back from the dead a russian journalist supposedly killed by the kremlin in ukraine is paraded asset press conference in kiev. and though i maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera coming out kim jong un's 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 the west coast of florida were caught

ranch something that's turning into one of the biggest solar powered cities in the world. a russian journalist and fierce critic of president vladimir putin who is reportedly shot dead in kiev has just appeared live at a news conference. that of ukraine security service told reporters they'd faked. death in a sting to catch those who were trying to kill him left russia last year saying he was receiving threats and feared he might be jailed. nor news just north of you know as far as i know disapprobation was prepared over two months i was made known one month ago over this month i saw how the guys worked how they dug things up like buffaloes over this month we were in constant contact we thought things through and

worked out the details that begin this special operation as a result of which one person has been detained. so for more on this breaking story let's go to our reporter warry challenge his in moscow henri tell us how and why would orchestrate his own murder. well it had seemed like a depressingly familiar tale with a kremlin critic dying essentially in a pool of his own blood there were big trees written there were colleagues and friends who spoke of their shock and their. horror their condemnation there was a grieving widow who believed genuinely that husband was dead except that he wasn't and then he was brought out of this press conference shocking many people shocking me i'd written my own news package that had been running on al-jazeera early in the day about how this man had died and what the ramifications

of it all was so this is an incredible twist and not what anyone was expecting he said in his press conference there that he was apologizing to his wife that he had to keep it secret from her how to keep it secret from everyone there was the only thing to do really was basically the ukrainian secret service and been working together for a month the plan had been going on for a month before that before by chunk it was but was brought on board and essentially it was all being done to catch the killers and the ukrainian secret service says there's they have one person in detention he was arrested somehow hours ago and this is a quote from them. in order to organize this cynical planned russian secret service has recruited a ukrainian national who was tasked with finding perpetrators to commit the cynical murder and that there was

a sum of forty thousand dollars that was paid for it so the ukrainians are saying that the masterminds of all this were the russians but see you know we have to see what else comes out of this extraordinary story because not everything is clear yet and the likely reaction there in moscow. well the. the russian ministry of foreign affairs has said the important thing is the shanker is alive. and this is obviously been done for propaganda purposes the russian response i think is going to start coming in over the coming hours they are as confused i think by this is as everybody else's online there are a good many people a good many journalists who are worried about this event yes they're pleased that someone who they thought was dead is not dead bartz the tactics that have been

used here are questionable to some we're living in what's being called a post truth era the year of the year of fake news does doing something like this help to restore trust in governments in secret services or does it degrade it further thank you very much worry chalons with all the latest from moscow. north korean leader kim jong un's right hand man is expected to arrive in the u.s. in the next few hours kim myong boarded a flight from beijing earlier on wednesday bound for new york is due to hold talks with the u.s. secretary of state might. those discussions are set to pave the way for a summit between u.s. president donald trump and kim jong un in singapore next month so what do we then know about kim yong chill well a four star general is a diplomatic heavyweight known as one of the most powerful people in north korea

he's played a central role in the recent thaw in relations between north and south korea as well as the united states he's a former spy chief and a spent nearly thirty years as a senior member of the intelligence community and most importantly he's a trusted advisor of the north korean leader kim jong un i was also a bodyguard to his late father kim jong il let's go live to our white house correspondent kimberly hull kit so a regime veteran he's north korea's top nuclear negotiator tell us more about the purpose of his visit to the u.s. . well essentially what we're being told is that this is to settle the agenda to work on the shared understanding or framework of a summit between the united states and north korea with regard to denuclearize ation but there are limits to what can be achieved and there is a recognition of that given that there is such a wide gap in terms of what do you nuclear eyes ation means to each side so

certainly that is something that is being addressed also a potential timeline and also whether or not there is a real willingness on the part of north korea to denuclearize their concerns about inspections transporting nuclear warheads out of the country and also on the part of the united states from north korea's standpoint is the issue of trust whether or not the united states can be trusted now certainly there is given the history of this north korean vice chair kim yong chill some issue of trust on the part of the united states now we know that he has met twice already with my pump a zero in north korea this is the first time this type of a meeting will happen in the united states on u.s. soil what's significant all of this is this man is under sanctions given the fact that he did the united states alleges oversee the hacking of sony pictures back in several years ago where in fact there was a temp to put out

a movie satirizing the north korean leader kim jong un so it's in this climate in those sanctions that in fact they had to be relaxed in order for him to make this visit and in turn lay the groundwork for a summit that donald trump very much wants to see happen i want house correspondent kimberly thank you iraq's electoral commission says it's canceling the results from more than a thousand polling stations used in this month's parliamentary vote it says it has evidence of fraud at voting centers both in iraq and for citizens living abroad but has more from baghdad. members of the iraqi parliament called an open special session on monday following more allegations of fraud during parliamentary elections earlier this month they called her votes in the predominately sunni provinces of. nineveh and all ballots cast by iraqis living abroad to be manually recounted the demand was supported by many sunni politicians and others who oppose the election results which source successful outcome for three main shia

led blocks in iraq's first election since the defeat of eisel. there are frauds and problems that took place and that is seeing into the made by parliament today i personally support. the interest of the political and the process in iraq and they must be implemented. prime minister hyderabadi warned in his weekly news conference a potential political instability if demands for recounts continued to have them shape we're checking all violations and complains i must say that the political process is important we can't get into a political vacuum parliament is only left with thirty days to finish its legal term and the new parliament must take effect after that without a new parliament in place will be a constitutional gap on wednesday parliament's special session continued. twenty eight parliamentarians put together a draft for

a complete to recount of votes across all of iraq and for it to be supervised by the iraqi judiciary and the u.n. mission in the country iraq's independent election commission cancelled results of one thousand and twenty one polling stations including those in the predominately sunni provinces of china nineveh and sixty seven outside the country even warned of the potential of civil war if the crisis escalates in order for any country wide to recount law to be passed it has to be ratified by fifty percent plus one of iraq's three hundred twenty nine members of parliament before it is then signed off by the supremes court but despite the kind of legal difficulties that the twenty eight parliamentarians calling for this recount face the issue highlights just how difficult it is to form a government after years of political tension and violence in iraq. i still find as of attack the afghan interior ministry headquarters in the capital

kabul at least a car bomb was detonated at the entrance and then several attackers managed to get inside the compound security forces battled the gunmen for more than two hours before subjecting them at least one policeman was killed chairing the attack. a suicide attacker detonated his explosive at the entrance of the interior ministry and wounded two people right after the blast i saw other attackers who had military uniforms getting out from an armored vehicle. french police are dismantling the largest makeshift camp for refugees and migrants in paris i mean air settlement houses around a thousand one and a half thousand people recently to migrants drowned in one of the canals along the camp as ash of our explains. french police began clearing the camp in paris early on wednesday refugees mainly from eritrea somalia and sudan left with a few possessions they had they were taken to shelters around the city more than

one thousand five hundred people had been living in poor conditions with no sanitation and little food exhausted most were relieved to be going through. it's been hard here it's dirty there's no toilet no shower to wash for more than three days i haven't had a shower sometimes they eat sometimes they don't it's like that. this is a never ending situation because of dublin italians have the migrants fingerprints but they don't hand out any papers the moderates end up in the street they come to france where they apply for asylum but then they are sent back to italy they come back here again and end up in the street earlier this month to migrants drowned in the canal the incidents highlighted the already desperate situation the mayor of paris says she's repeatedly urged the government to help but you've got nothing here and i think we could have avoided waiting for months to find shelter for these people the suggestion i made to the state was to build a welcome seemed like the one we used to have that put out the only option possible

for one to avoid these camps that have been thirty five clarence's of camps like this across paris in the last three years but this is the first one since the government passed its new immigration law it says the law will help genuine asylum seekers but i wanted to crack down on so-called economic migrants. in. they will be sheltered but in return as the government on the president clearly says they will be tracked and their situations will be verified. at the shelters some migrants rested while french officials checked people's identities the government one hundred new immigration law will reduce the number of migrants coming to france but for now it seems that there is no end to those who are rife hoping for a better future natasha bobsleigh al-jazeera paris still ahead for you on the program political deadlock in one of europe's biggest economies italy's prime

minister designate says new possibilities in a match to end the stalemate. the comedian who was once a darling of american t.v. but has been bod from screens because of outrage over a racist tweet. i think we are likely to see some flooding into eastern parts of china over the next couple of days lots of heavy rain in place at the moment big area cloud there walk across central parts of the country up towards shanghai and some terrific now pulls coming in here for thursday further south it is generally dry a little on the grace side there for hong kong travel thick and little time rest west of the southern part of china as we go on through friday but some rest by the shanghai say the sun coming through temperatures getting up to around twenty six

degrees celsius for the south more heavy downpours and into india china much of vietnam seeing some lives showers the showers stretch their way across a good pass off the region has come across into india on the other side of the goal the western side of the country pushing up kind of taka look at that mind a lot three hundred ten millimeters of rain in twenty four hours the southwest the monsoon summarize well and truly on the way. here there are one hundred eighty eight millimeters that came down in just six hours so we do have flooding across the the region here then heavy showers they are set to continue across the western side of in the i think they will ease a little as we go on through the next couple of days thursday pitcher showers east a little further southwards and east.

it's in this case. each one a story. to be seen. to be. demonstrably. it is coming to be when. we look human to. quick reminder of the top stories this hour the russian journalist our country who was reportedly shot dead in ukraine has appeared alive in a television conference as death was faked in

a sting to catch those who were trying to kill him. north korean leader kim jong un's right hand man is expected to arrive in the u.s. in the next few hours kim cho is due to hold talks with the u.s. secretary of state might. and iraq's electoral commission says it's canceling the results for more than a thousand polling stations used in this month's parliamentary vote it says it has evidence of fraud. well now a city is struggling to end three months of been a school tom a lot of. financial markets efforts by too populist policies to form a coalition government collapse after the president rejected a euro skeptic nominee for the post of economy minister they can take a prime minister car locata rarely met with president. before heading to parliament for more talks of a forming a government. i think bobby joins us now from rheims what are the chances of cautiously being able to present a cabinet anytime soon. well mary in the still there is

a possibility but perhaps after the last twelve hours or so chances are less because mr meltzer l.a. himself has put out a statement on wednesday saying that due to new circumstances he and his team wants to wait a while before coming up with a list of proposed cabinet ministers those circumstances he says other possibility of a political government what does he mean he means those same parties five star and to the league which presented a cabinet at the weekend and who had their economy minister rejected vetoed by the president the possibility that they'll come up with a compromise candidate meaning that they'll again be able to try to form a government now they have the numbers in parliament to do that they also have the numbers in parliament to vote against a technocrats like mystical to really in a vote of confidence and so many people are aware that that could just delay the

crisis further if he did go on to be the prime minister heading a cabinet through the summer to push through a budget and so on there is a split the five star movement said to be more in favor of compromising on a candidate matteo salvini the head of the league still saying that they will not compromise on their personnel they will not be dictated to but behind the scenes obviously there are still talks going on and that's why the prime minister designate right now is not in a position to say yes it will be me who will present a cabinet to parliament in the near future and beyond that of course all of the both of those parties calling for fresh elections in the near future and what about the impact this place called uncertainty on financial markets. well again it seems to have swung on tuesday we saw a big negative impact on the uncertainty in terms of italian bank shares being sold in terms of italian government bonds. be attracting much greater

yields right now though markets are bouncing back in the european central bank says it sees no reason to intervene this is a political crisis it says not an economic one and although the european european commission suggested that the market reaction might actually deliver a lesson to italian voters he was quickly rebuked by people like donald tusk the head of the european council and in fact if the government if there can be a compromise in the next few days perhaps his dollar warnings would prove to be just hypothetical anyway thank you very much indeed bob with all the latest from rome the worst flare up of violence in four years between the israeli army and palestinian factions in gaza appears to be easing and mass and islamic jihad say they've reached a ceasefire agreement with israel it comes after israeli air strikes targeted several training and military facilities in gaza on tuesday israeli military says at least seventy rockets and mortar bombs were fired by the factions towards israel

and its myth has more. it's been quiet in gaza since about four am local time when a cease fire appears to taken hold this we understand was following a message delivered from the israelis by egyptian mediators to the different palestinian factions in gaza saying that if you do not stop firing rockets and mortars into israel now then israel will retaliate in a much stronger way perhaps even targeting the leaderships of the different palestinian factions in gaza but it seems to have done the trick the groups here in gaza saying while they have agreed to a cease fire what happened in the throughout the night was that because islamic jihad was the main protagonist that started firing these rockets into israeli territory then the kassam brigade hamas is armed wing felt obliged to join in there was pressure on the street to show its strength so this is when more and more

groups started joining in firing rockets and mortars into israel and israel continued to fire rockets into gaza hit targets in gaza both sides exchange all of this fire till four o'clock when find that message seems to have come through and the palestinian groups have taken notice. israel's government has authorized construction finelli two thousand new settlement homes in the occupied west bank at least eighty percent planned for outside the settlements that already built last week the israeli defense minister said he was seeking immediate approval for up to two and a half thousand homes palestine's foreign minister has called on the international criminal court to investigate israeli settlements in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem they considered illegal under international humanitarian law thousands of workers in greece have walked off the job as a protest against a new wave of austerity measures that will kick in after the summer labor unions have called for a twenty four hour general strike against their reforms which are part of greece's

bailout agreement with foreign lenders. schools have been closed and flights have been disrupted hospitals only have emergency staff he says latest bailout ends in august but the austerity measures will continue for at least two more years. john psaropoulos has more from athens. these people are protesting against a mix of austerity policies each of which was justified as an emergency measure to balance the budget but cumulatively and over eight years that mix is becoming explosive taxes have gone up throughout the crisis to continue to raise sixty billion dollars a year even as the economy shrank by a quarter pensions have been cut by as much as half salaries by fifteen percent and worst of all unemployment still stands at twenty percent but together with underemployment is as the maze it at closer to twenty seven percent the squeeze on

people's incomes has meant that greeks have lost much more than one hundred million dollars in savings there's another one hundred million dollars worth of bank loans they can't or won't pay off and the properties underpinning those loans are now being sold four billion dollars worth last year and that fire sale is expected to double this year come january pension is looking at a new eighteen percent cut in salaried workers a new tax hike the eurozone is telling greeks that the medicine is working because they are managing to export enough wealth to continue to pay that bailout loans back to these people who would like a second opinion. and more oil services have been held around belgium to honor those killed in a stabbing and shooting rampage prime minister shells michelle attended the main ceremony in the city of. attack happened a man and two policemen were killed by an inmate who was on a two day release prosecutors are calling it

a terrorist the gunman was killed on the scene. now the us network a.b.c. is cancelled a t.v. comedy that received glowing reviews for its betrayal of working families after it stopped posted a racist tweet actress roseanne barr who is a vocal supporter of president donald trump says she regrets the tweet calling it unforgivable president trump has just weighed into the control of a say by criticizing a.b.c. for apologizing to the individual named by paula but never to him full horrible statements made about the president on its news channel kristensen many as mall. it was hailed as a show for the times roseanne portrayed a working class white american family the kind that tended to vote for donald trump in the last election and touched on some of the tough political and social issues that currently divide americans what's a deplorable. but the

a.b.c. network owned by the media giant disney pulled the plug on it just hours after its controversial star resume bar tweeted about a former official who served under president obama she described valerie jarrett who is african-american as if the muslim brotherhood and planet of the apes had a baby with the woman targeted by bars said it was for americans yet another lesson about racism in the united states i think we have to turn it into a teaching moment i'm fine i'm worried about all the people out there who don't have a circle of friends and followers who come right to their defense bar who had also compared us un ambassador susan rice to an ape in two thousand and thirteen apologized saying i am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks i should have known better forgive me my joke was in bad taste well that is startling news costar and producer sarah gilbert said her comments do not reflect the beliefs of our cast and crew or anyone

associated. our show but it was the president of a.b.c. channing dungey herself an african-american who had the final word on the fate of the show roseanne's twitter statement is a borat repugnant and inconsistent with our values she said and we have decided to cancel her show it shows people's difference different opinions on how they resolve that bar has described herself as a trump supporter and the president had called to congratulate her after the premiere of the show did you see roseanne's ratings as it were they they were unbelievable over eighteen million people and it was about us kristen salumi al-jazeera. now sustainable living is a phrase you hear it all these days but in one part of the u.s. state of florida is becoming a reality and entirely salop palate city is taking shape and residents are already living a green a life when it's complete will be one of the biggest communities of its kind in the

wild and gallacher reports. in a state peppered with retirement villages and go of 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 will energy for years to come well this is the birth of a new town this is founder square and it is well a facade kitson 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 we're no 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 you'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 ran. always been stewards of the land even before anybody thought up of the. order of 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 together kuroda zero babcock ranch florida. quick look at the top stories now a russian journalist and fierce critic of president putin has reportedly shot dead in the ukrainian capital as a paris a news conference. the head of ukraine security service told reporters that they faced. death in a staying to catch those who were trying to actually kill him left russia last year after receiving threats. the news just north of you know as far as i know this operation was prepared over two months i was made known one month ago over this month or so how the guys worked how they dug things up like buffalo's over this month we were in constant contact we thought things through and worked out the

details that begin this special operation as a result of which one person has been detained and all the headlines north korean leader kim jong un's right hand man is expected to arrive in the u.s. in the next few hours young child boarded a flight from beijing earlier on wednesday bound for new york where he'll meet with the u.s. secretary of state might pompei o those discussions are set to pave the way for a summit between u.s. president donald trump and kim jong un in singapore next month iraq's electoral commission says it's canceling the results for more than a thousand polling stations used in this month's parliamentary vote it says it has evidence of fraud at voting centers both in iraq and also for citizens living abroad. i still gunmen have launched a brazen attack on the afghan interior ministry headquarters in the capital kabul a car bomb was detonated at the first checkpoint leading to the ministry before fight is on with assault rifles and grenade launches tried to storm their way

inside one policeman was killed in the attack and five others injured and italy is struggling to end three months of political turmoil that have sent shock waves through financial markets efforts by two populist parties to form a coalition government collapsed after the president rejected a euro skeptic nominee for the post of economy minister caretaker prime minister carlo culture rarely met with the president. earlier on before heading to parliament for more talks over forming a government you're up to date with all of our top stories i'll have more news for you in about twenty five minutes time do join me then coming up next on al-jazeera it's witness to stay with us by phone now.

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