and indeed a great 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 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 is 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 towards the presentation as 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 japanese prime minister left the white

house having played his part in a typical trump cliffhanger watching him in the world to stay tuned to see what comes next alan fischer al-jazeera washington. and russia's president vladimir putin is in china on a state visit that's the same life. that was the scene life well the two sides have managed to biggest close relationship based on the economic front the military and the political front during the presidency of cheating paying and this is all to help counter u.s. influence the two leaders the with historically close ties have considerable influence over the north korean leader kim jong. i see. russia and china both want peace in the korean peninsula peace talks between the two koreas are moving towards the right direction moscow says recent contacts with

north korea. answer readiness for a constructive work. correspondent florence li who's there in beijing and florence . underlining the importance of this relationship this is president his first overseas visit since israel action and again emphasizing the fact that these two powers are an important alternative to u.s. germany. that's right and in fact putin is actually here for the summit of the shanghai cooperation dialogue this is this was set up in two thousand and one by six countries russia and china among them and it's seen by some as a counterweight to the grouping the blocks that are traditionally dominated by the united states now these two countries want to build closer ties as you mentioned to challenge the united states and the closer ties also come in part because these two

men bloody near putin and paying actually share a very good relationship as well but the reason why they want to why it's important the two countries cede it to build closer ties is because their relationship with the u.s. is becoming more fraught now russia has been accused of meddling in u.s. elections it's also increasingly looking at china more and more for trade and investment because of western sanctions slapped on it after it and next crimea in two thousand and fourteen china meanwhile is in. the midst of a trait a possible trade war with the united states it's also been challenged and criticized by the u.s. for its increasing militarization of the south china sea parts of which are being disputed by as many as six countries so a stronger alliance between these two countries will essentially help them to slowly chip away at the dominance of the united states in the system international

world order and so we get an understanding or at least a sense of where their interests is a left florence but what about the style of the two nations involved china's style by and large is not to intervene in the internal domestic affairs of other nations where is exactly the opposite many would allege on the part of president putin and his russia. well but these two countries share very close history they both communist countries and they also you know the seen as a liberal they're seen as autocratic regimes but they also share a very keen interest in challenging the united states on the international front on the international world order and now these two countries share something else in common these are two countries which see themselves as having influence over north korea but at the same time being sidelined at this upcoming summit between the u.s. and north between the u.s.

and north korea in singapore so they've been very keen to show that they still have influence over north korea we saw how russian foreign minister visited north korea just a week just last week where he suggested that sanctions on north korea should be lifted in phases that will tease north korean officials not so much u.s. officials who have always maintained the position that sanctions really ought to be lifted only when north korea shows a willingness to give up its nuclear program and then you have president xi jinping as well visiting or rather meeting north korean leader twice this year and the two had never met before that despite these two countries being traditionally close allies and it was partly because china didn't want to be sidelined so these two countries coming together working working on a on having closer relationship is also a message to the u.s. saying in essence that well we know we've been sidelined we know we're not at the meeting that's taking place but do not discount our influence learn to live in

beijing. lots more to come in this hour including. the bishops try and fail to reboot talks with nicaragua's president and weeks of. the red cross to pull dozens of staff out of yemen. and iceland prepare for their first world cup job attorney if they manage to save coal under pressure and the final boerma. of the fraud racketeering and money laundering case against south africa's former president has been adjourned until next month jacob zuma made a brief appearance in court in durban for a second time now three months ago judges reinstated sixteen charges against him then linked to a two and a half billion dollar european weapons deal in the one nine hundred ninety s.

when zuma was deputy president. has the latest from the court and. it was a quick proceedings at last and less than thirty minutes inside the court the state state that they are ready but the defense said they are not ready we heard that simmers lawyers want the charges with dawn until the issue of who pays his legal fees is sorted out we told that is not going to happen to the judge stated that he's going to postpone the matter into the twenty seventh of july that that should give time to figure out where the money's going to come from that's a hint though he must noise have warned that it may not be possible to be ready by the twenty seventh of july which means they could be another delay another possible meant sumo once taxpayers to pay his legal fees because he says he's a former president but opposition parties have gone to court and they are insisting that that should not be allowed to happen how long could this drag on for some say months some say even years some experts and some noise are saying that it could

work he's in his advantage if you draw. on for as long as possible to give him time to maneuver and find a way out of the mess that he is in out of the courts company winton addressed his supporters and many of those supporters keep saying that he's innocent and they insist they are sticking by him no matter what. the crowds are gathering for another round of friday protests despite warnings for them to stay away from the barrier fence area with israel the israeli army had dropped leaflets into girls or on thursday the leaflets said the residents were to stay away from the area israeli forces have killed at least one hundred fifteen palestinians during weeks of demonstrations we can go live now we can go live to. our correspondent i think we can go live to

him who is in gaza emraan are you with us imran khan. yes ok tell us your question that man is there no longer a question i. just wanted to establish. around to tell us what's going on around you. well today is al could could say literally means to recent date was set up by the iranians after the nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution and that's why the protests being brought about early of the normal normally they still around five o'clock local they're going to happen off to friday prayers can already see a number of people gathering behind we don't know how many protesters are going to show up but a previous fridays and example it will be in quite large number now my cameras just panned you can see that bunker just over there that's an israeli sniper position the israelis have been very clear they said anybody going towards the buffer zone

will be testing israel's resolve and they will try and push those protesters back now if you're a member of hamas or islamic jihad for example you'll probably listen to the protests committees who have asked the protesters not to get too near to that buffer zone however if you are not a member of that group there is a fit some of the more younger members of the protest group will try and get down to that border to vent their frustration and their anger at the israeli siege of gaza we spent going on for eleven years now also we're hearing that they'll be a lot of current flowing on the kite flying is very significant. a lot of the faces of people have died in these protests will be on those cards as a form of another kind of process remembering the dead so we are expecting a large number of people here but the israelis have been very clear come anywhere near that buffer zone and you'll be testing our resolve is their language. for now thank you very much indeed. now the red cross has pulled more than seventy of its

staff members out of yemen because of security concerns it's called on warring parties to guarantee its workers safety so medical and food assistance programs can continue an employee was shot dead in april marie claire for gasoline is the spokeswoman for the international committee of the red cross and she says it was a difficult decision but its workers must be protected. so in the past two weeks the i.c.r.c. the international media the red cross across yemen has received threats that come with an overall deterioration of the security let's not forget that less than two months ago the i.c.r.c. also lost a staff member that was brutally killed in ties the security concern has come from the fact that we feel that we have lost the security guarantees that are the responsibility of all the parties to this conflict which has prompted the i.c.r.c. to pull out seventy one of its small by staff and realty them to nearby djibouti

where we have a support office for yemen very sadly it's means that we have reduced the impact of our a life saving operations in yemen but this does not mean that we are leaving the yemeni people behind we relocated the staff this means that we have less capacity to operate but we are continuing to operate remotely from from djibouti where we have a support office what i want to make clear is that this reduction has started since the killing of our call you can and who would. two months ago and it's ongoing now but we are not leaving the yemeni people behind but again we need more security guarantees and we need more serious and solid get empty so that we can continue to provide the response to the yemeni people. well the i.c.r.c. is move comes as the u.n. warns against a military assault on data which is the red sea city port. says the it could

harm up to two hundred fifty thousand people it is yemen's main route for humanitarian aid the saudi military says yemeni government forces are within a few kilometers all of this who see controlled city saudi arabia is backing the government as part of a coalition but the u.s. . catholic bishops are trying to stop two months of bloodshed in nicaragua they've met the president. and they want to mediate between the government and protest is who are blocking roads nationwide man well the reports from the capital. another day of unrest in the 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 you don't have the government to come 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. they're walking to managua to see if we can make it to the border with us 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. a man when he 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 and 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 let up. when i was. just a few moments we'll have the weather but also coming up here on the al-jazeera news out relatives of volcano victims take matters into their own hands as question on the search and rescue operations are suspended again. seeing clearly the cheap new technology that's helping refugees from him out with

their eyesight. and it turns out that setting the bar too high can be a bad thing joe we'll have more on what calls chaos at this athletics meet. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. well over the last few days we have been talking about a tropical cyclone making its way across the southern parts of china and we're going to see plenty of rain coming in as we go on through the next twenty four to thirty six hours or so but a final warning has now been issued for what is now a tropical depression but you can see the still located just to the west of hong kong we've had seventy eight millimeters of rain here in the past twenty four hours we could easily see a similar amounts over the next twenty four hours it has inevitably led to some

widespread flooding in parts of the southeastern corner of china the heavy rain will tend to just ease a little further east which is we go on through worse sas day and on into sunday brought the skies to come back in a chance to clear up at this station but notice further south into the philippines that dark area of rain that we have there over luzon we're going to see some very heavy rain coming in here with the south westerly winds feeding that more strong in the links up to yet another tropical system actually this little clutch of storms here this massive cloud that is next tropical storm and that will continue to make its way further northeast which as we go on through the next day or two as it does it will tend to pull away but we're still going to drag in that heavy rain across a similar area and i suspect in the coming days there will be flooding for loose on . the weather sponsored by catarrh and lays. june nineteenth sixty seven sixty is the redrew the map of the middle east this

week my record of victory. in that war or the greatest tragedy in the history of islam al-jazeera explores the events leading to the war and its consequences which are still felt today we tried everything to be a nation tried to make. contacts through different countries and it was clear that all this was to go to war in june on al-jazeera when the news breaks. on the mailman city and the story builds to be forced to leave the room just. when people need to be heard to women and girls are being bought and given away in refugee camps al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring new award winning documentaries and live news on al-jazeera i got to commend you all i'm hearing is good journalism on air and online.

the taking over the top stories. this hour leaders are arriving for the g. seven summit with the trumpet ministrations decision to impose tariffs on european and canadian goods likely to dominate fears of a global trade war a hung over the two day meeting taking place near quebec city in canada. russia's president vladimir putin is on a state visit to china to meet his close reached partner xi jinping the two leaders with strong economic and military ties have considerable influence over the north korean leader kim jong un is expected. president trump next week. the former south african president jacob zuma has appeared in court for

a second time on corruption charges relating to a two and a half billion dollar arms deal the case in the high court of durban has now been adjourned until late july. now the former congressman is vice president joe. is awaiting the outcome of an appeal against his war crimes conviction he was found guilty over the horrific acts of his militia which he sent into neighboring central african republic in the year two thousand and two million a whole and has more. from the moment war crimes allegations first emerged jumpy and sisted he'd done nothing wrong the congolese businessman became vice president of the democratic republic of congo in two thousand and three but the year before when he was a rebel leader is accused of failing to stop his private army known as the m.l.c. from waging a campaign of rape murder and pillage against civilians in neighboring seem to

african republic it seemed more than a thousand fighters there to help put down an attempted coup more got to where organizers. loops of three or four souldiers baited houses one by one they stole all the possessions that could be carried off. and rape the goodman. yes and you know this regardless of the age shafi ambon 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 fight has 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 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 a they have you in their sights don't they know that's not true that you formation. so there's no question of you having to go to the hague. at all. nine years later the i.c.c. unanimously found the 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 member was seem to its to eighteen years in prison and later got an extra year and a fine for interfering with witnesses in his trial on that he's lodged an appeal

against his conviction but prosecutors have to they want to increase his seem to to twenty five years million one hundred al-jazeera. the un security council has imposed sanctions on six individuals who are involved in human trafficking and smuggling in libya there's been a push to take action since last year when reports emerged of african migrants being sold as slaves their list includes local militia leaders and the head of a coast guard in western libya many refugees and migrants end up stranded in libya after failed attempts to cross the mediterranean to reach europe the austrian government plans to shut down seven mosques and expel up to forty moms which turkey is denouncing is anti islamic and racist austria is home to six hundred thousand muslims most of them of turkish origin leaders of the rightwing government say it's just the beginning of a crackdown against conservative muslim groups with foreign funding chancellor

sebastian kurtz says political islam has no place in austria the turks living in the european union are casting their ballots in turkey's general election germany is home to the largest community of the three and a half million turkish ex patreus who live abroad dominic kane reports from berlin . on a sunny day in berlin these people wait their turn to cast their ballots in elections many think could be decisive for turkey's future and which here at least seem to be dividing opinion and. i voted for adored today because i see no other candidate that has done so many good things for turkey for me it was an easy choice to go broke i mean. turkey needs you energy for that reason i'm posting from a harbinger he's the right one for turkey he promises great things that has some clue of what he's doing. the x.

patrick turkish electorate here is the biggest in europe in last year's constitutional referendum almost half of all the ex-pat votes were cast in germany and with some opinion polls suggesting a close result this time the parties are pushing for every vote can and call that is a prominent member of the turkish community in germany and supports the opposition c.h.p. he told us what victory would mean for his side this would. be. first who would try to bring calm both to the money markets and our economy but also to the political situation in the first six months in office we would try to amend many of the laws that present one has brought in by decree and instead try to reestablish turkey as a country grounded in human rights ramsey who leads the alliance of german democrats movement which is aligned with turkey's governing ak party he thinks this election can assure in a period of consolidation of this the so i think this is

a decisive election for turkey because we've had a historic change to a more presidential system and i hope that the continuity of leadership we've had these past fifteen years can continue for another five and that we can consolidate our new constitutional structures make them a success. the question for voters here on the first day that they can cast their ballots is do they want to support the parties would favor president or the one or do they oppose them these are central questions in this entire debate here in germany or no the answer when the votes are counted dominic kane al-jazeera. argentina has managed to clinch a fifty billion dollar financing deal from the international monetary fund in their latest appeal to the i.m.f. government leaders are trying to combat high debt and inflation alone which needs final approval from the i.m.f. board of directors follows protests against more foreign intervention alan simpers from the national university of general sodomy entered blames argentina's problems

on bad government policies. not only president. say we would never go back to the i.m.f. but the current economy minister before he was economy minister. but very recently said the very same thing so indeed why are we going back to the i.m.f. well we're going back to the i.m.f. because of an economic crisis sensually generated by the policies of the mockery administration since they assume in december of two thousand and fifteen argentina's main issue is the foreign exchange constraint what economists call the foreign exchange constraint i.e. the lack of. foreign exchange or dollars as they say here.

to meet external needs be a trade to be its tourism be its debt service and so. the way the government has gone about solving that problem under monkee has been a very dramatic increase in public debt. and while some of this government has again suspended the search for volcano victims leaving relatives to dig through the ash and amount themselves more than one hundred people are now known to have been killed and at least two hundred remain missing since. david meserve reports now from the design. a community in mourning in the mountains of what amala lucky to feel is mother was one of more than one hundred people who died after a volcanic eruption buried the town of san miguel this motives after days of not knowing luck and will finally be able to put her mother to rest it's

a small consolation during a time of amends. 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 but 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 squid 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 a simple face 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. the cadavers have been exposed to high temperatures well being buried for days these has cooked the bodies tissues which could mean the bone cells have died it's possible we'll have to repeat some of the 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 back you a should proceed jurors were properly followed. david mercer.

the syrian medical sources say russian planes have launched a wave of air strikes against a rebel held village they say the bombs hit a residential neighborhood that's in italy province at least thirty five people were killed and one hundred others were injured russia's defense ministry is denying carrying out any strikes in the day many rebels and civilians have been moved to the province as part of ceasefire other parts of the country. the united nations is accused of using his broad anti terrorism laws to crack down on peaceful dissent a report published by the un special rapporteur says under saudi arabia's current legal definition anyone who challenges the government's authority or policies could qualify as a terrorist the laws are being used to justify torture and imprisoned human rights defenders the document saudi arabia to investigate allegations of torture and stop

what it calls the barbaric and public executions of detainees the inquiry was completed before the recent wave of arrests of human rights campaigners in saudi arabia well finola the is a un special rapporteur on the promotion and the protection of human rights while countering terrorism and chicks press concern of a saudi arabia's membership of the un human rights council concerns that the report and actually that the mandate has continued to work in a number of individual communications during the last year is that ordinary protesters people who are exercising their rights at democracy to articulate a point of view to simply say that they just am and these are individuals who are being picked up and interrogate it and ultimately being processed through the courts particularly countries who are given the privilege of joining human rights

council who are standard fare for human rights around the world but we expect much and should expect much of these countries eurabia when it's going to council made clear that it was doing so on the basis of a human rights stand they are in the region we don't apply french standards to countries countries signed treaties they put in place they're obligate they stand for election for international bodies to protect human rights so we need to hold them to their words. the u.s. has announced that it stepping up its military operations against eisel in eastern afghanistan this comes a day after president ghani announced an unconditional ceasefire with the taliban until june the twentieth to coincide with the end of ramadan but the afghan government is to continue its operations against eisel as well as other groups the thousands of refugees who fled across the border from me i'm out of thailand have

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