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this is al-jazeera. this is the news hour live from london coming up. the white house goes into damage limitation mode as president trump admits he didn't know about hush money paid to a porn star but says it didn't come from his campaign fund. dryland finds itself in the middle of a power struggle between the united arab emirates and the yemeni government. powerful dust and rain storms killed almost a hundred people in northern states of india. gold companies settle south africa's biggest class action lawsuit yet with miners who contract to deadly lung diseases. in sport off let's go madrid of just north. of the europa league a semifinal loss ending also in various parts of claiming one last trophy was also

monitor. the white house is scrambling to fend off what could be one of the most damaging scandals to in golf the trump presidency donald trump has admitted that one hundred thirty thousand dollars was paid to an adult film star to stop her going public about an alleged affair the u.s. president still denies that the encounter with stormy daniels ever happened and insists the hush money was meant to keep her quiet about quote false and extortionist accusations committee reports. a shifting story for us president donald trump appearing at the white house rose garden ironically on the national day of prayer trump spoke about the importance of faith but nothing about a lie he told reporters a month ago aboard air force one you know.

stormy daniels is an adult film star who alleges she had an affair with trump a two thousand and six trump's lawyer michael cohen paid her one hundred thirty thousand dollars during the presidential election campaign to keep quiet and for the first time a member of the president's legal team rudy giuliani admitted the president knew about that payment for move through over the president repeated that could put the president in legal jeopardy because the campaign never disclosed the pavement ad it exceeds the twenty five thousand dollars legal limit for contributions that money was not campaign money sorry i'm giving you a fact now that you don't know it's not campaign money but melanie sloan a former federal prosecutor says that legal argument is flawed if they made the payment to stormy daniels with the intent that it influenced the campaign it can be an in kind contribution which also can be

a felony given the amount on thursday trump defended the move on twitter saying payments like the one to daniels are very common among celebrities and people of wealth the latest scandal follows a shakeup in donald trump's legal team two lawyers have left in the past two months just as there are more questions about another controversy whether or not trump's presidential campaign colluded with russia kimberly helped at al-jazeera at the white house. early hundred people have been killed in india after a powerful dust and rain storm hit the northern states a rock just on her pradesh storm destroyed homes disrupted electricity and uprooted trees so on your local reports 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 to progress even the

capital new delhi there were intense bursts of lightning accompanied by hail and rain the worst affected were rural areas pulling trees hit fragile 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 and we are 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. are strong 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 so need i able al-jazeera the red cross is appealing for more than four and three quarter million dollars to help victims of flooding in kenya at least one hundred people are being killed by the flooding and some two hundred thousand displaced under simmons has travelled to the worst hit area in the village of gaston in kenya's ten county. they've never had much now they've lost everything not just a home and their possessions but the life of their thirteen year old daughter taken by a vast surge of water as the river town a burst its banks some people had to swim for their lives some were stranded ruchir baba and her daughter were my thought were in a rescue boat that capsized in strong currents ruchir and one of her daughter's friends survived but the floodwaters swept away were my father along with

a baby girl whose body has not been recovered. isn't speaking her husband was on dry land watching helplessly. i was that i did that would had capsized some people. i tried to take off my shirt in getting them but i was held back some women were holding on to branches when you mean or today because a while be deceived. but carol and his family are among more than sixty four thousand people living in dire conditions like this in rivertown a county alone and there was already a cholera outbreak before the flooding most of the health facilities are now munched with water or so accessibility facility has been a big problem to this you can sense the fear here the flood levels are still rising there are reports that water has been released from the dams further upstream and

the people here want to know what they're supposed to do next that question doesn't have an immediate answer for now at least they have a safe water supply that it's from this one of only three filtration and treatment systems in the region people also want to know why they're suffering from what they believe is climate change a few months back there was a lengthy drought now what is supposed to be seasonal rains are the heaviest and most prolonging for two decades and drew simmons al-jazeera send in kenya gold mining companies in south africa have agreed a four hundred million dollars class action settlement with law firms representing fountains of miners contracted fatal lung diseases medical researchers suggest as many as one in two have contracted diseases after inhaling a kind of dust released in the mining process dr webb has more from johannesburg. a

group of lawyers representing thirty thousand gold miners who have silicosis which is a lung disease developed through breathing silica dust in gold mines those lawyers have announced an agreement with six groups of gold mining companies first to compensate the thousand clients secondly also to compensate any more cases that are found in the years ahead which estimates range through the hundred thousand three hundred thousand affected miners in south africa now many of these cases originate from during the apartheid era we've spoken to mine is just a short while ago told us that conditions then were very bad they treat the loss of gas that was little safety equipment little protection and they had no means of recourse almost no means of getting compensation sickness and also usually even complaining to the mine management result in them losing their jobs that things changed from one thousand nine hundred for south africa had a new constitution it's basically taken from then until now for the lawyers firstly

get a new precedent set in the constitutional court and secondly pursue this litigation so it's the first of its kind in south africa about four hundred million dollars to the total payout that's been agreed on so miners depending on how they were distracted be receiving payouts of maybe between ten thousand and thirty thousand dollars each also the relatives of those already died of which there are many died of silicosis weather related diseases. or the descendents will also be compensated under this agreement the next challenge is for the well those affected people to be found many of them are scattered over neighboring countries in remote rural areas under the agreement they've got twelve years to find all these people find out if they're eligible for compensation and then compensate them. angry protests have broken out on a remote but strategic yemeni island after the united arab emirates deployed military aircraft and troops there they say archipelago is

a unesco world heritage site lies in the gulf of aden and on important oil trade routes and also provides access to nearby regions yemen's prime minister made a rare visit to troops on supporters may not end on wednesday jointly after residents say the u.a.e. unloaded soldiers tanks and armored transport there in the attempt to intimidate the internationally recognized government there are reports that some yemeni troops had been expelled iraqis have been expanding their influence in southern yemen that part of the saudi led coalition fighting who see rebels sometimes referred to as the galapagos of the indian ocean so culture is home to seven hundred demick species including the unique dragons bludge tree its sixty thousand residents have lived almost completely isolated from the outside world and often themselves at the center of a power struggle between the yemeni government and the uys geopolitical ambitions

gerald fast and is a director of gulf of pheasant government relations at the middle east institute and a former u.s. ambassador to yemen it joins us live from washington d.c. thanks very much indeed for your time is it your impression that the u.a.e. might be trying to annex culture. first thank you for having me on the program. it's a it's a question that has come up. i haven't really seen much indication so far that really something that the u.a.e. . actually tried to do so what do you think explains the presence of the troops there. well it's a it's a good question of course people have often remarked on the strategic value of the coachella over the years going all the way back to the time when it was the people's democratic republic of yemen there have been speculations that that

one power or another might try actually establish a presence on the island it's possible that the amorality is are thinking something along those lines as well but but the reality is that. the nature of the island the nature of the weather pattern six months of heavy wins that really make the island almost inaccessible have made it over the years really not a practical outpost for military or any other kind of use i mean it is a you know a world heritage site to me looks from the pictures actually looks extraordinarily beautiful i'm not sure if you managed to get there while you were that he yemen but the suggestions that it could either be taken over in this way or perhaps developed for tourism who would protect it i mean if the iraqis do want to get their hands on it is anyone else going to stand up and protect it. well i would certainly

hope that that the international community would take a strong stand against anyone who wanted to use sokoto for any of these purposes the ecosystem as you mentioned is unique in the world it's friday will it can't really sustain any kind of significant presence even tourism over the years has been very controlled very minor there is no real tourist infrastructure on the island simply because trying to establish it would would create really an unsustainable situation and destroy the very specs of the island that make it so attractive and that's been in the meantime the yemenis. have civil war going on so i guess they're probably not in a position at the moment to try and defend themselves are they and tell us a little bit about the people who live there who they have allegiance to. well of

course up until the one nine hundred ninety s. a culture was part of the of south yemen the people's democratic republic of yemen and then were part of the the unity agreement in one nine hundred ninety in the in the recent years where there's been talk about the possibility of south yemen succeeding again from from the unified yemen there's also been some debate about whether or not the far eastern provinces hydra mout and i'll bother along with sokoto would be supportive of the idea of going back to the way things were before and the possibility would be that if there were any kind of secessionist movement that those three provinces would choose to

break off and try to create their own their own country as you mentioned the population on the island is is tiny the people are extremely independent there they are self sustaining but but without very much contact with the larger country carol fast i thank you very much indeed jeff your time this evening. thank you still ahead. techie's ruling party confirms richard as its candidate as four opposition parties join forces ahead of the general election is. left with nothing ranger refugees prepare for monsoon season and sport. on pouring the ice hockey world championship in denmark where and h.l. stalls are back on international ice and south korea get their debut away from the

politics of the olympics. the basque separatist group has issued a final communique saying its journey has ended and it will cease all political activity for decades it used violence to push for an independent basque state in northern spain and southwest from the baba reports from san sebastian on what it is disbanding means for those 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. he's a former at a member who spent twenty one years in prison for acts including the attempted murder of police officers of 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

a little lesson from this 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 with the group that was because. 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 etter 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 is consensus among pro independence basques and those who want to remain a semi autonomous part of spain for the idea of a referendum but consensual search is up on their right to this site how is it

possible that in the twenty five cent that it will still cannot cover a normal political discussion on the future of this country and how to push the world up to this people cannot get they say its future but recent surveys suggest that unlike in catalonia fewer than twenty percent of people in spades basque country support breaking away that's part of the issue why is the solving right now gets impaired these inmates been freed used and the people's court in this apart is that it's it's frankly it's a minority inside the nationalistic group of people right at the sympathizers still have demands of their own including the transfer of better prisoners to jails here in the basque country that's something the government 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 busk society now deemed by al-jazeera. take gas has been fired at a crowd of violent protesters on the greek island of lesbos demonstrators tried to topple a police bus during a rally against european union migration policy there among two thousand people who gathered in the main port of the island erap of prime minister alex is to press many businesses went on strike to protest against the e.u. deal with turkey that's left thousands of refugees stranded in this process. turkey's ruling party has formally nominated incumbent president richard edouard as its candidate to run in next month's election a snap election was called by a one more than a year and a half earlier than planned yes the opposition scrambling to get organized they're planning to announce a broad electrolyze to try to keep that one out of power and challenge the dominance of his ruling ak party deal would include turkey's largest secular and

nationalist opposition blocs syrian rebels have surrendered an enclave of the northern homs countryside they've been given the option of pledging their allegiance to the government or relocating to rebel held territory in northern syria so the harder reports. 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 the 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 how 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. every offensive to recapture the whole of the problems would cause tensions with turkey which deployed troops as part of an agreement with russia. high value on this agreement of thirty they know they need turkey to solve the situation in the north of the i want to fall 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 they will come with a range 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 that. beirut. was on beaks opposition leader. has died the sixty five year old former rebel leader was found dead at his home in. black i'm a lead rinaldo the rebel group which was a sixteen year war against mozambique's ruling for lima party until one thousand nine hundred two were nama then emerged as an opposition party but still retained armed fighters the un says two hundred thousand range of refugees need to be moved to safety a site current season gets underway in bangladesh many are living in flimsy shelters which are no match for the expected heavy rains floods landslides and strong winds just rapid reports from coke's as bizarre on what has become one of the world's largest refugee camps life a solemn

a cultural and her family has been precarious enough since escaping the military crackdown against the regime jamie hamill eight months ago their makeshift shelter is perched on the hilltop in the problem 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 refugees like her. because cycling season is starting that a lot. of fate of the wind sometimes it takes the top poland and there 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 refute g. so they can make their shelters stronger aid agencies are training them how to best secure what are often nothing more than top pool and corrugated iron shacks not of them. we were afraid of the wind and thunder during cyclons or 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 all 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 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 hardly vulnerable to landslides aid agencies here say around two hundred thousand people need to be moved to safer ground the british government has allocated a large area specifically to house refugees who need to be moved shelters schools

and health centers a jew 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 for a flatter ground that's what we're doing we're moving and working as fast as we can with having machines with people so that these families can live somewhere where they've got access to food public health services and they're safe and that they're comfortable and that they're not at risk from any further disasters 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 rushed to try and secure the chopper all ins that a ripped from roofs hundreds of thousands of men women and children face the greatest challenge yet since fleeing for their lives from the me and my military crackdown. strafford al jazeera could you problem with fiji camp bangladesh. still

ahead on the program as afghanistan buries ten of its journalists we look at the risks of reporting the news in the country. explain why a new plan to deal with argentina's rubbish could mean hundreds of jobs might go up in smoke. and sports champion kenyan runner as about kick problems admits he failed a diving test but says it isn't to blame. hello and welcome to international weather forecast as we look at weather conditions across europe main features the circulation of low pressure giving some really heavy showers and thunderstorms even the risk of tornadoes and waterspouts across parts of the mediterranean including corsica sound in the sardinia and through its mainland parts of italy still really well macross twenty nine in kiev in ukraine

for those western areas it's ok nothing special about eighteen or nineteen that would expect at this time of the year so we head into the start of the weekend this low pressure system is still spawning around maybe weakening a little bit so the sheraton not quite as intense elsewhere we're looking at fine weather for much of eastern europe though this frontal system may just give a little bit of rain for moscow in the form of showers but still quite warm on the other side of the mediterranean for this line of clouds across parts of egypt and through into libya car itself looking pretty woman thirty eight degrees and then as we head on into saturday the circulation of low pressure could well result in some lifted dust across libya in particular the conditions along the coast of both out cheerier and sheena's here into central parts of africa some showers for uganda through tuesday or congo and the bomb respecting time personally prevail with highs of thirty.

once pristine indonesia's river has become a toxic waste dump or textile factories that supply global fashion chains want to when you see examines the human cost of the world's most polluted river on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are. of all my friends and coworkers who are detained i am the only one who survived they were all waiting for news of the men for to come was only one word on with which they marched to saw a boy killed in his father's all i saw so much that. i have only once in my life seen men who are scared to death a bitch a civil wars darkest secret bosnia to come on al-jazeera.

from one of the top stories here on down to zero the u.s. president has changed his story about hush money paid to a porn star but claims she had an affair with him donald trump now says he knew about it but the money did not come from his campaign funds. nearly a hundred people have been killed in india after a powerful dust and rain storm hit not just on and into pradesh states. and the but actually protests on a strategic yemeni on end of so called off the united arab emirates deployed military aircraft and troops that follows the yemeni prime minister's visit to the

on and on wednesday to meet service personnel who reportedly now been expelled. the former c.e.o. of german comic a false franken has been charged over the diesel emissions scandal invent a cool one was charged in the u.s. federal cultural thursday john hendren is live for us in chicago about the background to this and what the charges have been. well venger corn is the biggest head to roll so far in this three year old scandal or the biggest had to be indicted anyway now he is one of six at the indicted in detroit by u.s. federal officials those charges are conspiring to defraud u.s. regulators and on wire fraud in order to execute that the company says or the prosecutors say that vendor corn was notified in two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and fifteen that the company had equipped

a number of cars diesel cars with devices that were designed to fool regulators so they could tell the difference between whether they were riding on a real road or whether they were riding on a so-called dynamometer in place and if they were riding on a real road they admitted up to thirty five times as many pollutants and when vinter corner was told about that prosecutors say he did nothing and continued the conspiracy so he is one of six people indicted and this is a case where the company had to really thought it had put this all behind it the company pleaded guilty in two thousand and seventeen to a felony charge of acquitting six hundred thousand vehicles and edge just in the u.s. something like eleven million worldwide the company paid four point three billion dollars in penalties and agreed to be on probation here in the u.s. for three years with a monitor in the company in order to monitor its compliance with all of these rules . now that vendor cornhill didn't buy that that makes it

a much bigger case and of course he is the highest profile official so far to be indicted and which of the potential sort of sentences in a case like this what would. be the sanctions against someone in the source in our . well we do have some examples to other officials have in fact been indicted two other german officials one of them received eighty four months in prison the other received forty months a little over three years in britain so the penalties can be quite severe there can also be financial penalties as well interestingly there are five officials who remain in germany and have eluded prosecution here they have not come to the united states there's also want to tell you and official from folks who has been indicted and is awaiting extradition these can be some very serious penalties if they are convicted of these two are just going to court of course the israelis would potentially receive some very serious penalty because he is behind us ranking

official this is reached the highest levels of the us government attorney general jeff sessions says this shows that this act this happened at the highest levels of folks wagon and he said if you can spy or to defog the united states there will be a heavy price so that suggests the u.s. government is going to go hard against martin ventricle john hendren thank you very much indeed. for your insight sector general antonio tears is calling on governments to do more to protect journalists his comments come on the world press freedom day and for the death of ten journalists in afghanistan on monday jennifer glass reports from kabul in the newsroom of one t.v. in kabul a reporter's desk is now a memorial on it the photos of cameramen now who's on the ridge abi and reporter kasi resolutely they were two of nine journalists killed in monday's bomb attack in the capital a tenth died during the attack in the east i mean he was one of the last to see his

colleagues alive yes it's the dangerous now and it's because they ended up going to sort of one of the most dangerous counter than the will the universe or working. we are a lot facing that mantra that we are facing with a huge of treats is a from law fields from tourists are going to. a truck bomb blast a few hundred meters away destroyed the one t.v. studios last year three staff members were injured the explosion that killed one hundred fifty and wounded hundreds more reporters were back live on the air within hours of the massive attack. another station came under attack in november shamshad t.v. was besieged for hours by eisel fighters but monday's attack was the most blatant direct assault on the media so far journalists rushed to the scene of the first suicide bomb explosion then a second bomber blew himself up among a crowd of reporters cameraman and photographers. being a journalist has never been easy here in addition to the bombings and attacks

journalists have been intimidated for years beaten up even murdered allegedly by powerful people unhappy with the stories written about them and more often than not the killers are never punished. and the killer of a dubai not hard guard is still at large the t.v. reporter was shot last week in the center of kandahar in southern afghanistan by saying freedom of speech in a countries like afghanistan is much important in the countries in the united states because the countries in the and the west at least there is a chicken balance between different parts of the power supply the enough ormiston there is an absolute power without any check and the media is providing that check the editors say the government isn't working with them we're doing enough to keep them safe to believe that we have discussed how to provide security to gentlest and our media partners in fact the protection of civilians is our top priority but you know that suicide interests attack are sophisticated and on some cases preventing

attacks is complicated we accept that. despite the recent bloodshed a new station radio t.v. donnish decided to go ahead with its opening this week journalists say they continue to have hope for the media in afghanistan and are proud to be broadcasting here jennifer glass al jazeera kabul. activists are warning that journalists are increasingly being targeted for the work they do and not just being caught in the crossfire war torn syria remains the most dangerous country in the world for journalists with twelve killed last year it's closely followed by mexico where at least eleven were murdered amid the ongoing drugs war in 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 show a surge in reporters behind bars in a crackdown following the failed coup in twenty six china also sends lots of journalists and bloggers to prison as it tries to keep

a tight grip on what's reported in the country. joined by robin honey who's in new york he's the executive director at the committee to protect journalists thanks very much indeed for being with us so we talked a little bit about the that issue of jen's becoming a target rather than just being caught in the crossfire quickly you do about that risk of this does seem to be a bit of impunity about that as well. what totally in today's world press freedom day as you've mentioned is the day when we celebrate the work of journalists but the afghan attack shows that journalists are deliberately targeted and even with the best equipment and the best safety training in the world is very little you can do about that this is a battle for control of information and journalists are caught in a perfect storm between violent militias and groups such as islamic state and increasingly authoritarian governments around the world that want to control the flow of news to their populations and what well i mean is there anything that can

be done to improve that situation. well you can improve the conditions for journalists to working in the field particularly in countries where they're working for news organizations that either don't have the resources or the will to give them the proper safety and protective equipment and the proper training that they can mitigate some of the risks that they run and that's something that that i think that you know responsible news organizations are already doing but the majority of journalists bring us the news around the world to freelancers and they don't have that that ability to get the training it's very expensive but beyond training the advocacy that we can do by documenting attacks and repression of journalists and using every opportunity that we have to bring this to public attention around the world and to make sure the countries that do have a process that's free and do defend press freedom assert that in their relations with countries that don't want to i mean you mention the kind of country that you

know that say that they protect press freedom but what about the tennis ball generally to discredit the media even by elected officials like president trumbull or other governments who've talked about fake news such that it actually makes the media sort of look like they're all in one lump and they all unreliable. yeah this is this is a growing problem and when it comes from someone like the president the united states it really does undermine the work of journalists and the value of the reporting that they doing by smearing them as liars and enemies of the people and accusing them of peddling fake news this is not fake news is not a problem that most journalists face because they are trying to do a decent and honest job but what we see is that other countries now have taken their lead maybe from the united states and dismissing the good investigative work of journalists as fake news in order to get

a free pass on scrutiny and being held the power this is happening in the philippines it's happened even in malaysia recently where they've passed a law and actually convicted someone for so. peddling fake news this is a worrying trend and something that we have to push back against problem honey thank you very much indeed for your time your welcome iran says it will exercise its right to respond if the u.s. withdraws from the twenty fifteen nuclear deal for mr jevons or if delivered a strong statement online just days before president trumps deadline and whether he'll pull out of the deal let me make it absolutely clear once and for all we will need to outsource our security nor will we go she ate or gone to a deal we have already implemented in good faith to put it in real estate

terms when you buy a house and move your family in or demolish it to build a skyscraper you cannot come back two years later and try to renegotiate the price the u.s. is well advised. to finally start honoring its commitments or it and only it will have to accept responsibility for the consequences of not doing so north korea's leader kim jong un has told china's foreign minister that he's committed to denuclearize ation y. neither has been on a two day visit to pyongyang during which he congratulated north korea pretty stark summit with south korea last week wang's visit comes as the north korean leader prepares to meet the u.s. president donald trump in the coming weeks trying is also holding talks with a trade delegation from the united states in beijing the discussions are being led by u.s. treasury secretary steven new can and chinese vice premier you he now try to hammer

out a deal to avoid a trade war between the world's two largest economies ahead of the meeting chinese state media said china would stand up to us bullying if necessary u.s. president donald trump tweeted this team was simply trying to negotiate a level playing field on trade argentinian capital is trying to find new ways to deal with its mounting rubbish problems six thousand tons of waste a generated every day and bridges are is and the government wants to burn the trash to turn into energy not everyone is happy the plan could impact people whose lives depend on collecting recyclable materials there is a box planes. this protesters are not happy with a government of when a site is all they are without the oppose the city's plan to change the law to allow all foodies to burn waste and turn it into energy. burning trash is

dangerous not only for human health where the plants are going to be installed but it's the worst possible way to treat waste the best way is to recycle and the government wants to change the law and replace it. but what worries many here is not just the environment but the future of thousands of open recyclers like that is how one silas who works in a copper even when a site is she's fifty six years old and makes around five hundred dollars a month i know you will like that but is that i started with this because i was too ill to work as a domestic employee so i joined this cooperate of and now i'm able to survive the government wants to get rid of us and if they burn the trash all of us will be left without a job. seeking of recyclable materials from russia became a way of making a living after the economic crisis of two thousand and one when hundreds of thousands of people lost their jobs over the years if people organize themselves into operating something that base they have not only improved their working

conditions but has also given them significant. he's known here as the boss she used to live on the streets and has been able to turn her life's work into this corporative that employs at least three hundred people. at all we don't need to be searching for recyclables on the street now the city's government gave us vehicles and we can collect from our clients and recycle as much as we can i still don't understand why the city wants to buy plants that will take away our way of making a living. plans to reduce the amount of waste this city of winter site is produces have failed over the years most landfills have run out of spain. government officials when someone else says the city needs to start looking for new options. we never said that cooperatives were in any risk the idea is to have plants that can burn trash and give energy it is used in many cities in europe and we need to

have that option but we plan to continue supporting the cooperatives in the city. waste management is a challenge for many latin american cities like when a site is open recyclers have come to play a crucial role in keeping the city clean and give jobs to those who desperately need them that's why these people are demanding more guarantees that they won't lose their jobs. sports headlines including. ping pong diplomacy to bring about. it in london inside the world knowledge of the victorian. restoration project it's home to some of the world's rarest. me a. business updates.

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and. reopened in london after a five year restoration. temperate house is home to fifteen hundred species of plants and is used by scientists from around the world reports. an architectural wonder and heaven for horticulturalists kew gardens a vast victorian greenhouse is open again to the public it's taken five years of restoration moving in ten thousand plants from the world's temperate climates where it's not too hot and not too cold this is the largest victorian glass house in the world is maybe two hundred metres long it actually consists of five separate

buildings each grade one listed it's this is unesco world heritage site and it's open to the public every day of the year as well so dismantling this building restoring it taking all the plants out returning them it has been a hugely complex project inside a plant that can feed the world like the end set a staple crop that ethiopia a cousin of the banana plant which kew scientists hope could be used throughout africa there are plants that supply medicine and plants that a purely beautiful thing all these plans on the one we've picked pretty positive picture of global biodiversity that in the wild fish of the species are at risk of extinction the foundation of life the farming logging development and climate change a putting them at risk. this species a part of q gardens living collection used by scientists in charge of them is scott taylor we grow plants that are of really high scientific value notably conservation q. is a conservation organization we've got about two hundred fifty species growing in here of fifteen hundred there have got conservation ratings from vulnerable to

extinct in the wild five species here extinct in the wild which means you don't find them anywhere else in nature one of those now extinct species is the n.f.l. are toast which survives is the time when dinosaurs rode a favorite here with botanists specimen here has actually been a new engine twenty years which is spectacular and the story behind this is quite unique. are psychotic time is an offset of the original specimen found in the only male specimen found in the wild these plants are part of our everyday life the food we eat to the clothes we wear the materials we use the medicines we take too often we take them for granted charlie al-jazeera london. has two decade long career as our store manager at let's go madrid have knocked his team out of the europa league a goal from diego costa gave athletico

a one nil win on the night in madrid and a two one aggregate victory in the semifinal for the outgoing vanga it had been his last chance to win a trophy with. athletico will play french side more say in the final one extra time goal from rolando deciding this encounter. with the sole spur that after the austrians that want to know in normal time to level the time i must say will be on home soil for the final is to be played in leon on may the sixteenth 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 utah's star line donovan mitchell in fine form he. with seventeen points and eleven assists in he reminded everyone how he won michigan all-star slam dunk contest the jazz winning it one sixteen to one of whites to level the series one one. just being poor as he goes day over control was of the biggest thing you know understand how they're

going to guard me in no one when you've got a big role and this is no big new right place to kind of try to predict the devens going to know. those to come to you know who's. in laos dunks free throws a little bit everything we fall back on. you know i mean get him a lot of credit a deal would a supposed to do you mean to get a win kenya's champion fifteen hundred meter runner absolute care proffers confirmed he did test positive for doping but claims he's the victim of extortion the failed test relates to a urine sample that the olympic and three time world champion gave at his house in kenya last november the twenty eight year old claims dog in offices demanded money from him and may have tampered with his sample more than fifty kenyans have failed both contests in the past six years while in a statement this i have remained faithful to my seat open convictions and i will be

the last person to commit such an atrocious and sports like thing i pray to be given the benefits of the downs even as i'm cast into this lonely isolation i mean since i did not start up. new australian cricket coach justin langer says he's aiming to transform the image of the national team before mopping batsman is taking over the job in the aftermath of the recent ball tampering scandal. well i think one of the things that's really important is that we are 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 semifinals despite losing the opener the lightning now lead the series two one on dry pilot school twice in this fall one way. now despite this ongoing playoffs the ice hockey world championships are about to begin in denmark some

n.h.l. players are involved after their absence at the recent lympics is the tournament attempts to position itself as the number one global showcase for the sport pool race reports. 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 cave one of those bringing quality that was lacking in p.r. china yeah i mean i think. it's 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 or they want to take advantage of this chance and play in the world championships now canada such

a big rival for us. it's a pretty easy game to get up for. taking the sports a new fans means that the quiet city of handing 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 so the international i saw the federation hasn't quite had the flood of and tell stars it might have hoped for what it does get is a new tape ninety eight years after these championships began south korea making their 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 there's no other winter 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 a club the country. full release al-jazeera heading denmark. and after the diplomatic if not sporting success of korea's unified women's hockey team at the winter olympics table tennis is now following suit north and south korea's female players will combine for the semifinals of the world championships in sweden on friday the joint team won gold when i last played in one nine hundred ninety one ok

let's get back to lauren 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 wide scale poaching the relocation has taken two years of planning runners will be released into small enclosures before they're allowed to roam freely through chad's a cooma national park security has been stepped up at the park to guard them. that's it for me first news hour i'm back with more news in a minute. rewind

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it was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distant shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp. that the government raised our hopes and then abandoned. politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government failed.