human being. on. this is al jazeera. hello i'm so robin you're watching the al-jazeera news our live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes north korea's former spy chief has finished his first meeting with the u.s. secretary of state. also the u.n. security council discusses the escalating violence between the israelis and palestinian factions. and ukraine stages the murder of a journalist they say it was to stop an attempt on his life and capture the mastermind behind the plot also new evacuations in the u.s. state of hawaii as

a volcano continues to erupt. welcome to the news our north korea's former spy chief has met the u.s. secretary of state in new york talks between kim yong choice and pompei o will continue on thursday as part of the preparations for next month's summit between the two countries our diplomatic editor james bays has more. arriving in the united states the personal emissary of kim jong un here for crucial negotiations which will decide the fate of the on again off again summit between his leader and president trump. general kim yong schol is staying in this hotel close to the u.n. for just two days the planned date of the summit in singapore now less than two weeks away hence the hectic diplomacy with meetings between the north koreans and

the u.s. in singapore at the demilitarized zone between north and south korea and here in new york where secretary of state mike pump is meeting general kim at the white house they say it's president trump will make the final determination on whether the summit goes ahead as their conversation is going to be focused on denuclearization of the peninsula that's what these ongoing conversations taking place now will be centered on as well as this summit that will take place in singapore and we're going to continue it as long as that is part of the discussion we're going to continue to shoot for the june twelfth it was evening in new york at this apartment complex that the secretary of state and general kim had their first meeting of this trip although they already know each other from the two occasions this year when pompei zero visited pyongyang the dinner the first in a series of meetings between the two men took place in a residence owned by the u.s.

mission to the united nations presumably it was chosen because it is secure a place where the two men can discuss all the secrets of north korea's nuclear program if of course general kim is prepared to divulge them james pays out jazeera new york. well for more on that hundred thomas now joins me from seoul in south korea while the talking may have stopped for the moment in new york city but it does continue in singapore because it's all about ironing out the many kinks in the potential negotiations in a few weeks time. that's right as a whole you've got talks going on as jim said in new york but also in singapore about logistics and inside the demilitarized zone that area between north and south korea now the singapore talks we knew that there was a delegation from the us in singapore we knew there was one from north korea in singapore looking into logistics booking rooms making sure that the protocol the security arrangements are in place we now think those two delegations have met and

we get this from little clues we've seen one of the north korean delegation a man called kim chang so on he's an aide to kim jong un and he was seen riding a gold body inside the hotel where the u.s. delegation is known to be staying so those are the sort of clothes we're looking at to see whether the two delegations have met as for the talks going on inside the demilitarized zone has been the u.s. delegation staying in seoul here in the capital of south korea they went into north korea just on wednesday and we know that they talked for four and a half hours with their north korean counterparts on wednesday we know they're staying another day here in seoul they haven't yet left the hotel here in seoul so we don't know whether talks are ongoing with the north korean counterparts but we're looking again for their departure from the hotel to give us a clue there meanwhile thursday lavrov russia's foreign minister will be visiting pyongyang on thursday his first visit to north korea in knowing years and the russian foreign minister has put out

a statement on his ministry has saying that it will help him understand north korea's position on the nuclear settlement ahead of any summit so diplomatic activity all over the world in this part of it indeed andrew courses so many moving parts really to this story at so many different levels and it's all very encouraging for the viewer watching events unfold but there is a word of caution from a senior military head the head of pacific command leaving the region but it certainly you might say firing a shot across the political bowels. that's right this is admiral harry heresies the u.s. commander of the pacific forces he gave a speech in hawaii he's leaving that post is actually the nominee donald trump's nominee to be ambassador here in south korea and in his leaving speech he said that north korea remains our most imminent threats and a nuclear capable north korea with missiles that can reach the united states is unacceptable so they're a note of caution from

a man who's very much going to be involved in all of this and a bit of caution about what's at stake here for all the optimism this is about nuclear weapons and making sure that potentially hundreds of thousands of people don't die and he's reminding everybody at that at this crucial time for the moment and you will leave it there of course of monitor events with you as the day unfolds in south korea thank you let's continue with the subject and join just the kim he's the director of center for conflict management women's university joins me now from seoul in south korea good to have you with us it all seems so encouraging as i've just been talking to and your correspondent about the moving parts in the story of the potential summit in june but speaking to various contributors there is a they are erring on the side of caution as to whether the summit might still or might not happen. you know i think that it's guarded optimism based on the past behavior and actions of north korea and so i think that there's some merit to that

but we are at the same time unprecedented territory and i'm sorry waters i mean we see these multitrack negotiations diplomats occur before the summit all over the world and that means that this summit is being taken very seriously and i think that's appropriate because the stakes are very very high are the up side there could be sustained peace on the korean peninsula the low set which we haven't seen it happen century the issue of dismantlement varies from country to country as history has shown us we've seen south africa dismantle its nuclear armaments in the ninety's we saw the issue of libya in the noughties and now we're talking about north korea when it comes to the term dismantlement it means something very different to north korea as it does to the united states will they ever be able to meet in the middle. well a negotiation is all about sort of meeting in the middle and quid pro quos on both sides and so as long as the term dismantlement what it means is on the agenda for

the singapore summit on june twelfth or whenever it takes place i think that's great progress i mean the fact that they want to agree on day one or minute one of that meeting face to face or even amongst a cream meetings that's occurring right now i think as sort of a side issue the important thing is that that's table that's on the menu and does donald trump in general can talk about it i think sort of the worst case scenarios that to agree to disagree and wonder why when you have done something that's got to be sort of why i'm shocked is that i'm a north korean or south argues that it should be a phase disarmament and maybe they meet in the middle hopefully they do meet in the middle we've never seen north korea in this sort of position before many would say we've never seen the united states in this sort of position before when it comes to negotiating tactics how do you sort of sum up or view the way north korea was handled itself in comparison to the rather erratic nature of the way u.s. diplomacy has been seen in the past few weeks. i think north korean won what has

been very strategic it's basically done a combination of rational and irrational calculations in terms of i don't move forward rational sense that it has it's own national interest it's got its head you want to worry about and also on the other hand there are people behind this rational calculus especially at the very top of kim jong un he's also a person who knows he's human and he has emotions and also we've learned that it is the same type of persona and seem to be there now i'm sick room with donald trump so they both are asking living between sort of this rational and b. iraq type of decision making process and the only issue becomes as we're not quite sure which one will surface to the fore on any given day and that's what makes this very dynamic so it was a risky some would say well it's just natural it's the nature of the beast when it deals with negotiations between two countries for the moment just ok we'll have to leave it there it's great to get your insight and thanks very much for joining us on al-jazeera thank you. the u.n. security council has held an emergency session after

a flare up of violence at the gaza border israel struck dozens of targets inside the gaza strip on choose day after a rocket and mortar launches from palestinian factions the u.s. says palestinian leadership needs to be held accountable for attacks against israel kristen salumi has more from un headquarters in new york. the one thing security council members seem to agree on on this issue of palestine and israel is their frustration over the council's inability to get anything done the united states had called this meeting we called hoping to release a statement on behalf of the council condemning rocket attacks from gaza into israel and in fact many council members did condemn those attacks but while the united states put all the blame for violence in the region on the palestinian leadership here others united kingdom pointed out the desperate situation of the palestinian people is playing a part restrictions on movement lack of access to electricity water and jobs is

all contributing to the tension and kuwait who is calling for an international protection force to ensure the safety of palestinian civilians blocked a formal statement from being issued on behalf of the council but. as long as this occupation continues the palestinian people have the legitimate right to fight it and to defend their aspirations and their dream of independence and a dignified and free life from her look at him look at him why the united states had this reaction the people of gaza do not need protection from an external source the people of gaza need protection from hamas it is the actions of hamas that are putting gaza and grave danger hamas is indiscriminate attacks against israel inevitably bring a response. the u.n. special coordinator for middle east peace nicholai mlodinow warned that further escalation an all out war remain

a risk and he laid out some basic steps to prevent that from happening focusing on humanitarian needs and supporting the egyptian reconciliation process and he ended with a message directly to the people of gaza we hear your plight and suffering he said and we will do all that we can to ensure that you have a future beyond mere survival. the u.s. says israel should pause at settlement activities to help washington's peace plan move forward the white house made the statement hours after israel approve the construction of any two thousand new houses in the occupied west bank the watchdog peace now says there's been a leap in settlement building since president took office israeli settlements illegal under international law a dissident russian journalist and fierce critic of the kremlin who was thought to have been murdered in kiev has turned up alive at a news conference. revealed to been set up to catch his would be assassin really

chalons has more from moscow back from the dead russian journalist. and to a press conference in kiev to applause hours after most of the world would be shocked at his murder had been faked a sting operation by ukraine secret service to apparently catch his would be killers apologize to all those who've been kept in the dark including his wife. i'd like to ask you to excuse me for all that happened in the past because i have attended funerals for colleagues and friends many times and i know this feeling when you have to bury colleagues sorry for this unfortunately there were no other ways. flowers had been left outside kiev home where late on tuesday evening the journalist was reportedly found with fatal gunshot wounds to the back tributes and obituaries mourned his death. the secret was revealed live on t.v. the channel way he reacted with joy and tears of relief. russia has

denied any role in the story and accused kiev of using it as propaganda but russia has where ukraine security chiefs allege the murder profit ridge native. fled his home country last year after a career as an anti putin voice culminated in a state backed media campaign against him none of the. we reported that in order to fulfill the cynical plan special services of the russian federation recruited a ukrainian citizen the first letter of his name is g. he was commissioned to find perpetrators of this brutal murder for financial reward in order to fulfill the assignment from the russian special services citizen g offered his acquaintance to commit a terrorist act and to murder russian journalist. for thirty thousand dollars. ukraine's secret service the s.b.u. showed video allegedly of this citizen jeev ing arrested on kiev streets and they

say that wasn't the only one in danger thirty more people were being targeted for journalists working in the russian speaking world there is palpable relief that someone that they had been mourning is actually alive but among some there is also concern concern that in the post truth age and era of fake news a security operation like this as spectacular as it may be might further degrades trust in the long run rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including hollywood film producer harvey weinstein's indicted on rape charges in new york city. also brazil's a striking truck drivers get back on the job now it's the oil workers who say they're fed up and former champion novak djokovic continues his run of the french tennis open as he bounces back from priest injury. you.

know iraq's electoral commission says it's cancelling the results from more than one thousand polling stations used in this month's parliamentary vote it says it has evidence of fraud at voting centers both in iraq and abroad charles trafford 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 the 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 teachings made by parliament today i personally support these decisions which set of the interest of the political and the market tick 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 part already has its same. result also and you'll get. 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 wide 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. baghdad. to south asia now where thousands of the hanger women who say they were raped by soldiers in myanmar are due to give birth in overcrowded bangladeshi comes they fled the military crackdown in rakhine state last year along with more than seven hundred thousand range of muslims. as well. fatima was just sixteen and newly married when she sees me and the soldiers killed her husband as they burned her village she fled into the forest but soldiers caught in the air and she says one of them raped her after the trauma of trying to make it to bangladesh she discovered she was pregnant but she doesn't know who the father is her late husband

or the soldier who write to her one more moment he's my baby how can i throw him away i have to love him. more than seven hundred thousand muslim or henge or create a military crackdown on me and mass rakhine state late last year nine months on this at revenge a 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 u.n. 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 a baby no measure the shame. me this baby so i shouldn't be afraid i will raise this baby probably. u.n. agencies are working to provide health care for refugees and to work with communities to ensure the 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 there the united nations joint response estimates that we will need nine hundred fifty million u.s. dollars that's a lot of money but when you consider that it's one million people. in the united nations describes what happened to the revenger as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing but the government to function 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 center tree camp maybe i'm a hardened al jazeera disgraced us movie producer harvey weinstein will offer his trial after being formally indicted on rape charges the new york grown jury's

decision follows weinstein's arrest on quarter appearance last friday he's been accused of sexual misconduct by more than seventy women with some allegations dating back decades he's denied having consensual sex well mike hanna joins me now live from washington d.c. following events foresaw the charges were expected mike but what happens next in terms of a timeline. yes indeed they were expected but the new york district attorney says that the grand jury indictment is an important part of the process to finally bring harvey weinstein to trial now weinstein's lawyer dismisses the indictment saying that there's nothing new in what the grand jury has found and that he and his client will continue to fight the indictment insisting that his client will plead not guilty when he has his opportunity to appear before a court but certainly the grand jury indictment very important as far as the new york destry tourney's concerned essential of the charges were the same as those

brought by the police on friday including two separate charges of rape one of which carries a sentence of up to twenty five years as well as an act of criminal sexuality so the next stage what we're looking at is a formal arraignment of harvey weinstein before a judge but one must remember too that this is just dealing with two cases two complainants in new york weinstein's also facing legal processes in a number of other u.s. cities as well as further afield such as in canada and the united kingdom and of course a month there are many other cases like this being investigated so these charges to a certain extent in directly put other individuals on notice about the authorities taking these allegations very seriously. yes indeed certainly the decision to go to a grand jury was part of this process perhaps to make very clear how seriously the

district attorney views it and also to make absolutely certain that the charges will stick and certainly that is what the grand jury has found its indictment means that the charges show a very good sign of actually being successful in other words the grand jury believes that harvey weinstein will be convicted of these allegations but certainly it is a widespread situation there are a number of similar cases coming to court but an interesting fact in the weinstein case comparing it to a recent case involving the former comedian bill cosby in his second jury hearing the judge decided to allow a number of other women who brought charges into the court to give evidence but evidence in terms of establishing a pattern of behavior now that judicial decision to allow the woman in court

actually led to cosby's conviction according to a number of legal observers now whether this is a case that happens with weinstein there are only two women who have brought charges against him at this particular point in new york there are a number more though who have indicated that they are willing to appear in court to establish a pattern of behavior by harvey weinstein over a long period of time will fall over as they unfold for the moment mark thank you. so to south asia where the afghan government say that one police officer has been killed along with seven isolate tigers who targeted the interior ministry headquarters in the capital police a car bomb was detonated at the entrance before gunman stormed the compound about came as taliban fighters tugs at another police headquarters in the east of the country jennifer glass reports from kabul. the explosions and gunfire went on for about two hours as fighters attacked the interior ministry on call it

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 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 a dusty kolob district in takar province northeastern afghanistan continuing

a string of offensives that are keeping the afghan military busy television 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. well still ahead here on the al-jazeera news that anger at austerity in greece spills out hold to the streets as thousands of workers staged a walkout. also a generation at risk the impact of years of civil war in south sudan's most vulnerable. i have thank you for watching on the ground there in the back and cricket say international governing body responds to an al-jazeera investigation uncovering match fixing in sport.

t.v. and the family's great fun game in the extreme. weather sponsored by cattle and always out of the time sure doesn't vary very much in hong kong through the year seven right agrees maybe but recently temperatures have beaten all known records from a hong kong thirty four thirty degree below the standing record so it's hot in southern china hot on humid very unpleasant and that translates to heavy rain to the to the north of that shanghai is twenty three result of rain but that of course is the yangtze valley tends to right this time the year the rain snooze north and south is on his way science come friday it's much cleaner weather in mohan and shanghai but because the sun is out it's also warmed up a little bit it will feel better about hong kong i don't think so it's going to feel sticky and unpleasant. now there are some brig showers the south of that indonesia particular concern always see these as the proper new guinea's is a very big dam polls recently little unusual for this town the air mass

a green covering borneo back towards singapore as well as some big shows most of java bali sumatra looks shows of the drought that should indeed be the cases right the monsoon is gathering that sort of allowing the shouts come back up north again into southern thailand but actually most of the heavy rain is up in the bay of bengal busting in myanmar and also the southwest of india that is the monsoon trough so whether it's sponsored by. an international committee of omens or. a land is partitioned into. many have no say in the matter and the colonial power washes its hands of palestine. and what happens in one nine hundred forty eight are events that are still shaping the present. seventy years on al-jazeera tells the history of what palestinians cool the catastrophe al nakba. and monday put it well on i

g z the u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. of the back you're watching al-jazeera as news i'm sell robin a reminder of our top news stories north korea's former spy chief has met the u.s.

secretary of state in new york talks between kim jong choi and mike pompei or will continue on thursday and it's part of preparations for next month's summit between kim jong un and president donald trump. the u.n. security council has held an emergency session after a flare up of violence of the gaza border israel struck dozens of targets inside the gaza strip on choose day after a rocket and mortar launches from palestinian factions. the russian journalist who was thought to have been murdered in here has turned up alive at a news conference arkady is a fierce critic of the kremlin he revealed his apparent death had been staged to catch a would be killer. fast moving lava from killer whale volcano has triggered a new round of evacuations the lava has now blocked one major evacuation route on big island and is heading towards the crossroads of another if you don't list a month since it began erupting displacing thousands of residents and destroying

seventy five homes. is a spokesman for the why why police department joins me now from here in hawaii via skype good to have you with us on al-jazeera mr richmond evacuations a complex and dangerous any time but more so in this instance where are you focusing your attention right now. right now there's an area known as the eastern wrist and this is been where most of the. started. doing with a lot of shooting at two hundred feet in the air and a lot of marching forward through these residential areas we removed about two thousand people we have four hundred that are in shelters and the rest are with family and friends but as this lover continues to march through the area. it closes it in as across that last wrote only be one way out there making

arrangements now to open another road. through volcanoes national park and that would be the only route. to go and it's slow how do you have to consider the operations when you're dealing with an unpredictable. because of the you have to think on your feet. you're absolutely right foe and the problem is that we have high concentrations of this volcanic gas that comes from these fissures and if the wind changes you could be safe one minute and the next minute not so safe it can cause death fortunately since we began the eruptions on may the third we've had no deaths we've had a couple of injuries but we're trying our best to protect lives and people's property as best we can on standby are

a couple of marine sea stallion helicopters which can take about forty five people at a time out so if they do get trapped in an area and attempted air rescue it would be something that they may have to do good communications is very important and it seems that your message is getting through to the public and they are listening to you but as you just touched upon your rescue and emergency services have to be very well coordinated how are they coping under the pressure of a very unpredictable situation. well since it's been going on for almost a month. people obviously are tired we have groups of firemen that are going door to door in that area civil defense people certainly the officers of the police department initially set up all the roadblocks to keep people out of the area so they're participating in the house to house searches as well so i think. nerves are a little bit on m.

senses is going on so long i might add also that this is one small portion of the big island of hawaii if you took all of the other islands and why and put them together they could sit inside the footprint of the big island so this is an isolated area for the most part there's still plenty of open area people ask. absolutely you know if you're coming to see the volcano now's not a good time to do it but the rest of the island is operating. thank you very much for joining us. my pleasure thank you. brazilian oil workers have walked off the job for seventy two hours just as a crippling nationwide truck driver strike is coming to an end employees stopped work on wednesday despite the country's highest labor court declaring the strike illegal. reports. i most of brazil striking truck drivers have returned to the road many of the reluctantly some with

police and army escorts after reaching a temporary agreement with the government to lower the price of diesel brazil is returning to normal after the nine day protests brought the country to its knees but as truckers returned to work all workers walked out. coincidentally the truckers went on strike and were asking some of the same questions as us so we decided to strike not only to support them but to oppose the possible privatization of petro bos. the seventy two hour stoppage was declared illegal by the government the strikes have also seen shares in the national all company petrol brass the majority of which is government own lose fifteen percent of their value the traffic is flowing again deliveries are being made a few head out and this is only a temporary reprieve prices remain high and the popularity of the government is an all time low while the majority of brazilians continue to support the strikers

that's a recipe for further protests. president says brazil is emerging from recession but few are seeing the benefits of this reported to surgeons and many brazilians are disillusioned with the whole political establishment with politicians from all parties implicated in a number of corruption scandals or possible but next president will inherit a country with an enormous deficit and major problems enduring its economic recovery it will be hard to prove unpopular reforms that are necessary to this country. presidential elections a jew in october is not running the one time favorites and former president lula da silva is imprisoned and no other candidate to so far emerged to lead brazil to look to mulch was times that many here fear lie ahead and try not to see it or. least three people are being killed in the latest rounds of protests in the caracas couple managua demonstrations with triggers in a foot by controversial reforms put forward by president daniel ortega which united

scrapped the protest is demanding his resignation for the very latest we're joined by our correspondent manuel propellor joins me from the capital at night on what seems to have happened at the moment so to get you caught up a little bit about what we observe today was actually mother's day. and there was a large demonstration some around a half a million people to the streets in solidarity with the mothers of several of the students and other demonstrators peaceful demonstrators that have been killed over the course of the last month or so. april nineteenth when the government response to peaceful protests was a very heavy handed response the use of live fire of the. nation against peaceful protesters to be took to the streets today demonstrating calling again for the resignation of president. the end of the march just as the sun was

setting we heard word that the engineering university here in the city of money had been under attack by a group of masked masked men and the latest that we can confirm is three people have been killed we believe that there are others that have been killed due to do these attacks as well as due to sniper fire from individuals that were posted on top of the. shooting across the street into the local university we don't know how many people have been injured we don't know exactly how many people have been killed today but again we can confirm that at least three people have died perhaps too early in the day as well to get reaction fishel reaction from the government but what can we expect from in respect to the fact that incidents like this have happened in the past several weeks. well that's the thing there's so much uncertainty right now those high hopes over national dialogue that could potentially bring bring bring peace and some sort of resolution to the situation

but again we we knew that there was an ongoing instance of the military of the police force here in the city as well as armed militia groups going after individual demonstrators i mean when i was looking outside of the window of my hotel and they were still. talking about five hundred thousand people on the street if you look outside right now it is empty there is no one out on the streets people are being urged to stay in their homes to turn the lights off it's a very very tense situation in managua right now and there doesn't seem to be end in sight for when we could see a peaceful outcome to this if anything it seems as though we can expect to hear more confirmed deaths more injuries as the night goes on here in my novel well for them we'll leave it manuel and get an update from you as and when you can to the moment thank you. because in greece. of the jobs in protest

against extending all seventy measures this policy of the bailout agreement with farm land is maybe unions. sees me have called for a twenty four hour general strike it will disrupt flights public transport and close schools hospitals will only have emergency staff greece's latest bailout ends in august but the austerity measures will continue for at least two more years john psaropoulos has more from the capital. 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 me said 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 pensioners are looking 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 wealth to continue to pay that bailout loans back these people would like a second opinion. the leader of italy's populist five star movement has suggested a compromise to end the months long political deadlock that we due to my trying to resurrect his coalition by selecting a new candidate the finance minister on sunday president serjeant

a relevant check to demise euro skeptic nominee for the post causing a coalition deal to collapse italy has now been without a working government for three months. more than one point two billion children are being robbed of their childhoods and that's according to a new report by save the children that's more than half of the children in the world now the court says three key factors are to blame conflict poverty and discrimination against girls almost one hundred fifty three million children living in twenty countries are affected by all three threats these include somalia yemen afghanistan and south sudan have a morgan reporter 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 up so they can get money he ran away to an orphan. my brothers 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's 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 part in twenty thirty 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 turning to the stream south sudan so it has also resulted in a high number of young girls getting pregnant and more kids 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 new research that there are major like threats for children that are actually overlapping in south sudan and one in the high levels of poverty i know the one is the armed conflict that has been like going for many years now since two thousand and thirteen and the other reason is the discrimination against girls so actually we are risking we are risking the 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 patrick water is the global campaign and advocacy director save the

children he says governments and society have a responsibility to these problems. what that means for millions of children around the world is that they're seeing their educations cut short sometimes because they're 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 dying from preventable causes before they reach their fifth birthday and it's reflected in children being subjected to extreme violence being forced and child labor and often children are experiencing more than one of these dimensions of deprivation and exclusion and the combined effect is that children assume their childhoods cut short and they're not having the opportunity to fulfill their potential and grow up to contribute fully to the society which they are a part when governments have

a particular responsibility if we think of these issues of education of survival of protection from violence as rights the first responsibility to safeguard those rights of all those rights lies with governments but we also know that civil society has a crucial role to play in holding governments to account in contributing ideas and solutions in and in campaigning for change and we know that business has a critical role to play as well i mean poverty is very difficult to tackle if we don't have economic growth and we don't have shared opportunities for prosperity will stay with them sort of theme of the white house press briefing press secretary sarah huckabee sanders was taken aback after a student reporter asked about gun safety for school children the thirteen year old form time for kids legacy and what the trumpet ministration is doing to keep students safe from further school shootings here's how it played out. that's cool we recently had

a lockdown little bit of this that's my mother's mental health system. and that the back to oral friends can get shots simply to come in what's he going to ask them and we'll do them senseless fact i think as a kid and certainly as a parent there is nothing that could be more terrifying for a kid to go to school and not feel safe so i'm sorry that you feel that way. this is ministration takes it seriously and the school safety commission that the president convened is meeting this week again an official meeting to discuss the best ways forward and how we can do every single thing within our power to protect kids in our schools and to make them feel safe and make their parents feel good about dropping them off. still ahead here all the al-jazeera news. will be here to tell you how she's getting along.

with. thank you very much former french open champion novak djokovic chose advance to the third round at this year's event the serb who seeded only twenty eighth due to ease recent injury absence beat a world number one hundred fifty five hormone are the twenty sixteen champion won the first set on a tie break then wrapped up the second and third more weasely six four and six four to move to the next round where he will face read about a good prospect. he's ten years younger than me which is amazing to

see and experience. but credit to him for fighting playing well. me i mean i went through my ups and downs and. not really satisfied with the performance but you know i just played enough in the right moment to win the match so hopefully the level. will increases and i will get better in the next match the second seed alexander very came through a five say to battle against to sam lie of each of croatia the twenty one year old german wrapping up a two six seven five four six six one six two win mixed up for the very ground match against bosnian twenty sixty. grigor the emitter of four was also tested by american gerrard donaldson the bulgarian coming out on top of yet another five set thriller six seven six four four six six four and ten eight the final score when. it's great to win

a match in five sets stays stays with you you keep it in especially on clay and not here to. the french open soul so move forward and then you do is one of those matches that i don't play my best but i amended the way to win. after more than four hour was a local boy frenchmen jeremy shockey finally overcame seventeen c. thomas but each to reach the third round the pay went to six each and the frenchman took the decider making their his first win against a former wimbledon runner up in six attempts japan's caniff she corey defeated frenchman ben well paid to reach the third round six three two six four six six two six three to school in that encounter. caroline wozniacki cruised her way through into the third round at roland garros after victory against qualifier georgina garcia pet is she only lost

a single game during the merge six one six love was the school was an iraqi is bidding to unseat simona halep as world number one will have to win the tournament from the top spot. had to face the real test of character on wednesday as she starts the latest quest for a first grand slam title she dug deep to get past american allison risk in her reign delayed first round match risk took the first six two but hell of a runner up twice in paris turned the match around dropping just two more games she faces american taylor townsend next. i had the slow start because it's always tough to start this tournament it's a pleasure to come here and to play so i said he never said the beginning but it was good that i came back so strong and then i just didn't think about the result or about the match i just wanted to relax my my arms because i was moving pretty well also in the beginning but my my arm was very tight and they couldn't hit the

ball as i wanted but then hand was much easier and i felt really well and in the end of the match and that's the most important for now. meanwhile world number four . one of the big favorites all the women's title after winning the telly an open last week defeated slovakia's victoria cruz more in straight sets to book a place in the next round. and two time wimbledon champion petra convert over of the czech republic extended her clay court winning streak to thirteen matches beating spain's lara argue about an hour six low six call she'll play twenty fifth seed and it consummate next for a place in the last sixteen. you may have hung up in the later excuse but the jamaican sprint star are you saying bolt is picking up his football boots as he pursues his career on the pitch both trained with no we didn't top flight side strong god sits on wednesday the thirty one year old issue deal to play a training match against norway under nineteen's in he's weak at the club as he

pursues these dream of playing top level football both retired from athletics last year after winning eight olympic gold medals history will be made in south african rugby when c.e.o. khaleesi captains the national team the springboks in a three match test series against england he will become the first black man to captain the springboks in a test match this is significant since black people make up around eighty percent of south africa's population during the apartheid era black people were marginalized and the pressed by a white minority government rugby was used as a tool to promote white nationalism in those days now so africa will play a test against wales in washington d.c. on saturday before the england series peter stiff the tory will skip of the team against the welsh but then all eyes will be on khaleesi the following week when he becomes springbok captain number sixty one and the first player of color to lead the national team. for the goes to show this much for me i'm just going to give

everything i can and do my best to make sure that i delivered saturdays and is only it was one thing with me is to make sure that a performance that is so young for so that's what i want to do and focus on the post to i can't control what everybody thinks of me i can only control what i can to wonderful the international cricket council says it is investigating fully allegations of corruption in its sport this is in response to evidence of match fixing uncovered by al jazeera as investigative unit have. on the phone to remember about the documentary aired on al-jazeera on sunday and exposed the groundsman in sri lanka agreeing to pre-pay pictures to suit a particular outcome to aid bookmakers taking bets on the matches the sports world governing body say they know of corrupt criminals within the sport but are even more concerned about the kind of players that are being targeted. the education of the players has increased tremendously now to the extent that the target at the

highest level is is very difficult for these guys and that's why we seeing and we are very much aware that they're going to now target the next level down domestic leagues even lower than that great cricketers and in almost they're going to produce the only events that they can fix themselves i mean that's the kind of level they stooping to a six time world surf league champion stephanie gilmore who is also the world number one has advanced to the third round of the bali protected event you're straightly and had to surf against sage eriksson and carol enrique but safely negotiated his second round heat and sporting big gallo jersey as worn by the world number one took some time out in indonesia to spend time with the fans to. and that's all the sport for me we'll have another update for you again later. a full update after the break but you'll be watching the news with me. until then thanks for your time to come.

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was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to. around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp so . the government raised our hopes and then abandoned us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the. government the fail. the i.m.f. said riyadh's breakeven oil price of twenty eighteen is likely to be around eighty eight dollars a barrel why is argentina again turning to the i.m.f. for help now we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live

in counting the cost on al-jazeera. north korea's former spy chief has finished his first meeting in new york with the u.s. secretary of state. summary of this is the world news from al-jazeera. death toll rises to three now in the latest protests to hit make it on his capital managua. the u.n. security council discusses the escalating violence between the israelis and palestinian factions and ukraine stages the murder of a journalist they say it was to stop an attempt on his life to capture the mastermind behind the plot.