who makes the thunder wrong. god who has ears to hear you who are hidden in the clouds who watches spring where you are. you see all that the white has made us suffer the white man's god asks him to commit crimes but the god within us wants to do good. our god who is so good so just or does us to revenge our wrongs. is he who will direct our arms and bring us the victory it's he who will assist us we all should throw away the image of the white man's god who is so pitiless listen to the voice of liberty that speaks in all our hearts. let's say we need to wait for the moment fade up do you need. a freakin eat food

deal would do eighty plays on don't tell if they could just as shown the system of colonialist guys he's they don't say he would do so holy. shit because of clue in the us on this is discovered. the liberation war would last twelve years. alongside george b.s. who booked months a former coach driver an air force want to son lead the charge earning the nickname to sound vet your capacity to breach enemy lines. these black jacobins crushed all the clonal armies inflicting the poland with his first military defeat. this images at the time when you saw it live it becomes master of the entire island and so this image i think condenses the fear that white people felt of black uprising is a man named simon taylor who is one of the richest planters in jamaica in the early nineteenth century and when he hears that the french are planning to retake the

island of sound the man he says out of that are going to be able to do it. and the reason is the way of fighting wars is different in the west indies to what it is in europe and if tucson and the other chiefs decide to submit maybe they can take over the island again maybe they can retake the colony if they don't submit they'll burn the towns and retreat to the mountains and live as maroons and they'll wait for the french soldiers to die of disease this is in fact what happens with the clear expedition that tries to be takes on the man. that. no european nation managed to reconquer the island in one thousand for the first black republican history was born out of the ashes of sentiment in haiti with the slaves victory the word freedom resonated throughout the world and with it the fear that the revolution would contaminate all the plantations. on

the part of. the for the for. the. it was the revolution made by slaves that had world historical consequences that slavery river aleutian in send to main destroyed the most productive colony in the in the world in a time when there's demographic growth and increasing demand for slave produce commodities half the world's production was withdrawn from the world market by the haitian revolution so not only is there expansion there's a huge hole in this horse sources of supply so that reconfigured the hole that led to keep colony. by the time europe woke

up from the haitian trauma ten thousand white inhabitants had already fled the island. plantation owners quickly found new lands where they could apply their skills everywhere people wanted to capitalize on their knowledge of intensive farming sugar in cuba. cotton in the united states and coffee in brazil the freedom slaves had snatched in haiti had a paradoxical consequence it reinforce lavery all over the american continent. in rio's back country the party of a valley had for a long time been covered with impenetrable primary forests. today bare mountains are all that is left. trees were cleared in the early one nine hundred centuries to give way to intensive coffee culture the new source of wealth.

as goods fuzzy and there's a vent by about l.s.d. my visit. to g. is at the feet gonna git to be made is it a. name. ls it. defies and this it just got out of was meant to happen that meet. some masters possessed up to one thousand slaves all applied a scientific organization of labor. rigorous accounts were kept every day. and persuaded became the fundamental principle guiding plantation organization.

everything was built around the coffee drying grounds the slaves had to go out in groups in the morning to plant or to pick and the big plantations they had slave quarters enclosed barracks with one entrance and so it looks like a car still situation was certainly hard to escape but the other reason is you could get the slaves up all that once in the morning and then as they marched out the gate you could give them their tools. though the space organizes the flow of labor. everything thing has a function so that you don't even have to watch the slaves because you know what they're supposed to be. so it's a kind of industrial production producing industrial raw materials for the factories of britain and new mass consumption markets so there's a huge transformation of production which means for the slaves it's much more

exploitative the output precisely of those up ten times an average in each of those crops from what i've been in the eighteenth century. five thousand six hundred miles from europe these men and women are the hidden face of the industrial revolution. the world was changing in the early nineteenth century europe was verbalizing growing wealth of money flowed freely and london was more than ever the world's economic epicenter. in the british capital the new middle class flocked to the new department stores forgetting that the cotton sundresses combs ivory umbrellas and

sweets they purchased with the fruits of slave labor. there's a disjunct between what's happening in the colonial societies and what's happening in the metropolitan societies and the metropolitan policy makers begin to disavow what's happening in the colonies in some ways and they stop recognising that kind of violence as their own violence slavery is the opposite of liberal freedom so britain has the very freedom has to say slavery is wrong british abolition of the slave trade is the greatest justification say well we're really disinterested it's not for interest economic motives but for ideological motives we're for freedom. businessmen looking for more secure investments. investing in british spinning

mills was indeed much less incriminating. there was no mosque the plan in setting up the global economy as we see it today they were just you know manufacturers in britain developing new machines these machines suddenly needed much more cock so they tried to buy this cotton somewhere they didn't really care where it came from but the place where they found it where they were able to buy huge quantities at ever had cheap prices this was in the americas and this was eventually in the united states. in this new industrial society the supply of raw materials was the key to success. from an economic perspective the world's leading financial power no longer needed the slave trade. you need to know seven great britain resolve to abolish the transatlantic slave

trade the thing that i think also needs to be said is that this was not simple altruism on the part of great britain in other words it wasn't simply the humanitarianism of the. abolition movement it's that britain did not want other imperial rivals to have the benefit of slave labor when in fact they didn't. in eight hundred fifteen armed with its naval supremacy great britain impose the cessation of the slave trade on france and its other commercial rivals this decision taken by the leading european slave power gradually shot the north atlantic slave trade routes. however at the same time to set off new deportations within slave countries by grouping together the slaves born on its soil the united states was also about to enter a new era of slavery. a fairly small percentage of the people brought over to the

americas in the slave trade actually came to north america probably three four five percent and yet by the time you get to one thousand nine hundred eight hundred twenty five eight hundred thirty a very large percentage of the a slave population is in the united states because of natural population growth so that is a very important part of the story thomas jefferson for example who advocated closing the slave trade did so at least in part because he knew that the slaves that he was going to sell from his plantations into the new plantation regions would become more and more valuable with the closing of the slave trade. cotton farming concentrated all of the country slave labor along the banks of the mississippi. by foot or by boat sold or brought by their owners one million slaves from new york baltimore washington and st louis were deported down south of

. new orleans and natchez became massive slave markets. after brazil the united states became the new land of industrial slavery. most of the people were between fourteen and twenty two they were sold single e. and they were roughly of a bias to mation have men have women so if you think about that here young people taken out of their families out of their communities ship a thousand miles away to really a very exploitative place where they have to form their own communities and their own families from scratch because that all the cut military that they had in their lives with such as it was was taken away.

buying slaves of both sexes and inside a union so that they would breed. this was the only way for plantation owners to increase their slave livestock the reproductive capacity the conception of children the bearing of children to term the raising of children has many meanings one of them is an economic meaning for slave holders and for the slave economy in general . women's lawns were included in the production system giving their masters full dominion over them. rape is a very common. one of the most important stories that we have is that of a young woman named celia celia lived in central missouri on a small farm and she was brought there at the age of fourteen and endured

three years of rape sexual assault by her own or poor three children she eventually kills her own are and is tried for murder there in central missouri and while she is ultimately convicted of murder and executed she's convicted because by law she's not permitted to assert self defense as an slaved woman but no one disputes that she was raped. to procure slaves brazil had to opt for another strategy perpetuating the slave trade but this time by illegal means. despite britain struggle to put an end to it the slave trade exploded in the southern hemisphere. within thirty five years over two point five million captives embarked from west africa to plantations all over the world. they were soon joined by four hundred

thousand cap this on the eastern coast was main market was in zanzibar. if you look from eight hundred fifteen to let's about around eight hundred fifty eight hundred fifty five. there were actually more slaves transported across the atlantic then it any equivalent time in the whole history of the slave trade at the time is supposed to be done. indian ocean is one of the oldest commercial exchange zones in the world. africa and east have been trading there for over two thousand years. along these routes circulate ivory food products clothes as well as african captives.

driven by western demand zanzibar became a strategic crossroads. here in zanzibar one of the world's last lead trade ports was about to develop. zanzibar developed in the nineteenth century largely as a major center of trade. but also became the center of a large commercial empire something of zanzibar controlled not only zines about but tried to control the whole cost line. by eight hundred sixty s. something like twenty thousand slaves what coming through. but of these slaves eight thousand six thousand may be. exported out.

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explosives in front of athletes training there then a second bomb went off nearby those are the headlines now back to slavery. this is the story of a world whose territories were forged by the slave trade a world where violence subjugation and profit imposed their roots the slave system created the greatest accumulation of wealth the world had ever seen up to that moment in time. in seven hundred ninety the slave trade was at a climax more than one hundred thousand captives were deported every year. at the extremes of human domination even in slavery we find there is always resistance there is always tension and there's always struggle.

zanzibar merchants captured their slaves on the continent. back then eighty percent of the slaves deported to zanzibar peasants who lived around lake malawi they still cultivated land there today. every year now women reenact initiation rites inherited from their ancestors this ceremony was originally meant to prepare teenagers for future hardships. families fled their villages to escape from the slave traders violence. exile expose them to poverty starvation and disease. in the eyes

of philanthropist from the greatest slave trading nations great britain and france others were now to blame for the cruelty of slavery. in zanzibar the others where they are. and then slavery became the criteria for creating a hierarchy the states of the americas including the united states were less than britain because they could live with slavery the brazilians the cubans were morally corrupt because they weren't bothered by by coexisting with the evils of slavery so they were they were on a lower standard than the british africans were ruled out. the world map was redrawn to distinguish enlightened powers from half civilized countries barbarian kingdoms and savage lands.

religions political regimes and degree of civilization make up a value system used to rank peoples around the world. with these standards slavery had become a backward practice unworthy of a civilized nation merely fighting the slave trade no longer was enough slavery had to be eradicated. with this global surge of abolition and slavery and institution as old as humanity began to shrink. the movement was launched by the former spanish colonies when came the british colonies. called by the french and finally the dutch. war with the victory of the abolitionists slavery became a thorny problem for the united states. how could they renounce slavery when the american economy was run by southern plantation owners. this wealthy elite often

considered itself as heir to the greco roman civilization which legitimated slavery many claim the connection staging it in the architecture and interior decoration of their homes for them slavery was a mainstay of the social order. one of the men who served as a slave ship captain and actually probably the best known slave ship captain from that history is john newton the man who wrote the famous him amazing grace he said that watching human beings treated as they were in this system slavery had the effect of hardening the human heart of eradicating sympathy and newton says the violence is learned the violence is learned within the slave trade it's not the moral failing of an individual that's

at issue here it's a requirement of the job. clash between those who considered slavery has a necessary evil and those who experienced it as a retrograde practice resulted in a devastating civil war in one thousand nine hundred eighty one the united states burst into flames nearly two hundred thousand afro americans enrolled in the union army. for african-americans the war is a war for abolition from the start be they enslaved people who watch who wait who take their opportunities at every chance during the war to further the union's interest or free african-americans a half million of them in the north many of whom will raise troops volunteer themselves for the union forces raise money and care for black soldiers when the

union army fails to do so. ha. the song. hundred sixty five after four years of destructive warfare united states declared the abolition of slavery. at last they could claim their place amongst the most unlikely nations of the world.

so workers gain their freedom but this freedom is very very limited and it's especially limited economically and of course then that reconstituted state governments of the american south they are deeply repressive and they are deeply interested in fixing workers to places not allowing them to work in other sectors of the economy. freedom but nothing else. in the united states as well as in france or jamaica laws forbidding the equal treatment of freed slaves were promulgated. they were denied their rights to vote. at the fence and freedom of movement. those who protested or killed those who refused to work were incarcerated and sentenced to forced labor. accounts by former slaves recorded in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine and kept in the library of

congress. aged sixteen in one thousand nine hundred eighty five fountain hughes recalled his first days as a free man. when he found out that we were free what any. two different people. run away. stanwell could we have know. what you. want to make already know. here. they are now i couldn't. cross a street. race attached the former slave to a specific territory legally confining him to ghettos without any hope of getting out. former slaves were from then on subjugated by virtue of their skin color.

the violence of any white person against the body of any black person was permitted by law. with emancipation in the united states in eight hundred sixty five with the end of the civil war four million cotton growers in slave cotton grows when their freedom europeans by the eight hundred six thousand eight hundred seventy is try to find ways to secure a carton and one of the places they begin to look at is the continent of africa which has a very long history of cotton agriculture eight hundred seventy three the abolition of the slave trade and slavery and unexpected repercussions in africa block on the coast to survive population continue to grow their emancipation give europeans a justification for sending their armies the belgians then the french satellite western coast the british followed in nigeria and on the eastern coast all in the name of progress and the good of humanity. about. a quandary.

no member seen of it by let. me look those issues dilute control a thread going to zip ask a look at question go to india. wherever great britain intervened would apply pressure to put an end to the selling of slaves in one thousand nine hundred three in negotiating the abolition of the slave trade with the sultan of zanzibar. this is in some ways ironic that the british can mean to abolish slavery and slave trade but by doing it it really forced people to say if we can't export slaves we will use the slaves within to produce things that we can export.

spurred on by these grand moral principles dozens of europeans went off in search of adventure ready to invest in the wrong to tear off that europe needed. the missionary dr david livingstone became the figurehead for abolitionist explores. the people who supported these missions what businesspeople people with money so they probably had some idea of why the interested is not just interested in finding the stock kept mountains of africa but when it comes to missionaries livingstone was actually quite clear he knew or what the capitalists what interested in.

the missionary organization he told them that this is philanthropy last five percent that there is an interest for you as businessmen and he said quite openly philanthropy joined us to fight against slavery abolish slavery because that is an interest for you you would produce cloth to sell to the people. some explorers made the most of local merchants advice and logistical support. among the latter was. one of the most important slave traders in western africa he controlled an immense territory along lake tanganyika. thanks to. andrew morton stanley went up the congo river and chorus traditional village chiefs into signing contracts that stripped them of millions of acres of land for the benefit of the belgian king leopold the second. penry stanley landed.

and penetrated deep into africa on the way he rechristened the cities of kissing ghani in kinshasa with his own name he was soon joined by french british and german explorers who entered africa from the west these expeditions marked the transition from evangelizing missions to european imperialism depicted as a young boy began to trade along that central wrote. it on the congo he traded over a large area and was the last. figure they're called also had his old almost boss in a lobby. although neglected. house tells us much about the fortune this great merchant a must. in his autobiography recounted his negotiations with stanley in the belgian diplomats. stanley arrived with a dozen europeans we met at the councils and he told me. we wish you to accept to

become governor in the name of belgium and that your voice the belgium flag in the districts clear unlike your rule. i hosted one its diamond falls when i arrived and my men did the same wherever we came. former slaves were enlisted in the conquering armies. weapons in hand the french the belgian and the british went deeper and deeper into the equitorial forest. europeans placed peasant communities under military control and forced them to produce palm oil rubber cocoa coffee and of course cotton. on these farms nothing distinguished former slaves from expropriated farmers. and outs of small change and a few ounces of salt were enough for europeans to claim they were progressive.

former slave trade routes became the roots of forced labor. if they use it like they do lose it all put the gate with a value falsie deuce down god knows it's love i made it by plays it when you discover where they lived all. all day long. only be a place yet and that them up wanted to avoid you to be the a unique individual. only a was a day a dollar was help of a bit really to be to do feel captured by then sold by henry stanley to a robber farmer a congolese slave describe the acts of violence perpetrated in villages administered by the belgian some foreigners employed by the state took advantage of the absence of the chiefs to abuse torture and sometimes even kill people

a man nicknamed the eagle thanks to his cruelty was the chief supervisor of the robber department this man was very cruel he killed a lot of people. in this hard labor system missionary's became the helpless witnesses of the farmers abuses armies bankrolled by the belgians terrorized villagers and cost rebellions. every bullet was counted and to prove that they had used their weapons well soldiers had to bring back the hands of their victims a stray bullet when an innocent loses hand. in front is used if you are giving us your live your lungs don't get me bay city report i will probably look when you open your ditzy real easy part of the bill and when i knew it was awfully good when i link cook it was a free game pretty fair accept the last super must have been pulling for accept the

lie misused t.v. that this could. be viewed on a flick. with its droves of doctors and i missed the colonial administrators race was used by europe as a scientific tool to justify its domination africa became a homogeneous entity relegated to the very bottom of the human scale race mistrustful against slavery as principles for the two pillars of colonisation. the continuation of racial hierarchy is often emancipation is not remotely surprising because it was all that in the ways in which the abolitionists thought the numbers of abolitionists who truly had a conception of african culture african men and women in any way equal to them was relatively small.

even the most egalitarian of the abolitionists assume that you know british culture is civilized evolved at cetera et cetera i mean that's part of the that's part of our understanding. once they had progressed deep into the continent the europeans built railways from the interior to the coasts. at the end of the lines the capitals of the new colonies group the car lagos'. one block or two on the cape town doris all. cotton palm oil rubber cocoa and ivory were transported to these ports then shipped all over the world. i mean i'm not going to.

get into that. at the time of colonial conquest african political powers with whom the europeans have been trading for five centuries but deprived of all the rights. brazil one of the first territories to see sugarcane fields flourish was one of the last to ban slavery. on may thirteenth reaching eighty eight members of brazil ratify the abolition of slavery. ending four hundred fifty years of africa

brazilian enslavement. oh movimento what his son used vetoed yours a little bit as you add a movement to call set of a good faith to put a who's no adam of him into had to call in q.'s new good resist of it and we will veto. de jure but as you get a cubit as you put his office a civilization and look at e.g. issues and the way they have the progress it does if it is a soul is to bet on did at the maine shit that i live this quietly mean a soul that bought a body calls out the police could have a dome was. a limb in a song this kind of you don't have is to move immutable is when used to but it didn't get them bang it was near goose and they started a bit as you put it out was bought a bit was just at the minute in. the writings of raymundo niña rodriguez a professor of forensic medicine at the university of bio illustrate this point in

eight hundred ninety one he reflected on the destiny of a slave descendants. the negro race in brazil will forever constitute one of the factors are inferiority as a people it would be important to determine to what extent this inferiority lies in the negro populations inability to civilize itself and have on the whole mixing races compensates this inferiority. both the government and the planters wanted to whiten the population the former to race the traces of slavery the latter to depend less upon this newly freed workers. in one thousand nine hundred one two hundred fifteen thousand europeans arrived in brazil three times as many people as in the darkest hour of the history of the slave trade human trafficking was replaced by the immigration of millions of poor europeans.

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the course of twelve centuries an estimated nine to twelve million african captives were transported on the transom and eastern routes from fifteen sixteen onward in three and a half centuries thirteen million men women and children were deported to the americas between the raids famines wars and epidemics this globalization of violence caused the death of an estimated fifty million africans both direct and indirect victims of the great empires lost for expansion historians today are still trying to evaluate the demographic economic political and social consequences of this human tragedy unparalleled in scale to this day. i think will truly be making progress when we all accept the history of slavery as are all of our history so this tree of slavery is not black history and it's not just a history of white colonization but the history of human equality is the legacy for

all of us and it's a legacy we all must contend with right not a white person only thinking about themselves as the descendant of a slave holder but the white person thinking of themselves the descent of a slave to write the black person the of themselves as a sense of slaveholders way of thinking that we've inherited the basic structures of these societies right these basic inequalities but what we do with that is up to us that can really help us move forward as a society. hello there been some sensible showers in pakistan and of the other side the reason sense for showers in turkey and they will be repeatable but if you're in between and chances are you are to say iran or iraq there's nothing happening it's still fairly

hot potential share on the caspian does exist as a turkey's from ally to get them to come syria into lebanon or syria is still dry and dusty the breeze not particularly strong hinting at maybe a something or regime are blowing down through the gulf for these much and it really says to humid the qatar in particular temps around about forty martin a typical twenty seven in still suggests cloudy and drizzly weather in somalia which is what it should be this there for the next day or so some sensible weather has happened further south we often jump from middle east get out towards southern africa here which is this time the is often just big blue skies but look at this they've already seen a significant amount of rain when i say significant twenty millimeters in the reservoirs around cape time this promise is more and it moves eastward towards puerto lizabeth again another area which could do with the reservoirs topping up emergency sanctions at the moment so this is going to be good news for thursday and possibly friday as well.

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i welcome to our jazeera live from team dennis also coming up. landslides very villages in northern japan as a powerful earthquake leaves dozens missing and cuts to millions preparing for a for an exodus of refugees from italy we report from the turkey syria border as fears of an affair. grade. unfit to be president an anonymous aide talks of a resistance movement within the white house in an exclusive article for the new york times. that first north korea's leader kim jong il says he's ready to push on with denuclearization of the peninsula and despair can have some frustration with the u.s. he's agreed to meet his south korean counterpart in again in two weeks' time but

the news came from a meeting in pyongyang with senior officials from seoul kim says he wants to realize denuclearization within the first term of donald trump telling the south korean officials his faith in the u.s. president was unchanged president trump canceled a visit to the north by his secretary of state last month citing a lack of progress but the u.s. state department responded to the comments a spokesperson said as president made his say to the improvement of relations between north and south korea cannot advance separately from resolving north korea's nuclear program the united states and the republic of korea work closely together on north korea issy's and remain in close contact to coordinate a unified response to north korea by let's go live now to the south korean capital seoul and our correspondent there rob mcbride it had been feared rob hadnot this the slights if you like in the repression between north korea and washington would

affect north-south relations or that doesn't seem to be the case. that's right martin this announcement that the summit will go ahead was expected but as you said there are think a sense of relief here in seoul that what is happening in the relationship between pyongyang and washington doesn't seem to have impacted too badly get on the relationship between north and south korea young the senior security official for south korea returning to brief people here the blue house the presidential office and also the media here in seoul thursday on the negotiations that took place wednesday in pyongyang confirming that this summit will go ahead between the eighteenth and the twentieth of september when jay and traveling to pyongyang remember this will be the third into korean summit this year chong says that the north koreans remain dedicated still committed to the panmunjom declaration this was the declaration that the two leaders came out with in that first summit way

back in april which seems an awful long time ago now the state run television in north korea has been showing pictures within the last couple of hours of the meeting between chung and the south korean delegation and kim jong un it is all smiles and handshakes but there is a sense of frustration as you mentioned there from the north korean side that the progress that has been made but it has been confirmed that kim jong un did give to the south korean delegation this personal message to pass back to the united states and to donald trump we don't know what is in that message but chong is due to have a phone conversation later thursday with his counterpart in the u.s. john bolton which presumably will be some kind of message giving the north koreans commitment still to the whole process and trying to kick start things which does seem at the moment as you mentioned there to have stalled and going back then to

the summit this year to take place between the. twentieth of this month i presume therefore we can expect some more encouraging words with regard to denuclearize ation of the peninsula but also there's talk of there declaring an official a formal peace between the two countries because of course they are technically still at war despite the one hundred fifty three armistice that's right that still remains a question when this final peace decoration could indeed be announced we are also seeing confirmation of other concrete measures in the north-south relationship that have been confirmed the setting up of a liaison office between north and south korea this has been long awaited it was due to be set up last month or guess but because of the spat between pyongyang and washington that it was put off now we are getting kind of confirmation that it will go ahead but what i think we're seeing martin here is the negotiation dialogue

working at two different speeds as far as north and south korea are concerned they still seem to be going ahead moving forward with the process of moving closer together but as you mentioned there the u.s. state department using this opportunity of giving a gentle reminder we're told well most sounds like a warning that these negotiations cannot happen in isolation as south korea has stated way back at the start of this process it should be leading towards denuclearization and as the far as the americans will remind everybody concerned we have seen precious little example of that marty mcbride live in seoul thanking. that dozens of people have been reported missing after a powerful earthquake hit parts of the northern japanese island of hokkaido the six point seven magnitude quake calls widespread devastation. reports. a desperate search for the missing after a powerful earthquake hits northern japan in the early hours of the morning

damaging towns and cutting power to millions across the island three reactors at the tamara nuclear plant were running on backup generators landslides were triggered in dense forests on the mountainside of the rural town of a tsunami covering homes a relief and rescue command center has been set up. i've heard reports such as people having cardiac arrests 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 like. the governments deployed thousands of troops to help with the rescue operation the quake also shut down all transportation services including the airport and hokkaido telephone lines and mobiles are down it's been a difficult week for japan on tuesday typhoon gebbie the most powerful to hit japan

in twenty five years killed at least ten people the largest airport had to be evacuated in the wake of the storm and millions lost power in various cities now people are left to deal with another natural disaster japan sits on the ring of fire volcanoes and oceanic trenches experiencing around twenty percent of the walls of quakes of magnitude six and higher 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 and as the people affected wait to hear about their loved ones there are fears of

aftershocks or even another serious earthquake that seismologists one could strike at any time she hears i've got four zero us president donald trump has told his syrian counterpart that the world is closely watching what his military is doing in syria's north west for weeks bashar al assad's been preparing an offensive to retake it labe it's the last remaining rebel held province in the country the u.n. has warned that an attack could spark a humanitarian catastrophe be very very judicious and careful because the world is watching that cannot be used slaughter if it's a slaughter the world is going to get very very angry and the united states is going to get very angry to the leaders of iran russia and turkey on friday for talks about syria top of the agenda will be the governments the syrian government planned offensive to retake it lip turkey fears that major fighting could push

hundreds of thousands of refugees over its borders stephanie deca 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

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 know 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 fled to look we're sleeping 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 than a permanent structures in 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 adlib will be the final major battle of this war stephanie decker al-jazeera on the turkey syria border. india supreme court has ruled that homosexuals sex should not be treated as a crime gay rights campaigners celebrated the landmark judgment as it was delivered within the last hour it strikes down a colonial era law which made homosexuality punishable by up to ten years in prison

u.s. secretary of state might compare and defense secretary james mattis are in india for talks that washington had canceled twice a share the focus will be struck teen.