into a political king maker. and anger at austerity in greece spilled on to the streets thousands of workers stage a walk out. there it's been talked about for days north korean leader kim jong un's top aide heading to the u.s. for talks came young cho has finally arrived he touched down in new york in the last hour making the most senior north korean official to visit the u.s. in eighteen years are the proud to give to james bays in is in new york for us so james a lot of excitement that has about the where you on what's happening. i'm outside the millennium hilton hotel which is just opposite the united nations let me show you the scene here now because this is where we're expecting any moment now general kim to arrive in a motorcade from j.f.k. airport you can see the police here you can see the press you can see the security

offices here at the hotel this is actually where the north koreans normally stay where the north korean foreign minister stays when he comes to the u.n. general assembly that's reasonably regular visits coming every september but that of course is a visit to the united nations this is important because the first time for many years there's been a senior north korean coming to the united states for negotiations to see if they can get that summit on track and as i speak news coming out of the white house where the briefing has been taking place in the last few minutes and the first word we're getting from that is that the white house is now saying that it expects that singapore summit to take place on the original date of june the twelfth now remember president trump sent a letter saying we have to call off this summit but in recent days there's been a flurry of diplomacy some word about

a start in new york summit taking place in career the demilitarized zone and summit taking place in singapore where the summit is just to take place and the word now seems to be that that date of june the twelfth is back on even before the meetings here in new york between general him and secretary of state pompei o which are taking place in the coming hours i think you'll be getting some rest here in his hotel and then we understand that they'll be some sort of working dinner between the two of them in a few hours time and james what if any progress has been made on the issue of how each side sees denuclearize ation. well i think that really is the sticking point what progress has been made what progress will be made at this summit and is there still a gap between the two certainly just a few hours ago the south korean unification minister said there was still a gap between the u.s. position and the north korean position what they mean by the deal need to as ation

president drops made it clear that north korea needs to get everything to get rid of everything straight away as soon as they have a summit in singapore the north koreans i think talk more of denuclearization as a is a name is a name for the for the korean peninsula in the future that seems to be a difference but the latest word we're hearing is it looks like it's not going to be a difference that is now going to stop that summit because again the white house is talking more confidently about that summit taking place on the original date to his face thank you very much indeed. a russian journalist and fierce critic of president vladimir putin who was reportedly shot dead in kiev has just appeared live at a news conference. had been claims

security service told reporters they'd faked his death in a sting to catch those who were trying to kill him a chunk are left russia last year saying he was receiving threats and feared he might be jailed. i would like to apologize to my wife for the hell she has had to go through the past two days forgive me please i also had no choice about this then i would really like to thank you korean security services who saved my life. or a chance has more on the story from moscow. there were guards and applause. walked into that press conference to joy and relief as well in the news room of the ukrainian t.v. channel where he works as they discovered this secret live on t.v. it had been believed by pretty much everyone in the world. the rocket was a dead man he being supposedly found in

a pool of his own blood with fatal gunshot wounds to the back. and rushed to hospital but died on the way. even his wife was kept in the dark but it's when he came out and spoke to the media in kiev earlier on today he apologized to all the people who are being kept in the dark but said that this was the only way the ukrainian security service is basically. they said of plots against life about two months ago. a month into their investigation they brought him on board as well and sent essentially. concocting a plan to stage his death to try and flush out the would be killers they've arrested a man they say. they point to moscow as being the source of

this murder plots they say that it's the russian intelligence services that ultimately want to take a dead the russians have denied all of all of this of course the foreign ministry here says that ukraine has deceived the entire international community and that this is an anti russian provocation now there are people who feel obviously relief his fellow journalists relief that. someone they believe was dead is actually a lie. i fear there is also concern in some circles concern that because we're living in what's being called the post truth world the world of fake news that an episode like this as rectangular is it might be whatever its security merits ultimately in the long run might further degrade people's trust in journalists and people's trust in the intelligence services iraq's electoral

commission says it's canceling the results from going to thousand polling stations used in this month's parliamentary vote it says it has evidence of fraud voting centers both in iraq and for citizens living abroad 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. dina 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 blocks in iraq's first election since the defeat of eisel market there's a. 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 up 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 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 . and i hope. it's saying they. also. change. yes because if we keep electing these people are going to have a change and. in order for any country wide to recount will to be passed it has to be ratified by fifty percent plus one of iraq's ssri hundred twenty nine 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 after years of political tension and violence in iraq.

thousands of workers in greece have walked off the job as they protest against a new wave of austerity measures that will kick in after the summer maybe unions have called for a twenty four hour general strike against reforms which are part of greece's bailout agreement with foreign lenders schools are being closed and flights have been disrupted hospitals only have emergency staf greece's latest paid out and enormous but the austerity measures will continue for at least two more years for us has more on the streets of 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 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 as a looking at a new eighteen percent cut and salaried workers a new tax hike the euro zone 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 still to come on the program. afghan

forces fight off an i select attack on the interior ministry in kabul. and where in paris where thousands of migrants and refugees are forced out of their makeshift tents. however much of central western europe warm and sundry describes the weather not so in the east it's just warm sunny here but the wondering white clouds are slowing leaving thunderstorms in iran now for a couple of weeks in temperature regime which is in the middle of the high twenty's for the most part with occasional variations it's warmer still in germany and poland the baltic states stuck on twenty four is actually a cooling trend but you also don't often see the end of may that warm and that results in the potential for some songs being realized where it's humid enough sense and the domination coast up through germany and everywhere to the west of

that the way the exception spain and portugal for the most part but it's just warm in places like poland warsaw at twenty nine that cooling breeze down kids might not get back to twenty three but he's going to complain and then the showers are in this green mass trysting particularly through france and germany maybe as the low countries and haitians the british isles then you come over the mediterranean waters and lastly you're talking about clear blue skies again which extend into a good paddles often other is cloud forming in libya in tunisia and to russian tina geria however that's just cloud it shouldn't is any rain it's fairly quiet weather . it's a centuries old battle and the battle is being passed to a new generation. witness follows a young native american as he takes the struggle into

a twenty first century america everybody's the goal will be give you. a is a go to be remembered all. on the night french on al-jazeera. one of the top stories here. the north korean leader's right hand man has arrived in the u.s. for talks with state might compare the white house says early meetings about next month's summit between kim jong il and president have been positive and it is to expected to take place. russian journalist who was reportedly shot dead in the

training capital is alive. appeared at a news conference and said his death was fate to catch those who are trying to kill him. iraq's electoral commission says it's canceling the results for more than one thousand polling stations used in this month's parliamentary vote because it has evidence of fraud will be manually recounted. nations security council is holding an emergency session after a flare up of violence at the gaza border tuesday saw the heaviest attacks between the israeli army and palestinian factions this is twenty fourteen the u.s. says the palestinian leadership needs to be held accountable for attacks against israel christians and he joins us live from the united nations in new york what was the united states have to accomplish with this meeting kristie. well the united states wanted to get an update on the situation in gaza and israel and its getting that right now from the u.n.

special coordinator for middle east peace nicholai malott and off but the united states was also hoping to get a statement to the press from a unified security council condemning the attacks from gaza and also. calling on the palestinian leadership condemning the palestinian leadership for quote allowing these attacks to happen it had circulated some language that it was hoping all of the council members could get onboard with we know from comments made by other ambassadors going into the council that you know like the united kingdom's ambassador and the bass are from the netherlands they have said that they certainly condemn any rocket fire into civilian territory in israel but the press statement it looks like at this point does not have universal approval from the security council kuwait has raised some objections the statement that was put forward by the united states had no mention of israel's role in leading up to this conflict there was no mention of the one hundred twenty or so palestinians who've been killed

unarmed palestinians who were killed at the border fence in the last two months and with that background it looks at this point that the council will not take any unified action as a result of this meeting but they are getting a briefing on the latest situation there. no unified action giving any action is like a own on israel and palestine to come out of it the u.n. security council. well moving forward the kuwaitis who are the only arab representative on the security council have been working on a resolution a draft that would set up an international protection mission for the palestinians this is something they've been working on behind the scenes pressing ahead making concessions it's not expected to pass either with the united states stance on the council and its protection of israel but the kuwaitis are pressing ahead looking for concessions they've already made some serious concessions to what they were

initially proposing there were concerns that they were not specific enough about what an international protection mission would mean what would the mandate be how would that be set up in what would it accomplish and so there are reservations among many council members they've now asked the secretary general to look at the issue for sixty days and come up with some recommendations that would help protect palestinian civilians it's not clear at this point however if they have much support in the council the goal seems to be to isolate the united states with all other council members having expressed concern and questioning if not outright condemning israel's action against those protesters in gaza not clear however if the other members of the count's are willing to go along at this stage and back the draft at this resolute at this stage and foresee united states use its veto in order to shut it down christians and to me thank you very much i still find his

have attacked the afghan interior ministry headquarters in the capital kabul but he say a combo m was detonated at the entrance and then several attackers managed to get inside the compound so they just in a series of attacks and how to deteriorate in a security situation and of a guns has more 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 would do to 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 the 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 but 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 are killed jennifer glass al jazeera kabul brazil's all workers have begun a seventy two hour strike on wednesday in a new blow to president michel tema organization wide truck a protest that a strangled latin america's largest economy for over a week most of the drive as a back on the road for now but many of the complaints remain daniel sharma has more

from sao paolo. the traffic is flowing again deliveries are being made most of brazil's truck drivers have gone back to work often accompanied by police and now me to make sure that there's no intimidation but the complaints still remain valid the truck drivers association has reached an agreement with the brazilian government that the price of diesel their main complaints be reduced by up to twelve percent but that's only for sixty days and their complaints still remain valid plate complaints of the shared by much of the rest of the country the country's all workers including here at the main refinery in the state of sao paolo have joined them for a seventy two hour strike which the government has said is illegal they also want to see prices reduced and they want to see the ousting of the company's c.e.o. . the whole country wants to see fuel prices come down the government has won a temporary reprieve with elections due in october and the government of michel

tema having some of the lowest approval ratings in brazilian history a difficult times certainly lie ahead pinioned polls have shown that more than eighty percent of the brazilian population supports the strikers who seems to imply that there are more protests that lie ahead. thousands of jordanians are striking against government plans to raise taxes many businesses have closed as public and private sector employees staged a walkout amendment set to double the income tax base it's part of an economic program didn't by the international monetary fund which aims to bring down public debt french police are dismantling the largest makeshift camp for refugees and migrants in paris and millionaire settlement houses around one a half thousand people recently to migrants drowned in one of the canals and on the camp and 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 your boss has 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 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. italy's new prime minister

designate has suggested he's close to a last minute deal that will end months of political turmoil got out early has been tasked with coming tensions and potentially planning a new election earlier efforts by two entities from parties to form a coalition government collapsed and the mother has the latest from rome well on wednesday expectations swung from believing that carlo quarterly would actually present a list of potential cabinet members to the president's surge of my trailer to rumors that those so-called populist parties five star and believe we're now back in discussions and in fact the entourage of mystical to really himself saying that he was waiting to see whether that was going to be a run a new government proposed by those parties now luigi to miles soon after that on a video a live streamed on facebook said he could envisage some sort of compromise perhaps

suggesting a different economy minister but the leader of the league matteo salvini while he didn't react directly has been sticking to his guns saying that that must be the government otherwise there should be elections as soon as possible he stands to gain the league have surged up to around twenty five percent in the latest opinion polls five star steady on around thirty percent so it's possible if there were fresh elections they could be the biggest two groups but whether they'll be prepared to work together again is not certain right now we don't know if it's really will go back to the polls or who will lead its next government more than one point two billion children affected by conflict widespread poverty or gender discrimination according to a new report by save the children has one half of all the children in the world south sudan has suffered a civil war for nearly five years and is one of the worst affected countries in the morgan reports from juba. fifteen year old mary kay dent has only one dream to go

to school and get a degree so when her family told her she will be married off so they can get money she ran away to an orphanage. my brother said they wanted to sell me because they wanted money for food i told them i wanted to study but they said they didn't want me to go to school that girls don't go to school. mary says her family wouldn't have thought of marrying her off were it not for south sudan dire economic situation a direct result of five years of civil war the rate of early marriage for girls here has risen from forty eight percent to fifty two in recent years. the worst parted in twenty thirteen when president salva kiir accused his former deputy rick machar of attempting a coup tens of thousands have been killed and a third of the twelve million population displaced sixty percent of them children according to the un but even children who haven't been displaced have not been spared the consequences of the world trade organization say along with early

marriages many children are tending to the three south sudan so it has also resulted in a high number of young girls getting pregnant and more ok being recruited to fight in the conflict. like twelve year old bad day who says the economic crisis has meant he has to wash cars on the streets. there's no money so i can't go to school so i wash cars if i get some money i take it home so my mother can feed my brothers. save the children as young people in south sudan face a difficult future. and there's like three reasons that you there are major league threats for children that are actually overlapping in south sudan and one in still high levels of forward to another one is the armed conflict that is mean like going for many years now since two thousand and thirteen and the other reason is the discrimination against girls saw actually we are risk in we are risking my whole generation a generation that's struggling with the consequences of

a war that's robbing them of their childhood as well as their future heba morgan al-jazeera juba because more for you any time on our website address that is al-jazeera dot com and also watch us live by clicking on the live icon dress again al-jazeera dot com. and one of our top stories here launches syria one of the north korean leaders closest aides has arrived in the u.s. for talks with director of state might pompei oh it's in preparation for next month's possible summit between president donald trump and kim jong un the white house says early meetings about next month's summit have been positive and the june twelfth meeting is still expected to take place a russian journalist and fierce critic of president vladimir putin who was reportedly shot dead in the ukrainian capital has appeared at

a news conference. the head of ukraine's security service told reporters that they faked his death in a sting to catch those who were trying to actually kill him a chain code left russia last year after receiving threats. more news yes nautical as far as i know this approach and 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 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. israel's government has authorized construction for nearly two thousand new settlement homes in the occupied west bank at least eighty percent are planned for outside the settlements that are already built last week the israeli defense minister said he was seeking immediate approval to two and a half hours and homes thousands of workers in greece have walked off the job as

they protest against a new wave of austerity measures that will kick in after the summer schools have been closed and flights have been disrupted. iraq's electoral commission says it's cancelling the results from more than one thousand polling stations used in this month's parliamentary vote says it has evidence of fraud the ballots will be recounted manually. 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 fighters on with assault rifles and grenade launchers tried to storm their way inside one policeman was killed and five others were injured as they had artists to stay with us when i was there the stream is up next i have more news for you after that thanks for watching i felt.

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