei oh and also john bolton the national security advisor thinking what the president does but his and his shift on both those positions appears to be to put people in place who agree with him more and are more likely to implement his policies so i don't think michael pompei was going to be reining in the president he'll certainly speak his mind i mean this is a very intelligent man he went to west point he went to law school he's been in congress he has opinions but i think he's going to see himself as a servant of the president not somebody whose job is to try to stop the president and he's already had it a key part hasn't in the in the north korea story how do you see that going as they

as they get into the summit. well you know as he indicated in the clip that we're at the very beginning here and pump a zero to some degrees a bit controversy and he suggested at one point it sounded like he wanted regime change in the north you know that's not something that's attractive to kim jong il however he met with kim jong un that presumably has stablished at least some relationship with him and feel young again the president has made it very clear that he wants this to work he's going to be starting out you know it's very hard to kind of bring north korea in north korea will want certain concessions while have to see if the administration is willing to give them you know so this really is the start can we see the two governments create a process take some actions and move forward from here that brings us much closer at least to denuclearization it won't be immediate but you know it's a process both sides have to work out to make it succeed and just to go back to the kind of the rollers the kind of practicalities of the state department he's talked

about he is saying that the united states diplomatic coup and it's been every corner every stretch of the welds x. he makes in is on behalf of this country. and is that a statement to say we're going to fill those unfilled posts who is that just the kind of thing that people say when they start a new job in a state. you know like pump ale is making a very real effort to separate himself from rex tillerson he spoke to foreign service employees at the state department he said he wants this department to get its swagger back you know that it strikes me that the only way that works is number one those positions have to be filled ambassadors have to be out there assistant secretaries have to be appointed you know these positions have to be filled and second i would suggest listening to these people listening to people at state you know they didn't feel that rex tillerson took them seriously he wasn't interested in what they thought it sounds to me like among michael pompei oh at least is suggesting he's going to be much more active in relying upon the department he has

to follow through but it's certainly a very different start than we got under rex tillerson that rhonda thank you very much indeed for you analysis thank you you're welcome and a white house lawyer representing president trump in the russia probe is retiring at the end of the month of the president's legal team for a special counsel investigation has already experienced a high turnover of staff tyco of his expense to be replaced by emmett t. flaunt the veteran washington lawyer who represented bill clinton during his impeachment when this story have tons he joins us live from washington d.c. to tell us more about what he brings to the table. the flood takes over from tight call but so feels like we're in a different century sometimes when we discuss some of these laws names but what we think is happening here is trump has been remolding his legal team into a much more aggressive unit type called was reported to clash with donald trump

because he was counseling a less aggressive attitude towards robert mueller the special counsel less tweeting for example that's tweeting that might suggest that donald trump is trying to obstruct justice for example now we have emmett slugs who will decide his follower aggressive them tight tight called and if i don't trump just tweeted something this morning that actually i'm sure tiger wasn't terribly happy about it so that is one element of this is all part of reshaping his team to be more aggressive people with rudy giuliani quite recently as well another attack dog type of figure on to his legal team some eyebrows been raised because of that clintonian link however it was rather it's fair to say it was rather a minor role on the clinton legal team during the impeachment proceedings but does this mean that they're preparing for impeachment way too premature to even talk about impeachment of course it's a possibility if the democrats do well in november in fact either democratic strategist often don't like talking about a peach because they fear that will actually mobilize the trump base to vote in november but what we can say is there this suggests once again the trump is going for a much more aggressive posture against robert mueller and the special counsel team

and to look into him to operate being aggressive mean that he would actually decide not to talk to the investigation will what he talked about how would meet play at practically you think in terms of the shipwreck. well exactly this is where we get into that realm of speculation that is pretty much all you have a c.e.o. and us cable television these these days there is that suggestion that this may make it more likely that the trump might resists any request by the special counsel for an interview might even challenge the legal basis of the special counsel possibly subpoenaing the president or the republicans to suggest that hasn't actually been settled by the supreme court definitively as to whether the president has to testify and can be subpoenaed by the special by the special counsel so that is that is one possible option rudy giuliani was gave an interview with the washington post where he was giving parameters of any possible meeting it would be naturally focused in very short and so on but clearly that is the main question

right now just in the last couple of days about something else tomorrow as to whether there will be some kind of meeting between trump and she had in the past hour we've had that the u.s. is transferred the fast one time a prisoner and it trumps leadership and what more do we know about that. right so this is ahmed muhammad. darby he's been transferred from going ton the most of the custody of saudi arabia now this is interesting because he was supposed to be in transfer to saudi. arabia the twentieth the question was whether trump was going to all of that given how much he loves going to automobile and the entire system of guantanamo bay and he's brought on so many people like john bolton who also loved love guantanamo bay was he going to all of the plea agreement the transfer was going to keep as many people in guantanamo as possible they have now gone through with this because it makes sense because if he did not of the plea agreement well why would anyone else want on him or cooperate with authorities at guantanamo anymore i did bring up. these files just very quickly he was convicted he's been in u.s. custody since two thousand and two convicted of being an al qaeda member who helped

in a suicide bombing of a french tanker and i just thought i was a human rights watch file here. in two thousand and two he was kicked beaten dragged around by his colleagues hung by his wrists for days on end and these were these were put into written testimony in these hearings on time of bad war another victim of of the u.s. abuses of prisoners he's now going to be in the hands of saudi arabia she had because he thank you very much indeed dozens of migrants from honduras guatemala and el salvador who spend a third night outside the u.s. port of entry on the mexican border and the hunt and full of people in the so-called migrant caravan which is and president donald trump have been let across to seek asylum in the u.s. i'm just curious when you repost it to some of them at a makeshift camp into your own. 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 a span of two months when the. 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 of mexican states like the truck on 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 with us 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 to 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 under it up a little. they want to. go to nigeria still to come the world health organization warns that nine out of ten people are breathing in polluted air with deadly the worst city in the world. water worries in los sundries what taps in the city of angels might soon run dry. and the brazilian player seeing red as he lashes out at everyone during a game in japan. the one. hello there we've still got a lot of what weather over many parts of europe this huge massive cloud over parts of italy in the central parts of europe and then another one making its way in from the atlantic this one's fizzling out and so for many of us here it should be a dry brighter day on thursday but look at this area of rain here very heavy

downpours over parts of italy and across the other side of the age yet as well and that system gradually pushes its way north woods as we head through friday so this whole region again is looking very very wet in fact it's also spreading across the other side of the mediterranean too it's wet and windy at the moment in chuen is more of the same weather still to come as we head through thursday on friday well that what weather hasn't moved too far just a little bit towards the west so more of us in algeria are going to see that rain on friday meanwhile further east and we still got a fair amount of cloud drifting its way across parts of egypt and that could give us a few more showers and maybe more in the way of dust storms as well but over the towards the south there's plenty of showers here actually they're popping a little bit further northwards now so more of them through parts of nigeria towards the west will also see some but generally here they confined to that to south coast towards the east also a few showers here including for us in camp. sixty

seven words that spelled promise for one people. but disaster for another. the bled to the establishment of a jewish homeland at the expense of the palestinians. the story of the british declaration that changed the middle east for seeds of discord on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. read ever your.

we're going to one of the top stories here on araa zira planned anti-government protests for thursday have been cancelled in armenia after the country's ruling party appeared to have softened on its decision to block the opposition leader's bid to become prime minister. says it was responsible for an attack on the headquarters of libya's electoral commission which killed at least fourteen people in the capital tripoli. and the basque separatist group that has announced its disbanded in an open letter it declared all of its structures have been completely

dissolved. britain's upper house has voted to prevent any brics it deal that restores a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland it says that would be in violation of the peace deal that ended the conflict there it puts even more pressure on prime minister to resign may be facing a revolt from within her own party of a brics it group of around sixty m.p.'s from her ruling conservative party a spoken out against her favorite plan for a customs partnership with the e.u. post brics it. we will be leaving the customs union we want to ensure that we can have an independent trade policy we also want to make sure that we actually we deliver we are committed to delivering on our commitment of no hard border between north. and ensuring we have as frictionless trade as possible with the european union the government so-called brics it was cabinet has been meeting to try to find a solution to the whole is following events at westminster. well talks in the

so-called war cabinet on brakes is unlikely to go past wednesday of course but they begin in earnest today on britain's customs relations with the european union after a break said and what position the government decides to take into negotiations may well determine the nature of britain's exit from the european union why because well if it goes in with a position that would require some sort of border to be set up between northern ireland in the u.k. and the republic of ireland in the e.u. to monitor trade well that is something the e.u. would not accept and that likely would push britain towards a so-called hard breaks of leaving with no trade deal and that economists many economists say would be very damaging to the economy here the prime minister is pushing for a particular arrangement called a customs partnership in terms of which britain would mirror e.u. regulations at its borders charging tariffs for the e.u. on goods passing through to the e.u. and then giving refunds to importers delivering goods only to the u.k. potentially based on its own trade arrangements that it makes separate to the e.u.

after brags that that is something that would not require a border it might therefore be acceptable to the e.u. the problem is that it is not acceptable to a pretty influential bunch of progress of m.p.'s in her own party who say it will deliver nothing but bread breaks it in name only that it is a customs union in order to all intents and purposes they've demanded she drop it and have tacitly if not directly threatened only to leadership over it all the while time is against the government here they've got to reach a settled position before a big meeting of the e.u. in june at which it will be decided whether to advance negotiations or not towards a final deadline of october by which time they hope to reach a final deal for britain's exit from the european union or no deal at all. french police say they've arrested one hundred nine people after may day protests in paris on tuesday turned violent demonstrations against president calls labor reforms escalated with six cars burnt out and attacks on

a restaurant and candle as police say around twelve hundred members of a libertarian group called the black bloc were responsible. global military spending is on the rise according to a new report out of sweden but russia is bucking the trend with it expenditure falling 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 but on a 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 dollar boost leads a twenty nine year upward trend in asia china's two hundred twenty eight billion

dollars 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 back 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 and its military in two thousand and seventeen than the next to 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. alarming new report from the world health organization says air pollution is killing seven million people globally each year and is still rising and it warns that the inequality between the world's rich and poor is widening its updated estimates real nine out of ten people worldwide a breathing in air with high levels of pollutants the most rapid deterioration of air quality is in south and southeast asia with more than seventy percent of poor cities affected new delhi is the world's most polluted city with indian cities making up fourteen of the twenty worst named for outdoor pollution. shows as the rising pollution leads to an increased risk of stroke heart disease lung cancer and chronic and acute respiratory diseases including asked for the tissue the name of course. 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 joe for. 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 mogador fix and because of the speed. and because probably if the lack of political will in some countries we are not moving at the 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 when it was put to sarah who's ever said been issues at the international institute for environment and development she told us the problem is dire it says it's not too late for action. of course london is famously famous for its historical pieces and its terrible smaug and london still has a problem with evolution 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 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 india's top coaches criticized the government for failing to protect the taj mahal the marble monument has been slowly yellowing because of industrial small well insects also leaving green stains on the walls supremes court justices have given prime minister narendra modi's government a week to respond. 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 our first series rob reynolds reports raw sundries 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 reducing winter snow pack over time the snow is

either not falling for it small team too quickly and the early months and then were dry in the summer months the solutions to los angeles's 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 quick moment water usage every day we treat clean and wash out of 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 that it does rain in southern

california but currently that rainwater goes to waste it's one of the perverse 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 rub reynolds al-jazeera los angeles a judge judy with a case of two georges journalists in myanmar has refused to throw out the testimony of a police whistleblower the journalists were arrested in december one investigating abuses in rakhine state accused of violating state secrecy laws by acquiring official documents but a policeman who was appearing as a witness last month told the court that one of his senior offices gave the documents to the journalists to entrap them china's foreign minister is on

a two day visit to north korea during which she could meet leader kim jong un when ye is trying to ensure that 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 jane vowed to denuclearize the korean peninsula but it's not completely 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

we've 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. 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 any war on this question china will have its here seat and that negotiating table it is hard to believe the trying to 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. and the many people in south sudan panning for gold is there any way to make a living in a country as mineral wealth isn't benefiting the government as much as it should as most of the precious metal is quickly smuggled out of the country or when reports from the eastern state of couplet are. look at people and his friends come to this stream every day and spend long hours panning for gold they're hoping to find even a few tiny specks of the precious metal to support their families they did ya know 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. the twenty year old says he can make about thirty dollars a day if he finds a gram of gold and in thousand dand 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 then 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. trade has 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 want to come to us we're supposed to get at least five cages every two weeks but we don't get even one we're trying to control the borders but you can't lack of control which makes it easy for press specters 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 morgan al-jazeera. had this news hour. we're going to be building real long term relationships are not just. the world of online dating. matchmaker and sport.

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wrong with scored three times in the second half to get within a goal of taking the time to extra time it finished fourth to rome on the night but it's little poll here with roots that eighth champions league final. was i was thousands of the peace signs also down this track and field stadium to watch the drama unfold on the big screen for the for the first time since two thousand and seven when they were beaten by ac milan this time as a cool sell face twelve time champions the real madrid in kiev made the twenty six liverpool the last hour to be in a european cup final but it was in one thousand nine hundred eighty one when an alan kennedy goal servetus to beat him right now now in paris. while last week the first leg on fail was overshadowed by an attack on liverpool fan shaun coke's the fifty three year old is still in hospital in a critical condition and two italian men have been charged over the incidents which

was an area i was under right around ten thousand liverpool support says we're in the italian capital for the game regardless founds what's hold not to walk to the stadium three chiefs the risk of being attacked earlier on i spoke to one geraud a writer for writing this official website he explained why there is a long history of violence amongst a minority of the club's fans. ramos history with hooliganism 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 child so it's not sometimes it's isolated and there's incidents we don't hear about that all but those are more minor incidents which may you know it's a minor isn't stabbing but yeah it's usually not intended to mortally harm somebody

from the president to our fans in indonesia to around the world where all upset with 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. it's not an international aspect international limelight unfortunately but that's not the case if you talk to you most from the parents in the most loving 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 running toward a friends champion chris froome says he's confident he will clear his name of dog can charges for him he's getting ready to race in friday's jury to tally it but he's being investigated after he was found to have twice the allowed level of a legal ask majority in his system during last year's race in spain this year begins in jerusalem and stays in israel for two further stages before moving to

italy for the rest of the rice i can understand the frustration i mean over see. this this whole process was was meant to have been a confidential process and we were going to respect that. we were in that process now and there's a process in place for me to demonstrate that i've done nothing wrong and that's obviously what i intend to do tango is returns to action on thursday for the first time since last month's mass this is why i threw my clubs in the closet for about ten days got away from the game didn't touch a club to make a golf swing and. i started to lift a little bit but tried to make sure i kept flexible and then i started grinding and trying to get my muscle strength back in eventually my speed and got them all back . steph curry has made a triumphant return to the n.b.a. action golden state's star man who'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 but he

came off the bench in school twenty eight points. five three points in twenty seven minutes of action. cycle seven rebounds game three in new orleans on friday. i. was a good night for it to happen i mean it's going to be an emotional boost any time 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 soon as he walked all the floor in the n.h.l. playoffs the washington capitals beat eastern conference rivals pittsburgh for three in game three of their second round series but capitals forward some wilson has been ordered to face a disciplinary hearing for his illegal at show on zach aston reese the penguins

rookie now needs surgery for a broken jaw is also suffering from concussion and is expected to be out for the remainder of the playoffs alex eviction school the winner for the capsules to give them a c. one series lead. and brazilian defending him a sense of how to be physically restrained and dropped from the pitch after being cents off during this joey game in japan sun sauce first a lashing out at an opponent's kicking him in the back of the leg then pushed out of his own saying mates as they tried to pull him off the failed sound source at times opposition coaches his team still managing to win three one. i can let's get back to lauren in london. andy thanks very much indeed and that's it for male aren't enough this news hour i'll be back in a moment with another four on the day's news thanks for watching.

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