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sanctioning north korea. i'm joined again with the sport on the opening day of the fecal world cup the focus is on hosts russia who face saudi arabia in the first match in moscow. well the wait is almost over for millions of fans who will be watching from all over the world two hours from now the twenty eight thousand feet for world cup gets underway in russia and the opening match will see the host nation russia face saudi arabia a battle between the lowest ranked teams in the tournament it's also a chance for president vladimir putin to turn a new page after years of corruption and doping charges levied russia as well as deteriorating relations with many western countries these are lies. pictures coming

from red square in moscow where fans are governing not only in front of giant screens are also making their way to the stadium for that inaugural looking forward to the celebrations for a month long football first that willing capsulated well all of the continents the world as they focus on russia let's cross over to our correspondent rory chalons who's in moscow eagerly i'm sure waiting for that whistle to start and also it's not just about a whistle for the football festival to start whistle for rushers well to put a more positive spin on who they are as a nation it's something they've been longing for for some time. yeah well that's the thing i mean for many countries hosting the world cup is one of the prime off the shelf purchases that can be made for burnishing your international image and yes it does cost billions of dollars but what else really draws

such a massive audience of t.v. spectators visitors to your country people just coming here hoping for a good time yes there is the olympics russia has actually already done that in sochi in two thousand and fourteen but providing the nothing significant goes wrong such as avoiding the pitfalls of stadiums not being ready or bombs going off that sort of thing hosting the world cup spending that money is a pretty good bet having said that it's not a dead cert and certainly russia has you just said has a problem of the moments with its international reputation and it is questionable that doing something like hosting the world cup is going to be powerful enough to change that i'll explain all this in my report now. the fans are arriving football chancer reverberating around city squares one of the

biggest sporting parties in the world is upon us once again and it was here. it was eight years ago that fever announced the two thousand and eighteen host would be russia amid allegations of corruption and the world cup bidding process nevertheless by the may putin was pleased enough to accept with a rare speech in english been ordered to leave in the east and when fine. you can make it work. we hear you will be in motion we'll get. to that stands. world cup moments is now here russian business news site had a big car estimates the full cost fourteen point two billion dollars and for that gets a chance to generate some much needed goodwill for the country because internationally russia has something of a reputation problem the annexation of crimea and the war in eastern ukraine the

sports doping scandal allegations a russian interference in the foreign elections the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in england all these and more the list of perceived transgressions is long enough the political analyst under a kolesnikov suspects any world cup image boost will be limited to the home front. it's extremely important to to make such a gift to a domestic audience but for foreign audience russia will not change its image as a toxic toxic paul or toxic country. because there are so many events of other kinds that even the good organization. can change and i'm sure. as he spoke at the feet of congress on wednesday made it clear hosting the world cup isn't just about pleasing russians or international politics

it's about giving visit is the best impression of russia to. our goal is that all our guests from football stars to simple fans feel the hospitality including ality about people that they learned the authentic multinational culture and unique nature of russia and that they would like to come back to us again it's something he's tried before four years ago russia hosted the winter olympics in sochi the region was flooded with cash to smarten it up for all the visitors for the world cup that's been done on a much wider scale in total eleven world cup cities have received investment money from the huge metropolises of moscow and st petersburg to smaller cities like homs and some model the aim is to get fans and money to parts of the country far off the usual tourist trail making sure visitors get a russian experience is something that's filtered into the choice of this year's official world cup instrument see these. and they're an update on the spring played

in traditional russian folk music the sound of a full stadium banging these together. it's something you're going to hear a lot of in the weeks to come. for visitors to have the best possible time here of course involves keeping them safe for the european championship two years ago in france violent clashes between english and russian fans were broadcast around the world since then russian police have come down hard on local hooligans they want no repeat of such violence here and you are a security measures such as a strictly controlled and id system are in place to prevent bombs and other attacks for a month the eyes of the world will be on russia everything has to go smoothly. of course russia isn't considered a toxic country everywhere in the world in the kremlin is boasting the least twenty world leaders are coming here to be there for the opening ceremony later in the c

evening and the opening match between russia and saudi arabia top of the list is. the saudi crown prince he is going to be talking with putin about oil and other geopolitical issues but then you also get people like the presidio the president of the presidium of north korea's supreme people's assembly kim yong nam and the new armenian president nicol posh union going further down than that though you get countries represented like azerbaijan better reuss bolivia kazakstan kyrgyzstan except which goes to show that actually this party at the moment from a global leader perspective seems to be more of a post soviets affair former u.s.s.r. republics and members of the near abroad basically for western leaders for western countries they are largely staying away reinforcing what i was saying in my

package there that russia still has this problem with its own reputation for the moment we'll leave it there rory and look forward to that clock ticking away to the start of the event for the moment we'll leave it there thanks for the challenge in moscow which is going to bring you some breaking news coming out of argentina and politicians have now voted to allow abortion in the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy they had been debating the highly contentious issue most of the night hundreds of people had gathered outside congress in buenos aires while a session was taking place an issue that's obviously divided a country that is. deeply catholic and has a very strong catholicism influence running through the country at the moment the lauralee allows abortions in cases of rape or when a woman's life is at risk we'll get more analysis on this from our correspondents as we get them on from analysts throughout the show the news coming out of argentina. now the u.s.

secretary of state says china has reaffirmed its commitment to sanctions on north korea following the singapore summit between donald trump and kim jong il pompei was in beijing to discuss the details of cheese day summit with china's leaders earlier on cheese day china had suggested the u.n. sanctions on north korea could be eased following the talks. japan the republic of korea now china all acknowledged that we have turned the corner that we have begun a process away from the threat of war and towards peace on the peninsula each of those three countries to as a knowledge the importance of the work the president trump is undertaken and the commitments that chairman kim has made towards that very and to achieve that denuclearization ship and on china's position has always been that we are firmly committed to denuclearize ation as to how it will proceed that will be worked out

through more detailed consultations going forward and china stands ready to play its constructive role in that process let's talk to flawlessly our correspondent who's following events for us in beijing and florence very friendly tone there at that press conference between the u.s. and china that foreign ministers basically seem to be on the same page. well that's right i mean there was a quote quite a bit of praise from both men for the other the chinese foreign ministry saying that the singapore summit has now put the issue of denuclearize ations of the korean peninsula back on the right track with parties looking at resolving issues through dialogue something that china has been advocating he also talked about how these parties including the u.s. north korea south korea will all have to come together and cooperate to reach a consensus and then the u.s. secretary of state might pompei or paying compliments to chinese president xi jinping saying that he had helped a lot in china

a good knowledge of china's role and china's help in getting in making the summit happen as well as getting north korea to the table now is our. issue where these two countries may have a slight divergence in views and this is the issue of sanctions now the chinese foreign minister when asked about china's position on sanctions didn't answer the question directly but instead reaffirmed china's commitment to denuclearization and then he chose the opportunity he took the opportunity to bring up the issue of security guarantees for north korea then of course the sanction the issue of sanctions is extremely important to the u.s. because you know you've got the u.s. saying not just the not just pump a zero but we've also heard the same remarks coming from president trump right after the summit concluded that the tough sanctions will have to remain in place

the tougher u.n. sanctions on north korea because the trumpet ministrations position is they believe it was the tougher sanctions that forced north korea to the negotiating table and getting north china's support in enforcing these sanctions is going to be crucial when it comes to denuclearize ation but as we've seen there might be a slight. divergence in views and also we've also seen the chinese foreign ministry saying on the same day that the summit took place that perhaps this was time to reconsider sanctions relief on north korea suggesting there that the two may not be on the same page when it comes to this that might from peo it was very quick to say that the chinese chinese however have reaffirmed their commitment to denuclearize asian and that they have agreed that these sanctions may be revisited at an appropriate time but that but the u.s. considers the appropriate time to be when there is complete denuclearization on the korean peninsula where we leave the no florence and of course continue to monitor

events with you thank you well earlier was insolvent he was very keen to straighten out any hints of disagreements and confusion among america's key asian allies it's always donald trump's pledge to enjoy military exercises along the korean peninsula as well in three reports. after the hype of the summit with the sworn enemy came the explanation to the allies america's top diplomat mike pompei i met with south korean president in solved before a trilateral meeting with the foreign ministers of south korea and japan which provided an opportunity to show unity on the issue of north korea the u.s. alliances with these two countries are absolutely ironclad the declaration signed by u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un in singapore was vague there was no detail about how denuclearization will be achieved north korean state media suggested that the two leaders had agreed to similar taney s actions

suggesting pyongyang could be rewarded along the way michael says that's not the case thanks and surely you cannot take place until such time as we have demonstrated that north korea has been completely immune despite not being told in advance south korea's foreign minister says donald trump's decision to unilaterally end joint military exercises wasn't discussed in detail in thursday's meeting north korea believes the drills are a rehearsal for an invasion but the united states and its allies have always said that defense of japan says it's been assured by the u.s. that they suspension is contingent on progress on denuclearization but tokyo is still concerned about the possible implications concerning u.s. are ok exercise we believe about japan u.s. alliance as well as. deterrence based on them play an essential role in security in the north used ajor south korean seem to be generally positive about

what they saw in singapore they believe it's a step in the right direction but with something is significant is joint military exercises with the u.s. being given up soon want to know what north korea will do in return at the moment that seems to be very little if anything at all. while the diplomats were meeting old adverse reis walked side by side in the demilitarized zone separating the two koreas this was the first high level meeting between the militaries in more than ten years in a sign that practical progress is being made but until concrete changes see north of the border doubts will remain about the commitment to keep promises that have been broken so many times before when hey al-jazeera solve well plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including these new girl behind the new initiative to ensure teen moms continue their education across africa. also an acquittal of the war crimes charges for former militia leader. brings both joy and pain in

central africa. and one of the walk of favorites has a new man in charge on the eve of their first game show of the details and spoke. at the u.n. security council's to hold an emergency session on yemen the biggest battle in the three year long war is underway a military offensive by government forces and a saudi and the iraqi coalition threatens to worsen a humanitarian crisis troops loyal to present trouble months what have the and coalition warplanes and ships are targeting positions south of the port of her data it's part of an operation to take the city from who the rebels who have controlled it since twenty fourteen the red sea port is yemen second largest and most important point of entry for aid. now the u.s. ambassador to the united nations is in geneva and says there are ships on standby

to supply the data after the military operation ends. we have this image planned did it in and when we. hadn't and then is more population populated then then the data. everything went very well and even our ships are just. waiting so we have a fright we have a very we're very well organized and we are ready to send over every assistance for a four headed. now. as a visiting fellow brookings doha center she says yemenis outside the country and western powers need to speak up if a political solution is to be found her and the war. it's highly unlikely that the battle for her. will draw the war closer to an end and it's because you know supposing that there will be a successful sort of military takeover of data many questions remain what will

happen to other parts of the country you know what will happen to who will run her data what will happen to you know the deep divides among among yemenis i think that you know it's important to recognize that who's these as as a political actor as they were back in two thousand and thirteen fourteen it's crucial as a port for aid. but you know the these have demonstrated in the past that they know how to bounce back and so i i'm skeptical that the battle for his data will be decided as decisive as as the actors say and as we've seen there have been conflicting sort of statements coming for example of the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o apparently with martin griffiths the u.n. special envoy just last month said that they agreed you know to push for the escalation and a political solution but i doubt that this battle for had they would have went ahead without support from the u.s. and u.k. and so on and so there needs to be a unified

a more unified political solution presented by yemenis themselves but also by these international actors who are who have been largely complicit. as a south asian where the un human rights chief has called for an international inquiry into the region of kashmir over alleged violations over the last two years back a smear is divided between india and pakistan but both countries claim it in full. the ripples. in indian administrate kashmir soldier is a combing the area for separatist fighters who they say shot and killed their colleague last week. it's the latest military operation in a dispute that's lasted more than seventy years and twice ended in war. during the last two years the un has investigated allegations of human rights abuses in kashmir and found folds on both sides. of the un human rights chief

ziad rad how hussein says india has used excessive force in response to anti india protests and accuses pakistan of misusing its anti terror legislation to quash dissent now he's calling for an investigation into allegations mass graves have been found in the kashmir valley this report is the first ever issued by the un on the human rights situation in. pakistan administered kashmir details rights violations and abuses on both sides of the line of control and it highlights a situation of chronic impunity for violations committed by security forces. pakistan says it welcomes the un's proposal for an international inquiry into human rights abuses but a spokesman for the indian ministry of external affairs said in a statement india rejects the report it is fallacious tendentious and motivated would question the intent in bringing out such

a report. the un human rights chief says he met with representatives of both governments when there was an increase in violence in july. twenty sixteen that was triggered by the death of rebel leader. neither government agreed to the un's request for unconditional access to kashmir so the un began remote monitoring of the region that ended a few months ago and the final report makes uncomfortable reading for both india and pakistan. victoria gating be algis their. traffic in our tens of thousands of pregnant girls and teenage mothers across the continent are often denied banned and discouraged from going to school human rights watch is calling on governments to urgently impose policies that are students to state in school while they're pregnant and return after giving birth but i'm a german june report from the kenyan capital nairobi. when angela found out she was

pregnant her father said there was no need for her to continue her education but the twenty year old mother from western kenya as mcgorry county says she was determined to stay in school to come to like i would run back home to feed my son during lunch break and then come back to school to study encouraged by her principal and her mother angela didn't quit. these these two men with their two hundred then they grew up in for one lavish not rejected by society other young mothers in the gory county weren't nearly as lucky. i did not go back to school because no one gave me any advice and then when my mother told me there was no more money to pay for my school fees side have to stay in time a report from human rights watch says laws attitudes and cultural values in some african countries can keep pregnant girls and adolescent mothers from continuing their education what we're calling on all the african union governments to do is to adopt reentry policies to ensure that pregnant girls i know that the mothers can go

back to school and i governments to reinforce the fact that girls have a right to education that no school official can discriminate against martinez tells us kenya is among a group of twenty six african countries that does have school reentry policies for young mothers in place but says those policies are not implemented in the same way that often a lot of school officials are not aware of these policies others do accommodate girls in schools out of the goodwill of well but when you talk to them about the policy a lot of our partners and other going to surgeons that actually there is very little awareness according to the report barriers remain in all countries while some countries are making progress human rights watch says there are others like tanzania sierra leone equitorial guinea that still banned pregnant girls in teenage mothers from attending public schools how much improvement does it iraq. to people are being killed in an attack at a mall skin south africa they were stopped by a suspect who was then shot dead by police it happened in spring

a cape town bus with three men carried out a similar attack and been killing one person and seriously injuring two others. from johannesburg. early on thursday morning a man walked into a mosque which is about an hour and a half outside capetown he stabbed and killed two people when the police got to the scene they say the man refused to put down his knife they said the man then tried to attack them so they shot and killed him about a month ago there was another attack at a mosque in durban at the time the police say that crime was linked to elements of extremism but leaders in the muslim community are saying it's still too soon to speculate people mustn't jump to conclusions urging people to stay calm and wait for the police to do the investigations in the meantime they're trying to urge people in the muslim community in and around cape town to stay calm are they trying to also find out why this attack on thursday happened and they also are trying to find ways that how to better improve security at the mosque when people there come for their daily prayers. when wargame charges were overturned against the former

vice president of the democratic republic of congo. it may have changed the complection of the country's upcoming presidential elections now last week an appeals court judge at the hague overturned his conviction for trost atrocities committed by his militiamen sent to the central african republic to stop a coup attempts now the judge said ben could not be held criminally responsible for their crimes and as paul chatterjee in reports that now clears the way for another presidential run. the political future of former vice president john pierre who was just acquitted of war crimes dominates headlines in the democratic republic of congo but for many in neighboring central african republic bemba's acquittal is disheartening. but then the committed crimes killed looted and plundered from this his acquittal is humiliating to us international justice has failed us two years

ago the international criminal court convicted bemba for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by a private army he commanded inside central african republic yeah my feet he was all of your knee my daughter was raped and she tried to flee with me i was horrified the former vice president fought hard to overturn the conviction and earlier this month after examining new evidence the i.c.c. ruled bemba had had limited ability to control his troops and he could not therefore be held criminally liable. bemba should have stayed in jail for the rest of his life we a really disappointed and frustrated by the decision. has always maintained his innocence as he told al jazeera in two thousand and seven i am not of course involve on any of these things. member was also convicted of fraud and will be sentenced next month for influencing witnesses and falsifying evidence during his.

war crimes trial his acquittal and released from detention gives his supporters in the democratic republic of congo hope that he will run in a tentatively scheduled december presidential election bemba was a popular opposition leader and ran an unsuccessful campaign to unseat president joseph kabila in two thousand and six. politically informed people knew there would be a moment when the with. president joseph kabila second term ended in december of two thousand and sixteen and kabila has delayed a new election several times citing a third of violence like of economic resources and voter registration issues. and will be a candidate as you all. members attorney says the former vice president plans to return to brussels to be with his wife and five children and decide what move he makes next. on al-jazeera. and it's time for his efforts and i would said we know

that south asia as we can see behind geno does get well soon rain across the board every year but we specific areas highlighted on that really get hit very badly yeah . this is southwest the monsoon so the general faded. across the buying gold feeding into the land on the other side fast but they tend to get the flooding and that's the case and of course it's a massive relief or some of. terrible rains are talking about disasters once again and there you go there's that long sea track right the way from southern parts of india right across the gold into myanmar into bangladesh and we have yes we have seen some flooding here but huge massive cloud there this is the northeast of india typically this is sort of conditions that we do have more than enough rain coming down in a short period of time we need the rain but when it does come for does it come down heavy and it's a similar picture across the border into bangladesh rifi some very heavy rainfall

here as well and this is because refugee camps and you can see the kind of awful conditions that people are struggling to cope with here very heavy rain there have been landslides floodings rivers have burst their banks in places i'm hopeful over the next couple of days those rains will ease somewhat you can see still a few showers there into the far north east of india and they will be some into me and my bangladesh dry that's friday's picture the saturday hopefully the showers will be fewer and further between we still go that long siege right lots of cloud and rain pushing on to the eastern side of the regime of course with the being a southwest monsoon that means the western gasol says seeing some very heavy rain first flooding downpours they extend all the way out just to the north of mumbai's . thanks very much of it and well still ahead here on the news our condemnation for israel the un general assembly various overwhelmingly to criticize the recent violence along the gaza border also after days of name calling italy and france

settle their disputes with both of them pushing for a new initiatives on immigration and in school proving fans get excited ahead of their country's first world cup appearance in more than thirty years. early. their football fans who don't think about. explaining when real madrid worth five hundred million euros expresses a position on something the world anti-doping agency has to take notice. al-jazeera continues its investigation into the widespread use of performance enhancing drugs in the final episode of sports doping the endless chase. a new series of rewind again bring your people back alive i'm sorry and brand new

updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues. to. use distance rewind continues with australia's lost generation. is a really important issue suicide writes do a mind very high still twice the national average rewind on al-jazeera. watching al-jazeera as newsarama the whole rob welcome back a reminder of our top stories the wait is almost over for millions of football fans will be watching all over the world in two hours time the twenty eight thousand

feet for world cup kicks off in russia the opening match will see the host nation russia takes saudi arabia also the u.s. secretary of state says china has reaffirmed his commitment to sanctions on north korea following the singapore summit between donald trump and kim jong un might pompei is in beijing to discuss the details of tuesday's summit with chinese president xi jinping though he's already met with leaders in japan and south korea argentina's congress has voted to allow abortion in the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy the bill will now face a vote in the senate hundreds of people gathered in buenos aires while the session was taking place let's stay with that story and join our correspondent treason who is on the line now from buenos aires a truly historic decision to reserve. well most definitely want to hear right if you want of conference that is guided not that we don't want those who have read of posting this know that. can be facing

a long long hours of debate went to three hours we're going to stand and went back to express our view on abortion and on whether to go to equalise and then they drew a vase and people started to spend its way and say women's fight who say that it was fine for. this type of law if you keep in or if you decided that she made it that i don't have some billion yen for instance have been every hearing are good enough thousands of women are hospitalized and if it's anything to that effect because women who can afford it go to private places safe places to have an abortion but those head off and places that don't identical you don't need to have it there and that's why it doesn't rise and that's great outside right now saying that it was i know what they're saying is also that there is not for or against the force on its own whether i'm going to speak on the side of already dozens of post

accident or whether you think you know how was this debate so to oversee and across society young and old men and women those deeply devout in the catholic faith those that were more liberal how divisive force it. well it would be larry be alive if you were now if you got out of what had happened if you credible in a way because if you would have to be on the go that it's always going to be happy in congress if. you think of what happened is basically what people are repaired it really is that young people started expressing that i'll take over this creek that i don't like it and you know what's happening in are you talking about this land of fine abortion that have been happening is that we think that this is a matter of public not about the war or against the forces that i think that we

should be loved in the country but it's actually not divisive in like what we have been right now it's only been at the front just people at the front line along for the moment to call streets or we'll leave it there of course and get more on you in reaction from argentina throughout the day thanks so much there are concerns that germany's governing coalition government could be at risk of collapse over the country's immigration policies now the coalition was formed only four months ago chancellor angela merkel has reportedly been unable to complete an immigration agreement after several hours with talks with her interior minister who leads one of the smaller groupings in that coalition well let's try and pick what's going on with dominic cain our correspondent in berlin what seems to cause this row between you might say two historically close allies you think after such a long time of trying to form a government they would try and keep it together if they could. there you would think so wouldn't you say that's that's certainly the view that someone looking in

from outside would say the point here the central issue between these two historical allies is what to do with people who've come to germany and claimed asylum or are claiming asylum here but who originally registered themselves as refugees or asylum seekers in an other e.u. country it's they called the dublin three people the point here is what should be done with them the reason this matters is because if you'll recall viewers will recall in the summer of twenty fifteen angela merkel saw the numbers of people on germany's borders claiming refugee claiming refuge and she decided to open the borders as it were to encourage people to come to this country saying germany can deal with it via shafran does the german word she used but that caused many many people to come to germany many of them arrived in germany through bavaria and so it's the bavarian party here the christian social union that's now saying in the form of the interior minister the federal interior minister horst there for the whole faith he says that germany should go back to that sort of dublin rule that

idea that people who register in another country should be sent back to vatican country and should continue their process of claiming asylum their anglo american side of things christian democrat party and indeed the social democrat party who are the other main party in the grand coalition when they say no they say that there should be no immediate change no immediate return to those rules and that it should go and that there should be a much slower process there is some sort of compromise solution that there which would see no nothing really changing for a year or so but no agreement on that right now all double if you have a potential coalition that could collapse politicians at a very nervous are we then heading dare i say it to a general election in germany pending. well the thing to say here is one of the elder statesmen of the c.s.u. the christian social union a man mr pfleger the cans pitifully they said well there's no imminent threat of us

pulling out of the coalition right now trying to calm people down but the point here is that the senior leadership of the christian social union are all saying we stand behind mr of and his plan we think that this issue is the most central issue facing germany right now well how do you square that point of view with the point of view of the other elements in the government of and of america's party and of the social democrat party because neither of those two wants to return right now to the situation that there was before the borders were opened up in twenty fifteen so although people are as it were marching up to the brink of the precipice at the moment it appears as though they're looking over and think it will actually maybe we should hang back a bit there is a meeting of the leadership of the christian socially in taking place in munich next week on monday and clearly will be monitoring what happens there because that might indicate to us the next step in this whole this whole episode that's playing

out here right now of course we have you to monitor events for established and we'll come back to of course that situation develops thank you. well you tell your prime minister and the french president have agreed on the need for new initiatives on immigration in the e.u. the two leaders also to meet on friday to deal with an escalating diplomatic dispute italy is demanding an apology from friends for criticizing rooms decision to turn away six hundred refugees and migrants earlier this week another vessel has been forced to head towards spain the touchy butler has more from the french capital. where the french aren't using the word apology but what we know is that the elisei put out a statement saying that the french president a man or mark or spoke to the italian prime minister giuseppe conti on wednesday evening and in that statement it says that mark or told conti that he didn't mean his words to offend the italian people or it's only now it seems like an apology even if the french are not using that is certainly

a conciliatory tone but there is no doubt that french officials will be quite relieved that tensions will become somewhat ever since emanuel mark hasse sparked a diplomatic route on tuesday because he said then that the italian government had acted irresponsibly and cynically in its blocking of the aquarius boat now that seem to put france on the moral high ground that in florida eighty eight italian officials were quick to point out that france has not volunteered to take in that boat that is in fact fallen to spain and also the italian interior minister met a.s.l. vini lashed out at emmanuel michael saying that france has not done enough to help with the burden of the a number of migrants arriving in the e.u. it has not shared the burden with italy it's not taken in the thousands of migrants that it promised to take in and salvini had said that unless a man or mark or apologize and maybe the italian prime minister would not come to this meeting where we know now that meeting is going ahead and i think at least for now it seems that tensions have been calmed on both sides. now thousands of

messages on ian's are showing their support for their president after he said he'd block a deal with greece on changing the country's name. good day even off since the deal violates the constitution the issue could also lead to a non no confidence vote in greece for the government of prime minister alexis tsipras the dispute between the two neighbors has been an obstacle to macedonia joining nato and the european union john psaropoulos has the latest from athens. the conservative opposition leader in athens has called this a bad agreement he believes that accepting the macedonian language in the master and ethnicity are simply not acceptable national concessions that is what he said in a statement after the agreement was outlined by the prime minister he believes also that the government doesn't have the political legitimacy to conclude this agreement internationally because it is not supported by the government's junior

coalition partner or without that partner the government doesn't have a majority in parliament over in school the president has said he would not sign this agreement if parliament passed it and sent it to his office for counter signature but that is not the intention of prime ministers or in servo macedonia what he has said he intends to do is put the agreement to a referendum by the people if that is successful he would then ask parliament to make necessary constitutional amendments which would accommodate the agreement therefore the president would no longer have any constitutional grounds for rejecting it. the un general assembly has passed a non-binding resolution condemning israel over the recent violence on its border with gaza it's now mandated the secretary general to explore the possibility of an international protection force for palestinians israeli forces have killed at least one hundred twenty nine palestinians over the past ten weeks as the occupation

intensifies in its brutality witnessed every single day in the oppression intimidation and humiliation of palestinian men women and children by the israeli occupying forces and extremist settlers and as the dangerous political impasse persists the need to protect our people under this occupation remains urgent and unquestionably the draft of a u.n. report says a key target on climate change sat in the paris agreement will not be met unless rapid and far reaching changes are made in the world economy otherwise human induced global warming will increase by more than one point five degrees celsius by twenty forty that's according to the intergovernmental panel on climate change report issued by the reuters news agency the final version is due for official

publication in october. said to the united kingdom where rolls royce has announced it will cut another four thousand six hundred jobs mostly in britain and in its latest effort to save money the british engine maker expects the cuts to free up more than five hundred million dollars a year by the end of twenty twenty now it's a tricky time for rolls royce it's been having problems with the jet engines it makes for the boeing seventy seven dreamliner now this is forced planes to be grounded for inspections angering many international airlines five thousand jobs were previously slashed after a series of profit warnings in twenty fourteen now paul brennan has more from the rolls royce offices in london. in some ways this is a natural progression from january's restructuring announcement in which the chief executive warren east said he was changing rolls royce from five distinct business units down to three and the job losses that he is expecting to make over the next two years reflect the cutting of middle management he says it's necessary to

provide a more streamlined and more efficient rolls royce and to remove the kind of duplication the other thing is a potential casualty could be the building behind me which is rolls royces corporate headquarters in central london warren east wants to do is devolve a lot of the decision making powers out to those three new business units and potentially move from this headquarters to a smaller more cost effective headquarters somewhere in north london and as far as the reaction goes well the city reaction has been quite positive rolls royce shares bounced ninety three percent up on the news of the restructuring the unions though they're concerned they are worried that the cuts when they come may be too deep and that's expertise may be lost but that said they are reassured by a deal that was done last june. a deal with rolls royce that said there would be no engineering job losses and that promise was made by warren east in his statement to

shareholders today he said there would be no compulsory redundancies among the unionized staff. the us media company comcast which owns the n.b.c. television network and the universal film brand has been sixty five billion dollars to buy twenty first century fox now this supper showdown with walt disney which already has its own multibillion dollar bid for the same assets the move from coal gas comes just one day after a judge it cleared a t n t's takeover of time warner while john hendren a small. comcast is offering sixty five billion dollars for the movie and television assets of twenty first century fox that outbids disney which had previously offered fifty two billion dollars at stake are the global television channels such as national geographic. satellite television networks sky in europe star in india and the hulu streaming service which is number three after amazon and netflix why is this all happening now because a day earlier on tuesday u.s.

judge ruled it could go ahead with its eighty five billion dollars bid for time warner the trump administration had objected on grounds saying it was too much media in one set of hands but a judge overruled that saying it could go ahead that seems to have begun to set off merger mania media companies want to go vertical they want to marry content with distribution that's a model created by amazon and netflix which started out doing distribution and then created their own content that's a model everybody is now competing with so what could happen now well comcast could simply win with its bid disney could make a counteroffer and win or the two companies could split the assets of time warner the time warner board will meet on june twentieth to consider the offers. well still ahead here. the. prediction.

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well it's time for sports and it's just welcome us to isn't it absolutely is how we all can't wait the wait is oh my start of a very in just over an hour the two thousand eight hundred fifty four world cup kicks off with hosts russia taking on saudi arabia in the opening game all sports correspondent lee wellings is in moscow and joins us now live from the russian

capital leave the atmosphere is of course building but russia has had its problems with fan behavior in the past how organizers making sure that they don't have trouble from them at this well cup. yes well washing her has been a problem for many years and one of the concerns against this. political concerns as well as we actually get to the time when there's going to be big groups of people around stadiums and around city center it's something that i've needed to look very closely at but it fits in nothing to a bigger picture here of vladimir putin down russia making sure that this is a clean. up that it presents a good picture of russia so even the slightest hint of trouble whether it's the russian. who wants to come and try and. crack down on that it's been very much the narrative if the last couple of weeks with the warnings going out don't come anywhere near the stadium we don't want you here i we well lots and i think you'll

find it a rest will be made before we're even in a position of anybody causing trouble so this is something that's going to probably help a situation for the world cup to be able to focus on the football so well we hope that the fans. swell up looking out the page and what's going to happen later on russia and saudi arabia are the two. teams at this tournament one of the expecting from this opening game. this in terms of the call it could have been a lot better than this one but i think as a side because it's always important not just in football but any big sporting event and the well. russia will need to have a good cup for the people here they're so excited about as one is proud of having a wild card here i really want this russian team to perform but it's not a strong washing by the lowest of the other that's needs the fabric i think that.

you could argue that saudi arabia. i do think russia should have more should be i was with the saudi arabia. i remember them out she being very good for a wall in the ninety four world cup in the united states not the last time i want to. be expected to stay very well here and i do think this presents a really good opportunity for russia to qualify possibly a little you require and with the knockout stages in egypt chances are largely depends on whether marseilles fail all right so that can kicks off in just sorry for an hour from now and every well there is a surprise package. we'll be watching out for. who could win the world cup could be one of the thirty two teams were not really i would say you're looking at. that they. have a chance of winning this world cup the having whites. you have to look at brazil.

as being a real power. struggle piper and. literally on the pitch you do look at argentina as well germany obviously have the trophies that is to defend the disruption with the spiky manager situation and that's why the. market is completely on the spine. how things over there why in the group move on iran i wonder if mobile could just. now i've said it will be a. i'm going to write down your prediction now. thanks very much to come back to you later. well russia and fadi arabia are in green bay at this side you are quiet and egypt speeches time it takes a closer look at the teams in group a. group is made up of hosts russia egypt saudi arabia and euro boy russia will make the eleventh world cup appear in seven of

those whereas the soviet union including in one thousand nine hundred sixty six when they finished fourth saudi arabia preparing for their first world cup appearance since two thousand and six at that point they competed in four successive world cups and in one thousand nine hundred four they reached the last sixteen egypt have won a record seven african titles but they're making just the food appearance at a world cup is this performer he's called seventy one percent of the goals in qualification although the team asked waiting over his fitness and the last member of group a is europe why they are the smallest country by population to have ever won the world cup which they've done twice the last time was back in nineteen fifty while russian fans will be concentrating on the opening game spanish supporters will be waiting to hear from their team's new coach as they prepare to take on portugal on friday fernando hierro will hold his first news conference in the next few hours the former spanish international took over from the u.n.

to take the who was sacked on wednesday after being appointed as real madrid's new manager yetto played at four world cups and has coached for just a year at second division level. fans improve also been getting excited as their team prepares to take part in the world cup after a long break peruvian fans celebrate in the red square in central moscow as their national team make their first appearance in six years at this tournament reached the quarter finals of the competition in one nine hundred seventy they kick off their campaign against denmark on saturday well cup fever is everywhere not least in the united states where which it was announced on thursday will host the twenty twenty six tournament alongside canada and mexico and the u.s. got into the spirit as new york's empire state building was lit up to celebrate the start of this year's tournament rotating the colors of all thirty two countries taking part. now in two thousand and ten an octopus in a german suit gained fame for correctly predicting the winners of the world cup by

eating out of one of two glass jars they have been many psychic animals since then but now the russian world cup has its own official oracle the cat out of the bag he's called achilles and lives in some petersburg hermitage museum basement alongside up to seventy other rats catches the feline say been plucked from the basement and thrust into the spotlight off to correctly predicting three or four much is at the confederations cup last year his handlers say he's deaf which helps him concentrate and at a press conference he predicted that russia would win the opening match over saudi arabia we'll see if it's perfect prediction in just a few hours from now. all right that is all useful for now i'll have more for you later say oh i can't wait for more puns over the next story if you watch the news that would be so rob i'm back with more news on the other side of the break from the other news our team thanks very much retired general.

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