this is zero. this is the news hour live from london coming up. football fever grips russia as the world cup kicks off in moscow with a five nil russian win over saudi arabia. new york suze donald trump three of his children and his foundation saying it was illegally used as his personal checkbook. saudi led forces push on with their offensive to capture the yemeni portico data as the u.n. meet to discuss the fighting class. to the nation as argentina's lower house approves

a bill to legalize abortion after debating through the night. the football world cup has got off to the perfect start for host nation russia and its president vladimir putin with a five nil victory over saudi arabia in moscow geopolitics were front and center match with saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon as putin's style guest they watched the game along side fifa president john ian frontino. this was the reaction when russia's europe is in ski school the first goal of the twenty eighteen world cup. the margin of victory is a welcome surprise for team widely expected to struggle russia and saudi arabia are actually the two lowest right sides in the tournament. earlier they've been kicked

off with an opening ceremony in moscow's mission escape the stadium with robbie williams headlining in front of president putin western leaders stayed away from the ceremony. my speech was sportscars partly welling's in moscow me after all the controversy if it is a football violence torment seems to got off to a good start. and very good atmosphere around this tournament was to win a month of it pains you can happen in the time but in the policy you dies with people coming in from the russians around the world to cheer on that it's a very different russia from the one that they were fairing in from the negativity that is on the stand to be surrounded the build up to this total for many years the fear is what everywhere whether it's the who think it isn't that we've seen in washington football the face of prices and high profile the politics and russia the international relations because so many critics of president who say that so much

about russia the people coming into this tournament but wondering should it be played here and of course that's not how the public has see into told i want to have a party with the people of the coming in from the various nations they want to project themselves in a positive image they want to show that this is about russian people it's not about government it's not about policies it's not about politics it's about them on a woman on the street they just want to enjoy a huge a bed at least in this country remember for the very first time and russia got off to a good start on the pitch as well how important is that to the host nation. is the credibly good stall wasn't it if we had won the opening match by let's go and so now like in saudi arabia that would have been good enough for the people here to begin to sort of start to give them a chance of progressing a good chance of progressing to the knockout stages is always important for a high station to do well the build up will momentum going to really get out the sphere around the tournament for from the heights to win five now for it saying

that he's literally running the largest of the seat without was standing you've seen the saints people euphoric up out so surprised as i read our expectations from this team in fact people still need some. that get out of this group well that certainly sends out a good side everything worked for them on the pitch that's the case really whoever it is in basra whether it's the public or is the government a successful to live in. the free world anyway thank you very much indeed. for off the pitch prominent british gay rights activist peter tatchell has been arrested then released after taking part in what russian police described as an illegal protest in moscow a russian opposition leader and explain iran is also just been freed after thirty days behind bars for holding an unsanctioned protest as he left he said the prison where he was detained appears to have had a facelift to make it will comfortable for foreign football fans arrested during

the tournament. the new york attorney general is suing president don't three of his children and that charitable foundation for allegedly violating state's charity no but you put eight million dollars lawsuit alleges the trump foundation engaged in extensive and coordination with trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign as well as sell stealing for trump's personal benefit trump went on twitter to dismiss the case as politically motivated everyone is on to has more from new york. the new york attorney general accuses the trump foundation of persistent illegal conduct and it relates to the donald trump foundation which was started in one thousand nine hundred seven by donald trump and it's a charitable organization that's tax exempt because of that there are certain laws that it has to abide by and one of those key laws is that none of the money that goes to the charitable organization can be used by any personal means in any way

shape or form however the new york attorney general said that is exactly what the donald trump foundation did and they said that they used money from the foundation to among other things pay off trump legal bills also to decorate one of his golf course properties and also they say to use some money that went to his presidential campaign and they point to an event in two thousand and sixteen it was a trump bent in iowa where it was billed as a fundraiser for military veterans that raised about six million dollars at that event the new york attorney general says only about three million of that went to the charitable cause the other three million was diverted away and used by the trump campaign and that according to the new york attorney general is highly illegal now why are trump's three oldest children also named in this and that's

because all of them served on the trump foundation board of directors now the attorney. general is asking that the trump foundation be dissolved the trump pay back about two point eight million dollars in restitution and that trump can no longer open a charitable organization or foundation for at least another ten years important to point out that this is a civil lawsuit not criminal so the worst that could happen to trump and his children is that they would have to pay restitution there's nothing beyond that now donald trump himself tweeted out a response to this he calls the accusations completely ridiculous and he says that he will fight this case indicating that he will take this to court also insinuating his tweets that this is nothing more than politically motivated. an investigation by the u.s. department of justice has found that x. f.b.i. director james comey dramatically brut norms but wasn't biased in his handling of the hillary clinton e-mail probe and a special report examines the actions taken by top f.b.i.

and justice department officials before the twenty sixteen presidential election in found courage decisions negatively impacted the perception of the f.b.i. as fair ministrations of justice white house correspondent committee how could one . there's a wide ranging report by the inspector general seventeen months in the making it walks through the key moments in that investigation and the handling by the former f.b.i. director james comey into the use of a private e-mail server by hillary clinton the democratic presidential nominee when she was the secretary of state in the obama administration the report expected to be highly politicized even though this is a nonpartisan review likely to be just the opposite given the contentious nature of the election and the divided american electorate it does conclude that james komi as f.b.i. director deviated from the protocols harm the reputation of institution but that he

was not politically biased or motivated in any way while conducting that investigation this is a point that is likely to be disputed by many of donald trump's supporters and even the president himself given he has repeatedly had led to the investigation the handling by james komi was rigged in clinton's favor despite the fact that donald trump when the white house. a saudi that coalition fighting to oust hooty rebels in yemen has captured a town south of the strategic port of her data after intense fighting. it's the second day of the coalition's campaign to take her data saudi arabia and the u.a.e. accuse the share has the rebels of using the port to smuggle weapons from iran and north several airstrikes against rebel positions in the city but it allies on yemen's red sea coast and is the port through which seventy percent of the country's food supply enters international aid groups appealed to the saudi led

coalition not to attack the city fair or heightening yemen's humanitarian crisis the u.a.e. insists aid will be delivered soon as the city is captured we have the same apply. they did when we liberated adam adam is more population populated than the data. everything went very well and even our ships just see witting so we have a fright we have very we're very we'll organized and we are ready to do. every assistance for good you know to nation security council has called the port to be kept open despite the fighting at a closed door session in new york it also reiterated that only a political solution could end the conflict in yemen michaela has more. this was the second closed door consultation held this week and ended in

a similar fashion to the last one a brief statement saying that the council was united in its concern over the crisis calling on all parties to ensure that the port of the data in particular was kept open and stressing that the only solution to this crisis is a political one the council will meet once again for further discussions on monday where once again the special envoy martin griffith will report back he is continuing with this efforts to broker a truce between the warring parties some members of the council apparently insistent on to clearing a three in the ongoing military engagement but clearly not enough agreement within the council to go public with this particular demand at this point the trump administration has released more than six and a half million dollars in aid for organizations in syria including the white helmets rescue group and israel and jordan explains washington is

a fraction of what washington initially promised. on thursday the trumpet ministration announced that it would be dispersing six point six million dollars to the syrian white helmets those are the volunteers who have been trying to provide emergency medical care to the people caught in the cross-fire of the little seven year old syrian civil war this money is going to be just first legally to accounts that the white helmets can access so that they can buy emergency medical equipment and supplies however this is a far cry from the two hundred million dollars which the u.s. had pledged to provide to emergency relief groups earlier this year just before he was fired as secretary of state rex tillerson made the two hundred million dollar pledge any funding conference for the syrian people however the trumpet ministration shortly thereafter said that as part of its strategy to not be as

involved in syria as it has been in the past that it was going to freeze that two hundred million dollars pledge the six point six million announced on thursday is less than three percent of that figure on thursday as it happens the u.n. special envoy for syria stefan dema stora indicated that he would soon be meeting with officials from a number of countries including the us in order to talk about the way to try to resolve the civil war through peace talks he did not however talk about the emergency funding going to the white helmets but one point that demo store did make to reporters in geneva on thursday is that he's not optimistic that a peaceful solution can be found quickly but that he said that after four years of being in the job he feels a compulsion to try to make peace possible for the syrian people. still to come this news out of hungary in court sentences for people to twenty five years in

prison for letting seventy one man women and children suffocate inside a refrigerated truck. leave behind a new campaign in kenya to help keep girls in school after they become mothers. and spain is new coach hopes to save his country's world cup preparations for a showdown with portugal that's coming up with. a quarter hungriest sentence for men to twenty five years in prison for human trafficking the group an afghan. well found responsible for the deaths of seventy one refugees who suffocated in a truck in twenty fifteen reports. the ringleaders were brought into court for sentencing flanked by armed police wearing masks at the

heights of europe's twenty fifteen refugee crisis the gang smuggled more than a thousand refugees into austria in just six months using fifteen different trucks and lorries migrants are being charged as much as seven hundred dollars a person but the oldest smuggling run was in a refrigerator truck a vehicle designed to be tight on the seventy one men women and children from syria iraq and afghanistan trapped inside quickly ran out of oxygen i started to send me a quantity to the us the people who saw it would seem suffering and as time passed we realized that i may suffocate to death so they banged on the doors screamed and shouted trying to signal to the driver was running out people inside realized that they would suffocate and die inside. the gangs driver abandoned the lorry beside the a four highway and when austrian police open the doors they found the corpses piled on top of each other investigations showed they'd been dead for two days. the

gang leader was an afghan national named sam salon who charged with aggravated murder the gang said they weren't aware that the refugees were dying the police telephone intercepts showed that when the driver had raised concerns who had ordered him not to open the doors let them die instead that's an order he was recorded as saying. the deaths became a tipping point in the twenty fifteen refugee crisis it's believed to have led directly to angle america's announcement the germany would welcome migrants eventually allowing in more than a million mainly syrian refugees the prosecutor accuse law who of endless greed and frightening indifference to the suffering of the seventy one who died the men's defense lawyers say they'll appeal the prosecutor is also appealing to try to have the twenty five year jail term increased paul brennan al-jazeera. issue of immigration is causing a major split in germany between i'm going to marcos christian democrats and their bavarian sister party the christian socialist union interior minister hoare say for

whoever wants to turn people away at the border if they've already made asylum claims elsewhere in europe something that chancellor merkel rejects want to cain has more from berlin. the row over what to do with people who come to germany claiming refugee status who had already done so initially in the first e.u. country in which they made landfall has really blown up in the course of thursday the issue has been one that has dogged the the formation of a grand coalition government and now the various allies of angela merkel the christian social union is putting its foot down its leader it's the minister federal interior minister says the horse is in a hole for who is affectively the leader of the party on a national level federally anyway has said he wants to go back to the conditions that prevailed in twenty fifteen before anglo-american open the borders to people with that famous phrase version of and us germany can do it i'm going to merkel disagrees very considerably she says no there this should be no return to that

status immediately that it should be there should be some sort of compromise solution her partners the social democrats will they agree they do not want to see germany go back to those those scenes of the summer of twenty fifteen the point here is that the coalition that exists right now has a smallish majority if there were a real problem between the bavarian party and angela merkel's party that could spell real trouble but the point also to make is that it's as if the main parties have marched up to the edge of a precipice in the course of today looked over the side of the precipice and thought well actually let's stand back from that the next step here will be what the leadership of the c.s.u. decides and we'll know that in munich on monday. spain's new interior minister says he'll do everything possible to get rid of barbed wire fences which separate the spanish territories in north africa from morocco and on the ground in moscow says he wants to reduce injuries to people trying to cross the border to get into the

e.u. the spanish red cross says twenty five people to be treated so far this year the cuts from the barbed wire around seem to. me want to ship which rescued six hundred twenty nine refugees of libya at the weekend but was turned away by italy is now expected to arrive in spain on sunday that's after bad weather and rough seas forced it to take a detour equerry is scattered along the eastern coast of sardinia to seek shelter from the storm aid workers on board say the long journey is proving a big challenge for the exhausted passengers. last night we had another down from really hard moments when the bad weather starting through to become really bad with a lot of wind. and big waves. and people were seasick vomiting and that's where they were scared because of the north of the women the motion of the ship so we decided to bring everybody inside. a senior journalist has been shot dead in

srinagar the capital of indian administered kashmir reports suggest should jet blue car he was repeatedly shot at close range on known attackers outside his office two of his security guards were also critically injured who carry was the editor of rise in kashmir and organize several conferences for peace in the kashmir valley the territory is divided between india and pakistan but is claimed by both. india has rejected a united nations report which accuses it of using excessive force in kashmir to kill and wound civilians since twenty sixteen the un human rights chief is calling for a major international investigation into alleged abuses carried out by both sides. reports. in indian administrate kashmiris soldiers 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 fault on both sides. of the un human rights chief ziad rod 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 issued by the un on the human rights situation. pakistan administered kashmir. 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 bought 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 twentieth. sixty 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. big tory gating be out there. argentina's congress as narey voted in favor of legalizing abortion in the country's first ever vote on

a highly divisive issue the bill must now pass in the senate before it becomes law at the moment abortion is only allowed in cases of rape or if the mother's life is in danger to risible reports from what is arias. the national anthem to celebrate a historic vote emotion was high among those who wanted to legalize abortion in argentina. i can't stop crying because we are together this is a fight there are so many emotions we know that a lot of things are missing but we are still moving forward we have worked so hard we are being ignored for so long and today we are making history. the debate lasted for twenty three hours and the vote was a very close especially when two congressmen changed sides and decided to support the law for months women here wearing green bandanas have been taking to the streets to change a law that affects this country's most vulnerable thousands of women are hospitalized every year because of complications with illegal abortions most of

them are poor in the last decade argentina have half of everything from threatening reforms like gay marriage but abortion was at the table until now when the fighting started to change especially women and young people took to the streets demanding change. opposing the law is the catholic church issued a statement saying the results in congress were upsetting and they did not solve the real problems poor women face today. the country is not ready for them but if. there are a lot of steps that should be taken prior to passing this law a lot of education needs to happen people have to know that if you do something there are consequences and one of those is getting pregnant a consequence. the opposition as well as allies of precedent were divided on the issue. has encouraged his party members to vote as they see feet even though he's personally opposed the proposal. he has been campaigning to change the law for

years she says that the most difficult part is yet to come in the senate he's quite quite difficult to see for and he's not received here in the current day that they put his time there in the senate time or he's going to be most difficult the numbers tire i really really bad i did moment but where we are we're doing these like step by step a green revolution has taken over large sectors of argentina society they have managed to convince lawmakers that legalizing abortion is a matter of public health that urgently needs to be addressed and they decide well when a site is. joining us now live from washington this tamara tourists brought to see america's researcher for human rights watch thanks very much for being with us so was it a surprise to you that the bill made it through the first stage in congress it was not a surprise it was very tight but this is part of an ongoing democratic debate that

happened in argentina on the streets in congress and in the media there were a lot of passionate debate going on and this led to a strong division in congress but in the end you know the bill was approved and how likely is it to to make it through the senate. it's very difficult and. it's impossible to know exactly what will happen but this was quite a surprise you know for all of us involved maternal mortality main cause in argentina is abortion according to official statistics so this has become my debate that's not about feminists taken an issue to congress it's an issue of concern for a lot of people in society and that will remain on the agenda as this bill goes to the senate so you mention the health of to me what do women do if they want an abortion in argentina do they try to travel abroad or do they may need illegal

abortions kind of locally what what's the situation. the criminalization of abortion doesn't stop women from having abortions it just forces them to have a legal and unsafe abortions that puts their lives and their health at risk and the vats why this is not a practice that helps women in fact it undermines the most basic women's rights including the ready to have the right to life and the right not to be subject to cruel and inhuman treatment if this does pass in argentina watch the effect going to be more generally in south america. there is a global trend two words to criminalizing abortion since two thousand around twenty eight countries have adopted laws reforming abortion laws and they were all progressively protecting rights except for a new get out in the region we still have countries that completely ban abortion

but there are a few exceptions like in mexico city or europe where abortion is allowed during the first one weeks in chief which is a very conservative country last year congress approved a bill that allowed abortion in certain circumstances it's going away from its complete ban on abortion that's why this decision in argentina could be historic not only for. tina but also for the region showing that leading countries are moving towards this global trend tell us more about the role of the president in this how you think he's handled the debate and what's happened in argentina. he's been extremely democratic he's openly opposed to abortion but he did say in his state of the union in march that he wanted this debate has been in congress and that he would respect the outcome of congress he would not need to go any lower even though he opposes abortion from a personal perspective and i think that is extremely important because we can all

disagree from an ethical and religious orders biologic perspective when life starts but what the law as it stands today does is impose one view over the other what we need to do in this is what is pushing the drive for legalizing abortion in argentina is allow women to decide if they want to have an abortion or not and the truth is that legalizing abortion according to evidence in other countries does not lead to more abortions it just leads to say for abortions to monitor suit bernal thank you very much indeed for your support and social pressure your time. thank you for having me daryn. police and prosecutors in chile have raided offices and seized documents of the roman catholic church as part of an investigation into a growing sex abuse and cover up scandal the raids on wednesday were in two cities in the capital santiago and run kaggwa where fourteen priests are accused of having sexual relations with minors they happened hours before two vatican envoys met

chilean prosecutors to coordinate their response to that scandal which last month led to more than thirty of chile's active bishops offering to resign. nicaragua is holding a nationwide strike because protesters ramp up their campaign to force president daniel ortega and his wife who's the vice president out of office if those two months of violence which was originally sparked by plans to reform pensions the move was abolished by the government to help pacify protesters but demonstrators then turned on the president ortega launched a crackdown on mass protests as human rights activists say has left one hundred fifty people dead. still to come here. acquitted of war crimes could form a democratic republic of congo vice president. a factor in this year's election. the u.n. issues its bleakest warning yet about the risk of climate change poses to the

planet to. bring a new way to play egypt updates its families on fitness stop them etc as they prepare for that opening game at the wrong stop on. we should see something of an improvement in the weather across western parts of europe as we go on through the next couple days the loss of showers around italy in the balkans some lively downpours continuing here further west it's been very wet and windy there are say autumnal across the british isles over the last twenty four hours we'll say things and improve as we go on through the next couple days but still quite breezy southwestern parts of france well here we've had some very heavy rain really over the past week or so the right has been coming down for good parts of france this was the scene into the southwest corner of the country to see some very high water as things will dry up it will brighten up please to say as we go on

through the next few days so we are going to see more the way of sunshine less in the way of cloud and still some cloud into the front study so it's just awful madrid fine a dry twenty celsius there for london still on the breezy side there for more than holland and scotland tonight meanwhile they will continue around southern parts of the balkans maybe even down into greece as we go through friday fun and dry for moscow with the next couple of days still speckling a showers down towards the southeastern corner of europe by friday generally fine enjoy the towards the west the stewpot rather wet and windy across the northwest and co-author some parts of africa looking pretty good twenty five. from the tropics of southeast asia to the feral islands in the far north atlantic. meets the women who cross the world for love and stage to change

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one of the top stories. russia have kicked off the twenty eighteen world cup in style defeating saudi arabia five nil in the tournament's opening match. new york attorney general his father two point eight million dollars lawsuit against president donald trump three of his children and that charitable foundation for allegedly violating state charity nor. the saudi led coalition fighting to oust with the rebels in yemen has captured a town south of the strategic port of the data after intense fighting on the second day of its offensives. european union member countries of unanimously back to plan to impose import duties on u.s. products and we will talk that goods worth three point three billion dollars and is in response to u.s. tariffs on steel and other minion the measures are expected to come into effect by

late june or early july. the engineering firm rolls royces announced it will cut four thousand six hundred jobs over the next two years two thirds of the job cuts will be in britain and will mainly affect managerial and administrative roles the british company says it will try to refocus its business on civil aerospace defense and power systems. britain is marking the first anniversary of a tower block fire that killed seventy two people the remains of grenfell tower lit up green overnight along with the prime minister's residence and other london landmarks a moment of silence was held across the country lasting seventy two seconds in recognition of the seventy two victims. two people have been killed at a mosque in south africa's western cape region they were stabbed by a suspect who was then shot dead by police hermite us are reports from the scene of the attack. police have cordoned off some parts of the mosque with this yellow tape

while they carry on their investigations they say that. it's unclear why the attack happened but people who live in this area say they are shocked it's a small farming community and they still can't believe what happened people who were inside the mosque in the attack happened on thursday say that a man who is believed to be in his thirty's came to the mosque they felt that he was a foreigner not from the area because his accent was different he claimed he wanted someone to sleep for the night because they know where else to go they say they couldn't turn him away to the little men they slip for a few hours and then they say that around three am local time on thursday he woke up and stabbed and killed two people when the police got to the scene the police said the man refused to drop his knife and they say the man started to attack them that's why they had to shoot and kill him it's a situation that has caused a lot of concern the muslim community in durban about

a month ago another mosque was attacked the police say that in that incident they think it was a case linked to extremism the muslim community the leaders than was the community asking people not to rush to speculate they say leave the police to do investigations and asking people to stay calm right now they're talking to various people in the community trying to find out what is going on trying to find out why the attack happened and also trying to find out how to secure the mosque for people who are coming to do prayers from now on to make sure that they are safe tens of thousands of pregnant girls and teenage mothers across africa often banned or discouraged from going to school human rights watch is calling on governments to impose policies urgently that allow students to stay in school while they're pregnant and return after giving birth raman reports from 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's mcgorry

county says she was determined to stay in school come down i think i would run back home to feed my son during the lunch break and then come back to school to study encouraged by her principal and her mother angela didn't quit. these these two hundred two hundred then they grew up in for one levy not rejected by society other young mothers in the gory county weren't nearly as lucky used 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 a 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 the girls i know that's the mothers can go back to school and the governments will reinforce the fact that girls have

a right to education that you know a school official can discriminate against martinez tells us kinney a 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 a good wheel well but when you talk to them about a 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 enjoyment is it iraq. zimbabwe is officially opened the presidential nomination process in the first national elections in the post mugabe era the voters expect. to take place on july the search president. registrant on thursday is the ruling zanu p.f.

party's candidate for president robert mugabe was ousted during a military takeover last november after almost forty years in power. belgium's government says it's prepared to allow a former democratic republic of congo vice president to live with his family in belgium following his acquittal on war crimes charges the international criminal court has now launched a one point one eight million dollars fund for the victims. for militia for tradition has more. the political future of former vice president john. who's 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. to be then both committed crimes killed looted implemented from this his acquittal is humiliating to us international justice has failed us two years ago the international criminal court convicted for war crimes and crimes against

humanity committed by a private army he commanded inside central african republic yeah my feet. my daughter was raped as 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 of course involved in the of these things. member was also convicted of fraud and will be sentenced next month for influencing witnesses and fossil. 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 and. politically informed people knew there would be a moment when they with voted six could be. 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 that will come back and will be a candidate as you all. of them as 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 gen al jazeera. he says sanctions against north korea won't be lifted until it has completely denuclearized might compare is

on a diplomatic tour to brief america's asian allies on tuesday a summit between. his comments appear to contradict north korea's view that the process would be phased and reciprocal far sneery has more from beijing. the last stop on u.s. secretary of state might prompt payors asian tour following the summit in singapore it's here in beijing he met chinese president xi jinping where he told him how important it was for him and us president donald trump that from peo is here to personally speak to him about what has been achieved in singapore as well as what the parties hope to achieve in the weeks and months ahead so this visit to china underscoring china's role and how the u.s. sees china playing a role when it comes to denuclearize ation of the korean peninsula but my pompei as visit to beijing is likely also to highlight and address important issues and that is the issue of sanctions the chinese foreign ministry had said two days ago and

this is just a couple of hours after the meeting between trump and kim took place that perhaps it was time to consider the sanctions we need for north korea because the sanctions are written in such a way that they may be adjusted depending on how north korea implements our polls the u.n. resolutions take a listen to how differently the two men on said the same question on sanctions and china's role in enforcing those sanctions china has reaffirmed its commitment to honoring the u.n. security council resolutions. those have mechanisms for relief contained in them and we agreed that at the appropriate time that those would be considered. but we have made very clear that the sanctions and the economic relief that north korea will receive only happen after the fall denuclearization the complete denuclearization of north korea not to ship bundle what 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. the chinese foreign ministers on so there are a lot more nuanced a lot less direct now in china. it's a key role in enforcing sanctions against north korea ninety percent of north korea's trade is with china and china also happens to be the main point where north koreans want to access the international financial system but both countries acknowledge that what happened what took place in singapore is the first step towards denuclearization on the korean peninsula a u.n. draft document says global warming is on course to exceed the limits set in the paris agreement by around twenty forty is the un starkest warning yet of the risks of climate change report says governments can still cap temperatures below the agreed ceiling of one and a half degrees celsius but only with rapid and far reaching changes in the world

economy in twenty fifteen nearly two hundred countries set a goal of limiting warming to below a rise of two degrees above pre-industrial times. tim crosland is the director of plan b. a u.k. charity supporting the use of legal action to tackle climate change is says governments must take the lead with climate change because it's too big a problem for individuals to handle on their own. we want point five degrees mine just sounds like a number to a lot of people the call in paris when governments agreed to limit temperature to that level was one point five to stay alive and that is the call that really sums this out this is an existential threat it is an extension threat to all of us to our societies to our economies to international security if that isn't enough to wake people up it's very difficult to know what is is too much for individuals to handle on their own as a complete fantasy that this is going to be solved by people changing their habits of consumption this needs to happen at scale our infrastructure needs to change is

has to happen with support from government it happens by people all over the world demanding that we do whatever it takes because we face an existential crisis we face an emergency donald trump is obviously a huge disappointment in terms of what the world is trying to do but there are many many americans that he doesn't speak for we've got the mayor of new york at the moment suing fossil fuel companies for the costs of putting a wall around wall street to keep the floodwaters a day we just got to find a coalition of the willing to head this news out. wow in the face of a deadly disease find out why the priest was given a hero's welcome. the .

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of the biggest problems facing our oceans is the loss of seagrass meadows which rule for roughly fifteen percent of the ocean's total carbon storage right after they hope to wife as much carbon dioxide as rain forest and they're also russian arena habitats for many endangered ocean species. but here on elkhorn slew in central california the tide could be turning for sea grass thanks to some unexpected allies. oh yeah i mean here. this nine hundred hector asked you where it is where rivers throughout this region

meet the pacific ocean this is the agricultural powerhouse of the united states and fertilizer and pesticide runoff threaten the balance of this delicate ecosystem so having farmers so close to the ocean on what what impact does that have on the water quality well i mean were you coastal environments close to urban centers coastal environments close. you get problems like this. it grows with the rocks it eventually starts decomposing over half of the world sea grass meadows are in decline but here in al corn slew they're making a surprising comeback. oh wow. at one time there were thousands of sea otters in california but in the hundred

eighteen. they were hunted to near extinction for their soft fur pelts. there are now more than one hundred in this as consuming a staggering one hundred thousand crabs per year. this federation's appetite has helped restore the balance of this ecosystem by triggering a chain reaction known as a trophic cascade. sea otters the crabs lower crop numbers allows smaller invertebrates like sea slugs to thrive and these creatures are crucial for the health of seagrass eating builds up on the leaves they allow sunlight to reach the plants. because sea otters are so crucial to the ecosystem scientists are carefully monitoring their slow and steady come back. they capture them and tag them with radio devices. so the farmer here

work really well. it's across the street probably very close. what's the purpose of tracking we go out seven days a week is to go out and find individuals see where they are what they're doing. other part of it is a star so we can understand the distribution of orders in this area what are they eating and how are they doing health wise there's one right there that's three four nine six so that beeping is an arm that peeping is from the radio transmitter that's surgically implanted with her help system ok. why don't you take a look right in there. as for. along the west coast of north america researchers have noticed that the return of top level predators is having an impact on restoring all kinds of underwater life and the entire ocean system. what the sea otters do it's

kind of it turns the tables against the mackerel g.'s through thousands of packs of sea otters eating crabs essentially the same grass an advantage again. so if we introduce top predators like sea otters to ecosystems around the world will it have a knock on that potentially in the prediction is yes so if you re store food webs which means a lot of times bringing back a top predator to a system that we wiped out we have the great potential for restoring the health of that system. i'm. not you. know some of it i like.

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