been a number of those and those are as you say multinational multilateral sanctions imposed on north korea but there are in fact u.s. sole u.s. sanctions and those are particularly frustrating for many north korean leaders those are sanctions that they placed on individuals in north korea those are banking sanctions where our own u.s. treasury department does have certain authorities in the world banking system and so there are things that the u.s. can do on its own with respect to sanctions relief and what i would say is again it shouldn't be an all or nothing prospect if the north demonstrates tangibly that they for example honor missile launch moratorium and there are things that the u.s. can roll back on its own to we swing open the barn door completely all it wants to know but by the same token we shouldn't expect that the north will completely turn over all of their nuclear weapons and scientists before they get any kind of relief well for the moment pull kyra leave it there and see what does come out of this

meeting thanks very much for your time from some francisca thank you my pleasure now a group of catholic bishops in nicaragua they set to meet president will take a late on thursday to talk about how to stop violence across the country now they're planning to offer their mediation in a dialogue between the government and protesters at least one hundred thirty people have been killed since late april in violence between forces loyal to all taken and opposition groups demanding his resignation still ahead here all the al-jazeera news out. but the horrible trail of tears for them i'm sorry to say at least forty six people have drowned of the coast of yemen once again highlighting the desperation of many across the horn of africa. also why illegal immigrants entering the u.s. could be heading straight to prison. and in sport ten time french open champion rafa nadal closes in on the eleven goal and hour strike.

the united nations has accused saudi arabia of using its broad anti terrorism laws on crackdown to peaceful peaceful dissent a report published by the un special rapporteur says under saudi arabia's current legal definition of terrorism anyone who challenges the government's or thorough t. on policies could qualify as a terrorist the laws are being used to justify torture silence dissent and imprisoning human rights defenders the document also says riyadh systematically persecute those who peacefully exercise their right to freedom of expression it urges saudi arabia to investigate allegations of torture and stop the barbaric and public executions of detainees the inquiry was completed before the recent wave of

arrests of human rights campaigners and saudi arabia international watchdog say at least eleven activists mostly women have been detained over the past few weeks. de alleyne is a un special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism joins me now from minneapolis via skype very good to have you live on the program thanks very much for your time how was the u.n. able to compile this report see if not if not allowed sort of complete access to the country or perhaps to those that are affected by these laws. well my report was completed by my predecessor ben emmerson but we published it today under the mandate or my and date and so it's a report from the mandate there was an assistant visit saudi arabia so much and we had a country access. however as the report quite. we had some concerns

that we in particular. prisoners named chris you know those who have been arrested interrogated and subject to trial and then detention we were not given access to those prisoners there's despite numerous entreaties with the government and so we have concerns that are on and access had been limited during the course of the visit nonetheless people were able to make a full and comprehensive review of the counter-terrorism architecture in south here at the air and as the report his evidence we have grave concerns about the protection and promotion of human rights and. if that is the case i do apologize to scott there's a break up for all of us a little bit could you just tell us what sort of people did you find are actually being detained who all they will sort of jobs they doing what sort of actions are they taking that's upsetting the saudis so much. well the concerns that the report and actually that the mandate has continued to articulate in

a number of individual communications during the last year is that ordinary protesters people who are exercising their rights and democracy who articulate a point of view to simply say that they just a moment these are individuals who are being picked up and interrogate it and ultimately being processed through this tragedy courts these are bloggers these are erich's these are academics he's our women these are civil society activists these are ordinary people who have a right under international law including under the international lot which saudi arabia is that sound to have a right to express a point of view as a member of the right it's a look at saudi arabia has a particular obligation to ensure that their citizens as well as citizens in other countries can exercise these rights saudi arabia. has

been mentioned many many times not being able to allow its citizens to express themselves freely for decades now you surprised that that even but i mustn't report as you say as a special report sort of comes to this conclusion because even saying that these laws are objectionably brolga really sort of puts everybody into the same basket a problem is it not i think it's a problem. i think countries particularly countries who are given the privilege of joining human rights council who are standard fare birds for human rights around the world we expect much and should expect much of these countries saudi arabia when it's going to consummate here that it was doing so on the basis of a human rights as a stand they are in the region for that reason we should take. tree at its word and

then it goes and protect and then its citizens from exercising the most basic of rights when it does so in a way that's so broadly based that it can be very just fortunate to their standards that octu be applied then i think there's good reason to criticize and we don't apply differential standards to countries countries signed treaties they put in place they're obligated since they stand for election for international bodies to protect human rights so we need to hold them to their words and say actually if you said you're going to protect the right citizens including your own then actually you have an obligation to do so or leave it there for now and see what happens likely in their reaction to your report for the lame thanks so much for joining us from minneapolis really good to have you on the program. going to solve the president has announced a temporary ceasefire with the taliban to coincide with the end of the muslim holy month of ramadan there's been more violence in recent months with dozens of a times against civilians and security forces the government says operations will

continue against other armed groups such as i saw the u.s. says it will all or the cease fire along with nato which called for peace talks of the glass has more from kabul. president gummies announcement of a unilateral cease fire it seems to be a calculated gamble following on his offer instead your eggs in the afghan taliban for unconditional peace talks and a seat at the political table if they came to negotiations so far that hasn't borne any fruits but he made clear in his announcement that this ceasefire only applied to the afghan taliban definite islamist your movie that the government of the islamic republic of afghanistan announces a ceasefire from the twenty seventh of ramadan until the fifth day if you don't fit or following the historic ruling of afghan religious scholars afghan national defense and security forces will only stop offensive maneuvers against the taliban and will continue to target eisel and other foreign backed terrorist organizations

and their affiliate the question is what will the taliban do now will they respect this ceasefire through one of the holiest weeks in the muslim calendar and how will afghan security forces tell the difference between taliban fighters and those i saw and other militant groups the president danny says his army and other security forces will continue to fight the red cross has pulled more than seventy of its international stuff out of yemen because of security concerns the move comes as forces close in all the red sea city of data it's pulled his yemen's main routes for humanitarian aid the saudi military says yemeni government forces which it backs as part of a coalition with the u.a.e. all within ten kilometers all the who controlled city the u.n. says a military assault could have dire consequences the u.s. has warned against an offensive to capture the port she has returned see has more from washington d.c. . there's been reports for a few days now off

a discussion within the administration as to whether to support an assault on the port of her data it was the wall street journal that initially reported that the m.-a rafi's had asked washington for direct support in its military plans however the emirate has also said it wouldn't move unless it received that support that report of a request was denied by the u.s. and the iraqis but the sense that we've been getting is that discussion within the administration is between those who argue that any military assault on the port would lead to a catastrophic humanitarian situation a worsening of the already had a spotted humanitarian situation and would scupper diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict over there others in the administration who argue this is a good time to try and change the dynamics on the ground there is also suspicion among some of the administration however that the iraqis will move anyway no matter what the u.s. say we did ask the state department about these reports and this is the response we

got we call upon all parties to take appropriate measures to mitigate the risk of civilian casualties and facilitate humanitarian relief efforts we cannot comment on private diplomatic discussions or military operations now yemen is also a transit point for thousands of refugees and migrants trying to reach wealthy gulf nations to find work the international organization for migration is describing it as a hidden crisis helen val has lol their voyage started from the port of bazaar so in some audio on tuesday headed for yemen but then smuggler boat never made it to shore these pictures of survivors believed to be ethiopian were provided by the international organization for migration their boat capsized the day break off the coast of yemen is port city of aden on wednesday from over one hundred migrants on board nearly two thirds drowned forty six confirmed dead and sixteen are missing. it's the latest in a series of similar accidents involving african refugees and migrants trying to

reach yemen the iowan estimates more than seven thousand people take a dangerous journey every month it says they face difficult conditions and appalling treatment at the hands of people to africa's there's an awful lot of the use of these migrants and they come across they don't necessarily have as many resources as those comical west africa do but the my at the those predating on the nose picking up on the role of the take the most sellers and torture them are doing exactly the same thing they're burning plastic bottles on to their skin getting to call their families back home in ethiopia primarily so they'll send whatever they can quite often it might be twenty fifty dollars is nothing in january last year three hundred people were thrown into the sea by smugglers off yemen a southern province of szabo in the gulf of aden most of them teenagers from somalia and ethiopia more than one hundred of them drowned pushed by war and poverty in the horn of africa many choose yemen because of its proximity and with

the hope they can cross into wealthiest table gov countries in search of better living conditions but in yemen they're often kept in miserable detention centers and face systematic deportation on saturday one hundred thirty each o.p.'s were sent back to the country from the port of her data yemen is already devastated by a civil war that's led to what the u.n. calls the worst humanitarian crisis and the chaos resulting from that conflict especially around the state of baba meant that has made the area even more risky for refugees one hundred five hundred zero zero. well still ahead here on the news in guatemala was search and recovery operations were temporarily suspended we'll tell you why and in sport well the one simona halep is on the brink of a first at the ground sometimes the state.

how it was there were some lively storms just pushing out of the northern plains of the u.s. easing i would say was a made west see the great plains actually sing for ever amounts of cloud to spinning off the rockies and that will continue to make its way further east then as we go on through the next couple of days there we go the upper midwest see some very heavy rain for a time on friday as warmth around six to see people will see temperatures getting up to twenty celsius in new york twenty three therefore ottawa hostile down towards the southeast and coney could still just catch wanted to showers around the callout is back down into florida for the west is fighting try for the most part push north of the border just around washington state could see a little bit of wet weather just creeping its way in here into b.c. and that's all going to continue making its way further east was over the canadian rockies they could even bass and snow still in the picture here yet it is jude wet weather continues across central parts of anything peping up always

a possibility some lively storms coming through here that will continue to make its way over towards the east coast as we go on through the weekend for the south but the bad across a good part of the caravan that said of the case for the last around venice and also for the greater antilles the central america we have still got some very heavy right that means more beat down poles for a good part quite amala. going as i want to finally we're going ask about it but that's the ball is a ball not i see more listeners are thought of that this set says the last one and the other the cousin to punch is a bitch at the bottom in the first episode of a two part series al-jazeera investigates the world of performance enhancing drugs . sports during the industry.

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president donald trump says he may invite north korea's kim jong un to the white house of negotiations between the leaders go well meanwhile sions arbor day has held talks with trying to head all the summit urging him to ensure the release of japanese citizens believed to have been abducted by pyongyang also leaders are arriving for that g. seven summit as well with the trumpet ministrations decision to impose tariffs on european and canadian goods likely to dominate the discussions fears of a global trade war hanging over the two day meeting in quebec city in canada. and a group of bishops in nicaragua will be present on your taker to talk about how to stop weeks of violet's they say they'll offer to mediate between the government and protesters at least one hundred thirty people have been killed since the day pulled . her back to our top story during the news hour the united nations says human rights must be on the agenda at the summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim. on the un's envoy thomas data

has been speaking in geneva ahead of the june twelfth summit he says too many north koreans don't have adequate access to food with ten million people relying on aid while he welcomed north korea's release of three u.s. citizens last month he said hundreds more prisoners should be freed as a gesture of good will i am not the opinion that that human rights dialogue will undermine the opening and the talks on the denuclearization at all i don't think that he said dilemma. on the contrary i think that from then the p.r. korea side to show a willingness to all been to to open up to the human rights make any sense will give them clear the ability in their intentions to engage with different stakeholders in their intention to denuclearize the price. and it will play in

their favor definitely well wayne hay has more from south korea. the comments by the special repertoire were clearly an attempt to try to keep the issue of human rights in the mix as the world very much focuses on that summit between donald trump and kim jong un in singapore next week it's not known if donald trump will raise the issue of human rights when he meets with kim jong un but the special wrapper to a thinks it has to be part of the equation particularly when it comes to discussions around economic sanctions against north korea because he believes that sanctions have a direct impact on the humanitarian situation in north korea but there are others who say look you cannot raise this issue directly with kim jong un in this first summit because it is too sensitive for the north koreans and if donald trump does go ahead and talk too much about human rights in singapore then it raises the risk

of derailing the entire process of improving relationships between the two koreas and between north korea and the united states american government officials are saying that they have been raising the issue of human rights constantly in their meetings with their north korean counterparts in the lead up to that summit next week russian president vladimir putin has held its annual direct line t.v. appearance people from across the country call write or even send videos asking a myriad of different questions chalons reports from moscow what was discussed this year. there were some tweaks to this year's direct line with putin outs when the studio audience in came an array of ministers and regional governors waiting to explain to watching the russians why gas prices are too high or holes in the road unrepaired as usual most of the discussion was on the mess took affairs with the oft repeated message that russia is heading in the right direction but putin rarely

wastes an opportunity to tell the west it's political and financial pressure on us work. defending our interests must be done consistently not rudely in the spheres of politics and economy we have always done that and we will keep doing that we are always looking for compromises this pressure will come to an end when our western partners will realize that the methods they employ are ineffective counterproductive and harmful to everyone so russia has highly sophisticated new weapons in development negotiate with russia on global affairs he urged or risk escalating conflict when you minute there was the understanding that the third world war will be the end of civilization is this understanding must restrain is from extreme and dangerous steps in the international arena russia's renewed capacity for hard power projection most of hands right now in syria and putin said

there is no immediate end to russia's military involvement. in the horde of the at their worst our forces are deployed there to secure russia's interests in this vital region of the world which is very close to our territory and they will remain there as long as it is beneficial for russia it is one of the features of this event the topics range from the ultra localized to those of global significance from topics of war and peace to those of sports and to tell human so naturally attention was paid to the fee for two thousand and eighteen world cup team to start in russia next week. putin assured russians that stadiums and facilities must be used properly are for the games to benefit children and russian support and of course he hopes the home side will do well but i should do it not as we hope that our national soccer team will shoot up in the upcoming tournament and will show its best qualities injured the chances of that are questionable to say the least as

putin acknowledged the team's recent form hasn't exactly been stellar rory chalons how does iran moscow. years of origins are planning to transfer sixteen hundred people who've been detained by immigration and customs officials to federal prisons now five federal prisons are set to temporarily taking the detainees who are awaiting civil immigration court hearings with one in california preparing to house a thousand people down estabrook has more on this force from washington d.c. a rather interesting turn of events so what we know about these latest reports. not a whole lot we do know that ice is going to be working with the u.s. marshal service and the bureau of prisons to house up to as you mentioned sixteen hundred illegal people crossing into this country. i said that it's doing this because of the surge in illegals crossing into the united states and because of the zero tolerance policy by the department of justice as you mentioned five prisons

would be included this is they said a temporary measure the largest number of prisoners or illegals would be held at a facility in california and then there would be up to two hundred to three hundred possible immigrants held in facilities in places like arizona texas washington state and washington washington state and oregon so there has been some concern expressed by some guards a couple of guards union about doing this putting these folks into facilities where prisoners are being held so breaking story that's about all the information we have from ice at this point. from whatever ingle you see. human rights groups and civil society groups are going to be up in ohms about why these detainees are going to federal prison. yeah we're we're likely to hear that

and that's one of the concerns is being raised now keep in mind that these prisons that they would be held and are are not going to be maximum security prison so they wouldn't be put in facilities with murders but in a medium for security prisons in this country you do have people that have been convicted of things like assault so you're mixing that population potentially in with these immigrants and we don't know at this point how these people are going to be separated or what that might mean to these people coming in and being held temporarily potentially before they're deported back to their home country but we'll leave it often out of course we'll come back to when we get more information down to put that in washington d.c. thanks don. now the killer volcano on hoy's big island has not been erupting for thirty three days hundreds of homes have been destroyed thousands of people displaced twenty two fishes have opened up while some of the law has even boiled away freshwater lakes rob rebels looks at the stories they phone. kill when

is month long eruption has thankfully cost no human lives but it has inflicted an abundance of misery i lost everything for forty years gregory braun grew orchards for a living now his flower beds are a massive seeding lava we just didn't believe it would happen we were there for so long and we are so established. also struggling with disbelief dodie jordan and her husband abruptly forced from their homes in what had been their personal paradise it is. incredibly emotional when i've seen this incredible bay an area that we love. was dear to our hearts just change within hours not even days hundreds of homes have been destroyed by the unstoppable flow of molten rock the lava up whoring into the sea sends up huge

clouds of steam mixed with toxic gases latest community to be ravaged is capote the beaches there were once popular for swimming snorkeling and sunbathing the island's mayor own a home and cupola hole he tried to encourage people who have lost nearly everything in the dark is the time to witness to all of us it's a community we have the will we will make it better and people will get it done in addition to property damage the eruption has severed highways knocked out power and telephone services and shut down a geothermal plant that normally provides about a quarter of the island's power it is the power of nature personified by the goddess pay lay the spirit of volcanoes in native hawaiian belief that now has the upper hand i don't know what madame paley's ideas are but. she changed

a really pretty place scientists cannot predict how long the eruption will go on robert oulds al-jazeera. message bad weather has foals rescues two poles a search and recovery operation in guatemala where they've been looking for survivors of a volcanic eruption that happened on sunday at least ninety nine of them to have been killed at least two hundred still missing david reports from the disaster zone . trapped in a state of uncertainty the family gathers together to wait for news of their loved ones daughter sons brothers nieces and nephews haven't been seen since the fire go volcanoes violent eruption now more than three days have passed since the deadly explosions and the family is prepared for the worst so what he had on this he say spared. sixteen people died in the house there will be

a brotherhood even went to giving just one single house and. we still haven't heard anything about them. rather than wait for news out of road decided to join the search he walked for hours through the disaster zone hoping to get close to his brother's house but the ash was too hot and the house too far up the volcano alberto was forced to turn back but alvarado isn't the only one who put himself at risk to search for his missing family on tuesday we met others looking for answers in the disaster zone. where you're from where this man was searching for his pregnant daughter and given to me. my daughter live here but nobody has found her that's why we're here struggling to find her her husband of thirteen family members living with them and they're also missing. hundreds of people from the town of san miguel a lot is are still missing but with their meters thick layer of ash and mud carpeting

much of the town the hope of finding survivors is gone now the question is how to prevent more disasters like this one is almost more so i mean i mean there's a lot of volcanic material that is built up we calculate is around fifteen to twenty kilometers with material this material needs to come out and the more material accumulates it will also have to come out this is a recipient for disaster this tragedy has brought guatemalans together in a country beset by natural disasters uncertainty about the future is one feeling shared by all david mercer al-jazeera a little mango what a mile or so back to the middle east where the israeli army has warned palestinians in gaza to stay away from the border fence ahead of more protests expected for friday and force planes dropped leaflets into garza on thursday urging residents to avoid the area israeli forces have killed more than one hundred palestinians during

weeks of protests against the all going blockade of the territory. syrian activists are reporting that at least twenty people are being killed they say joined as strikes by the government and the russian air force hit a residential area of the rebel held village of the dharma in the province least one hundred people were injured in the strikes there many rebels and civilians have been moved to the province as part of ceasefire deals ending fighting in other parts of syria. turkey has suspended a deal with greece which allows athens to return refugees and migrants who have crossed from turkey it's in retaliation for greece's refusal earlier this week to allow the extradition of eight turkish officers who fled to greece after the twenty sixteen to sit in consuming has more from istanbul. turkish authorities have requests that the extradition of eight turkish soldiers from the greek authorities turkey says those soldiers were directly in wolves in the failed

coup attempt which took place in two thousand and sixteen and those should be tried in turkey but the greek courts say that this wouldn't be a fair trial in turkey that's why they refused to extradite and finally when the greek court released four of those soldiers that was the last point for turkey foreign minister childish will announce that turkey and the by literal refugia readmission deal with greece which was signed in two thousand and one and turkey says this is a political move even the greek government wants to resolve the conflict the greek judiciary is acting political also the particular ominous or sad that this is just the bilateral deal this has nothing to do nothing to do with this with the deal signed with the e.u. and this will not impact any relation with the within the nato for now we don't

know the technical details but it's might mean turkey will really had met the refugees that are sent back from other e.u. member countries but not the ones who are sent back from greece south africa and india the one hundred twenty fifth anniversary always significant moment in history is when mahatma gandhi was a whites only train the incident in pietermaritzburg is seen as the indian independence leader's first of civil disobedience tosser. one hundred twenty five years ago mahatma gandhi was on a train traveling to the city of pretoria south africa's capital this region atman shows done in the first class carriage it was a time of racial segregation only white people were.