out of anger and grief combined even though you're still mourning i don't know what our demands are the demands of everyone and god willing we will continue in a group be successful our protest today is large and we are going in the right direction and after friday prayers a seemingly endless stream of people determined to make their voices heard we had a worry about the shoot to kill. and the fact that the bullet that was used seemed to be exploded when it touches you know like an object and therefore. it's impossible that the height it's been four weeks since the uprising began at first it was over the tripling of the price of bread and fuel the economy is flatlining with astronomy can inflation rates or fission figures put it at seventy two percent but now people say it's not just the soaring prices and the lack of cash but it's about the way the country has

been run for the past thirty years the government says more fuel on the floor have now arrived starting to leave the crisis they also announced the printing of more currency notes and the raising of salaries but what is to say that is not enough they'll be satisfied with nothing short of the removal of president and bashir from power. still ahead hair on al-jazeera colombia's government says a leftist was behind the last attack in the country in more than fifteen plus. i'm andrew thomas in the pacific island country of trials on the way to deliver life saving vaccines. by drug.

hello again we're here across united states as we can it is going to be quite messy anywhere from the central plains all the way to the northeast and that is all due to a system that is developing right now and that is making its way towards east ticklish your forecast map here on saturday heavy snow to the north a lot of rain down here across parts of the southeast and we could be seeing some thunderstorms there could also be seeing some near blizzard conditions particularly where we see these winds very very quick across much of that area that storm makes its way towards the northeast not only affecting united states but affecting the southern portions of ontario as well as into québec temperatures are going to be dropping behind the system you can see toronto minus thirteen degrees there new york it's going to be about three but very windy conditions it's going to bring the wind chill down across much of the region out here towards the west we do have another system coming in from the pacific that is going to bring some rain as well as more snow to the higher elevations well here across the caribbean not looking too bad but that same weather system that we were talking about in the united states is going to come down across the gulf and we do expect to see some change in

the temperatures here across the yucatan as a pushes through for advantage though on sunday going to be seeing some sharp showers there with attempted there about twenty eight degrees no he too bad for nasa twenty five in a beautiful day over here toward center domingo with attempt a few of about twenty eight degrees there. shadowy financial operations are propping up north korea's economy hampering the elite and fueling the nation's missile and bush. one on one east investigates north korea's secret money on al-jazeera. more than two thousand five hundred leaders from government business and international organizations will meet at the next economic forum to discuss the global political and industry trends twenty nine t. . special coverage al-jazeera.

top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un only for a second time at the end of february the white house made the announcement of to north korea's lead nuclear negotiator held talks with. states. at least twenty people have been killed and dozens more injured in a pipeline fire in central mexico. trying to fill containers with fuel. in the pipeline but it exploded. and police clashed with warmest a funeral of a man shocked the government protests and. activists say at least fifty people have died since demonstrations began last month. the democratic republic of congo is

rejecting the african union's attempt to intervene in the disputed presidential election the a u is calling for the announcement of the final result to be postponed election fraud concerns provisional results which to opposition a definitive katie the winner all being challenged in court by his rival lost him. yes president donald trump has denied reports that he directed his former personal lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress about plans to build a trump tower in moscow the office of special counsel robert muller who's investigating the chung campaign's alleged links to moscow has cost doubts on the report a buzz feed publication says standing by the story like hannah reports. the claims made against president trump are explosive and if true could lead directly to impeachment for suborning perjury that's the precise phrase that was used in the impeachment of president clinton the 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 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 those 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 collusion no collusion no collusion no collusion 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 texts and e-mails already in possession of a special counsel robert miller who's looking into trump campaign ties to the kremlin the special counsel's office has disputed s. picks off the bus article in a carefully worded. response it says buzz feed's description of specific statements to the special counsel's office and characterization of documents and testimony of tain by this office regarding michael cohen's congressional testimony on not accurate it short of a direct repudiation of the article but it's extremely rare if not unprecedented for the special counsel's office to comment on news reports. 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 that. yes 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 mike hanna out of syria washington colombia's president has asking about to hand over ten members of the leftist armed group of thursday's car bomb attack in bogota event decay has reactivated arrest orders against and leaders involved in previous peace talks but the government twenty one people were killed after a car packed with explosives detonated at a police academy the group has not claimed responsibility for the attack as on her ramp yet explains what this means for peace talks between colombia's government and the rebels. the president even addressed the nation late on friday

sensually doing what everybody was expecting ending the possibility of a reactivation peace negotiations with. the active rebel group in colombia. that happened after the government and now that. was behind the car bomb attack that killed twenty young cadet tears be here in the capital. said that no ideology no political fight can justify the horror that colombians had to endure he announced that he will reactivate the international arrest warrant of the leadership who is in cuba and they were expecting a restart of the peace negotiations for many here do they have the i'm no other option after this attack on thursday and this means that colombia will not have the possibility at least for now to reach

a complete peace something that most colombians hope could happen after the largest rebel group in the country the fark had signed an agreement with the colombian government back in two thousand and sixteen. actually general of the arab league says it's not the right time to reinstate syria's membership of the twenty two member bloc citing deep divisions. have been meeting in lebanon has been pushing to restore syria's membership which was suspended in two thousand and eleven from bashar assad's violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests last month and bahrain reopens the embassies in damascus for the first time since the beginning of the conflicts. yemen's warring sides have failed to reach an agreement during talks in jordan who the rebels and the yemeni government have been negotiating and a man over a prisoner swap deal that was agreed in sweden last month. israeli forces have used live fire and tear gas on palestinian protesters along the gaza israeli border

fence at least thirty palestinians including three medics were injured this footage shows one of three ambulances that were hit by the tear gas stations have now run for forty three consecutive fridays as part of the great march of return for tess's have been calling for the right of return of palestinian refugees and an end to the more than a decade long blockade on gaza by israel and egypt. without those demonstrations in gaza. we've seen a lot of gas fired today yet again this is the full week of the four day protests along the gaza border a lot of i've been to she's taking the way now there's a lot of r. and r. here in gaza specifically at the moment over the withholding. of millions of dollars donated by cots a lot of which is going to go towards buying fuel for gaza there is a serious fuel crisis on the strip at the moment hospitals are saying that some of

the may have to close down the big issue certainly. the israeli government is that a lot more of this money is going to go to war paying hamas employees in the netanyahu government on the pressure. by of what i described as right we're going to see in that government that accuse him of basically paying hamas to keep the situation cause in the street understand that thousands of people have been protesting in other areas along the border oh and even restates is saying they will continue protesting until israel's twelve year there and see the ok he's there to stop it al jazeera gaza. i wish primus said to him a will speak to european leaders union leaders this weekend off the head deal for leaving the bloc was heavily defeated in parliament three days again may has until monday to come up with a plan beam she's already met rival posse leaders in the hope of reaching a breakthrough but opposition leader jameco open is refusing to join cross party

discussions until a new deal breaks sense is ruled out. european union chemicals experts are proposing a ban on some micro plastics to try to combat pollution the tiny pieces of plastic end up in waterways oceans and animals last year scientists found the first evidence of micro plastics in humans or micro plastics are found in things such as cosmetics and detergents but the largest user is the agriculture industry fertilizer wrapped in tiny plastic shells there's and then slowly into the soil but the plastic is left behind ping commission estimates that up to two hundred thousand tons of micro plastics enter the environment every year and that the ban could cut that by thirty thousand tons u.s. and u.k. already have partial bans in place and the e.u. hopes its proposal because set a standard for industries around the world but particles are also created by the breakdown of bigger items like bottles or plastic bags and the ban won't change

that critics argue such measures aren't enough to deal with a problem that's reached epic proportions during the. head of programs at plastic soup foundation he says was the ban is a good first step a lot of micro plastics come from sources that are harder to regulate. but intentionally added michael plastics to burn it's like cosmetics or detergents of fertilizer and you can actually say that's a design matter just get rid of it that it's there that's actually the easy bucks and it's similar to pick up about steaks or straws what's going on right now on a global scale and their take are they should most of plastics from textiles or guard or all kind of best materials you know our daily lives that's my goal and if we don't you know why sure you're close and watching she you know never twice it's nine million by wish for example so that that's enormous this might progress itself out everywhere in that the bush trenches in the ocean but also on the tops of

a millennium in the north pole in the south pole so you can basically say plastic is everywhere it's actually there the interesting thing with the european battle now and then she added michael plastics that you are being chemically agency is now investigating is that a risk for human health or the employment that we board that this at this months and it's very interesting because that's actually the first step in regulating will issue of microbes less in the environment which would be a very good and very necessary case goes yet and there's so much press that go around we need to regulate it and met take steps. life saving vaccines could soon be delivered by drones tests are underway on a remote pacific island which could revolutionize health kept some of the world's poorest nations and adama's reports on. a mango island. delivering vaccines to people narrow mango audience used to take hours or even days

but now a drone can reach them in minutes soaring over the sea or rugged landscapes which don't have roads or parts until recently this along rough boat ride was the only way anything got to the village of south river to get things to other places to go about and the trek of many hours for vaccines which need to be kept cool that's expensive and impractical boats need lots of fuel backpacks don't have for generation and in remote villages there isn't reliable power needed for fridges to store vaccines long term growth mean vaccines can be delivered on demand i've been with the minister of health under five years and this is the most innovative and ambitious and exciting project that i've been involved in two companies commissioned by that i want to use government and backed by australia unicef and the global fund are investigating the viability of new services across fun to watch

these awful ago it takes twenty minutes for a drug to reach south river remember mangos main settlement at dillon's bay but the battery on board can fly it for well over an hour the drone reaches one hundred ten kilometers an hour and can carry two point five kilograms on board this child is one of the lucky ones being vaccinated during the trial period otherwise it would have taken a lot longer we've had many conversations with with unicef at the global level and the definitely looking at what's happening in one or two other countries are interested to learn from let's have an happening in vanuatu and to able to replicate but i want to use drones just minutes on the ground before making the return trip one of ink. tested here about the practical technicalities of delivering vaccines by drugs and economics is it financially viable to deliver primary health care by drug the company behind this says yes largely using parts made by three d.

princes their manufacturing cost is less than ten thousand dollars per drug and pulling the drones routes all tonelessly so there's no need to expertise locally the only marginal operating cost is electricity about four dollars appliance about a mile to but even the cost is removed when solar energy is used it is made to be robust and cost effective in a solution that we can we can talk to a country that can't afford one hundred thousand all of a coal but we can bring the same level of technical competence with all of us sitting behind me this trial is a world first if successful it has a big implications the potential to fly out to primary health care on demand to remote spots worldwide under thomas al-jazeera and. you're watching our top stories south korea says a second summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong next month will hopefully

be a turning point for peace on the korean peninsula the white house made the announcement after pyongyang is leaving you to negotiate a. state might have on friday at least twenty people have been killed and dozens more injured in a pipeline fire in central mexico most of the victims are people who are trying to fill containers with fuel from a rupture in the pipeline john holeman has more. just you know. for a secure. curtain goes to be treated. and. it's got to go around here it's really quite extraordinary you can see your lot of. dozens of. trying to cover this you complain there's still oil company here now saying they're actually get a few more than a three. part colombia's president has asked cuba to hand over

ten members of a leftist armed group accused of thursday's car bomb attack and bogota event decay is reactivated arrest orders against leaders involved in previous peace talks with the government twenty one people were killed after a car packed with explosives detonated at a police academy the group has not claimed responsibility for the attack police clashed with mourners at the funeral of a man killed in anti-government protests in sudan's capital khartoum activists say at least fifty people have died since demonstrations calling for the president omar al bashir to resign began last month the democratic republic of congo is rejecting the african union's call to suspend the announcement of the final presidential election results provisional results which declared opposition leader felix to the winner of being challenged in court by his opposition rival

latin. they now with all their lands are back with more news after one zero one east. to be a child is to be innocent and carefree but it comes to an abrupt end with the burden of younger children. with a mother behind bars four siblings must spend for each other and decide whether to stick together. with the family in the hope of a chance across the us mexico border the other side of the war a witness documentary on al-jazeera. north korea has one of the poorest economies in the world crippled by global sanctions there's barely enough money to go around at least officially unknown to most north koreans shadowy state agencies operate around the world they are in

billions of dollars for the country or more specifically for leader kim jong un helping fund his nuclear ambitions i'm steve on this episode what i want east follows the trail of north korea's secret money. solve just fifty kilometers from the border with north korea. over the past twenty years the south korean capital has become one of the book she says it. was it's also become a place of refuge for north korean defectors. this young high ranking north korean official fled thousands of kilometers across china to start a new life here he's been living with a new identity michael kim he works part time as

a museum attendant in the capital a role in this whole city is all. bought their house or is it to us or how most all kinds of men did it it took us here when the politicos ongo or does it because it was done in the dream is a highway in the or is it forty years or talk years off it's six hundred dollars an hour or so. who turned their. guns on board. the commissary. we joined it. oh here's ours in. so doing a deal. coheres i said to enjoy about us on this course religious quote there. is a you know one listen. i don't i'm a better. person and outside of the us an issue causes muslim

bolden killed when they're called cox a monk has under its wing. only has so where her mind. fled without giving any warning to his family. he'd stopped believing in the regime and knew too much. despite the risks he agreed to our interview he hopes to become too well known to be secretly killed. reports from men and women who played a role in office thirty nine the keepers of all the financial secrets of north korea are rare. to flee overseas means putting yourself and also your family back in north korea in danger. but it was the government that

sent him ill halfway across the world to a construction site in the kuwaiti desert. in which i turned up but i don't know how to do is if you know will cause you know good poem or piling a lot of power you know i do. need to go. she has had into me pushing warner all over to the opinion she invites him in and then peggy much. anymore is hundred any one hunted by jingo. yours isn't true what are you going to contest in the car. militaries are still curate here and they're going to call. there were near a yes man there from the we don't. call imran most highly annoying guy to. the new crew to me.

about two hundred. pounds. and when we. can do it do you. know who we don't. even know who can look here. in the. tongue is image even. more. education than. north korea started sending workers abroad in one thousand nine hundred eighty four . slowly a gigantic network of secret companies and financial institutions developed. to

bring money to office thirty nine. as a representative of the north korean north east asia bank in singapore. made tens of millions of dollars for his country. in two thousand and three suspected him of revealing information about the country's finances. he fled to solve. today the expense works for the south korean security agency working against the regime he once been attorney loyalty to. our main goal is to make four in cash and this foreign cash business is secret complete secret office number three nine communion of creating that the system is set up like it's all north korean institutions where these foreign cash is generated there is to report it to can to the top and then should bring

that should pay that in cash to family knowledge and zone and the fortunes of europe so he get there all this and then spend it or courting to his priorities so two economies one is to family economy and the other one is the national economy run by the cabinet and run by their so called you know central planning their different group careers you know at most one hundred and fifty thousand maybe fifty thousand in russia and little more in china and others in scattered around the world so true than fifty thought and they make a lot of money there's only. so seventy percent eighty percentage of the

salary cuts and sent to the state in the party so if they make all of them a hundred dollars then the amount is a much smaller man knowing it. putting your own on. a pair were schmoe fifteen million fifteen million a month they don't make only one hundred years bucks a year or month when they make more maybe several hundred at least. so a lot of money is going to control. the volume of their cash income jim's own winds fund increased dramatically in the past in the past twenty years in the past twenty years so he can buy. and he can. do continue this in

a nuclear and missile program in the colony younger than a mother daughter and i know that it home you know will guard our home or. lay it on low ground while three cause we don't know you would. do a lot for. trying to do and i. believe it was a big distant. moment one. on the edge of the mongolian step buildings just office space every day the mongolian capital all and but all grows bigger. mongolia was a communist country for more than seventy years its monumental buildings stem from that era. but after the fall of the soviet union in braced capitalism.

ever since rural people have been flooding into the cities. all the bustle needs new apartments but there's not enough local workers so mongolia was from china vietnam and north korea. the mongolian work is used for the exterior work the basic qualified north koreans take care of the interior. the workers from pyongyang a watched day and noise. we send in now translation. is done and this was also does bell and the social studies teacher in to do is to do need to know so it is. clear that the white house not only did rules of the last year that would go to the floor. although since there are.

usually they can only go outside in groups so they can watch over each other. put in the market alleys of pool and the tall we catch sight of a north korean worker and he seems to be a long. jumper to jail for two good vocal rules of the book but so to. rome. and you will see. the real problem just. for the. digital media mogul and by far the work of the. public will really. come on just sit. on. when will the rule of the bottle.

groups will. still. show i will cut you sir told just as a group in the us will i was out on the lot too but you lose it isn't it awful. there are an estimated one thousand two hundred rolls koreans working in mongolia. the companies transfer the y. g.'s directly to the north korean embassy in berlin but all. most is confiscated by the regime. the work is only received a small amount to send back to their families in north korea. construction workers are the only money makers.