but many roads are blocked and some villages completely closed off. the coast of additional state is vulnerable to cycles and tsunamis over the years embankments and shelters were built but for now the focus is on how it will recover from the storm katia lopez today young aljazeera. our weapons experts are trying to confirm the latest suspected rocket launches from north korea south korea's defense ministry says it picked up several launches from the east coast of the korean peninsula the ministry saying they were not ballistic missiles the suspected weapons test follows the failure of the recent denuclearization summit between north korean leader kim jong un and us president donald trump in february rob mcbride has more from seoul. this is turning out to be potentially one of the most provocative military gestures by north korea in more than a year and certainly not in keeping with the spirit of current moves at

reconciliation between north korea and the u.s. and north korea and south korea in the south korean government has said as much there has been a top level meeting of the security and military officials which they've issued a statement saying that this test was inconsistent with the military agreement between north korea and south korea at the summit in pyongyang last september and calling on the north koreans to make every effort to actively participate and restart dialogue towards denuclearization so this very much seems to be placing at least some of the blame for the current stalemate on north korea's position the started a flurry of diplomatic activity. the foreign minister of south korea has been in conversation with mike pompei of the united states and also the japanese foreign minister trying to coordinate a response on the watchword seems to be one of caution saying that they will

respond but prudently everybody conscious and being wary not to escalate tensions any further. iran's president has called on his country to in his words resist and unite against the u.s. after time restrictions on iran's nuclear program the u.s. did not renew two key sanctions waivers they were in place to allow some countries to do business with iran it will now be in violation of the caps if it continues to ship surplus heavy water to arm on the u.s. has also made it harder for iran to dispose of any enrich uranium it's renewed some sanctions waivers that allow russia china the u.k. and france to work with iran on civilian nuclear projects president has done rouhani says the u.s. is trying to sow division among iranians hutto many call about all your general as the united states is violating international laws and pressuring companies to

prevent them cooperating with iran and seeking to weaken our currency and the independence of our country there are huge conspiracies against our country and the american administration is waging a political and psychological war against us a decision to change the regime in iran washington aims to spread division in the country and the iranians must unite to face this war. is the director of the gulf study center he says the u.s. is still fixated with iran's oil industry. medication and mr ration and the tram they wanted to basically locked in on exporting even one millimeter of it runs. so that is the core of the business and the other way it is there's not actually affect the whole concept the united states now want to make sure the iran cannot import any bottle from second of me and that basically will lead that iran will lose the main source of revenue for its own actually budget which means more

economy problems more pressure on the regime which basically put the regime in the corner that is the main thing that what all of those waivers they speak about i think the tried to show that they are actually taken into consideration the interest of other countries especially u.k. germany other countries basically none of the eight countries now they are saying we are actually committing ourselves with what the trump wants so they are keeping silent now because. we will wait a few weeks before the impact of this. decision on their economy so none of those countries now is actually saying that you know we are against this however it seems that all of these countries are waiting who will be ringing the bell first and saying actually no our economy would be a real trouble if we actually accept this kind of pressure from the united states on the oil sector of iran. plenty more ahead on this news out.

in the new king of thailand we've got the latest on the pomp and pageantry in bangkok. i buy some south africans are out on the streets ahead of the coming elections. and ready to race in kentucky but america's big weekend is overshadowed as drugs are linked to dying horses for will have that in sport later. so all that still to come but first venezuela's opposition leader who says he is the president is stepping up his campaign for military support those urging supporters to march to army bases on saturday to appeal to soldiers to break ranks of president nicolas maduro military commanders have remained loyal to my daughter so far i understand he is following this for us in our on the colombian

border with venezuela so. it's pretty clear that quite a continuing to try to keep up the pressure on the president with these latest round of demonstrations. absolutely as india idea today is for his supporters to show up in front of military bases military installations in the capital as in a number of cities across the country he said he wants this to be a peaceful rally with people arriving holding flav in this way than flags and a message that he's sending to the soldiers and their commanders to switch sides and to help bring democracy back to the country the question of course is how many people will indeed show up because this is coming just days after a failed attempt at

a fool rebellion uprising in the country that largely failed with just a handful of soldiers deciding to rebel and join the protesters on the streets of the capital because that was followed by two days of violent confrontations that have left four people dead hundreds wounded and we've also see how the government responded with a heavy crackdown more than two hundred people have been arrested but in a veto late on friday white doll rally the troops rally this reporter's once again and. he asked a rhetorical e if it was still work to continue protesting and he said absolutely he said yes that their promises to may not have house and my daughter yet but they have created real results she said they're getting closer to. managing to

depose my daughter and start a transition in the country we're going to have to see if that happens when we also see of course that internationally they are still receiving a lot of support to buy a number of countries. and. what more pressure also coming internationally here. friday this so-called lima group this is a group of fourteen latin american countries that are part of the more than fifty countries that are recognizing. illegitimate interim leader president of venezuela and considering my daughter illegitimate mant in the capital of fair to lima and they presented the documents at the end essentially saying that they support all the efforts by the opposition to depose the daughter that they are supporting is effort to try and start an uprising in the country convince the

military to rebel they talked about how divisions exist the venezuelan military however as we have said there majority of the commanders remain loyal to my daughter and my daughter remains in place they've also called on q. about one of the countries that support to my daughter in latin america to start fresh talks with this group of countries and participate in finding a solution and starting a transition in venezuela they've also accused of directly the government of my daughter of harboring terrorists groups they said that are planning attacks inside that colombia there were many details about exactly who they were taking about but everything seems to indicate that they're talking about the yellin one of the remaining rebel groups that operates in colombia. for many

many experts say they actually operate from venus way less so this is a way to continue putting pressure while people are expected to take to the streets again on saturday across in a sweat. live for us there from kuta of death toll from heavy shelling in rebel held areas of northern syria has reached at least twenty two the attacks forced the university of italy to send students home and the eastern parts of the region has come under further attack from russian and syrian government airstrikes. talks aimed at ending the seventeen year war in afghanistan are resuming in doha on saturday will include representatives from the taliban and the united states stephanie decker has the latest from doha. promote we understand from sources inside the talks and close to the talks that there are difficulties it's

a six round of talks we know there is various issues on the table but two of them that are really causing a sticking point at the moment one of which has just been brought on just a couple of days ago which is the issue of disarmament of the taliban the taliban firmly rejecting that and also the issue of what to call the taliban in any final status agreement that will be signed between the two sides the americans and the taliban the taliban want to call themselves the islamic emirate of afghanistan on this is what they were called when they were in power in two thousand and one before the american assault on the country and the americans are fusing to do that no other issues that they've been negotiating over these long months are things like a u.s. withdrawal a timetable for their withdrawal also a potential cease fire the fact that the taliban needs to ensure the country will not be used by terrorist organizations saloons attacks and crucially also intra afghan talks because of course any representatives of the afghan government are currently not part of these negotiations there is also

a timing issue the holy month of ramadan due to start either on sunday or monday the americans very keen to make some kind of per arrest to get something signed to try and get these talks to continue through the holy month but the taliban at the moment saying that they are probably not willing to do that it is complicated i think people will tell you that it is the closest they've come in seventeen years to finding some kind of agreement but in the words of the u.s. envoy. he said recently that a seventeen year conflict cannot be solved in just a number of meetings it is complicated but certainly the talks continue and that is a good sign at least nine soldiers have been killed in libya in an attack on a training camp belonging to war old. eastern libyan armed forces were trying to take control of the area in the city of. thailand's king of long warn is urging thai people to work together in his first speech since he was crowned the elaborate coronation ceremony comes two years after he took the throne

following his father's death in two thousand and sixteen the festivities last three days mixing both buddhist and hindu traditions wayne hay reports from bangkok. after more than two years on the throne. corn was crowned king of thailand by wearing the great crown of victory the sixty six year old formally became the tenth king in the czech reading. are you to continue preserve and build upon the royal legacy and shall reign with righteousness for the benefit and happiness of the people forever. he was crowned at the start of a three day ceremony steeped in buddhist and hindu rituals. became king in two thousand and sixteen after the death of his father king jr day he reigned for seventy years meaning this was the first royal coronation most thais have known large screens were wrecked around the city but few showed up to watch the ceremony

which was held inside the grand palace no official reason was given for the two year wait for the coronation but during that time the new king has been consolidating his position before this coronation the king began to make his mark he took full control of the palace fortune making him one of the richest monarchs in the world and to give him greater power he changed a military draft constitution after it had passed a public referendum. but there are strict laws designed to protect the monarchy and its reputation and breaking them can lead to a long jail sentence many critics have fled thailand particularly since the two thousand and fourteen coup by the military which is charged with protecting the palace among them was syria chuy's said dan an opponent of the monarchy who disappeared from neighboring laos his wife believes he's dead. in my has been wanted to see grew ethar democracy because everyone would get their share

of resources and go through and far too met with their fair share is who are in power to get out a benefit at people suffering. during the coronation thailand's new queen also received her royal title queen. the palace had only announced two days earlier that the king had married the former flight attendant and depay the head of his body guard units his fourth marriage on sunday maha which you are long gone will be paraded around the old part of the capital giving thais their first chance to see their newly crowned king wayne hay al-jazeera bangkok and japanese people have greeted their new and for on his public debut. novel he too pledged to work for the development of japan and cooperate with other countries for world peace and succeeded his follow on wednesday off the eighty five

year old at heathrow became the first emperor in two hundred years to advocate for health reasons. time now for the weather is evident but we're just taking a look at the the remnants of trouble so funny has them the worst is over in terms of the winds but we could still see widespread flooding you can see this huge massive class still very evident on the satellite picture this is the storm just before making landfall close to period where as it made its way across previously this rope of cloud just nudging further north was well here we saw one hundred six millimeters of rain in twenty four hours it was still a little bit further up the coast hundred ninety three millimeters of rain therefore when this was in the space of twenty four hours all that down sea just six hours we saw hundred thirty nine millimeters of rain which is around twice them may average rainfall and hence we do have widespread flooding right across that region the worst of the cloud and the the rain is now further north pushing across bangladesh we are going to say that wet weather continues make its way further

north which in the east was but over the next couple of days or so we could still see another maybe another two hundred fifty millimeters of rain this is where the worst of the wet weather is pushing up across northern parts of bangladesh as we go on into sunday so quite a rash of showers across the north there eastern parts of bangladesh pushing up into new paul we go on into monday and you see that cloud of rain pushes right out of bangladesh but it's fallen over the high ground of course so it's going to come right down across the the ganges thank seventeen are still ahead on i just you know . this is not only the oldest and deepest lake in the world it also holds a lot of secrets cures to diseases and answers to scientific questions i'm staff last in reporting from lake baikal in russia and how new yorkers are taking a close look at virtual reality they go to the movies. south africa's caster semenya defies new rules on testosterone in female athletes after running

a record time in doha all of that in sport light. on council because this week trump gambles the world economy of shutting down iran's ability to sell oil. in the structural phone screen of chinese tech giants of the f.b.i. state. will talk to the inventor who suspects this technology is still counting the cost. of. how if you change since he was seven. charting the lives of the children of apartheid over twenty one eons each story

reflecting a history of dramatic social and political change twenty eight up south africa three on al-jazeera. again you're watching ads in a reminder of our top stories this israeli air strikes and artillery have attacked gaza palestinian fighters. rockets into southern israel the ministry of health in gaza saying israeli artillery has killed at least one palestinian. has stormed into buying the dish killing at least twelve people and more than two

million to move to shelter it is weakened since devastating communities along the east coast of india on friday causing sixteen deaths. weapons experts are trying to confirm the latest suspected rocket launches from north korea south korea's defense ministry saying they were not missiles it follows the breakdown of denuclearization talks between north korea and the united states. security forces across sri lanka remain on high alert over fears of more attacks following the easter sunday bombings that catholic sunday church services have been canceled again while officers continue to carry out searches as reports now from the eastern town of. detections like water has been found here in qatar near batticaloa are becoming commonplace as the police the military and all the law enforcement branches bringing in their resources to conduct searches on

a house to house basis as you can see this collection from hand grenades to micro pistols to walkie talkies and other weaponry have been detected in areas close by now the two hand grenades were found basically thrown in this cemetery which is just behind us obviously somebody had detected it houses used by the parent and the sister of the alleged mastermind was searched here in qatar and could be such as were also carried out in a number of locations in town leading to the discovery of assorted weaponry and according to what we're hearing from those involved in that reads this is becoming commonplace as the net closes in and people realize that there are more and more searchers and they had risk at being discovered. a calm has been restored to the largest city in the ne and off to two days of riots sparked by election results at least two people were killed in cotton as police force supporters of opposition

parties which were barred from last sunday's election all parliamentary seats well won by two parties aligned to president. nicolas hawke as details. trying to make sense of the destruction after four peaceful transitions of power in dozens of parliamentary elections in a class and says never has been experienced such violence from going up but that we do not want to do this is unacceptable it is not part of our culture we have a village chief or a family chief that leads us to the problem is our system and i am pleading for the president to change his system of governing it is not working for us. on thursday police using live ammunition shot at protesters gathered outside the house of former president bush. he had called for a boycott of sunday's poll angry at the result his supporters chanted down with

president but. many were killed and wounded. and so glow two former presidents called sunday's parliamentary election in electoral coupe most opposition parties were prevented from taking part in the race the internet was shut down during the vote and only twenty seven percent of the registered electors came out to vote the historic low. bernie accuses tellem of tightening his grip on power once political allies they've now become rivals during his mandate been accused of attempting to kill him and embezzling twenty million dollars is now in power and bernie's feeling the pressure. this is as close as we can get to you bernie's home the security forces have cordoned off the neighborhood they say to prevent any further violence but for those who support the former president's the presence of the military on the streets is a form of intimidation. at

a press conference the opposition called for more protests. be we can let president tom accomplish skate power from people who will defend the nation without . the phone. been in is often described as a beacon of democratic stability in the region but it is now going through an unprecedented political tor moral with the current and former president using the streets to settle old political scores nicholas hawke al-jazeera the new been in. south africans will vote on wednesday in the general election the sixth time they head to the polls since the end of apartheid in one thousand nine hundred ninety four the african national congress has won every vote but its popularity is declining many of fed up with the poverty gap and unemployment malcolm webb reports from johannesburg. i twenty five years off to south africa became a democracy these people are tired of having no jobs no land and poor housing these

kinds of processed happen every week even more say with an election coming. this one last month in a township in johannesburg. has lived in a shack for thirteen years politicians have always promised better housing but she says they don't even organize trash collection. we don't have enough space we need . i'm not going to avoid up until they took us to a place. not the same for everyone south africa's the most on equal country in the world since apartheid most white people remain relatively wealthy economically things improved to some black people. but not in the shanty towns each one of these toilets is shared by dozens of families they smell bad they're only emptied about once

a week across south africa there are millions of people living in similar conditions in informal settlements and the only way to get out is to find a job that pays enough to be able to afford to live in a better area more than a quarter of workers are on employed and there's been economic stagnation for about a decade. president cyril ramaphosa is promising change his party the african national congress has been in power ever since he was credited with ending white minority rule he's expected to win again but with a smaller majority in ever before. some economists think poses leadership good for economic growth but good in. that alone won't fix a broken model is long as they are not imagining economy models which are broadly inclusive and exploring new. economy to make sure that the broader

increasing population. at least can transition from the students to the middle class then there is. potential full serious conflict in the future that is based on our block of opportunity. and sees victory is almost as certain as the continuation of protests this one was in pretoria two weeks ago many people want to change this elections on likely to bring it malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. a rival parties in south sudan have agreed to delay forming the unity government by six months representatives of president salva kiir and rebel leader requests sharp trying to salvage a peace deal signed last year they were meeting in ethiopia's capital but haven't resolved several differences before the may twelfth deadline to form a government i uganda's opposition politician bobby wine has told he's

willing to sit down with president yoweri museveni to discuss the challenges facing the country the popular musician turned politician was released after three days in custody for taking part in what the authorities called unlawful protests catherine reports from couple. this was the moment the town home on thursday after three days in cassidy for leading protests against a social media tax many of his supporters like young john to his music and political views most have grown up with president yoweri in the seventies in charge has been in power for more than three decades and solve the problem that wind told al-jazeera his supporters relate to him because of his fight against social injustice we are lucky that we are living in a generation where our mouths can not be shut we shall speak the truth and we shall continue using the law as it does do stand for our rights and has a president ever reached out to you mean to talk about political issues to talk

about how to move the country forward and things like that. no he has not reached out to me and would you be willing to sit down with him to talk about what's ailing the country and what perhaps can be done better because he is the head of state i would be very glad and very honored to sit with the president and tell him exactly what i am saying now. honorably attending that mr president we need to respect the law was in another neighborhood eyes a quote we restore expresses his political stand on a good day he'll make about five dollars selling the street food but after expenses and home bills he's left with very little to save his business. would you say more than usual they should reduce the price of wheat the city council should also treat us well stop harassing and overtaxing us. like war weary

a majority of ugandans are young those we talked to said they don't have to jobs poor and frustrated compiler is considered an opposition stronghold and bobby wine is very popular here but some analysts say if you go to all areas president yoweri museveni is still family in control this was not the flag though people say they're struggling to make plans maids and just want a better life government ministers say their colonies performing well but not growing as fast as the population to have one of the highest rates of population growth so in terms of absolute figures we are. because over this. summer with the achievements which we just got. back at the food store where we are safe he wants to move to a much bigger one and maybe one day a proper restaurant he tells us if things remain the same politically he does not say he's a constant is changing catherine saw al-jazeera kampala. an airliner carrying u.s.

marines has crash landed into a river in florida by seventy seven charter flight slid off the runway as it landed in jacksonville all one hundred forty three passengers and crew managed to scramble to safety but about two dozen suffered minor injuries the jet was flying. from the guantanamo bay base in cuba. still ahead on al-jazeera when we come back in sports all the buildup to the world title showdown between canelo and jacobs. i am a fish every weekly news anchor brings a series of breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the world's jannah least that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means he joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media and

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but again now scientists are hoping the world's deepest lake is harboring something which could help us all new types of antibiotics have been found in the depths of light by carl in russia but instead of us in a force more research is needed before patients can benefit. it's more than twenty five million years old six hundred kilometers long and holds a rich history of information about a changing climate and species this is siberia lake baikal scientists recently found that one creature living here with extreme survival skills might be crucial to the discovery of new antibiotics the amphipod across station often mistaken for a shrimp produces bacteria that can be used to cure infections in humans. of course it's very significant for humans you would.