hear their story. and hide from. headquarters in doha. welcome to the news great back from the dead. russian who was said to have been gunned down in ukraine so at a news conference in kiev. a vocal critic of the kremlin has. saving his life report from moscow on this extraordinary story also on the grid the highest ranking north korean official to visit the u.s. in eight years charlie is due in new york for talks with the secretary of state michael it's all part of a flurry of diplomatic efforts before the on again off again summit between the

u.s. president and north korea's leader and it's been the subject of much controversy how many people were killed in puerto rico's hurricane. the official count is sixty four but i new study contends that thousands more actually died we investigate why there's such a large discrepancy just days off the refugees from mali was honored for his bravery and given french citizenship hundreds of others. in paris. and other top online trends like mexico. let's. end it with live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and al-jazeera dot com thank you for joining as we begin with a shocking turn of events in what was thought to be the murder of a journalist and kremlin critic in ukraine. alive and well at

a news conference in kiev he's apologized to those who worried about him after everyone thought he was gunned down in front of his apartment in the ukrainian capital russia had been accused of organizing the hit well it's try and get our heads around this with our correspondent in moscow rory where do we even begin what an incredible turn of events first of all what has he said what is but gentle segues in this news conference in cuba. well i mean what bob turner said is essentially that he sends out his apologies to those who are closest to him his wife did not even know about this we had heard reports since the shooting yesterday or who what it seemed to have been a shooting that it was his wife who found him bleeding on the floor of their apartments and called an ambulance and that he died on his ways are spittle in the

ambulance she it seems did not know that he was not dead and so in this press conference earlier in kiev he sent his apologies to his wife saying this i'm sorry about this but this is the way that it had to be done by said that he had been involved essentially in this scheme this sting operation for the past month but the actual operation had been going on for a month before that. and the head of the ukrainian secret service was saying that essentially it had been done to snare the assassin and strong work out who the masterminds behind it were so what he said the head of the s.b.u. the ukrainian secret service is a three hours ago the organizer of this crime with the rest in the city of kiev investigative actions with this individual are under way in order to organize this cynical plan russian security services recruited

a ukrainian national was tasked with finding the perpetrators of this cynical murder and that there was a forty thousand dollar price that was paid for it so it seems that this was all some elaborate sting operation but you know it's extraordinary turn of events an extraordinary outcome for what was looking like a fairly depressingly regular familiar pattern and of course the ukrainians had pointed the finger of blame at russia will not that has turned up alive one of the russians same. well the russian response we've had so far has come from the foreign ministry which is fairly to some brief saying that actually the important thing the best news is the is alive but let's look a little bit further forward than this this is a story that is going to reverberate i think for quite some time to come and you're going to have to look at the tactics used by the ukrainians here you know we talk

about living in a post truth a huge. lie gets thrown around frequently picked up replicated it's brought cost on the media and churned out on twitter etc etc this is the kind of thing that is not going to help combat that you know if at some point in the future another kremlin critic turns up dead you might well hear from the russian side well how do we know he actually is dead remember. so i think there are lots of people who are online at the moment who are on the easy about this yes they're relieved that. a journalist is alive when perhaps them when they thought he was dead but this is you know the tactics of this are questionable i think thank you for that rui chalons live for us in moscow and a lot of you who are watching us on facebook live shocked about the this turn of events donna here on facebook saying oh my god while it's amazing that it's alive

keep it comments coming in use great lead suspects and more about this not to samuel greene who's director of king's college russia institute he is via skype from london thank you for being with us ukrainian and russian officials immediately traded fingerpointing over about ten cause death now we know he's alive what do you make of all this samuel. well i mean look i'm watching this develop the same time that you are learning of the of these things as they happen it is very difficult to know what is to to be made of it i think will be very interesting to see where this investigation goes and the sting seems to have been organized for the express purpose of trying to figure out who was actually behind it and the argument that the ukrainians have put forward was that unless the. masterminds of this thought that it had been successful there would have been no way of actually i den to firing them and that does tend to be the case in a lot of these sorts of politicized hits we do tend to see them catch the the gun

man but not not the organizer so. it will be interesting to see whether we learn anything from that investigation of the investigation is in fact both successful and and credible you can count obviously on the propaganda machine coming out of moscow are doing a lot to make it look. less credible than have to be honest that ukrainian law enforcement doesn't have the best track record on these right exactly and you know back jungle may be alive but a number of other russian critics who ended up being in kiev have died in recent years of kiev has become a refuge for a lot of these dissidents if the ukrainian police are so sure about russian involvement why is it that they haven't completed any investigations into these biggest gettings how do they explain that these killings have remain unsolved for so many years. well i mean i think part of that explanation is probably that the trail of evidence or at least as they would argue leads over the border into russia where they're not going to get and any cooperation and they can they can point

fingers equally across the border and say look they did it the murder of body and soul of on the plecos k. in russia itself. remain unsolved or at least on solved the satisfaction of of certainly any independent observer so. it's a valid question to ask but i think that these sorts of attacks tend to be genuinely very hard to get right somehow thank you so much for talking to us about this developing story out of ukraine samuel green from king's college london joining us there on the news great now in a separate development british businessman bill bauder another critic of russian president vladimir putin has spent an hour in custody in spain after being detained on a russian interpol arrest warrant he tweeted his arrest as it happened spanish police then released him say the warrant is no longer valid brodeur's fund used to be the largest foreign investor in russia then his tax accountant sergei magnitsky was

detained after accusing russian officials of tax fraud magnitsky died in prison browder and wise who say he was tortured brought a laser successfully push the u.s. congress to pass the magnitsky act sanctioning top russian officials accused of corruption. on to other world news now and what promises to be one of the most important developments in weeks of rapid fire diplomacy ad of a possible meeting between donald trump and kim jong un the north korean leader's right hand man came young charlie is due to arrive in new york in just a few hours on a plane he boarded in beijing early on wednesday and is said to have talks with the u.s. secretary of state mike pale came young told is a skillful politician who's lived through three generations of north korea's ruling family having worked his way up from body a border guard driver at the de-militarized zone to four star general a former spy chief his now vice chairman of north korea's ruling party and once the

department that manages relations with south korea has played a big role in the talks process that sounded earlier this month earlier this year i should say meeting the u.s. secretary of state in pyongyang live to our white house correspondent kimberly hockett kimberly came young no doubt a diplomatic heavyweight for the north koreans but this is also a man that was blacklisted by the u.s. and yet here he is coming to america but not to washington. right not coming to washington and even just getting into the united states and so involved a little bit behind the scenes maneuvering given the fact that he is subject to u.s. sanctions we're told by the spokesperson for the secretary of state heather now or that in fact steps had to be taken as a result of this this will be the third meeting between the u.s. secretary of state and the vice chair as you point out the right hand man of north korea's leader kim jong un but this certainly is on the radar of many americans who

are familiar with him the united states of course accusing him of being behind the cyber hacking that happened many years ago with regard to sony pictures when it was set to release a film satirizing the north korean leader so there's a lot of work to be done a lot to be worked out particularly when it comes to some of the issues and that's what we're told will happen when he arrives to meet with the u.s. secretary of state in new york some of the issues that will be worked out are is the gap that seems to be between both sides when it comes to the definition of denuclearization and also there are going to be some details will be worked out when the secretary of state meets with the president in advance of that very important new york meeting kimberly's some u.s. intelligence reports have suggested that north korea has no intention of dismantling its nuclear arsenal in the near future could this affect the upcoming summit between president trump and kim jong il. that's one of the big concerns and

so that's why there is this advance meeting taking place because there is a need to settle the agenda to work on what the shared understanding is of what can be achieved there's a lot of trust that is lacking on both sides there is the concern by the north koreans that the u.s. is not going to keep its word there's also that concern on the other side and there's another factor in all of this folly and that is you have to remember that the japanese prime minister shinzo abbay will be here at the white house june seventh to make sure that south korea and japan's interests are reflected in all of this too there's a lot at stake for them they're worried that if a deal is struck that it may not include the concerns about short range missiles that threaten that region and also the issue of the japanese object ts that they say that the japanese say have were abducted into north were taken by north korea in the seventy's and eighty's have not yet been returned so there are a lot of regional interests at play there a lot of interest between the united states north korea some of that going to be

worked out in the very early preliminary stages in new york thank you for that kimberly white house correspondents live there in washington and don't forget you can stay on top of north korea's biggest stories by al-jazeera on our website al-jazeera dot com more on their bot came young soul kim jong un's right hand man also find out about what koreans think of the recent repulsion on between north and south in this piece by we young lee who spoke to a number of people students bobbers and north korean activists to hear their views on the improving relations and we're getting a lot of comments on our top story on the news great today and that is of course russian dissident kremlin critic who was reported killed in ukraine but now turns out his alive and well a comment here from jane who says that is impressive and terrifying hopefully he can get the protection he needs go again reported alive and well after earlier been described as dead killed in ukraine don't forget to tweet us your comments and

questions on this and other stories that we're covering on the news great today the hashtag on social media is great. moving on now and there's a new twist in the wrangling following iraq's elections results from more than a thousand polling stations about two percent of the total of being declared null and void the electoral commission says it has evidence of fraud at voting locations both inside iraq and abroad where ex-pats cast their ballots it was the first election using an electronic voting system and the lines led by a shia cleric to one the most fundamental receipts in a blow to a by the incumbent prime minister a body child stratford is in baghdad for us to explain this all to us charlie these irregularities big enough to alter the overall results of the elections. i think one has to be cautious here in making those kind of predictions i think

what it really highlights though is just how difficult it is in this country to come together for parliamentarians for politicians to come together and break what can only be described as decades of sectarian tension and parties and schip what's interesting is that these areas that the independent election commission has described now as the voting in those areas being dollar void a predominately sunni areas areas like nineveh. province and this is push from today the second session of an open session that was called by parliamentarians pushed by twenty eight. members of parliament predominantly sunni who say that they want complete recount of all votes across the country which as i say highlights certainly according to analysts here the kind of tension between the shia led government and these three main blocs the three shia blocks that are in first second and third place in those election results. interestingly prime

minister hyderabadi trying to defuse tensions a said yesterday in his press conferences weekly press conference called for these election results to be honored said that he wanted it investigation into these allegations of fraud but he was concerned about what he described as a political vacuum that these this kind of crisis could potentially cause because of course in at the the on the thirtieth of june the current parliamentary session as according to the constitution ains so it's difficult to say what kind of impact this is going to have with respect to the election results itself and what it does highlight as i say is these kind of sectarian tensions that we have seen in iraq for decades now thank you for that child's traffic light for us in baghdad all you need to know about iraq's elections on al-jazeera dot com why they're important what's expected now after these results and who's likely to become prime minister all the important questions answered there on al jazeera dot com. now in the last

twenty four hours gaza has seen the worst fighting in years but relative calm appears to have returned for now on tuesday israel carried out several asked why it is targeting what it called military sites across the besiege enclave it was retaliation for a barrage of rockets and mortar shells fired by the armed palestinian group islamic jihad and hamas which will the gaza strip they now say mediate has intervened to secure a cease fire agreement with israel live to harry fawcett correspondent who joins us from gaza harry so we're hearing about a meeting of the israeli cabinet soon what are we expecting to hear on gaza. we have the israeli security cabinet is meeting at military headquarters in tel aviv and just ahead of that meeting we heard from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in a statement saying that israel had beaten. factions in gaza like they hadn't for several years and that should there be any more coming out of gaza they would pay

twice the price so more extremely aggressive language coming from the israeli prime minister in response to what was the biggest such exchange since the twenty fourteen war the israeli military says that one hundred rockets and mortars were fired out from inside gaza and territory jury in the course of that exchange in that sixty five targets inside gaza was struck in return from the air by the israeli air force and so all of it coming to an end for now at least it four o'clock this morning local time some fourteen hours ago as you say there are extensive reports that egypt had a great deal to do with it we're hearing from the egyptian side sources saying that the egyptians were clear that if hamas did not. put a lid on this for now there would be further action escalation from the israeli side in which there could be serious casualties and among the people within the

armed factions here inside gaza the israelis are saying there's been no official cease fire to which they have signed up but as long as there is calm coming from gaza it will be met with come from the other side the israeli army has told people israeli people living on the other side of the fence separating gaza from israel that the emergency situation is now over that jibes with what we saw coming into gaza earlier on when we saw tanks and other military government being taken away northwards from the gaza border we have in the last few minutes as well heard from thirteen palestinian factions they say that they have changed the rules of engagement with israel they've shown israel that for every rocket the comes their way the israelis will get another one. in return it does show a difference from is least how islamic jihad was responding for many months now to the loss of its fighters with relative silence now they've carried out this attack it's also been a reminder to both sides should it be needed just how quickly these sorts of things

can escalate for now it seems neither side wants to go any further thank you harry harry fossett lifeforce in gaza meanwhile two palestinians are still in israeli detention after taking part in an attempt to break israel's naval blockade from inside gaza israeli military arrested a total of seventeen people after boarding the vessel without incident just off gaza's coast on tuesday it was carrying mostly students and people in need of medical care they wanted to sail to cyprus and the most contentious issue between israelis and palestinians remains of course the disputed holy city of jerusalem and online teams put together this great interactive taking you through a brief tour of east jerusalem with a mostly palestinian population and west jerusalem which is entirely jewish to highlight the disparity in infrastructure and quality of life for israelis and palestinians check it out on our web site al-jazeera dot com time now for a look at the other international headlines here's my am under

a new scent. we begin with developments in asia where the prime minister designate says new possibilities have emerged to form a government collar culturally made the comments while visiting the presidential palace the informal talks about forming a new technocratic government president appointed carter rally a former i.m.f. official in a bid to calm the market turmoil it comes after he blocks the appointment of a euro skeptic economy minister chosen by the five star movement and league party last week over fears it would hurt italy's economy so let's get more now from dean barber who joins us in rome what are the chances of the prime minister designate being able to present a cabinet anytime soon. will marry him it's a very fluid situation but i think you can say that the chances of mr culturally himself being in charge for for any length of time diminishing because on sunday

after president said that he just couldn't accept paulose of all of the choice of economy minister of the coalition. it became clear that the parties involved five star and the league were going to vote against him in parliaments that he would lose a vote of confidence in parliament and so now he has been talking again on wednesday with the president as he didn't choose day without presenting a cabinet but his entourage have been saying that they are also aware of the possibility of a political government still being formed in other words perhaps they're hearing through different channels that those parties are willing to compromise on the choice of economy minister so that they can go ahead and try to take power because if they don't then at least one of the partners of the leave the far right party under matteo salvini are still pushing for elections as soon as possible the belief here is that the five star movement perhaps a bit more conciliatory willing to back an interim administrator. through the

summer to get through a budget before fresh elections expected in the autumn very fluid as i say right now no no official statements on the record so far and so people have in mind that they very well might be called to elections in the next few months but if it does happen in the summer if that's triggered it won't be a popular move because many people will be away on holiday. we know that the president has taken steps to try and calm the turmoil in global markets and how much instability is this cause. that's right i mean his whole point from sunday evening was i had to do this to avoid instability to avoid italian savings being hit now of course there was a impact on tuesday we saw stock exchanges around the world down for example the dow jones in new york down around one and

a half percent london down over one percent an italian bank shares taking a hit as well but just in the last couple of hours the european central bank informally via sources quite close to the matter have been speaking to reuters press agency saying that they see the e.c.b. sees no sign no reason that it should intervene in italy are told at the moment because there are there's no sign of stress amongst the bank interbank lending is healthy deposits as stable and they see the crisis right now is purely political so far that is because it's only lasted a few days so there was that there was an impact on choose day and let's not forget that in in brussels the budget commissioner. said that he thought that the negative impact of what's happened might actually teach voters here a lesson he said that it might show them not that they should not vote for populist parties he was slapped down by several figures in brussels but it may turn out that

if there is some kind of compromise quickly here his diet warnings in fact will just be theoretical anyway thank you very much lending bubble with all the latest from ryan on out to afghanistan where i still gunmen have launched a brazen attack on the interior ministry had quarters in the capital kabul a car bomb was detonated at a first checkpoint leading to the ministry before fighters on with assault rifles and made launches try to storm their way inside one policeman was killed in the attack and five others injured. a suicide attacker detonated his explosive at the entrance of the interior ministry and wounded two people right after the blast at other attackers who had military uniforms getting out from an armored vehicle. jennifer glass has more from kabul the explosions and gunfire went on for about two hours the interior ministry says there were eight assailants in all first attacker blowing himself up in a car at the main gates of the interior ministry and seven other attackers moving

in and they were eventually killed by afghan security forces the interior ministry is a highly fortified of building it had just recently been moved to the outskirts of town to allow for more room and to make sure that it could be better protected so very very clearly an audacious attack on a major target here now the taliban launched its spring offensive last month and in recent days it issued a warning to afghans to stay away from ministries from police stations from anything associated with the military or the governments of both the taliban and eisel have launched a number of attacks here in kabul and the taliban is on the offensive around the country as well taking over a district in the northeast of the country and south har province today as well is launching attacks on police stations around the country as well so it's been a very very a difficult fighting season so far for the afghan military and as we get closer to

elections coming up in october it's really believe that the violence will continue and possibly escalate thousands of workers in greece of walked off the job in protest at a new wave of austerity measures labor unions have called for a twenty four hour general strike against the reforms which are part of greece's bailout agreement with foreign lenders schools have been closed and flights have been disrupted along with public transport hospitals only have emergency staff on hand as late as bailout ends in august but the all stars he measures will continue for at least two more years. and belgian but niece of on a two officers who were killed in a stabbing and shooting rampage on tuesday colleagues of the two female victims observed a minute of silence in the city of the edge where the attack took place they were killed by an inmate on a two day release in what prosecutors a calling a terrorist mudda the gunman was killed on the scene yet left the prison of marshall from an on monday the twenty eighth of two thousand and eighteen at seven

thirty pm granted temporary exceeds the needs normally issued different then to the present on duty detention and the for me at seven thirty pm. the man is also suspected of a manslaughter in the small thing itself in martial from the exact circumstances of the distortions of the subject of a separate investigation by the marshal from in a section of the looks of the public prosecutor's office. from london and about that he minute's time not back to folly and ryan thank you very much for that if you're watching us on facebook live coming up and reveal what happened when you bunch of far right german nationalists tried to march in berlin and still ahead on the news great brazil strike trouble step even worse for us a restaurant has now or oil workers i walked in off the job.

however looking fine and dry across the rebel base a hot and sunny if the truth be known for the most part we have got some rain around around the black sea the caspian sea just pushing over towards parts of the region we will see some basin pieces of cloud and right it's spilling out he says the weather weather coming in here georgia. could all see some rain over the next day or so a some part of the maid looking far to dry beirut at twenty six degrees celsius a hot one in baghdad forty degrees forty four kuwait city and also forty degrees for crotch a little further north it's not quite as hot couple gets up to thirty three celsius still plenty hot enough into the low thirty's there for tehran as well it's also want to say i was by friday that wet weather continues across turkey over towards the caspian sea further south you might see want to show is also affecting cyprus pushing down towards lebanon maybe that western side of syria come further south

this halts and it's getting hotter we see temperatures here in doha around forty two degrees celsius maybe a touch woman to go on into friday so forty three a possibility some parts of the red sea could catch wanted to share was one of two showers a possibility to into the eastern side of south africa they're all making their way for the east. exploited men use the killing. gym burning a would take to make the charcoal that feels the furnace says that forge the steel chain that in which is the trade that exploits them and. penetrates global markets slavery a twenty first century evil continues with charcoal slaves on al-jazeera.

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a real life spy and demand mum to kasama scales a building in paris to rescue a four year old boy who was clinging on city life from a balcony just see that and some arrived in france in september having risk the dangerous journey from mali all the way to europe years but also his harrowing account this week french president emmanuel mccall met him and gave him french citizenship and a job at the paris fire brigade now the rescue video went viral prompting thousands of people all around the world to pray and i was on social media for his bravery and quick action but some like british politicians david lammy say migrant shouldn't have to behave like superheroes before being treated like human beings and that's been much of the narrative of the in the wake of the camp closure in paris as well french interior minister says migrants and refugees will be house temporarily across paris while their identities across checks but generals call him say that it's inevitable that some of them will be deported now called scenes like

these that are also being set shed on social media during comparisons between how different the people view them to kasama in compared to the hundreds of thousands of other refugees and migrants that's all trying to reach europe paris man and his elbow believes the government has mishandled the camp curation she wants to build a more permanent housing instead. she was a good the bad don't forget we shouldn't have waited four months to put these people in a safe place this should have happened sooner i've made a proposal to the government for the construction of a proper welcome center like the one. which is the only solution to prevent these makeshift camps on the streets so i'm waiting to hear the government's response now the refugees that. have been speaking out not knowing where they're going to be ending up after being played out early on tuesday. to stay one month here is really

very very bad for me and all the people whose have signatures this is i like this and. not have to go to. food not if it is too juicy you had your arm it has been hard here it's dirty there's no toilet no shower to wash it it's too hard for more than three days i haven't had a shower if you don't eat well here sometimes i eat sometimes i don't it's like that which. are this is a never ending situation why because of the dublin convention the italians have the migrants fingerprints but they don't hand out any papers so the migrants end up in the street they come to france where they apply for asylum but then they sent back to italy and they come back here again ending up on the street the situation is very complicated if they don't give us any papers will for ever stay on the streets that's what i believe nothing will change or we're going to have to see what will

happen with but in the wake of all of this people like encouraging others to recognise the good deeds that refugees do on a daily basis in you can do just that with the hashtag that's being used as my new neighbor but also why don't you let me in on that as well might so it's a handle is so high that we've got more succumbs of you live comments with a hash tag as well a.j. news grid another story of human suffering sorrow and thousands of ranger women who say they were raped by soldiers in myanmar are due to give birth in overcrowded bangladeshi camps where they fled for safety more than seven hundred thousand range of muslims have sought refuge and mariana haunt has the story. fatima was just sixteen and newly married when she sees me and the soldiers killed her husband as they burned her village she fled into the forest but soldiers caught in the air and she says one of them raped her after the trauma of trying to make it to bangladesh she discovered she was pregnant but she doesn't know who the father is her late

husband or the soldier who write to her one more moment he's my baby how can i throw him away i have to love him. more than seven hundred thousand muslim or henge or create a military crackdown on me and mass rakhine state late last year nine months on this at revenge of camps in bangladesh are expected to rise dramatically the un expects twenty five thousand babies will be born in may and june that's nine thousand more than the first four months of the year overwhelmed by shame the un says many rape victims have sought to hide their pregnancies while others have tried to terminate them in dangerous home abortions fatima says she made a new early decision to keep her baby no measure the shame. me this baby so i shouldn't be afraid i will raise this baby properly un agencies are working to provide health care for if you g.'s and to work with communities to ensure rape

victims and their children don't face discrimination but they admit they're already struggling to get funding for the basics like food and shelter. were only a fifth of the way were the united nations drawing a response. estimates that we will need nine hundred fifty million u.s. dollars that's a lot of money but when you consider that it's one million people. in the united nations describes what happened to the region as a ticks book example of ethnic cleansing but the government of young some suchi insists no atrocities it could and that it was simply defending itself after a text from. fatima's baby like tens of thousands of others will now be born into an overcrowded and done senate tree camp miriam hall and al jazeera and if you get a chance watch this excellent documentary on the plight of ranger women by our team at one o one east brides and brothels the rohingya trade explores how thousands of ranger

girls who have survived rape and the slaughter of their families continue to face sexual exploitation forced marriage and trafficking in refugee camps it's an excellent documentary you can find it on al-jazeera dot com just click on to documentaries and then want to one east now brazilian oil workers now are walking off the job as a country struggles after a debilitating truckers strike that strike is not easing and the military is being deployed to protect truckers who want to go back to work out oil sector workers say they'll strike with seventy two hours even though the action has been declared illegal. know who's in power. so the oil workers daniel joining the track is in striking tell us about where you are first and what's happening around you. yes hi i'm in outside the main all refinery in polynya which is about two hours from the city of south there are workers behind me they are in

a seventy two hour stoppages you say but since this strike has been declared illegal by the government it's very much a symbolic gesture for now they too are asking for a reduction in fuel prices which they along with much of the population of brazil say as i say a much too high they would also like to see the departure of the c.e.o. . main all company federal but n.j. they say they want him to go they want to see a wholesale reorganization of the company and the way the way the company is run it has to be said that many brazilians despite the truck drivers going back to work some of them very reluctantly a poll came out today saying that more than eighty percent of brazilians support this strike or the five of them say they too very angry about the all prices and the way the government is handling this crisis so there is support for the strikes but what about the current political economic climate in brazil how people feel about that.

very difficult situation we've got elections for the presidential elections coming up in october the president the current president michelle. dourness and joyce is the wrong has some of the worst approval ratings in brazilian history and i think it's fair to say that in general the brazilian population is disillusioned disenchanted with many of their politicians the previous president dilma rousseff was impeached the president before the president lula is now serving a twelve year prison term for corruption very difficult to see which way brazilian politics is going so president has a very difficult situation in trying to control this enjoys very little support among the brazilian population which can see continues to see those prices rise. normally in these kind of situations people would've been angry with the truckers for stopping the foodstuffs reaching market for the shortage of fuel people were

queuing up for many hours outside the filling stations schools were closed some domestic flights were cancelled but in general with a few exceptions people were supporting them because they generally agree with the demands of the truckers it seems unlikely that temp real work that the accord they've reached with the government will hold for very long they've lowered the prices for up to sixty days but it's see it's a very fragile truce a temporary truce and it does seem as though there will be further protests in the weeks and months to come thank you for that daniel daniel my for is empowering anya's south paolo brazil thank you. now the u.s. says it will impose a twenty five percent tariff on fifty billion dollars worth of imports from china it also restricts investment by chinese companies in the u.s. and limit exports of high tech goods to china earlier this month the two countries agreed to look at measures to cut china's trade surplus in a move that appeared to reduce the risk of a trade war florence we has more from in eastern jungle province.

china says it surprised at the latest announcement coming out from the trump administration and called on the us to implement the spirit of their most recent joint statement on china's commercial ministry is of course referring to a preliminary deal reached between the two sides not too long ago in which the u.s. had agreed to delay imposition of tariffs on chinese goods in exchange for china agreeing to significantly increase purchases of u.s. farm goods and energy products but this latest announcement from the u.s. government is of course a reversal off that deal and it comes just days before u.s. representatives are due to arrive in beijing to continue trade talks and some analysts have said that this latest announcement by the u.s. government is intended perhaps to strengthen u.s. hands in those negotiations and to signal that gloves are coming off in those traits faults and other analysts have said that this perhaps is

a move to appease u.s. politicians you see just last week the trumpet ministration had made and not the reversal it lifted a seven year ban but it had imposed just earlier in may on chinese telecoms giant corp from buying u.s. components now it lifted the ban after china complained that the band would put the company out of business this is a company that has already been fined by the u.s. for selling high tech components to north korea and iran in violation of u.s. sanctions china's reaction you can say has been quite. they've not reiterated threats to impose retaliate carrots but they seem to have taken a fly at trumpet ministration and its propensity to flip flops on to sessions saying they're surprised by the same time the decision is somewhat expected. now when hurricane maria hit the u.s. territory of puerto rico last september the local governor described it as the

biggest catastrophe in the island's modern history and now a study contends that thousands more people died then the official government death toll of sixty four the researchers believe that at least four thousand six hundred people six hundred people rather were killed and when you take into account those who lost their lives due to fail years of medical and other infrastructure in the storm's aftermath in the days weeks and months that followed volts and power lines were still to be restored million suffered through a long blackout including patients in hospitals relying on respirators it's estimated that maría cause at least one hundred billion dollars in damages or let's speak some more about this to alexis rouse santals who is the director of the graduate program in applied demography at pennsylvania state university he's via skype from the city of state college thank you very much for being with us alexis this is the biggest number as far of a sars deaths in puerto rico but certainly not the first study to his estimate a much higher death toll than the government's best of all which stands at sixty

four why is this such a huge discrepancy in the status. yes. all the studies that have been conducted since november on the ward point towards an excess deaths of approximately a thousand or more and i think the death toll the official death toll has stayed low because the government is using a very narrow definition of deaths associated with hurricane maria only counting deaths that are associated directly with the hero can say somebody fell from the roof or somebody was killed by flying debris those were the persons they are counted if somebody wanted their family member to be added to the official count in either to do it true or long bureaucratic process which was not possible say for example for somebody who was still recovering from the damage they suffered due to hurricane maria and the puerto rican government stopped issuing numbers in december

of two thousand and seventeen how much of an impact would that have had on the study. because of the policies actually took to stop sharing data all we can do is approximate the number of deaths using estimation techniques the researchers of the study that was published yesterday use ballot a method of sampling households across a population and applying sadistical techniques so that they can make inferences about a population from a small sample so as long as it's not shared we're going to be relying on estimation techniques to approximate the number of deaths associated with it here again yeah and we're just days away now from the next hurricane season and next is how better prepared all day this time round. it's difficult for me to say that they're ready for next year again although that is has

been your fishel narrative that the government has been saying for the last month i went to the island two weeks ago and. a lot of things that i saw were not will not have been there under normal conditions there are still areas that are that haven't gotten any energy since september last year and certainly those areas are not ready for another year again season and nonetheless they haven't recovered from the previous year again that struck the island back in september and access thank you so very much for talking to us here on the news great thank you my pleasure now earlier we brought you the story about electoral fraud in iraq while similar allegations are flooding social media in other parts of the world cyrus back to explain. being a fact colombians are heading back to the polls in just three weeks for a presidential runoff it's between gustavo petro you see him there on the left and

iran to show is a left wing candidate seen as a champion of the poor and a former grower who supports the colombian government on the other side is conservative. he represents the status quo and those opposed to twenty six peace till the end of decades of war with far rebels. but accusations of electoral corruption looms over the nation's vote because in the last twenty four hours the hash tag and actual fraud which is in spanish has been trending worldwide and in fact colombians have been posting that sunday ballot papers they found that edge the showing results being tampered with if you have a look at this one for example it shows that dk has got seven hundred thirty votes we'll just scroll up that just on the right side but if you actually look at the total count of all of those in that municipalities two hundred twenty nine which

doesn't quite as but it's hard for us of course to very thought of the instant verify the authenticity of this alleged ballot paper but what people online all hard i think on numb numbers that answer the don't quite look like they've matching up with the rest and they look like they've been altered so this is an example of what people are finding on those ballot papers now there have been calls for international media outlets to look into the eve fourteen for which we've just seen and allegations it's been modified in favor of the winning candidate and that's yvonne decay and he won sunday's fast round and they favored to win the runoff in june people have been commenting like mainz in monrovia says colombia has suffered with fraud and corruption to sixteen years and need to change changes she says she's there going to be very thing for patrick o'sullivan who has highlighted the problem of vote to forward during his campaign already but not everyone agrees are people like diego he says before the accusations are actually lacking credibility

and is a desperate attempt by the opposition to take down decay but hundreds of people have actually been bombarding the twitter account of the government body overseeing the election and if you have a look just three years i scroll you can see there are plenty of messages with people also posting that fourteen for now others are also asking to have explanations of why those discrepancies are taking place but. it has denied that the food has taken place in the first place now adding to that is say the electoral observers would have demanded a recount had there been any suspicion of ballot fraud but this isn't the first time i can say she's like this have surfaced because independent investigations have showed results in negative elections held in march which is what you can see in that video they were tampered with and the same has happened during the twenty fourteen election now if your in colombia then we want to hear from you that is ahead of the june seventeenth presidential runoff i'm on twitter you can tweet me or even direct message me as well and if there are any stories that you think we

should be covering the hashtag is news groups so do get in touch sara thank you very much returning now to our top story and an update on it the russian dissident journalist turned up at a news conference in kiev after being reported murder's has given some details about what happened here's some of what he had to see. as far as. two months i was made aware one month ago. how the guys worked. over this months we were. through the details the result of that became this special operation as a result of which one person has been detained. on solar power.

and i am going to ok back now sustainable living is a phrase you hear a lot these days and in one part of the u.s. it's spock becoming a reality an entirely solar powered city is taking shape in florida and people are already living a green and life and gallagher went and had a look. in a state peppered with retirement villages and golf courses babcock ranch looks like just another new development however few communities have driverless buses or a powered entirely by the sun like this one this solar array is the largest of its kind in the world and will provide clean when you pull energy for years to come

well this is the birth of a new town this is founder square in itself a st kitts and says the projects its new standards and possibilities for how we live we are trying to create the most sustainable environmentally responsible new city that's ever been developed in the world and we're doing it when it's not talking about we're doing it in our goal is is that people will come here and see it and copy it from renderings to reality families began buying homes and moving it at the beginning of the year jim and donna a vague found out about the project two years ago and they're among the first residents i don't know if we're setting an example because we're doing this for us we love this lifestyle if they look at it and say wow they're really doing something great and they follow us that would be added benefit and roma to the community school is already underway as more families move in but babcock ranch is still growing developers say that more than fifty thousand people live here by the time the final phase is complete making this one of the biggest self-sustained

communities in the country homes here are relatively affordable but the land is also key ninety percent of it is now a preserve and will be cherished for generations to come local ranches say working with developers and helping preserve the land is a natural partnership with farmers and ranchers always been stewards of the land even before anybody thought up on this any of this stuff or ever this land gives you is what you make that year we have to take care of it from conception to breaking ground it took more than a decade to get this project underway but babcock run she's now a real world example of how cities of the future might look and gallacher al-jazeera babcock ranch florida. well that's it for today's show don't forget we're on social media at all times hash tag aging is great from me fully back to one all to thank you for watching what are you back here studio fourteen at fifteen hundred g.m.t. i'm fast. travel

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back from the dead a russian journalist supposedly killed by the kremlin in ukraine is paraded ass a press conference in kiev. and no i maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera coming out. right hand man arrives at beijing international airport on route to meet top u.s. officials in new york. results from over a thousand polling stations canceled in iraq election commission says it's found evidence of fraud. among the guard here on.