do you think reunification would look like there are two people think the peaceful unification is the only option for prosperity you. hear their story on talk to al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara sarah this is the news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes and i think the meeting was every bit as good for the united states as it was for north korea donald trump's historic summit with kim jong un ends with vague pledges of denuclearization and the surprise announcement that u.s. military exercises with south korea will stop. the british government avoids

a major defeat of a break said by allowing parliament more of a say in the deal to leave the e.u. italy sends two ships to help transport to spain the six hundred twenty nine migrants it's refusing to accept. hamas in sport we'll have all the buildup to the world cup twenty eighteen were hosts of russia fine tuning their preparations ahead of thursday's opening match against saudi arabia. months after the u.s. president threatened north korea with fire in fury donald trump and kim jong un have vowed to put the past behind them at a historic summit in singapore trump was full of praise for kim after the two men met initially with only interpreters present the summit in singapore produce the wealth of photo opportunities but only a vague four point declaration reaffirming

a commitment to the nuclearization with mil timeline for north korea to the small until its arsenal but trump did give further detail on the u.s. concessions including a surprise pledge to stop military drills in south korea and eventually pull his troops out of the peninsula brown reports now from singapore. no one was sure quite what to expect from the summit this originality. just the good news they seem to get on but as expected u.s. president donald trump and the north korean leader kim jong signed a deal vague on details it says the united states and north korea will work towards denuclearization but missing the words verified and irreversible at a news conference trump was pressed on not saying you know. trusts the north korean leader it does take

a long time to you know pull off complete de nuclearization you takes a long time scientifically you have to wait certain periods of time and a lot of things happen but despite that once you start the process it means it's pretty much over can't use them that's the good news and that's going to start very very soon i believe it's going to start very soon we will do it as fast as it can mechanically and physically be done in the meantime sanctions will remain but trump said the regular exercises between the militaries of south korea and the u.s. would end but again no specifics or mention of a peace treaty either act one in this diplomatic drama that began almost five hours earlier with a handshake that may have changed the course of history. u.s. president donald trump said he'd know within a minute of meeting him if he'd get on with it so this was the moment he began sizing him up. the start perhaps of an improbable relationship improbable

times. to nuclear armed leaders one of former real estate developer and reality t.v. star the other an international pariah it's my honor to. do all that particular manager there speaking through an interpreter kim said the way here had not been easy for. the old practices and prejudices worked against this but we are here and now. their day started at nine am local time in singapore prime time viewing in the united states. the two leaders were joined by their officials if the two sides stick to what they've agreed here will be many more meetings in the garden all seemed amicable as the two leaders strolled in talk together and there was something trump was keen for kim to see. the inside of his official limousine

known as the beast both leaders will feel they've got something out of this summit each gets the prestige of meeting the other kim gets to appear committed to denuclearize ation while trump may yet be credited as being the first u.s. president to bring peace to the korean peninsula the deal makes no mention either of north korea's harsh human rights history you know this is a fundamental freedom this is a principle of human existence and you know for donald trump to say that kim jong un is now a nice guy when he's got one hundred twenty thousand people in gulags in the mountains is just not on a few diplomatic encounters have been so eagerly anticipated the question now is whether all this will prove to be a little more than just a series of photo opportunities adrian brown al jazeera singapore. well during their summer donald trump played kim jong un a video making the case for peace which was later shown at a news conference. resembling

a film trailer and featured the two leaders and laid out the opportunities for north korea if it chooses to be nuclearized the recording showed images of missiles of warplanes and artillery a voice over narration ask questions like what if history can be changed and will the world embrace this change well let's look in more detail at the four point declaration the two sides agreed on the first two points are pretty general the u.s. and north korea commit to establish new relations for peace and prosperity and they agreed to a joint effort to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the korean peninsula the last point commits both sides to recovering the remains of prisoners of war and those missing in action from the korean war but the key is point three reaffirming north korea's commitment to work towards complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula complete is one of three words the secretary of state might pump aoe said were

essential to the u.s. but the other two words that's verifiable and irreversible are not mentioned and no timeframe is given well the big surprise out of the summit will strums announcement that the u.s. would be stopping its joint military drills with south korea it's understood his comments court not only soul of guard but also the pentagon. i want to get our soldiers out i want to bring our soldiers back on we have right now thirty two thousand soldiers in south korea and i'd like to be able to bring them back home but that's not part of the equation right now at some point i hope it will be but not right now we will be stopping the war games which will save us a tremendous amount of money on a lesson until we see that the future negotiation is not going along like it should but we'll be saving a tremendous amount of money plus i think it's very provocative to get more now

from particle hane in washington and not just calling them war games but provocative war games it's very much the language in a sense that north korea uses opposed to what we're used to hearing from any u.s. administration. exactly those are the exact words north korea uses the u.s. the all past presidents have called the military exercises there done twice a year they're pretty massive in scale but they don't call them they call them defensive they say they're not provocative so now we've seen the u.s. president completely change the course of the discussion adopting the language of north korea and sending the message that they're going to stop we believe without notifying or even consulting with the south koreans who obviously take part in the exercises in their country one point of clarification the president had his facts wrong there it's actually twenty eight thousand five hundred u.s. troops in south korea but he has said on the campaign trail he said well he's been

in office even once to reduce that number of troops he conflates military cooperation with the current trade agreements so he's sending a message i talk to experts in washington they think he's definitely sending a message to south korea and japan with this unilateral move and the statement that there is they believe he said it is you might be on your own and patty just more generally speaking about this summit what has been the u.s. political reaction to it so far. it's been pretty surprising republicans for the members of the president's own party you can just imagine if barack obama had gone to this summit and called him. a talented man and that and praising him for being able to keep control of his countries through very strong methods they probably they would have been affleck sick but republicans are being very subdued saying that they you know hope that this works out you know they're not necessarily going to trust that it's going to work out but that they want to be

consulted but it really mild reaction as we've seen under president the republican party does not stand up to him or or really say anything against and democrats are being a little bit more vocal some are saying hey if this works out and there could be peace great but they are complex comparing this to a reality show many democrats say that the u.s. shouldn't have given up those military exercises because they say in their words the u.s. got nothing in return so as everything is in washington in twenty eighteen it's really been a partisan response to continue with the latest from washington patty thank you well south korean president says he hopes the summit will usher in a new era among the two koreas and the u.s. moon championed the meeting and acted as a mediator with a view to forging closer ties with pyongyang bryde reports now from seoul. south korean president mungy in watched with members of his cabinet as the summit going on the way his smile will move deep satisfaction. this was the culmination of

friendly engagement that he started months earlier. i long with all our people sincerely hope that it will be a successful summit that will open a new era of complete the nuclear isolation piece and the new relationship between south korea north korea and the united states understatement later from the president's office praised what moon called the courage of the u.s. and north korean leaders even the. building upon the agreement reached today we will take a new path going forward leaving the dark days of one conflict behind we will write a new chapter of peace and cooperation we will be there together with north korea along the way when moon met kim at the landmark summit that paved the way for this meeting viewing figures peaked at thirty four percent almost the same number watched kim meet with trump people in seoul following events thousands of kilometers away that could shape the relationship with their fractious neighbor

fifty kilometers to the north it's primarily what i thought looking at that meeting reunification is not far off. non-negative ok so let's see what's going on. when you can join when you actually can do and has a different open mind said compared with his father and grandfather but not in previous declarations to denuclearize were made with kim's predisposes only to end in failure and some north korea watchers a warning against over optimism but sometimes it looks i would say in slightly comical to see their exit expectations and of course. is going to be sometimes it's very strange to see how files say for war. what have been happening here for decades and will happen again and again and again. deeply skeptical of north korea's intentions is japan japanese prime minister shinzo fears any deal

which forces north korea to give up longer range missiles but allows it to keep weapons that could reach japan singapore on the historic summit is taking place right now in singapore i wish this some excess and hope it brings progress to the issue of nuclear missiles it's not only people in south korea who've been following events closely north koreans have also been seeing carefully crafted news coverage of their leader in singapore president trump will be able to sell this agreement as a major win for kim jong un explaining to his people how he has just signed the deal with his country sworn enemy will take a lot tact bright al-jazeera so. well news and images of the meeting of yet to reach citizens in north korea is thought that only get details of the historic meeting a day late on wednesday citizens that they are accustomed to the state media reporting events days after they've actually happened well absent from the document the two

leaders signed was any mention of human rights greg scarlatti you is the executive director of the committee for human rights in north korea he joins us live now from washington sir welcome to al-jazeera now any mention of human rights was missing from the document itself donald trump in the news conference it's sort of vaguely say he had briefly mentioned it but do you think that generally human rights of the people of north korea have been sacrificed for the sake of the p.r. of this meeting let me begin by saying the diplomacy is a good thing talks are a good thing we all want peace that's said the kim regime is committing crimes against humanity we know that from a u.n. commission of inquiry reports submitted to the un human rights council in february twenty fourth team this is a regime that's running a vast on lawful system of imprisonment a gulag system or a hundred and twenty thousand men women and children are imprisoned pursuant to

a system of guilt by association this is a regime that is investing heavily in its tools of death while thirty percent of its children continue to be malnourished. there's been so much talk about this meeting in the build up to it you know before it was like is going to happen is it now and now all the political diplomatic and you know nuclear details do you feel that this side though has been overshadowed i mean not just the by the president himself but by the media in general and that ultimately the people of north korea who are suffering at the hands of kim jong il and don't really seem to have a voice. the ultimate measure of inner korean re console. peace and perhaps reunification of the korean peninsula will be the impact it has on the people of south and north korea we do not trust the d.p. r. k. regime for good reasons they do not trust us the president has signaled that this

is going to be a process we will likely see multiple summit meetings it is very difficult to add new issues to the agenda later on in the process it is a very important for human rights to be on the table right now although it is a little disappointing i have to say that human rights was not one of the issues included in the joint statement nevertheless it is good to know that president trump raised the issue with kim jong un i mean i'm assuming that groups like yours another human rights groups have tried to pressure the white house has it just fallen on deaf ears. no president trump addressed the egregious human rights situation of north korea in the speech she gave before the south korean national assembly in the two thousand and seventeen in

the speech she gave before the u.n. general assembly and also in his state of the union address remember that a north korean escapee the disabled escapee activist she saw me as a guest of the first lady at the state of the union address three days later the president met with a group of eight north korean escapees including mistakes oh vice president pence also met with a group of north korean escapees on the sidelines of the pm tom winter olympics so the administration has established a track record of listening to the voices of victims listening to the voices of north korean escapees. greg scarlatina executive director of the committee for human rights in north korea sir thank you so much for sharing your views with us here. pleasure is mine. and still to come on the news hour after making new friends in singapore president trump has more hostile words for

one of america's closest allies after a long running dispute greece says macedonia has finally agreed to a new name and in sport the. only worry is that moscow those things if it ends i don't know if. that is going to get the twenty twenty six world cup and spring lights back up files. first though the british government has conceded that parliament will have some say you know a deal to leave the european union it's being seen as of the feet for hard breck sitters who want to leave the e.u. without any economic deal but it doesn't resolve the lack of clarity over what breaks it will actually look like lawrence lee reports. and he spoke above all about courage it's tortuously slow it is painful to watch so many times the british government has said it wants to do one thing over breakfast it's only to be

overturned and so again prime minister to resign may have not wanted parliament to have any say in what deal she negotiates with the european union but enough of her own m.p.'s threatened to rebel to force yet another climb down one minister even resigned so he could speak more freely. i urged my parliamentary colleagues to follow my lead and vote to give our greatest this house of commons our constituents and our country the powers it needs to leave our children a legacy of which we can all be proud to career so what to make of the government's continuing inability to make sense of brecht's it on behalf of people in places like sunderland in northeastern england who voted for it see it runs a small business selling machine parts to begin destry he wants out of the european union completely and he can't understand why the government seems incapable of

doing its pretty standard push to stand up for england stand up for the table. push around and. they just don't let the new. do in the front and what is it you think. all the see all the right things and then when it comes to doing. the work. and those businessmen who would back the conservative rebels like the boss of this factory just as frustrated they rely on an economic relationship with the european union and yet the government can give them no assurances that that will carry on i'm a strong supporter of the u.k. in general however i think the norm is the thing that we're frightened of more and i don't think the government's doing the best it could to give us the information and communication on the next steps in what's likely to happen on an exit from the entire economy of some zealand relies on the giants nyssa on its feet a company is a failed brecht's it could easily lead to this factory relocating to consonant well

europe yet neither nissen nor anyone else knows what shape bricks it will take and back in london all is discord perhaps the best indication of the divide in society over what's happening in parliament moments is on the front page of some of the newspapers in the brics it supporting press the conservative rebels who want parliament to be given the final say on a votes or describes as betrayers and traces and yes in those newspapers which supports them they described as heroes it's hard to escape the conclusion that this continues to be a country politically speaking at war with itself largely al-jazeera in westminster . the french president has called basically cynical and irresponsible for refusing to allow in a ship carrying six hundred twenty nine refugees to dock preparations are now being made for the ship to head the spain which has offered to take it in now the

refugees were rescued from the sea off libya at the weekend but they found themselves stranded when both italy every refused to give their rescue boat the aquarius for mission to dock at the journey to the spanish port of allen say i will take three days to four days it will be accompanied by two italian coast guard boats which have taken on board some of the refugees and migrants to ease crowding on the aquarius reports from rome for four days they've been aboard the aquarius relief at being rescued short lived now uncomfortable in the searing mediterranean heat and we are really. very late for you. the rescue ship denied port access in italy overcrowded and with supplies running low has been directed to valencia in spain two italian naval vessels will take on four hundred of the six hundred twenty nine migrants and refugees that's what the italian government now sees as the extent of its cooperation with n.g.o.s rescues are seen

. far right leader and new interior minister. it is an election promise made good italy has said it will no longer europe's refugee camp. i'm happy to be able to give the italian people the first piece of what they asked for. me is italy's new strongman leading the charge with his anti establishment coalition partners the five star movement and basking in high approval ratings for it. what is astonishing in this despite being judges populists this poll this is also very popular in italy there isn't a tremendous amount of people in these days saying yes we have to close the borders yes we have to control the access of immigrants yes we have to send them back home the timing isn't coincidental there's a meeting at the end of june that will consider changing the rule that asylum must be claimed in the country of first entry it's that rule that is put italy on the

frontline of europe's migration crisis italy's treatment of those aboard the aquarius is notice that the rules are. changing each state has the right to manage his boundaries. but this should not put into doubt the. human rights our deepest concern is that if the rescue capacity will be weakened by different policies by different arrangements this risk this journey might become even more risky. men women and children will continue to make the crossing to southern europe at the hands of unscrupulous people smugglers they probably won't be told but it just got a much harder and more dangerous journey. robe. greece

and macedonia have reached an agreement to resolve a decades old dispute over the name of the small balkan nation that this feud between the two neighbors had been an obstacle to macedonia joining nato and the e.u. and it led to protests in both greece and macedonia in recent weeks what also office is live in athens for us is so i guess the source of the dispute is gone now what is the new name going to be john. well the new name announced this evening is going to be apparently very. northern macedonia but in the slovik language native to the former yugoslav republic that of course remains to be ratified by both sides in the case of greece it has to go through parliament the government in skopje has said it favors a referendum that government also has an added burden it has to be the main points agreed with greece in that constitutional amendments because the

constitution that was voted back in nineteen ninety one is incompatible with many of the things that have been agreed today if all goes well then two weeks from now the greeks will recommend to a meeting of foreign ministers of the european union that they open accession talks with the republic and on the eleventh and twelfth of july it will make the same recommendation to a meeting of nato representatives after that it will be up to the government in scope to make sure that it's referendum is successful and then to carry out its constitutional amendments greek parliament will then ratify and some point next year perhaps in the first six months of next year we might have the membership of certain amount in both the e.u. and nato very quickly by the standards of those bodies while they've been waiting

at long enough for the new name so john psaropoulos with the latest there from athens thank you. it watching the news hour life from london coming up the first major downpours of them and soon a season hit bangladesh killing two hinge of refugees and displacing hundreds of families at a global technology fair in germany one artificial intelligence is all the buzz and then sport world cup hosts russia are confident they can advance plastic. stage for the first time in more than thirteen years. hello there is still thunderstorms wandering around the caucasus and around the mountains of northern iraq and the satellite picks them up and they're going to keep going is all i suspect of the next to say for the most part of course we're talking about

a dry picture across iran back towards the plains of iraq only on the coast level and through denser israel and through syria do you find kuta rather more pleasant i think you'll find twenty seven twenty eight in beirut occasional shout same is true of cyprus and sudden turkey bags temperatures coming up again forty three degrees that's about right for this time the year there's been a hot breeze blowing out of that crowd a strong showing through kuwait bahrain and qatar keeping the temperature surprisingly high forty four still in the forecast that has been forty seven already this week it's cooler around the u.a.e. it's about where it should be on the western side of society and this cloud you see around samarra and around the coast tomorrow is seas know it's coming in going out again it's with the monsoon southern africa has been enjoying big open blue skies recently occasional schild bit of fog around the coast of the eastern cape but you don't see much in the satellite picture and you see very little in the full cost twenty five in durban not so woman johannesburg but you have got dawn to dusk

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on one side of the split screen dignitaries mingling on the other con see the world from a different perspective only on al-jazeera. time after reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong il and they have hailed their summit in singapore a great success but the agreement they signed only gave vague pledges of denuclearization trump told a news conference the u.s. has agreed to end military drills with south korea but south korea seemed surprised to releasing a statement saying it needs to find out exactly what to try announcement means and

the u.k. government has been forced to make concessions to see off of potentially damaging rebellion over whether parliament. we'll get a meaningful vote on the final breaths and. it's go back to our top story now china says the trump kim summit creates a new history its foreign minister has urged the fall denuclearization on the peninsula emphasizing that china will play an important role in that process. so. the u.s. and north korea have been contradictory and even hostile to each other for more than half a century today the fact that the two leaders can sit together and conduct equal dialogue itself has a major and positive significance and is creating a new history with china of course supports it because this is exactly what we look forward to and what we have been endeavoring for we hope the leaders of the two countries will get rid of interferences overcome difficulties and will be able to reach a basic consensus on the denuclearization of the peninsula. well meanwhile malaysia

says it will reopen its embassy in pyongyang the prime minister mahathir mohamad said he will take north korea's commitments at face value and resume relations with the isolated nation malaysia close that center seen pyongyang last year after a diplomatic standoff following the suspect that assassination of kim jong un's half brother at kuala lumpur airport. while the declaration on denuclearization of the singapore summit is the latest in a long line of agreements that north korea has made the first was in one thousand nine hundred ninety two under kim il sung the state's founder and kim jong un's grandfather north and south korea signed a joint declaration for the denuclearization of the korean peninsula but it never came into force that in one thousand nine hundred four bill clinton's administration signed an agreed framework with north korea now led by kim jong un's father kim jong il pyongyang would dismantle its nuclear reactors in return for

fuel oil shipments from the u.s. unpopular with republicans that framework was cancelled under george w. bush butt. a new round of six party talks including russia china and japan reached a joint statement in two thousand and five calling for the verifiable denuclearization of the korean peninsula then in two thousand and twelve the new north korean leader kim jong un oversaw a deal with the obama administration under the leap year agreement pyongyang was to suspend uranium enrichment and missile tests in return for food aid a year later north korea tested its first nuclear weapon well bruce clinger is a former cia deputy division chief for korea he's now a senior research fellow specializing in northeast asia at the heritage foundation a public policy organization that's based in washington sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera we've just read through some of your previous the

between north korea neither south korea and the u.s. what do you think of this one the one between kim jong un and donald trump compared to previous ones better or worse. worse i found it quite disappointing each of the four main pillars that were in the summit singapore some of declaration had been included in previous agreements or previous communiques and in the previous versions they many of them were stronger or more encompassing and the most important pillar of yesterday's agreement the denuclearization was weaker than the one that was included in the september two thousand and five six party talks joint statement and the this declaration also didn't include verification or any indication of movement by north korea toward the the un required concept of c.v. id complete verifiable irreversible dismantlement you know which might compare the

secretary of state had said just the day before that actually was a key key part of the american the go seating position so seeing as not only has donald trump not achieve the real breakthrough when it comes to the nuclearization but then he also seems to have canceled what he called the war games with south korea do you think that north korea is actually in a stronger position now than it was before the meeting. well they certainly would welcome that unilateral concession from washington when whenever north korea called our joint military exercises war games or provocative as the president did washington always rejected those monikers saying it's a defensive military exercise and suffer several years north korea's floated what we call a freeze for freeze proposal where they would freeze their nuclear missile tests in return for the allies freezing their military exercises washington in seoul correctly rejected that because north korea was trying to offer something they

didn't legally possess they're not allowed to do missile or nuclear testing whereas were allowed to do military exercises and also north korea when discuss any constraints on its own large scale conventional military exercises so the president sort of did one half of that freeze proposal the one where we would make a concession and didn't get anything in return there are apparently going to be other meetings and perhaps not between the two leaders for a while but other meetings between the two governments so where do you think they should go from here do you think that this is salvageable do you think there is a way in which the west can negotiate with north korea and get them to denuclearize well many of us who have worked in north korea for a long period of time are pretty skeptical that you know the next agreement will be any better than any of the others or at least fare any better because the common denominator was north korea always cheated or didn't fulfill its obligations but

two things that we need to have that we haven't had in previous korean agreements but which were in all the arms control treaties with the soviet union's the first is very carefully crafted very detailed very lengthy text where everyone knows clearly what they're supposed to do and the second aspect is sufficient verification so we didn't like the soviets we didn't trust the soviets but we were able to move ahead with treaties because we had sufficient verification. bruce cleaner senior research fellow at northeast asia for the heritage foundation sir thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us thank you thank you. well donald trump has wrapped up his charm offensive with north korea by aiming another barbette america's neighbor and close ally canada at a news conference after the summit trump again attacked the prime minister justin trudeau insisting no one can take advantage of the u.s. on trade and that's the spy the white house trade advisor apologizing for his own attack on trudeau alan fischer has more. as he was making friends with this enemy

in singapore u.s. president donald trump also talked about the enemies of his friends the fallout from the g. seven summit in canada has followed him here but the president insists his goal is feed or treat the united states because of bad management because a president said didn't care about trade or didn't understand it or whatever reason . for many years with china being obviously the most successful at it but the european union the second one hundred fifty one billion we lost they were represented at the meeting and we're being taken advantage of on trade one economics expert says any trade dispute creates problems for everyone gives them a share of our population and i said at the beginning trade is something to benefit overall. hines and that it has been benefiting all around the well so far the president also talked about that viral photo the one

where other g seven leaders seem to be confronting him over his position on key issues german chancellor angela merkel and french president manual mccrone have been highly critical of the president in recent days but he says they were simply waiting for a document and it was all very friendly and he confirmed he pulled the support for the final g seven document because of a news conference held by canadian prime minister justin trudeau i have a good relationship with justin trudeau i really did other than he had a news conference that he had because he assumed i was in or near a planet i wasn't watching he learned that's going to cost a lot of money for the people of canada he learned you can't do that you can't do that speaking before his weekly cabinet meeting the canadian prime minister brushed off this latest verbal spat with his closest neighbors and his comments as i said i want to say focused on defending jobs for canadians and supporting cleary an interesting theory i was hearing. from flies by from singapore claiming

a huge international success he may have affected the worries of an immediate nuclear war in korea but now he faces fight to get a trade war on his own border alan fischer al-jazeera washington. the u.n. envoy to yemen martin griffiths says he's been engaged in intense negotiations with the who the saudi arabia and the united arab emirates to avoid a military confrontation in the port of call data this. i mean iraqi coalition forces are about ten kilometers south of the city which has been held by who the rebels for three years the port is a vital lifeline through which most of the yemeni population's food and medicine enters the u.n. estimates six hundred thousand people live in the area and believe a battle could cost up to two hundred fifty thousand lives the baes real estate market has been described as a haven for money laundering by war profiteers terror finance years and drug traffickers sanctioned by the u.s. the report by

a washington based center for advanced offense studies has identified around one hundred million dollars in what it calls suspicious purchases of apartments and villas across the city the government run dubai media office said it could not comment on the report. when soon rains have arrived in southern bangladesh temporary home to nearly one million range refugees for real preparations began in february to protect them from flooding and landslides ahead of the annual rainy season but in the first major downpours two refugees died in cox's bazaar and fifteen hundred settlements were damaged or destroyed charlotte bellis reports. this is the largest refugee camp in the womb and this is its first major test against nature. the monsoon season has begun inclusive along camp in the last three days four hundred millimeters of rain has fallen or two thirds of the city of

london's annual rainfall. and this is what those rains have done to shelters in the camp the big rooms the young ranger family who flee the military crackdown and me and my last year must move again they want to fifteen hundred families displaced by landslides and flooding. because of the rain all night yesterday evening the hill was unsteady anymore and it fell onto the roof of our house we were very afraid and people had to help us to get out of our home my baby is just ten days old and it was in the cart when the earth fell over him. the bangladesh government and aid groups had treated this moment. since february that being in a race against the weather how to protect one million written to refugees living in tents on the side of state banks from three months of torrential running they relocated nearly thirty thousand of the most vulnerable to flat land while

improving the existing shelters of nearly two hundred thousand dollars that left more than seven hundred thousand to come up with their own solutions johnny elam is one al-jazeera met him in march preparing for this moment he use string and bamboo to build defenses for. his family. the pool group for the camp says no time is up a home meant to provide safety and comfort no liability for an already traumatized people many people live on these hillsides on very steep slopes then there are very high risk of landslides and death and one area of the camp i discovered almost twenty families have had to be relocated and almost thirty houses have been damaged due to landslides the united nations describes the region as the world's most persecuted people seven hundred thousand have fled violence in myanmar since august the un cooled it ethnic cleansing now it's noches to as the victimized again

dallas. international criminal court judges avoided the release of the. former vice president of the democratic republic of congo ben but was sentenced to eighteen years in prison after judges found in guilty of the atrocities committed by his troops they'd been sent to the central african republic to put a cool head but on friday an appeals court judge said ben but could not be held criminally responsible for the crimes meanwhile that the current president joseph kabila will not seek a third term in the same brazil election that's according to the prime minister all these presidents are only allowed to serve two terms as second and final term was meant to end in two thousand and sixteen but he's postponed elections twice due to fighting in the country the opposition says that the lays were arranged by kabila to keep himself in office you're watching out jazeera coming up in sports will it be fifth time lucky for morocco as they wait to see if they will host the twenty

twenty six football world cup.

and now here is summer with all the sport. thank you very much barbara well it is just two days until the world cup gets on the way and hosts russia go into the time into as the lowest ranked of the thirty two teams while they haven't progress out of the group stages since nine hundred eighty six the best hope for victory comes in the tournaments the opening match against saudi arabia author's day.

everyone you ask even a favorite like the brazilians what they would say first of all is that the main job is to get out of the group and it's the same for us we're not favorites to win the world countable but we want to get out of the group and we're playing at home so we want to prove to everyone most of all to ourselves that we can play football so the country can be proud of us. all the final games have been played the head of the tournament to japan and i have won the first match under their new coach wala robert lever dusky scored a double in poland's victory his second goal was confirmed by the video assistant referee which will be in use at the world cup for the first time in russia. but before this year's world cup gets underway the fee for congress that will decide the was a who will host the twenty twenty six event the vote is between morocco and a combined bid from the united states canada mexico has more from moscow.

thirty two nations ready for the russia world cup but before but there is going to be some big auction going on of our faithful with the twenty twenty six now the last time face i made a decision on world cups it was arguably the most controversial decision in the history they wouldn't turn to world cup so what i did see which they base it was a mistake and i went to russia here we are. of course to qatar twenty twentieth's so now this one has the potential to be controversial because you're dealing with the united states paid with the add on's of canada and mexico that are the favorites i'm needs that big so when it can't say so explicitly but it does for financial reasons that bid will make a lot of money for a favor there's no doubt that's where the experts would side is most likely to go but also for political reasons because if the usa win that bodes well then the u.s.

attorney general the f.b.i. will be a father a wife from germany and france or the president definitely wants the usa to win but morocco has come up with a strong posable bait i had a bit of problems with the evaluation where i scored two point seven out of five if i that was nearly low enough to knock them out of this two holes rice but as it gets to wednesday's votes were in opposition but i could win if i did it would cause some very interesting problems for free for years but it would also be an incredible achievement for overcoming of course it would only be the second time that an african nation has hosted the world cup usa gate twenty. twenty six. must be considered favorites live the joint in u.s. canada and mexico bid to win is that it will be the first time this one until will be hosted in three different countries. it's an end this is plan but one that with

some drawbacks. a football party just as good as the promotional video promise is that's what the united states mexico and canada are saying together they're bidding to jointly host the two thousand and twenty six world cup it would be the first time three countries simultaneously host world football's marquee attraction the bid has three key strengths experience mexico and the u.s. have both hosted world cups before and canada received high praise for its smooth organization while hosting the women's world cup three years ago and there's money u.s. canada mexico option promises a record eleven billion in profits more than double the other world cup and size two thousand and twenty six will be the first world cup to expand from thirty two to forty eight teams and the north americans say

a bigger tournaments calls for bigger hosts we want to focus on the game we're ready made and our cities are prepared to host today the u.s. mexico canada bit does have a lot of a lot of the bases covered but in recent memory you know england's bid for instance had a lot of those same strengths and fifa gave the world cup the cutter which you know we all know is going to have to build a lot of stadiums. there are potential drawbacks the big calls for canada and mexico to host ten games each sixty matches would be played in the u.s. that an even distribution has left some feeling the tournaments would be too u.s. focused. the official name of the bid is united. twenty twenty six perhaps ironic considering the potential host nations are anything but united right now u.s. president donald trump has disparaged mexicans on multiple occasions and continues to talk about building a border wall separating the two countries between the u.s.

and canada are rocky as well with both countries threatening a trade war over tariffs but it is signing ceremony last year soccer chiefs from the three countries seemed unconcerned saying the beat is about sports and not politics but it still could prove for some awkward moments a tournament that promises to be the biggest and best ever north america hoping the world agrees that three countries are better than one. is on jersey to new york. making its fifth bid to host the world cup the political factors could derail its prospects but football fever in the country has never been higher with the side in the finals for the first time in decades. but on the reports from are about. all you need is a football and the place to play in the neighborhoods of robots in iraq and capital

it can be in a backyard a patch of waste ground or the street everybody it seems is a football fan this year enthusiasm is greater than ever with morocco at the world cup finals for the first time in twenty years and with an eye on the future but into stage it's a moment in twenty twenty six. the shot lobbied me learn so low that i think will win the bid we're ready to organize the world cup dungannon what a wonderful. i think we can organize the world cup but if is voting process makes me skeptical. morocco is facing not one open and but three to win the rights to host the world cup in two thousand and twenty six it's competing against a joint bit from the united states canada and mexico it needs to secure the votes of a majority of members of the sport's governing body. who want to be. there are a lot of geo strategic considerations in the coding for instance that morocco will

not be winning all that it's only for african because of some political issues we have with some southern african countries and with it there's also the ties of the pressures of the americans on arabic and islamic states with. morocco is pledging to invest sixteen billion dollars if it gets the go ahead to stage the world cup six new stadia would be built and six existing ones renovated to comply with standards and in a country with just one times over the longest trip between the host cities will be a seventy five minutes flight this is the fifth time morocco is bit in for the hosting rights to the football world cup they're calling it the dream of a nation they now hope members would share that dream. and the man handed back to london thank you very much for that now every year the world's leading technology companies the same don't hand over to showcase their

latest innovations at this trade fair this year one of the top themes that is artificial intelligence which is having an impact across a whole range of industries dominic casey reports. june in hanover and the c. bit tech fair is in turn the chance for hundreds of thousands of people to browse the latest developments in technology up close and personal this might look like an expensive entertainment system but actually it's an innovative device in medical science designed by the phone who for company it works by all commenting the reality of the wear a perceived through the glasses allowing surgeons to navigate through the skin more accurately the principle as formula normal for skin cancer patients if you want to know where the closest lymph node is and assess the remove for further examination using i c g u which is the truth and die but it's injected closer kuma we make the lymph node visible and using i r infrared cameras we can feed them and further

process this information. the marriage of artificial intelligence with robotics is also a key element at this year's fair specifically where it concerns transport recent court decisions in germany have suggested diesel bans in city centers might soon be in force to combat pollution which is why ego has designed this prototypical vehicle for passengers which can be driven but can also learn from its environment to drive itself you know you can call it a mover with your app with your smartphone to pick up it someplace and bring it to another place so you don't need any other cars let's say in the in the city but innovative use of ai is not specific to public transport systems with this concept car out he believes it's a blazing a trail for other manufacturers part of what it calls its fourth level of

autonomous driving you can really completely lean lean back of the driver so it can be lane assistant stuff so it can carry on can driving can steering by itself and parking itself can also go for example a kind of drop off zone where you stay in and go. and so ok i'm leaving the car searching your parking area get cleaned buying stuff and we'll be back at five pm to pick me up so autonomous mobility is clearly a buzzword for the automotive industry at this year's cib it using the technology of today combined with the promise of what's coming down the road tomorrow and that in essence is what the c.v. is all about don it came out zero. pretty amazing well that's it for me and the rest of the news our team stay with us maryam namazie will be here in just a few minutes with more of the day's news thank you so much for watching.

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