well we'll see what it. looks up to that. donald trump breathed new life into the idea of a june summit with north korea just a day after canceling it. and i'm nic this is al jazeera live from london also coming up disgraced film producer harvey weinstein leaves a new york police station in handcuffs he's charged with great sexual assault. the netherlands and australia call on russia to be held legally accountable to shooting down a malaysian airlines flight have ukraine and they want compensation. and that's a referendum that's triggered fierce debate now it's time for ireland to decide

whether to overturn one of the strictest bans on abortion in europe. so donald trump has died of the possibility of a summit with north korea going ahead a day off that he sent a letter to pyongyang canceling it the u.s. president's decision to cancel the meeting was met with dismay in seoul whose president has any just being at the white house trying to salvage the miti well now trump says the summit could be back on even on june twelfth as planned. they can see what happens we're talking to them now. there was a very nice statement that put out now we'll see what happens it could even be that while we're talking to them now they very much want to do it we'd like to do it we're going to see what happens well for now it still is like the summit is off in south korea's president described chum's consolation as shocking and regrettable when j. and played

a significant role in bringing washington and pyongyang closer together bride has the reaction from seoul. an intended gesture of peace in a process that may be going nowhere. the demolition of tunnels at north korea's underground nuclear testing site. it was meant to be a further step on the path to a historic summit but by the time these pictures were reaching the outside world it was already reeling from the shock of the summits cancellation. from north korea's foreign ministry a measured response calling the decision not consistent with the desire of humankind for peace and stability adding that north korea remained willing to sit down with the u.s. side to solve problems at any time from south korea disappointment verging on the will demand. ask for vice foreign minister kim statement we see no change of

a sincere will by the relevant countries when it comes to resolving the current situation through dialogue the government will continue our diplomatic efforts to further extend this momentum for the talks as part of that effort south korea's foreign minister spoke with her u.s. counterpart mike pompei or by phone she emphasized the need to build on the goodwill of the landmark into korean summit at panmunjom in april fearing months of painstaking diplomacy could now be wasted. south korean president meeting with north korean leader kim jong un had laid the groundwork for the summit well i think jane is entitled to feel fairly indignant about this whole business because he has been a leader in working with kim jong un to develop an understanding and a way forward. in place of improving ties could there be

a return to the hard line dictated by the u.s. and demanded of its east asian allies. in order for north korea to change their policies it is necessary for japan and the u.s. and south korea to apply pressure including the united nations sanctions. with the united states' call to stand firm against north korea south korea in hopes of mediating a historic breakthrough may now be as shattered as the tunnels of. robert bright al-jazeera soul. when i speak to a white house correspondent kimberly how could who's standing by washington d.c. for us and can be so all in all back and forth who knows what's going on but it seems that the lines of communication are open. there's definitely a sense that there is a reengagement of discussions perhaps there will be a summit the president even still throwing out the day nic of june the twelfth but i can tell you the white house press briefing background call it guess you will you

would refer to it that happened late thursday evening the white house official telling reporters look it can't happen on the twelfth now there's a lot that needs to happen going back and forth and it would be virtually impossible to try and have a series of discussions taking place in the form of a summit on the twelfth so in terms of the president's optimism the his own white house staff saying the twelfth seems unlikely but they also scored underscored another point and that is that all of this the the media they believe has really become fixated on a date and a meeting but what the white house is trying to say is that in fact the goal here is denuclearize ation so whatever it takes to get to that end state is what they are fixated on right now so perhaps as many people said donald trump may because of his lack of political expertise was a bit naive in how these things work quickly accepting the invitation without even

consulting staff for this summit in the first place now it may have some time to dial back working for a mentally too to set this up in a more traditional fashion so that the conversation if and when it does take place can be productive and i guess any kind of daunting budget just plays into democrats . certainly because you know we are approaching an election in november for very pivotal congressional elections that could tip the balance of power in the u.s. congress so any sort of opportunity to seize for the democratic opponents of the president to attack the president because he was getting a lot of credit even from some of his biggest critics for actually getting to a place that other administrations up to this point had not been able to get to certainly when you're looking for votes that's not helpful if you're a democratic candidate i think it's important to remember in all of this though that what the u.s. congress has been unified on is what happens in the interim and that's this we

repeat it so much this maximum pressure campaign essentially what that means is that for now despite some of the sort of warmer tones that we're hearing between north korea and the united states in terms of optimism to move forward the sanctions the very tough financial sanctions that the u.s. congress passed in the summer of two thousand and seventeen those remain in place those continue to isolate north korea and they have not been lifted so well we have the sort of over drop air or background if you will of the pleasantries the reality is still somewhat harsh or it can be thanks very much can we hope that there in washington d.c. . police have charged the hollywood producer harvey weinstein with the rape and other sex crimes against two women the disgraced film boss hunted himself in earlier on

friday more than one hundred women have accused him of sexual misconduct including rape one scene has denied all allegations of known consensual sex the speakership returns your correspondents following the story from washington to chip tell us what happens next. well his next court appearance will be july the thirtieth i think what's interesting is the grand jury investigation continues as you mentioned these charges relate to allegations made by two women we know that at least four women have testified or will be testifying to the grand jury and that prosecutors are encouraging other women to come forward so there is the traumas that actually more charges will be filed in the coming weeks before his his next appearance and i'll be getting a sense of his likely defense line of defense it seems from what harvey weinstein's lawyer was saying outside the courthouse we're going down the usual route which is to try and destroy the credibility of those making

accusations against an alleged rapist that the that the suggestion seems to be from brafman that bad behavior he said is necessarily criminal behavior but weinstein didn't invent the hollywood costing count so that would suggest the argument will be these women knew what they were doing they were trying to further their career by having consensual sex with harvey weinstein the benjamin brafman also sort of other interesting thing he said he talked about the difficulty perhaps of getting a fair jury because of the movements the movement being the me to movement that has been inspired around the world by the allegations against the weinstein which is fighting against powerful men abusing abusing women but the suggestion i guess from the lawyer that is that his argument going to be that there is this sort of lynch mob mentality now that makes it very difficult to get a fair trial the weinstein because of his position will be will be unfairly targeted perhaps she had thanks very much for the shepherd chance reporting. now

the russian president has dismissed accusations that russia was behind the shooting donovan malaysian airlines flight four years ago on friday australia and the netherlands announced they were holding moscow legally responsible for the donning of the plane it follows a report by an international team which from the russian army's fifty third anti aircraft were great had provided the missile system used to shoot down the jet or challenge reports now from st petersburg. and the netherlands responded to information presented by the joint investigation teams j.i.t. on thursday with swift state level action the team said that russia's army moved to tell a missile system into eastern ukraine as war zone in the summer of two thousand and fourteen whilst it was allegedly used to shoot down the malaysian airlines passenger plane flying from amsterdam to kuala lumpur all two hundred ninety eight people on board died many of them were australian and dutch astray and the

netherlands have now informed the russian federation that we hold it responsible under international law or its role in the bringing down of m.h. seventeen astray and the netherlands have requested russia to enter into negotiations to open up a dialogue about its conduct and to seek reparations. the dutch government says this is a complex legal process a possible next step is to present the case to an international court but russia has spent four years presenting counter narratives and that pattern continues it's more than likely that the boot belonged to the ukrainian armed forces so the russian defense ministry russia does not know to what extent it may trust the results of this work the kremlin said of the investigation team's findings this is a case of unfounded accusations aimed at discrediting our country that's the

response from the foreign ministry belling katz an open source investigation team has been looking into flight m h seventeen for years and many of their findings have been subsequently backed up by the j.i.t. in the dutch city of the hague on friday belling cat identified a russian military intelligence officer ivana cough as a key suspect the second russian military figure they've implicated in the incidents this person is was the highest military ranking officer at the time in the so-called lugansk people's republic he represented the military intelligence of russia at the time and he was in direct command and control of the mercenary slash volunteer operations of military units and militants in eastern ukraine in the lookout scare and is that of eastern ukraine so we believe we were there to fight somebody who was who was very high in the chain of command and who

ultimately if. his link is to the actual downing of a made seventeen is displayed unproven for the by the joint persecution team will be one of the critical suspects but none of the mounting international accusations are likely to shift russia's position much in the near future of the country's political culture sees contrition or acknowledgment of guilt as a sign of weakness and blood he may putin has too much invested in his global strongman image to back down now really talons al-jazeera simply does work. but more news still ahead including three look at how europe's new data privacy laws could affect even the smallest entities like volunteer run sports clubs we're back in a moment. we

have some very nasty weather making its way to central areas of china at the moment they central parts could see some very heavy rain flooding conditions and flash floods a possibility all the way over toward shanghai south of that heat is generated by a little bit of cloud of some showers down towards the gulf of tonkin into high land and that wet weather becoming a little more expansive as we go on through sunday hong kong staying dry for a good part of the day but wetter weather southwesterly push on the winds that will eventually pushing towards hong kong by this stage as well plenty of showers to across a good part of china joining up with the heavy showers we have across southern parts of the burping goal now frank has of course suffered some very very nasty flooding severe storms continue to rumble away here lots of cloud stretched right across southern parts of india for tom into carol and the shot was there set to continue with the showers to to the far north of bangladesh towards nepal the far

northeast of india but the heat really does remain the story. we of course a good part of in the air we're now getting well up into the forty's you can see for central and northern parts of the country showers continue further south stake a look in pakistan the heat continues here karate with a top temperature of thirty six degrees. north into existence by a slave rebellion. yet rife with slavery. for fans of the two thousand and ten quake forced into domestic were. deprived of an education and dropped off a child to. child slaves have slavery a twenty first century easily. at this time on al-jazeera.

and again a reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera and u.s. president donald trump says it is possible that a plan summit with north korea could still go ahead despite canceling the june the twelfth meeting on thursday citing anger and hostility from pyongyang. new york police have charged hollywood producer harvey weinstein with rape and other sex crimes against you women on scene has denied all allegations of known consensual sex. australia in the netherlands say they're holding russia legally responsible for its role in shooting down malaysian airlines flight m h seventeen over in eastern ukraine four years ago. now the european union has introduced sweeping

new legislation to protect the privacy of its citizens known as g.d.p. general data protection regulation it requires organizations and companies to protect the personal data of all e.u. residents or face punitive fines many companies say they're not ready for the new rules for smaller organizations the change is proving problematic as paul brennan reports now from berlin. european data holders have had two years to work out a game plan for g.d.p. but the protection law intended to create a level playing field for data use has hit smaller groups hard. this youth football club in berlin uses membership data to circulate newsletters and fixture lists the staff are all volunteers g.d.p. are is a major headache we have a home page and actually i love having photos of every team on the on the home page but you know we're not sure if we can do it you're not going to be ready by friday i am not completely. it's awful. for europe's

tech companies g.d.p. are is an incentive to innovate his nibs. cappuccino at this trade expo in paris there are voice activated devices the don't actually share any data at all the consumers will get to choose right and they'll know better so they'll choose for equal features they'll choose the one the protect the privacy rights get it wrong though and a twenty four million dollar fine is a genuine worry it is it is and it's particularly worrying because you cannot be sure that you have implemented the rules the right way at the moment the recent deluge of g.d.p. our emails shows the ongoing uncertainty some ask customers to explicitly opt in others put the onus on the customer to opt out and others simply mention updated previously settings. the facebook bridge and it's a scandal may seem

a world away from the g.d.p. or compliance requirements of a small sports club such as this but the fact is that even seemingly innocuous data when put together really starts to matter lobby groups and campaign it's broadly welcomed g.d.p. are as a reset button a wake up call they say for e.u. citizens to engage with some fundamental questions do i really want to continue giving this company my data and when need to do that is that it isn't necessary for much for me and to make a conscious attempt or a conscious decision what data they share a recent survey of german companies revealed that just twenty five percent of them expected to be able to meet the g.d.p. our deadline e.u. data regulators are expected to be sympathetic for now but after extra time comes penalties paul brennan al-jazeera berlin voting is underway in islands on whether

to relax some of the strictures abortion laws in europe the referendum on whether voters want to repeal an article in the constitution known as the amendment of the law gives unborn fetuses the same rights to life as the mother effectively banning them from terminating a pregnancy well current irish legislation only allows abortions when the woman's life is at risk otherwise they could be jailed for up to fourteen years and if voters choose to repeal the amendments the irish government has vowed to introduce legislation allowing abortion within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy and the island has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in europe and the much by poland which allows terminations in some cases where it is completely banned. so it's joined. in the irish couple of dublin and neva this is a huge point of debate in ireland isn't it. it is indeed is one of the most contentious and one of the most divisive questions ever really asked of the irish

people in modern times inish pitched family members against each other we've seen divide geographically between east and west between the elderly and the young between different strata of society why is it so contentious well because both sides of the divide both the yes and the no camps believe that they have the moral upper hand they believe that they are championing human rights if you're on the no side of things the belief is that you're supporting the rights of the on board child whereas the yes can't believe that they're supporting the rights of women to be able to choose whether or not to terminate a pregnancy under a whole range of different challenging circumstances here's how voting panned out over the course of the day. i wish people have been given an important choice in a highly contentious referendum ahead of the vote come painters from both sides of

the argument took the debate to the people islands voting on whether to repeal the eighth amendment of the country's constitution that all but biomes abortion the law says that the life of a mother and of born fetus are equal abortions only allowed if there is a serious risk to the mother's life not in cases of rape incest or serious up of. those that break the law thinks about fourteen year prison sentence. is a doctor she's voting yes to repeal the eighth amendment she was pregnant with her third child when things started to go wrong we discovered that our baby had a condition called. him at the top half of his head had never formed so there was nothing about his brain. that. would have to carry the child to full term possibly another twenty weeks she travelled to liverpool in the u.k. for the portion just being alone in

a foreign country when you're dealing with us and then. giving birth and then. having to board a plane to come home. and then a couple of weeks later. the ring on my door about it's the courier and he has the ashes of my baby. this is how the no campaign to getting their message across they believe that if the law changes it will be the moment that. conservatives against those that want. change many a voting no for religious reasons the catholic church dominated irish society is strongly opposed to abortion. of conception until natural death catholics believe that human life is sacred and therefore more of a of protection when it comes to the issue off the born we believe that worthy of special protection in law but increasingly even people with religious beliefs are

choosing a different path helped by political leaders like the country's prime minister who fax a change of the law. the government's proposed allowing unlimited access to abortions during the first twelve weeks of pregnancy subject to medical advice if the referendum is passed for many in this debate that's a step too far both sides say they're seeking a compassionate. to a difficult question. well there was a situation at the start of voting the voting is like it to continue now for many more hours it ends at ten o'clock local time twenty one hundred g.m.t. the full results though will not be known until saturday afternoon they count starts on saturday morning but whoever wins i use the where when in inverted commas whoever gets it comes out on top and they say augment will have an impact on that legislation here in ireland for many many more years to come our navy thanks very much indeed that's a picture in dublin the reporting israel supremes court has rejected

a challenge by human rights groups to prevent soldiers from firing on protesters in gaza palestinians have gathered along the gaza israeli border again on friday to protest against the israeli blockade but this time soldiers fired tear gas in response let's enough but it smithies on the on the border therefore as to tell us more about what's happening what the reaction has been. well i was being quiet all day here nic actually very quiet it's friday on it's joining ramadan a people of fasting but it's all in the last hour or so bus loads of people came up to the border from boston by the various groups here in gaza hamas islamic jihad and other groups and several thousand of the really went down to the border there just disappearing in the last sort of twenty minutes or so because we're very close to sunset in the breaking of the fast so they've gone away for the if mail but it was part of

a tactic that we've been led to believe was what the protest organizers were going to deploy which is effectively trying keep the israeli military on its toes and never let them keep their guard down effectively the israeli military just behind me of course on the other side of the fans there in israel and so what they did was they turned out they turn of they stood there and there have been people injured by live fire not just from this site but are at least twenty people injured by live fire on by tear gas at all the sites up and down. today but most of those really in the last sort of hour or so when these quick flash protest appeared and then everybody disick disappeared again but as i say a tactic that we were told in the week a deliberate tactic to they were going to try and make sure that the israeli military were on its toes yes the protests were not going to be as big as they were a couple of weeks ago people were not going to try and breach the fence and they haven't tried to breach the fence as far as we know today but they have been up

there and they have been making their presence felt in the israelis were firing tear gas a bit earlier on as well to disperse people and that's what's now happening or better leave it there for the moment thanks very much minutes with reporting there from the ugandan israeli border. police in canada are searching for two men in connection with the blast at an indian restaurant west of toronto fifteen people were injured in the blast two suspects with their faces covered went into the restaurant late on thursday night drop the explosive device ran out three people were seriously injured another twelve people suffered minor burns police say the attack does not appear to be a hate crime or terrorism related indonesia is introducing tough new anti-terrorism laws parliament approved the changes on friday following a series of suicide bomb attacks earlier this month that killed more than twenty people in the city of serbia two families linked to isolate carried out the attacks new laws give more power to the police and to the military scott who has more now

from jakarta. sweeping changes to indonesia's anti-terrorism laws passed here in parliament on friday no this came after a late night negotiations through late thursday evening focused primarily on the definition of terrorism there the government and parliamentarians had a different view of what should be defined as terrorists and terrorism that was the gap was bridged and they were able to take this legislation to the floor here in parliament on friday now the new laws really focus on a few things one primarily is the prevention of terror attacks that's where previous laws were a bit weak here in this country that focuses on people who are associated who have pledged allegiance who have been trained by terrorist organizations they can now be charged before an actual event has taken place a terrorist attack has been taken place but also even if they're plotting it they're able to now the government here in the legal system is able to bring people in and charge them for that so that's focused on prevention no one thing also this bill these new laws say is that the military will have a role when it comes to preventing terror attacks but the government has said to

calm concerns over the military being very involved in almost all operations of terrorism the government saying only when it's big enough that they need the assistance of the military now the details of just how big that involvement will be will come in the next year where the president has to put official declaration exactly how the military will be involved that's to come but right now finally after two years before this bill fine was passed it was passed on friday here in the parliament truck drivers in brazil could be on a collision course with the military after the union insisted it will continue with the blockades despite president michelle tema authorizing the army to step in to clear the highways major routes across the country are still blocked on the fifth day of the dispute with truckers angry at a steep hike in these all prices which builds biggest cities poland has declared a state of emergency the nation's entire car industry has shut down and there are a major food and fuel shortages. the world's oldest the peson launches of

late by volume is coming under threat by invasive alkie late by collin eastern russia holds one fifth of all the world's fresh water so on to say al gore that we'd have coated parts of the lake bottom so extensively that endemic plant and animal species have disappeared. ok let's have a mind of the top stories here and al-jazeera and donald trump says it is possible that a planned summit with north korea could still go ahead on thursday trump canceled the june the twelfth meeting in singapore with kim jong un citing anger and hostility from the north the state department said pyongyang had failed to reply to u.s. requests to help plan the summit john young responded by saying it remains willing to sit down to talk to was old nuclear issue and trump now says that the door is still open. we're going to see what happens we're talking to them now. there was

a very nice statement that put out let's see what happens. now we'll see what happens but it would be that while we're talking to them now they very much want to do what we'd like to do we're going to see what happens disgrace hollywood film producer harvey weinstein has appeared in court in new york on sexual abuse charges the sixty six year old handed him self into police on friday he faces rape criminal sex act and abuse charges stemming from encounters with two women his lawyer says he will plead not guilty a number of hollywood stones came forward with accusations against weinstein last year sparking the me too movement which encourages women to speak up about abuse. australia and the netherlands are holding russia legally responsible for its role in the downing of the malaysian airlines flight m h seventeen over ukraine in two thousand and fourteen on thursday international investigators said the missile used to shoot down came from

a russian military unit all two hundred ninety eight people on board died russia has consistently denied involvement well and is holding a referendum on whether to relax some of the strictest abortion laws in europe voters are being asked if they want to repeal a law that effectively bans women from terminating their pregnancy the government says it would then introduce laws allowing abortion in some cases results are expected on saturday israel's supremes court has rejected a challenge by human rights groups to prevent soldiers from firing on protesters in gaza palestinians gathered along the gaza israel border again on friday to protest against the israeli blockade those are the headlines this hour slavery a twenty first evil coming right up.

for three hundred years the most powerful nations on earth group which are on strong gold the profits of the slave trade over twelve million men women and children will also be transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south america today slavery is illegal in every country on the planets but the truth is slavery did not die in the nineteenth century it is a life it is thriving and it is bigger than ever.