documentaries to. see if. this is zero. hello i'm this is the news our life from london coming up in the next sixty minutes . back from the dead russian journalist supposedly killed by the kremlin in ukraine is paraded asset press conference in kiev 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. and i'm peter with all the sports news former

champion know that joke of each wins at the french open as he continues his return from injury better more on the way please read the program. story a russian journalist and fierce critic of president vladimir putin who was reportedly shot dead in kiev has appeared at a 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 but russia last year saying he was receiving threats and feared he might be jailed. know school can use usenet if you go as far as i know it is a parisian 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 let's go to challenge his following the story from moscow well right what more have we learned about why bob would orchestrate his own death. well he was clearly doing it with the assistance of ukraine's security service that it was them who actually put this plan in operation and then they brought him on about a month ago now what we understand is the the security services had essentially had a tip off that someone they know had been approached as a potential hit man and this potential hit man had come to the security services to tell them what was going on and that was the origin of this staged event. it's

a complicated affair isn't it i mean we were just last night and throughout the day believing that this was a man who had breathed his last he had been found with fatal gunshot wound to the back in his own home had been rushed to hospital but died on the way in this press conference or actually apologized to all the people who've been kept in the dark including his wife his wife had no idea so this was an elaborate scheme essentially set up to trap the people who were apparently plotting against about junkers life now the ukrainians are saying that this murder plot originated actually in russia where i am and that it was the russian intelligence services that wanted him dead ultimately that is of course something that russia has strenuously denied how might the russians react to this.

well i mean basically they are saying that this is. an act of deception from the ukrainians the they misled the entire international community that it's an anti russian provocation knows that line sort of come out recently from the russian foreign ministry and i think you know that's to be expected of that's the kind of thing they say in these circumstances in these kinds of circumstances whenever they arise going beyond looking more broadly at this whole affair there are certainly people who are watching what's happening at the moment people who do feel relief of course the banker is actually alive his fellow journalists other people who monitor political events in the in the russian speaking world who are concerns

and they're concerned for a specific reason that however spectacular this security operation from the ukrainian security services might have been with operating in in what's been called the post truth world this is an era of fake news and things like this where people might feel they have been misled might feel that they've had the wool pulled over their eyes in the long run mights further degrade people's trust people's belief in journalism and in the intelligence services as well thank you very much roy chalons with all the latest from moscow. now north korean leader kim jong un's right hand man is expected to arrive in the u.s. soon kim myong child boarded a flight from beijing earlier on wednesday bound for new york is due to hold talks with the u.s. secretary of state my pump a o o's discussions are set to pave the way for a summit between u.s.

president donald trump and kim jong un in the singapore next month so what then do we know about kim yong cho what the 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 foreign 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 adviser to the north korean leader kim jong un and was also a bodyguard to his late father kim jong il. editor james bays is live outside the north korean u.n. mission in new york and james what do you hearing about young charles plans when he touches down there in new york what i'm i'm hearing just moments ago just in the last few seconds from reporters that share of k. that his plane has now touched down all the u.s.

soil obviously in recent years we've seen the north korean foreign minister come here to new york but he's visiting the united nations this is the most senior north korean diplomat to visit the u.s. for some considerable time i'm outside at the moment the north korean mission to the united nations the fact this building is here might explain why they're having this meeting in new york rather than in washington d.c. because north korea has a full diplomatic mission here an embassy in effect to the united nations they have staff here diplomats translators and most importantly a secure way of communicating back to pyongyang and they have none of that in washington d.c. because there are no formal relations between the u.s. and north korea in terms of diplomatic relations and james our what is it what is the. trip how difficult is it going to be to narrow this gap. ahead of that

historic summit between kim and president trump if it takes place. well we know from recent comments from south korea's unification minister that there is still a gap a substantial gap all-night the issue of denuclearization and what the two sides mean and how you go about it so i think that's one of the main sticking points but it's going to have to be worked out when secretary of state. comes here in new york in a couple of hours time we understand that general kim will get a little bit of a rest and then the two will have a dinner to discuss things and then more. more meetings taking place on thursday here in new york and i think at the end of line the u.s. side certainly will be taking stock of the situation and how we could make an important decision president trump canceled the summit it now looks like it could be back or they going to have to decide whether to go ahead or effectively council it again and president trump has broken with the past by taking

a very direct unilateral approach with the north koreans but how important is the south korean role in all of this. well obviously the south korean role is important and south korea did a lot of the early diplomacy that has led to where we are now with this important meeting trying to set up an even more important summit two weeks time and of course the south korean north korean relationship certainly in the way that we can see it in terms of the pictures looks particularly good to be to just look at the the greeting the president to chairman kim it was a bear hug and that i think shows that they are making some progress but it's worth repeating the point that there are still significant issues to be sorted particularly if president trumps going to stick to what he said earlier which is he

wanted complete denuclearization right to the beginning right at this very first summit due to take place in singapore thank you very much our diplomatic editor james bass. now 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 charles stratford 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 diyala dean and nineveh and all ballots cast by iraqis living abroad to be manually recounted the demand was supported by many sunni politicians and others who opposed the election results which source successful outcome for three main shia led blocs in iraq's first election since the defeat of eisel market as we had. there are frauds and problems that took place

and that is seeing into the made by parliament today i personally support these decisions which set of 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 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 predominantly sunni provinces of unbias allowed in a nineveh and sixty seven outside the country even warned of the potential of civil war if the crisis escalates for many iraqis including those who voted abroad allegations of voting fraud comes as no surprise i'm sorry to say that you have no . the whole. last forty or years it's the same the boy did the also and you'll get now i'm not hoping for a change in the coming years because if we keep electing these people then these people are not going to have a change in the future in order for any country warry to recount little to be posted has to be ratified by fifty percent plus one of iraq's sri hundred twenty million members of parliament before it is then signed off by the supremes cool 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 to years of political tension and violence in iraq. by. all roxana farm on family on electra and politics and international studies at university of cambridge she joins me in the studio now thank you very much for coming in to speak to us so will this vote we count restore the confidence and credibility in the electoral process well it's certainly a good first step in a situation where there was a great deal of concern about the corruption and also the credibility of running this particular election especially as in kirkuk for example there will be a further election coming forth in december about its status until something like this restores confidence something like that is very difficult to conduct despite the efforts the government is making to try and rectify this if there is

a strong widespread feeling a fraud having taken place could it spot violence well it's already sparked a number of demonstrations all over the country and particularly in the north so one would imagine that will continue and in fact this will prolong the process of the entire electoral. not only count but the outcome therefore who is going to be politicking in order to. create it for discover moment which by the rules of the constitution is in any case a long drawn out process because that in itself the coalition building was expected to take several months but how much how much longer could it take before we see a functioning government in iraq well it's quite difficult to know because see requirements of the constitution is that in ninety days there is a presentation of a government so it that is three months but to look at the past it certainly

took longer for a functioning government to emerge and you were mentioning could there how how complicated could that be to resolve the the status and the challenges around could cook well it could be very challenging and especially because after the kurds themselves have elected to withdraw there are very very anxious to be part of the negotiations that we're hearing already that nuri al maliki who was the previous prime minister and is currently vice president is trying to find a coalition with them there's a kuwait deal of back court or politicking and a number of people including looked at al solders party say loon who won the largest number are making a number of requirements about the coalition so. saying no

mikey no americans no iranians so it really is quite difficult to see where the the chips will fall and in the meantime what does this mean for addressing the very serious and longstanding political and economic challenges in the country meeting the basic needs of people in the country and particularly in those conflict ridden cities. well it's a very interesting time for all of this to be happening because indeed economics as the is the really important trigger. as you may remember did have a big demonstration in the green zone about how inefficient the government was to how corrupt it was so he's really talking about the technocratic government but we're seeing also that the players around the country are shifting so this is really although a number of the of the parties are very heavily backed by iran this is probably the

beginning of a new chapter for iran where it will have to step back it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to be going all the way into the arms of saudi arabia but out of the two of them iran will have less money saudi arabia will have more so there is quite a lot of jockeying happening i think not only within the country but regionally shifting dynamics thank you very much from cambridge university roxanne family thank you thank you. it was the news hour live from london much more still ahead political deadlock in one of europe's biggest economies as least prime minister designate says new possibilities of a much to end the stalemate. thousands of migrants and refugees are forced down to a makeshift settlement in paris. and then in sports and gutsy fight back from the wild number one simona halep but the french open to tell it's our.

houses of raping the women who say they were raped when they fled the military crackdown in myanmar's reckon state last year a jew to give birth within seven hundred thousand rang the muslims have sought refuge in neighboring bangladesh they now live there in squalid overcrowded refugee camps marianna 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 warm warm 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 new early decision to keep her baby no measure the shame alleghany this baby so i shouldn't be afraid i will grace this baby probably 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 drawing response. estimates that we will need nine hundred fifty million u.s. dollars that for a lot of money but when you consider that it's one million people in. the united nations describes what happened to the rich as a ticks book example of ethnic cleansing but the government of young son 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. i still find his have attacked the afghan interior ministry headquarters in the capital kabul but he say a car bomb was detonated at the entrance and then several attackers managed to get inside the compound it's the latest in a series of attacks that highlighted a terry writing security situation as jennifer glass reports from kabul. the

explosions and gunfire went on for about two hours as fighters attacked the interior ministry 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 security personnel responded quickly the compound is heavily fortified and guarded it moved to this site last year so that it could be better protected and away from civilians but they were still in the line of fire. a rocket propelled grenade hit me where we were standing we escaped to the other sort of the road but some people were wounded then the police took us out of here the attackers were also dressed like police. this is the latest in a series of high profile attacks in kabul that have killed hundreds of people since the beginning of the year in logar province in eastern afghanistan the taliban continued its so-called spring offensive with a suicide attack on a police station killing three officers the attackers were also killed. the taliban

took over dusty kolob district in takar province northeastern afghanistan continuing a string of offensives that are keeping the afghan military busy the telephone is gaining ground despite a doubling of u.s. airstrikes the u.s. military says it killed fifty taliban leaders in bombings in helmand last week the taliban says this is propaganda and that only civilians were killed jennifer glass al jazeera kabul. italy's new prime minister designate to suggest it is close to a last minute deal that will end months of political turmoil. has been tasked with calming tensions and potentially planning a new election early efforts by two anti establishment parties to form a coalition government collapsed after the president rejected a euro skeptic nominee for the post of economy minister so nadine barber is following all of this from rome what is the latest on the state of play on the talks to form a new government. well marian there are been talks here all day long

firstly to really coming to meet the president sergio my trailer after he did so and chooses well but fails to present a list of cabinet members and then later on wednesday he put out a statement saying that. both market tensions and new circumstances meant that he was going to take time out effectively what he would what he said was that there was the chance of a political government being formed meaning five-star and the league actually coming up with some other kind of government suggestions perhaps with a new economy minister acceptable to president now we're hearing have been talks with the president and politicians in parliament complex behind me all day long we're hearing that people are going home now but it's of the latest that we've heard from the head of five star luigi demaio is that perhaps he's his movements prepared to compromise on the economy minister and that he is quite hopeful in fact that there could be a breakthrough from mr salvini salvini the head of the league insisting the

compromise the personnel should not change in repeating his call for fresh elections now some commentators are saying that he's playing hardball just to leverage perhaps more positions for his own team within a future cabinet but it does seem now that it is at least possible that there won't be fresh elections in the near future if the last hour they can thrash out a solution but the president has said he wants to sort things out by thursday afternoon or he'll go back to mr carter really and say right let's look at a government of so-called technocrats that's extremely controversial and they'll probably be voted down the lose a vote of confidence in parliament so he knows that he's it will be a short term plaster solution if you like and them then that will lead to fresh elections but perhaps it will calm those market tensions which have started to ease on their own anyway thank you with all the latest from ryan. french police are

dismantling the largest makeshift camp for refugees and migrants in paris settlement houses around one and a half thousand people recently to migrants drowned in one of the canals along the can't attach a butler 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. 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 where 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 at port del a ship out it's 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 it wants it to crack down on so-called economic migrants. they will be sheltered but in return as the

government and. president clearly said 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 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 are rife hoping for a better future natasha bobsleigh al-jazeera paris still ahead for in the news hour . and austerity in greece spills out onto the streets as spouses of workers stage a walkout. the comedian who was once a darling of american t.v. but has been barred from screens because of outrage over a racist tweet. while cup fever grips peru a team sets off the end of the thirty six year drought of the two what have those details in the school.

however 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 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 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 wanted 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 so i first 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. three big stories generate thousands of headlines clobbering each with different angles from different perspectives. this is the only ever this that russia was responsible for the separate the spin from the facts that's why on god's states or in the misinformation from the journalism the issues here go far beyond one data mining company and one election with the listening post on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. and. where every. welcome back to top stories this hour a russian journalist who was reportedly shot dead in the ukrainian capital is

a live. news conference and said his death was faked to catch those who were trying to kill him the north korean leader leader's right hand man has arrived in the u.s. for talks with the secretary of state might pay zero it's in preparation for next month's historic summit between president donald trump and kim jong un 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 because it has evidence of fraud and ballots will be manually recounted. was a flare up of violence in four years between the israeli army and palestinian factions in gaza appears to be over a mass and islamic jihad say they reached a cease fire agreement with israel it comes off to israel yes strikes targeted several training in military facilities in gaza on tuesday israeli military says at least seventy rockets and mortar bombs were fired by the factions towards israel. has done it smith has more. it's been quiet in gaza since about four am local

time when a cease fire appears to have taken hold this we understand was following a message delivered from the israelis via 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 here in gaza that 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 and 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 exchanged 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 of a nearly two thousand new settlement homes in the occupied west bank at least eighty percent applied for outside the settlements that are already built palestine's foreign ministers called on the international criminal court to investigate israeli settlements in the occupied west bank and in east jerusalem they are considered illegal under international humanitarian law. thousands of workers in greece of walked out in protest against a new wave of austerity measures that will kick in after the summer labor unions 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 disrupted hospitals only have emergency staff on hand greece's latest bailout ends in august but the austerity measures will continue for at least two more years less

reports. 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 to may sit at close 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 thing at a new eighteen percent cut and salaried workers a new tax hike the eurozone is telling greeks that the medicine is working because they are managing to export enough wells to continue to pay that bailout loans back these people would like a second opinion or part of the bailout deal involves the privatizing nation of more industries union leaders fear hundreds of jobs could be lost when the country's biggest public electricity company sells some of its power stations jones rope a spoke to what is in the city of mecca luckily. only introduced electricity to southern greece in one nine hundred seventy the public power corporation p.p.c. invested hundreds of millions of dollars in a power plant based on exclusive access to cheap lignite coal but that is about to change greece's eurozone partners and presences have ordered the corporation to

share access to this. bummed and fuel in the name of competition the p.p.c. is being forced to sell three power stations and the lignite mines that feed them union leaders fear that will put eleven hundred jobs at risk in this town alone the little guy got them available just so they're getting the whole idea this power station called to be did greatly decrease energy security for half a century now they're expected to sell it to a privateer in the blink of an eye they're coming in to buy ready built plants and minds that's not development development is building new plants hiring people creating jobs this is a sellout there's enough call here to run the past ation for another fifteen years that would see most of the present workforce safely into retirement but under privatisation their jobs are guaranteed for only six years so they're looking at the prospect of unemployment in middle age but they are partly the victims of their own success the p.p.c. union has fought liberalization for two decades the public power corporation built the electricity market and its infrastructure from nothing over the past century

making money wasn't the point investment in the economy was the goal but under europe's free market rules it must now divest itself of its titanic monopoly it has sold its transmission network is privatizing three profitable power stations and by the end of next year must lose half its client base high carbon dioxide emissions risk putting lignite coal out of action altogether last year this plant paid thirteen and a half million dollars in emissions fines and their costs have since nearly tripled energy experts say the real value of the sale is not in the existing operation but the thousands of hectares of land and the operating license that come with it so we may well see in a situation where no one or you all know or come seen or parades that ignite a few years and then decides to dismantle the lignite. parts of the operation and substituted with

a gasp. power plant or reports all take one that's not a transition work is here support renewable energy requires little labor and if this land is given over to a different use it likely won't require the skills to jump. locally now more than one point two billion children are being robbed of their childhoods according to a new report by save the children that's more than half of all the children in the world report says that three key factors are to blame for this conflict poverty or discrimination against girls almost two hundred fifty three million children living in twenty countries affected by all three frets these include south sudan somalia yemen and afghanistan and for the second year running is yet tops the list of countries where childhood is the most threatened i spoke to patrick watts who is the global campaign and advocacy director at save the children he says the worst affected countries are in sub-saharan africa or millions of children around the

world is that they're seeing their educations cut short sometimes because they are girls and are getting married or they're becoming pregnant perhaps they're seeing their educations cut short because they're being forced from their homes because of violence or conflict. it's reflected in crumbling health systems and therefore children die from preventable causes or they reach their fifth birthday. and it's reflected in children being subjected to extreme violence being force and child labor and often children are experiencing more than one of the. dimensions of deprivation and exclusion the combined effect is that children assume their childhoods cuts cut short and then not having the opportunity to fulfill their potential and grow up to contribute fully to the society which they are appalled you mention that girls are disproportionately affected by these threats and in your

report it mentions that by the year twenty thirty some one hundred fifty million girls will marry before their eighteenth birthday why are we failing to tackle child marriage when i think the important thing to recognize is that the rate of child marriage is rich.