the truth is that i would that's what this job. could even be well we're talking says that now they very much want to do it we'd like to do it we're going to see what happens donald trump says his highly anticipated summit with north korea could be back on a day after calling it off. and obama's and this is all just in a live from doha also coming up exit polls suggest ireland has voted two to one in favor of relaxing the country's strict abortion laws. hollywood movie mogul harvey weinstein is charged with rape and sexual assault. on mon braces for a severe cycle in which could be the country's borst on record.

u.s. president donald trump has suggested his high stakes summit with north korea's leader could be back on a day off to he called it off the top welcome to conciliatory statement from north korea which said it remained open to talks white house correspondent kimberly hawkins reports as he delivered the commencement address at the u.s. naval academy president trump did not directly mention his canceled summit with north korea's leader but said the u.s. is prepared for whatever happens now the best way to prevent war. is to be fully prepared for war earlier while speaking to reporters outside the white house trump expressed optimism about meeting with kim jong un even suggesting the june twelfth summit he cancelled a date earlier could be back on so we'll see what happens

a good it would 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 white house officials say given the lack of preparation the prospect of a june twelfth summit is almost impossible they say their goal now is making sure if and when a meeting does occur that it's productive still on friday trying tweeted he believes his political opponents are attempting to thwart his efforts writing democrats are so obviously rooting against us in our negotiations with north korea indeed with us elections now months away that could shift control of congress from republicans to democrats the president's opponents are calling his efforts to negotiate with the north korean leader amateurish noting that the art of diplomacy is often much more difficult than the art of the deal on thursday the top democrat in the house of representatives chided trump over his canceled summit with kim jong un and he got this letter from the president saying ok never mind he must be having

a giggle fit right there now and north korea despite domestic criticisms the white house says trump's focus on diplomacy and the goal of north korea's denuclearize ation he continues to coordinate with his secretary of state mike pump aoe and is consulting with his national security advisor john bolton a man many blame for ultimately the railing the june summit kimberly halkett al jazeera washington. exit polls suggest ireland has backed by a majority of two to one to change the country's restrictive abortion laws well official results are not expected until. saturday afternoon the irish times newspapers poll predicted an overwhelming victory for the yes campaign with sixty eight percent the referendum asked whether an article in the constitution known as the eighth amendment should be repealed if the change is approved the irish government will move to introduce legislation allowing abortion within the first

twelve weeks of pregnancy i don't believe we have to right to kill a baby into womb and i would call a baby into will or does may not call a baby into will but i will write honestly i don't know what be the outcome if they know a lot of people same as my age they would still vote no because they just feel that it's not right to make an abortion but in my opinion everybody has to have a choice made barker has the latest from a historic day of voting in the irish capital dublin. an early exit poll by the irish times repeated by other news agencies including reuters puts the results as follows sixty eight percent in favor of repealing the eighth amendment of the irish constitution thirty two percent in favor of keeping it in place the early exit polls seem to indicate a landslide win for the yes vote in some areas turnout was as high as sixty percent

certain points during the day was much higher than in other previous votes including the last general election and including the last major referendum on same sex marriage back in two thousand and fifteen what we're seeing here appears to be a nation at a crossroads a nation that is prepared to embrace change a nation that is reevaluated women's rights and is prepared also to bring in changes to bring ireland more into line with the rest of the european union the official count begins at nine o'clock in the morning local time on saturday the official results will be given out later on saturday afternoon but it does look as if the yes campaign will be the side that will influence politics and irish society going forward for many many more years to come. avi weinstein his first appearance in court has been welcomed by several of the woman who have accused him of sexual

misconduct the hollywood movie mogul has been charged with the rape and sexual abuse of two women in a development being held as a line log for the me to movement why scenes career imploded last year following allegations by more than one hundred women by to call him reports from washington d.c. . feared no more harvey weinstein a once powerful producer will be prosecuted for rape and other sex offenses in iraq and that we're working hard to my. friend here we were hoping that he would call yes they handcuffed the police made no attempt to shield him from the aggressive press dozens of women went public with similar stories on weinstein coercing them for sex targeting those who refused paying to have former spies harassed the ones who complained his alleged serial depravity hidden by the powerful spawned the me too movement which his lawyer seemed to mock outside of

court the charges will not be believed by twelve people assuming we get twelve fair people who are not consumed by the movement that seems to have overtaken this case his lawyer says he will attack the credibility of his accusers there could be a lot of them prosecutors say there could be many more charges in the days to come weinstein stayed silent but still sent a message bringing to court a book about a once discredited hollywood director whose work is still acclaimed what happens in this new york courtroom will help determine if history will remember weinstein as a producer or a predator whose crimes created a new feminist movement that sent the message to the world me too but time's up political hain al-jazeera washington. the u.s. house of representatives has approved a measure requiring the pentagon to investigate whether american troops tortured detainees in yemen hundreds of men have reportedly gone missing in the south of the

country after they were allegedly picked up or joining a search for al qaeda fighters american officials say that u.s. forces have been involved in interrogations of detainees in yemen but they deny any participation in or knowledge of human rights abuses rob reynolds has more from washington d.c. . the associated press news agency was the first to uncover the existence of a network of secret prisons in yemen run by the united arab emirates in a report published last year the eight hundred secret prisons reportedly have as many as two thousand prisoners and those prisoners have been subjected to a variety of brutal tortures including electric shocks beatings burning and sexual abuse those findings were largely confirmed by a special panel of experts appointed by the u.n. now this legislation passed by the house is part of a much larger defense department budget bill it would have to go to the senate to

be then sent on to president trump for his signature to become law the senate just recently voted to approve gina haskell as director of the cia ms haskell was allegedly involved in activities including torture at u.s. black site prisons in earlier years. according to u.s. law it is illegal for u.s. personnel to be involved in torture however those protections are much less stringent when it comes to surrogates or u.s. allies actually carrying out brutal acts the u.s. has been supporting the u. the u.a.e. and saudi arabia in their battle against who the rebels in yemen for about the past three years. spanish prime minister mariano rajoy has refused to step down or

call a snap election despite a no confidence motion filed by the opposition comes after the madrid court finds a hollies ruling people's party for profiting from an illegal kickbacks for contract scheme twenty nine people have been sentenced over the scandal including a former party treasurer but rai says he's committed to remaining in power until the end of his time in twenty twenty. but this motion goes against the very much needed stability in spain as debility that has been safeguarded with the reason approval of the state budget has no confidence vote damages the economic recovery it is bad for spain for the spanish people it reduces uncertainty and goes against the interest of all citizens still ahead and al jazeera we explain what was different about this friday's protests by palestinians along the gaza israel border plus it's a prescription for disaster u.s. police discover i'm massive hole of an illegal drug being blamed for an overdose

epidemic. from long flowing on in winds to an enchanting desert breeze. we're seeing some rather nasty weather into central parts of china recently. and of cloud has been producing some terrific downpours and this is the same around that he says side of the country then you can see roads flooded whether stays in the forecast over the next few days shanghai all the way over towards the southwestern corner sinking further south was saturday and sunday even hong kong joining there was some of that wet weather was to go on into the stay just warmer in the temperatures get up to around thirty four degrees celsius warmer. the usual course southeast asia some big and foundry downpours always a possibility of around the philippines into malloy. even northern parts of

indonesia still looking rather disturbed from time to time say some very heavy rain recently into the western side of thailand sassed day and sunday looks similar more big downpours joining up with the heavy showers that we have in place across southern parts of the by a single big line of showers rolling in here more flooding concerns for sri lanka that means more flooding concerns too into the fosse out all in the more heavy showers coming through want to see showers that into nepal northern parts of bangladesh the northeast of india but for much of india us all about the hate along with pakistan with highs around forty degrees. the weather sponsored by cattle and nice. an international committee vote on. a land this partition. many have no say in the matter. the colonial power washes its hands of palestine. and what happens in one nine hundred forty eight are events that are still shaping the present. seventy years on al-jazeera towns the

history of what palestinian school the catastrophe al nakba. you're watching al-jazeera the reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump has suggested his high stakes summit with north korea's leader to be back on a day after he called it off some while come to statement from north korea which said it remained open to talks exit polls suggest ireland has voted by a two to one margin in a referendum to ease restrictive abortion laws the polls predict a victory for the yes campaign with sixty eight percent in favor of repealing the

eighth amendment official results are not expected until saturday afternoon. former hollywood producer harvey weinstein's been charged by us police with the rape and sexual abuse of two women who turned himself in earlier on friday but his lawyer says he will plead not guilty weinstein's career imploded last year following allegations by more than one hundred women. israel's supreme 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 but this time soldiers fired tear gas in response one hundred thirteen palestinians have been killed by israeli forces since protests began and the end of march when it's with has more. it's been a pretty quiet friday one of the quietest fridays in gaza have been for weeks and then within just the space of an hour really hundreds and hundreds of people were bussed in here bussed in by hamas by islamic jihad another political groups in gaza

and bussed in to protest again at the border now we know that we've been told that one of the tactics following. recent protests has been slightly different the tactic has been not to go right up to the little try and breach it but to still protesters still trying to keep the israeli forces on their toes that's the tactic we've been told they're trying to deploy here the protest organizers and that certainly seems was what has happened here because really it was there was nobody here about an hour ago and then they all came they protested there's been tear gas and there have been a number of people injured by live fire on by tear gas that the israelis have been throwing over at least twenty people injured and they've been taken away to hospital for treatment but this as i say seems to be this new approach keeping the israeli military on its toes it was quiet all day and then suddenly this quick

sharp shock of a large protest group arriving seemingly out of thin air president vladimir putin has dismissed accusations russia was behind the shooting down of a malaysian airlines flight over ukraine four years ago with the loss of two hundred ninety eight lives astraea and the netherlands say they hold moscow legally responsible that's a. after international investigators concluded the missile system used in the attack was provided by a russian army brigade rory challenge reports from st petersburg. australia and the netherlands responded to information presented by the joint investigation team j.i.t. on thursday with swift state level action the team said that russia's army moved to tell our 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 its role in the bringing down of 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 at this in petersburg international economic forum the mayor putin was asked if russia held any culpability are you saying this was not a russian missile. this was not

a russian army miss and you're going to. go of course not and he questions the impartiality of the joint investigation team of them. there are several versions including the one suggesting it was a ukrainian army missile or a plane and so on i repeat that there is nothing which would make us trust the final conclusions that will not be without full involvement in the investigation 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 seconds 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 military units and militants in eastern ukraine in the lookout scare and is that of eastern ukraine so we believe we have identified somebody who was who was very high in the chain of command and who ultimately if. is link is to the actual downing of seventeen is displayed unproven for the by the joint destitution 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 the country's political culture sees contrition or acknowledgement of guilt as a sign of weakness and bloody may putin has too much invested in his global strongman image to back down now really talons al-jazeera simply does bug the

government in brazil in the truck drivers union have reached an agreement to suspend a strike that's power lies large parts of the country but not all drivers are respecting the new deal reports the strike began last monday with truck driving few years calling for lower fuel prices brazil is heavily reliant on its cargo being transported by road and after striking drivers erected roadblocks the country was very soon suffering fuel and food shortages especially in the major cities yesterday us forces feared that ice i called the federal security forces to clear the roads and i'm asking the governors to do the same we will not allow people to go without basic products he will not allow consumers to go without products we will not allow hospitals to go without supplies she saved lives. long lines formed outside gas stations where some kinds of fuel ran out while supermarkets reported

shortages especially of perishable goods production at many auto factories was carolina just over one million tons of grain could not be shipped out of the ports public transport services were cut in some cities and. this is worrying everyone there's no fruit or vegetables at the markets and there's almost nothing it's an absolute shame the markets don't have anything after a full day of negotiations the government to most of the unions reached agreements to suspend the strike the fifteen days the government has offered to lower the price of diesel by ten percent but that will leave it with a bill this year with the economy fragile of more than one and a quarter billion dollars truck drivers say their income has been hit by higher fuel prices caused by rising world all prices and the weakening of brazil's currency the reality for most of the drivers who want to brasilia never even asked about our demands but they want to reach a kind of an agreement but according to the information we have that are present

just look for a meeting when they saw the proposal the government's offer has still to be approved by congress which will debate the issue next week many suppliers say it will take several days to return to normal by which time the tentative truce will be running out and brazil unless a long term settlement can be reached will have to face a similar crisis all over again than a shrine there. when the cyrus. health workers in the democratic republic of congo have set up an ebola awareness group to explain to communities how the disease is spread that's after two infected people escaped from an isolation ward in a hospital and one doctor city this week one went to a church for prayers while the other went to be with the family both of them died hours later that are fears they may have infected other people the world health organizations confirmed at least twenty seven people have died from a ball in the country from the latest outbreak aid agencies are struggling to deal with the latest humanitarian crisis in south sudan fighting between government and

opposition forces is making a hard to reach millions of hungry people it will morgan reports from my old county . for children to feed and a stigma to care for but there's no food and no medicine and there is little hope left for yellow in her home village of conduct here i go along we don't have enough food not even enough basic items to get by every day not enough clinics if you passed away because of hunger and of yellow is one of about twenty thousand people in canada who have actually officially registered for help but is still waiting aid organizations say the food security situation in the area is catastrophic and hundreds of people are at risk of dying from starvation and this is just one community five years the civil war has left six point three million people more than half of south sudan so million population relying on relief supplies. it's not

only the people here in contact that are in need of aid for survival continuous fighting between government and opposition forces have displaced thousands to the area that was already vulnerable as they seek safety as well as humanitarian aid. fled her home village with her children but arrived in tend to late to register for aid. i collect a little food out of torn sacks of aid if not for that aid i won't be able to feed myself and my four children. delivering aid is not easy the country let's proper roads and drops of food and other supplies can sometimes be the only way to reach those in need and the number of people desperately requiring help is expected to reach seven million soon with the rainy season approaching getting relief supplies to many areas comes with additional challenges right now my colleagues and my teams are struggling and battling to preposition one hundred forty thousand metric tons of food in various i think in fifty different warehouses around the country

conflict obviously also and security issues is also obviously hindering our access so even if there are roads even if we have access to a river but if there is conflict we can't or we can't take the risk to go yet i'm says she's afraid she may lose her children or mother to hunger a fear shared by hundreds of others here as the fighting continues and the need for aid continues to rise people morgan on jazeera and south sudan police in the u.s. state of nebraska made a startling discovery when they checked the back of a delivery truck in a routine traffic stop inside a secret compartment was more of an illegal drug than they are any brusca police officer had ever found the crime lab later confirmed it was fentanyl the drug that's killing thousands of addicts across the u.s. john hundred reports. it is one of the biggest seizures of an opioid drug in u.s. history in the hidden compartment of

a truck nebraska state police found fifty three and a half kilograms of fentanyl worth twenty million dollars on american streets according to the u.s. drug enforcement agency that is potentially enough to kill twenty six million people you take that much fat all off the street you are saving lives and that's what our nebraska state troopers are doing driver felipe gin iommi naya and passenger nelson union were arrested for drug possession with intent to distribute knowing when you're made of the opioid epidemic in the u.s. has left police and medical services struggling to cope with the sheer number of overdoses and deaths it's a time bomb it's a prescription for disaster it totally has the potential to kill them if they're not expecting that the u.s. centers for disease control found that most of the drug overdoses in the u.s. are due to fenton a drug thirty to fifty times as powerful as heroin i have never seen anything like that from my almost forty years of working and i believe that that overdose rate

will increase i think once in drugs like this or in our market place if we don't find a way to interrupt that cycle more and more people will use it opioids kill one hundred fifteen americans every day this police video shows a man near death in skokie illinois revived by the drug nor can which many police in the country now carry a few songs signs grains of fence and all are enough to kill most people when they do overdose the lucky ones end up in places like stroger hospital in chicago but many don't make it at all in terms of the sheer volume it's really the biggest we've had that the rate of rise of fatalities in cook county has just stepped up up up and twenty fifteen we had about six hundred sixty five fatalities the next year we had eleven hundred and for the past year we're collecting the statistics on. and it looks like it'll be at least at that level maybe able but hire us police say the strength of fenton know they're recovering from black market drug dealers is more

powerful than ever meaning its victims could in time be counted in the millions john hendren al-jazeera chicago a twelve year old girl in amman has become the sixth casualty of cycling with high winds hit the coastal city of salada at least five people died when the storm hit the yemeni island of so culture on thursday holovaty reports from salama. it was the storm before the storm the first signs of cyclonic when it was swept through on a friday afternoon many drivers were taken unawares forced to take extra care while driving the rising floodwaters to reach home i learned a lot of them was good i saw these young men in the rain and wanted to give them all right but yes i mean to go home and start a game and most of the thought i drove all the way from muscat to be here in time to help people during the storm i hope all will be all right. not to watch out for

nothing from a lot of article flooded with heavy rain and high real party yeah even when the epicenter of the form was there from the white all night is bracing for what could be the most powerful fighting on the british thought it according to free. state media issue with the assuring messages and reiterated safety instructions in the face of the predicted major threat thousands of mine is moved away from the coast and the lake areas to higher ground families seeking shelter crowded hooters further inland the government says it's organized evacuations were needed but everyone can see the ominous signs heavy downpours continue with some of the night and winds gusted close to two hundred kilometers per hour getting cyclonic a highly constrained times and people here are worried about the destruction it may leave in its wake how to divide disease salana southern oman. the world's largest

lake is under threat for an invasive al game linked by a colonist in russia holds one fifth of all the world's fresh water weeds in the late floor of killed off some plant and animal species scientists what better treatment plants to improve quality. this is all just there these are the top stories u.s. president donald trump a suggested as high stakes summit with north korea's leader could be back on a day off and called it off some welcome to statement from north korea which said it's remained open to talks. to see what happens when talking to them. there was a very nice statement that put out we'll see what happens. now we'll see what happens it could be 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 exit polls suggest island has

voted by a two to one margin in a referendum to ease restrictive abortion laws the polls predict a victory for the yes campaign with sixty eight percent in favor of repealing the eighth amendment official results are not expected until saturday afternoon hollywood movie mogul harvey weinstein has been charged by us police with the rape and sexual abuse of two women he turned himself in early on friday but his lawyer says he will plead not guilty weinstein's career imploded last year following allegations by more than one hundred women the u.s. house of representatives has approved a measure requiring the pentagon to investigate whether american troops tortured detainees in yemen hundreds of men have reportedly gone missing in the south of the country after they were allegedly picked up during a search for al qaeda fighters american officials say that u.s. forces have been involved in interrogations of detainees in yemen but they deny they took part in human rights abuses. president vladimir putin has dismissed

accusations russia was behind the shooting down of a malaysia airlines flight over ukraine four years ago with the loss of two hundred ninety eight lives the strain and the netherlands say they hold law school legally responsible that's after international investigators concluded the missile system used in the attack was provided by a russian army brigade in brazil the government's reached an agreement with the truck drivers union to suspend their nationwide blockade for five days thousands of drivers of use their lorries to block motorways after a hike in diesel prices those are the headlines the news continues here on. inside story in half an hour of i.

want now from north korea donald trump cancels much awaited talks to kim jong un. a change of mind sometime in the future what happens to the north's nuclear weapons now this story. into the program on this of a pran shocking perplexing and unexpected just some of the reactions to donald trump canceling his highly anticipated summit with kemp own and singapore next month the north said trump's decision was extremely of aggression a sentiment echoed worldwide as a missed opportunity for peace the u.s. president called it a sad moment of his.