live the very latest live in beijing thank you. now russian state media is reporting that contacts being lost to the reconnaissance aircraft of the mediterranean sea just off the syrian coast fourteen russian servicemen were on board the plane as it was returning to a lot of key a province all this happened to syrian air defense forces and just kept at a number of missiles fired at the coastal city of latakia the missiles were targeting a state run industrial compound it's not clear who launched the strikes but israel is suspected is thought to have been behind a series of earlier strikes targeting iranian and hezbollah forces who are fighting alongside the government stephanie decker has the latest from here near turkey's border with syria. a lot of mixed reports soon after the reports of these explosions multiple explosions but soon after the syrian official state news agency sana'a putting out a statement saying that its air defense systems had intercepted multiple missiles quoting

a military source saying that they were missiles that came from the sea so that will rule out reading between the lines the rebel forces putting it more on to a state actor because it was in the mediterranean you had various the presence of u.s. naval vessels the brits the turks and also israeli submarines believed to have to be placed there israel has been accused in the possibly using it submarines of targeting talk of course these things are never confirmed israel does confirm however that it does target iran when you know backed forces on the ground or weapon shipments or shipments it believes are deemed to the group hezbollah so again nothing confirmed but we do know that a technical institute was hit this is according to syrian state use agency the russian media spot nick saying that it was syrian army infrastructure so things not exactly clear what exactly was hit that the video showing large fireballs in the sky multiple missiles used but again it just shows you how complicated syria's war

is with all the talk is about the last a rebel held stronghold in the last stand of the opposition you still have various state actors with a lot of interests when it comes to syria. to yemen now where pro-government forces backed by the united arab emirates so they've launched a new phase of the offensive against what the rebels and hold data fighting flared again in the port city last week after the whole piece failed to attend peace talks in geneva. still ahead on the former leader's charge with corruption we take a look at the political future of pristina coach. and a natural disasters declared in parts of nigeria after flooding kills more than one hundred people. by the skyline of asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera.

hello there is two showers moseying about the east and black sea trying to cross into was the caspian by otherwise you see very little on this chart we're looking by satellites in a moment and that's where you see it still sunshine by day still up to thirty one in kabul there wasn't really much relief from the showers to the north and east about thirty three in tehran a hint maybe of showers coming to the southern caspian nothing to the west of that still into the forty's happily in iraq and that in q eight and still hang around about thirty mark in beirut so not much change just yet no change in season nor is there much for prevailing breeze down the girl so it's still quite shimon in bahrain and in abu dhabi for example on include qatar in this it's thirty eight degrees with a hint of assist only rising temperatures of forty one by the time we get to wednesday it could well be this is a dry dusty one humidity is dropped not certain central amano with sudden among solace to got the onshore breezes for the monsoon retreats it's still going to be daily cloudy and drizzly and green now it's going to rain recently heading towards

cape town trying to make something of it and so the cloud is then the green is this all going to give you some rain in the forecast only fifteen degrees certainly a hint of it but it does run certain takes two days disappear so it might actually be worth while. the weather sponsored by cattle and nice. when they're on line for humanity has been taken out is going to agree if we're talking about numbers on a spreadsheet or if you joined us on saturday i guarantee no one apple has a back story like yours they say is a dialogue and i'm less tired of seeing the negative stereotypes about native americans everyone has a voice this sort of thing that's your comments your questions i'll do my best to bring them into the cell join the global conversation on how to zero.

good to have you with us on al-jazeera and these are our top stories south korea's president. has met with kim jong un as he tries to revive store nuclear disarmament talks this is the first korean leader has traveled to the north and over a decade. the u.s. is escalating its trade war with china with another two hundred billion dollars worth of tabs on imports from the world's second biggest economy a ten percent hike will take effect from next monday. twenty five percent on january first next year syrian state media says its defense forces have intercepted five of the coastal city. there were reportedly targeting state run industrial buildings on the eastern outskirts israel is suspected to be behind the attack

meanwhile the russians reconnaissance plane has disappeared over the mediterranean sea off the coast of syria. russia and turkey have agreed to set up a demilitarized zone and syria's lost rebel held province of edler let's hope that this will capable of forces and rebel fighters apart russia's defense minister says that means that they'll be no military assault which many were fearing were a challenge reports from moscow. for weeks labor's been bracing itself for the assault that seemed imminent damascus and moscow both signaled it was coming for they wanted to clear out syria's final rebel stronghold and author of bombs that started forming again. but following a marathon meeting in sochi it looks like turkey's president has persuaded putin to try something different for a while at least the assault. necessary joining the meeting we took a close look at the situation and decided to create

a demilitarized zone along the contact one a syrian government forces on the armed opposition fifteen to twenty kilometers deep by the fifteenth of october of the current year. it's a success for reptile purdah one who has mounted an urgent diplomatic campaign to avert what the united nations said would be a major humanitarian disaster were merged together we will ensure the protection and the prevention of provocation of third parties and violations of the agreement . russia and turkey will carry out coordinate patrols on the borders of both sides of the demilitarized zone that will be designated all heavy weapons will have to be withdrawn from the buffer zone and what putin called radically minded rebels including higher. would have to pull out the details are to be agreed with damascus according to russia's defense minister yet again it's been made clear that despite all the talk of syria's territorial integrity its sovereignty that it's syrians

themselves that should be deciding the fate of their country ultimately it's outside powers that are calling the shots but those outside powers have their limitations to russia can't ignore turkey and monday's developments show that things russia needs to call it syrian intervention a success the return of refugees reconstruction the political process would be all but impossible without ankara's involvements turkey terrified of a new wave of homeless syrians put its foot down moscow listened and did lip gets a reprieve for now rory chalons how does iran moscow. now rescue teams in the northern philippines and digging through mon looking for survivors of a landslide ahead a mining area and province where many locals have been sheltering from tougher man quote with heavy rain continuing there is growing concern for those still missing as genuine in the reports from. these the mountain was

indestructible but the force of nature proved too great more than fourteen miners took shelter from the storm in a bunk house built into the hillside these thought they were safe but the landslide triggered by super could bury to forty feet deep this is the town in big province it bore the brunt of the storm's power the devastation is so widespread the full scale of the damage is not the nude. beach for news about her nephew twenty eight year old again told them he would be home but he never arrived. it will only go up sitting in on perhaps this is what god intended can we contradict what god has planned for us nobody wanted this to happen this was an accident what the local government is trying to do here is to expedite the process of rescue and read feeble operations the backhoes here have been

working all day trying to clear the road invision pave the way for a speedier process or rescue and read siebel operations they have also set up a temporary emergency and rescue center here there is a board over there that has the list of those who had been missing. rescuers say the chances of finding survivors are slim but they are doing everything they can bringing down machines to this site is extremely difficult so volunteers had to dig through the rubble with their bare hands. says it is expected to last many days. it is the number one. objective is to establish identity. because we are not dealing with just one bodies but in this case. about these more bodies brought in from the butt and rubble families searching for

missing loved ones did this i was called in and asked to identify one body. she glanced quickly and looked away it was the body of a teen her missing nephew in search of a better life many filipinos climbed these mountains hoping to find gold some were lucky but others have paid the ultimate price. al-jazeera each province northern philippines. to the u.s. east coast now where heavy rain is still disrupt and rescue efforts in the carolinas storm florence has been downgraded to a tropical depression more than thirty people have been killed and north and south carolina christensen reports from wilmington north carolina. it may not be the strongest storm to hit north carolina but florence is the wettest rivers continue

to rise as rain continues to fall as much as a meter across the state so far among the lives lost in the storm a one year old boy swept away from his mother as they tried to escape their car in floodwaters. tens of thousands of homes have been damaged with more misery predicted for those who live along rivers which have yet to crest thousands remain under evacuation orders. closer to the coast the sun came out but many roads remain impassable the city of wilmington was cut off from the rest of the state for nearly a day here in wilmington electricity and basic supplies remain scarce people have lined up here for hours trying to get ice they're trying to preserve what food they have left. in a lot of whom many expressed relief for the break in the weather and a chance to take stock. of travel we've had.

but we make everybody in our neighborhoods pigeon in working together i've been here all my life i've never seen anything like this so i knew. not as much wind. but even as utility crews work to restore power to the hundreds of thousands still without florence has begun wreaking havoc elsewhere moving on to west virginia and virginia where they are on the lookout for tornadoes as well as more rain major rivers are expected to remain flooded for the next two to three weeks kristen salumi al-jazeera wilmington north carolina. president for the u.s. supreme court will face questions over allegations of sexual assault along with his accuser the senate judiciary committee had been planning to vote on brett kavanaugh is appointment this week and one of the says he quotes to an charge of remove her clothes at a party and high school accusations cavanaugh has called completely false while his

fate hangs in the balance the u.s. president has been defending his pick. prejudged have a dog is one of the finest people that i've ever know. he's the now outstanding intellect an outstanding judge respected by everybody never had even a little blowfish on his record the f.b.i. has i think gone through a process six times with him over the years where he went to higher and higher positions. he is somebody very special at the same time we want to go through a process we want to make sure everything is perfect everything is just right argentina's former president cristina coach now has been charged in a corruption scandal the judges asked for her parliamentary immunity to be left and so she can be detained cochon is accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes during her time in office. now thousands of ethiopians have demonstrated in the capital against ethnic violence over the weekend that left at least twenty three

people dead please fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators one hundred seven hundred people have been detained. more than one hundred people have died in flooding across ten states in nigeria heavy seasonal rains caused the niger and venue service to burst their banks floods have spread across the country over the past two weeks a national disaster has been declared in four states the governments provided twenty one million dollars for medical and relief support. now it's forty years since the camp david accords were signed many heart they would and a new era of peace in the middle east but once again the end pat also enjoyed a reports from washington d.c. . on september seventeenth one thousand nine hundred seventy eight egypt and israel and thirty years at war after twelve days of secret talks at the us presidential retreat captain david menachem begin and sadat later were awarded the nobel peace

prize for signing the camp david peace accords an achievement that reflects the courage and wisdom of these two leaders jimmy carter to receive the same prize for using the power of his office to compel sworn enemies to talk to listen and to make a deal many had hoped the peace treaty with egypt and then with jordan would improve the chances of a peace deal between israel and the palestinians thirty years later despite the all slow accords and repeat it u.s. efforts to hold peace talks experts say achieving the two state vision is as difficult as it's ever been. a lot of ideas are out there federation confederation one state three states but every time one studies this issue in any detail you come back to the two state solution is the only outcome that would satisfy the national aspirations of both sides there are many reasons why israeli palestinian peace

talks have stalled some blowing the failure of palestinian president mahmoud abbas to prevent attacks on israelis others were jacked the trumpet ministration as a broker for future talks. benjamin netanyahu government keeps building jewish settlements in the occupied west bank and restricts palestinians movements around the territory and the troll plight house has made what many call hostile actions toward the palestinian government closing the p.l.o. office in washington cutting u.s. funds for the un refugee agency and to the palestinian authority stopping its donations to a hospital that serves critically ill palestinians and moving the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem a former negotiator in the camp david accords says in light of all this it's too much to hope that the white house peace plan could be a breakthrough this is not a real estate transaction real estate volved but this is also about

national interests about security concerns about highly symbolic issues jerusalem about people's rights experts say the vision of two states living side by side can survive but right now well there's no predicting when or if one might see a repeat of the good feelings on display back in september one thousand nine hundred seventy eight rosalynn jordan al-jazeera washington. and i get on as if the headlines on al-jazeera south korea's president may end as n.p.l. gang for his third summit with kim jong un as he tries to revive stoltz nuclear disarmament talks this is the first time a south korean leader has traveled to the north and all of a decade from the bride has more from seoul. also it has to be said

a very friendly warm hugs handshakes smiles also breaks with road to go with kim jong un himself coming to the plane the steps of the plane to greet moon j.n. in person this is we are told a break in protocol it's just one of the ways that this summit is different to the previous summits that have taken place under previous presidents and according to the south korean officials it gives hope is evidence that unlike previous summits and initiatives this one might indeed be successful the u.s. is escalating its trade war with china with another two hundred billion dollars worth of tariffs on imports from the world's second biggest economy the ten percent hike will take effect from next monday and then increased to twenty five percent on january first next year. syrian state media says its air defense forces have intercepted missiles fired at the coastal city of latakia there were reportedly

targeting state run industrial buildings on the eastern outskirts israel on the suspected to be behind the attack meanwhile the russians reconnaissance plane has disappeared over the mediterranean sea off the coast of syria president for the u.s. supreme court will face questions over allegations of sexual assault along with his accuser that appeared before the senate judiciary committee that had been planning to vote on brett kavanaugh support appointment this week and woman says he quote her and try to remove her clothes at a party and high school cavanagh has called the accusations completely false argentina's former president cristina kirchner has been charged in a corruption scandal the judges asked her parliamentary immunity to be lifted so she can be detained cochon is accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes during her time in office well those are the headlines on al-jazeera the stream is coming up next and i'll have another full news bulletin for you in just under thirty minutes thank you very much for watching. it is

a very important for information for many people around the world all the time right or wrong i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. and i'm really could be any also freedom forum bringing together artists entrepreneurs and human rights advocates from around the world coming up we chat with two notable speakers for this year's conference today on the stream we are live now on you tube questions and comments and i will do our very best to get them into this conversation. my name is rose.

has been threatened with violence ever since twenty fourteen when she published the personal contacts of her country's parliament on social media the daughter of an activist who was imprisoned multiple times by the father of the president for. freedom has lived her life as an activist on the run in the hash tag for must go to demand president move all from the office among other social reforms. the deputy leader of the now banned opposition in cambodia national rescue party who's been in exile since twenty seven team has been a vocal critic of prime minister hun sen and the cambodian people's party. in july but opposition activists dispute the result government has cracked down on political opposition but recently released some distance from prison including see in our leader. so i'm very pleased to welcome both and also from this year's oslo

freedom forum. york city to the streams good to see ladies very good to see. you are living in exile right now for a politician who is so engaged in your country's history and development what is that like. to be in exile is never a choice is. a security and you need to keep your voice. how are you or from the country let us know as your voice you keep the market alive and that is my plan. for people who are not following the progress of what's happening in cambodia or perhaps the lack of progress of what's happening in cambodia can you give us one vivid example of what it is that the opposition party when it was allowed to exist would be complaining about. today campbell ga is a one party state after the last election which was

a sham election. and form look and you know that the khmer rouge regime killed all of the two million people including mike hammons is a farm. wants to stay in tallinn much longer therefore he had to take out the democratic forces from civil society independent media and then finally dissolving the only opposition party campbell gen national rescue party the party is not only dissolved the opposition leader mr power and another lead. is in trees and has been in prison for the past year and not believe he has been in exile and we have eight hundred eighteen of us at the top level of the opposition have been banned from political activities that's what this edition right now that we are not going to let him say and he's take

a chance to run to take the country to dictatorship much longer cambodia needs to be back on track with democracy and that is the only way to give people the whole and to keep democracy alive in cambodia to secure there are some questions here about how specifically you can do that to put cambodia back on track as you say this is a tweet we got from someone who says recently i've seen that the opposition's interior is broken it's broken between the two leaders that you mentioned found raney supporters and come so close supporters so i want to know how that happened and how it can get back to normal and if there's any hope that they can come back to politics in cambodia so your thoughts for the opposition being dissolved how will they then be able to form that united front. strong support inside the country don't forget that. we've got forty four percent of the vote meetings over three million have the country and we have

a very very strong campbell you diaspora us in europe in the united states australia. on top of that we have leaders who are still very very committed to and do it as well to democracy we have a common goal which is putting democracy back on track we are a democrat. party or we have ideas we have strategies that don't always match so we as press ourselves it does not mean that we are broken from inside they want to break us but to the contrary we are aligned with voices and these conversations make it sound like we have broken we are not i just want to show some pictures of this occur when you are more active on twitter that takes us back to twenty fifteen i'm going to show them and you can tell us what you what was going for your mind at the time this was an act of defiance that you were doing involving

freedom part very briefly explain what that was. that was when freedom which is like in london it plays where people can express themselves and use it for public expression was closed down because tool many people with the opposition were using the plug so they close it down and know we are going to march on to freedom to lund's define the sometimes. the tanks we have to be to show to actually that they are they belong to freedom party and we should let freedom to be taken by these forces so we have to fight for freedom of expression of god three fifths of being alive and the most the best time to be alive in dictatorship is freedom

part. and then for our viewers who don't know of course you went to jail in twenty fourteen for protesting in freedom park so i want to bring up this tweet with that in mind this is our alpha who says i can't imagine activists not being immediately put in prison in cambodia if they organize i don't think there is any room at all for human rights activist organizing cambodia anymore many people jailed this last year with really zero substantive evidence at all what would your message be to cambodian still in cambodia who want to organize. keep fighting keep expressing yourself you can do social media you can all have to be compressed titian know that you can and you must express the feelings your ideas just thoughts about correction with having to have to find a way which is. to work with to fight. freedom of

expression without going to jail which means telling the truth but at the same time giving solutions rather than attacking the dictator saying for the. full cambodia for the whole of cambodia can dictate to say no. but you have to understand that mr hudson is also trying to get workers for example get the families for example on his side as well especially to do so you have to play with his game which is to bring the forces behind you which is voices the voices of the youth and it to jews are afraid because they are intimidated by mr and that is not the way to fight jews actually power and they should be using their voices to social media. with the course advice to cambodians who want to organize tell the truth and don't be intimidated so i

want to share a comment from someone who is doing just that in another country in vietnam take a look at this headline why my cooee vietnam's lady gaga performs in secret in her country she is actually also a participant at the oslo freedom forum and she's often been dubbed lady gaga due to her activism and her style so have a listen to what that sounds like here she is performing at the freedom farm. design. wonder. so she was actually banned from singing publicly in her country for speaking out about freedom of expression and freedom of speech she sent us a comment from the forum and this is what she had to say i am an independent artist

i don't think of myself as an activist i just do things to make people think and act in the new place but in vietnam people label this activism. one challenge is people have certain expectations about what is activism and how activist should act so this makes my work try as hard. i have to face control from both from the government and from the conservative society. period i want to bring you in here you know you heard her say she doesn't consider herself an activist because it raises all types of questions about what is activism and what does an activist look like and you relate to that do you consider

yourself an activist i definitely do and. i believe that i am an activist because activists are people who are quite seen to change the course of things in their community and change the course of things for the better actors are really fighting for a cause and they believe in organizing communities and the believe in citizens voices and that's what i do it barring citizens organizing citizens about if they and i am an activist creed i want to show you a picture is a picture of you just a few moments ago on the sage of the also a freedom forum in new york and there's a quote here togo's presence can be compared with a living hell and this is you just talking just a little while ago this is you on stage of a striking picture just behind there will be people who don't know what's going on in togo if there was a description that you could give them to understand why it is that you take so many risks but with that description. my country has been ruled by the oldest

military regime in africa the very first bloody coup in africa to tree was conducted in togo and that is a class that if you want to break away from my grandfather fought against this regime my father did and i did i feel i did it is the only thing that's been harry to juggle and that is not going anywhere it is that i want to pass on to my own children. as being ruled by the same family for five decades is just too much in not only being denied of our busy criminal rights but on top of that this regime has built in terms of believe ring any economic growth to the contrary and today togo is in the top ten poorest country in the world and four times prosecutable in my people have been we have made it as the poorest as the most unhappy people on earth. that is that is a very appalling thing and i want things to change for the better because the bill

deserves so much better than what we are having right now on an innocent be friendly i'm looking at protest video right now and what's remarkable about this and this could be anywhere anywhere in the world but you cannot protest in tokyo because why. the government said let the last guns last year during a practice that's were confiscated from soldiers and so we find these two guns became not drug test anymore. i hear what you're saying there i want to bring in this comment for you this is boris on twitter who says impunity is at the core of this crisis in togo for half a century one clan is taken over power and lots lots of crimes have been committed is it possible for this regime to accept peaceful regime change you know they have a hashtag in there wanting an exit twenty twenty how possible do you think that is

for rita i think it's all the president depends on the peoples of chill go. you know it's about you know fighting to want for change is about as refusing to give up and to give us being determined to go all the way till the end of course it's going to come if not of consequence is what we have to wait a heavy price over the past decades so in the future often when we see that lens of why it just kind of glided over consequences but i know from doing research on you and from going through your twitter feed that the consequences have been high and happy for you can you give us an example of consequences such as you were getting arrested detained and tortured severely people getting killed soldiers going into holes and beating citizens showing guys in the room to force them out so they can beat them and kill them these are headed consequences that the talk will have been facing for daring to ask for change of course it's not going to be easy that is why

we keep raising awareness and mobilizing support from what about we can get that our country has been very much isolated for so many reason we're friends begin country relatedly small one of the smallest countries on the continent as a result we do not get a lot of coverage right engine so the regime emboldened by that in two thousand and five hundred or so will pose for us in book ticking over after his father dad. a countryman wears a cute side but nothing has happened there was no consequence whatsoever and like barry said impunity has always given eyes the regime because they feel in boulder by the fact that they can kill as many citizens as the ones and nothing will happen to them you talk about being emboldened and i know that you have received death threats but not anonymous deseret you know who they're coming from can you tell us a little bit about that. i have received threats from all over the places from government cronies to some ministers in the government's. role as an activist

and as a somebody who is fighting i guess addicted to short unfortunately there is something that i have managed to accept as being a natural consequence of what i am doing so when i receive distress i just feel like i have little right place and i'm doing a good job because they feel threatened by us they are rule they are rule the leadership day germany is threatened by us in the post the only way they can respond to this is by trying to get rid of us and by trying to. silence us. so hearing both of your stories mr crow and. people online have lots of questions for you and many of them themselves are activists and others are looking to you for a few answers so this is andrew who sent us a chain of questions that i'm going to pose to you both but i'll pick the one i find the most interesting is number two sometimes the people you fight for are the ones fighting you what's kept them moving in the direction of their goal.

i know you want all the rest yes you know when you're on that service there's one very interesting thing the people you are fighting for will fight you the people who are fighting we for five we'll fight you a little you're fighting against we're also fights you sometimes people do not understand the reason behind someone taking so much risk to demand change and sometimes you have not they said change before they don't know what is different they don't know as a result they are even afraid of it because their whole life they have been sold the propaganda and they said it's a believing it but sometimes people actually scared because they feel like you who are asking for change is posing all of them in your race that is going to make them . pay for things they did not ask for as a result the aesthetic mental fight you naturally but through it only something that i believe every man being deep down once and when you keep trichet when you keep pushing ideas of the devil such as marrying and respecting your courage in

a dedication and finally they will buy into it and will be convinced enough to understand why you are standing for your cause and also linger. i have to keep on. focusing on what we are fighting for and not who we have what we have fighting for is a pretty divided believe of the fundamental rights fend of went on freedoms and also to protect the people who do not have a voice so it stays focused all the time we are attacked and especially as women and i have an american passport i was educated in the west i was married to an american man who passed away so all of that is against us again so this to this revolutionary so we have learnt i have learnt to deal and i say to people all the time did it delete what they want to use to make you

lose focus you say my focus is here with me in my head in my heart in the struggle of my people you can call be anything you want but one thing one thing you can not derail might mine and i think it is this trend that you get from day to day the commons especially with social media you are so tempted to read comments fine read the comments read. positive as well but in a constructive naked constructive been negative commons but at the end of the day it is about you do you stop and fear think about your fear and risk not you move on but move on strategically and one thing

or so don't move along. with the rest and at the library i just said more and i think that when you are fight. the cause that you're fighting for is the one thing that you have to keep your focus on at the end of the day once you believe in that's cause it is beyond everything else i remember saying once that of the seven million of people as we are in total if this million one hundred thousand and ninety nine meaning if all of them is that me as you know period leading under the leadership i will fight them all and that is your ship because i believe that a more powerful for my country meant what i believe that's my belief in freedom is not something that i can trade and i will not give up no matter how many people i guess that's to do more of that freedom ladies you both have reputations and. i'm going to touch on one for each of you so you have a reputation for being a politician that uses music and sound and singing in your voice on the campaign

trail try and i said is it appropriate to ask you to do that in a show he said what you know when i cannot express myself anymore it comes out. and median day. began joam we took people temple we used to have land and we used to have rivers and mountains now we have nothing left it's just come out on the campaign trail when you see the arms being taken away when you see indigenous people crying because their ancestral land is now the project of the chinese company how can you not cry out how good you can do not. for one. million means median. it's beautiful

i feel it right now i can't believe that people complaining you sing on the campaign trail is very effective and a real contrast people call you the angry go. why do they do that in your country in your home country so i think exactly how we go again it is required to carry the egg real story of its people i usually stayed at all of just a little girl who will be different and i have to manage to be angry for who and scream loud enough for our voice to be heard a set of chill go. angry for eight million not easy but you do it well i want to bring in this kind of we got instagram we asked our community there what challenges to human and civil rights activists face where they live and we got a response from south africa. shrinking space for civil society engagement and many if not most political spaces in east and southern africa we also got that same idea

on twitter this is winnie who says and recent times we've witnessed the shrinking space of human rights defenders so it's not just one part of the world it's in many . what would you say to people who say that they feel like they are almost claustrophobic in the amount of space they have to do human rights work this is why we have to be. within hearing what is hearing what michel is. we give. we heard. this we can make it. in our heads in mind people will say space is shrinking yes this is shrinking. however we had to change strategy so that these days and b. why didn't why didn't buy purely in war people and that's why we have to democracy

. on the global map is not just about cambodia or told all vietnam almost it is. democracy and freedom in a sentence what keeps you going. i really believe that way too much separate too many sacrifices were made for us. at a point you know my biggest inspiration is my grandfather who used to well over five hundred. round three sides and for independence and that was. so he went on to fight for that's your inspiration i'm going to leave it there. thank you so much for being part of this program but i want to leave us with a comment specific to africa but also could be extrapolated elsewhere matar says we appreciate your efforts not only as a totally as activist but also as an african and as you rightly said no one is born

ready for evolution we have to prepare for it it's time for all to say no to injustice and violent atrocities from dictators across the continent thank you so much everybody for following us you can do so on twitter as well way at a.j. stream and i will see you next time take. thank.

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syrian government. is targeting the coastal city. of russia says it's lost contact with a military plane close to the same city and the search for survivors resumes in the philippines after landslides killed dozens of people. south korea's president has arrived in pyongyang for his third summit with north korean leader kim jong un they'll be holding formal talks in a few hours when north korea's nuclear disarmament will be high on the agenda the says the first time a south korean leader has traveled to the north and a decade north korean state media says the summit offers a chance to improve relations with the south mcbride has more from seoul. this summit is now underway with president being the first south korean president to

visit pyongyang since two thousand and seven he is now in talks with kim jong un looking at ways of improving into korean relations and build upon the. declaration that they signed at the start of this process way back in april of course the big prize is try to find some way of advancing talks that have remained stalled between north korea and the united states on ways of north korea giving up its nuclear arsenal but so. fire officials from south korea and also north korea will be happy with the way that this has begun the official visit official welcome to pyongyang airport and also a warm welcome with kim jong un going to the steps of the plane to greet personally moving jay in this is a break with protocol it's one of the things that south korean officials say makes this a different type of summit it remains to be seeing where there can be like previous

summits this one will actually achieve tangible success well let's get more on this now we're joined by andrea lank professor at cookman university and he's joining us live from the south korean capital seoul always good to have you with us on al-jazeera so the warm relations between the two leaders continue but what will both sides be looking for each other from each other in terms of those tangible concrete measures. frankly it's not much because four sides. all talk of the united states because right now. but you can assume. talks about. they are probably not going to surrender their nuclear weapons but and you

a few months ago they revealing to give some concessions on the scale of their nuclear weapons arsenal these still having to do it but much less sore because they are less pressure because of the change in. china is not pushing them hard and they want to time however in the united states if there are talks about the need or. as with any of wants and it's not solve. of wants because the unsafe rate is there any viable of the hard line my immediate a confrontation and so they will suffer enormously so they want to create an impression is that everything is going fine which is technically speaking not quite correct and so scary year we'll probably try to get some additional concessions not for itself but largely for the united states sort of the chances of a new confrontation between north korea and united states view. so what are those

concessions that the south will be looking to get from the north and of these talks and if nothing concrete is going to come out of these talks because of all those. all of those reasons that you mentioned. is it up to china then to make sure that this process actually moves along. chen he's not mad at each interested in this process would like to see you create ization but it's not very high on the shiniest agent on the right now when they're americans began their parade of war against china china began to use north korea as a way to deliver a counter strike as a way to access a suppressor on the united states just the fall cheney is i believe is limited and they are not very enthusiastic about calling north korea any more they were quite serious just a few months ago all know that now there is soft on the table so basically we are

going to see a lot of broad smiles some symbolic measures of each of which can be easily forgotten on two of you almost or just basically cads open any time and a lot of talk about seeing speech are going to be a vandal in the near future and to measure a message for washington mosconi it is going to surrender nuclear weapons you just have to be careful and you have to show some patience and every scene of you will be all right or more eggs and it's quite possible that they will talk about the decorrelation of them to hi steve it is beach is something more scary as hopes to get from the united states and south korea and maybe lost that evil exists to the south end of some information about their nor nuclear sites but this is slightly hypothetical it's largely about you know more environment it's about mood and sort of political short major goal is again to prevent the situation from sliding back

with the highly dangerous confront taishan on mood of two cells and seventy that's a lack of it's very good to get your thoughts on this that is. joining us live from seoul thank you. if i want to other news now in the u.s. a staffing office trade war with china president trump announced further tariffs on another two hundred billion dollars of chinese exports and washington's promise to hit beijing with even more tariffs if china retaliates. a pause. if ever there was doubt of a worsening trade war between the u.s. and china the white house is long awaited announcement made monday put an end to the debate it will be a lot of money coming into the coffers of the united states of america a lot of money coming in a lot of money in the form of tariffs on an additional two hundred billion dollars of chinese imports the u.s. government will begin collecting a ten percent tariff on those goods starting september twenty fourth through the

end of the year then on january first the terrorists will jump to twenty five percent and of china at any time retaliates the white house says an additional two hundred sixty seven billion dollars of chinese imports practically the remainder of all chinese products sold in the u.s. will also fall under the tariffs the president's view is that to destroy the chinese economy we're not trying to put them out of business as we're trying to get them to join the international trading nations world and be a citizen and abide by the rules for the first time in some twenty five years prior to the u.s. announcement china's foreign ministry had warned china would indeed retaliate we're going to china will have to take necessary countermeasures to defend its own legitimate rights and interests the increased tensions will likely scuttle the renewal of trade talks between beijing and washington while about five thousand

chinese products including household goods from vacuum cleaners to bikes will be targeted many u.s. businesses are expected to suffer as well three out of four american. companies are adversely affected by u.s. tariffs and maybe sixty percent are adversely affected by the chinese tariff so that companies and remember these are folks doing business in china experts agree the trade war will not only hurt the u.s. and china but also the global supply chain with the pain likely spread across the world how do you castro al-jazeera washington scott hardly has more now from beijing. china has indicated that it would be kind of a tit for tat when it comes to any kind of tariffs and we've heard reports of they're about sixty billion dollars that china is about ready to impose or they said if they had to they will impose sixty billion dollars in retaliation for any

further escalation by the americans so that is something we could probably expect hasn't been made official yet but what has now coming out the south china morning post newspaper reporting that the chinese delegation not naming their source but it china the chinese delegation was supposed to still be engaged in these trade talks back and forth will not be going to washington now this is something that was had been in the works for the last couple of weeks you know the trade talks had been going on happened last last month it was supposed to happen in just a couple of weeks' time they were negotiating the details the logistics of that meeting now south china morning post is reporting that that's not going to happen china is not going to send their delegation obviously this would be reaction to the tariff announcements two hundred billion dollar tariff announcement coming out of washington on monday. russian state media is reporting that contacts being lost to the reconnaissance aircraft over the mediterranean mediterranean sea just off the syrian coast fourteen russian servicemen were on board the plane as it was

returning to lucky a province or this happened a syrian air defense forces intercepted a number of missiles fired at the coastal city of. the missiles but targeting a state run industrial compound it's not clear who launched the strikes but israel is suspected it's thought to have been behind a series of earlier strikes targeting iranian and hezbollah forces who are fighting alongside the government stephanie deca has the latest from on talk here near turkey's border with syria. a lot of mixed reports soon after the reports of these explosions multiple explosions but soon after the syrian official state news agency sanna putting out a statement saying that its air defense systems had intercepted multiple missiles quoting a military source saying that they were missiles that came from the sea so that will rule out reading between the lines the rebel forces putting it more on to a state actor because of course in the mediterranean you have various the presence of u.s.

naval vessels the brits the turks and also israeli submarines believed to have to be placed there israel has been accused in the possibly using it submarines of targeting latakia of course these things are never confirmed israel does confirm however that it does target iran when you know backed forces on the ground or weapon shipments or shipments it believes are deemed to the group has bought a lot so again nothing confirmed but we do know that a technical institute was hit this is according to syrian state news agency the russian media spot nick saying that it was syrian army infrastructure so things not exactly what exactly was hit but the video showing large fireballs in the sky multiple missiles used but again it just shows you how complicated syria's war is with all the talk is about the last a rebel held stronghold in libya last stand of the opposition you still have various state actors with a lot of interests when it comes to.