in the least two cents you want as long so you know. it is not the most convincing sign we can root for only the certainly a very important gesture to should not be. and as well as as well as the dismantling of that nuclear site mr mason we of course also had the freeing of american american prisoners that were being held in north korea do you think that the united states has returned these goodwill gestures at all i think it's hard to see how they've returned the goodwill gestures but i think perhaps one of the kind of undercurrents to this is the united states seeking to demonstrate its superior position from the start of any potential negotiations and what i mean by that is simply that it frames these these ongoing movements as conciliatory in the sense that it allows the north koreans to the to the negotiating table and that in

itself is being portrayed as a goodwill gesture whereas the north koreans have to make these very tangible gestures such as the destruction of the nuclear test sites of their of or of the release of the prisoners that these very kind of specific tangible steps have to be taken and in return the goodwill gesture from the united states side is simply to actually sit at the table i think the united states is trying to consolidate that position and very much be it explicit or implicit past that message to the north korean negotiating team was to other what did you make of the fact that this white house you know meant to dozens of camembert commemorative coins ahead of the summit and bost with the words peace talks and with the head shots of trump and kim before it had even taken place why i think it speaks to the exceptional focus on image that president robin is an administration have we saw reports in recent days that president trump wasn't really focusing on the details of denuclearization or more

of these technical or policy questions he was focused on the optics and i think the minting of all these commemorative coins really speaks to that. must occur what do you make of these coins and what happens to them now and are they in any way indicative of. the same and dysfunction sometimes in this white house yes i've also read reports saying that perhaps the white house not much of an influence over the minting of these commemorative coins it might even have been simply done by. routine matter by a different branch of the government this is something i cannot release speak on but i think within south korea there is certainly of feeling that it's difficult to say sometimes what washington is really looking to achieve on one hand with mr trump saying nice things about north korea and its conciliatory gestures but at the

same time the appointment of hard liners including the new u.s. ambassador to south korea who is known to have very strong opinions on north korea as well as china so there's a lot of guessing game going on here and certainly making all of these cooling is part of that we don't have very long left in the program and i'd like to ask each of you a very quick last question which is just how hopeful are you that the progress that had been made in the last few months will not go to waste all that would hear mr mason. well i'm hopeful i'm hopeful because i think ultimately the north koreans want it and i think although the american strategy is less clear i think as you we heard there in terms of the comments about image for donald trump an unprecedented summit would be something that if you like he can put on his c.v. on his next election c.v. and leave his kind of legacy stamp his or is legacy quite literally in the case of

the coins but on something which is unprecedented and striking so i am still hopeful that ultimately we can see north korea and the united states return to the meeting or begin the negotiating process if you like at that negotiating table mr over or you know i feel like i'm in a state of perpetual or cautious optimism on north korea i think that the united states and north korea can find common ground and that president trump and kensington both have a stake now in. getting some sort of diplomatic victory saya hope that they'll be able to translate this into into progress a mystical a you as cautiously optimistic would you say. now i would say i share the optimism and much more so now and i did it. and i think that there have been many skeptics who have been questioning north korea's military and they have said that maybe this is another tactic but it would seem to try and delay a more sanctions so that it can continue to have time to develop nuclear arms after

the cancellation of the sunny i was wondering whether north korea will react angrily as it often does but if acted in a strong quite a bit it was strained and also diplomatic impulses really goes to show that it's easy as about diplomacy and it is serious about denuclearization as long as conditions can be met thank you very much for that that is a mentor in washington d.c. promise them and notch and see will and solve and thank you for watching you can see the program again any time i visit our website al jazeera dot com and for further discussion to go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. and side story from a loss of a product and a whole team here by phone. discover

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vote counting has just begun in ireland after friday's referendum on relaxing laws on abortion exit polls project a landslide victory for yes voters with sixty eight percent in favor of repealing what's called the eighth amendment official results are expected on saturday afternoon the vote comes thirty five years after another referendum enshrined some of the world's toughest anti abortion laws into the constitution. and the park is in a vote counting center in dublin joins us live from there so as i said folk outing there as it has begun leave we're still on track for a massive yes when right. that's right so me you join us right at the very start of the count the boxes of literally in the last couple

of seconds only just being cracked open of course scenes like this are also taking place in other counties. centers up and down the country we should have a final result at least here in dublin by early afternoon possibly a bit later on to other parts of the country in a final result round about four five pm local time here in ireland but as you said we already have some projections some x. some polls that have been put out by the national broadcaster aleksey and by the irish times and both of these organizations figures are roughly around the same kind of level roughly around the seventy percent mark voting yes to repeal the eighth amendment around thirty percent backing no it's cool really the yes side the debate off guard many would assume that this would be a very very closely for a summit even protect predicted that they may be a recount in some parts of the country when where it might be very very close

indeed but even if there is a huge margin of error this looks very much like a landslide for those that are after thirty four years of waiting for this war to be overturned of what they wanted a major moment for ireland as a cultural social crossroads it appears now as if they're on the verge of embracing change our is such a stunning turnaround being explained then eve i know it's still early hours and people must be taking it in but one of thoughts on people's minds. well first of all the turnout has been huge and that's contributed massively to the results we have seen in some areas turnout as high as sixty percent much higher than in other major votes compared to the last general election for instance or the last major referendum on same sex marriage in two thousand and fifteen we also know

that one hundred thousand young people signed up to vote many of them a call. voting for the first time we know that nine out of sane people that voted between the ages of eighteen to twenty four backed yes so it seems as if this vote is being carried by the younger generation i mean india is the only country in europe to have had such strict regulation of laws on abortion and of course this the nation wants to be like other e.u. nations what this nation has also seen is many thousands and thousands of women go abroad to the newest country where abortion is legal the united kingdom so many of our good will look it's effectively being carried out anyway on mass by women here in ireland even though it's happening across the irish sea so why not regulating here why not allow people in a host of challenging circumstances to be able to make the difficult choice not to carry on with the pregnancy but of course the influence of tradition the influence

of the catholic church that once held sway over this country still is very much in the d.n.a. of of people here in ireland the way in which people think here is very much been influenced by that but it appears as if things are moving things have changed very much as i said driven by the young. i believe back of that. now for the second time in less than twenty four hours the u.s. president has raised hopes that a meeting scheduled for next month with north korea's leader may have to. trump canceled his summit with kim jong un blaming it on what he called open hostility from pyongyang to de lay's a says he's having very productive talks with north korea on getting talks back on track trump tweeted that the meeting could still take place on june the twelfth in singapore and extends beyond that if necessary. all the prospect of a summit between trump and kim is

a highly divisive issue in south korea are most people support better relations with the north conservative groups are firmly opposed from a bride reports. these protests by right wing groups have been a regular feature in seoul every saturday afternoon since the president they supported parky and hey was forced out of office a year and a half ago and the protests have continued against the president who replaces her million j.n. and especially against his policy of engagement with north korea these are people who believe the north can never be trusted and that dialogue with north korea is simply dangerous folly. as well as the korean flag and the other band as you see here often in evidence in the stars and stripes these people believe the strong ally the united states provides the ultimate protection against north korea so the on again off again talks between

trump and kim leave many people here deeply conflicted. south korea and the u.s. are like one body. the north koreans are all lying is and they use military force and don't respect human rights they are not a good dialogue just for the sake of dialogue won't do any good. presidential office the blue house now says they're cautiously optimistic that the summit will go ahead in singapore and the majority of people in south korea would agree with them these people may be against it but opinion polls show around three quarters of south koreans support moon and this policy of engagement. of the u.s. house of representatives has approved a measure of coring the pentagon to investigate whether american troops tortured detainees in yemen hundreds of men have reportedly gone missing after a search for firefighters in the south of the country u.s. defense leaders say their forces have interrogated 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 eighteen 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 his 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 the 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. cycling has made landfall in amman bringing the strong winds and torrential rains two people died after it hit the coastal city of salalah at least

five other people were killed when it hit the yemeni island of so-called straw on thursday forty people are missing thousands have been moved away from coastal areas hammad joins us now live from. first of all is the are the rains dying down at this point hum. yeah here in sunny it's. more of showers than heavy rain but this is a new situation in the morning it was heavy rain there is a sense of relief family here in amman that the west of the cycling has because during the last days the country was bracing for one of the. i don't see history because of the. internet and records. set. to category two i'm sorry category two i don't what it was about it on its way from

the coast when it's made to landfall during the night it lost much of its power and it was. downgraded to a level one to category one so in terms of damages the country was expecting much more damage than what is announced today two people died one of them is a twelve year old who was forced by the wind to hit a wall and she died the other person had his car was driving and his. body that was. aside from this we don't have anything by way of a number of missing people killed here in amman also i think the country the government still assessing the material damage we don't have statements on that we know that fortunately the cyclonic did not hit i mean that i mean the eye of the cyclonic. came about seventy five kilometers away from the city. to the southwest very close to the border with yemen and now much of this is heading to

saudi arabia and yemen but it is going to lose much of the spoils but it's sweeps across the desert or hama valve that science about. i hate wave is worsening the water shortage in northern india temperatures in new delhi are expected to soar to forty five degrees celsius neighboring pakistan is also suffering i least sixty deaths are reported there shall about this reports when you hear that a water tanker is coming and you're in a heat wave without water kids are they know it's been a battle week now without water in a house that was suppressed to do in the foothills of the himalayas the town of shimla has run out of water resistant so it's like living in an oven where they can cook least learn shower targets of. your suffering from the water crisis the whole community has only one target comes but it's not enough we do not even get one packet of water it is not just this area but in other areas as well it has been two

to three weeks without water water tank is a being used across northern india but even there says rush and some people are allowed just five liters of water a day in comparison when cape town wasn't around earlier this year the limit was ten times that the risk of water borne illnesses increases when people try to live only some fifty liters a day in northern india is seeing that firsthand. the call is severing from vomiting diarrhea and fever the doctor has given him injections and put him on a sailing trip now things are better. nearly five hundred kilometers from shimla the more audubon district hospital is full of children sick from heat exposure and contaminated water because the general patients coming here are suffering from a mix of viral and bacterial diarrhea i.v. percent of the children coming to outpatient department are affected by seasonal communicable diseases it is my belief that the children of ill due to the rising

temperatures. water shortages are not new in india but climate change is the country cracking under the hottest summers the length of heat waves is increasing last year was india's fourth hottest on record and reserve one levels are at their lowest in a day leaving drinking water out of reach just when it's needed the most shallow ballast jazeera still ahead of al jazeera. i'm catherine saw a in the quarter can you know where members of an indigenous force community have been fighting for their right to leave in the country the law just want to touch made area. it's a prescription for disaster. plus us police discover a massive hole of an illegal drug being blamed for an overdose epidemic.

from cool brisk noise and fuel it's. to the warm tranquil waters of southeast asia. hello there we're seeing plenty of showers over europe at the moment we do have an area of high pressure up in the northeast though that's keeping things here rather stable but elsewhere you can see quite a few clouds and those clouds have been giving us quite a few showers some of those showers have been very heavy with your rumble of thunder and with some very large hail and some pretty gusty winds mixed in as well so if you do catch a shower you'll certainly know about it as it will be pretty lively more sherry downpours are expected during the day on sunday again those stretching down into the southeast corner of europe as well for the northeast things changing a little bit here as this area of countering gradually thinks its way southward for the other side of the mediterranean generally fine and settle for most of us here cover is not too hot at the moment thirty four degrees is the maximum towards the northwest it looks like twenty one will be our maximum in ribands so not too bad to talk a bit further towards the south and we've been watching it's

a very lively storm gradually run their way towards the west this one just working its way across bikini and gone at the moment that will continue its journey towards the west as we head through the next hours and as we head into sunday too so it looks like bamako is looking at some fairly heavy downpours at times elsewhere there will also be some showers still stretching from the far east all the way across the central belt of africa. the weather sponsored by cattle and peace. stories generate thousands of headlines. with different angles from different perspectives. and still more concrete evidence that russia was responsible for this separate the spin from the facts that's why on god's plan the misinformation from the journalism the issues here go far beyond one data mining company and one election with the listening post on al-jazeera.

you're watching i'm just here in time to recap our headlines vote counting has begun an island after friday's referendum on relaxing laws on abortion exit polls suggest sixty eight percent of people voted in favor of repealing what's called the eighth amendment official results are expected saturday afternoon. u.s. president dog trump says he's had very productive talks with north korea aimed at getting the summit back on track trump canceled the talks on thursday but for the second time in less than twenty four hours he said the meeting with kim jong un could still take place on june the twelfth and single or. made landfall in oman

bringing strong winds differential rains so people have died across oman and yemen forty people are missing. and the generous people forced to leave their forest home in kenya are still waiting to return despite winning a court case against their eviction a year ago the object people won the right to remain. the mouse forest but the government hasn't helped them to return to million dollars compensation or apologize for save the government wanted them out so illegal lovers could steal from their ancestral lands. catherine sawyer joins us now from the northwest of the capital nairobi i know they were planning celebrations how those shaping up. very colorful here. on this ground. you have come fully dressed in the traditional

we're not just talking about the old yanks they are all many other communities here in kenya indigenous communities who feel equally marginalized and victimized who are here they're saying they're celebrating this landmark ruling by the african wanton human in people's rights that awarded them their rights to be in the forests there saying that they are celebrating that but they also want to put more pressure on the government to implement this court decision in joining me to discuss this there is. a who is a not and director of they'll get development program thank you very much daniel i know these are very complex issues but do you think that the government is doing enough to make sure that this decision is implemented. the government has done its part but i think this using is very slow and we feel as a community we need a fast track even the implementation. issues or implementation of that. we want to

see that it is done fast we are finding they are not those who are giving us interim reports tell us what they're doing in the seventeen member task force should move fast and give your direction and this is a landmark ruling that we've all been saying what impact does it have in that country on communities here in this country that feel marginalized and not just. kenya and other communities indigenous communities across the continent as well i think this is a precedent for all the indigenous peoples across the globe. africa. let them follow the law. if you so important to implement the law so that people can respect them. just finally you know this also brings the question of balancing conservation efforts and you know the rights of indigenous communities such as yours going forward what do you think needs to be done to make sure that this there

resists violence because these are two very important issues that this are a very nice question one we're here we want to believe even where starve the. cost of land. for your british and everybody we want that it is balanced. by these conservation issues we don't want to live. that is why we need to go and be part of the. forest and the part of the whole we want to take care of this land is our. forests all right thank you very much daniel we also did speak to a member of the government task force that was set up to study the ruling and make recommendations and he said that the government has already accepted the ruling but these are very complex issues and very delicate matters that have to be sorted out here for example talks about they're looking into the populace the actual population of the ok at the talks about thirty five thousand the government feels

they are much less than that they're saying that some of the members of the gay community while already given alternative land in the last few years he talks about this sorting out and sifting out posters as well as like i mentioned just balancing this very delicate issue of conservation of this important catchment areas and the protection of the rights of the indigent. yes communities a lot of heavy issues really me that need to be sorted out before they can actually take action all right catherine sawyer that. seven activists from cameron's english speaking region have been jailed for between ten to fifteen years for acts of terrorism they include activists and journalists munch a big c for his alleged role in organizing demonstrations calling for more riots in the french from georgia to country at least seventeen people have died in the north west and southwest regions a separatist movement there is gathering strength younger for minorities long

complained of discrimination at the hands of the french speaking government protests are expected in india administered kashmir after fifty demonstrators were injured by police inside the mosque police fired shotgun pellets at the demonstrators in srinagar on friday the mosque is being closed to allow the removal of blood and shell casings from the protests. police in the united states have made a record breaking season of an illegal drug with enough doses to kill millions worth of people. twenty million dollars was found hidden in a truck during a routine traffic stop and the brusca the synthetic drug is up to fifty times more potent than heroin john hendren affords. 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 in passenger nelson union were arrested for drug possession with intent to distribute. 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 this my almost forty years of working and i believe 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 can which many police in the country now carry a few songs signs grains of sense and all are enough to kill most people when they do overdose the lucky ones end up in places like stroger hosp. well in chicago but many don't make it at all in terms of the sheer volume it's really the biggest we've had the rate of rise of the taliban is in cook county has just stepped up up . 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 it looks like it'll be at least at that level maybe it will but hire us police say the strength of fentanyl 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 women who have accused harvey weinstein of sexual assault of welcomed his first court appearance a hollywood movie producer handed him self over to police in new york his lawyer says he's pleading not guilty to the rape and sexual abuse of two women and me too movement started last year following allegations by more than one hundred women. spain's prime minister mariano rajoy is refused to step down or call a snap election despite have no confidence motion filed by the opposition comes off from madrid court finds a hole is ruling people's policy for profiting from an illegal kickbacks scheme for contracts twenty nine people have been sentenced over the scandal including a former party treasurer a little boy says he'll remain in power until the end of his term in twenty twenty . but this motion goes against the very much needed stability in

spain as ability that has been safeguarded with the recent approval of the state budget there's no confidence vote damages the economic recovery is bad for spain for the spanish people it reduces uncertainty and goes against the interests of all citizens colombia will become they tears first latin american so-called global partner next week the cooperation includes links to organize.