there is going to do nuclearize they haven't done that according to sources inside the u.s. government the u.s. has been asking just for a list of what weapons they haven't and not been able to get those and there's a fight over what denuclearization actually means but for the white house as part they say look what we haven't seen are any missile tests or any new nuclear tests and that is in itself progress so this summit is going to be an attempt to actually push it forward because right now we've had a proclamations but we've seen no concrete steps to actually get to the goal which the president said was already solved so there will be pressure at this summit to have something more than what they had at the first summit but from the white house perspective they say this is progress talking means something thank you very much from washington patty calling. in all the developments president trump has denied allegations that he directed his then personal lawyer to lie to congress over plans to build a trump tower in moscow accusations of been made been in a report by buzz feed news well now democrats are saying they will investigate the

allegations further our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more from washington. it's an explosive report based on allegations by investigators if true the claims against u.s. president dol traub are the most direct proof that he broke the law and could potentially end his presidency the damning report by two u.s. journalists says trump allegedly directed his longtime attorney michael cohen to lie in testimony before congress according to the report trump wanted cohen to tell congress that negotiations over a trump tower project to moscow during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign happened months earlier than they actually did look that's absolutely ridiculous i think that the president's outside counsel addressed this best and said in a statement earlier today this categorically false the report also says trump directed cohen to set up a meeting with russian president vladimir putin to discuss the project

a claim he's repeatedly denied there is absolutely no scholars there's no collusion no collusion no solution with the rights cohen was sentenced in december for various crimes which included false statements to the f.b.i. something trump tweeted about in response to the latest allegations pointing out cohen is a proven liar but the latest claims published in the online publication buzz feed site to a named law enforcement officials and state that cohen's testimony is backed by tax and e-mails already in possession by special counsel robert muller looking into trunk campaign ties to the kremlin not only that and impeachable offense but there could actually be something that couldn't move. if senate republicans to actually begin to to break from this president earlier this week trump's nominee for attorney general bill barr admitted directing someone to lie would amount to obstruction of justice you wrote on page one that a president persuading

a person to commit perjury would be obstruction is that right. the. yes ok or any any well you know any person and it's another it's ok in a statement the new house intelligence committee chair adam schiff said the allegations of a cover up are the most serious to date and valid to do what's necessary to find out if it's true michael cohen is scheduled to testify publicly before congress next month but already some congressional democrats are threatening to start impeachment proceedings against the president based on these latest accusations kimberly helped at al-jazeera the white house you are the news hour live from london more still ahead fears about press freedom in gone or following the murder of an investigative journalist who helped expose a widespread corruption or at the eastern end of the five hundred kilometer irish border where locals brax it will fraud are used to that business. and the rules of

basketball provided for using ending the english crowd at the n.b.a. london peter will be history explainable in a sport. well now to colombia the government there is accused of carrying out thursday's car bombing as a police academy in bogota twenty one people were killed sixty others injured when a vehicle packed with explosives broke through checkpoints and blew up the group has about two thousand fighters in its ranks its leaders and to peace talks with the former president one manual santos in two thousand and seventeen but they were put on hold by his successor yvonne touquet alessandra m.p.'s he has more. colombia's defense minister and the attorney general say they have enough proof and intelligence that demonstrates according to them that hacker was indeed an

explosives expert for the rebel group that you had lost his right hand in a previous explosion and that he had been responsible for explosives training in rebel camps in different regions along the border with venezuela where the operates and that also the the man that was a arrested in the early hours of friday with part of an urban cell here in the capital with the attorney general says that allegedly he was caught on the phone speaking about the role in thursday's attack if paul this is true or the government believes it to be true it could also have of course consequences on the ongoing peace negotiations with this rebel group the last one standing in colombia we are expecting president. to make

a decision on these peace talks later on friday at the end of a security meeting that's been ongoing since friday morning. to yemen where the warring sides have failed to reach an agreement during talks in jordan he's the rebels in the yemeni government have been negotiating in a month of a prisoner swap deal that was agreed in sweden last month but both parties have accused each other of lying and hiding crucial information about detainees have now decided on a time table to exchange their views on the details of the deal. the arab economic summit has been seen as a failure even before it begins on sunday arab league foreign and finance ministers have been meeting in beirut most heads of state of pulled out. the countries involved disagree over relations with damascus and efforts to contain iran syria's membership was suspended in two thousand and twelve because of the war though lebanon's foreign minister is pushing for it to be restored. the democratic

republic of congo is rejecting the african union's call to delay the final results of last month's disputed presidential election a you won't see announcement be postponed because of concerns of electoral forward provisional results declared opposition leader felix to she katy the winner but they are being challenged by his rival mata for you knew who accuses tisha k.t. of rigging the outcome with outgoing president joseph kabila arm which also has more now from the capital kinshasa. government officials in kinshasa have told the african union that this is a sovereign country no one should interfere no one can tell the d.l.c. how to run the elections they also say they can fees because they getting mixed messages from african leaders we know the african union is unhappy with the electoral process so far but leaders from the southern african development community issued a statement saying that the people of the d r c should be able to resolve their own crisis foreign country should not interfere and people especially need to be made to wait for an outcome from the courts we know that eight constitutional judges i

mean to make an announcement on the way forward they could either say the feel it is the katie one the addiction which means he will be sworn in as president in a few days time they could order a recount all they could say the whole process was a mess and should be held again which could take months maybe even years and that means it could be the remains of president until those elections are held all eyes of course will be on martin fire you the opposition leader of the catholic church has won the election by sixty one percent if he's not happy with the outcome from the courthouse riyadh's if easy to tell his supporters to go onto the streets and protest is no guarantee the concert hall to make announcement friday it could be over the weekend or sometime next week news from zimbabwe the government has instructed the country's biggest mobile operator to restore internet access ofter communications ban it comes after the united nations and to a security crackdown on civilians triggered by days of deadly protests over fuel prices and austerity measures a leading activist to evan was arrested earlier this week and has been ordered to

stand trial for allegedly subverting the government. the funeral of a moderate investigative journalist has taken place in gonna. help expose corruption within well football's governing body feet he was shot dead near his home in a crime gone as president has condemned the killing as a heinous crime. reports now from the qana capital relatives and friends gather at the local mosque to pray for the murdered journalist ahmed hussein so he was shot multiple times just outside his home in what appears to be a targeted killing almost all do this from the other family from this. morning you know it's something that is shocking and what people were intending to do because my mom's will come to talk to us not to take the law into our equal yet we don't know who sponsor. of this unfortunate incident

the the award winning investigative journalist and mass army is among the mourners he hides his identity both to keep him safe and help with his reporting he worked with and is the leader of a team known as tiger i private investigations together they expose corruption in the gun in judiciary and most recently saw. several hours off of the killing and mass posted a video on twitter showing a member of parliament making threats against ahmed in june last year after their latest exposé on soccer that led to a lifetime ban from the sport for the head of ghana's football association for bribery and corruption and asked says the media environment in ghana is changing for the worse some some of which. we. should. if we please to cover.

more. the head of gone is journalist association agrees. that we need to do something. but also to ensure their rights. he's got around to eat. there's been a number of high profile targeted killings in the month of january alone and people are asking what's happening here is this the beginning of a worrying trend as families say emotions are running high and they want answers and they want those answers from the police and the security services i'm up watching al-jazeera. israeli forces a fired bullets and tear gas at palestinian protesters gathered along the gaza israel security fence at least thirty people have been injured with claims that medics have been targeted dubbed the march of the returned demonstrations have now

run for forty three consecutive fridays at least two hundred forty eight palestinian protesters have been killed. gaza's fence with israel and sent us this report. we've seen a lot of gas fired today yet again this is the forty third week of the four day protests along the gaza border a lot of i'm going to is taking the way now there's a lot of our new guy here in gaza specifically at the moment over the withholding. of millions of dollars donated by cuts a lot of which is going to go towards buying fuel for gaza there is a serious two crises on the strip at the moment hospitals are saying that some of the may have to close down the big issue certainly for the israeli government is that a lot more of this money is going to go to war playing commerce employees in the netanyahu government on the pressure of. the live what it describes as what we're

going to see in that government that accuse him of basically paying hamas to keep the situation carmen in the street to understand it thousands of people have been protesting in other areas along the border oh i believe every state says they will continue protesting the chill israel's. they're in sea blockade is they've to stop it al-jazeera gaza. in all the developments israeli forces have demolished the family home of the palestinian teenager accused of murdering an american israeli civilian israeli soldiers surrounded the home of jabbering in the occupied west bank village of yatta on friday the seventeen year old is charged with stabbing a u.s. fonseca at a shopping mall in september israel says these demolitions serve as a deterrent but critics see it as collective punishment that inflames hostility well palestinians have told out there they feel suffocated and trapped by the torturous process objected to by israeli authorities just to get to work from long

lines at checkpoints to tough travel restrictions many say they are fed up with endless delays stephanie decker reports from one checkpoint in the occupied west bank. day after day they rise hours before the sun. cold and cramped this is the only way for these palestinian workers to leave the occupied west bank to get to their jobs in israel. all of them have israeli work permits but we're told it can take up to two and a half hours to get through this checkpoint because of what it is the same thing every day this is not a live and what country in the world does this take place the only happens to us palestinians here because of the occupation these workers try to jump the queue. but there's little space down below. fights often break out here everyone is frustrated. yesterday was harder than today they closed the doors for

a while and we are trapped yeah a lot of the sure the suffering that we enjoy our work is one thing and the crossing is something else all our energy is taken from us here at this checkpoint so when a person loses all his energy here what is left if the israelis wanted we could cross in five minutes to around five o'clock in the morning that we've been watching thousands of palestinians cross here in the last hour or so i don't think anyone who doesn't have to enjoy this on a day to day basis would ever understand what it's like. we also one of the workers to film this crossing for us once inside more hold ups and queues and more frustration israel maintains that these security measures are essential to prevent potential attacks. there are many checkpoints across the west bank this is the main entry point in and out of jerusalem from there's always heavy traffic and people are fed up you know every day they tell us they will find a solution when are they going to find

a solution for this everyone is frustrated when they come to the checkpoint they lose their tempers. we are a people who don't know what is going to happen to us. so many palestinians have told us these measures make them feel suffocated and trapped there's been no movement on the political front no peace talks since two thousand and fourteen and a delay in the announcement of the us president donald trump's peace plan everyone we speak to says israel's occupation dictates their lives and there seems to be a resignation that there is nothing they can do to change that. stephanie decker al-jazeera bethlehem in the occupied west bank. so i had for you on the program south african shacked well as fight for land reform is violent convictions leave them without a roof over their heads cambodian rice producers find themselves in hot water all of the exports to the european union and that in sport one champion knocks out

another as last year's australian open winner makes an early exit peter will have that story and more. hello get a welcome back here in the national weather forecast well things are looking much better down here towards the southeastern part of europe all the rain the windy conditions in the snow has ended so are much clearer as you can see on the satellite image across that area but we are seeing the weather is out here towards the west and they have been princely is seeing a system coming out of the atlantic it is going to bring some winds as well as some very heavy rain over the next few days for parts of spain as well as portugal up here towards the northwest though london it is going to be a cloudy day for you here on saturday with a temperature of about five degrees now as we go towards the end of the week it will be seen that system out of the iberian peninsula make its way towards the central part of the mediterranean and it is going to bring some rain showers as

well to the southern part of france over the next few days let's go down here towards the northern part of africa that same system is also going to be a factor here so we're going to see an increase of rain particular over here towards morocco for algeria as well along the coastal areas not looking too bad here on saturday but as we go towards sunday we are going to be seeing an increase or a little on the areas along the coastal areas there with the windy conditions also beginning to develop so for about it is going to be a rainy day for you at seventeen algiers rain in your forecast at fifty but tunis partly cloudy conditions here with a temperature of sixteen. if you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going or what what is this gross is a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic growth this is still the center of capitalism there is no

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and back a look at the top stories now violence has erupted between police and anti-government protesters at a funeral in sudan's capital hard to thousands have turned up to mourn the death of a sixty year old man who was shot by officers offering refuge to demonstrate as. u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un will hold another meeting at the end of february the white house made the announcement after north korea's lead nuclear negotiator help talks with trump and secretary of state might compare . and the colombian government has accused the rebels of carrying out first days car bombing as a police academy in bogota twenty one people were killed and sixty eight others injured in the attack. a judge in the united states is about to sentence a white police officer found guilty of murder for shooting a black teenager five years ago seventeen year old kwan mcdonald was shot sixteen

times while carrying a knife down a chicago street and two thousand and fourteen officer jason van dyke could face a maximum ninety six years in jail well john hendren joins us from outside the courthouse in chicago that sentencing hearing has been going on all day can you tell us more about what's been happening inside the court. that's right william jason vandyke a police officer a forty year old man stands waiting for his sentence in what here in chicago was really the trial of the half century it has been fifty years or more since a police officer was convicted of murder in this city and so what we've been hearing all day in a court room filled with tension are witnesses on the prosecution side arguing for or a heavier sentence and witnesses on the defense side now just in the last few witnesses

i believe arguing for a lighter sentence and that sentence range is incredibly broad he could face as little as probation or as much as ninety six years in prison in the prosecution is is arguing for a significant stint in jail activists are insisting on a very long sentence they're calling many of them for ninety six years for this police officer and the reason it's so long is that there are a number of charges first of all there is a murder charge second degree murder charge and then there are sixteen aggravated battery charge one for each bullet that this police officer put into the body of law kwon mcdonald and what became so famous about this case is that it it wasn't well known until a year after it happened and a journalist an activist saw the video which when it came. mout showed look one mcdonald walking away from police officers he had a knife in his hand but he was not facing them and one police officer an out of the

horde that was there at the scene pulled out his weapon in fired sixteen times that was jason van dyke and today he's going to find out what he must pay for that. and john this is one of the most closely watched at least not in trials in the united states what's been the reaction so far. with this case as soon as it came out really galvanized black lives matter movement and a lot of community activists here in chicago they shut down one highway in a protest and attempted to shut down another there have been protesters outside of the building and the concern here is that if there's a light sentence for officer jason van dyke that the community could simply erupt and that has happened here before in chicago as far back as one nine hundred sixty seven in the riots after the death of martin luther king and people are concerned that in this case could be just as volatile so everyone in this city is watching this verdict closely it is on every local network you can stream it on any of your

local t.v. stations here so this is something that's going to be extremely closely watched in the community is bracing for the answers thank you very much with the latest on the case from chicago hendren. judges at international criminal court have granted a last ditch request to extend the detention a full ivory coast president long prosecutors of us today to keep him in jail while they appeal against his acquittal he was tried of a post-election violence that took place eight years ago in which three thousand people were killed but both still faces a twenty year jail term back home for financial crimes. british prime minister to resign may will speak to european union leaders this weekend off the deal for leaving the bloc was heavily defeated in parliament three days ago may has been given until monday to come up with a plan b. the biggest issue facing any breaks it deal is the irish border which would become the only land frontage between the united kingdom and the european union reports

from calling for the walk the eastern end of the irish border. who owns carlingford law for the past twenty years the question hasn't mattered but then breaks it happened. daryn coming in is an oyster man. his high end project is consumed as far away as china the north shore is british the south is irish the waters in between are shared across border agency works for the interests of both sides. but it hasn't always been this way not far from here in one nine hundred seventy nine eighteen pushes soldiers were killed in an ira ambush during thirty years of six hereon violence in northern ireland was a militarize frontier. would have. been border a possible no deal breaks it has increased the prospects of a hard border the return of customs checks and extra paperwork could be devastating

for the fishing industry that relies on speed it's just a complete disaster. but the last ten years. from no home port in the last seven years of new morning constant work. just never enough grip and so on and the failure got the business up go on and on and then brag that. was very frustrating. border will also impact on the movement of people the calling foot ferry is the only route across the lot people are crossing the border every day here between northern aren't under a public forum for work in their daily lives the possibility of introducing any barriers to the free and seamless movements of vehicles and people. is a great concern to us for the past twenty years the border here are. very much. if no solution can be found most breaks in but either side of this law could soon be

run by two distinctly different dorothy's complicating the lives and livelihoods. if you depend upon. the return of a hard border remains for now a worst case scenario for the crushing defeat of the british government's breaks that deal on choose day to set contingency plans in motion on both sides of the border yes we are making preparations for a no deal scenario we have to do that now that doesn't loot checks the ports and airports but we're not making preparations for attacks along the border but having said that. the only way they can avoid a hard border long term isn't through good will isn't through the right words it has to be through an agreement with a more mountain sweep down to the sea they meet calling for the locks open. it is a landscape indifferent to past territorial disputes divisions few here want to ever witness again. calling for the lock. of cambodia

and myanmar have hit back at the european union for resuming tariffs on rice exports cambodia's ministry of commerce described the move is a weapon against already poor farmers at the. exports have been hurting european produces it is also question the country's human rights record when he reports now from on pan. for the past decade cambodia has had one of the best performing economies in the world thanks largely to the biggest buyer of its goods europe but the european union isn't happy and is taking action its impose tariffs on rice from cambodia and me and my after three years following a complaint from italy the italians want to protect their rights industry from falling prices caused by imports from the two countries that surged eighty percent in the past five seasons. until now cambodia and me and maher enjoyed tariff free access to european markets under a program designed to help developing countries despite being planned for some time

the announcement from the e.u. seemed to catch the cambodian government off guard. me the ministry just received the official statement which is sixty four pages long from the a few minutes ago so we will discuss the details internally first i apologize we have to delay the press conference the news gets worse with the e.u. signaling it will also place tariffs on all other goods from cambodia as punishment for what it says is a deterioration in democracy and human rights ahead of last july's election the government launched a crackdown on dissent which resulted in the largest opposition party being disbanded prime minister hun sen has remained publicly defiant in the face of increased pressure and scrutiny from the west which has come amid a surge of investment and trade with china privately his attitude may be different though given that cambodian businesses osip to become less competitive in their biggest markets europe the first step initiated by the e.u.

in october will see cambodia under investigation for six months after which the formal process of imposing tariffs will begin the move would be particularly hard on the garment sector which employs around eight hundred thousand people activists say the action by europe provides an opportunity for the government to clean up its act it's very important for the government to make sure that you know they have the capacity enough to maintain the in wester and also to build the trade in wire months and strengthen the link on the kind of sums reduce corruption in europe buys more than forty percent of cambodia's exports but right now the old saying that the customer is always right doesn't seem to be holding true wayne hay al jazeera phnom penh. now australia is sweltering in record temperatures in an extreme heat wave that's now lasted almost a week temperatures near the coast have gone above forty degrees celsius or parts

of the interior close to fifty degrees on many australians head to the beaches elderly people and children in several regions are being advised to stay indoors forecasters say they'll be some relief this weekend before more hot weather next week and if you live in a shack in south africa or your rights that's the question that hangs over millions of shanty town dwellers in places like the eastern province of tel one write scripts says hundreds of people are being thrown out of their homes which is illegal unless they are provided with new housing so minimal has more now from durban. just below the main road on a hillside in keto christe in durban these people have built a makeshift homes the shacks up the canano settlement a made out of plastic wooden boards and metal sheeting providing little protection from rain and the intense humidity. has lived here for two years after losing her job and not being able to pay rent elsewhere both the shack off her previous one

was burnt down she says by police. but when they got here they started shooting from the top and then came down and continued shooting we asked what the problem was and they told us to leave and that this was in our place they got into our homes and burnt everything down this community leader says forty six shacks were demolished and some burnt down during the vixens. despite repeated evictions dozens of families have returned and continue to live in the k'naan a settlement many say it's not by choice but necessity the areas close to schools clinics and places of work but they say they live in fear worried police will come back and evict them again schachter as association. dollars says the vixens i legal because the city doesn't have a court order and as required by law it's not provided alternative accommodation

for those it's evicted the group says the rights of people living in two thousand three hundred shacks settlements across the country are being ignored we have been listening into artists in a number of every cell in the city i mean just before this one seven communities have face of action so we have to go to court just last year to tame interdict against the city which involves more than twenty to forty one fabulous the municipality refused to speak to al-jazeera saying the matter is still before the courts but earlier issued a statement saying some land is not meant for human occupation according to government statistics fourteen percent of the africans live in informal settlements the government provided three point two million free houses for the poor in the last twenty five years but the people's environmental planning organization says about twelve million south africans don't have adequate housing people living at the k'naan a settlement say there's some relief after the call.