get the two prime suspect in the scripture case extradited it's against russian law in any way it will be hardly worth the effort scribbles of survives but u.k. russian relations a stock in the freezer largely al-jazeera london. chalons in moscow tells us more about how russia is reacting russia's approach to the whole script our affair since it blew up earlier in the year has been to deny deny deny they say that the u.k. is not being know to produce any evidence that it was nothing to do with russia that russia has constantly asked the british government for access to the investigation access which has been continually denied and even after the british have produced considerably more evidence than they have previously been able to do the message is the same from russia we have heard from the foreign ministry earlier we've said once again we urge the u.k. side to switch from public accusations and information information manipulation to

practical cooperation through law enforcement agencies the ministry of foreign affairs also says that the two suspects that have been named by the u.k. mean nothing to them they don't know who they are we also heard from your readership of who is an aide to the kremlin and peace seems confusing but he doesn't quite know what the british authorities are trying to do with all this info that's just been released he finds it rather confusing can't understand it so the russian response again did i deny deny dozens of people are missing after a powerful earthquake hit parts of the northern japanese island of hokkaido the six point seven magnitude quake struck in the early hours of thursday planes at one of the island's airports were seen shaking due to its forests it caused landslides in some areas varying houses no tsunami warning was issued. it can tighten the whole day i've heard reports such as people having cardiac arrest landslides collapsed

buildings and large scale blackouts saving people's lives is a priority while the government deals with the disaster relief we will deal with this crisis right let's speak to michael patton he's the president touching gets a news agency he's joining us live from tokyo by skype thanks for speaking to us what are you hearing about the latest casualty figures as well as numbers of people who've been injured yes the casualty figures the latest ones are that the first person has been confirmed dead. in a in a small town and but the bigger the bigger event appears to have all occurred in the town of suma where the mountain sides next to some homes collapsed onto the homes now this earthquake happened about three am local time so presumably people were just sleeping in their homes and the mountain came down on them and at the moment they're saying thirty nine people are missing in this landslide so unfortunately it looks like the level of deaths is going to rise significantly from

the one on currently confirmed and as and as they were in here and separation go on go on before we talk about the rescue operation i would just as for injuries serious injuries look like they're going to be in the level of three or four hundred currently ok and as far as the rescue operation goes how prepared were or are the rescue services to deal with this. well in a general sense of course japan's very well prepared for natural disasters you may have noticed that we've had quite a few lately and that's not terribly unusual for japan it's a natural disaster country but at the same time there's not much preparation you can do when when a mountain collapses on to homes so clearly they're going to need to bring out equipment that can bury the houses and that's going to take time so it's probably going to be quite a bit of time before we know exactly how many people died in those landslides is

there a real concern now aftershocks yes there is there were some major aftershocks a few hours later and the authorities are warning that they could be up to a week before the aftershock danger has passed and at the same time another thing to bear in mind is that electricity services on the island of hokkaido been wiped out train service is all public transportation it's mobile phone services it's all down right now essentially people living in hokkaido are are cut off from the world ok michael penn we thank you for giving us the update from tokyo thank you. japan has confirmed the first death as a result of the twenty eleven fukushima nuclear disaster a worker at the power plant during the emergency died of lung cancer as a result of radiation exposure a massive tsunami and earthquake in twenty eleven killed more than eighteen thousand people and destroyed the plans cooling systems sending it into town. and

so more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including suicide attacks at a sports center in the afghan capital kabul kills at least twenty people plus an emirates flight from dubai is quarantined in new york after several people fall ill during the journey. coming up in sport with peter will see how the call and deal has been received by president people on the street. the leaders of north and south korea will meet later this month. complete denuclearization kim jong un expressed his willingness for close cooperation with the u.s. during a meeting with a special envoy from south korea the talks are trying to revive faltering diplomacy between pyongyang and washington after kim jong summit with donald trump in june

macbride is in seoul covering the talks of the meetings joining us from seoul what can you tell us happened there rob. that's the security chief from south korea has been briefing media darian within the last half hour about the outcome of his visit to pyongyang and the big news of course as you've mentioned there is that this summit is going to go ahead the meeting between the two leaders of the two koreas will happen in pyongyang between the eighteenth to the twentieth of september we were also told from next week there will be high level talks by officials from north and south korea laying out the groundwork for just what will be discussed at that summit but obviously trying to restart or kick start this whole process will be key and trying to see how we can move forward with these vague promises is a vague notions about denuclearization of the korean peninsula and also commitment

to long term peace now chung has told the media that the north koreans still remain committed to those of those goals and to working with south korea and also importantly working with the united states we are also told that they have been there has been a general agreement that there should open a liaison office between north and south korea now this is very important in trying to move forward this whole process of having permanently based fishel from north and south korea to discuss any misunderstandings disagreements more importantly to start looking at ways of having future cooperation for example on transport or economic matters which are all part of this process now this office was meant to have opened last month of august arena but it was postponed because of the problems with the dealings between the united states and north korea we are told that the

two sides are still committed to opening up this liaison office but interestingly still no date has been mentioned so it does seem as though while there are handshakes and smiles from both. sides that the problems about the relations between north korea and the united states are impacting relations between the two koreas theory but is there a sense of optimism rob that the upcoming meeting in september is going to deliver some sort of results i think there has to be optimism from the part of the south koreans because the alternatives are too hideous to contemplate nobody wants to see a return here in south korea to these days of nuclear testing to the attacks that take place the verbal exchanges that take place across the d.m.z. and more significantly perhaps between pyongyang and washington i think what we're seeing here is the president of south korea very much once again taking the role of

mediator you'll remember of course that the very start of this year it was very unlikely that would we would get this far in this this whole process the advancement of goodwill and a lot of that has been put down to efforts in having his first summit with with kim jong il of north korea that seem to pave the way for of course the historic summit between president trump and kim jong un in singapore i think the hope is that despite the difference in positions between the united states and north korea in may be able to find some way of mediating to try and advance this further robin wright thank you. at least twenty people have died and seventy others injured in twin explosions in afghanistan it happened in a wrestling gym in the western suburbs of kabul police say a suicide bomber detonated explosives amongst athletes who were training at the gym then a car bomb went off nearby the area is predominately populated by the his or ethnic

minority group that has been targeted in the past jennifer gloss has the latest from campbell. the first attack on that sports center a center for wrestling in the dusty bar she neighborhood of kabul back to a western suburb of kabul mainly shia has are living in that neighborhood and then the second bomb came soon after targeting first responders and journalists to have gone to cover that event to journalists from tolo t.v. were killed they were actually reporting live from the scene just moments before the second explosion i mean far far more than one these are mahdi were killed in that attack among the twenty people killed and more than sixty injured in that attack it's the second attack in that neighborhood in in the past month an education center was attacked about a few weeks ago but young young men and women who are preparing for university exams it's particularly brutal attack in as are

a shia neighborhood of kabul this week to lawrence korb is a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense is joining us live from washington d.c. thanks for speaking to us again on al-jazeera so no claim of responsibility yet but who do you think was behind this attack and what's the message they're trying to send out. well i think it's probably going to be isis will take responsibility for it because isis has two enemies in afghanistan and one obviously is that the government the other is a shia so they call a pa state sen as your. reporter mentioned this is not the first time this has happened this has happened a couple of months ago where they killed forty people so i am not surprised that they did it and we have just killed a. senior leader from isis and i think this is probably retaliation for that this must be very worrying however ahead if elections in a couple of weeks time well it obviously is because you've already got the

taliban making on awful lot of advances in the country and now if you have isis also doing that the people in afghanistan are going to lose faith in their government being able to protect them and they probably will not turn out in large numbers to vote how is you assess the states over the year that's from strategy been in effect in afghanistan. well basically at best it's a draw but i think basically it's going all in the wrong way he added about four thousand troops to the said twelve or thirteen that he inherited from president obama and they made some gains an initially but it has all gone downhill lately with that the taliban making gains all over the all over the country i mean the

special inspector general from the pentagon is talking about the fact that they control much more territory than they did before this so-called surge or increase in troops came about so will there be assistance strategy do you think going forward in and we've obviously seen my come pale in pakistan and what he said he said that the u.s. needs pakistan's help in ending what's described as america's longest war so where does that relationship had to next in terms of afghanistan. well we're home secretary pompei own secretary bateau secretary of defense all hoping is that pakistan will convince the taliban who they provide some support to to negotiate with the united states and the afghan government i mean that's the only way this is going to end nobody is really going to be able to win this gone on for seventeen years and it hasn't changed that much they're also trying to get pakistan not to provide as much aid to groups like the hakani network that they do that continues

to cause trouble inside afghanistan pakistan is playing both sides on this because they want to they want to have a say in the call of whatever happens with afghanistan all right lawrence korb thank you for speaking to us so as you just heard the u.s. secretary of state says that he's hopeful the relationship with pakistan can be reset my comp a i met with the newly elected prime minister imran khan and his lama bowed just days after the u.s. said it's cutting military aid to islamabad for failing to tackle armed groups pompeo says there is still a long way to go but that a foundation has been laid for both sides to move forward the future of syria is being debated between iran russia and turkey as their leader is meeting to run on friday prominent on that agenda is the fate of the last remaining rebel held province in syria now turkey is trying to ensure the offensive will be as limited as possible fearing a mass exodus to civilians towards its border stephanie decker reports. over the

years the province of it live has offered somewhat of a refuge for almost a million internally displaced syrians but that seems like it's all about to change with the expected government offensive backed by russia to recapture the last province left under opposition control turkey is preparing for a worst case scenario already met with the head of turkey's red crescent just as he returned from visiting it lib if any huge influx. or other two o'clock turkish border now we are near the refugee camps in sight syria turkey already hosts more than three million syrian refugees and it doesn't want any more the turkish border with syria has been closed for years unfortunately there is no clear line for armed groups there are. settling down inside and the societies so it is really difficult to target the military

and points so. it's been a repetitive cycle for years despite endless political negotiations it's the military option that always seems to come first millions of syrians are homeless in their own country dependent on aid unable to rebuild their lives this factory belongs to the turkish aid group i h and it sends one hundred fifty thousand bags of bread to live every day each piece representing someone who cannot feed themselves the individual desperate stories often getting lost in a mass of lives interrupted. those who fight it in the first taping with predator death now they're facing death once again they have no plan b. in the last few years we've tried to build more herman structures into this place or today we're back to square one setting a basic intents to prepare for a new wave humanitarian corridors are being proposed by aid agencies but they will remain inside syria and the question remains to where most people. don't want to go

to the government controlled areas which surround it lib that leaves the turkish controlled northern part of the country but many are reluctant to go there too no one wants to be displaced again even though aid agencies are preparing for what they fear will be a bloody battle everyone is saying it's still too early to predict how exactly it will unfold that they say will be decided at the negotiating table between iran russia and turkey but there is a consensus that the battle for it will be the final major battle of this war stephanie decker al-jazeera on the turkey syria border so heads on al-jazeera iraqi security forces fire tear gas and live ammunition thousands of angry protesters in the southern city of basra. leading figures in facebook and twitter are grilled about foreign influence an election campaigns in the u.s. as david beckham reveals the name i'm logo for his major league soccer team dot

stories coming up a little later in sports. from cool brisk news in few weeks. to the warm trunk alters of southeast asia. ok the dry spell is about to close once again so if you have not managed to pump all the water right from the flooded areas what about just be topped off again hong kong's in the potential for big sunder stalls comes the line this rather ragged stretches up toward sichuan should do could be wet vietnam notably much drier you'll see but this whole area becomes west is still at least potentially the green area means just inland from hong kong dancer and just stretching into the north of vietnam we've not seen the end of the rain spell yet. south of this new songs probably in the driest area the moment this is judging from what the satellite picture shows us but central and southern philippines still fairly wet and that's

a line that stretches across toward sudden time and an increasingly shower seemed likely going into these sort of ways a dime towards jakarta in fact i can't give you another try to change account or think other thursday or friday you will see a thunderstorm or need to hear it and feel the rain. now moving to the retreating monsoon this is the cost on the year where the rain could be anywhere with this white circulation here developing in the northern bay of bengal suggest that places like west bengal them bangladesh even pradesh could be particularly which the next day. the weather sponsored by qatar and always. taiwan. a sovereign island state or a renegade province of china that must soon return to mainland control. as the battle for taiwanese hearts and minds intensifies. people in power investigates the tactics of those to whom reunification is only

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television the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour paraguayan will move its embassy back to television three months after shifting it to jerusalem in response israel says it will close its embassy in paris by the leaders of north and south korea will meet later this month in pyongyang to discuss complete denuclearization kim jong un has expressed his willingness for close cooperation with the u.s. during a meeting with a special envoy from south korea an anonymous article in the new york times claims senior members of the trumpet ministration are working to undermine his worst policies it's said to be written by a senior white house official trump has called on the paper to reveal the identity of the author for national security purposes. midwives have been deployed to hinge refugee camps to provide treatment for pregnant women but some are facing challenges discussing family planning with an already vulnerable community nearly a million revenge are living in bangladesh after escaping

a military crackdown in me and maher mohammad reports. during the hottest hour of the day in the world's largest. refugee settlement these role hinge a traditional midwives are searching for a woman who needs their help raji a big woman and saad are two of the one hundred thirty community health care workers who have been recruited by the united nations population fund or un f.p.a. from among the or hinge of residing here in bangladesh. when they find regime who already has two children and is about to give birth to a third they explain how they'll assist with her delivery and outlined all medical options available he. tells me she had no idea care like this was possible to lucky enough to not live i didn't get to see any doctor recently and the doctors there are buddhist they wouldn't treat us because we are muslim in another part of

the camp these newborns and their mothers are being looked after in a facility run by un f.p.a. . a novel experience for a population of refugees harboring largely conservative attitudes toward reproductive health one of the biggest challenges has been trying to convince her hinge a women here to voluntarily go to clinics and that's because of the unrelenting persecution they faced in me and more it's left many of them distrustful and fearful of medical facilities like this one since august two thousand and seventeen saudia bag has come to the aid of numerous rohingya women subjected to extreme physical psychological and sexual violence by members of me and mars military as plainly and painfully as she can she explains why the women she helps are so fearful. these women are always scared that the doctors

will kill their babies despite the obstacles aid workers say providing services that aim to ensure not just safer pregnancies and childbirth but also options for family planning are already having an impact and we've seen a real increase in the number of women. elect to have a long acting contraceptives we're also seeing in big increase in the number of men who are being supportive of their wives during that a lot of women have decided that they've had enough children. and they want to get on with their lives learning skills and don't have any more children down another alleyway rosea and saudia locate a refugee pregnant with her first child dispensing wisdom to the anxious mother to be they do what they can to provide a kind of comfort this woman has never known. at the kid to belong refugee camp and cox is bizarre bangladesh iraqi security forces have used

tear gas to disperse hundreds of people demonstrating in the southern city of basra it's the latest flare of violence in two months of protests demanding jobs and better public services area hollande has more. protesters returned to the streets of busta angry and undeterred by the deaths of six demonstrators the day before this is the response from security forces firing tear gas to disperse the crowds. this is some of the worst on race same since demonstrations began in july protesters accuse the police of using live ammunition police say protesters have been firing weapons. the city of pasto allies in the southern region that produces most of iraq's oil wealth the protesters say they see little of it they say the system is riddled with corruption there is little book and infrastructure

there has all but collapsed a little so a lot of. the people of basra have no services no water no electricity along with the situation remains. iraqi prime minister haider l.-a but he has ordered an investigation into the dates of the protest as he's already suspended the electricity minister part of his government if it to punish those believed to be behind the problems the protesters say that needs to translate into real change electricity doesn't keep cashing out and water that's fit to drink may be on the honed al-jazeera the un's first human talks in two years have been divided by twenty four hours they'll now start on friday a previous attempt to strike a deal between rebels and the internationally recognized government collapsed un special envoy for yemen martin griffith says he's trying to get the two sides to trust each other. building confidence between the parties so they can address

issues together resolve issues through compromise concessions and. cries of trust in each other confidence building measures are designed partly to help build this trust through greenman from them partly to actually deliver some benefits to the people of yemen and partly to send a signal to the international community and given that something is happening again in like in any other conflict not desperately in need of a signal. they have a traitor has more from geneva the venue for the plan talks. the peace consultations between the two warring sides were jus to start here at the geneva headquarters on thursday morning but the united nations has now said that will be delayed until friday we don't know exactly what time but the delay is being caused by the fact that the hoochie delegation the rebel delegation are still in the capital of sana that is because the saudi arabia at the head of the coalition has

refused to allow them to fly now they were jew to go out to a mosque up in amman with some injured civilians for medical treatment but i think the saudi coalition of sea looking at whether they were militiamen exactly who the injured people were and whether there were any iranians of whatever profession also on that flight so this is now all up for consultation with the special envoy for the yemen martin griffis is said he's not worried by that delay this is usual he said and he is sure everybody consultations are going on at the moment to make sure this matter could be cleared up and he also said that many confidence building measures were going to be discussed when the two sides get here in geneva and these included the vaccination program we've seen the cholera epidemic has taken many casualties amongst children especially on the old in yemen

and also he said perhaps they should have another measure which is a prisoner swap he said that would give some hope to families on all sides of the conflict that real measures were being taken and that there was some hope for their future and the political process in the peace process could actually take root here in geneva while diplomacy is delayed in geneva there is increased desperation on the ground in yemen seven people have been injured after security forces disperse crowds of protesters and are simmonds reports from neighboring to. a full day of protests and reports of violence away from here at one gathering when police intervened to disperse protesters a security official says they opened fire and some demonstrators were injured the street panel was torn down it thank the united arab emirates which backs the local administration. eyewitnesses say

a number of roads have been blocked by demonstrators in government controlled mccullough since sunday demonstrations have been going on in many parts of the south people who find themselves in poverty as the economy of yemen collapses its currency is now at its lowest values ever against the dollar food prices have never been higher what the civilians make of the un's attempt to get dialogue going between the warring sides and shabby adding i don't know how the people are destroyed and the situation requires mutual agreement if we really are arabs and we really are patriotic we have to compromise and concede to each other and god willing we will all succeed and the country will have a space for us all no one wants anything but peace. with the holiday and we call on all the parties in those disagreeing to unite under one banner in order to relieve the people from the division they've reached and relieve them from suffering and also to end the siege and the recent deterioration of the currency also to put the

country's interest above their own personal interests and shun their differences some hope then despite an underlying cynicism what can survey leans do other than wish for some sort of progress towards peace in geneva the diplomatic. confidence building while in yemen the key words are different increasing desperation the un's world food program says eight point four million people are now on the brink of starvation the norwegian refugee council says that the collapse of yemen's economy could cost more lives than in the war itself hundreds symons out jazeera djibouti. there were a senators of questions executives of facebook on twitter about foreign influence and election campaigns social media giants have been warned that new laws could be on the way to stop them from being a platform for election fraud is ok to report. the era of the wild

west in social media is coming to an end so says the vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee telling the bosses of facebook and twitter that government regulation is coming and i'm skeptical that ultimately you'll be able to truly address this challenge on your own i believe congress is going to have to act i think both sheryl sandberg of facebook and jack dorsey of twitter began their testimonies with sober assessments of their own operations leading up to the hacking of the us elections two years ago we found ourselves unprepared and ill equipped for the immensity of the problems that we've acknowledged which of them on notably missing was the chief executive of google's parent company alphabet larry page who declined the committee's invitation to testify i'm deeply disappointed that google one of the most influential digital platforms in the world chose not to send its own top corporate leadership to engage this committee the tone toward the tech exacts who did appear was more positive senators praised facebook's efforts

last month to remove more than six hundred accounts linked to fake users based in iran and russia facebook said it has hired more than twenty thousand content monitors who speak fifty languages let me be clear we are more determined than our opponents and we will keep fighting when bad actors try to use our site we will block them when content violates our policies we will take it down and when our opponents use new techniques we will share them so we can strengthen our collective efforts. the tech giants say they'll work with government to develop regulations but it remains to be seen when new rules would be coming the u.s. intelligence community including the f.b.i. and the cia say what is clear is that the integrity of the u.s. elections in the upcoming midterms in november is under attack and the giant.