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colombians vote in the first presidential election since the peace deal with fogg the front runner is a staunch critic of the accord. hello i'm maryam namazie this is al-jazeera life from london also coming up ken junger and signals he wants the summit with donald trump to go ahead u.s. officials cross into north korea to make preparations. supporters in germany stage a protest against refugees in berlin. and saving the rhino the world heritage site where thousands have been killed by chance.
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i know our top story colombians are voting in the first presidential election since the historic peace deal with the fark was signed in two thousand and sixteen from on a yvonne decay has vowed to undo aspects of the cold that he sees as being too many until the rebel group of remains fragile and while former fighters of transform themselves into a political party public support for them has been weak that's left two main candidates a latin america editor lucien human reports. he's the most politically inexperienced of all the candidates the conservative the vandyke it has an enviable advantage he's the protege of colombia's still immensely popular former president. like his right wing mentor duke is a staunch critic of the two thousand and sixteen peace accord reached with colombia's fark rebels which many complained was too soft he told al-jazeera he
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would start by making a fundamental change to get emotional much more of course on this that we want the leaders responsible for crimes against humanity to be obliged to tell the truth about what they did to compensate the victims and to go to prison. for a bit. but that wasn't the original deal and many fear changing it could reignite a war that lasted for more than fifty. years. on the opposite extreme of the ideological divide is former bubble tamera. colombia's first truly competitive left wing presidential candidate. he says maintaining peace and promoting social justice are his priorities petrou is feared by the business sector and others who predict he'd turn colombia into another venezuela. the problem with petro is that governability would be very complicated he would clash with the establishment but do colombia's passed with war and the implementation of the peace accords. but
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there are other options including with the us moderate former mayor said she of her heart of the and center right wing former vice president hit man by the us polls indicate neither is likely to make it to an expected runoff but then lately polls have been wrong but this is colombia's first presidential election since the fark laid down its weapons but the army is nevertheless being deployed nationwide to guarantee security here and they're not expecting any trouble but that's not the case in other parts of the country where there are still rebel groups at large. colombians have several choices the question is whether or not they will choose a new president who will stay on the current course of peace. joins us now from bogota have the former rebel fighters voted in this election. marienbad is this is a really and truly
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a historic collection i can remember many of them over the last decades where the fark was out there in the areas that it controlled trying to stop the elections firing on people trying to stop them from going to the polls well just a few hours ago would change who is the head of the fark the maximum leader of the organization isn't a real name is. he cast his ballot for the very first time in his life and he said i'm quoting him he said this is a special moment this is a day for reconciliation and expectations about the peace accord with the government he wasn't alone there were thousands of other demobilized rebel fighters who had laid down their guns over the last year who also went out to vote and so in that sense this has been not only historic but. almost unpredictable people could not have imagined this just a year ago merriam and you see a peace deal with the fog still very controversial it's clearly divided the
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electorate what else to voters care about in this election. they have a whole list of things that worry them corruption of course drug trafficking the huge influx of venezuelan migrants fleeing the canonic and political crisis in the country that next door we're talking about two million been is wayland's are now in this country unemployment and of course social inequality this is a country that has what is considered to be healthy economic growth but it according to the world bank has the second largest. rather it is the second most an equal country in this hemisphere and the seventh most unequal country in the world so all the candidates are promising to tackle this but of course through very very different methods mary thank you very much with all the latest from latin america and its.
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u.s. officials are reported to have crossed into north korea to discuss the details of their on off june twelfth summit south korea's president says north korea is committed to denuclearize ation and it. is looking forward to meeting with donald trump moon has been giving details on exactly what was discussed during his surprise meeting with cam on saturday andrew thomas reports now from seoul. the surprise summit the second meeting in a month between moon j. and kim jong un was arranged just hours in advance it was held in secret this footage she was released only afterwards by the two governments it's north korea's with excited commentary attached. so. what's clear is that the sudden into a korean summit was a direct response to donald trump's letter canceling the june twelfth north korea
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u.s. summit the leaders of both korea's want that back on littlejohn's hang on we have agreed that the jute hope summit should be held successfully and that our journey to the korean peninsula as denuclearization and perpetual peace should not be halted the president moves with kim jong un once again committed to denuclearize ation and that he had told him that president trump in return would end hostile relations and cooperate economically this was not a meeting president trump was told about in advance but in washington tonight he hinted he could yet be traveling to singapore a lot of people are working on it it will be along very nicely so we're looking at june twelfth inching up or that hasn't changed. and it's pretty well analysts the splits on who's driving the agenda. as a person who can start a war and the last say forty eight hours to get maybe more of
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a fear that donald trump's an instruction is going to cancel the summit and then this is a new escalation of tensions and probably of what of this year has been decisive others think it's kim in the driving seat they think his commitment to denuclearize ation means u.s. withdrawal from the region to not unilateral north korean disarmament in exchange for the lifting of sanctions i think it's the north koreans driven disengagement. good for strategic nuclear deterrence they've decided that they can push forward on negotiations not only with the united states but also south korea and reengage with china they have a clear pathway forward whoever is driving the june twelfth singapore summit is looking a lot more likely than it was it seems like longer but it was only three days ago that the u.s. north korean summit was suddenly called off since then we've been on what some have called a diplomatic roller coaster but roller coasters run along cranks someone designs
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them plans the twists and turns this ride is altogether different and a lot more serious other thomas al-jazeera so let's get a view from washington now where my kana like how advanced are the preparations for the summit. well merriam is an advance team on its way to south korea to prepare for the president's visit this is headed by the deputy chief of staff of the white house but a more important delegation is a team of negotiators who've crossed into the north korean side of the demilitarized zone for talks with their north korean counterparts now this team is headed by some king he's a former ambassador to south korea who played a central part in the six party negotiations from two thousand and three to two thousand and nine when they broke down now interestingly gives a. person on the other side who'll be talking to is north korea's deputy foreign
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minister she. was also part of the north korean delegation during those six party talks so you've got a pair of people who've had a lot of experience in negotiating north korean issues meeting essentially to set an agenda now on that agenda is expected to be well the trumpet ministration has demanded a commitment to complete and irreversible denuclearization but there are some within the u.s. senate who are skeptical about north korean commitment to this matter are you prepared to live in a world where someone like him possesses not just nuclear weapons but the ability to hit the mainland of the united states and if you're not then you're going to have to do something to go after them at some point and i'm not in favor of that it's not something that i relish or just take lightly i'm just telling you that could very well be the option we wind up with at the end because ultimately i remain convinced that he does not want to do nuclearize in fact he will not the
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nuclear eyes but he wants to give all of this perception that he's this open leader that he's peace for that he's reasonable and that's why you see they've basically stopped talking to us for two weeks the president makes his decision and all of a sudden he shows up and has this meeting with the president of south korea. well these talks going on in the d.m.z. are absolutely critical it would appear to the fate of the summit that was planned for june the twelfth these teams are threshing aren't an agenda and if they cannot come to an agreement on that without an agenda there's unlikely to be any summit so a key issue these talks taking place today possibly monday and tuesday as well thank you mike hanna in washington. three palestinians have been killed by israeli shelling in gaza as happened east of the city of rough in the southern gaza strip israel's military says the men were armed members of the group islamic jihad more than one hundred people have been killed by israeli fire in the gaza strip since
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mass protests broke out in march. well two boats will leave gaza this week with palestinians who need hospital care now trying to break a blockade imposed by israel which has prevented medical supplies from getting into the territory and patients from leaving all spittles have been struggling to treat the thousands of palestinians wounded by israeli but it's bunnet smith reports. gaza is blockaded by israel on all sides sea included but this week two boats loaded with patients who need hospital treatment and students with university places will try to breach israel's sea blockade which begins sixteen kilometers out in the mediterranean that passengers have a strong determination to break this siege whatever the circumstances whatever the challenges whatever the obstacles that would have been that would be posed by the israeli side gaza's hospitals are full of patients who need urgent medical treatment there are those injured in two months of protests and longer term cases
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at least now i have sixty five of them already admitted those who would want to go in the marshal for turn but there are many other cases of cancer in open heart surgeries and many other complicate neurosurgical cases also be cases all of them need to travel abroad because of shoulders of personalities induced by the israeli blockade in gaza strip and why can't they travel abroad because the bulk of our seed must have time and what these patients should probably in time he can say to a patient why when cancer come back after three months of he will deteriorate and you have too much complication they can outwait lifelong weight in what is part of dropping. the pope's that will be used to being kept hidden organizers fear israel will try to destroy them before they leave the port and reality the boats are not going to get any further than israel's maritime blockade which is as tightly and harshly enforced as the land blockade but at least those on the boats will highlight again the open prison like conditions that there are here in gaza that prevent almost anyone from leaving burnitz with al-jazeera gaza. still account for
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you on the program big money bribery and match fixing the al-jazeera investigation has triggered an inquiry at the top of cricket. and he vowed to create a new south africa free of corruption but after one hundred days in office has several ronald lived up to his promise says. welcome back we'll look at weather conditions of course levant and western parts of asia first of all you see if i meant of cloud through the caucuses into the caspian sea region but back you should be drawing us some showers are likely across the caucasus elsewhere we've got patchy cloud around but jerry weather conditions looking fine and pretty hot and by forty two degrees still the forty degrees as we head through tuesday but fine weather conditions for lebanon their sort of twenty
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seven degrees in beirut now here in the arabian peninsula we still have the circulation from our tropical cyclone that is pushing across northern parts of man and yemen even into the far south of saudi arabia circulation look so keep going for another forty hours or so so the potential for more rain here the worst there obviously is over as far as salaam is concerned no more issues developing for the north all see is little bit of patchy client sunny pretty warm here in doha highs of thirty nine degrees on the other side of the peninsula we're looking at my some forty three degrees on shoes day in mecca and medina forty one southern portions of africa largely find that we have got a frontal system pushing towards the far south of south africa so cape town could see some quite breezy conditions with a chance of some rain through the course of monday further towards the east it should be fine nice bright day in durban and a high here of twenty five to greece. al-jazeera
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is investigative unit exposes the criminal gangs fixing international cricket matches sixty to seventy percent you can use a fix now fix bribing professional players. beautiful goes to the players but give them housing rolex watches. are pretty. good i give them. al-jazeera investigations cricket match fixes. back a look at the headlines now colombians are voting in the first presidential election since their story peace deal with the fog rebels was signed in two thousand and
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sixteen a front runner is conservative iran decay is valid to undo some of the cold south korea's president has been giving details on his talks with the north korean leader kim jong un saying kim is committed to denuclearize ation and looking forward to meeting donald trump. and three palestinians have been killed by israeli shelling in gaza israel's military says the men were armed members of the group islamic jihad. now al jazeera as investigative unit has exposed a match fixing a criminal gang who claims to have bribed international cricketers to under-perform the match fix a correctly predicted how players in two test matches would perform certain points during the gang david harrison reports al-jazeera went on the cover posing as wealthy investors to investigate corruption in cricket. is how serious we are. an e m a now is
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a match fixer from mumbai he told as we could make huge sums of money from betting on his information. both the allegedly fixed matches were played in india and involved in england and australia the governing body for world cricket the international cricket council said it was taking off findings very seriously and has launched an investigation. into an intelligence sources confirm that menow works for a powerful criminal organization called a de company. it controls most of india's huge illegal betting market said to be worth sixty billion dollars a year now told us players have been paid to underperform at certain points during the two matches. and only two minutes you will now. have he says the fix is all settings were arranged for india versus england in two thousand and sixteen and for india australia last year was the best. setting me years later. letting go of the setting or get the field or i'm
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a little bit out in his predictions were accurate in both matches our investigation also exposed three former international cricket players who were prepared to take money to fix matches one of them is has son reza the former pakistan star he agreed to play in the tournament set up soley for match fixing. are you interested person would you play. to sri lanka players the color to go until our locker or t.v. would also play in the band that's that's not a good idea the fake tournament was planned by dubai based gourab raj kumar plumbing problem that was totally like puppets exactly yes you were just going to do to control. now what do you say to the millions of people who watch cricket innocently believing it's fair competition they spend good money for to cricket and
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you are actually correcting their grade. and get. all three players declined to comment. said al-jazeera had invited them to act in a movie for public entertainment only david harrison al-jazeera london. and he watched the full programme on al-jazeera investigations cricket match fixes which as at twenty hundred g.m.t. on sunday don't miss it to italy now where the prime minister designate giuseppe conti is presenting his proposed government to the president. we have some live pictures now in the capitol row where conti is expected to address the reporters shortly the president whose role is mostly ceremonial still has to approve the proposed cabinet for a government to actually be formed there is some tension over who would lead the ministry for economic affairs the coalition's populous five star movement an anti immigrant league party one large relative approve
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a euro skeptic economist as economy minister but the president is a staunch supporter of the e.u. . a protest against refugees has been taking place and thousands of supporters of the far right posse alternative. launch for the capital a party swept into parliament last year when a wave of anti migrants and and is now the largest opposition bloc. is in. a highly vocal confrontation here in berlin but not a violent one alternative for germany held a large rally outside first of all the. main train station the march through the streets through the brandenburg gate behind me where they held the actual demonstration the speeches from the party leaders but it was a message which the protesters and many more thousands of them on the streets of berlin and members of the in terms of germany they tried to drown out the message
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of this party it first came into the parliament in the last elections of the old in ninety six they are now the main opposition party in germany they have overtaken the green party and they're beginning to challenge the social democrats to a part of the grand coalition so there is a movement here towards the extreme right of hope for this movement a movement it was essentially by the large number. of those millions that came in on the. open open border policy so this is a problem that's going to remain here in germany the fact that he even in the book in the start you're hearing paranoid racist xenophobic anti semitic remarks and you know hearing them. on the streets of live this is a problem that's going to be causing ructions within the grand coalition the social democrats want to keep a liberal attitude towards refugees but parties trying to tighten up the
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borders restrict immigration two hundred thousand a year so that's causing attention. he would in a grand coalition. we're going to see more stories like this we're going to hear more from the old germany because now essentially they see this growing maybe the demographics imported from each blue collar workers the unemployed to be over people in the east in germany who fear their communities would be changed forever and who fear for their future so we'll see many more of these demonstrations maybe bored these days. doctors without borders says dozens of refugees and migrants have been shot and wounded while trying to escape human traffickers in libya the victims were from eritrea ethiopia and somalia doctors without borders says fifteen people were killed and twenty five injured cheering the escape they fled from the town of bani walid on wednesday the local hospital says twenty of them of being treated for torture related injuries. palestinian president mahmoud abbas has had his hospital
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stay extended the eighty two year old was expected to be discharged on sunday following treatment for a long infection but hell now remain in hospital for an eighth day he'd been admitted for doctors that initially said will medical tests often is surgery. it's been one hundred days and several rounds of posts have became south africa's president he took office after his predecessor jacob zuma resigned under pressure of the corruption scandals post a promise to clean up south african politics but his government is now battling corruption allegations of its own malcolm webb reports from johannesburg. they called its rama who are the reaction of many thousand for kins went through i'm opposed i became president in february. things have gone from bad to worse for his predecessor jacob zuma his eight years were blighted by a series of corruption scandals. last year people protested calling for him to step
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down eventually resigned under pressure from his own party to run opposed he's been promising to clean up ever since this is the year in which. we were. in our public institution thanks he began with a cabinet reshuffle some of the controversial ministers of the zumiez white house but other states including this man. now minister of home affairs leaked documents linked him to major corruption scandals he denied involvement but it seems from a poser has helped investor confidence south africa's currency the rand and its credit ratings have stabilized since he took over but the political opposition says it's not enough and i haven't seen anybody going to jail for the corruption top of the corruption in south africa all we hearing him paying lip service to corruption and say he's going to do both and he's going to do that one hundred days i haven't
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seen anybody been arrested yet. last month from oppose a cut short a trip to a commonwealth summit in london the people protested in the northwest province they demanded the governor. to step down over port delivery of public services frequently recurring issue in south africa. another key issue is land since apartheid most of it still belongs to the white minority many black people and less on the pressure from opposition in february from opposes a.n.c. supported a motion in parliament to try to mend the constitution to allow government expropriation of land without payment historically the a.n.c. his rhetoric has been radical with politicians promising redistributions of wealth but in practice its economic policies are centrist in that respect in spite of the talk of land redistribution things haven't really changed much on the run opposer he's been on the boards of several corporations is widely seen as
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a friend to big business with president selections due next year rahm opposes performance in the months ahead will determine if the a.n.c. can still win the majority it's always enjoyed malcolm webb al-jazeera johanna's berg south africa. and india's cows are running their national park is home to the largest population of the protected one horned indian rhino it's a world heritage site and considered a conservation success story but the rhinos still face two big threats poachers and the annual monsoon floods. reports on the efforts to preserve the species. these rhino carves love their muddy pool leaving only when they see the keepers that signals feeding time at the center for wildlife we have taken in conservation in guns around. the cubs are aged between one and five years old and still require daily milk but replaced by their rhinos mothers were killed by poachers.
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even when i'm at home. or have to take a day slave. early primo offer a glimpse into the heavy rains and floods that killed dozens of people and animals in the northeastern state of ascent each summer more than sixty rhinos have died in the past three. because they're on the national park is home to several protected and endangered species but it's a conservation success of the one hundred in. this park into a world heritage site. close to extinction in one thousand nine hundred five there were just seventy five left today that close to three thousand and. eighty percent of them but the demand for rhino horns in neighboring. remains a huge threat the conservation status of the indian rhino was shifted from endangered to vulnerable in two thousand and eight but with the ever present threat the poaching. could once again turn the tide against the animal known as the indian
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unicon. poachers killed two dozen rhinos in the last two years so far they've killed three. this means replacing old guns an aging guards with better weapons and younger stuff which is a struggle the funding outside the gates heavy traffic and speeding. also pose a threat. the challenges are many but the sums rhinos of conservationists and the public on this side. of the people are something that's right. the. wildlife teams are once again getting ready for this year's flood risk use but the main mission remains ensuring the long term survival of the one horned rhino.
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park assume oh plenty here to see you have news features and of course analysis that takes you behind the headlines al jazeera dot com. just a quick recap of the headlines now colombians are voting in the first presidential election since the historic peace deal with the fox was signed in two thousand and sixteen front runner yvonne decay is vowed to undo aspects of the accord that he says is too lenient on the rebel group a deal remains fragile and public support for the former fight is over now transformed into a political party is low latin america is a lucien newman has more from bogota will happen if the if the agreement falls apart with for example the victory of the then you could imagine then that
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a lot of these guerrillas will go back to war and so people are saying that this is really not a brilliant agreement that there are a lot of things that are wrong with it but it was the best agreement that could be reached and that's really what's at stake here u.s. officials are reported to have crossed into north korea to discuss details of their on off june twelfth summit south korean president says the north korean leader kim jong un is committed to sitting down with president trump he also says belong and wants complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula it's the korean leader's second summit in a month and highlights a sense of urgency at the world's most heavily armed border says negotiations over the june twelfth summit going well. three palestinians have been killed by israeli shelling east of the city of rough in the gaza strip israel's military says the men were armed members of the group islamic jihad more than one hundred have been killed by israeli fire in the gaza strip since mass protests broke out in march. meanwhile two boats carrying six palestinians will try to break the israeli
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blockade on gaza this week a blockade not only prevents sick patients from leaving but it's also stopping medical supplies from entering the territory all spittles have been struggling to treat thousands of palestinians wounded by israeli bullets cheering the protests and a demonstration against refugees has been taking place in berlin thousands of supporters of the far right party alternative for germany or a.f.d. marched through the capital the party swept into parliament last year on a wave of anti migrant sentiment i was the headlines i'll have the news hour for you in twenty five minutes time off to inside story.
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south africa's president serial rock also says he's bringing reforms opposition parties insists he must do more to end corruption so a hundred days after he came to office what has been opposed to achieve and what challenges lie ahead this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm fully back to south africa's fifth democratically elected president syria rama posa is marking one hundred days in office he came to power after jacob zuma was forced to resign after years of corruption allegations raposo was elected in february following his victory as leader of the ruling a.n.c. party in december he made a number of.
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