a russian journalist who was reported killed in kiev is alive and well it's revealed his death was faked by ukraine secret police. hello i'm maryam namazie you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up the highest ranking north korean official to visit the u.s. in almost two decades is due to arrive in new york we'll have the latest on the on again off again u.s. korean summit. a partial recount is ordered into iraq's may twelfth election the transform shiite cleric metod a outsider into a political kingmaker. and political turmoil in a city that still no government three months off to an election is another vote the

only way forward. a russian journalist and fierce critic of president putin who was reportedly shot dead in kiev has appeared a live news conference. the head 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 the news is that if you go as far as i know this approach and 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. i have more on that story a little bit later including all the latest reaction from the russian capital moscow now moving on to the u.s. korea summit north korean leader kim jong un's right hand man is expected to arrive in the united states in the next hour kim young child boarded a flight from beijing earlier on wednesday bound for new york is due to hold talks with u.s. secretary of state might pompei oh let's go to our white house correspondent kimberly hulk it for more on this and so we have here a veteran of the government in north korea that top nuclear negotiator what is he going to new york for what's he going to do. well having meeting with the u.s. secretary of state we do know that but certainly the vice chair and right hand man to north korean leader kim jong un is know is certainly familiar to the united

states in fact just getting him here was a bit of an endeavor and of itself given the fact that he is subject to u.n. sanctions or other u.s. sanctions as a result of that maximum pressure campaign the u.s. has on north korea so even in vallance of setting an agenda for potential talks between the u.s. president in the north korean leader which is what they are set to do in new york there had to be a relaxation of those u.s. sanctions just to get him on u.s. soil which is a feat in and of itself but also he's certainly well known to some americans and how those sanctions were put in place given the fact that he did oversee the cyber hacking in north korea that eventually of course was turned the united states alleges on sony pictures several years ago when it endeavored to put forward a film satirizing the north korean leader so that is the backdrop for some pretty lofty discussions denuclearize ation the wrinkles in terms of the definition of that both sides very far apart and the speed in which that could take place also

the transporting of nuclear warheads inspections and whether or not the u.s. can even be trusted so these are some of the issues that we know that the new york meeting in advance of potentially meeting between the u.s. president the north korean leader these are some of the things they're going to have to work out the biggest concern so far kimberly has been the fact that the u.s. and north korea have different definitions about what exactly denuclearization means always likely to get more clarity on vent from this trip. it's very possible that by the end of tomorrow we may have an idea in terms of sort of the shared understanding of what that means what could be achieved in a meeting between the north korean leader in the u.s. president but there is another factor in all of this and it comes down to the concerns and interests that also need to be reflected on the part of japan and south korea we know that the japanese prime minister shinzo abbay will be here on june seventh to meet with the u.s. president to remind the u.s.

president of the concerns about making sure that any agreement includes something to address the concerns about the short range missile threat that certainly is on the radar of japan and also the issue of japanese abductees from the seventy's and eighty's so a lot on the table hard to even get to the some of those issues when they can't even decide right now what denuclearization means which is a priority thank you very much our white house correspondent kimberly how kit well more now on the news that russian journalist and fierce critic of russian president vladimir putin is reportedly shot is now alive he appeared at a news conference a little bit speech roy chalons who is following the story for us from last go so a very strange shocking and will a bizarre story warry but tell us more about why. would be part of an operation to fake his own death. well this story had seemed to be following

a depressing and familiar pattern earlier on in the day with the aftermath a century of the news that yet another kremlin critic a german this had been killed in. suspicious circumstances to say the least murdered there were a big trees that i was reading online there were there were there was a mourning wife is his wife had no idea that actually all along he was alive and well in the century this would be and the labyrinth sting operation faking the death of. to catch the would be killer's. press conference where he was brought out to guard and applause from the journalists who up until that moment it also assumes the he was dead there was then the explanation given that this was a long process two months in the making that bob janko been involved in it for the

for the past month and that essentially it had all been done to ensnare a plot or to wrap up a plots that have been detected against life that someone who'd been approached as to be an assassin have actually gone to the ukrainian secret services and told them about this and that was the beginning of the plan they say that they have arrested one person but the ukrainians are pointing the finger of blame here to moscow saying that ultimately the mosque of mines behind the attempted assassination of work russian intelligence. is there some concern that an operation like this essentially plays into the hands of not only opponents but those that seek to pressure journalists. yeah i

mean obviously there is palpable relief from pretty much everyone that works as an independent journalist in the russian speaking world that someone who they thought had been killed for or for the work that he was doing is actually alive and well that is undeniable air people are genuinely pleased that this man is alive but there is considerable concern you know you can see if you go online if you check out twitter etc people who work here in russia who work in ukraine in the media are expressing concerns that you know this. this lab or a plant although it obviously has resulted in a man being alive who my other wise be dead does have long term ramifications this is the era of fake news we're we talk about is the post the post truth

and if we were in the situation sometime in the future where you know another person. might end up in a pool of their own blood kremlin critic then perhaps there is you know the possibility that voices here from the governments in russia or any other or thora tarion system might say well how do we know he's really dead smeared remember bob genco what happened there and ultimately this will degrade trust and truth rather than enhanced it and i thank you very much from moscow chalons israel's government has authorized construction for nearly two thousand you settle in the occupied west bank at least eighty percent of plan from outside the settlements that are already built last week the israeli defense minister said he was seeking immediate approval for up to two and a half thousand times settlements are considered illegal under international law. eisel fighters have attacked the afghan interior ministry headquarters in the

capital kabul and he say a car bomb was detonated at the entrance and then several attackers managed to get inside the compound security forces battled the gunman for more than two hours before subduing them at least one policeman was killed during the attack thousands of jordanians are striking against government plans to raise taxes any businesses have closed as public and private sector employees staged a walkout the amendment's set to double the income tax base part of an economic program driven by the international monetary fund which aims to bring down public debt now to iraq where the electoral commission is saying it's cancelling 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 for citizens living abroad shall stratfor 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 the call to

a vote in the predominately sunni provinces of. an 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 market israel. there are frauds many palatial and problems that took place and that is seeing in the decisions made by parliament today i personally support these decisions which serve the interest of the political and the market took 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 and had them shape we're checking all violations and complaints 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 law 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 dinna 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 cold 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. still ahead for you on the program thousands of migrants and refugees are forced out of a makeshift settlement in paris. i'm on a gala here on the west coast of florida where a ranch something that's turning into one of the biggest solar powered cities in the world. looking fine and dry across the rebel base a hot and sunny if the truth be done for the most part we have got some rain around around the black sea the caspian sea just pushing over towards the impulse of the region we will see some basin pieces of cloud and right it's spilling out sifts

cases the west over the coming in here georgia russia budge on the hominy yet could all see some rain over the next day also a simple so the made looking fun to drive twenty six degrees celsius the whole baghdad forty degrees forty the full kuwait city and also forty degrees for crotch a little further north is no kwacha salt couple gets up to thirty three celsius still plenty hot enough into the low thirty's therefore to run as well it's also want to say i was by friday that weather continues across turkey over towards the caspian sea before the 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 hossa we'll see temperatures here in doha around forty two degrees celsius maybe a touch woman to go on into friday i say 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.

welcome back let's update you on the top stories this hour a russian journalist who has reportedly shot dead in the ukrainian capital is alive . appeared at a news conference and said his death was fate to cash for those who were trying to kill him. and all the north korean leaders right hand man is expected to arrive in the u.s. for talks with the secretary of state might pay oh it's in preparation for next month's historic summit between president donald trump and kim jong. iraq's electoral commission says it's canceling the results for more than a thousand polling stations used in this month's parliamentary vote because it has evidence of fraud the ballots will be manually recounted. now italy is struggling to end three months of political turmoil that have sent shock waves through financial markets efforts by anti establishment parties to form a coalition government collapsed on the weekend after the president rejected a euro skeptic nominee for the post of economy minister since then there's been

frantic behind the scenes wrangling to build a new coalition that speak to nadine baba who joins us from rome and does it look as though it will be able to avoid another vote or another election. omarion i don't think anyone's really entertaining the idea that there won't be elections on the horizon but the question is way in and under what circumstances now the prime minister designate has again been meeting president. promised designit. really met the president on tuesday again and early on wednesday he held informal talks but then came out and said that he and his entourage wanted to wait a while because of new circumstances he said that it appeared that there was a chance that the political government actually being formed in other words between the five star movement and the league who were part of that coalition who proposed

a controversial figure for economy minister who was vetoed by the president at the weekend and so it's very uncertain as to who's going to get the role of trying to appoint the next cabinet but now we've just heard in the last hour or so from the head of the five star movement dimaio that he's willing to to consider an alternative economy minister although he wants. his appointee in the mix but he could compromise basically then we heard from the leader of lagos matteo salvini who didn't react directly to that but stuck to his guns saying and old all day long he's been saying that the only government invisible is the one that they nominated he's also struck back at reaction abroad saying that it's really cannot longer continue to be the country that says yes to europe there was market uncertainty of course following sunday's events which the

president said was was trying to calm the international financial markets. things have got a bit calmer in the last twenty four hours but the leader of the five star movement acknowledged there was a lot of worry. on the markets but he says it's not just because we're so-called populists it's because of the time scale of the uncertainty and things need to go things need to start proceeding in a smooth manner the head of the league says he wants elections as soon as possible it seems that he's a. alloys in five saw a more amenable to perhaps seeing the summer out with a compromise an interim government and then perhaps elections later in the year and just a quick one on the financial reaction because the political uncertainty isn't any result any time soon it's affecting global markets how much disruption could s. cause your world i'm of course in the last few days there's been lots of comments

about. about the this the specter of a euro skeptic economy minister somebody who has talked about a plan b. being worked on for italy leaving the euro now just today just i'm on wednesday luigi to my oh says it's fake news that our alliance was ever really intending to think about that we just want reform and we want somebody in that position as economy minister who can stand up and renegotiate terms with brussels rather than anything along the lines of pulling out of the single currency they know that there is a fine balance to be struck because their voters are euro skeptic they've said that they've suffered financially but they feel european at the same time and so i think that will likely to see some kind of stability returning to the markets the european central bank says it's not going to intervene for the time being thank you very much from rome and the latest. now french police dismantling the largest

makeshift camp for refugees and migrants in paris the settlement houses around one and a half thousand people recently to migrant stranded in one of the canals along they can't cash their reports. french police began clearing the camp in paris early on wednesday refugees mainly from eritrea somalia and sudan left with the 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 judith. 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 sometimes they don't it's like that with your thoughts this is a never ending situation because of dublin italians have the migrants fingerprints but they don't hand out any papers the migrants 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 gotta love it 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 at port del a ship out it's the only option possible for one to avoid these camps that there 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 it wants it to crack down on so-called economic migrants. they will be sheltered but in return as the

government and the president clearly said they will be checked and their situations will be verified. at the shelters some migrants rested while french officials checked people's identities the government hopes its 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 arrive hoping for a better future especially butler al-jazeera paris. thousands of workers in greece of walked off the job in protest against a new wave of austerity measures that will kick in after the summer the twenty four hour general strike is against reforms which are part of greece's bailout agreement with foreign lenders schools have been closed and flights disrupted hospitals only have emergency staff on hand. for the first time in nearly forty years as zimbabwe will hold an election without robert mugabe president amisom and announce the polls will be held on july thirtieth he will run

as the head of the ruling zanu p.f. and will face several opponents will be ruled zimbabwe since independence in one nine hundred eighty and stepped down last year after the military briefly took power thousands of rango women who say they were raped when they fled a military crackdown in myanmar's rock kind state last year a jew to give birth more than seven hundred thousand reign the muslims have sought refuge in neighboring bangladesh and out of there in squalid and overcrowded refugee camps one hundred ports. fatima was just sixteen and newly married when she sees me and my 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 more and more more more 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 in mass rakhine state late last year nine months on first that 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 newly decision to keep her baby no measure the shame alleghany this baby so i shouldn't be afraid i will grace this baby properly un agencies are working to provide health care for refugees 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 right now we're only a fifth of the way where the united nations joint response. estimates that we will need nine hundred fifty million u.s. dollars up for a lot of money but when you consider that it's one million people in. the united nations describes what happened to the revenger as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing but the government to function suchi insists no atrocities occurred 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 malaysia's new leader says a search for missing malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy could resume the hunt officially ended on tuesday after four years of multi-million dollar operations failed to find the aircraft two hundred thirty nine people were on board

flight m h three seventy when it disappeared in two thousand and fourteen but malaysian prime minister military mohamed says he will consider restarting the search if new evidence is found. that the. this program all over the world. we have not found and if it is so we have to come to is this the end of or the city for something that. i. consider the e.u. . but at the moment. we have we have put a stop to this. now sustainable living is a phrase we hear a lot these days and one positive the u.s. state of florida it's becoming a reality and entirely solar powered city is taking shape and residents are already

living a green a life when it's complete cock ranch will be one of the biggest communities of its kind in the world and he gallacher reports. 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 power to 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 and yvel office at kitson says the project sets 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 and 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 in 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 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 of this any of this or never 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. quick look at headlines now a russian journalist and fierce critic of president vladimir putin who is reportedly shot dead in the ukrainian capital as appeared as a news conference. the head of ukraine's security service told before says that they had faked. death in a sting to catch those who were trying to actually kill him left russia last year after receiving threats or notable to use usenet the people as far as i know disapprove and was prepared over two months i was made known one month ago over this month or so how the guards worked how do dark 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. one of north korean leader kim jong un's most trusted aides is expected to arrive in the u.s. soon came 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 on peo as discussions are set to pave the way for a summit between u.s. president donald trump and kim jong un in singapore next month. israel's government has authorized construction finale two thousand new settlement homes in the occupied west bank at least eighty percent of planned for outside the settlements that are already built last week the israeli defense minister said he was seeking immediate approval for up to two and a half thousand homes settlements are considered illegal under international law 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 the ballots will be recounted manually. and i still gunmen have launched a brazen attack on the afghan interior ministry had quarters in the capital kabul a car bomb was detonated at a checkpoint leading to the ministry before with assault rifles and grenade launchers tried to storm that way inside one policeman was killed and five others enjoy it. those are the headlines much more coming up in the news hour in twenty five minutes time so do join me then coming up next on. inside story of it later on i found.

strikes on gaza by israel rocket attacks by palestinians in the west fighting between the size of four years they truce is in place but for how long and once triggered this latest escalation this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. it's the most intense attack on israel bipartisan group sees the two thousand and fourteen war in gaza and this could house blocks another war hamas and islamic jihad launched a barrage of rockets into israel on tuesday wounding three soldiers it was in.