by one they stole all the possessions that could be carried off. and rape the goodman girls and you know those regardless of their age should have been never actually issued an order to rape and murder and during the course of the five year trial his defense team insisted that once his fighters crossed the border into central african republic they were under the command of that country's leadership speaking to his ear in two thousand and seven before his arrest being the brushed aside questions about the i.c.c. you will know that the international criminal court know that. i am not of course involved in any of this ng's. what i'm saying is that they have you in their sights don't they know no that's not true thank you for mission.

so there's no question of you having to go to the hague. at all. nine years later the i.c.c. unanimously found guilty of all charges against him three of war crimes and two of crimes against humanity became the first to be convicted for crimes committed by others under his command it was also the first time the i.c.c. focused on rape as a weapon of war bimbo was seem to to eighteen years in prison and later got an extra year and a fine for interfering with witnesses in his trial and he's lodged an appeal against his conviction but prosecutors have to they want to increase his seem to it's to twenty five years million one hundred al-jazeera. i'm going to check on the weather for you next and then. catholic bishops try and fail to read retold from a crack as president and weeks and i'm fine i'm. a relative of the volcano victims

take matters into their own hands as guatemala search and rescue operations are suspended again. still got some very heavy rain affecting the philippines pushing over towards southern parts of india china and on into thailand massive cloud in play here and you can see we are can see some big downpours as we go on through the next day i say particular some more than half of the philippines torrential downpours for some of the i think we are allowed to see some localized flooding as a result of that further south just a scattering a shallow as there are into malaysia by the just creeping down towards indonesia but not too bad as she can see more sunshine city than showers very different story there for thailand more heavy rain coming in here that's the case for sas they

going on into sunday they said a bit about weather making its way across the southern parts of australia this area a cloud continues to drive this way through the bite through south australia down into the southeast and cold i think we'll call that disappointingly cloudy lots of cloud around there for victoria wetter weather will move away as we go on into sas day for the northeast generally try and find brisbane at around twenty three degrees will get up to around nineteen there in perth but wetter weather will not just weigh in as we go on into sunday and by this stage it doesn't that bad it's all across that southeastern corner of australia temperatures a tad disappointing but not too bad in like a meldon. a

year is paul since the start of the blockade. causes foreign minister told to al-jazeera about the impact of the crisis on regional politics. and how his country is coping with. his reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump says he may invite north korean leader kim jong un to the white house at that meeting in singapore as well on the twelfth of may the remarks also hosting japan's prime minister shinzo. faces a tough reception from fellow g seven leaders who are meeting in canada furious

about being slapped with new metal terrorists. african president jacob zuma has appeared in court for a second time on corruption charges relating to a two point five billion dollars. case in the high court and has been adjourned until late july. syrian government and russian warplanes have attacked a rebel held area thirty five people have died in one hundred injured in the rebel held village of. province and the rebels and civilians have been moved to the province as part of a cease fire deal and infighting in other parts of syria. but all those government has again suspended the search for volcano victims leaving riders have to dig through the ash and mud themselves one hundred nine people a name to have been killed at least two hundred more still missing since rob said they must the reports from the disaster zone. a community in mourning in the

mountains of what amala lucky develops mother was one of more than one hundred people who died after a volcanic eruption buried the town of san miguel is look this after days of not knowing lucky will finally be able to put her mother to rest it's a small consolation during a time of immense grief. i give thanks to god that they found my mother's body they were looking for her for three days for three days we didn't know anything until they told us she was in the morgue it's hard to so many are still missing many people in my family are still missing. since sunday the deadly eruption dozens of bodies have been handed over to relatives some people here have been able to get some closure but two hours away in the city of a square others are just starting the challenging and sometimes long process of trying to identify their loved ones. or relatives of missing persons come to the city's morgue family members describe important physical characteristics blood

samples are then taken for d.n.a. analysis the work being done here is essential for people's peace of mind this info feeds the sense that i feel sad i feel sad because i want my family to be found and brought to my house even if it's just the bones i want them in my house i want to give them a funeral and a proper christian burial this is my wish. identifying the dead is a laborous task. might have enough qualified staff forensics officials say their budget isn't enough to respond to a disaster of. this magnitude of it is this in fact the cadavers have been exposed to high temperatures well being buried for days these has cooked up bodies tissues which could mean the bone cells have died it's possible will have to repeat some of the t. shirt and bone samples to get a genetic profile. that means it could take weeks or even months to

identify the dad and with hundreds still missing from the eruption that cost many residents off guard watermelon prosecutors will investigate whether in vacuum a should proceed jurors were properly followed. david mercer out to zero. and the kilauea volcano on hawaii's big island has now been erupting for thirty three days hundreds of homes have been destroyed and thousands of people are displaced as well as some freshwater lakes being boiled away brunell's takes a look at the story so far. away 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 orchids for a living now his flower beds are a mass of seizing lava he just didn't believe it would happen we were there for so long and we're 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 and i've seen this incredible bay 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 molten rock the lava poor into the sea sends up huge clouds of steam mixed with toxic gases latest community to be ravaged is cup. although 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 darkest of time as she has to let us together all of us is 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 tale a 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 wasn't a fifty billion dollar financing deal with incest and monetary fund government the i.m.f. helped to stop its economy from sliding back into crisis argentina is grappling with high debt and inflation. a group of catholic bishops in nicaragua has met the

president and want to mediate between the government and protesters and one hundred thirty people have been killed since mid april and. reports from. another day of unrest in a get out one means another funeral this time it's a thirty three year old opposition demonstrator killed during one of the latest confrontations with pro-government forces in messiah his body was carried past a checkpoint to the nearby cemetery. with tensions continuing to rise in messiah all the roads leading into the city have been blocked by demonstrators forcing thousands of people to walk for hours to the next town. we have you will kill looking for food if you don't have the government i said calmly having dinner while you go hungry. political violence has become common in this part of the country some of those leaving the area say they're not coming back any time soon but i mean . they're walking to managua to see if we can make it to the border with. we don't

know if we'll be able to make it all the way there. despite the relative calm demonstrators are quick to react to any activity that might suggest an assault from armed groups behind me is just one of dozens of barricades set up by anti-government demonstrators now these barriers that are set up aren't only here to shield protesters from pro-government forces but also to prevent the free flow of commercial traffic into the city of messiah which has become a symbol of the resistance against the government. the only traffic allowed to pass through the barricades are emergency vehicles humanitarian aid workers and members of the catholic church and that if you talk about. has seen violence has seen deaths the city is totally paralyzed there is no commerce it's snipers that have left so many dead in messiah. the catholic church continues to act as the primary mediator in the ongoing crisis on thursday bishops in managua met with president

daniel ortega presenting to him a set of conditions for renewing a national dialogue a dialogue the church says will only continue if the government can guarantee an end to the violence and went up. when i was. president supreme court has found all the law and abortion laws are incompatible with human rights legislation the politicians have decided have to decide the next step for brennan reports. northern ireland remains the only part of the u.k. where it's illegal for female victims of rape and incest to have the resulting pregnancies terminated even in cases where the fetus has an unsolvable abnormality abortion is still pretty potent and in twenty thirteen serry us first pregnancy turned from joy to despair at nineteen weeks her skull had formed and her brain had formed there was no way she was going to live independently i could be three for

nine months trying to get it i knew i was home five years after making the journey from belfast to london to abort the pregnancy sarah return to london to the supreme court hoping to hear the judges strike down part of northern ireland strict abortion laws on human rights grounds the current law is incompatible with article eight in cases of rape incest and fatal serious fetal abnormalities but instead of deciding the issue once and for all for jurisdiction reasons the judge's statements in this case are not legally binding so the pressure is intensifying on politicians to take action this issue is not going to go away arlen is about to reform its law on abortion and therefore it will remain in the public eye in the months to come it's time we. looked at our abortion laws and make sure that they are human rights compliant the complex legal and moral issues are further

complicated by the devolved powers of northern ireland's parliamentary assembly and assembly which hasn't sat in session since january of last year evolution is not now i nor has it ever been justification for this nile of women's rights there is no devolved government and no. with an island and ultimately responsibility rests with westminster it is all eyes now i on treason mate but campaigners insist the judges can approve killing every living human being has the right to life to be protected it's really quite shocking that. it is a fundamental right to be born to be protected. and we hope that our government will continue to write all citizens born and unborn make no mistake the issue of whether. comply with human rights legislation is going to come back before judges in the near future. supreme court in london and russian president

vladimir putin is in beijing for talks with xi jinping is ahead of a summit that involves the two countries and six other asian states putin's first overseas trip since he began his new term a month ago underlining his growing relationship with china's. and his direct gave his annual direct line t.v. event people phone then write messages also and videos with a whole range of questions or talents reports from. there were some tweaks to this year's direct line with ready made 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 domestic affairs with the oft repeated message that russia is heading in the right direction is the boss 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. russia has highly sophisticated new weapons in development negotiate with russia on global affairs. or risk escalating conflict or when you were in you know 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 ucas most of talent right now in syria and putin said there is no immediate end to russia's military involvement not. look there were 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 due to start in russia next week. putin assured russians that stadiums and facilities must be used properly after the games to benefit children and russian support and of course he hopes the home side will do well to do what 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 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. now without zero these are our top stories donald trump may invite north korea's leader to the white house summit in singapore as well as president raise the possibility of japan's prime minister since they want to help secure the release of japanese citizens held by north korea. leaders are arriving for the g seven summits with the administration's decision to impose tariffs on european and canadian goods likely to dominate discussions fears of a global trade war hanging over the two day meeting in quebec city in canada. matic as to james bays and the growing rift amongst the g seven countries. to g. seven meetings for many years including when they were ga when russia was involved always a great deal of tension between russia and the others when russia was invited to

those meetings have always seen tension among both of them like we have right now some are even calling it a meeting of the g six plus one of the one the other six is president from the united states. former south african president jacob zuma has appeared in court for a second time on corruption charges relating to a two point five billion dollars arms deal the case in the high court and has been adjourned until late july is linked to a nine hundred ninety s. deal to buy european military hardware when zuma was deputy president. the red cross has pulled more than seventy staff members out of yemen over security concerns has called on all warring parties to guarantee its workers safety medical and food assistance programs can continue one employee was shot dead in tires and april. and russia's president vladimir putin is on a state visit to china with the kim trump summit likely to be discussed economic

military and political cooperation has improved during the presidency of seed in paying to counter u.s. influence china is russia's leading trading partner and weapons importer this is putin's first overseas trip since winning another term in office. with all the headlines more news continues on al-jazeera two one one east. the i.m.f. said riyadh's breakeven oil price 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 of the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. in war torn afghanistan. simply going to school can be

a privilege. especially if you're a girl. to out of three girls don't attend school this by billions of dollars in aid spent on education over the last two decades. i'm steve on this episode of what i want to use to be investigate why so many of afghanistan's girls are kept outside of the classroom. it's the dawn of a new school day across afghanistan and girls from the dashed district or neighborhood in west kabul begin making their way to class. pushed a trickle. and soon a steady stream. by six am the

outpouring from the gates. there steve from norwich maybe. it's six am seems early for school and it is and. that's because this is the first of three shifts here. it's the only way to accommodate the more than fourteen thousand students on the screen wolf split almost evenly between schools and. over the next week we've been given extremely rare access inside the cia to shahada school to try to understand what life is like for a girl for him to school in afghanistan. because the combination is so hard for us in our country. problem. sixteen year old man. has been a student at seattle shahada since grade one over that time she and principal akila tasha cooley have seen the numbers of girls at your school more than ok melissa yes

and so are strolls and though we have. a few buildings here and there. was a student here they guess seven thousand just was just here so i wonder how long. the huge increase in the numbers of feel studying it. is a welcome sign of progress compared to the days when the taliban were in power and girls were forbidden from going to school. but the school's enormous growth has a major consequence too many students and not enough classrooms so we have a few buildings here yet once or for girls one is simple this. time of movement is saying that that building is from the beis building room for the from the five buildings from the by laws that we are seeing the buildings are all the by all the

building all of the boys are the mice yes. we are the girls that's the eyes of the yes. we don't have a classroom. we don't have buildings and that's just for our parents all of the buildings are on the bike but we don't have any room. how many classes into tiles we are more than four feet from what it costs us one to come in times a day yes she did. i'm with a. spelling guess ok guess the girls are the end of much luck with. your. being.

there is only one high school in this neighborhood which is why the girls come prong far away from all the population is growing and day by day the girls come knocking on our door to be enrolled we cannot tell them no joint. we have to accept them but we don't have enough space that's why we have problems. the. lack of infrastructure is only one of many reasons why so many afghan girls are out of school. in fact no one actually knows how many girls are in school not even the afghan government the ministry of education is not sure how many students are there is it eleven million or is it seven point two million is it eight million nobody knows exactly how many students are there. welcome that that's just one

of several findings of a recent independent review on corruption within the ministry of education released late last year the results made headlines across the country it found widespread corruption throughout the education system ministry. of bashar is the former director of afghanistan's anti corruption watchdog and author of the report after spending billions and billions of taught in the last sixteen years. we have not been able actually to have any kind of building for most of the schools our finding shows that. the treaty money was taken in cash to remote parts of afghanistan by the trustees and we had information that the money did not make the right people. had siad all shahada there aren't even enough classrooms for the boys. many classes are held in the hallways or in stairwells wherever

a teacher can our folks being. the only place you won't find boys attending classes is in a tent or out in the open with the girls in the past we were together by some girls we didn't first through lack of that class is ok we had enough classes here but right now we have too much people we have too much a student here because of this there is no play is. recognizing the desperate need at the school japanese donors built to need buildings five years ago so girls would have their own classrooms. at the school shura community leaders decided to give those buildings to the people. in this school is a blank stare as to girls because when a freelancer coming we were under the sun we were under the radar therefore and i was next one did the school's frazz but right now is this by says i don't know why

you feel angry about. the angry yes because in the past the three are when they are coming so they will think about us as about about the gears but right now it's the my school i don't know why and it's right makes me really angry that's why i always the right of the girls our lives. improving education especially for girls is a well known object and for international donors principal akila says the local community gave the buildings to the boys thinking. that donors would come back to build more classrooms for the girls. the honey. what if. people think n.g.o.s come here to work only for girls so the community decided the bolling's should be for the boys. i don't know if the school's management or others

interview these issues are always decided by the males in the school management. did the donors ever come back after they built the building. they came once to visit then went back home to ruffle. the security situation continues to deteriorate in afghanistan as a result there we feel international donors are able to visit the projects they support so many rely on third party monitors to do that work which according to the anti corruption committee opens yet another avenue for corruption we've found that the school monitors and instead of doing proper monitoring off the quality of education. they have been working for themselves you know to go to some of this group to kind of harass the teachers in this great inspiration get money from them and then to their evaluation once they were happy we had an example. our school

that we're working with them but actually on which has a thousand kids on the register actually when we went in there there were twelve kids coming to school. in kaplan is a researcher who contributed to the anticorruption report as an education specialist he works with the norwegian and geo providing support for schools throughout afghanistan including this school for the deaf and kabul. sign language which. kaplan says he's fortunate to be able to visit the projects and geo supports it's often kind of difficult for donors to be able to do that because of security concerns but also sometimes it's not always the interest to go out and follow up on these things and to go out and visit so it doesn't happen very often i think i mean you get a feeling for something in a way that you don't if you're sitting behind a desk you know you see people and you see them engaging in learning it and i mean for me that's the reason to be here but without that i would just lose the feeling

for it i think altogether but he says lack of donor access and oversight is only one of the issues affecting girls' education in afghanistan while girls lacking so much more than boys when it comes to education well i think you know at least in the past there had been just much more focus on just getting anyone in the school first and then it was easier to get boys into school and. you know and also just because of gender norms you know that the more attention has been focused on boys than girls generally see india is a country that's leaving all this like saying that they are not that they're not that there's all this saying that this. is top the. levels of the afghan government and the international community deal with the findings of the anti corruption report the staff and the girls that say it will shahada face more immediate issues. the first shift of the school day from six am to ten am

is almost over and while four hours might seem a little light on school times it may be a blessing in disguise because any longer and the girls may happen to play with. the shocking new car bomb we have seven thousand go but both male and female students have to use the same time on such was a problem. we tell them during the summer yes do it at home before coming to school . have you ever gone to the toilet in your school yes i was seven years old that i or went to call and. it's a will but situation here. the biggest con or what during. the course of the by so. so bad i was.

employed with this. poor working conditions in most schools make it more difficult to attract female teachers yet they are desperately needed because many families still will not accept men teaching their daughters. we have only fifty four full time teachers including edwin starr so this is the problem and we don't have enough teachers and we have to take temporary stuff but because of a school is far away many female teachers conjured up. far away is simply the outskirts of western kabul. but it's too far for female teachers unfamiliar with the neighborhood or uncertain about its security. it's a paradox principal akila cannot recruit enough women to teach at her school yet it's estimated that up to seventy five percent of teaching graduates are unemployed

and most of them are women. at the saeed jumma luden teaching college in a more affluent district of couple afghanistan's next generation of teachers is learning the best techniques to connect with their future students. every one of these graduates knows a good education is not always enough to land a teaching job. that i studied inside. and graduated from class fourteen. i made it in dari and king second in the class. then i tried looking for a good job. graduated three years ago from this college but she is still looking for work as. we try our best to get jobs in the local way

but we cannot get anything. but there is another way which is illegal but i have never tried it. i try my best to do things. but it hasn't worked yet. of all the findings in the corruption report the issue highlighted as most devastating was the poor quality of teachers throughout the country. jobs were given to those who could afford to pay a bribe not those who are best qualified it's hard to slap a percentage on this stuff but the majority of teachers that we spoke with suggested that teachers coming in recent years have to pay a year's salary in advance to be able to even get a teaching position. what about your classmates who you graduated with do any of them have jobs are they in the same position as you are. as far as i know none of them had secured a future either. the problem is that we have to have qualified teachers like you

it's not about the number of the teacher it's about the quality of the teacher. we came across instances where you know. a religious school graduate was teaching you know physics in math to the students he didn't know and i think and something about that subject i think what's happening now more and more sick kids are you know leaving school because their experience is just so miserable and they're not learning it just doesn't prepare doesn't prefer children for work or for life. and so what's the point. it's truly afternoon and the students and staff of study. have another major problem to deal with this is the courtyard of the so you know how the school where most of the girls take the passes but this afternoon behind me there is a massive storm brewing and if the rain gets any heavy or school is over for the day. do you think it's fair that boys always have classrooms

and girls have to say. it's a problem then because general because there was no time to do much there to give the boys they have right but the girls. don't have they have class by the girls don't have class for example my my brothers are not doing their boy they have class my sister i thing more than five years they sit in the outside in front of this. and their reign and they do those days that there was a van so they will not they will not teach you one they will like the study something. it will come back oh it's harder to learn yeah you're outside worse so they can not do little knowledge under the rain the rain will come. as the sky gets darker and knowing some of the girls have up to an hour's walk to

get. to know weeks no longer. after just an hour and a half of lessons the girls are sent on their way to. afghanistan has never had so many students going to school even when the security in some parts of afghanistan we still have the the quantity actually we have. between seven to eight million students going to school as i said we don't know the exact number but i think that's a significant number but i think the quality of education what is more important we don't have that we have fairly poor quality education and that goes back to many things corruption is one of the major causes of having poor quality education.

and you have to convince your dad to let you go to school or worse my father was also. he was not ok about going to school before he was saying something not that you don't want to voice school ideas no just saying that school is not good. for example the ghost working in the home. cleaning washing like these things and now he is a play i was thing for him that it's the world this changed and we should have knowledge that. man was his father dad runs a small store around the corner from the family home. he and his wife have six children that is the oldest. this business is the sole source of income

has to provide for his family doesn't hold lucrative i have never been to school or to get emotionally i can't even understand the simple. afghan tradition dictates the eldest daughter should stay home to take care of the family. does not. mean and looks after her siblings before and after school but she's also impressed her family with how hard she studies. lusine for her. he's very intelligent he's now in grade eleven. the last few years he was number one school and now she's number two. did you include richer. than ever with us ricky yes it was with our encouragement of a mother and father she is now in grade eleven and number two in school. do you

worry about your daughters when they walk to school have been the mage on yes i worry because the security has not been good for the last few years fairly this year the security is much worse and that's why we worry i mean we're going to talk even today there was a bomb blast. that blast was just two kilometers away targeting a voter registration center sixty people were killed. but it did not stop madness from going to school a few hours later. to seeing your girls attend the last shift of the day from one to five pm. the community won't allow teenage boys and girls to mix so no boys are present during the afternoon shift. it's one of the few times the girls can use the buildings that were actually built for them always i don't think to myself and i

know. this situation is not good you have to change this. just start changing the first your family were unable after that you can be successful to survive always i'm saying for myself i can't i can leave the thing i can do they like and believe. me these things. well manaus looks with hope to all that is possible principle akila continues to deal with the seemingly impossible so. even after the boys have left school for the day they're still not enough classrooms for all the girls and at times not enough teachers. was. read when i'm isha i would. write about it well. i guess was it. all you got to be.

for those working every day in afghanistan schools the strain is evident in the future uncertain. the responsibility of being a principal is too much to ask a lot of. they don't have. one and i don't think i can get them if i were just a teacher it would be better. whether the reforms recommended in the anticorruption report will help principal remains unclear. but the fact that the report was commissioned and released at all may be seen as a sign of progress. we did have resistance from sort of the ministry resisted. graft on a lot of work in the last few years and does not reflect was we have to. recreate

it so that you know this report is not about. the reaction to the report was swift with the president ghani himself promising to implement all the recommendations but any improvements that result may be too late for a man. she's hoping to be at university after she finishes high school next year after that i would good job after that i have. followed. by the takes and i will supply eased in for the keris that's my wish. well i could do with. what they say. that for against being a boxer. it's good for they know i want to

supply for they care so. it's estimated that more than sixty percent of afghanistan's girls are not in school so manaus is dream to provide a better future for them is both. but given the challenges that she and many of her classmates have faced just to go to school anything seems possible you never feel like it's. sometimes sometimes it's hard but again when i think something when i. again thing that is a war that about the world and thinking again i. ask you. for now decisions about girls' education still live mainly with men who run the ministry and fathers who rule the home but may slowly evolving manaus has

convinced her father to let her go to university. where once he questioned whether she should study at all the debate now is whether she studies medicine or politics . but girls like manaus and her peers will have to keep fighting to change the future for themselves and for the next generation afghanistan's girls when are you happiest is when my father said. when for example my father say that yes you are my problem is the obvious but i'm having. a lot yes. business updates.

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be full of the. president. and. over the day's sport as the washington capitals are crowned stanley cup champions up to beating the vegas golden knights in the n.h.l. finals i have the reaction to this news out. of

the leaders of the seven nations are gathering in canada for what could be the most tense meeting in years u.s. president donald trump has recently impose steel and alan minium tyrus affecting all the others in the group of industrialized nations and that has sparked a backlash his america first approach has led to several disputes with world leaders not to mention his polarizing stance on the iran nuclear deal as well as climate change john hendren is a correspondent in quebec city where the meeting will be held. inside and outside the g. seven summit disruption has replaced diplomacy on the streets demonstrators are descending on québec city where canada's leaders intend to avert a repeat of the two thousand and one summit of the americas where these streets erupted in riots this time nine thousand police are taking no chances even national assembly is shut down if it is bad. get pretty nasty.

shopkeepers have boarded up buildings as the first protesters filled the streets. the first demonstration of the g. seven began peacefully and it turned into a march as you can see there were speakers people eight baguettes and hundreds of people demonstrated peacefully but when the police came they showed that they were prepared in case there was trouble. concerned that they've completely secured the summit site leaving demonstrators to gather one hundred forty kilometers away and get back city at the gathering itself leaders are calling it the g. six plus one the u.s. against the rest all six u.s. allies in the group of seven of the world's largest economies opposed donald trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum and hope to avert a trade war but that. perhaps trump doesn't mind he's being isolated today here at

matters because these six countries here represent values they represent the economic market with a strong history and certainly also represent a true force on the international level it's the diplomatic equivalent of a family intervention as donald trump prepared to arrive french president. canadian prime minister just to talk about how to talk to the u.s. president there's no question that on trade on climate change on some other issues there will be differences. perspective but the role of the chief seven is to provide a context to highlight the ways we work together and work through some of the differences in perspectives trump fired back via twitter saying in part please tell prime minister trudeau and president mccrone that they are charging the us massive tariffs and create non-monetary barriers the meeting could end in a show of unity or

a showdown if you are going to carve the world up and you're going to have united states versus rest of world the rest of the world is going to be bigger and it's going to be more important. as the leaders in protesters gather in quebec those watching the g. seven around the world remain in suspense wondering whether history will be made inside that meeting or outside john hendren al-jazeera quebec city. has been to his professor of economics at the. university she's joining us live from geneva thank you very much indeed so it seems very much as a g seven unity is under pressure like never before. go it alone policy i mean how significant is that for the way the world does business. well it's obviously significant and right now g seven is a mess because there is clearly a lot of divergence in terms of their attitudes but i really think they have only themselves to blame i think you think should stop blaming trump because g seven as

a whole has displayed a singular lack of imagination in the last few years in coping with the world's most important economic problems so for now for them to come and say well it's us against trump and the us is ridiculous because they haven't shown the leadership required to actually take the world out of the quagmire that it's in indeed so given that donald trump is prepared to turn conventional thinking on its head pretty much i mean is he smashing the the the boundaries if you like of globalization that we have come to accept i mean and that does that put him in concurrence if you like with those who are protesting outside the meeting not really because he's doing it in the wrong we what g seven or g twenty should have done is actually gone for a concerted coordinated expansion in fact if any time the global economy needed this kind of coordinated fiscal expansion it was now but they haven't been able to

deliver it they need to do this to do reduce the inequalities to actually get rid of the tensions and insecurities that are resulting from the way the global trade and investment has been operating but instead they continue to insist on fiscal austerity and consolidation all of which adds to an equality and to unfettered global capital flows that make people's lives much more insecure all over the world indeed so there's actually rethink their own strategies so how do the deliberations and taking place in canada or affect for instance the tens of thousands of indian farmers that we see taking part in a nationwide strike right now because of the low price that they are getting for their projects how do the deliberations in canada affect them and their livelihoods . well what really matters is for let us say the indian government to be able to provide farmers in india remunerative prices that they deserve that they have been asking for but the global trade rules prevent them from doing that the global

trade rules constrain the indian government's ability to actually protect its own farming which is absolutely critical for more than half of the population that lives off farming so the g seven has to take account of all of this of the genuine concerns and the inequalities that are generated by current rules to actually enable countries to have domestic policy space to deal with these problems but in addition g seven and g twenty have to actually enable concerted fiscal expansion a global new deal i'm currently at untagged in geneva which has been demanding this for several years now that you have to have a global new deal that enables countries to expand together for employment and prosperity and then instead of that you are creating a world in which these two tensions are only going to get larger and more aggressive and what will the global new deal look like a global new deal would enable fiscal expansion in all of these countries it would

have to be large it would have to be generous it would have to actually enable countries to expand and you can only do this if you cooperated if you gordon major expansions but if you do that then you would actually get more employment and more equal societies instead of the inequality and the desperation that resume today all right a day to go shank you very much indeed for joining us live from geneva well our diplomatic editor james bass is currently in singapore because of course this tuesday summit coming up between donald trump and the north korean leader and he says that the rift that song display ahead of the g seven meeting is unprecedented . but i've been to g. seven meetings for many years including when they were g. eight when russia was involved always a great deal of tension between russia and the others when russia was invited to those meetings never have i seen tension among the seven like we have right now

some are even calling it a meeting of the g six plus one on the one that's against the other six is president trump and the united states a year ago i covered the g seven in italy and then there was tension over some of trauma comments his views on nato his pulling out of the climate deal but now you've got added to that pulling out of the iran deal and these terrorists which have the potential of starting a global trade war it is going to be a very very tense summit meeting coming up in quebec in the coming hours president trump we know doesn't really want to be there in fact he's thought apparently in the white house to have said perhaps he shouldn't go to all of the ships and vice presidents but he is pushing ahead with this meeting but it's interesting that the dynamics there in quebec seem to be even worse than they are in singapore he seems to have more problems with his allies and a summit with them than a summit with a country that has long been seen as one of the u.s.

is enemies. i don't know tom maybe invite north korea's either to the white house or that fifty's day summit in singapore goes well the u.s. president raised the possibility was his thing japan's prime minister alan fischer has more now from washington. the japanese prime minister will see donald trump but the upcoming g. seven summit in canada chin zoabi made a detour to washington to ensure he gets some private time with the u.s. president to discuss north korea is a to settle down in the oval office the president admitted he didn't feel the need for a lot of preparation before his historic summit in singapore i don't think you have to prepare very much it's about attitude it's about willingness to get things done but i think i've been preparing for the summit for a long time. he wants to make sure key japanese demands aren't lost in the moment that any deal isn't just good for the u.s. but its allies i hope the upcoming meeting in singapore represents the beginning of a bright new future for north korea and indeed

a bright new future for the world the denuclearization of the korean peninsula would assure in a new era of prosperity security and peace for all koreans in north and south and for people everywhere when donald trump travel to japan in the vendor he met the families of japanese citizens allegedly abducted by the north koreans in the seventy's and eighty's the release is top of prime minister abbott his agenda is the state cannot abandon all titles in tacit on behalf of the citizens of japan i would like to thank president trump and the people of the united states for their understanding and support and what's the presentation of the adoption issues. donald trump believes the summit in singapore can make progress towards north korea abandoning its nuclear program but insists he could still walk away he's holding out the carrot of better international relations for pyongyang and the stick of many more sanctions if it all falls apart.