i agree on steps that would lead to a reduction of the threat faced by the us that would be a reduction room a limitation of north korea's long range missiles that would enable looked at the us with a nuclear weapon but with less action or no action on intermediate or short range missiles which we are in which could japan in the firing one so that the japanese are very worried and you have some japanese saying that that is the outcome that you may be going to see to look in japan tokyo needs to begin to think about building its own nuclear weapons capability interesting thank you very much for speaking to us mike chinoy good to get your perspective mike chinoy is a north korea expert joining us there from liverpool thank you for your time. and other world news now one of the leaders of hong kong's independence movement has been jailed for six years twenty seven year old edward known was convicted of rioting in a two thousand and sixteen overnight protests that turned violent to other demonstrators were also jailed for taking part in the protests about one hundred thirty people mostly police were injured in the so-called fishbowl revolution when

democracy activists stage a demonstration against what they saw as more mainland chinese control in hong kong . plenty more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including we'll tell you who's offered to take in more than six hundred migrants stranded on a ship in the mediterranean plus qatar takes the u.a.e. to the international court of justice in the latest in the gulf political crisis and one of the world cup's most exciting teams face a tricky tests with the tenement just days away details ahead in sports with tom. but first three attacks in afghanistan have killed and injured dozens of people twelve people died when a eisel suicide bomber blew himself up at the ministry of rural development in kabul in the eastern city of jalalabad security forces shot three attackers before they died. needed explosives in an education department building and fifteen afghan

soldiers died fighting the taliban. a ceasefire is expected to start when ramadan ends later this week was shot by haim is a political analyst he says they are many groups negotiating with the afghan government for a resolution the president wanted son and the government ought to be have been announcing that there are a number of groups operating in iran has been pursuing good minute your objectives and honest on has reached an agreement only with the taleban so and they have left our many other groups who are operating in one it's not going to group one it's of course iceland eastern afghanistan i got up romans meaning to the attack site integrations are down by the i still there because they have to have strongholds and plot a nearby district of the city but even among taliban there are different groups of people decision makers that are military. and it is did it really just group that

needs holding the taliban group together and then some elements against the cheating are working towards the peaceful settlement of the peace agreement so you cannot single out on the ice even with invalid and you going to have stronger lives besides that there are other spoilers who are operating under different titles not very much no one outside so this trial is a go go button well as well because of last one week in order. to send a message across the monist not in the words that b.c.s. lives your mark work and your not have a contribution to or do. not be up on gauntlet while some afghans are going to extreme lengths to step up demands for peace dozens of people on a peace march from the southern province of helmand to the capital kabul that us reports. oh these afghans will not be deterred

by hate hunger distance or danger. they are walking seven hundred kilometers to the afghan capital kabul without food or water from dawn to dusk during the holy month of ramadan good to have if all afghans raise the same voice for peace and say no more war i'm sure we will reach a sustainable peace very soon. nine men started in the taliban stronghold of helmand province a month ago as temperatures climbed above forty degrees so did the numbers through town after town the group swelled with afghans strangers sensing a moment to be heard oh it's just an away afghan army and security forces met us they kept their weapons down to welcome us and told us to take our message and taliban also came on the roads welcoming us and told us to find a solution for this war and afghanistan has been at war since the taliban was overthrown seventeen years ago but it was march the twenty third and how men's

capital of lashkar gah that these afghans decided that had enough a suicide bomb explosion at a sports stadium killed sixteen people and injured forty. men women and children staged decision a real hunger strike they called for a peace deal between the taliban and the government. a week later forty eight teenage girls were poisoned at their high school. and helmand province is in taliban country where education as a battle line. for the better wheels goes far beyond helmand province fighting has intensified since the taliban announced its annual spring offensive and later al-qaeda and i salute tax of complement at the taliban campaign the afghan government now controls this and sixty percent. of territory. in the couple of i lost both my eyes due to the war i was blinded by shattered glass when

my bus was hit by a landmine i know that my eyes could be fixed in india but i want peace first then my eyes. the pairing rooms and blue states these afghans are on a cougar image for peace and they're on the hunt stritch charlotte dallas zero. new developments now in the gulf crisis and cut ties taking the u.a.e. to the un international court of justice over human rights violations the united arab emirates saudi arabia bahrain an egypt cut qatar ties with qatar last june they cut diplomatic relations and transport ties qatar says this has violated the rights of its citizens and residents the blockading countries have accused qatar of supporting terrorism something doha strongly denies let's speak to toby cadman nawas an international human rights lawyer he joins us from london thank you for your time so what are we to make of this move by the international court of justice what can you achieve. well i think what we what we've seen certainly

over the last few months is attempts to resolve the matter diplomatically which has failed. has taken what what many consider to be a long awaited starts to actually initiate legal action it's important that we focus there was an expert report that came out last week by two leading international legal experts. joan joan dorgan william shavers who who are experts on the international court of justice where they had set out the legal basis for bringing a claim under a particular convention which is the convention for elimination of all forms of racial discrimination and they had stated in their report that there is there is a basis to show that the action by the blockading states constitutes a violation of that convention. has taken an important first step in in taking that

to the international court of justice now of course was the united arab emirates is a member and accepts the jurisdiction of the i.c.j. the other members do no so it would only be able to be brought against the u.a.e. at this stage fright so a case against the u.a.e. only at this stage even though if there are other countries involved as well in the crisis so talk us through the process how how exactly is it going to work at the international court of justice how does it go about hearing such a case. well it can take a very long time the proceedings before the into court of justice fortunately. there will of course be an attempt to to mediate which ordinarily proceeds a full claim being heard which is what we're likely to see in. the un office of the high commission for human rights as has acknowledged that a complaint has been filed against the u.a.e. and so there would ordinarily be this stage of initiating

a period of mediation but considering that all other forms of diplomacy have failed is unlikely that the u.a.e. or any of the other states concerned would would engage in that process and so what we're likely to see over the coming months of proceedings in the international court of justice assuming that the court accept jurisdiction to deal with this with which it is fully expected to do and the catteries out so asking for reparations from the u.a.e. would they have to be a resolution of the case for the international court of justice before such a thing happens and how do you see this affecting the overall crisis is it going to make the crisis even worse than it's been in the last year. i don't think they can make the crisis anyway when we look at the tens of thousands of individuals who have been subjected to the effects of the blockade we look at what has happened to al-jazeera what has happened to a number of companies that like qatar airways for example that have suffered as

a result of this as far as dealing with reparations is concerned ordinarily you would have to wait until the conclusion of the proceedings but the purpose of the mediation arguably is to be able to to litigate those matters outside of the courtroom so that there can be a resolution and if the u.a.e. and the other states want to resolve this then of course they carry out of course the i.c.j. is not the only route available the i.c.j. is obviously state to state it's not for the for individual reparation but there is also the the oh i see. treaty that allows for individuals and companies to also bring claims against the other states which we have have long advised that this is a route open to individuals and organizations to seek reparations against all states involved in the blockade and the other members all signed up to the oh i see treaty so there is of course another route they can take but certainly all attempts

to resolve this quickly through through a fair process have failed and so we're now going to have to look at the next stage in actual legal proceedings to be captain very good to get your insight on this thank you very much for joining us on i'll just. thank you. the united nations is trying to negotiate a cease fire to avert an attack by saudi and in iraq to coalition forces on yemen's main port city fighting between coalition troops any iranian backed who thier rebels intensify near her data at the weekend the u.n. is warning that an attack on the city could cost up to a quarter of a million lives many of them children poll today courts. as the u.n. lobbies to stop a saudi led coalition assault on the who the rebel held port city of how data regional rivalries do not matter for tens of thousands like the up to family their father ahmed is only worried about how to keep his six kids alive ahmed has and let

them go to school since the worst outbreaks of defeat in color were recorded in the world hit his city the u.n. says hold data has the largest number of sick people in yemen with more than seventy percent of its population specially children at risk of malnutrition alone want to in case any of my children get sick they would have to stay here at home so i managed to borrow some money because i have almost nothing and the situation is difficult and life is not proper home for the of the family is a shanty made from sheets of corrugated iron and straw covered with plastic tarps and worn out blankets this is jewish and in the port city has gone from bad to worse since the start of the power struggle between the saudi backed and internationally recognized government and the iran back to the rebels. the who took the capital of sanaa in two thousand and fourteen pushing the government into exile a year later they took the strategically important port city of what data which has

been the only source of relief supplies for millions. while the warring sides spent billions of dollars trying to take control of one of the region's poorest countries families like the up does struggle to find a few dollars a day for food the monistat and i make a living by writing a rented motion cycle there's no pitch now every day we need two dollars to be able to have food and water nearly nine million people are on the brink of starvation twenty two million out of the twenty eight million yemeni population are now in serious need of aid millions have been internally displaced and more than ten thousand people have already been killed now ahmed worries what an all out attack on his city will mean yemeni government forces announced they were moving in on the last year but they backed off after significant international pressure the u.s. has once again lobbying the warring sides to negotiate

a cease fire it warns any tack on the port would have a catastrophic impact. al-jazeera. the un is warning of fears of more bloodshed in the syrian province of idlib it's calling for a full investigation into government debt strikes on the area which is considered a deescalation zone under an international agreement more than sixty people have been killed during heavy bombardment in the past three days two and a half million people live in it most of whom were displaced from elsewhere in syria during the seven year long war. this is collision with this deterioration we worry about seeing really two and a half million people becoming displays more and more to the border of turkey this is to continue to warn people of live there is no live to take them out to really this is the last look asian there is no other location to further move them so also in terms of the humanitarian assessment we see that more than eighty percent of the

population of egypt really are in an extremely vulnerable situation. spain's prime minister has offered to take in a rescue ship that's drifting in the mediterranean sea with more than six hundred migrants on board a charity boat picked up the migrants who are mostly from africa in a series of operations at the weekend they include more than one hundred thirty children and seven pregnant women italy and malta had refused to let the boat stop while more than six hundred thousand migrants have reached italy by boat from africa in the past five years before he was elected in march italy's new interior minister matteo savini promised to stop the flow of migrants into the country saying italy would not be europe's refugee camp salvini has written on facebook about those stranded migraine saying takes in nobody france pushes people back at the border of spain defenders fronted here with weapons from today italy will also start to say no to human trafficking no to the business of illegal immigration well

on to our law is the maritime operations manager at s.o.s. me says the situation is stable but the migrants need to be relocated. rescue operations as been quite difficult on the night between saturday and send because we had a lot of time to find them so they stay adrift at sea very very long and it was a critical rescue means the people pulled into the water they they have been burned by the few one person was in country and has been wrists they didn't know he's alive but he's still in critical medical situations so in general we also have pregnant woman we have one hundred twenty miners so we can walk them as soon as possible the situation legally is very clear the italian coast guard us being in charge of the rescue operations from the beginning and now they have the responsibility to find a place of safety where those people can be disembarked and can find no proper

medical care. assistance but. they have the right to deny it because they were not in charge so now it's purely the legal obligation to find a solution and in general it's a moral obligation to provide assistance to those people in distress. the pope has accepted the resignations of three chilean bishops including one battles of all star general who is at the center of a sexual abuse scandal all of chile's thirty four bishops offered to resign last month following a series of meetings at the vatican church administration administrators have been appointed to run all three diocese victims of accused barrows of witnessing and ignoring their abuse at the hands of another priests time now for a check of the world weather with rob and rob there's a hurricane heading for baja california there is where we've heard some against it luckily but it's court active ever let's have a satellite picture now for to show you this about two days ago we've had one

hurricane this rapidly week another well not even exist and so court rapid action in memphis is warm water we're talking about two swirls of clouds now a letter which is a bit of cleft there that was the first category four hurricane two days ago of the season rapidly that dissipated but now we've got buds now but is much closer to mexico and obvious to still circulation is currently about a category three from the categories go one to sri and then up to five top so we're more than halfway the winds one hundred eighty five calories per hour gusting more than that the rain potential should know when the thing that causes trouble is at least two hundred fifty millimeters we're talking about a rugged coastline here so the rain will fall in valleys and rapidly runs through flash but the potential here it's it's nowhere near the capital because it's on the coast the manzanita and in the next twenty four hours it will move slowly north so it's got about twenty four hours to batter this coastline and as i said earlier which you had earlier it's moving towards bahar california but actually the water

around but as much cooler you need about twenty seven degrees to keep these thing from running well run blocker will so hopefully both so it gets to be no more than a tropical disturbance it will still bring a lot of rain with it but it won't be a hurricane. rob thank you very much for that said ahead on al-jazeera disaster in guatemala and rising anger over the lack of all kinna warnings and frustration in iraq people living in this story cities plead for rebuilding to begin in sports a dominant performance by this golfer put same back on top of the while coming up with five to stay with us. cape town's water running out city or storage he said people should use no more than fifty liters of time water per person per day. about the third of the city's residents live in informal settlements like this one and you can see in about four

percent of the water for generations they've already been collecting it through communal taps also as you say the city will reach day zero on the ninth of july that's when they'll turn off the water in the hopes to have it only the communal times will stay on. the city's taps of fed by reservoirs this is one of the largest . because els gallop where four years ago they would have been on the twenty five meters of water since then the provinces suffered the worst drought on record. water saving measures have already postponed a zero bytes three months everyone here is hoping the winter will soon bring enough rainfall to make sure the road never come.

back our top stories on al-jazeera with less than two hours to go. for the historic summits in singapore between the u.s. president and the north korean leader the u.s. secretary of state says north the u.s. will only accept a deal with kim jong un when she good's a complete denuclearization of north korea my compare told reporters that preparations between the two countries are moving rapidly. the united nations is trying to negotiate a cease fire in yemen to avert an attack by saudi n.m.r. articulation forces on the main port city the u.n. is warning attacking her data could cause mass casualties food shortages and disease. and three attacks in afghanistan have killed him injured dozens of people twelve people died when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the ministry of rural development in kabul i saw claimed responsibility for that attack in the eastern city of jalalabad

security forces shot three attackers and fifteen afghan soldiers died fighting the taliban in condos. now the brocade of gaza by israel is having a devastating impact on thousands of people injured in weeks of protests many by israeli gunfire shortages of medical supplies and equipment mean doctors struggled to treat casualties our correspondent reports from gaza. mohammad baraka is one of fourteen thousand seven hundred palestinians injured during weeks of anti israeli protests in gaza he was shot in the leg by an israeli sniper on the fourteenth of may is he called to help him they don't have enough equipment or medical supplies if he doesn't get proper treatment soon they'll have to amputate his leg because of the israeli led c.g. can't obtain permission to leave gaza. his father was also shot and is in the same hospital and in the same situation. i am frustrated

i am suffering and so is my son they won't let us out the people in charge are supposed to let us outside of the secret. i'm frustrated i'm suffering and so is my son they want to sell it the people in charge are supposed to let us outside of gaza to seek treatment but they want. they're not the only ones the palestinian health ministry says at least four hundred patients in gaza hospitals are unable to get treatment and stopped from leaving to seek treatment elsewhere other countries are aware of the crisis and trying to help the moroccan army setting up a fully operational field hospital to alleviate the medical crisis there are hundred thirty five medical staff a including doctors and nurses to help with serious casualties and then outpatient department to deal with the less serious cases by far the biggest challenge for the moroccans was by passing both the israeli and egyptian siege to get their medical equipment into gaza they were only allowed after the egyptian government agreed. we

don't our first will deal with those injured in the protests but will also provide care for those in the local neighborhood and will work with the local hospitals while the field hospital is much needed it's simply not enough gaza's hospitals are breaking point they have about forty nine percent of the medical supplies that they need and about twenty nine percent according to the palestinian health ministry of medical equipment. medical equipment was old and badly needed maintenance or replacement even before the friday protests began against the occupation and the us recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital medical supplies including bandages and painkillers are running out leaving palestinians with treatable injuries untreated and impact in iraq on gaza city meanwhile protesters in ramallah are demanding the palestinian authority lift sanctions against gaza saying they hurt both palestinians and israelis palestinian president mahmoud abbas is being urged to end

salary cuts for government workers and protesters are demanding re consolation between the occupied west bank and gaza which remains besieging people suffer shortages of basic goods and electricity. jordan is getting two and a half billion dollars from three million countries to alleviate its budget shortfall and the european union has pledged twenty three million dollars this follows major protests by jordanians furious at the cost of living and proposed tax increases reports. the announcement was made after a meeting in mecca saudi arabia the united arab emirates and kuwait are coming to the aid of king abdullah of jordan the nearest monarchy in their region which is not part of the gulf cooperation council their pledge of two point five billion dollars it follows weeks of protests in jordan against the rising cost of living and a proposed income tax rise which has since been shelved jordan has always been

a crucial country particularly to the west and arab allies of the west. mostly because of the proximity and they're all it plays in the palestinian problem and except peaceful relations are i guess with israel so with all that in mind and the current crisis and the gulf people would like jordan to somehow take sides in a much more pronounced manner than it as. a to jordan to the tune of billions of dollars used to be the norm the g.c.c. pledged to point five billion dollars to both jordan and morocco and offered them full membership in the organization seven years ago the gulf monarchies more or less saw the hashemite kingdom as one of their own and its ability as being necessary to the us but political divisions during the last few years f. ekta the relations between jordan and some of the g.c.c. countries led by saudi arabia among the issues of contention jordan's failure to

participate in the saudi led war in yemen disagreement over the classification of the muslim brotherhood movement as a terrorist organization the final status of jerusalem and jordan's less than full severing of ties with qatar. in an awkward position while trying to maintain its sovereignty because of the disagreements jordan's gulf neighbors stop their money supply a three point six billion g.c.c. assistance program to jordan expired last year a serious blow for the economy which relies heavily on regional and into. national eight weeks of popular artist across the kingdom seem to have been a wake up call in gulf capitals it's not clear if the aid comes with strings but the gulf donors appear to realize that if they lead jordan slide into chaos there is no telling what impact it will have on their own stability mohammed. several explosions have been heard near syria's capital the incidents happened in the thai

finally damascus countryside an area known for its many military bases government media says the explosions happened in an ammunition depot initial reports suggest it could have been caused by high summer temperatures. now winning the war against eisel in iraq destroyed entire cities including western mosul and ramadi at least ten billion dollars is needed to rebuild the capital of anbar the largest problems in iraq but that's a fraction of the reconstruction bill nationwide reports. it's estimated that up to eighty percent of ramadi lies in ruins. around three hundred seventy five thousand people mostly sunni muslims used to live here before the capital of the province was seized by isis fighters. after months of fighting and repeated i saw counter-offensive the government announced victory in ramadi in february two thousand and sixteen. almost two and a half years later reconstruction has barely begun iraqis who have returned since

then to live amongst the rubble of the struggling to rebuild their lives coming out of the out of some. of them more than a thousand houses were flattened the rest are almost destroyed people are trying their best to rebuild their properties but they don't have enough money no government official has visited us and listen to our problems they just came briefly before elections and promised us the same old promises but nothing happened . the iraqi government says large scale reconstruction across the country hasn't started yet because it doesn't have the money. almost ninety billion dollars is needed to rebuild after fifteen years of war and chaos since the fall of saddam hussein in two thousand and three but iraq's allies pledged only thirty billion as a donors conference in kuwait in february it's estimated that twenty two billion

dollars is needed to rebuild and province including ten billion madi. thousands of people live in camps on the outskirts of the city as it was a. we are asking the government to provide us with their missing documents so we can return home and leave the camp as you can see we are fasting despite lack of basic needs and services and we don't even have cold water to break our fast with all the more. than two million iraqis are forced to live in camps across iraq because their homes were destroyed. analysts say one of the reasons the rise of eisel happened in cities like ramadi is because abuse and neglect from the shia led federal government they say cities like ramadi and mosul were what they described as incubators for extremist ideas to take root amongst a small percentage of the population iraq's sunnis suffered some of the worst atrocities on the eisel the united nations says failure to help iraq rebuild risks

fueling resentment and possibly even violence again. baghdad. is promising that building the largest dam in africa out won't cost water shortages in egypt if the o.p.'s prime minister ahmed has had two days of talks in cairo he says hydro electricity from the four billion dollar nile river dam is vital for ethiopia's development egypt which relies on the nile for virtually all of this fresh water and from irrigation fears a dam will be a disaster. we have come a long way to achieve confidence and to enhance bilateral cooperation and we will continue an honest effort in order to overcome any mutual challenges at the forefront is to reach a final agreement over the rene songs down to secure egypt's use of water from the river nile which is indisputable because it is the only lifeline for egyptians and at the same time contributing to achieve ethiopia's development and prosperity. the

lack of government warnings about an erupting volcano in guatemala is causing growing anger rescuers have given up hope of finding any more survivors from the disaster which has killed at least one hundred ten people there as mariana sanchez reports from one of the most devastated areas. pails of hot ash rescuers are digging a hole hoping they will find some clothes for needles. this was the route to the level of mexican rescuer points out to her but she still confused these are the ones you almost think the house was supposed to be there but this is beyond recognition i can't tell i can't remember. looking for her boyfriend and he's two sons mother three brothers and two nephews. they both terribly disappeared under tons of rocks and ashes of last week's volcano eruption here at the community of send me one of the hardest hit men and women are

trying to recover the remains of at least two hundred poor what the balance were still missing. but the ground this still very hot over seventy degrees centigrade yet they go in slowly. this is the second floor of this house rescuers have to dig through what is still very hot ash and one week after the tragedy they're still finding bodies. remains they have found are carefully guarded but here at the morgue in the town of his queen families are waiting to identify relatives. says she has buried her brother his wife and their six children already but still has to identify more joy and i will keep on until i see that i can't any more until there's nobody left until i realize there's nothing else.