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so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you al-jazeera. a come back a quick look at the top stories now the u.s. and north korea have given conflicting statements over the success of top level talks in pyongyang and secretary of state says they were productive but north korea is saying they were extremely regrettable. at least eight people have been killed in two bomb blasts and a gun battle a government building in the somali capital mogadishu. and england football fans

celebrating wildly off to watching their team sweden to nail to reach the first well cup semifinal in twenty eight if it's. a macho organized by a pro migrant groups has arrived in cali in northern france the activists are following a long and well trodden route that thousands of refugees take trying to reach britain they started inventing media in italy on april thirtieth their mission is to raise awareness of the appalling conditions facing people trying to get to the way the route has sixty stages including nice must say. paris from cali they will cross into dover in the u.k. and travel to london where the march officially ends and joins us from callan is how to give us a sense of who has joined the march. well if you look behind me you can probably see some of the crowd were actually at the end of this margin kalai we joined dates as it arrived in the city and we walked the last few kilometers with

the marchers and we had a charity workers activists refugees members of the public of all really come together to walk and it's been quite a joyous occasion to hear the atmosphere beyond me but it's also been quite emotional especially for those who have completed the whole journey walking all the way from ventimiglia in northern italy across france up to the northern port of cali where we are now it is a symbolic journey it is supposed to recreate the routes taken by so many refugees and migrants trying to make their way to the city and then try to cross the english channel to get to the u.k. it is about raising awareness it's about trying to tell people along the way this is what the workers have been doing stopping in towns and villages and talking to people telling them about the conditions that migrants have to deal with why they flee their homes and really trying to gather more support for the cause of refugees in france sixty stages to this march so it's pretty lengthy and they have the

marches that been telling you how they were sieved in all these various places including of course kalai where they are now. what i'm saying is that i actually did. a work force and you could join the march people joined as it went across crawling so people walked for a few moments and some people walked for a lot longer before the group to really did this whole journey while this whole way they say that people across the country radio can make a very interesting to talk to them about the situation of record use of course being in cali for many of them because many of them a base if they work here with refugees it was very emotional as they came in and we saw people you know the windows of their homes looking at this march i mean many people want to wear that it was happening but there's some people who decided that they would actually join and they here now behind me kelly of course has become the focal point for refugees in from all the cities that city that has constantly been

divided by the refugee crisis some people supporting it other people who simply feel that their city is the may was run and they will control prostrated the politicians are going to help them to do more to kill prostrated applicant because they figure in the reason the refugees gather here because they want to go to the u.k. but of course as the u.k. is trying to stop them and the same divides them about why it's so difficult for the refugees are actually carlos it is a city that's really at the heart of fronts refugee crisis if you want to call it fast and of course it's very timely that this march is taking place the time when the european union is really questioning its strategies when it comes to refugees and migration thank you very much natasha in. the families of the young boys trapped in a cave in thailand of received notes from their sons pasta them by rescue is the first contact they've had since the boys went missing two weeks ago there's no word yet on when an attempt will be made to bring them out and concerns are growing about oxygen levels in the cave scott high there is in chiang rai coming from

hundreds of meters deep within this mountain handwritten notes from the truck thirteen were delivered to the eager and worried parents outside the cave. it was the first direct contact they've had since the boys went missing one read i love you mom i love you dad and he placed an order for his first meal when he gets out barbecued pork a seal diver added a note don't worry everyone is strong another note came from the twenty five year old football coach who took them into the cave he apologized to the parents and said they were being well taken care of the parents then wrote notes of their own also hand delivered the nearly five kilometers into the cave. twelve year old proper out son keogh is a novice mark at a temple just next to the football pitch where the boys were two weeks ago just before they went into the cave the temple is believed to be a guardian for the cave it's currently also acting as a base for some soldiers working on the rescue effort i look on right now i want them to be patient and i want them out as soon as they can the head of the rescue

operation says that the challenges they're facing are unprecedented and some of the most experience and best rescuers in the world are involved concerns are growing about oxygen levels in the sections of the cave not under water and not just for the area where the boys in the coach are also where rescuers are staging equipment and working from now on only essential stuff will be in the cave he called every risk you dive a reaches the limit in the chamber and i cannot go further than that such a risk you mission has never happened before on this planet it requires both an expert knowledge and skill maybe. he went on to say that more than one hundred locations above the cave have been drilled looking for an alternate escape route. as the rescue leaders plot the safest way to get the boys out the more than one thousand on hand to help with that plan is launched grab as much rest as they can it's got hotter al-jazeera chiang rai. more than one and

a half million people in japan have been ordered to leave their homes after torrential rainfall triggered floods and landslides at least thirty eight people have died in dozens and missing with the worst flooding recorded from the city of kyoto to japan's southern tip shot ellis reports. across half a nation a sea of muddy water flooding has rich japan and with central and southern regions largely submerged. the death toll has steadily climbed an elderly man was swept into a swollen river in harish homes have collapsed and landslides have buried at least ten people east to west from kioto south dozens of people are missing whenever the night out and. i offer my deepest condolences to the victims and my sympathies to all people who have been affected. in central and southern regions one point six million people have been handed evacuation orders another three million have been

advised to leave the heavy rain is forecast into monday and. heavy rain will continue in the area from western to eastern japan and it will be historic tour in general which could be the heaviest rain ever recorded nearly fifty thousand police firefighters and civil defense personnel have been deployed. riverside pramod not a major tourist spot was shot when the comma river burst its banks roads and bridges a shot for hundreds of kilometers warnings have been issued for landslide prone areas this rainfall is hitting basically everywhere at once so there's no it's difficult for the emergency services to prioritize where they should go first because there are so many things happening all at once and obviously if a road is washed out or bridges destroyed even if you have a nice fire engine or ambulance you can't get to some of the places that you need to go to and. does have experience rule areas of japan struggle with flooding at

this time every year but this year there were special circumstances typhoon proper into the sea of japan on choose day high winds taunting japan southern islands before it moved north dropping unprecedented rainfall the typhoon has passed a move that means little to those never going to sing its rest shiela ballasts. china's premier says his country remains open for trade with foreign partners a day off to beijing and washington impose tariffs on each other's exports from a leak a chant told a meeting of european leaders that china will open the door wider to foreign products to ensure global economic growth president trumps that thirty four billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese goods on friday beijing immediately responded with its own measures. three people including a teenage girl have been killed after security forces in indian administered kashmir opened fire on protesters five others have been critically injured in the

violence the region is preparing to mark the second anniversary of the death of a prominent rebel leader internet access has been restricted in checkpoints put in place after demonstrations in the area iran is saying it's executed eight people convicted of two attacks by ice in last year at least eighteen people were killed and more than fifty injured during a gun and suicide bomb attack on parliament on the tomb of these republics found the entire run it was the first time i still said it was behind the attack inside the country. now thousands of women have gathered in seoul to protest against the growing problem of spy cam pornography in south korea. protests to say the government is not doing enough to stop hidden cameras being used to secretly recalled women in public spaces including in toilets an escalator isn't even at their desks in the office saturday's rally is the latest in a series of protests calling for better police investigation and tougher

punishments for those who are guilty. at least one person is dead after protests in haiti turned violent a steep increase in fuel prices has angered people who say they're already dealing with poverty on a daily basis. diane reports. the outrage was immediate fires set roads blocked protesters say they can't afford haiti's new fuel prices with chaos out on the street at the capital port of ponce several people decided to spend the night at work many businesses close their doors this is. my wife is going to deliver a baby she needs a says they're in every hospital we go to that we can't find a doctor because of the protests i don't know what to do the government announced an increase of up to fifty percent for diesel gasoline and kerrison but the hike a leader of diesel will now cost four dollars nearly five dollars for regular gas

in a country were about eighty percent of workers earn less than two dollars a day the news wasn't received well. we're speaking up against the president he hasn't delivered on the promises he made during his campaign from food to job creation we haven't seen anything since he came into power. and that's when our president joven eloise took office last year promising to improve the economy the government says that this move is part of the process. in february haiti's government agreed to reduce fuel subsidies in exchange for aid from the international monetary fund the protesters say they are tired of empty promises they fear more prices will go up while their wages stay the same. a rope is so the young al jazeera. a living to zimbabwe now where the president is back on the campaign trail two weeks off to surviving a grenade attack at a rally two people died and several others were injured when

a bomb was trying to end this and i got by and by the way it was vice president says nothing will stop the election at the end of the month but security is being stepped up ahead of that vote. has more from the zanu p.f. party rally in the town of bin dura in zimbabwe's northeast. president of god was spoke a little bit about the explosion that occurred in the last month and he urged his enemies he say to them let's try and unite this country let's try and be peaceful and he said if they really can work with him then they are free to leave the country security was heightened at this rally in beans were they were a lot more soldiers than usual people coming in and out of the stadium or physically search to make sure they weren't carrying anything illegal and also camera surveillance equipment has been installed to monitor what's going on on the ground all twenty three presidential candidates have been told that if they are concerned about they safety if the awards about they safety in defeat ask officials

for protection another concern for opposition leaders and opposition parties is the issue of voter fraud the main opposition leader nelson chamisa is concerned that his party has not been allowed to access the ballot paper he also wants the voters roll to be thoroughly inspected he alleges that some names appear more than once he says some addresses don't exist the european union has urged as a bobbin government to give access to opposition parties so they can look at the ballot paper they say maybe that could make the election of the image a lie reputable. cook reminder of the top stories for you now the u.s. and north korea have given very different accounts of a top level meeting in pyongyang to discuss denuclearization the north the north describe the talks as extremely regrettable and accuse the united states of pressuring them to abandon their nuclear program the comments came just after the

u.s. secretary of state my own bio flew out of pyongyang he described his two day visit there is very productive. we've made progress on almost all of the central issues some places a great deal of progress other places there's still more work to be done we've talked about what the north koreans are continuing to do with it how it behaves we can get our arms around achieving what jimmy kimmel broke the proposed agreed to which was the complete denuclearization of north korea there is no no one walked away from that there is still it would be determined here is documented. at least eight people have been killed in two blasts in the somali capital mogadishu dozens more were injured witnesses reported seeing an initial blast before a car around the ministry of interior checkpoint and also exploded attackers then opened fire on the building the group is claiming to be behind it syrian soldiers have torn down rebel flags and hoisted portraits of the president bashar

assad after retaking the main border crossing with jordan the crossing had been controlled by the rebels ins two thousand and fifteen cutting off the main trade route for syrian goods to jordan and gulf countries elsewhere hundreds of mourners have turned out in gaza for the funeral of a palestinian man killed on the israeli border on friday the twenty two year old was reportedly killed by israeli fire as he ran towards the border fence the health ministry in gaza says twenty four others were injured more than one hundred twenty five palestinians have been killed since weekly protests against israeli land confiscation began in march. and a long distance march organized by pro migrant groups has just arrived in the northern french city of callaway the marches are raising awareness of the difficult journey migrants face to reach the u.k. they began on the french italian border at the end of april and will next cross the english channel heading for london where the march will eventually end. as the

headlines all have the news out for you in about half an hour's time off the inside story which is next. pacifying syria's southern front government forces a back in control of most of the border with its. deal with rebels but. others in the region this is inside story.

welcome to the program. after more than seven years of war in syria rebel fighters have lost control of the southern province of delta where the revolution began some rebels will hand over their heavy weapons as part of a cease fire deal with the government others will be given safe passage as the rebels last stronghold in northern province jordan and israel are cautiously watching the developments as the syrian army inches ever closer to their borders and of course the government's victory also brings big changes for the three hundred twenty thousand people who fled will bring a guest in a just a moment but first al-jazeera has been at smith reports from jordan's border with syria. some of the thousands of displaced syrians who've been camped for up to two weeks along the syrian jordan border just behind me they started going home last night according to the jordanian military not long after the cease fire and surrender was agreed with the rebel groups here across the border in southern syria

the jordanians hope that the rest of those refugees in the coming hours and days will feel safe enough to go home and one of the most important things about making them feel safe enough is security guarantees that they'll be given that is that the russian military police maintain overall control of security along the border area because many people have been living under rebel control fear rebel a fear of reprisals from the syrian regime also important for the jordanians is that there are no iranian backed hezbollah fighters along this border side that was one of the major jordanian concerns they are expecting only to see syrians and russian forces along this area no involvement from the as ball or fighters who were part of the initial campaign to retake the dead up province. well let's get the thoughts of our guests joining us today from amman is london so

the only who's an independent journalist and commentator on middle east issues from west jerusalem we're joined by robi sable a professor at the hebrew university of jerusalem and from beirut rami corey a senior fellow and adjunct professor at the american university of beirut and welcome to you all rami if we can start with you some context here first to what extent does southwestern syria's pivotal location mean that any military offensive in that region would have had stakes the transcends syria's civil war. that's a very strategic area in terms of the relationship between lebanon and hezbollah and syria and israel and jordan and iran all together they are interested in this area and the russians of course behind the syrian government the russians are trying to prevent wars regionally but all these other actors or involved in confrontations and have been involved in wars over the years it's

a very strategic area and the golan itself the border area the go on has become even more important now because historically it was southern lebanon and northern israel that was the where fighting used to take place all the time between hezbollah and israel it shifted in recent years to the shebaa farms area which is in between syria lebanon israel and palestine and then it shifted now once more to the golan heights and that's really the mr a critical area that has to be addressed politically broadly sable in west jerusalem russia has mediated this this deal what kind of security guarantees has it given to israel as part of this deal what is always in two cities is the mentality of the agreement we had and i said before with syria which has a buffer zone where that no civilian military troops and a limited force limited forces either side of the border is about twenty five kilometers in other words what we're interested in is that that be maintained and

that no hezbollah will elayne forces be in the area i think these are two main strategic interests why is israel so concerned about. hesitate to call them this but i'm going to say to ragtag bunch of iranian backed militias operating so close to it to its border is it just paranoia of iran that that's driving this. it's not such a backpack bag they were operating under the commands of the evolution of god of iran and west syria has an interest in maintaining it maintaining a quiet border of the soon reasons iran doesn't it has a contra inverse to want to stop trouble therefore we are very very apprehensive about any immediate persons on the insert on the golan heights or insert all lamas and only the jordanian foreign minister was in moscow just a few days ago what sort of guarantees would he have received concerning the the syrian border with his country. i'm not sure he has received guarantees but i know

what he's asked for i have also to point out that until the june twenty third jordan and the palace the decision makers were under the impression that russia and . the musk us with the support of trump as well how it really it took a political solution so they were taken aback when russia allowed this collision over russia was not just preventing the war it allowed. a military solution to their our situation so but i know what they are asking for their asking for first. that this agreement will hold no for this collision and support in. solving the crisis of the refugees they did ask also that a pro iranian militia forces should be fifteen economy

tears away from the borders this is the official position not my on and that there has to asians should be dealt with separately then the whole settlement so that it will not so that they would guarantee at least quiet at the borders i don't know how many guarantees you have thought but there's a feeling and official feeling of great dismay and fair they felt the sea of by the way that they were not informed that there would be an escape that did not expect jordan's vehemently refused to let any or any more syrians across its border is that just because simply because jordan can't cope with any more refugees or is it more to do with with security concerns is it more to do with exactly who might come across the border. i am i think that the initial decision to close the border was a quick

a fast response to this collision that was not expected and to pressure all parties to go back to the table they wanted a solution i think the think it was well thought out of and then there was a complaint in jordan against the yes security score sans are are there and they want to pressure also the international community community to give more in but it has created divisions inside the country over the refugees issues many jordanians are not happy there and you know about the campaign to open the borders and of course the propeller opinion is divided because we have a segment of the population in general and the support the syrian. the this syrian regime and the syrians and they consider it effectively for assad from a korean know if they will open the borders without any guarantees and i'm not sure there will be an opening of the borders without certain guarantees from russia and

by the way the government what i know and i'm sure of that there has been a communications director between jordan and the oscars for the last month saw that could be that could help either not probably corey how will russia ensure that no violation of this peace deal takes place and what would happen to the the deescalation that i thought that this this area was supposed to be. the deescalation zones are kind of like the arab israeli peace process they're there on paper but they don't really exist they're a bit of a figment of people's imaginations the syrians and the russians proved those the escalation zones but said they have to keep fighting terrorists which of course every government should do but they define anybody that they don't like as a terrorist therefore the fighting continues and this we've seen this happen throughout the country so there they deescalation zones were

a means that were used for two reasons one to heighten the diplomatic leverage that russia has including a little bit with iran and turkey in the broader process of political reconciliation in syria which would eventually go back to geneva but also to increase the leverage that the syrian armed forces have in the short run to be able to continue operations as they've done in several parts of the country near damascus and now in the south and they will continue their last push to the western part of the province in the south so the deescalation issue shouldn't be taken literally but as part of a complex diplomatic negotiation in which the russians and the syrian government have come out pretty much on top and the short run the iranians and hezbollah and others are watching jordan has serious real legitimate interests and concerns but everybody wants to end the fighting send the refugees back home let them live in

peace and open up syria again as a trading partner and transit zone lebanon and jordan will both mentally benefit from reopening the borders for trade and these sort of the brig are issues that people need to start looking at but the fighting is not over and the last point to make is that one of the really tricky parts in this is people talk of the rebels and the government the rebels are made up around thirty or forty different kinds of groups there are organized groups there are tribal groups there are local people some of the rebels and. shredded agreements local cease fires with the government through that all kinds of different groups that don't agree and that's why the rebel broadly they failed the syrian. army was not able to triumph and getting a full agreement in the south means bring with you know dozens and dozens of different groups who have different interests and we've seen that happen already but in the long run the government is going to triumph probably sable as

a tool of russia's guaranteeing security in this deal. is it possible that we could see russian forces operating in the golan heights or is that is that a no no i don't think russia is interested in having his ground forces operating though there may be russian military police which would help supervisors own there's a certain amount of joint interest between israel and russia in not having it done . in the area although they iran has helped assad's regime i don't think that russia is interested in that continuing presence and therefore i think we will see wash and support for the israeli position that there should be no it lady and toups in if not in syria certainly no in near the border israel has always seemed fairly ambivalent towards bashar assad despite the assad regime regime serving the. the vital but i mean strategic and security interests of israel since one thousand

nine hundred sixty seven how going forward do you think will israel deal with with syria politically if if as. rami says that the syrian government will win what's the thinking now. israeli government doesn't always make wise decisions but i think one wise this isn't they made was not to intervene of the syrian civil war we provided two manito an aid fight medical aid we have been intervened i think we're going to continue to see this we will not be interfered intervening in the syrian civil war we will however maintain our security problems that is again to make sure the the government the seventy four game is kept the buffer zone will be and will be free of any military forces will be limitation forces and that we will see in radians on the. any when there is was border. underneath as the been communication between israel and jordan in the light of the the humanitarian crisis

in indonesia i'm not sure that it's about it but as you know it in our office is jordan just a few days before this collision and it was about partly about the southern front of this southern syria i think it is it is involved in all of us and i think any understanding would include the israelis so more squints for america there are understanding between putin and. netanyahu but i want just here to say i me i mean for the israelis to make a big deal about who is on the golan heart when the golan high are the borders when there are the pond hides itself is under occupation it's progressed to us in the end it's about syria itself and with itself and its sovereignty and its unity and but israel is totally involved and its program is emerging as one of the victorious parties. unfortunately it's really using stewie

pausing as if it's their protector of jordan as one. protector of jordan when that's if it if it's trying to provide its protection is like providing jordan with a poisoned chalice so people are very aware of that and very wary of that. in the whole set up in jordan really save a comment on what you just heard the again probably i should add that i don't think the world is appreciated what jordan has done for the three g.'s it's absorbed taken large numbers of soon a few g.'s and i think we should see world war world support for this we have a dialogue with jordan we have a dialogue with with russia again israel's interests of a limited here we want to make sure that we have a quiet border over the syria and the agreement is kept we're not going to get we weren't involved and we're not going to get involved in the actual syrian civil war

rami khouri in beirut what options now are there for president assad in southern syria if he tells iranian backed forces to leave the area as part of this deal where does that leave him in his relationship with iran. i think this issue of iranian forces near the israeli occupied golan heights. reflects a lot of the bizarre approach that israel and zionism have to our region and this is just another example of israel saying its sovereignty its security are more important than the sovereignty and security of its neighbors they can do anything it wants in lebanon and syria and in gaza and it can kill it could shoot it and destroy things and it does this all the time i mean the idea that israel hasn't been involved in the syrian war is a little bit fantastic and they've been attacking targets regularly that have in one way. hurt the syrian government or has below or the alliance between them and

iran so hezbollah syria and iran are really one unit that haven't worked together since the early one nine hundred eighty s. and israel has fought for oceans lead to try to weaken them and it hasn't been able to do so so far so i think we need to take some of these statements and in a wider context the syrian government now has a big. responsibility an opportunity to use the dinner hour situation when it finally drives out all the rebels and the isis terrorists and a few others and regained control to perhaps use it as a laboratory for reconciliation and governance we've already heard signs today and yesterday that some of the local agreements being made include allowing some of the rebel leaders and officers to be involved in joint governance mechanisms at the local level and this is what i mentioned before there were dozens and dozens of local cease fires that were arranged over the last five or six years or so so the

syrian government has one major priority after it regains sovereignty over its territory it's to regain legitimacy with its people it have the syrian people don't trust it they're afraid of it because of the terrible vicious things that have happened in the war on all sides so it's got huge obstacles and regain. ending. its legitimacy and coming up with a government system that everybody agrees on the last point to make here is that the really the most fascinating aspect of this and it's come through in our little discussion is the role of the russians there i mean ph d. students of international relations around the world should be studying what russia's been doing in the middle east for the last five years. in detail because it's one of the most fascinating examples of a big power coming into the region and new and new ways forging new relationships making itself pivotal and central talking to everybody russia's talking to everybody in the region and and trying to maintain

a long term strategic role for itself which benefits its own national well being presumably and its allies so i think the russian role is going to be there for a long time and it'll keep evolving with turkey with iran with saudi arabia and not with jordan and you might end up with russian jordanian joint patrols or mechanisms for refugee security or trade issues on the border you it's amazing what the russians are doing and i think we need to keep our eye on that robbie sable professor what do you make of that i mean is russia a force for good in the region is israel at all concerned that its that its ally had the u.s. had nothing to do with the procuring of this deal at its border that russia is the one that's firmly in control here. i think it's a fact we can't dispute the united states as small as disappeared from the area and its loss of that has that influence i would however seriously dispute the statement just made that iran has by law and syria

a one unit they're not syria's an independent state and if you want to have good relations with israel it cannot have foreign hostile elements in it therefore has allowed to go back to lebanon iran in force should stay in iran and we can reach an agreement with syria but it's not it's punishes to have invading forces near is was a border it's dangerous to the middle east it's dangerous to israel it's dangerous to lebanon i don't think any of the actors in the area for want to see. iranian forces. anywhere near the israeli border but shows certainly the major factor and that's why we've maintained a dialogue with russia russia has its own interest it's not operating out of israeli and first or syrian interest it has its own strategic interest in the middle east which is not necessarily the same of his role but we maintain a dialogue with them and we and i believe that at this stage russia is not

interested in invading and presence. and only of course jordan had a lot to lose if that been a full scale military offensive in the southwest and syria. does this deal is its concerns as a collective sigh of relief and. if a first of its partial sight of three because this is fire she should be just is step one step towards an agreement that is sustained in that hour and eventually in the horse all of syria secondly. there if you just is it because it's not just because it's presence pressure on jordan because they say to every human terry and disaster and this is another issue the other issue i think there's mistrust now because as i told you the georgian officials the significance for the deceived by the russians as well as by the ally the us who or they think knew that

there would be. a syria. jordan syria and russian bombing of there are there other issue i want to point out is it's very ironic that a president is of an occupying power is talking about the sovereignty of another of another nation i wish israel should stop interfering and stop bombing and not talk about war or ground when it's an occupying power and supplying syrian lands that will really make it easier for syria and to go back to. china we're almost out of time robi said i'll just very quickly join want to respond to that before i throw it back to what rami corey yes our neighbor is syria i hope we can reach an agreement with syria we don't want to see you on or hizbullah anywhere and i don't think it's interests of jordan all of lebanon to see a lady and troops of all that rami khouri the battle in there has shown

a as as you've said as you pointed out that that has had has has won the war what message does that send to other rebel groups in other areas of the country and thinking about it of course i mean the dream of defeating asset is now history is that. oh pretty much yeah i mean you will still have some local groups that might put up some local resistance you might find syria becoming like algeria and morocco today where there's dozens and dozens of small demonstrations and but but pretty much nonviolent in the long run they have a big lesson out of syria if you look back over the international community the so-called international community doesn't care what you do in your own country even doesn't care when foreign powers like russia come in and help you you can kill as many people as you want as long as you don't use chemical weapons in the same way that the world doesn't care about what the u.a.e. saudi is americans and british are doing in yemen killing killing thinning and

destroying country so the total lack of concern of the international community about internal issues like this is a really stark lesson that people are going to get from this situation and that the governments in the area will say they can use as much force as they want against their own people put thirty forty thousand people in jail like egypt has done and nothing happened so this is a problem for the whole region now in terms of the political and social economic rights of ordinary people where both military force and political repression can be used that will without any serious international intervention hopefully some wiser minds will prevail in the arab world in israel and turkey and iran and everywhere and figure out how to solve the underlying problems the early israeli conflict and other issues and take away the need for these kinds of wars that i'm afraid is where we must leave it thank you to you all on this and only robbie sable and rami koori. thank you two for watching to get you can see our program again at

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them to abandon their nuclear program. to blast hit somalia's security ministry in mogadishu killing at least eight people. the football coach who led twelve boys into a cave in thailand sends out a letter apologizing to the parents. announced on a commercial sport with the latest from the world cup where england have booked their place in the semifinals for the first time in twenty eight years after beating sweeting to nil. said they were productive but pyongyang has given a very different account of how top level talks went in the north korean capital just hours after the us secretary of state left the country north korea lashed out at washington describing the talks as extremely regrettable young man also accuse

the us of pressuring them to abandon their nuclear program but as far as i was concerned the discussions were a success. we've made progress on almost all of the central issues some places a great deal of progress other places there's still more work to be done we talked about what the north koreans are continuing to do and how it's the case we can get our arms around achieving what chairman kim and present proposed agreed to which was the complete denuclearization of north korea there is no no one walked away from that there still it would committee chairman kim is documented. castro is in washington joins us live now well it wasn't long after made those comments that the north koreans made issued a contrasting statement with bev updates on his trip what could all this mean for the talks. well mary it certainly is troubling when you have two sides

of a negotiation describing their experiences of the same event in such opposing terms the u.s. said that these talks between pompei and his counterpart in north korea were productive and the north korean state media today called those same talks regrettable in a statement that was attributed to an unnamed spokesperson for the north korean government and the state media went on to say that the u.s. be trade the spirit of last month's summit between president trump and north korean leader kim jong un and the statement said that the u.s. made one sided and robber like demands in this last round of talks which quote may rattle the willingness of north korea to denuclearize now the big question here is exactly how meaningful are these statements is this a sincere expression of how north korea feels or is it in the more likely kill case posturing and certainly the u.s. has done its posture its own share of posturing itself prior to last month's summit

in singapore president donald trump threatened to cancel that meeting with kim jong un that was after north korea made an attack with singh with similarly harsh words against the us vice president only to of course have that meeting take place after all so we still have yet to hear a response from trump as to today's statements made in north korean media but if the talks remain on track as they are currently planned we're also seeing mike pompei a likely pulling back his personal role in these negotiations he will likely be replaced with lower u.s. officials which just adds to the concern of what more can be accomplished by going forward mary thank you very much with the latest from washington ivy joe castro well joining me now is mark fitzpatrick the director of the nonproliferation program at the into. national institute for strategic studies also joining me from washington thank you very much for being with us on the news hour so as you're

hearing there a much more i have to talk you a much more pessimistic assessment of my pompei is trip there from the north koreans what's your view on all of this it doesn't seem to bode well for the nuclear talks as it will pump ales trip to pyongyang this time certainly has to be described as a failure that's not wholly surprising the promise is hard it takes time in the idea of the united states had north korea would be making unilateral concessions to give up their nuclear weapons program most analysts realize that that was wholly unrealistic and the meetings of the last two days proved that indeed that was the case i suppose more importantly for the americans it appear that might has not managed to extract any concessions on verification on a declaration of north korea's nuclear weaponry or on a timeline for denuclearization how problematic is this. yet when when the

pump ale said that they've made good progress in a number of areas you have to wonder what are those areas because as you've just noted nothing public on verification they talk about complete the nuclearization but nobody knows what it means by complete or denuclearization so defining those major terms and then apart from the nuclear issues there's another smaller set of issues i thought there might be some progress the return of the u.s. war remains which trump had announced in singapore already had happened hadn't happened and it isn't happening now either so the north koreans are tough negotiators. we're in for a long slog here i think. but i suppose ultimately behind the rhetoric and the posturing which we've heard before whenever the two countries engage in these types of negotiations the north koreans are simply not prepared to compromise on a gradual phased approach denuclearization if it even comes to that

well this is actually their term they are talking about a phased approach which would imply getting something at each stage of mutual concessions along the way so they're looking at this as you might say buying time. prolonging goshi asian they like it that they're sitting at the negotiating table with the superpower they want to be treated as an equal they want. concessions that balance out each other so this this was a downturn at the beginning of these negotiations but i think we're still just at the beginning stage. this administration we know has had a different approach to the challenges posed by north korea do you see a scenario in which some sort of agreement is called pull together in the face of

kim's refusal to give up his nuclear weapons or perhaps even expand his nuclear capabilities. i'm not sure that the united states is going to go for a partial agreement when they've been insisting all along that it has to be a complete verifiable irreversible denuclearize ation but as a as a defacto matter as a practical matter that's probably what we will be ending up with at least for the time being north korea has made a concession in that it's not testing nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles it's. you know taking taken down a couple of a facility is the testing site and apparently a missile stand a missile testing stand so these are these are small concessions maybe there will be more and that's in the end a partial agreement but that can't be the final agreement. america's allies won't stand for that and given all that trump has said i don't see how he can stand for

that either well thank you very much it's always good to speak to me and get your analysis on the matter fitzpatrick joining us there for the it's national is the chief the strategic studies to talk to merriam well now at least eight people have been killed and dozens more injured in a car bombing in the somali capital mogadishu the group al-shabaab says it was behind the attack in the ministry of interior building morgan has mall once again the city of mogadishu is living through the aftermath of an attack and once again those responsible are also about fighters the armed group has been battling so money as government for twelve years it has launched more than half a dozen attacks this year alone and i. want i was close to where the explosion happened the car through the checkpoint barrier into the ministry building then it exploded there was smoke everywhere many people died in there but they wasn't able to count them. al-shabaab is fighting to overthrow the government and was pushed

out of mogadishu in twenty eleven but it continues to target both government sites and civilians. i saw ten bodies with my own eyes and eight wounded the car exploded inside the ministry building there was a lot of confusion screaming and lots of gunfire. three attackers and to the ministry of interior following the explosion and exchanged gunfire with security forces inside somalia as government says all three have been killed but while those involved imbecile attack may have been killed al-shabaab remains a significant threat to millions of somalis and the future of their country stability morgan al-jazeera. joining me now is journalist dean robel joins me on skype from nairobi thank you very much for speaking to us what do today's attacks suggest about. in somalia. thank you mary or it were. just. by our though they are not as

strong as they have been is this still able to infiltrate within the government. especially the capital city's most protected area which is near to the presidential house to the to the parliament building and to to hit the. government office that is there's a clear must search that thought is that there is something wrong with the government security institutions because that town has just been well. roads of the city has already been caused and there have been many security checkpoints within the city if a major problem for the billions to move around so for al-shabaab. to be able to pass through all these two gritty checkpoints and finally get there we're

used to the ministry of the interior of and the minister of the national security it tells you there is some there are within the government security institutions is not just something usual not just some people. us about has some skills and couple as it is to influence and to infiltrate and not being the government in this time because there have been some kind of improvement in security but for these kind of attacks it seems a problem for the somali government to start you know how difficult is it going to be if if. you have this type of weakness within the somali security forces how does the government now act to prevent an element this infiltration by al-shabaab. i think it's get it takes for some time for the government to eliminate or to be able to prevent these kind of attacks because these some kind of you know

al-shabaab have been taking advantage of. the luck holds within the. witnesses within the security in this.