key highways which means that's hoffa in the province and there's still a lot of fighters in these areas so i think challenges still remain going ahead but as always in syria let's be patient look at the ground see if this demilitarized zone can be fully implemented by october the fifteenth and then we can start talking about the next step all right stephanie decker live in southern turkey thank you. the north korean leader kim jong un says he wants to produce a big outcome during three days of talks with south korean president and this is the first time a south korean leader has gone to the north in more than a decade and as rob mcbride reports from the south korean capital it was a carefully choreographed affair. if talks over north korea's nuclear stockpile were in trouble you wouldn't know it from the smiles and hugs. the third meeting between north korea's kim jong un and monday in the south korea and the warmest so far. a full honor guard and equal prominence given to the flags of

north korea and the blue flag of a reunified korean peninsula. the last meeting between these two men led to the historic summit between him and u.s. president donald trump but moon knows this visit must deliver some evidence of north korea's commitments to denuclearize ation if talks with the u.s. arteries you they want perhaps disclosure of inventory facilities and this is a kind of thing that morning be nice to get teams on to come out and say when the two leaders arrived at the state guest house they seem to accept the strength of the welcome is evidence of a growing desire for change. even the people in the apartment behind us they welcomed us with such passion i was genuinely touched. when i think we should not forget the people's hopes and expectations but have to work at a faster pace and make bigger achievements. the first into korean summit between

these leaders visit the panmunjom true spillage on the border between the two davids in april it's produced tangible results reunions of families separated by the korean war in the one nine hundred fifty s. have restarted. the remains of more than fifty u.s. soldiers killed in the war have been returned by north korea. and the liaison office to keep officials from the north and south connected has ok. but the last visit to pyongyang by a south korean president was by roh moo hyun eleven years ago and that attempt at reconciliation would ultimately fail. south korea says this time it's different. for the first time p. moments from this summit are being beamed live into north korean homes it's one of the ways this summit differs from those of the past say south korean officials who

are also hoping this one can succeed where others have failed. but critics believe the nuclear concessions the u.s. wants and what north korea is prepared to give may be too great even for the smiling president mood to deliver mosconi sitting on the stockpile of the nuclear weapons would like to me mice is the amount of things they will have to surrender to placate rob this has been an impressive display of friendship after so much animosity yet it remains to be seen how much of this is just show and how much is of consequence of macbride al-jazeera soul. still to come amiss al-jazeera news a victim of perpetrator defense lawyers for a former ugandan warlord make their case at the hague. intensifying trade war china says it will retaliate after the u.s. announced its biggest terrorists yet on impulse from china. and paris will kick off

the group stages of the champions league against liverpool peter will have all the details in sport. that are five days before voters in the movies go to the polls a major new piece of investigative journalism has raised questions about the sitting president the. story builds on details revealed in a twenty sixteen ounces or a documentary and it's based on government documents banking records and the contents of three i phones owned by a now imprisoned former tourism minister made a deal he least several islands or various property developers siphoning away at the seventy nine million dollars in the process the new evidence implicates the president a dollar you mean in the scheme and that's something that he's always denied leaked

messages from his deputies phones show the president intervened to clear at least twenty four of these deals many of the islands in our home to major projects led by international hotel chains is leading to questions about who benefited from the leasing of the islands and development of the hotels. made the twenty sixteen documentary for al-jazeera. so you need to understand that over forty thirty five years in the maldives they only built about one hundred resorts and within the space of just a few years they approved almost the same number again and this data and this research by the o.c.c. o.-p. now offers us a breakdown of which islands were least for what prices what money went missing and who is now building which resorts on those and that will raise some very difficult questions not least for the president who appears to have intervened to make sure

these were approved and what would run through the paths through which money could be embezzled rather than the official part of an open tender where various companies would bid to develop resorts instead this was all done one on one in a joint venture with the government which was a loophole allowed them to divert the main process where we can now speak to all be belford who coordinated the findings and is reasonable editor at the c c p which is the organized crime and corruption reporting project and he's joining us via skype live from the ukrainian capital kiev thanks for joining us what did you actually bring how did you bring on the al-jazeera investigation the documentary that was made in twenty sixteen revealed an awful network of of corruption how did you approach it chilly add to that. so the al-jazeera documentary was mostly built of the contents on the form of tourism minister and the. three goldeneye foreigns so

we got that plus some data from his emails but there were more leaks going around so this is actually a collection of about four leaks plus public documents that were able to get in on the ground into news and it was really just a lot in there because of dave's corruption was on a pretty epic scale so just going through his text messages and receipts and other records time stamped photographs and his own just came up with so much that was you know too much to it to fit in one documentary and you know in a year's worth of work we were able to uncover a lot more and. the man you mention has already gone to prison he was a former tourism minister how can you link this web of corruption to the sitting president and it was five days before the people of the moodies go to the polls for the next presidential election short so the way that db and his associates did

their own scam was day instead of leasing out islands through public and it was done through state company that was headed by his friend at least these were paid in and money was and some of the records that we found show that the president's office and that means the president intervened two dozen times to reassign examines the tourism ministry you also gave permission for these arms to be leased by estate company which was the channel for embezzling we also have records from text messages that show him discussing with the you know at least one of these deals and you've come out with these findings as i say just five days evil the country goes to the polls again what sort of response have you had from the president's office. we had no response we sent a question well over a week before we were planning to publish and we got nothing in reply the president

went on that given television on sunday night and gave an interview where he did answer some questions that we had we're not sure if he was answering our questions indirectly but he did for the first time acknowledge that he gave these commissions a lot of the violence the least he still claims to have nothing to do with the embezzlement of the money or any corruption but you know he did some over thank you very much indeed you can see the documentary is called stealing paradise investigations unit on the web site w w w dot. com and click on the investigation. is launched a large scale operations targeting areas under control who data in yemen. says it captured two areas of the. city since.

the coalition says it's also a supply route which connects. the capital of sanaa. the united nations envoy to yemen left the capital after to visit for talks with. consultations between the yemeni government and rebels anderson is the following developments from. across the red sea. there is still intense fighting going on all along the road outside of the data and also in the very day the city center itself this a battle it's unclear who is actually got the upper ground now the coalition is saying that the who things are taking big losses. are saying that they're making some inroads and there is a question mark over. complete control of this road now it actually sort of

zigzags over a section and these references to keep sixteen that's a marker point the point that the coalition is definitely going for there's also a situation at the grain silos this is the red sea mills a major a complex for food that is needed by millions of people all over yemen there was an attack on that a few days ago both sides blame each other but now we've seeing pictures on the ground from there showing the fires still underway and that was less than twelve hours ago we understand this these grain silos a crucial but the situation is that the truth is insist that they're suspected of storing weapons there which they deny and then there is according to aid agencies on the u.n. itself the world food program that this is a target it would be a disaster if it was hit. now defenseless top commander in ugandan lord's

resistance army has started their case and the international criminal court the i.c.c. dominic is facing seventy charges of war crimes. he was once a deputy commander of the lord's resistance army or ellery a rebel group operating in central africa for more than three decades dominick on one is on trial at the international criminal court facing charges including murder and rape has also been accused of involvement in attacks on camps set up for people displaced by conflict this trial is about violence and misery that blighted the lives of millions of people living in northern uganda ordinary citizens civilians who wanted no more than to be allowed to live their lives in peace could no longer live in the villages in which they had been born and raised the n.r.a. first emerged in one thousand eighty seven in northern uganda headed by joseph kahn

he's also wanted on many charges including work crimes and crimes against humanity the group is fighting the ugandan army but has launched attacks in central african republic democratic republic of congo and south sudan it says it wants to establish a multi-party democracy but is accused of widespread human rights violations including murder and the recruitment of child soldiers and once arrested in ten to fifteen and was handed to i.c.c. custody more than four thousand witnesses have been called to testify against him on once lawyers say he was abducted by the lord's resistance army when he was ten years old and argue he's not a criminal but affect him the used who is the subject of this interrogation just a child. when he was abducted. brutalized and made into and made in the bush with the mind of. we know mind over the more than two hundred thousand people have lost their lives in

the lhari attacks since the group was founded in one thousand nine hundred seven tens of thousands of others survived atrocities they say the group committed but it will be four judges at the i.c.c. to determine whether on one is guilty or was also a victim of the group he was part of morgan al-jazeera. international human rights or a table cabmen who joins us from london thank you very much indeed do you think that's a persuasive argument that will carry water at the i.c.c. the fact that this dominick on one himself was a child soldier and had been brutalized into arguably the kind of behavior he exhibited for the subsequent years. well of course that's something that the judges of the i.c.c. are going to have to very carefully weigh. but obviously alleging that you are a victim yourself that you were indoctrinated into the system by years of tyranny

and other command of the lhari does not absolve an individual of having been responsible for very serious crimes and we were talking about crimes of the greatest nature so it is unlikely to find too much faith with the judges in my view for international legal standpoint of course it is alleged that he was abducted as a child going ten years old and that is the life that he has led but as we know in many cases they've been heard by the special tribunals merely following orders is not a sufficient defense. whether they're paramilitary or otherwise has the responsibility to refuse to carry orders for the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity all right rather be interesting to see how that unfolds but we're speaking on the at the start of his defense argument at the i.c.c. and i'm just wondering how far you think that the i.c.c.

itself and the credibility of the international criminal court is as much on trial as any of the of those accused of war crimes given particularly the criticism that it's been receiving from the united states that the number of african countries that are either have either left it or threaten to leave it just wonder how far the i.c.c. itself as i say is on trial. well regrettably because of the criticisms that have been made many of them wholly unjustified the i.c.c. is always on trial it is always having to prove itself obviously we have a very important decision that has recently been made where the i.c.c. has a certain jurisdiction for dealing with the wreckage or crisis so there are. there are all steps being taken to to ensure that it that it is a court of the up but its credibility that we're going to be there are always going

to be those whether they are sitting in africa the united states or europe the criticizes its methods it has a long way to go to to establish its credibility but it is an important institution and regrettably much of the criticism comes from the lack of support that it gets from member states and other important states such such as the usa and a lot of it boils down to funding in order for it to do his job properly need to be properly funded can be cabmen thank you very much indeed f.l. talking to us live from london. well here in the studio with me is she's got the weather and it looks pretty stormy where you are there in northwestern europe really is pretty stormy let's have a look at the satellite picture then because you can see one area of cloud just making its way across the northwest there that's the remains of an old cycle but that's actually the least bad area of weather that we're going to see over the u.k. in the next forty eight hours or so because of that system works its way towards the northwest there's another one galloping its way into the northern parts of

scotland and through into parts of ireland as well and this is the first named storm for us or the winter season it's early and it's going to give us winds of around about one hundred twenty kilometers per hour so very very windy for parts of scotland and into the northern part of ireland and generally the further south you are the weaker the winds but it's still going to be a very very blustery day eventually that system will begin to pull away on thursday and then it's still going to be very unsettled for us just not quite as wet windy as it has been i mean for the south though you can see plenty of sunshine for many of us across europe but not for all of us this is a brewery in the mediterranean could turn out to be quite know they called medications a sort of hurricane of the mediterranean and this one seems to be pulling itself together and gradually sinking its way southwards now we think for the eastern parts of saladin iau we're going to see some very very heavy downpours strong winds as well and then that's likely to work its way southward into parts of tunisia and maybe the northeastern parts about syria where it could cause quite significant

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take a look at the top stories here on this news hour the russian president vladimir putin says a tragic chain of circumstances they were his words led to the downing of a military plane in syrian airspace fifteen servicemen died in the aircraft when it was hit by syrian air defense. the russian defense ministry claimed israeli jets were pushing the plane into the line of fire. at the south korean president lee enjoying the same kiln young prince that summit with the north korean leader kim jong il these are the latest pictures to come from the north korean capital hundreds of people had turned out on the streets to catch a glimpse of this historic occasion this is the first time a south korean leader has been to the north in over a decade. and anticorruption n.g.o.s says it has evidence of at least fifty islands in the more. leased out for tourism by the government with millions of

dollars embezzled the report builds on the. documentary called stealing paradise it implicates president. something he's always denied. their rescue teams in northern philippines are digging through mounds of mud looking for survivors of a landslide it hit the mining town and it's a gone invent province many locals been sheltering from typhoon when the landslide happened. ripped through the philippines on saturday dozens of people were killed. to see this up close is to understand the enormity of this operation the stench of human flesh is very present and we do feel that we are standing on precarious ground since we've been here this morning we've seen two bodies been pulled out of the rubble this is the main devastation site where hundreds of rescuers have been

working double time. the typhoon hit early saturday here in bangor province and it's the landslide started at the top of that mountain the soil the ground collapsed pushing homes further several meters down and this is what's left of the bunk house for more than thirteen miners run for shelter we've spoken to family members those looking for their loved ones who see they are here volunteering helping out with the manual digging doesn't matter how long it takes they see that is better than just sitting down and waiting so they are here because of the rubble piece by piece rock by rock more than one hundred people have died in flooding across ten states of nigeria heavy seasonal rains cools the new niger and the benue e rivers to burst their banks floods have spread across the country over the past two weeks and forecasters say water levels will be higher than in twenty twelve

that's when flooding displaced more than two million people members of zimbabwe's opposition of walked out during the president's state of the nation address to parliament it was a moment gaga was speaking in the capital harare outlining his government's agenda after winning a disputed election in july president moment gallagher has called for unity to help rebuild zimbabwe's struggling economy and overcome a cholera outbreak. that has the latest from the zimbabwean capital. members from the opposition parliamentarians walked out of parliament with president and mrs reagan was giving a statement the nation address nickname for me is not a gentleman named and he needs dolan she direction and they say that nearly done nelson chamisa the leader of the main opposition party in d.c. won this election they also say been endowed by the president is failing to deal with this latest cholera outbreak that. is we're speaking today these days

in the twenty fifth sinks in our country as well living day for. basic services and with the thank you to days sitting in that parliament more worried about bringing was in an inevitable when people are dying of the bobbins like to see some of the extravagance in opulence in government the president arrives in a very expensive rolls royce and he's came in a very big shiny expensive cars and he told the government plans to buy more new cars for new parliamentarian some of the bombings are wondering why some of this money isn't being spent to fight issues such as father of the government says it needs more than fifty million dollars to repair water and sanitation infrastructure in harare money it says it doesn't have the thanks bob in the saying is it of all of this flash pomp and ceremony some of that money that's being spent now and is still mind she'd be spent on things like economy and jobs and color officials say right now at least thirty people have died from cholera to the beginning of the

month. iraq is running out of water it's planning ministry says around ninety percent of land is now doesn't and fama say their future is a dying with their crops from madison reports from the iraqi capital baghdad. this is what's left of this section of the once mighty tigris river. barely enough water to escape iraq's burning daytime heat the tigris and euphrates rivers were the main water supplies for these once lush rice fields. farmers like i used to be able to grow up to eighty square metres of rice. that's only a little over one percent of the size of an average football pitch but it helped to keep his family alive now he produces barely a fraction of what if you grow before. as i have said look how dry this land is we can't get enough water even the water irrigation canals are empty and. iraq's

ministry of water resources says that levels in rivers like the tigris here in baghdad have dropped up to forty percent over the last twenty years they say that partly to blame our dams and reservoirs which are being built in turkey to the north and they're restricting the flow of water southwards but also in the last nine months iraq's only had about half the amount of rainfall it normally gets over the course of a year and that's making things even worse it's estimated iraq strategic water reservoirs contain eight billion cubic meters of water less than the minimum the country needs so the government says it's stepping in the minute the fog i don't feel how we plan to cultivate around fifty square kilometers of rice as well as sixteen thousand square kilometers of orchards and vegetables for people to use in their homes but we can't provide as much water for crops as we did in previous years. farmers tried digging wells to reach water underground but it's often saturated with salt and that's

a deadly for plants. in the past we made more profit and we were rich with crops now we can hardly grow enough underground water isn't a solution it's a big problem to not have much water to irrigate your crops many farmers are taking jobs as laborers in the streets and on building sites leaving behind their dealing fields rob matheson al-jazeera back to. the iraqi man who was detained on suspicion of stabbing a german man in the german city of camden it is to be released prosecutors say there's not enough evidence to link him to the fatal stabbing incident sparked a series of violent immigration rallies by far right groups a syrian and iraqi migrant were arrested over the killing us. and doctors in germany say a member of the russian punk band pussy riot who came to the country for treatment was likely poisoned. vessel off was admitted to

a clinic in moscow last week after falling ill after a court hearing he was later flown to berlin on friday for treatment but he sounds prime minister imran khan is on his way to saudi arabia for his first foreign visit since coming to power a month ago the two day trip comes as pakistan's economy is in crisis in this wide speculation that mr karr will all saudi arabia for a loan come out of ripples from islamabad. august on new prime minister emraan khan will be relating saudi arabia in what seemed to be a crucial way that. the king. headquartered imran khan congratulating him on a tree and a twenty eight thousand election and white. this is going to be done. by the pakistani prime minister which will also signified the importance that bug a standard. to its relationship with saudi arabia while the progress on the prime

minister to date he will also be addressing the issue of almost. any prison or languishing and. he will also be asking the saudis to increase the labor. for the pakistani laborers who contribute significantly by sending remittances from saudi arabia. it is also the likelihood that. financial help in order to meet budget stands economic challenges the country. needs an immediate bailout. hoping that the rigid will be successful and really afford even closer relations between august on imran khan really also be meeting the so d. crown prince mohammad been on and after dad rejecting the united arab emirates as red they said indeed a very important date which will show their direction of the progress on the

foreign policy with the new government in. china has announced a tariff high on sixty billion dollars worth of u.s. products that follows washington's imposition of increased duties on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods those taxes apply to almost six thousand items including rice and textiles that if attacked measures are the latest escalation in the trade dispute between the world's largest economies argentina's former president cristina fernandez the cashier has been charged with corruption she's accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for public work contracts the judges are asked for her parliamentary immunity to be lifted so she can be detained on these cases the united states' heavy rain is still disrupting rescue efforts particularly in the carolinas song florence has been downgraded to a tropical depression but more than thirty people have already been killed kristen

salumi reports from wilmington 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 this and travel we've had. water on the floor. but we make it everybody in our neighborhoods pigeon in working together i've been here all my life i've never seen anything warm like be a safe just and so unusual in a way not as much when we're more rain 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.