pled guilty to lying to congress along with other serious crimes he can't be trusted you know you're a disgrace lawyer i mean you've been disbarred i don't know what your in america would believe anything mr cohen says given his past actions and was this committee laid out a case for why they need to move forward expect that they will in the coming days call for the president's personal attorneys to testify before them ask whether or not cohen was in fact told to lie to congress they're going to want to bring in the people who know the president's finances they can do that they have subpoena power they can make people testify under oath make it clear that this is just the beginning. to call him al-jazeera washington still ahead on al-jazeera running for their lives dozens of casualties after a high speed train crash in egypt. and

either the weather is very mobile across north america or at the moment the satellite picture shows all the cloud making its way in from the pacific crossing the rockies there and then making its way eastwards that has been giving us a lot of rain and some very strong winds and a lot of snow as well in fact this is what it looks like in the northern part of california the right absolutely hammering it down and we do have a little bit of flooding at the moment to now that system is going to continue to bring us some wet weather there and a fair amount of snow as we head through the day on the day and that gradually will be edging its way eastwards again as we head into friday behind it little bit of a break actually for friday along that western coastline further south and we've had a lot of wet weather across the gulf states recently too but all of that is clearing away so friday because i could be proving picture for many of us hit ever that it was the south is lots of sunshine to be found across many of the caribbean islands currently but a bit more in the way of cloud around you may care and that will. we give it

a swirl two showers not only on thursday but also friday towards the west plenty of sunshine here but just the odd shower perhaps times there's more showers further south these have been really lively recently we've had a fair amount of flooding in peru when the rains are going to stay heavy over the next couple of days and also stretching all the way down into the southern parts of brazil and they'll stay there for the day friday. this week's oath royce a new method of cremation is helping him to tradition become more and one mentor your friend and we visit a danish community and you have taken sustainability to new heights just over there on the horizon is some so i do it there are officially one hundred percent renewable and. we get back so this is it that's the energy right here it's a. check on al-jazeera.

watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories this hour says he is a no rush for a nuclear deal with north korea as he meets kim jong un on the second and final day of the vietnam summit and pledged to make every effort for a positive outcome. from a lawyer has told a congressional hearing he believes the u.s. president is racist con man and a cheat. and made several accusations against the president including that he personally ordered hush money payments republicans say cohen's testimony lacked credibility and pakistan's prime minister munk on is calling for a dialogue after both india and pakistan say they shot down each other's fighter jets as ahmed says it's downed two indian planes and captured a pilot and d.s.s.

it shot down one pakistani aircraft and lost one of its own. saying more now on our top story day two of the u.s. north korean summit on trailing off as a professor of korean studies it took him university he joins us now from seoul we appreciate your time so much so what do you make of the way donald trump has talked about kim jong un leading up to this summit. the world first of all basically is the major the most important and the mark made by donald trump was nor a rush because north koreans wanted to in time in the vien time it was their basic goal however it's also important as their prompt of course about economic advantages above the great economic potential of not scary donald trump

likes to say because being a real estate dealer he likes to exaggerate and he will say things something. unbelievable and sort by the basic assumption of ease you've not scary and sad in the nuclear weapons they would be showered his money but. and this is probably is they all don't have to talk about it from this economic business perspective that he does seems to be disconnected from what north korea really is and what the lives of north koreans really are is is economic prosperity really what north korea preaches to its people contrary to what many many people is your yes no scary in government wants to preside very prosperous country but it's not the major concern is the second to come so if you're used to that leave in the vault where economy is completely decisive with it performance of any

government and even political survival of the government depends on the economy move not studied some of the case. decision makers believe that economy is important but security of the country enthusiasm it's difficult to distinguish multiple currently but what about those far more but what if people of north korea say they are saying the government wants economic prosperity what do they want for their people there are people in north korea that there are n. detention camps that are starving. well they're not starving because the government of lebanon or the last five or six years has introduced market again to two forms very similar to what share the deed in the nineteen eighties and yes there is some well more efficient but people are not starving and then till last year as the north korean economy was growing pretty fast five six percent a year it was quite impressive growth because you know or care there isn't walks

market walks in there quietly switching to market economy a result of the meeting that so they're not starving but for me and it's more important to ensure security and he believes that his old nuclear weapons he view be absolutely unprotected so more matter of what he will not suffer in the nuclear weapons under lanka thank you very much. pakistan's prime minister has called for talks with india after the nuclear power is shot down each other's fighter jets in the disputed kashmir region pakistan says it down to indian jets and captured one of its pilots india claims to have shot down one pakistani aircraft and run counterparts. here's. what caused this indian fighter jet to crash is disputed between these two nuclear rivals but it was evidence that pakistan and india were confronting each other in the skies above the borders and it prompted this appeal from pakistan's prime minister to india's leader nur and

ramadi. so. we decided to take action today we only wanted to show india that we're able to and if you come into our land we will always retaliate to indian jets across the border and they were shot down i will say the pilots are with us the problem is where do we go from here. but hear me tell you that the pakistani air force says it shot down two indian warplanes after they crossed into its territory in the disputed region of kashmir one crashed in the district of goma . bellamy i don't know her firstly we need to clear the rubble and then deal with the injured after that the air force technical team will come and investigate what happened as of now we found two bodies. initially the indian government said its plane was down because of a technical fault. the pilot is missing in action. he is in custody the.

tension in this volatile region increased after a suicide bomb attack killed at least forty indian security personnel two weeks ago the pakistan based on group jaish e mohammad claimed responsibility. on tuesday the indian air force carried out strikes close to the border of pakistan and pakistan administered kashmir the indian and pakistan governments have competing narratives about what's happening in the region analysts say the situation has the potential to escalate into full scale conflict this i think is being exacerbated by social media by television and by the speed with which information is being conveyed problem site all the other and there is a lot of what you might call the nationalist flow that we see in any gothic when there is any kind all right lashon security. space around indian administered

kashmir has been shut down and pakistan has closed all its airspace to commercial traffic there is a real atmosphere of fear in the disputed region all the kashmir many people particularly along the border are packing up their fanes and then leaving their houses because they are worried more will come by pakistan and india now have two real options military which is what you think over the last few days or diplomacy imran khan al-jazeera from about our life has to mail told us about the balance from new delhi. india's opposition who until now has been standing shoulder to shoulder with the government came out with a joint statement criticizing the government's handling of the situation since the attack on february fourteenth that killed at least forty indian paramilitary soldiers the opposition said openly we're with the government to show a united stand now they're showing this issuing some cracks in the political unity

now in iran han has offered that you know what happens now is the ball is in india's court but we don't know what he is going to do yet but in the meantime i can tell you people in india are on edge there and like worried what could happen could this lead to another war the people who are specially tell us they feel trapped in the middle of our kashmiris themselves those in the administered kashmir people there say the sea shelling happening there worried about it getting too close a hospital staff in srinagar have told us they've painted red cross symbols on their roofs hoping that might offer them protection in case there's an air strike they're worried that's a possibility now nearly five hundred venezuelan soldiers have deserted the sense saturday as present in the face as growing international pressure to step down hundreds more who have been accused of conspiring against mentor us government have been tortured and face up to thirty years in prison for trey's said a lot of their cattle a c.n.n. report some caucus you're going to get into the last six weeks families of

imprisoned government opponents have been coming to this human rights office to meet with lawyers among them the wife and mother of two national guardsman. on january twentieth you lease bandits and at least twenty seven others sergeants led a short lived uprising in caracas calling on civilians to join forces to overthrow the government of nikko last mughal. all but one was captured and taken to the infamous counterintelligence center for interrogation you know where they are on my husband was blindfolded be to my. baseball bats to people forced his legs open and kicked his testicles every day for weeks he was electrocuted until he passed out they threatened him by telling him my children and i would be next if he didn't confess but if he had the courage to rise up against this dictatorship i have to support him. sandra in one this is husband is now in a military prison awaiting trial for treason but she's still worried of reprisals.

sergeant harry solano got away but not his mother and cousins and says five family members were taken away by intelligence officers looking for the sergeant's whereabouts your. first they took a sixty three year old mother his seventy three year old mother in law my nineteen year old granddaughter and her boyfriend electrocuted to beat them a sixty eight of them with plastic bags and sexually abused my granddaughter after they released them they took away my grandson a policeman it's been one thousand days since we've heard from him. the treatment received by members of the military who rebel and their families is meant to keep them in line through terror says sandra oh and those who support the government of the high ranking offices but the rest are afraid to show discontent because if you do you are tortured imprisoned and murdered and if that weren't enough they persecute your family. in the last week more than four hundred members of

venezuela's armed forces have deserted to neighboring colombia and brazil but the mass uprising to overthrow my daughter of an opposition leader one wide door has been pleading for shows no sign of materializing cuban trained counterintelligence services have reportedly infiltrated the armed forces and already ordered several other plots to overthrow him and no one can tell at this point just how many soldiers are being held in military prisons. the mother of junior sergeant and the despite is aware that her twenty two year old son will likely be made an example of and sentenced to thirty years in prison sandra can't bear thinking that her two small children may never grow up with their father. their only hope now she says is political change in venezuela you see in human i'll just see. at least twenty people have been killed and forty others injured after an accident in cairo's central railway station transport official say a train crashed into

a barrier at high speed causing its fuel tank to explode transport minister resigned after this accident reports. security cameras in the station captured the moment of the crash those waiting on the platform and gulped in flames others ran for their lives. it seems the trying lost control of the brakes it entered the station at very high speed hitting the pavement. it should have slowed down as it was about to enter the station but it came on too fast. well enough record for two years i saw dead bodies many dead bodies isis seven bodies myself but there were a lot that we couldn't reach. investigators say the train's driver left his locomotive to fight with another driver who was blocking his way they say he failed to put on the brakes i egypt is one of the oldest and largest rail networks in the

region and accidents a common blamed on badly maintained equipment and poor management. after this latest crash the minister of transport has resigned. in the i wish the speedy recovery of our injured people i have directed the government team mediately moved to the scene to follow up the situation and to hold the perpetrators accountable after the results of the investigation. but many egyptians say it's the president who should be held accountable accusing him of failing to do enough to upgrade the rail system at least every year there's a major accident that claimed quite a large number of lives so this is not it is unfortunately not something that people are used to. the rail minister the transportation minister had made a request for a large amount of funding to upgrade the infrastructure of the ground that work up particularly in upper egypt. not too long ago but i don't believe that all those

funds were were dispersed the prime minister has visited the site of the crash and a valid a tough response the driver has been arrested but any action now it's too late for the victims of this accident and with many of the wounded and a critical condition the death toll is expected to rise and excel brian al-jazeera . the united nations special operator an extrajudicial executions says saudi arabia has not cooperated with the investigation into the murder of democracy agnes helm our several yards continued failure to disclose the location of remains is unconscionable earlier the saudi minister of state for foreign affairs told the human rights council engine even that the kingdom will help with investigations but he made no mention of the. the journalist was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul nearly five months ago you were a kid i. know who we stress or result to go ahead in order to achieve protection of

human rights in the country and also to support just causes regionally and internationally we will also cooperate with the un mechanisms related to human rights including the human rights council as well as supporting the works and contributing to the reforms and effecting their mandate if you have a senior advisor to president on all tromped has met a turkish president. jerry question our time son in law was in ankara for talks focused on the middle east question of the architect of a plan he hopes will bring stability to the region he said his soon to be released proposal will require compromises by all sides. to take a look at the headlines now and al jazeera says he's in no rush for a nuclear deal with north korea as he meets kim jong un on the second and final day of the vietnam summit can pledge to make every effort for a positive outcome the leaders have had just had rather

a one on one meeting. we need is not that important that we are very much appreciate no testing. nuclear rocket or any of the very large appreciate it but i just want to say i have great respect to hear me ima do my best great respect for this country and i believe. it will be some of the economically that will be almost hard to compete with but maybe going to be there's a. little shot his former lawyer has told a congressional hearing he believes the us president is a racist a con man and a cheat michael cohen made several accusations against the president including that he personally ordered hush money payments republicans say cohen's testimony lacked credibility i am providing a copy of the thirty five thousand dollars check that president trump personally signed from his personal bank account on august first of two thousand and seventeen when he was president of the united states pursuant to the coverup which was the

basis of my guilty plea to reimburse me the word used by mr trump's t.v. lawyer for the illegal hush money i paid on his behalf pakistan's prime minister mon khan is calling for a dialogue after both india and pakistan say they shot down each other's fighter jets as it says it's down to indian planes and captured a pilot and says it shot down one pakistani aircraft and lost one of its own the united nations special extrajudicial executions says saudi arabia has not cooperated with the investigation into the murder of journalist. agnes column are said riyadh's continued failure to disclose the location of the showcase remains is quote unconscionable earlier in the saudi minister of state for foreign affairs told the human rights council engine eva that the kingdom will help with investigations but he made no mention specifically of an inquiry into the murder of

. as other headlines keep it on al-jazeera much more to come earthrise is that next. with and for you. since the industrial revolution human sources of polluting gases have been growing . because machines food production

construction these and more all contribute to the high concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere including carbon and other greenhouse gases which is the biggest drivers of climate change. with our choices people can make to help drive emissions down. i'm going to bring in denmark from your community investing in their own green society and i'm going to trigger within india where a new method of cremation is helping him to tradition become more and my mentor your friend. green energy is total is future if we want to stop global warming but pledging a commitment to renewable energy is one thing and doing it is another. just over there on the horizon is style so i like that they are fifty one hundred percent

renewable that will figure all of the energy for you all source it's going to go with the community i think. i've heard that the system the island is of set up is sort of fission that it produces more power than they need not only does this enable them to be carbon negative but also to make a profit by selling energy to the danish mainland. i meeting soren hermanson who heads up to some suit energy an environmental organization. saw and finally did and i learned the rest of the year russell yaks with the sea with their fear for their. electric car. accident. is taking me on a private tour of the island. so when they say it's one hundred percent renewable i mean it's a trip like one hundred percent i mean we still have some fossil fuel consumption. tractors are driving we have combustion engine cars also still but we're exporting

about eighty thousand megawatt hours every year while you know that's incredible and. there are four thousand people on the island over the past twenty years they've moved from a reliance on fossil fuels to wind solar and biomass technologies. from window loan they produce enough energy for themselves and the usage of twenty thousand other homes. so why why was it and why here are some so active at the beginning of it was very interesting because it was a top. around decision we had a very ambitious minister of the environment and he announced that then mike would cut down twenty one percent of the of the presidency o two emission once was really interesting because i was the first person i was hired to do this project i remember the feeling that i was sitting down and having the office and i plugged in

the telephone on a sub cosman how are we going to. the community here have come a long way and now boast a carbon footprint of negative twelve tons per person per year to get into this state was an easy. people were concerned about the impact of all these big n.c. installations on this little island and to convince people that this was good. we started thinking about using the old corporates of ownership model where people can buy and they buy a share. biggest depending on how much money they have and thereby invite them to participate in the ownership so that you feel that i'm part owner of the winter bunch so therefore is it because for me it's there. is no if you get so close to the. crate imposing i place it no spinning all this one is there's a service on it. and you know you can really you want to go yes.

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to get straight there live in turbines on land and more and see producing only islands electricity. like in a. bank you think. but when the project started in one nine hundred ninety seven turbines cost more than one million dollars each so four hundred locals got together most buying five shares costing about two thousand dollars. so it's taken me to meet some of the investor. out. russell i'm sorry so nice to me just to sort of you can you give us a sense i mean it's going on here this is big tournaments this is you know how this season starts. there's a month of only the ok so the red bull is a page to try to get as close as possible come

a lot of. fun competitions with you know. half. the you know. wrestle can you give us a sense of how the community. have responded to this shift to one hundred percent renewable or really trigger me was the fact that people who didn't really speak to each other before i got to go zone. and talk to each other and to have a you know or have a congress. oh what brought you to the island did have something to do with the whole kind of one hundred percent renewables is that something you're proud of definitely super proud that's great your son. russell and so how do you fit in with this kind of energy landscape that we've been learning

about i have been. involved and i have spent a lot of money also the thirst that was in turbines on you know on my farm and everybody could see that. and so have things progress. and so tree is delayed by a half wind turbines undersea so you know to say the world this is this is business of course it is not. a straight smear. the everyone here has their own reasons for buying into the project. and ultimately their investment is good for the planet as it is for their wallets. but is their willingness to collaborate on a common goal lead to some ingenious solutions. come to the local biomass heating plant find out more this is no way expected oh this is

the fuel. this plan is one of three on the island only straw here's produced locally and fuels a heating system. to spend forty percent less on the bills and they used to. modernise loading on these bales of hay each one is about just less than a tonne so they're going on to a conveyor belt at the end and they're getting dragged in and in here they're getting stranded up and then fed into a blast furnace. so it can you tell us is it efficient. out of the indeed or it really. i mean i think. green our first year grouping in presumptious it is a little more. than we don't. know we do have a shortage of high but even cuter make one it will be here. when

the worth it if it gets. that far is surrounded yeah. the water heated here circulates via a network of underground pipes connecting to radiate is in individual homes in the surrounding area happens to this with the by putting out this advice. three for a sense. how different. our stuff. for the micronutrients in the plan. need to survive. it's really a much more efficient system than is practically carbon neutral as well because the emissions created on burning about the same as the emissions says the carbon is sucked out the atmosphere when it grows in the first place so it's a pretty neat consistent. so i lynn success in creating not only a green society but a green economy hasn't been lost on the rest of the world. and these days they

receive five thousand and eighty two is per year so many that they've set up. so what is the big idea that draws people from all over the world. i think everybody has some kind of intuition that this is the way to go this is where we want to be in the future but a lot of places they don't know how to handle this how do we do that how do we how do you get started in the meaning here is kind of confirming that this is possible we can do this. since the project started soren and his colleagues have advised twenty nine countries. alexis the project manager is invited me in on a call to a community organizer in hawaii. can i ask what's the most important.