mr tom welcome to the program at first what's your reaction to this news were you surprised. no i was not surprised and actually i know many my find what i'm about to say surprising but this is actually i think a win win for bob mohler paul man of four and donald trump ok well that is a surprise do explain. well the reason why i think it's a win win is most people do not understand that paul man of four was actually going to trial for something a little bit different in this upcoming trial than what he was recently on trial for back in virginia this was a trial that big on the on the charges that he failed to file as a foreign agent and so what we're going to see in this upcoming trial was many of the men much of the dark underbelly of lobbying and the work that paul man afore was doing as a foreign agent particularly given his overseas work and so much of that

information was now going to come to light and we would have most likely seeing how it is that many of the imaginations in the maneuverings that we saw leading up to the trumps a coronation to become the republican nominee for president how that took place and how that happened for example when we saw a language in the republican national convention that was changed that that became beneficial to the russians and you know issues like that we would have seen come into play and i think this trial would have really painted it sure is that what about this deal to cooperate with what's that all about and what's kind of threat to the present for the united states president. well now what it does is we see the president's former campaign chair now agreeing to actually cooperate and so up and so now we have seen donald trump praise paul mantle for for for not entering into

a plea deal and now the question becomes will he continue to offer such a positive spin on paul metaphor i think it i think he won't but now again it's just another nail in the coffin of bob muller and i think we're seeing bob muller meticulously move closer and closer to the president as we get closer and closer to the midterm election and so it's very interesting when you see. mahler it's trending upward as a relates to russia donald trump trending downward so you know you just said there's another one out of the company for three days out just as another man in the coffin for a book that we meant no i said another nail another nail in the coffin another nail for bob mother and donald trump's cause. i get it ok so we haven't heard from donald trump specifically about this yet it is something that is how he

manages to have to shape his tweeting responses because it what we've already heard from sarah huckabee sanders again distancing the president and the white house from paul amount of four and that's typical for what we've seen from this president from this white house on a number of different people in fact we've seen it as it relates to michael cohen and others who have been charged or found or pled guilty in this instance and so i think we'll continue to see that going forward from this white house from this president ever have just great to get your perspective appreciate it very much thank you. coming up on this news from london hearken florence is done created to a tropical storm but still wreaking havoc across the east coast of the united states two years after the defeat of eisold for me iraqi city if we tell you why residents say that now facing a new type of battle against the government. coming up to the world of boxing counting down to an equally awaited rematch with that story.

at least three protesters including a fourteen year old boy have been shot dead by israeli fire during friday protests new gaza's border with israel the health ministry in gaza says dozens of others have been injured more than one hundred seventy palestinians have been killed by israeli forces when the process began on march thirtieth donna beauty who is a human rights lawyer and former advisor to the palestinian authority she says palestinians are risking their lives because the desperate for change. for the past five and a half months twenty five separate fridays palestinians have been going towards the wards where the electrified fence is in order to simply demand one thing that they be given their freedom and that they be allowed to return and what israel has deliberately done is gun them down the mere fact that the protests started you think it's a call to people conscience to say why is it that soon million people have been

forced to live in a situation that the israelis have imposed upon them people are caged in unable to leave unable to have the basic elements of of of freedom and of dignity all because israel continues to impose a brutal siege on them these really army has close roads leading to the village of qana in occupied east jerusalem which is scheduled for demolition as scuffles have broken out between soldiers and palestinian protesters angry at israel's decision to flatten the village to make way for the building of illegal settlements last week israel supreme court gave the go ahead after rejecting an appeal rank on has more now from on. on friday the palestinian commission on walls and settlements issued this statement in english and hebrew saying that any israeli soldier involved in the demolition of a lock model will be prosecuted in the international criminal court now palestine

is actually a member of the international criminal court has been since two thousand and fifteen and the statement which was issued in arabic just a couple of days ago says that the court's decision to demolish the village. evacuate its inhabitants flagrantly violates the right statute and is considered as a crime that falls within the jurisdiction of the international criminal court now we've also heard from senator us senator dianne feinstein she says via twitter israel must not demolish the palestinian community of qana last month the only reason to destroy this community. it's to expand the by israeli settlements and split the west bank and off the potential for peace depends on what happens in holland but so we've had a lot of international condemnation the european parliament in the last couple of days and now the u.s. and its dying for feinstein using twitter to get her message across the international criminal court is also another avenue that the palestinians could potentially see if they state militia takes place however the residents of the

activists hit don't know when the israeli bulldozers will come in so hey they wait wondering what their fate might be. super typhoon has made landfall in the northeast and philippines more than five million people are risk from two hundred forty kilometer an hour winds which make my goods equivalent to a category five hurricane thousands have already been evacuated from the area residents say tin roofs to be ripped off houses and many are without power went out and you can has been gauging the mood before the typhoon hit northern. we drove around to get a good old city today and spoke to civilians who are now taking shelter in several schools across the city they tell us they were forcefully evacuated of course for good reasons because they were in the storm's path more than six million people are expected to be affected here in the region of luzon alone and that is expected to

hit hard not just this area but also across the country and that is because the region of luzon is the food basket of the philippines majority of those evacuated those who are in the storms are farmers and fisherman who now say that beyond the immediate security threat that they're facing they're also concerned about the loss of their livelihood this is why some of them in fact refused to leave their farms and their cattle behind and that's something that the government understands it understands the need for but beyond the immediate emergency response there is an economical impact that must be taken cared of and of course since two thousand and thirteen the philippine government plea it has learned its lessons from the very devastating typhoon haiyan then it remains to be seen just how prepared the government is now what we know though are civilians continuously taking shelter fearing for their lives and just basically dreading something that they've gone through several times before. four people including

a mother and baby have died off to tropical storm florence made landfall on the east coast of the united states and north carolina hundreds of people who ignored evacuation advice and now waiting on rescue services to escape their flooded homes authorities downgraded the storm from a hurrican but warn that life threatening storm surges aust expected kristen salumi reports now from fights bill in north carolina. the storm was downgraded to a category one when it hit the coast of north carolina overnight with strong winds driving rain and a growing surf weather experts warn there is much more to come i do want to emphasize that this is only the beginning florence is a very slow mover we'll continue to track along the south north carolina and south carolina coastline for the next twenty four to thirty six hours. the storm is slowly moving inland flood waters have begun submerging roads and seeping into

homes with up to seventy five centimeters of rain expected in some areas a storm surge on the news river north of the eye of the storm brought the most serious flooding so far emergency crews have been called to rescue hundreds who ignored evacuation orders utility workers that come from all over the country to help these are just a few of the trucks that are standing by the utility company has warned that millions of people could lose power so far the number is in the hundreds of thousands with the storm is far from over. further inland boarded up buildings and overturned trees but still waiting for the worst to calm kristen salumi al-jazeera fayetteville north carolina well let's get an update from any gotta go who stands by and wilmington north carolina i mean tell us what's happening there. we're getting some of those rain bands coming in here and this is what it was all about now the rain is. the biggest threat here according to forecast is we're

looking at about eight months worth of rain over the next couple of days because hurricane florence doesn't simply moved inland fast it's lingering over these two states north and south carolina and it will do so for at least two days cape fear river which is at the end of the street off to my right is just burst its banks it's flowing the wrong way as the water is from the coast a forced enlightens so the streets just down here are beginning to flood that's another big danger those tidal surges we were told about up to four makes as haven't happened and certainly the residents of wilmington i've really escape the worst of this storm we have got four confirmed deaths right now including a mother and infant child and we are hearing from the white house the president will be here sometime next week in the early to mid part of the week once those rescue efforts have been got underway and people have been rescued so he doesn't get in the way of that but the president is expected here sometime in the next few days it's pretty it will highly unusual event that to what degree kind of

a state be prepared for such a storm as this. while north carolina south carolina this whole eastern seaboard is not really any stranger to hurricanes they did prepare they got plenty of notice they knew this was coming you've got something like forty thousand engineers here from seventeen different states who will be on hand to get the power back on once this storm is cleared but again the storm is moving at walking pace that makes all of that very difficult so far we've got about at least half a million people who've lost power last time i checked it could be way more than that at the moment one point seven million people want a mandatory evacuation order of most did heed those orders and they were well supplied shelters for those people hotels in other states so they are well clear and safe the residents that did stay here while they are at least in wilmington are ok in other places we've heard those fall this confirmed clearly they didn't fare so well so it is. still

a dangerous storm it's one of those slow motion unfolding catastrophes it's not happening very quickly but the thing that we have to watch now is that rainfall eight months in the next few days that could be potentially deadly i do thanks very much indeed only got a good reporting from the world. but it's been two years since the iraqi army drove eisel fighters out of philly joe but the city is still struggling to recover the government has been working on reconstruction projects creating jobs and handing out compensation but many residents a little has changed and the resources are being unfairly distributed robinson reports now from baghdad for two years the people of fallujah have been struggling to rebuild much of the city was destroyed in twenty sixteen as iraqi forces battled isolate fighters some residents who live through the devastation say little has changed. electricity and services is so weak in the city as for the compensation there is now our neighborhoods are almost entirely devastated my house is

completely destroyed but i haven't received any fair compensation. that compensation is vital for people who've lost jobs businesses and homes they say the money isn't always fairly distributed. we haven't had fair compensation so far our house was destroyed and the entire neighborhood was leveled to the ground compensation is being granted only for those who have ties with the corrupt officials those who have no connection or sometimes getting half the compensation they should get volusia in the center of iraq has been a battleground for decades suffering some of the highest casualty numbers in the one nine hundred ninety one gulf war in two thousand and four u.s. forces invaded and forced gunmen from control of the city after the fall of saddam hussein. by spring twenty fourteen large areas had been seized by eisold fighters. two years later fallujah was freed after

a long seized by the iraqi army but much of it had been destroyed the local government says it's rebuilding as fast as it can and that's giving some iraqis hope for the future. but when we got back to after the liberation we saw so much destruction and we estimated at least five years for the total reconstruction of fallujah now we're seeing some sort of efforts to rebuild the reconstruction. program in iraq which is being managed from here in baghdad at the ministry of construction and housing budgets are tight and it's up to the individual cities to manage the money to get. new projects are needed to improve things after i sold and also to fix the huge damage that affected the city as a whole this would require much support from the central government. but getting the proper compensation would help more people than live from day to day matheson.

relation outside the international whaling commission in brazil after a proposal by japan to allow commercial whaling was blocked. nearly ten years on from the financial crash that shook the world one family still feeling the effects and in sports. track. however we've still got a fair amount of warmth in too much of europe will see temperatures again getting into the high twenty's and thirty degree mark for some areas of cloud to go somewhere whether they're just around australia czech republic and parts of germany into poland and over towards that western side of russia but coming behind warm sunshine largely clear skies there for

a good part of france and spain part of england too and into southern parts of well so temperatures should get up to around twenty two celsius there for paris twenty one inch it was still getting up into the thirty's there for madrid that a bit of cloud around that western side of the med into southern parts of france but the thick a cloud the live the showers a little further east say we have got some wet weather there just pushing into ukraine just coming out of powder want to see showers system around the balkans as well and also around the black sea but lots of warmth around more warmth more sunshine as we go into sunday temps getting into the mid twenty's for paris could touch twenty two in london with thirty degrees there in madrid still some bits and pieces of cloud and some rain just around the iberian peninsula and that cloud of rain also affecting the far north america as we go through sas day a little wet for northern out here.

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and we're going to the top stories here on al-jazeera and donald trump's former campaign chairman told metaphor it's been guilty to criminal counts in a deal struck with the investigation into russian meddling in the presidential election. the rebels in yemen say fifteen people have been killed in saudi and iraqi led coalition airstrikes in the port city if it dated at least three protesters including a fourteen year old boy had been shot dead by israeli fire during friday protest the gaza's border with israel. north and south korea have opened a joint liaison office in the north border town of chi song and establishes

a permanent chinle of communication for two nations that have no formal diplomatic relations it comes just days before south korean president joy in the north korean leader kim jong un for a second time for me has more. another step towards cooperation and perhaps pianist's officials from north and south korea officially open an office in the border town of in north korea. starting from today. and discuss issues regarding the improvement of israel relations and prosperity of the three interviews twenty four hours and three hundred sixty five days we will meet face to face and to exchange ideas and solve difficult problems together. it's a first for the two countries who are technically still at war when the korean war ended sixty five years ago they signed an armistice but not a peace treaty and went into korean relations were at their lowest officials had to

communicate using loud hailer across the border. named by opening the north jointly as an office candidly discuss issues regarding into green relations and take necessary measures relations between the two countries have improved this year there was a historic summit between south korean president. and north korean leader kim jong il and that led to another first a summit between a sitting u.s. president and a north korean leader which brought renewed optimism that north korea may dismantle its nuclear weapons program but things haven't quite progressed as hoped a recent report by the u.n. nuclear agency says north korea is still developing nuclear arms last month u.s. president donald trump canceled secretary of state visit to pyongyang at the last minute citing the lack of progress in denuclearization talks but south korea is still committed to improving ties with the north leaders from the two countries

will meet next week and the white house has said it's open to holding a second summit with north korea and understanding perhaps that the best way to neutralize a. nuclear threats from north korea is to keep the lines of communication open florence three al-jazeera. now than japan says it's reconsidering membership of the international whaling commission after its proposal to reinstate commercial whaling was rejected the commission banned the practice in the one nine hundred eighty s. but japan says stocks have now recovered and sustainable waiting should be allowed as mrs newman reports from the commission and brazil's foreign up with the motion was defeated by a vote to forty one to twenty seven. the world's largest mammals of all the strongest passions of the trough about what should be fair game for human consumption. scientists and conservationists say whales play a fundamental role in maintaining the ocean city while countries like japan iceland

and norway argue that whale stocks are no longer depleted. at the sixty seventh international whaling commission conference a highly contentious motion led by japan to lift the current moratorium on commercial whaling was struck down we still think if enough and they should be. occupation so there so that the whales have heard of it we think it's ok so there are a lot of whale populations that are fine. but japan insists its rights are being denied and japan is i don't country. a body but into being resources including whales. it is very very important and we. are trying to sustain every use everybody enduring resources clearly angry over its defeat japan's deputy fisheries minister warned his country will be reassessing its continued membership in the

i.w.c. . outside the venue conservationist group celebrated their victory but they're still out here protesting and the reason is that even though the ban remains in place the capture and killing of whales continues countries like japan and iceland argue that it's necessary for scientific research even though much of the meat and is up on someone's table. host country brazil was also disappointed its initiative to create a marine sanctuary in the entire south atlantic was denied and that is it is the fact to be told by countries that are not in our region it is voted against by countries that are completely foreign trade now wils will at least remain off limits to those who believe that they're as legitimate a source of food as other mammals like pigs and if. you see in you an al-jazeera please. use

a senior policy adviser at the humane society international joins us via skype from the foreign office but a welcome to the program it was really any chance any points of japan's proposal gaining any traction and getting through. heinecke and banks know they didn't have a chance in far they made some mistakes on procedural grounds the way they advance the proposal and developed it in the run up to the conference. gave them very little prospect but i think fundamentally the real issue is japan just doesn't see that it's lost any social license for whaling given the attitude of the whole global community in the community of nations they are really out of step just as norway and iceland are good all within japan itself and fishy within japanese would say because as we heard from the film that there was trying to pursue they say

a sustainable means of fishing and if. you know you've been the species that have recovered. you can fish for them right well that's the attitude of the japan fisheries agency who whose influence in attitudes dominate this conference but the fact is that within japan there's a strong debate over whether it's right and whether it's ecologically practical to hunt whales and to use them for food and there's a strong domestic opposition ultimately that's what's going to knock out japan's whaling although all the other things going on in the world will do so i think there's a strong internal debate that's going to carry the day eventually japan still hunts wales with scientific purposes says and so do norway and iceland how far are we from the end of whaling all together do you think if you think we're in a kind of a cold war containment strategy basically there are three nations that whale. nenni

former whaling nations are now the strongest of the like minded anti whaling nations and it's increasingly less likely than anyone's going to enter whaling so you've just got the three carrying on. i think it's going to take a while but there's a big attitude change around marine help there's a greater understanding of wales in the special role they play in ecosystem functioning that was the subject of one of the resolutions that was approved this time around an item you see saw some real progress in terms of resolutions concerning noise pollution and affirmation of the effects of the i.w.c. bycatch initiative to protect whales from becoming entangled in fishing gear things of that nature so what's really interesting is that the body is itself morphing into a kind of a true whale preservation and see that's at the heart of the tension it's really

come a long way since the era of the forty's when it was called the whalers club ok very briefly you have the last question is how can you deal with noise pollution from well you can't you can't guide the whales to areas where ships can you know but we can map out some of the common whale migration routes and institute some measure of self control on ourselves and our shipping activities our military exercises the kinds of things that trip them up yes sonar so that's going to require international collaboration which is that the reason that we need to keep japan and all with countries currently involved in i.w.c. involved in the future these are minor differences of opinion between nations that are otherwise tremendous allies very. appreciate that very much presidency senior policy adviser the humane society international. thank you.

every new to peerless be may for hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day the overseas development institute says drastic changes need to be made in order to eliminate extreme poverty the world bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than one dollar ninety cents per person per day eight hundred million people survive on that now and that number is expected to half of by twenty thirty but the london based think tank says that extreme poverty will persist without increased investment in health and education and in social protection is calling for an immediate redistribution of international aid with a focus on countries which are the most vulnerable or forty million south africans are currently living well below the poverty line the government there along with all world leaders had set a goal to eliminate extreme poverty by the twenty thirty but economists say that south africa is unlikely to meet this target for me to miller as more now from johannesburg. the sprawling township of soweto is rich in contrast while there is

a growing middle class in a vibrant economy many here live in poverty one of those people is rosy. she's unemployed and looks after four grandchildren with the government pension of one hundred dollars a month and knowing that. it's too little money to feed four growing boys the money runs out before the month is over with struggle to survive she brings the children to this community center with they have what is often their only meal of the day government statistics show that poverty levels have increased since twenty eleven with fourteen million south africans now living in extreme poverty surviving on less than a dollar a day thirty million south africans live in poverty that's just over half the population and most of those affected are children while the government launched a national development plan to eradicate poverty by twenty thirty levels are still

rising the poorest of the poor live on just thirty five dollars a month spending a third of that on food reported by the overseas development institute says that up to sixty countries are unlikely to eliminate extreme poverty by twenty thirty almost a third us of africans are unemployed often relying on the government social grants to survive but with low economic growth economists say this is not sustainable progress singular on direction when the moment of population growth is higher then are we can on the growth or population growth rate is more than one of them or economic growth rate as we all know is if they get there if we are in a recession and are sort of salt of that on the back of pickup prices so for africans getting poorer according to the o.d.i. the world is managed to more than half the number of people living in extreme poverty still hundreds of millions like rosie. to be at the burden of hardship.

al-jazeera johannesburg well saturday marks the tenth anniversary of the collapse of the us investment bank many brothers was triggered the worst financial crisis since the great depression also effects reached across the world its roots lay in small towns in the united states and vulnerable families pursuing the dream of and ship reynolds has been to meet some of the victims. was the why just before the crash life was good for betty nikka nor her parents and her kids they'd recently bought a brand new house our house let's just hear it was a really big house it had five bedrooms four bathrooms all of all of that it just seemed so perfect but the dream house proved to be a cruel illusion a salesman had convinced her father may nardo to sign an adjustable rate mortgage on a property worth seven hundred fifty thousand dollars but the family's income was only sixty thousand dollars

a year in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine the area's housing prices plummeted like they did nationwide and their home payments rose higher and higher unable to make the monthly payments they reached out to their bank and we tried to refinance they wouldn't help us three weeks later menard zero lost his job and the dream house was sold what was the home worth by the three thirty and you bought it at seven hundred seventy thousand dollars yes and it was worth less than yes the family wound up nearly broke with their credit ruined i would get her for three years i know this area of california riverside county was one of the hardest hit during the housing collapse and the recession it had the third highest rate of home foreclosures in the entire us. fabian casarez his organization helps low income people with home.