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this is al-jazeera. and obama and taylor this is the news hour live from london coming up. president trump admits he didn't know about hush money paid to a porn star but says it didn't come from his campaign funds. for island finds itself at the center of a power struggle between the united arab emirates and the yemeni government. powerful dust and rainstorms kilmister hundred people in northern states of india. gold companies settle south africa's biggest class action lawsuit yet with miners who contract a deadly lung diseases. and sport attempts to keep his final shots at a trophy with arsenal on target his team. it's

a take on athletico majority in the semifinal of the europa league. u.s. president donald trump has changed his story about hush money paid to a porn star who claims she had an affair with him more than a decade ago trump admitted that he knew about a one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment to stormy daniels after one of his lawyers revealed it in a t.v. interview but he said it was a retainer fee for his lawyer and the money did not come from his election campaign funds. as the latest. donald trump has admitted he's aware of the hush money paid to former porn star stormy daniels the president had denied knowing anything about the payment but now he appears to be changing his story on twitter he wrote the agreement was to stop false an extortionist thank you solutions about the affair and he says money from his presidential campaign was not

used his tweets follow an interview with rudy giuliani that may have backfired against trump giuliani recently joined trump's legal team he says the president knew about the hush money and even reimbursed his lawyer michael cohen from making the payment so they followed through law for formal draw from the president repaid . the comments contradict trumps previous and i also felt the scandal. trumps lawyer reportedly paid daniels before the presidential election in exchange the course star was to keep quiet about the alleged affair with trump and the lawyer asked for money but apparently were giuliani's arguing is trump had no idea what the money was being used for. the production funds were used it would be a violation of us federal law the president can contribute as much as he wants to his own campaign he has to report it and he did not report this to the federal

elections commission that would be a criminal violation. team says no laws were broken the fact is just trust me they're going to come up with no violations there the adult film star has filed a defamation lawsuit against the president despite the scandal though trump still appears to enjoy the support of his base see a locus of a yawn al-jazeera. while this our white house correspondent joins us live kimberly these admissions appear to confirm that the president lied about what he knew about payments to me daniel's well his bald head. right well you know what's strange about this is that we're learning that in fact the president did speak with rudolph giuliani prior to him going on television and in that interview essentially contradicting the president what this appears to be is a deliberate strategy and perhaps one to try and get ahead of some negative press that the white house was anticipating you remember that raid on the president's

lawyers offices michael cohen will certainly appears that there is some concern about what those documents might reveal in terms of this payment that the president fact did know about it we are hearing that in fact the federal authorities had wiretapped michael cohen's offices in addition so putting all that together in the face of potentially bad headlines and not knowing the timing of it the white house has decided to make the strategy of getting ahead of it saying that yes this is the case yes there was a contradiction here but the point is that in their view that it's not illegal essentially getting out of what they see as a friendly platform to deliver the bad news do you think this will put a stop to questions about whether the money was paid as part of trump's presidential campaign. if these last few hours are any indication just the opposite it's going to intensify things because not only is there the concern about whether or not the term campaign reported this money but there is the concern about

the amount federal law caps those contributions at twenty five thousand dollars this payment was one hundred thirty thousand dollars and if it can be proven the president had intent to in some way improve his chances in the election and to make things more favorable in light of negative headlines what this would be called as an in kind contribution which the federal election commission would say according to federal law is illegal solicitor unli seems to intensify the concerns of the questions about whether or not the president and his campaign acted appropriately thank you very much indeed. protests are broken out on a remote but strategic yemeni island after the united arab emirates deployed military aircraft and troops there the supporter archipelago is a unesco world heritage site which lies in the gulf of aden along important oil trade routes and provides access to nearby regions yemen's prime minister made a rare visit to troops on the culture's main island on wednesday soon after residents say the u.a.e.

unloaded soldiers tanks and armored homage transport there in an attempt to intimidate the weakened government who thought that some yemeni troops had been expelled the iraqis have been expanding their influence in southern yemen that part of the saudi led coalition fighting hoofy rebels are sometimes referred to as the galapagos of the indian issues the culture is home to seven hundred demick species including the unique dragon's blood tree its sixty thousand residents have lived most completely isolated from the outside world and i found themselves at the center of power struggle between the yemeni government and the us geo political ambitions and risk creek from the defense studies department at kings college in london says the move is part of a much larger strategy by the u.a.e. . and what they've done here is basically occupying a country part of the country so they've done that in aden and they're now do that and so contra which is very far out in the indian ocean to effectively control the

backbone man that region of the indian ocean which is part of the grand strategy of the united arab emirates the u.a.e. see themselves or want to see themselves in the future to be the link between the east and the west so it's very important to control here the trade links between east asia and europe which mostly go through suez canal and the bottom and straight between yemen and generally the horn of africa so if you want to control the straits you have to control the indian ocean so it's not and it's not just enough to have you know military facilities on shore which they have done because they invest into it in the u.a.e. have built similar outposts in somalia and along the red sea coast going up to the suez canal so what they have done here is they have found an island which is very remote from both yemen and somalia is very far off the coast but it's very strategically located and it kind of acts as

a quasi aircraft carrier in the minute over the u.a.e. in the middle of the indian ocean where they can control traffic and obviously control the traffic you can also give favorable access to the sea lanes to companies that are related to the u.a.e. so it's a military and political strategy which is very much linked to the economic strategy of you know united arab emirates syrian rebels have surrendered besieged areas in south damascus and in the northern homs countryside they've been given the option of pledging their allegiance to the government or joining the many other rebels have already relocated to rebel held territory in northern syria so you know what import. russian military commanders led the negotiations on behalf of the syrian government rebel factions controlling the northern countryside of homs were given an ultimatum reconcile with the state or surrender and move to rebel held territory in northern syria to avoid an all out military offensive. military pressure has

piled on the armed groups a few days ago the pro-government alliance heavily bombarded the region which is at a strategic crossroads linking the main population centers under government control the opposition had little choice around three hundred thousand syrians live there many of them forced from their homes elsewhere in syria the northern homs countryside is the latest rebel held area to surrender the opposition has been losing ground since its biggest defeat in years the fall of eastern huta in early april followed a fierce and intense bombing campaign the pro-government alliance then use this threat of military action to force rebels in the enclave northeast of damascus to bring about their surrender the same tactic was used on opposition armed groups in southern damascus rebels in the districts have. agreed to leave some seventeen thousand people fighters their family members and others who are involved in opposition activities are leaving in the nearby iso controlled districts and. the

fighting continues between the armed groups and government forces but in those districts there were a few hundred fighters belonging to him. the group formerly known as they surrendered and were moved to northern syria the opposition continues to control the province of idlib in the northwest border with turkey they also hold parts of the southern provinces of. close to the borders of jordan and israel in recent weeks the process government alliance has been focusing on recapturing besieged areas close to its strongholds northern homs is the last significant piece of territory the rebels control that is not along an international border what comes next is more complicated. any offensive to recapture the whole of the problems would cause tensions with turkey which deployed troops as part of an agreement with russia. or. value on this agreement with erkki they know they need turkey to

solve the situation in the north of the i want to fall for an offensive in the southern corner of syria is also just as complicated there is the possibility of escalating tensions with israel. are worried if the syrian regime of the army advances toward the border. with iran or iranian affiliated militia president bashar al assad has repeatedly pledged to recapture every inch of syrian territory but future ballot terry operations may have different calculations. beirut. in a russian fighter jet has crashed off the coast of syria killing both of the pilots it came down in the sea after taking off from many may have base according to the russian military the jet was not shot down russia is president bashar al assad's main ally and operates from bases in syria's coastal areas. coming up on the news hour flooding displaces hundreds of thousands in kenya. turkey's ruling party

confirms it richard as its candidate as four position parties join forces head of the june elections and it's fought. on the ice hockey world championship in denmark where n.h.l. stars all back home international ice and south korea get their debut away from the politics of the olympics. nearly one hundred people being killed in powerful dust and rainstorm hit the northern states register on pradesh storm destroyed homes disrupted electricity and operated trees port i the storm struck in the dead of night as the slept in their homes leaving a trail of destruction and its weight i for much of stand with

a project even the capital new delhi there were intense bursts of lightning accompanied by hail and rain the worst affected will rural areas falling trees hit buildings destroying homes killing dozens of people inside and disrupting power supplies across the regions. all the private and government hospitals have been alerted government to minister pool resources have been mobilized and we are taking the help of the private sector as well people are helping to we're trying to get all the into hospital and clear the roads dust storms are always expected ahead of the incoming monsoon season but not of this strength and killing so many people. and destroyed in our district we have information of five deaths due to a high intensity tender storm at least twenty two people are critically injured and i've been given treatment at a trauma center of the district hospital while relief. work has already started in the affected areas it will take days to restore power and with livestock having

been affected by the storms people's livelihoods have also been impacted a worrying sign ahead of the impending monsoon season. flooding in kenya has left at least one hundred people dead and when two hundred thousand displaced in the last month major roads across the country have been blocked due to heavy rains and landslides since early april last week a route between the capital nairobi and the main port city of mumbai was completely submerged the red cross has described it as a humanitarian disaster and says kenya needs emergency funding and are simmons has more from garson in southeast kenya. there may be sunshine but the water keeps coming it's unrelenting people here in a really desperate state sixty four thousand in this county santa river county alone overall in kenya something like a quarter of a million people displaced now and look over here this is the sort of conditions

they face there just making do with what they've got the kenya red cross and other aid agencies to helping out so many children more than one hundred people have died in these floods and you'll see them here trying to get by with the livestock they've managed to save with very little apart from what they've managed to put together and that you may ask why say too many people are here by a river side when the so much flooding will the reason for that is a special filtration system being used by kenya red cross it's a bring water this purified so that people are able to at least have safe drinking water is so important such a danger of color on the kenya red cross says the situation nevertheless is critical most of the health facilities now some munched with water or my room so accessibility to help the city has been

a big problem to this over these abodes six sixty four thousand people affected in tonga riva alone and over one hundred and eight. comes along with these i mean discountable that's a huge number it's not hard to work out the risks to health here also amongst these waters that have been crocodiles and reports of people being injured in attacks now people were living in this area in tents now they've moved this way they say the waters are rising in the reports that dams further up river are releasing large amounts of water making the situation even more difficult here in the rivets hannah region a region that's not sure what the future holds was people are going to do in this critical situation. gold mining companies in south africa have agreed a four hundred million dollars class action settlement with law firms represent two thousand of mine is to contract a fatal lung diseases around half

a million men were employed in south african gold mines in nine hundred eighty s. medical research has suggest as many as one in two of contracted silicosis or tuberculosis after an ailing silica dust released in the mining process. my biz in johannesburg and joins us live tell us more about what this agreement involves. well group of lawyers representing about thirty thousand miners who have silicosis announced that they've reached an agreement with six groups of gold mining companies with six groups of gold mining companies to compensate these miners and potentially many more miners for the occupational diseases that they suffered its massive it's unprecedented in south africa we're talking about a very large amount of money and also a very large number of people those thirty thousand who the lawyers represented in their initial litigation they say is the tip of the iceberg and the green mint includes setting up

a trust fund to also compensate as many more come forward and meet the criteria and agree to the terms of the settlement now that could be anything from one hundred thousand to up to nearly three hundred thousand depending on who you speak to a lot of these diseases were contracted a long time ago that a lot of this dates from the apartheid era mine is we've spoken to some today said conditions then in the mines were very bad people were breathing a lot of dust was no protective equipment and the lawyers say that throughout the whole period there was no means to get any compensation or challenge one's employer at all because if workers even complained they would lose their jobs so the lawyers first had to establish a new precedent in the constitutional court since one thousand nine hundred four to be able to pursue this kind of class action then in two thousand and three they began this litigation process gathering the evidence taking it to the gold companies and that's what led to this precedented agreement being announced today

and now given what you mentioned the historic nature of it and the scale of it how is it going to work in practice this settlement. they've got twelve years to compound to find and then compensate all of the people who are affected that's not going to be easy with the lawyers already house of the thirty thousand cases who've been medically examined they will be paid from a fund that's already being gathered but then the mining companies have agreed to keep funding the trust however much is required to try and find all of the other miners who are eligible many of these people were migrant workers who came from the soto from mozambique or other neighboring countries came to south africa worked in the mines until they got sick then they lost their jobs were sent home and now they're living in remote rural communities many of them in these other neighboring countries so the plan is to set up mobile clinics and to put money in clinics send out reach groups into the communities to try and identify all these people in the many cases where they've already died to identify their spouses or their

descendants to identify all the people who are eligible for compensation in the mining companies agreed that however many are found whatever the number is however many come forward if they are eligible they will be compensated says the first of its kind here in south africa as the lawyers said addresses a small part of the injustices suffered by miners in migrant black workers particularly during the apartheid era where thank you very much. basque separatist group letter has issued a final communique saying its journey has ended and it will cease all political activity decades it used violence to push for an independent basque state in northern spain and southwest france and barbara reports from san sebastian of what letters disbanding means people in the region. as. a final announcement by the end of a process that seen it runouts violence give up its weapons and most recently issue

a partial apology for the hundreds of people it killed over a fifty year period osgar is a former at a member who spent twenty one years in prison for acts including the attempted murder of police officers at this nationalist bar in bilbao he told us he doesn't regret his part in what he calls the fight for basque independence but it was him that information this is not a defeat this is a change in our strategy a different means of struggle personally i think the objectives remain the same and we haven't given up. it's that kind of talk that concerns people like jose maria muvico twenty two years ago his father fair amount of the socialist party councillor was shot dead by an eta member near this office where he worked as a lawyer and. we have to keep up the fight against impunity for the terrorists and resolve the three hundred fifty eight murders committed by the terrorist group and also we must continue to fight over memory which means defeating not just better but the political project of its as. one of those is god. he spent twelve

years in exile as a member of his political wing and now works for a basque separatist party he says there's consensus among pro independence basques and those who want to remain a semi autonomous part of spain for the idea of a referendum that confidential source is upon their right to decide how is it looking at twenty five percent but it still cannot cover and not a model political discussion on the future of this country and how to push the world up this people cannot get they say its future but recent surveys suggest that unlike in catalonia fewer than twenty percent of people in spain's basque country support breaking away. that's part of the issue why it dies dissolving right now. it's been reduced and the people's party is a party is that it's it's it's frankly it's a minority inside a nationalistic group of people. it's

a sympathizers still have demands of their own including the transfer of better prisoners to jails here in the basque country that's something the governments in madrid may be willing to consider but it's also promised to go after members implicated in past crimes the decades of violence may have ended years ago but the ripples will continue to be felt across brusque society nadine barber al jazeera sunset. cameras descended on armenia's capital a day after protests brought yerevan to a standstill residents clean the streets as opposition leader nicole fresh declared a one day pause in the nationwide protests a truce was reached after armenians ruling party agreed to back whoever was nominated for prime minister as long as they secure a third of all votes a parliamentary vote will now be held next week turkey's ruling party has formally nominated incumbent president richard. as its candidate to run in next month's election a snap election was called by one more than a year and

a half earlier than planned it's like the opposition scrambling to get organized effort in turnouts abroad electrolyze to try to keep bedouin out of power and challenge the dominance of his ruling ak party the deal would include turkey's largest secular and nationalist opposition blocs. once we get the presidential candidates and so far former prime minister and current president at a one as we said remains at turkey's most popular politician after winning nearly a dozen elections but some polls suggest he may struggle to win more than the fifty percent needed to give him a first round victory at amman's most credible challenger is there she's a former interior minister and last year found of the nationalists the party which is one of the parties in the new opposition alliance there are received a boost from the main opposition party c.h.p. which lent her party fifteen m.p.'s to ensure she could participate in a pro kurdish opposition party the h.d.

peace as its charismatic former ku leader so the teen to me or to us will be its candidate he helped to make the age to be the second biggest opposition force in parliament in the twenty fifteen election these currently in prison charged with links to the outlawed kurdistan workers' party or p k k. than on the studio my father who manages the turkey project at chatham house here in on one thanks for coming in so how likely is it this illinois will will work do you think i think that this alliance was galvanized by the early election that president aired the one called for the twenty fourth of june and its very existence emergence was a great surprise to many particularly to president there in the one and does sure that the visceral opposition towards him is now bringing the fractured opposition closer together and i mean you say fractured opposition how likely that they can stick together on this has been a month and a half or so to go. less than what the office that so they can they can come

together and hold it together in time to elections in the march of this year the ruling party changed the election law. in parliament to enable these alliances these cross party alliances to come together so that the smaller parties can circumvent the ten percent threshold to secure representation in parliament i think that there is sufficient. motivation among the four party alliance which is called the democracy alliance to at least to stay together for the election for the upcoming elections that will take place on the twenty fourth of june and what other the landscape more generally do you think the fact that it's been brought forward this election means that there is a kind of innate disadvantage no doubt they are in an innate disadvantage present here don't completely dominates the media scene in turkey he has also the a lot of substantial financial resources to fight those election also he's the incumbent president and carries a lot of gravitas among

a significant segment of the turkish electorate nevertheless the fact that these four parties have come together from which should represent a cross section of the turkish political spectrum although from the secular left to the conservative and nationalist right is a positive sign. that now the that at least they are upping the game and trying to bring and trying to mount a credible challenge against present or don't what do you think the biggest risks are for this alliance what could make it unraveled i think i think that we can see that they have agreed we have agreed to fight the parliamentary elections together but at the same time however they have they have disagreed on the presidential election so we see the different parties are nominating different candidates and they fail to agree on a common candidate for the presidential elections thank you very much indeed thank you still to come this hour left with nothing ranger refugees prepare

for monsoon season. u.s. drops in the world drops i should say the world press freedom rankings we look at why. and in sport champion kenyan runner as bill kicked up mix he has failed the doping test but says he isn't to blame. hello the still what looks like a spring storm system revolving around iraq and you could see it going up as a cold front war us through kuwait and down to its side to keep moving mr direction probably lose a lot of his impetus it would be a cloudy picture when it comes up to northern iran but the southern caucasus and still azerbaijan parts of iran it's potentially quite storm recently rain showers probably thunder behind it sounds come out thirty six in baghdad looking relatively

quiet only coastal measure except the next system is already trying to wind up to twenty nine degrees in beirut is the start of the humid as well and the pleas through showers continue on that is nice in turkey and the caucasus south of all this we first of all go pick up that cold front it's just like to be clad maybe an occasional spot surveying probably no more than that the breeze is like to turn as a northerly there is not that obvious on this forecast not a particularly strong and we're talking about largely a dry and sunny picture the humidity fluctuating to be ours mostly dry picture whereas in south africa in particular it's been unexpectedly large showers moving slowly from west to east they've got in the forecast but they're close spyder been . he was the world's most wanted. and last meeting i had with him was off to.

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your mind of the top stories. the u.s. president has changed his story about how money paid to a porn star who claims she had an affair with him but donald trump now says he knew about it but the money did not come from his campaign funds. nearly one hundred people are being killed in india powerful dust and rain storm hit right just on and it took pradesh states. and the big purchase on a strategic yemeni island of after the united arab emirates deployed military aircraft and troops there it follows the yemeni prime minister's visit to the on and on wednesday to meet service personnel. we reported in our being expelled.

u.n. says two hundred thousand range refugees need to be moved to safety a cycler season gets underway in bangladesh many are living in a flimsy shelters which are no match for the expected heavy rains floods landslides and strong winds traffic reports coaxes bizarre what's become one of the world's largest refugee camps life for salim a cartoon that her family has been precarious enough since escaping the military crackdown against the regime jane myanmar eight months ago their makeshift shelter is perched on a hilltop in the queue to pile on refugee camp in bangladesh but the daily struggle to survive is expected to become even harder in the weeks and months ahead for salema and hundreds of thousands of refute g.'s like her because cycling season is starting that a lot. we are afraid of the wind sometimes it takes the top poland's and they might be landslides but we don't have anywhere else to go. there's

a sense of urgency around the camp. the weather could change dramatically at any time thousands of tons of bamboo is being distributed to refugees so they can make their shelters stronger aid agencies are training them how to best secure or to offer nothing more than tarpaulin and corrugated iron shacks not of them. we are afraid of the wind and thunder during cyclons they're teaching us about landslides and what we need to do. heavy machinery has been brought into the camps to build roads it's vital emergency services have access to anywhere in the camp in order to rescue victims of potential landslides or floods as quickly as possible men gather bricks to harden the road surface otherwise they will quickly turned to mud when heavy rain arrives. you can see how vulnerable and exposed these flimsy shelters are on these hillsides now over the next four months we're expecting a psych loan and a monsoon season where winds can often reach up to one hundred kilometers an hour

and they're going to be lashing rain which means places like these are potentially highly vulnerable to landslides aid agencies here say around two hundred thousand people need to be moved to safer ground the bangladesh government has allocated a large area specifically to house refugees who need to be moved shelters schools and health centers a juice to be built here aid agencies say there are twenty five thousand people living in areas most vulnerable to landslides who need to be relocated immediately they want to say first that's what we're doing we're moving. as fast as we can with heavy machines so that these families can live somewhere where the. public health services and the safe are not that comfortable and that they're not at risk and. in the late afternoon the weather suddenly changes for the worse the wind kicks up

dust clouds across the camp refugees run for cover all rush to try and secure the tarpaulins there's a ripped from roofs hundreds of thousands of men women and children face the greatest challenge yet since fleeing for their lives from the myanmar military crackdown child strafford al jazeera coup problem refugee camp bunker dish. your inspector general antonio terror is urging governments to do more to protect journalists is big comes on the world press freedom day and follows the deaths of ten journalists in attacks in afghanistan on monday water on syria remains the most dangerous country in the world for journalists with twelve killed last year its closely followed by mexico where at least eleven were murdered with the ongoing drugs war iraq and south sudan also on the list for the second year in a row turkey is the worst country for jailing professional journalists figures from twenty seven thousand showed a surge in reporters behind bars in a crackdown following failed coup in twenty sixteen china also sends lots of

journalists and bloggers to prison and try to keep a tight grip on what's reported in the country. egypt has also jailed many journalists one of whom is syria's mahmoud hussain he's now been in gyptian prison for almost five hundred days international human rights organizations and al jazeera have repeatedly urged egyptian authorities to release him is an egyptian national was based in qatar when he was detained without charge by authorities in twenty sixteen during a holiday to cairo to visit his family of course and jordan is in ghana's capital accra are she's taking part in world press freedom day events so what are the big concerns on this particular day. lauren greetings to you from across more than nine hundred journalists and advocates have gathered here because they're very worried about the fact that no

matter where journalists are working whether in the united states in indonesia in some parts of africa and south america in europe pretty much every continent journalists are facing danger while they're trying to do their jobs it could be something as simple as harassment being yelled out while you're on the street trying to talk to people the worst situations of course are when people are arrested and thrown into jail without due process or who are killed because of the work they have been doing this really runs the gamut and certainly one of the things that i've been hearing over the last three days of journalists have been working here and sitting together and talking about these issues is that it's not just the physical danger that is really making people's work harder it's also the rise of technology because while it makes it easier to get in touch with your sources and to get information firsthand when you physically can't be there it's

also being used against journalists and so there's a real question now about how do we protect each other how do we get governments how do we get the general public to understand that the free speech that journalists are trying to exercise is really a global right under the un declaration of human rights and don't thank you very much and that's taken up quickly straight to the point has us. speaking about the trump the question about trump and stormy daniels for the president to keep with sort of first out in the senate came out this time talking hobby leaving him and the father becoming the president said fake news that was not true he just when he talked about the prisoners in the north korea said the previous administration had been. like you know fail to get them out of these two. them were were taken prisoner while donald trump was president and obviously the totally conflicting statements on the stormy daniels these are statements that are just not true when

it comes to north korea there i think you could also look at ottawa who was detained during the previous administration as was one of the current detainees and so that would reflect the president's comments that he may when it comes to the other the last instance that you mentioned as mayor giuliani stated this wasn't something that was initially known but later learned and again we get the best information possible at the time and we're going to continue to do that every single day for. michael holmes back in february of last year. in the reimbursement was how to be long before the president which is not a question or whatever but i'm saying i'm helping out of nowhere he was saying about it again i'm not going to get into those details and i would refer you back to the statements pretty lengthy statements made by giuliani both last night and this morning as well as the president's tweets where they both spoke about him just a follow up on that the president did talk about monthly retainers in this tweet

and number two giuliani said the president knew about those. ten days to two weeks ago how can you only be aware something ten days to two weeks ago but at the same time. the process of paying monthly retainers apparently covers this reimbursement to michael come up again i can't get into the details of the ongoing litigation i would refer you back to the president's outside chalo what you said on march seventh there was no knowledge that he came to the president and he's denied all these allegations were you watching too much of the time or were you in the dark and the president has denied and continues to deny the underlying claim and again i've given the best information i had at the time when i was in her from going back to the comments that you yourself just mentioned. a few minutes ago about the timeline for mayor giuliani been there that state very dramatic statement wasn't in reference to the reimbursement team again i gave you the best information that i

had and that new york that allegation at the time of the allegations the president has not been continuous he did not share your thoughts were not whether you were in the dark i think it's a fairly simple question whether you think it's a fairly generic answer that i'm trying to actually several times now to get you the best information that i had him and i continue to do my best to do that every single day jeff where you give us an update on the three americans held in north korea if you want he said that they were going to days that. we can't confirm the validity of any of the reports currently out about their release but we certainly would see this as a sign of goodwill if north korea north korea were to release this three americans ahead of discussions between president trump and kim john dusun to be. there in charge and in addition to being an attorney for the president does mr giuliani faired you'll have a wider remit to talk about things like. this and not that i'm aware see sara i

want to ask you about these reports citing u.s. intelligence data of the chinese have installed new missile platforms on disputed islands in the south china sea and they also appear to now be basing fighter jets there meanwhile pilots are being warned that the chinese military personnel are pointing lasers i view us military aircraft in the community in africa injuring american pilots the sending of this cross a red line for the president of the housing administration intend to respond to what we're well aware of china's militarization of the south china sea we've raised concerns directly with the chinese about this and there will be near term and long term consequences will certainly keep you up today john thanks a lot zero for you call car mayor giuliani's weakness on. to spokesman i'm not part of the legal team and wouldn't be part of those discussions are you as you ministration the president is pleased with the job mayor giuliani is doing right

now it seems as if he's open the president up to some sort of criminal liability as it relates to the federal election campaign but i haven't discussed that with the president i would be part of this conversation with the president that is pleased with the job mr giuliani is doing leg and i haven't had that conversation with the president that's an outside counsel and not something i would be a part of francesca i think there were but last time that the president talked to my calling is my one still his attorney and also the white house concerned for the president concerned that any conversations he would have with my point would have been picked up by the wiretapping resting on hand let me see if i can get all of those questions since there were quite a few altogether i'm not sure when the last conversation took place on the second part i'm not aware of the specific places where he's representing the president and on the last one i would refer you to the president's outside counsel about any

concerns of wiretapping that would be something that he would play or by when did you specifically know that the president repeated mr call and for the one hundred thirty thousand dollars you personally. first awareness i had was during the interview last night major. earlier that when you give an answer as a rose general topic gives the best information you have time now it appears that your position is remarkably calm but because it's all good. if you've been advised not to wear you do this to protect yourself from any potential legal exposure by giving you the false information or information the proof later or not be able to read was due in court you know but i would always advise against giving false information as a person it was a human voice and see i believe i was chosen to question the you so you. for that you gave the best information out of the time i'm sure you do that today but it turns out to be correct or accurate or you've been trying to limit the liability

that you may encounter by not dealing with any of those questions now pushing it all off because you say it's ongoing with again i'm giving the best information i have some information i am aware of and some i'm not when i can answer i will but beyond that i really don't have anything to add so it was the mayor's not relate to the questions you got so far he said he being the president fired colby because comey would not among other things see that he wasn't a target of the best and that the white house position now explaining why did you have to go as far as there are a number of reasons that james comey was fired the president's name several of them but the bottom line is he doesn't have to justify his decision the president has the authority to fire and hire and i think every single day we've seen that he made the right decision in firing change chromos but again i think that there are a number of reasons that he was far certainly james comey was fired for lying leaking and politicizing the f.b.i. and the president has been i think repeatedly day after day been proven to be

exactly right in his decision to fire james comey the sorry major i'm going to do is a complete change having to do what are you should you do you can't use a movie theater investigation you agree with question. can you clear up this timeline a bit back to jim's question about when exactly did the president learn that the payments were going to michael cohen to cover this stormy daniels i would refer you back to mary giuliani's comment for anything further i've been for a week and did the president know that mr giuliani was pacifically talking about these payments on hannity last night was he aware of the timing the method and i don't know there's a question you have to listen or see how you're thank you very much for the just person who are really doing your homework. over. of course because they involved the way their efforts to secure their release not that i'm aware of why are they calling that's a question you have to assume that i speak for me also interesting. that is justice

department authorized to wire gather communications between watching our sara saunders or the white house question taking multiple questions there over the issue of the payment from president trump to his lawyer about a pornstar us president has changed his story about the money he originally didn't claim he didn't know about the payments and now admits that he did know about a one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment to stormy daniels after this was revealed by one of his lawyers rudy giuliani in a television interview and it appears that the white house was perhaps a left as if any rate is now saying that she didn't know. what her position is that she gave the best information she had at the time when she contradicted this story and she would continue to get the best information that she had so quite a lot of stonewalling there in that white house briefing. according to the global press index the u.s. has fallen to spots and is now listed as the forty fifth country of press freedom

watch but is down to the current occupant at the oval office and critics believe it's having a broader global impact particularly in his more from washington. it was a constant of his campaign our biggest obstacle is the press that is so dishonest of their own. it seemed like donald trump could even get through one speech without attacking the press the dishonest media one of the worst. it was always a popular line the media covering the candidate became the subject of huge cheers and boos from the crowd. and it continued as he moved into the white house going so far as to call the media an enemy of the american people tweeting videos and pictures showing him physically harming a cable network as the tweets of attacks continue on a weekly basis they are having an impact in one poll fifty one percent of people asked said the media is the enemy of the people rather than an important part of

democracy and another poll shows a full three quarters of all republicans believe the news media make up stories about the president and his administration one of one of his few republican critics say that is harming journalists in the us and everywhere else as other leaders use the label fake news to jail journalists this feedback loop is disgraceful mr president not only has a past year seeing an american president borrow despotic language to refer to the free press but it seems he is now in turn inspired dictators and authoritarians with his own language that is reprehensible still it seems highly unlikely that the president will stop his attacks on the press it's not fake news i wonder whether it will take until we have another president who says that was wrong of course the press is not fake news i mean the problem is that the more you repeat something like a montra the more that some people think it's true but there is good news about the

news the american media is experiencing a kind of renaissance in part because of the president major newspapers have seen a huge spike in the number of subscriptions and they along with some in television news have been breaking stories about this administration on a weekly basis. damaging stories that have led to a record number of scuttled cabinet nominations and firings in the end the president can call it fake news but it is still producing very real results pedicle al jazeera washington. sport now has andy thank you so much loren all arson of anger is attempting to keep his final shots at a trophy with. his team about to take on athletic or madrid in the second leg of their europa league semifinal this typo is that one one let's go look to be the favorites having scored a crucial away goal in the first like in london i will step down as arsenal boss at the end of the season after twenty two years in charge never won

a european soccer with the club athletic on diego simeone any standing in his whites and it's part of the you notice an unknown that is committee dungeon and we need an exploding stadium thrilled full of positive energy passionate because that's what we are we want passionate people with us we want people full of excitement we need to play a great game we need to have a communion between us and the fans we obviously facing a dangerous rival with great players it will be a beautiful game for those watching to see them know we need to score. so we have a clear demand you know heads and clear approach have to need to have a positive. only we don't know really how to do combine to reduce a. drop as you have a more. cautious approach and try to get us on the break that's what you have to

deal with in the. are we saw. in the other sammy the austrian side trial to nothing which shouldn't be written off they managed to overturn a similar deficit against lance here in the quarter finals to reach this stage in the n.b.a. playoffs western conference top seeds the houston rockets went down in game two against the utah jazz in their second round playoff series its all star man donovan mitchell was in fine form he double doubled with seventeen points and eleven assists also reminded everyone how he won this year's all-star slam dunk contest the jazz winning it one sixteenth of one awaits the series level one. now champion fifteen hundred meter run a proposed confirmed he tested positive for doping but claims he's the victim of extortion the failed test relates to a year in samples at the olympic and three time world champion david his house in kenya last november the twenty eight year old claims doping officers demanded money from him and may have tampered with his sample more than fifty kenyans have failed

doping tests in the past six years when the statements he said i have remained faithful to my anti doping convictions and i will be the last person to commit such an atrocious and sports like thing i pray to be given the benefit of the doubt even as i'm cast into this longly isolation in a sense i did not dog new australian cricket coach justin langer says he's aiming to transform the image of the national team the former opening batsman is taking over the job in the aftermath of the recent ball tampering scandal that resulted in three players being banned and former coach darren lehmann resigning. oh i think one of the things is really important is that we keep looking to earn respect. to may respect moral worth more than all the gold in the world so in respect all of the cricket field in the n.h.l. playoffs the tampa bay lightning have moved ahead of boston in the eastern conference sami's despite losing the open of the lightning now lead the series to

one hundred plus score twice in this four one when. all this for those ongoing playoffs the ice hockey world championships are about to begin in denmark some n.h.l. players are involved after their absence of the recent lympics as the tournament attempts to position itself as the number one global showcase for the sport's poorest ripples. training has an extra intensity when the usa are about to take on canada and for the americans their hunger has more of an edge every year. they open the ice hockey world championships here in denmark against a canadian team going for a record twenty seventh gold medal decades have passed since the usa won this title . just a few months after the olympics and n.h.l. players are back in their international colors with the chicago blackhawks patrick kane one of those bringing quality that was lacking in p.r. china yeah i mean i think we've all maceo impacts us

a great opportunity to grow the game in a play for your country especially if you get the chance i think a lot of guys maybe not on their message missing out on their picks you know they want to take advantage of this chance and play in the world championships all the canvas such a big rival for us. it's a pretty easy game to get up for. taking the sport to new fans means that the quiet city of henning is co-hosting the competition with copenhagen. but not all of the hockey world has come to denmark the stanley cup playoffs are in full swing in north america side of the international i saw the federation hasn't quite had the flood of and i thought it might have hoped for what it does get is a new table ninety eight years after these championships began south korea making that debut south korea's qualification sees them step out of the shadow of a winter olympics where the unified north and south women's team took the spotlight their first exposure to this level of hockey has been brought about by jim pak the

first korean ever to win the stanley cup as a player it's a real special moment. because we are and it but these guys here they worked extremely hard to earn their position here in the top division and the world champions this is where the hockey people i believe come together and there's no other winner sports or anything involved or politics it's hockey and that's what we have to concentrate on which is great. international hockey can say it's in good health t.v. figures for last year's championships were reported at one point three billion three hundred thousand tickets have been sold as denmark play host for the first time. but the game might only be seen at its best when the biggest rivalry is no longer club versus country. hall reese al-jazeera heading denmark and after the diplomatic if not sporting success of korea's unified women's hockey team out the winter olympics table tennis is following suit north and south korea's female

players will combine for the semifinals of the world championships in sweden on friday the last time a unified korea team played it event was in one thousand nine hundred ninety one and about occasion on the gulf but. i gotta say sports looking at scripts alone in london. thanks andy now six critically endangered black rhinos are on their way to chad from south africa in attempt to reintroduce the animal to the country black rhinos were wiped out from chad nearly fifty years ago because of widespread poaching the relocation has taken two years of planning the runners will be released into small enclosures before they're allowed to roam freely through chad's is a cooma national park security has been stepped up at the park to guard the rhinos . etc made our intent of this news out there back in a minute with more news by philip.

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