of middle age seventy or eighty year old trees too that is their next old growth forest i've got another fifty years before they start becoming a whole logically mature we need some of those trees to be our would be our growth forest that would mean excluding much bigger areas from logging economically and politically that could hurt andrew thomas al-jazeera in australia's victoria's central highlands. but turkey's biggest city is alive with the sound of music the forty sixth istanbul music festival is playing host to more than five hundred classical artists but a cynical salute reports many of the young artists on show worry a long term career is in music is out of reach. as well as some of the world's most renowned classical musicians young talent is taking to the stage all over stumble. including twenty two year old girl

as she has a large. but talent she says needs to be polished with practice. fingers paid the price and as is often with artists her rewards have little to do with money. some other art is expensive no one produces hops in turkey my instrument cost twenty thousand euros at least these are all beyond my parents' budget i am dependent on funds. it is much the same story with her fellow musicians the molester among the instrument by by its case its bow all a very expensive for us considering the euro is very high in turkey and is a sin all mark being a musician is all about what's in your heart in a way but besides education you must have financial support. classical music is not as popular in turkey as many other countries private institutions and companies tend to fund artists and events through what are called

social responsibility budgets. this festival lasers with sponsors to support young talent while issuing their educational needs are met. here in the sun not doing arts and music together pushes us to think collectively about the world's problems and act together i believe music has really indirectly for peace the soul of some concert tickets that will help fourteen girls who are studying miss. of wrote. me a male musician's friend i will pay the maintenance of my cello and i will buy new heo for my balls so it's a amazing help for me these young stars are already known outside turkey but that's home it is difficult for classical musicians to make a name for themselves and the government doesn't have an incentive or scholarship for special art students. but most of these girls agree

they're promoting their country with their talents and a government should recognise that and provide more help seen aamco solo al-jazeera stumble well don't go away because still ahead here all al-jazeera teams are wrapping up their preparations ahead of the start of the world cup on thursday you know how these details in school. in the winter.

when the news breaks. on the wall that the 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 you the award winning documentary and live news on al-jazeera i got to commend you on hearing is good journalism on and on line. welcome back it's time for sports. thank you very much well number one simona halep has won her fast a grand slam singles title thanks to victory at the french open she defeated u.s.

open champion sloane stephens in three sets on saturday peta stunned that reports the big question in paris was could simona halep finally do it sloane stephens stood in her way and roland garros a place where hell of had already lost in two previous finals not to mention defeat in the australian open final in january and it looked like history might repeat itself when stevens won the first set the current u.s. open champion taking it six three. it looked even worse for the remaining when stevens led by a break early on in the second say it however on this occasion help would show incredible determination to break back and go on to take the set six four to force a deciding sit in paris. that. there was to be no third set battle royale though as the world number one showed just why she holds the top ranking halep storming to

a six one set when and in doing so securing her first grand slam singles title was it's an amazing moment and definitely without smiling this is a special moment i was dreaming for this moment since actually associate the play the nice it's my favorite grand slam and i always say that if i am going to win one i want to be here so it's quite surreal now. becomes the first romanian woman in forty years to win a grand slam singles title peter stammered out jazeera. meanwhile the men's doubles final was won by a french deo and i'm favorite yeah. and nicholas and i hear they want to do the time that's after beefing up all of the match and matty that sticks to you and that you think this is our there and here is that a grand slam title in all as a pair of. one day u.s. open and wimbledon thank the football world cup starts on thursday in terms of

finalizing their preparations morocco a back the world cup for the first time since nineteen ninety eight and they're looking good ahead of the tournament on saturday the team nicknamed the atlas lions took care of business against estonia the moroccans won the match three one things to unesco and the x. penalty and use of and nothing else where one of the favorites for the wild card france were held to a one one draw against the usa who didn't qualify remember alexander mitrovica scored the first ever international hot trick for serbia and five one. of bolivia and there were also wins for denmark australia and spain. now a large parts of the world will be gripped by football world cup fever in the coming week the philippines is hoping that team will one day play over to the men's team has qualified for next year's asians cup for the very first time but domestically the game is still struggling to meet alan dogan reports from kid a

power one in the province of course about. following his football dream ralf says he has loved the sport for as long as he can remember he's aspirations are no different to those of many boys to be a professional football player but he comes from the mindanao region of the philippines long held back by poverty and conflict and dreams like his are often have true mean just that a dream. rob studies during weekdays in the other city but on weekends he travels for hours to this town of keep the power on to teach football to young kids so you know and i feel bad when i see children here not reach their full potential in football they cannot afford coaches so i share with them what i learned and what they can barely afford sports clothes to play young and have to make do with

whatever space they're given. here almost. but rob says the recent historic win of the philippine national football team the astros against to just on is inspiring it is the first time the national team has qualified for the asian cup the ask goes also rose in world rankings soaring nine places to one hundred and thirteen it may not seem much but it's the highest ranking the team has ever achieved the only. was. the philippine asco say they hope their qualification to the asian cup will inspire more filipinos to take up football specially in rural areas like this one because they say all they really need is an open field and the ball but that's easier said than done. in a cunt she were basketball is seen as

a national sport football ranks much slower in terms of government for your team as we progress and as we continue to reap success we hope that this translates into interest in the national team and interest in the sport football has this reputation and image that it's a sport for the elite you know that they are the only country of ever is in the philippines you know you look at countries in south america in africa you know football is the sport for the working class is the sport for the masses. in remote provinces like brazil and classes are often disrupted by gunfire and fighting. and the pair of football boots is the last thing on the boys' minds but they won't give up the dream of one day playing professionally on the proper grass pitch. for now they are happy as long as they have a ball at their feet. similarly dugan al-jazeera to the power north about

or southern philippines. the golden state warriors have won a second straight n.b.a. title on the third in four years they beat the cleveland cavaliers one hundred eight to eighty five on friday to complete a four nothing series whitewash this was the fourth fear in a row the warriors on the cavaliers have met in the n.c.a.a. finals and it was by far the easiest of the battles for the warriors to win. steph curry bounced back from the below cost of four minutes in game three to score thirty seven points but it was kevin duran who had a twenty he was awarded the most valuable player for the second year running. this is great thirty four percent from the c.e.o. i think the whole series the whole playoffs i dismiss his being great. you know you know we censored off with a championship so we've got a bunch of guys in the locker room that don't care about anything but just being better bass for plays every day and when it makes the environment great history was

made on saturday when south africa were led by a black captain for the first time in a rugby test match and see achilles they will be very happy with the outcome the springboks came out on top in a try fest against england in johannesburg and despite the english building a commanding early lead the hosts came back to try on forty two to thirty nine. earlier the world champions new zealand crushed france by fifty two points to eleven in or planned in the first of a three test series the french actually led a hot time in the second half the all blacks only shoulder might on the taurus and islands twelve match winning streak was born to an end in brisbane australia overcame the irish eighteen to nine with help from tries courtesy of bernard finally and david polka bass teams are also contesting a three match series and that is over the ball for now while later thanks to see on

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promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government failed. on october the sixth one thousand nine hundred seventy three when muslims were observing ramadan and jews was celebrating young people. egypt and syria known to surprise war against israel. is ruled primitive so to get into those situations there's us now in the first of the three part series al-jazeera expose what really happened during the first week of the war in october on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. that's. where every. a social media rile between the u.s. and canada stop drop susan don't speak of the g. seven summit communiqué. i'm sam is a than this is al jazeera live from doha so coming up now president trump heads for singapore and a high stakes meeting with north korea's kim jong un. as the singapore summit takes shape we look at

a key player that isn't invited china. and the search for survivors around but from all those months away go becomes more difficult and less hopeful. of the annual g. seven summit has ended with an escalating rau between the u.s. and canada after leaving the meeting early donald trump withdrew he's backing of a joint communique signed by the group's leaders he blamed this on what he called weak and this on a statements from the canadian prime minister john hendren has more from quebec city the g. seven summit in canada began in crisis in ended in conflict u.s. president donald trump came late left early and seated no ground as united states has been taken advantage of for decades and decades and we can't do that anymore i can gradually the leaders of other countries for so. crazily

being able to make these trade deals that was so good for their country and so bad for the united states neither did the six other world leaders at the g. seven summit they were united in opposing trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum a move they say is likely to spark a trade war after trump left early the host of this summit canadian prime minister justin trudeau fired back i highlighted directly to the president that canadians did not take it lightly that the united states has moved forward with significant tariffs on our steel and aluminum industry particularly did not take lightly the fact that it's based on a national security reason that it's kind of insulting but we also will not be pushed around. trump from air force one on his way to singapore to meet north korean leader kim jong un sent off an angry tweet calling trudeau dishonest and

weak all seven nations had papered over the trades bad signing an agreement that vaguely endorsed quote free fair and mutually beneficial trade without defining it that agreement is now moot in another tweet from air force one revoked his signature seeing quote based on justin's false statements at his news conference and the fact that canada is charging massive tariffs to our u.s. farmers workers and companies i have instructed our reps not to endorse the communique trudeau's office tweeted back quote the prime minister said nothing he hasn't said before both in public and in private conversations with the president this picture captures the global tension and that was before the twitter war this year's g seventy is already going down as the g six plus one six members on one side and president trump on the other is a summit six of the members hope with escalating a budding trade war that instead has ended up accelerating. but it was trudeau who

had the support of his fellow g seven members where we disagree with our allies on something it is right that we say so and the issue openly and frankly we have done just that at this summit registering our deep disappointment at the unjustified decision by the us to apply terrorists to e.u. steel and on the medium imports as the g seven leaders returned home they leave more divided than ever john hendren al-jazeera quebec city canada we're joined now by a diplomatic editor james bays who's in singapore before we begin with the talks planned there let's talk a little bit about the world stage left in a state of division ahead of the singapore talks what options do the other members of the g six have now or the g seven have now as they decide how they move forward . i think that's a very important question how are they going to react are they going to act as a block are they going to try and confront the u.s.

or are they going to try and paper over this that will be difficult this is absolutely unprecedented what we've seen yes when we have the g. eight we used to have divisions between russia and the rest of the seven but we've never have these divisions among the seven a year ago i was in sort of the sicily at the g. seven and they agreed to disagree on climate change that's what they were going to do in this communique the issues have grown it's not just climate change it's the trade war it's the iran deal but they were going to try to agree to disagree but of course trump pulled out of that communique and is no longer endorsing it worth perhaps reminding you sammy what the g seventy is it was originally grew out of something called the library group guess that library is the original meetings were in the white house library this is a group that the u.s. created to foster free trade and western ideals it's easy to forget that isn't it now moving to the singapore talks and as we said we've got divisions between

traditional western allies where does that leave the negotiating positions of the parties to the singapore talks. well i think that the supreme leader kim jong un who's on his way here we believe will be trying to calculate this because there'll be some things that i think he'll be thinking a pretty positive president trump when he gave a news conference before he left quebec said that yes there were lots of things he wanted from the north koreans but really he just wanted to get on with the north korean leader and see that he was someone he could do business with so that i think will please the north koreans greatly that they really don't have to deliver anything substantial at this summit but they've also seen the unpredictability of president trump with regard to one of his closest allies canada so i think they're going to be a little wary as the north korean delegation heads its way toward singapore. the exclusive hotel where the summit will be held has already been placed in

a close security singapore will be the venue for high stakes diplomacy which may go on for several days but it's arguable the fact this historic meeting is even taking place is a victory in itself for kim jong un his country is sort of meeting with the u.s. president for many years and he's achieved that goal without making any concrete commitment on denuclearization i think kim is a much canny or operator than we give him a lot of credit for certainly in the united states in other circles i think that he has got exposure to the outside world you know through his education in switzerland and i think that he's got advisors who understand the outside world pretty well even if they prefer to live in their relative isolation inside of north korea and i think that he is doing a great job at playing the united states in the fact that we're seen as volatile and risky right now in his interactions with the chinese and south korea those two

countries a key to summit meetings now with south korea's president moon jay in the north korean leader and showing a different face to the world and smiling and prepared to negotiate and after reaching out diplomatically to the u.s. experts now believe it will be very hard to persuade north korea's main trading partner china to impose fresh sanctions if the summit is not a success i think it will be very difficult to return to the maximum pressure campaign of last year and early this year because north korea has indicated it's willing to negotiate to work towards denuclearization he's reached out to beijing and seoul and sort of got them on his side and so i think it will be very hard to get china to cooperate at least on the economic portion of the maximum pressure campaign much of course the patterns on what goes on around the negotiating table trump rides. himself on the art of the deal but kim is the one who intimately knows

the secrets of his country and its nuclear program the world will be watching the diplomacy here in singapore in the coming hours and days it could determine the future of the korean peninsula well we are watching both the leaders seem to be on the air in the air on their way to singapore we're looking at two different flights that we think the supreme leader kim could be on the first of those looks like it will land in about four hours sammy and we think the president trump jew here in singapore about nine hours from now a lot to watch out for thanks james plays there and north korea's closest ally china as we've been told that hasn't been invited to take part in that singapore summit but as far as slowing reports spade genes influence is already still obvious . welcome to dandong city on the chinese border with north korea here you get a sense of china's relationship with its neighbor

a large part of it to even by trade chinese goods flow across the border although international sanctions have slow this down somewhat china has long been a close ally of north korea siding with the north in the korean war in one nine hundred fifty and then providing it with political and economic backing since. in recent years though north korea's pursuit of nuclear arms accelerated under its young leader kim jong un has strained relations but it's in both countries interest to preserve the alliance especially when it comes to dealing with the world's superpower the united states. china uses north korea as a poll to tell the u.s. if you press me on the trip war i can exert more influence on north korea as for north korea it goes say to the u.s. it's not just me negotiating with you i have china supporting me so you can be too

harsh on me and knew to take things out of my own pace many analysts say the upcoming summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong would not be taking place if not for china's backing in announcing that the summit would take place on tuesday trumpet mentioned chinese president xi jinping whom he said had helped out quite a bit with this but only a week before that he had blamed china for north korea's hostile attitude which had led him to cancel the meeting last month or in early may kim met president xi in the chinese city of dalin and trump suggested that kim's attitude changed after that meeting but with the summit now back on many will be looking to see what china gets out of it. china doesn't want western influence at the door china was a buffer zone but it is paying a heavy price to maintain the keim rejean china wants to join the reconstruction

work in north korea was this is stone the news that the summit is now back on has generated optimism that sanctions on north korea may ease and with that a boom in business and property prices have soared leading the local government to tighten regulations china recently resumed flights between beijing n.p.r. young china may not be at the negotiation table but he'll be looking to make its presence felt florence very joins us now live from beijing so with that in mind what sort of outcome do the chinese say they want to see from those singapore talks and china will be watching those talks extremely closely and what china fears as possibly at closer ties between.