impunity has made it difficult. to vision. serious problem is that the government has committed itself before the united nations however all the commitments made before the united nations especially after the report of the high commissioner for human rights in 2015 have seen a little results in the country only with the office of missing persons many issues remain unresolved people are still longing for justice but this again to a new and very usual chapter namely the culture of impunity rather than the culture of accountability in light of also the. east that takes renewed rejuvenated emergency regulations are impeding a dialogue between the communities there are actually being an obstacle for the transitional justice between the communities and they actually. hinder any kind of

solution where people in the country are seen as equal citizens in an equal country i acknowledge that the government has moved forward with a transitional justice again until 15 but when we go back to the pre arrow to those in 15 we will see again a retreat from an engagement international human rights and went. on the international scene and that will be very boring. though because the momentum is lost in my eyes and the international community must renew its engagement with the sri lankan government and with all political actors and civil society actors on the ground. still to come on al-jazeera. we'll have the latest from tel aviv where calls for a boy counts of this year's your vision song contest are reaching a crescendo. and it's all call for joe biden us people my vice president to fashion a law and sisters campaign to ice don't try and.

hello again it's good to have you back well this are doing to take you over here towards turkey because the next several days are going to be quite active particularly for the northern part of turkey now we've already seen some thunderstorms across the region and we are going to be seeing some more brew up as we go towards sunday the rain is going to be quite heavy as well temperatures are going to stay in the high teens with $1000.00 degrees but as we go towards monday notice the rain shifts a little bit more towards the east we are going to sing plenty of sun and on cross so a clear day if you are $25.00 degrees but across parts of the black sea there it is going to be a problem with some very heavy rain well here across the gulf we are looking at our temperatures and dog coming down we were into the low forty's in here on sunday 37 degrees but we could be seeing the possibility of some very gusty winds as well we

do expect to see a problem in terms of rain for the northern part of oman now in the afternoon we could be seen those thunderstorms brew up so in the waters which could be seeing some localized flooding there on monday muscat at $32.00 but down towards the south along the coast into yemen we are going to see some very heavy rains as well and over towards madagascar the rain could be a problem here across the southern part of madagascar not too much for the northern part with the temperature across the area seeing into the middle twenty's and over here towards durban attempt a few of the $32.00 news there. the universe is a tipping point scientists are telling us right now that we have just 12 near us the world's leaders fail to agree upon a solution. taking matters into the. evening after. which i just actions to get people to understand that it kills people and

that it kills people now it's ridiculous both from his return to the people's books on 00. he watching al-jazeera a quick reminder of the top stories for you know the strictly is willing to conservative coalition has won the country's general election in a major upset prime minister scott morrison has described the victory as a miracle opposition leader bill shorten stick dion after conceding defeat. austria's far right deputy leader house resigns over a secret video recording christian star who was filmed offering government contracts to an unknown russian woman in exchange for political supports and sri

lanka has held memorial services on the 10th anniversary of the end of the civil war 26 years of fighting kills more than 100000 people many of them tamils fighting to create their homelands in the sinaloan buddhist majority are islands. and the eurovision song contest is jews to be held in tel aviv despite calls for contestants to boycott the competition activists say israel is. using the event to mask rights abuses against palestinians in the occupied west bank and gaza american pop star madonna was under pressure to withdraw the compositions organizes confirms her performance on thursday will hurry fawcett's joins us now live from outside the entrance to the year vision of a here in tel aviv ferry the event is starting soon but process are also underway. that's right in just in the last couple of minutes just before you came to us there

was a protest right here which is right outside the main entrance area for ticket holders a handful of pro b.d.s. boycott divestment and sanctions just as well here holding up black and white pictures showing. pictures of the occupation of israeli soldiers inside the occupied west bank essentially making the point that you refer to just then saying that this event should not be happening here it should not be allowing israel to to try to divert attention away from the routes use of the occupation there's also learns going to come around this way omar if you could for me i don't know if you can see just across the street there's another group of protesters there protesting against the prime ministership of benjamin netanyahu the may call the crime minister and they've been protesting against corruption a separate group of people for some years now and they're using this opportunity as well to make their protests clear and if we carry on around if we carry on backpack

around the square mile can see behind us here there is a very large group of people who are and have been over the last hour or so arriving to take part in this era vision final here in seoul of eve and then harry how have those protests and the efforts by israel to counter them been playing a. well that's been going on obviously for super several months since since israel. one the fear of vision last year and it was clear that it would be hosting this year there in protests going on but they're very much ramped up in this week leading up to tonight there are protests inside television those another one earlier on today with protesters in a boat off the port of just just to the south of tel aviv making the point that the palestinians were expelled from that area during the course of the creation is that israel in 1948 we've also seen people being taken to hebron in the

occupied west bank as well protesters or other activists from the group breaking the silence former israeli soldiers have been using this event and taking people who come here for your vision to that area to show them exactly what the situation is there so they say that it is worth people coming here if they are able to see the complexity of the situation here as far as israeli government is concerned it has been setting up a website a website it has been set and it's released a can the national broadcasters lease the video trying to tell the other story from their perspective of a city here especially which is very open to the lesbian gay bisexual community and also. a place where it wants the people to come on holiday and it has been relatively successful in doing so but these protests have also made their mark and

so i think both sides of this story are being told by. a force that for now i thank you for joining us there live from tel aviv. now in yemen survivors of a sorry day u.a.e. coalition air strike say they have no idea why their neighborhoods in the capital sana was attacks at least 6 people were killed most of them women and children the coalition says it's investigating board 8 calls the possibility of an accidental airstrike but insists the fighters were targeted so hard at reports the. sounds the u.a.e. led coalition in yemen says its launch decision strikes on the military positions in the capital sanaa but these pictures of damaged homes tell another story residents of iraq lost say there is no justification for the destruction of their neighborhood. again and i sat at 8 in the morning i heard an almighty explosion god knows what kind of rocket it was we don't know why we were bombed they attacked

us while we were sleeping in our beds. just. taxi driver. was injured in the attack he's come straight from hospital to see what's left of his home. i didn't affect that i went to look for my children the stairs were full of shrapnel and blood they got us out and took us to hospital my 3 taxis are damaged we have nothing more than taxis we don't have rockets we're just ordinary people. this school was also damaged it was closed and the airstrike hit and it's unlikely to reopen any time soon the injured are being treated in hospital many feeling traumatised by what's. going to get the well i was with my children in our home we were hit by an air strike the ceiling collapsed on top of us. the saudi emirates he led coalition in yemen now says it will investigate what it calls

a possible accidental air strike but for those who survived the airstrike it offers very little comfort. to the war and it didn't take long for these residents to protest the attack calling it a brutal crime against civilians. but former u.s. vice president joe biden is set to officially launches campaign for the white house in the next hour or so with a call for fairness and equality in america he'll be holding the opening rally in philadelphia pennsylvania his campaign headquarters and a key state one by president donald trump in $2816.00 this will be biden's 3rd run for the top job but this time around he's leading in the polls fison is one of 23 democrats currently seeking to challenge trump next year well let's get more on this cable as on the joins us now live from washington d.c. gabriel do you think this could be 3rd time lucky for joe biden. well here sure

hope so and his supporters hope so and the polls are indicating that he's got a pretty good chance the polls are showing that he would beat donald trump in a theoretical head to head match up if it was to happen now but again these are polls and these are the same polls that a few years ago showed hillary clinton was going to defeat donald trump as well so you got to take this as little bit of that as a memory is as well it's no secret we expect to hear joe biden give his speech here in pennsylvania in the next few minutes pennsylvania key because this is a state that joe biden is from he was born there and a lot of the white working class voters in that state that. voted for donald trump he appeals to to these voters and so he thinks that he can win pennsylvania the polls are indicating that he beats donald trump right now in this state by more than 10 points so he's looking to really kick off his campaign here on saturday and really solidify his front runner status ok but one of the problems arguably last

time for the democrats is that they weren't really unite behind their part see it on its own accord is likely to unite severance joel bites and especially given the control of a season the book he starts his campaign even before it's a clarence. yeah there's a lot of people running right now for the democratic nomination 23 people 3 african-american 6 women an asian american one person that's under 40 years old and they are all in the different sides of the political spectrum some more liberal some more centrist but they all agree on one thing and that's the need in their eyes to defeat donald trump so this is the over the next few weeks and months really it will be a pretty brutal democratic nomination process joe biden will come under a lot of scrutiny as will the other candidates as well but in the end you can guarantee for sure that all the democrats most likely are going to rally around.

whether it be joe biden or whoever the democratic party and the democratic voters decide they want to go up against donald trump you can bet that most likely they're all going to rally behind that person to defeat donald trump because there really is a big desire within the democratic party to unseat the current president. joining us from washington d.c. thank you. a former president of argentina hopes to make a comeback cast vice president cristina fernandez secure center has announced she's running as a candidate in october election the decisions being seen as a surprise because she had been seen as the most likely challenger to president. he supports has fallen in the opinion polls a corruption trial involving declares there is cheats to begin next week 66 year old is also implicated in other scandals venezuela's president has welcome talks with his representatives and the opposition both sides were meeting in also

nicholas we do says it's the beginning of dialogue with those he wants him to step down the mediation bed comes after months of political struggle between the 2 and the opposition leader on why don't. you. the u.s. has reached a deal with canada and mexico to remove its tariffs from steel and aluminum imports the move could put these 3 countries a step closer to ratifying a deal that would replace the north american free trade agreement. obviously these continued tariffs on steel and aluminum and our countermeasures i represented significant barriers to moving forward with the new now. now that we've had a full lift on these tariffs we are going to work with you my united states on timing for ratification but we're very optimistic we're going to be able to move forward move forward well in the coming weeks. the homes come in all shapes and sizes including some on stilts perched precariously over

a lake and then the african fishing community in the village of again v.a. has managed to preserve its lifestyle and traditions for more than 2 centuries but as aborting reports the pressures of modern life are threatening to swamp them. what they say about gun view is that life is peaceful. for more than 250 years people have been living on the water and what's thought to be africa's largest lake community it's grown to around 35000 people. to go our guide is 23 year old herman sources he grew up here but is now studying on the mainland he shows us around the fish farms the main source of income for most families. we meet gerard in year he explains the business is tough because they have to invest so much in it for so little return. to go around the world when we castanets and don't

catch any fish it breaks our hearts we have no choice but to come back to fishing because we have nothing else to do if we can get some help the little way from this work it would be good what we really need is help. the water reaches up to 2 metres and so a boat is the only way to move. them and tells us that each family has at least 3. the community is divided into what they call villages the chief of this one is no new he tells us they need help with basic facilities. we have no electricity or clean water because of the way the population is growing the clean water we have is not sufficient if the government could help us with this we would be happy. for 25 and sells food for a living she has plans to open up a store she is the exception among her age group and i want all of my friends are gone they've gone to the mainland to look for money i'm the only one left congo is

a fully functioning community with schools churches a hospital and even a cemetery one of the challenges for people here is how to preserve their way of life without being left behind by the rest of society. a man tells a story of how his ancestors found sanctuary when they were escaping a war between bendings ancient kingdoms now there's no escaping the fact that many like him though proud of their heritage are looking for a different future i'm up watching al-jazeera. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories australia's ruling conservative coalition has won the country's general election in a major upset prime minister scott morrison one on a campaign of sweeping tax cuts but it's still unclear if prime minister scott

morrison will have right majority the opposition leaders to die after conceding defeat. i have always go raved in miracles was. the. time staining with the 3 biggest miracles in my life here tonight was. and tonight we've been delivered another one was. good is astray or was austria's far right temperately leader has resigned over a secret video recording christian structure was filmed offering government contracts to an unknown russian woman in exchange for political support. politicians from across europe have gathered for a rally in italy to boost their chances and heads over parliamentary elections next

week the events in milan was organized by its of these deputy prime minister material salvini. memorial services on the 10th anniversary of the end of the civil war 26 years of fighting killed more than 100000 people many of them tamils fighting secretes their homelands in the sinaloan buddhist majority islands both sides were accused of war crimes but no one has been prosecuted the eurovision song contest is due to be held in tel aviv despite calls for contestants to boycott the competition activists say israel is using the event to mask rights abuses against palestinians in the occupied west bank and gaza and former argentinean president cristina fernandez de kirchner has announced she's running for vice president in october selection for decisions being seen as a surprise because she was considered the most likely challenger to current president. well those are the headlines the news continues here and i'll just

sirrah after inside story. the north koreans facing another famine 10000000 are hungry because of the worst drought in 4 decades could the suffering force the north to abandon its ballistic missile development at least on the rise ation told to go from this is inside story . welcome to the program i'm nick clegg an estimated 2000000 north koreans died

during the famine in the 1990 s. aid workers a calling for international help to prevent history repeating itself or us even north korean state media are sounding the alarm the official news agency is reporting the worst drought in 37 years and it blames economic sanctions for making matters with us north koreans of being to fight what's called a war against nature to find new water sources and protect crops the united nations has just reported the lowest harvest in a decade and has warned that millions are going hungry south korea is sending cash to help. so a little country minute here. our government has decided to provide $8000000.00 to international organizations projects to support north korea including the world food program and unicef based on our stance that we continue to humanitarian aid for north korean people political situations well before we move on to our discussion let's take a quick look at the situation in north korea the capital pyongyang should have

received an average of 170 millimeters of rain by may state media say the entire country has recorded only 54 millimeters so far that's the lowest since 982 this year's harvest is expected to suffer the world food programme estimates that at least 40 percent of the 25000000 population suffer food shortages united nations says people are receiving just 300 grams of food rations a day that's home of the government's target the last famine in the 990 s. is thought to have killed up to 2000000 people north korea's government never released an official title. or let's bring in our guest now from augusta in georgia in the united states by skype is han park a founding director of the center for the study of global issues from beijing we have guitar ball who's advocacy manager for the country cluster support team that's of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies and by

skype from exeter in the united kingdom is aiden foster carter and honorary senior research fellow in sociology and modern career at leeds university thank you all for joining us guitar ball if i could start with you from the red cross you have people on the ground there give us an idea of the scale of the problem in north korea right now well it's not just one 5th year it's one year after the worst year in a decade i mean it really looks really really bad we have people there have been 3 provinces and in the. communities. all i can say now is that it's not getting better they made an assessment and the report will be out next week so unfortunately i can't i can't come in and that yet but it is really bad we see mountain nutrition we see under-nutrition that is chronic and we also might see now the effect that there is no water there is no safe water for for drinking or for

cooking so so what we might be seeing now is also new cases of diarrhea and and decease like that and i understand it's really bad it's round about 40 percent of the population gets her in and out of the 40 percent as usual in these situations it's the elderly and the very young who are most at risk yeah it's the children it's the children i mean 20 percent of the of all children under 5 are stunted they are they don't get any near the nutrition they need it's a pregnant women it's women who are oppressed feeding the children and it's the elderly so once again those are the most who suffers or those are suffer the most raw is the picture across the whole country or as a specific part of north korea well the difference it difference but of course there are some provinces that are in worse shape than others. i don't have the full picture of that but what i can say there are differences but but still even though

you're not living in one of those provinces maybe you're used to getting some food from some relatives who live there so so it's a very large deal of the population that can feel this and finally at this stage get to it i know you can't talk specifically about the reports coming out but if things do keep going in this direction do you think we could see a repeat of the terrible terrible events of the 990 s. 100 well i think it is it is all right yeah yeah yeah i think it is already terrible it's hard to misha terrible but up but i mean it's not just bad getting worse now it is it is really worse. bordering on alarming i would say that ok well that's the situation is that thanks very much there let's bring in john park a obviously you've been to north korea many times if 50 or so times we talked about this event back in the ninety's do you think we're heading in the same direction now to that day that north korea has a serious problem. israel is staggering we don't have to go over that your

question is what can we do. the world around the insula is traditionally do 90 states and china are very crude and rich countries and south korea may also be included here as a potential donors or helpers in disregard for north korea and its salisbury is prepared to do that already for the $8000000.00 but south korea can't send raisen their. humanitarian assistance directly across the border and china can do or likewise so i think it is showing or shafilea soon not include the. sanction in divin lucy equation because political sanction in dario through and then

humanitarian necessity mount to weapons. against the country to very very serious weapon ok to me to think you think that a sanctions a weapon izing the issue of food will come into the geopolitics more just a moment but enforce a kind of i could bring you in from a store in the u.k. . they say the climate change is to blame for this lack of snow during the winter leaving crops exposed to freezing temperatures as well as prolonged dry spells due to rainfall that's less than than predictable and less predictable to what degree 1st will before going to a port is to what degree can north korea prepare for such events as this and deal with them without outside help. the north korean government could do a great deal more than it to us it could do here's an example we know from the united nations panel of experts set up to monitor sanctions and their impact in the ways in his career voyage them that out of experts claims that in recent years

north korea earned more than half a $1000000000.00 from cyprus for what essentially various i think colin cryptocurrency is rating back and so on well obviously they shouldn't have done that but that means they have a cash aisle they choose to spend their money differently most countries normal countries trying to get any degree of caf of their citizens or responsibility to their citizens would it be importing food that if they're not imports from food on any scale if they're not cheap the singer imports as far as we know that's a political choice economics one i wonder with says to give an example of the choices all governments face gums versus fatah it's very literally true in the north korea case so though i have here the see in him temp sympathy for the very long suffering north korean people this government could do what other governments do even before we get on to things that are obviously it's not going to do like to terrorize and generally change it spending and they could do a lot more they could also change the way the economic system is organized if i can

briefly mention that sensible communist regimes like china and vietnam long ago 30 years ago a mole gave more responsibility to enterprises to break up collective farms north korea has been tinkering with a bit of that and that because they've got a very difficult situation the soil is exhausted it's a lot of that sort of thing we go into every got much to work with out of the money margins at the best of times but they really you know that they're not doing these things that the regime has brought a culture they put it on themselves does that sound callous but the regime has focused upon the people in 14 of the people are going to suffer but not the regime say no i'm not front to what degree then does sanctions have an impact on the north and north korea as a country be able to deal with a situation like this. they do and there's no doubt about that i mean it's the what is happening there's not what's a 10 year history of sanctions and then the beginning at north korea's 1st nuclear test 2006 well that time ago ascensions were confined to its arms trade but in the last 2 or 3 years they got tighter and tighter since the north koreans took

a blind bit of notice to any of these i may say unanimous united nations security council sanctions voted for by russia and china as well as other members so they tightened up shit basically a lot of north korea's main exports are now banned and it's hard for them to import or things like you know oil at the margins and saying it's a date through to such of course is not affected but things that help the agriculture. from n.g.o.s on the ground and i'm sure you'll recall especially with their more you know from from the feel of the night to you there's no way that this can go that this cannot start this too many going to get to it doubt sanctions certainly don't help so that's a huge pile of all the sickest people and get that from your point of view what are you seeing on the ground in terms of sanctions and the kind of impact that they have been restricting that the nation's ability to carry on. well that's difficult for me to say and as you know red cross we're not about politics we we don't take sides we do the humanitarian work on the ground that is possible for us to do and

we cooperate in doing that we cooperate with the national red cross society and they are all in all the affected areas and so what we do is well to provide civil order pumps needed to to make sure that we can do things on the ground that will that would help here and now and of course will also do things to improve then or to prepare this for happening by building greenhouses send but you know it's a different scale than than the kill political talk i know that but but i have not a comment on that or ok well i'll take that on with kind of as i can but you know you mention this issue of very question equipment and water problems and to combat the problem the state run. newspaper has called for a war what they describe as a war has been translated as a war against nature mobilizing all available water pumps in there occasion equipment to what degree we come back to the question of how how capable north korea is is capable of dealing with a situation like this to what degree does north korea have this kind of equipment

to hand and how much are outside help does it need. ha i don't i don't know the scale of that but i know that that in 18 it actually helped that we were able to when they were able to provide some some water pump pump for the affected areas right now people are carrying water in water buckets out in the afternoons and at night and of course having water pumps having fuel for those water pumps having tends to cover them from the heat all these it sounds like small things but that this is actually what will help the crops to grow and the people to move to get feed to get fit but it doesn't solve the whole crisis of course it doesn't but but it it we've come a good way so if you just one more thing can you tell us about the issue of food rationing in north korea understand that most citizens something like 70 percent live off with it 500 grams of food a day and even that is going to have to now be be cut to 300 grams a day and that's very that's very very little if you think of what the rest of us

are consuming i mean it's it's barely it will bear the ability you have to keep that keep the people alive i mean it is really bad and you can see the malnutrition on the ground you can see the how this effects we just like i said have our people been visiting different communities and it is clear to see there that that there isn't enough there is a lack there's a lack of of everything and. they're not used to much they're used to to these ration so in the last years that there are are getting smaller but this year if something's it's not happening it's it's really we're getting worse ok and that's what a little while ago it's a it's a wake. so you thought about this issue have. weaponize ing food if you like what do you say to those who say that north korea want to make it sound like sanctions equal starvation so you know the united states really should be benevolent towards

them unfortunately not all countries in the world wouldn't give in their security interests or food aid or economic development we're expecting north korea to do that then we will not and north korea would like to maintain it to socially is just it's a collective kind of system in continuously deaths were to russia and china no one is wet saw that if we expect north korea to change to political system characteristics all together to you nor to get now i.m.f. or world bank assistance i think we should look at somewhere else north korea is not going to give meaning to these kind of international pressure to move rather as a result of 979990 is the really rather have not of

starvations it's its own derives shock 1000000 metter of world of public opinion and weapon i think through are there works in north korea but it works only in that sense a lot of people will suffer rather than changing their military or political posture us so it's difficult to cheat to asia now their world would have to adjust to that situation i don't foresee kind of what do you think about that if it's this concept that that the north korean government may be kind of playing on the issue of food supplies in north korea or using it i should say. to aid its political positions and in negotiations with the united states. oh i'm sure they using it i mean the north korean government is a very skilled operator it's a very cynical and i think it's a contemptibly immoral operator and if i think i understood dr park correctly he

seems to suggest that we should all just put up with that we're over a barrel of course and what hasn't been mentioned yet i mean even kindly south korea offering a modest 8000000 i would like to know what think so the fact that north korea has more or less spat back in their faces and criticize them for daring to offer this it's you know it's incredibly for anybody who believes in a a peaceful and better world international order sure any country wants it security thankfully most countries in the small countries in the world do not think that security consists of getting a nuclear weapons getting intercontinental ballistic missile strengthening the world i mean it's i call it militant mendicants in north korea is a market and a beggar at the same time and it's infuriating but of course we don't want the people to suffer the north korean government care about its people one bit but we can and that's that's the intent style or not but let there be no doubt about the net it is not reasonable for the north korean government to behave as it does in

any way. north korea maga and a beggar at the same time what do you say to. oh yeah i think empirically that may ever vary some truthfulness but in reality north korea has its own goal ready of this and. north korea are never akiba completely their nuclear capability and they're not going to give up their socialist system collective ownership and united of kempton is manaul back if we expect north korea to do those things he needs change will food aid and humanitarian aid we are wrong it will not work it has never worked for decades and what do you think i'm paca about the fact that this is being talked about now partly because the north koreans themselves have asked for help and being very bold in asking for help and very public about it yeah but we received but it did kind of pressure that united states

through john bolton's idea it is not going to work but you know the libya model. so north korea room not just a one to economic prosperity it wants socially it's a north korea kind of you can i mean chris ferry but we'll see but what china really help in debt regard and was probably going to come in the. well they have a service that one could say i mean it's an incredibly difficult situation it's. that must be a way i mean you can how it's coming to what point can i pick up on as i said before a sensible communist regimes as in china and vietnam you know you can have you can keep political control i mean whether or not one likes that system but if we're talking about and i think is that we shouldn't say north korea when we mean the kim family regime to keep who have got the rest of the country and their grip threats

that we're talking about in other socialist countries they've dad to try it you know that and they've got very china has become a great china was very impoverished under mao and much nastier it is now china is now well how about doing sensible things economically you can do sensible things economically and a communist party can keep up kim jong un is a bit more daring than his father kim jong il but unfortunately not very much there is so much more they could do and should do the trouble is they you know they're very stubborn and we don't really have the leverage to rebel we've been talking about the $8000000.00 that the south is going to mobilize to supply the north korean administration to provide food and medicines and so forth. to what degree will that even touch the sides of what's required there how much more is needed oh i don't want to put a number on this because i think all the help they can get will do some would reach some people and will do some good but of course. everybody can can it when you talk about more than 10 tilia 1000000 people not getting the food they need 40 percent

of the population when you talk about chronic under and malnutrition you know that that it takes a lot to reach all these people but i mean all the help they can get at in one part wasn't i mean julian is doing in the south and sending this money no it doesn't actually have that much necessary that much support in south korea there are those who say that the north has gone to resources as we've been scouting here on its nuclear arms program that should have used to help those people let me quote one a spokeswoman for the conservative career liberty party who said this is a time to stop aid if there is any gain to the north not to provide it she accuses mr moon of irresponsible appeasement if what is happening in north korea really ventured more likely sooner than later we look at that south korean says where they're thinking about some sort of. reunification a peaceful coexistence if north koreans are starving and children are not growing

not given you know through nutrition then people with the horror north and south korea combined with the impact will be dat so south korea is concerned it very seriously about north korean economic situation food situation and then willing to help north korea his current regime but declaring american. it's so important that the united states show the world that north koreans have the right to life not just the freedom but to life so we are we deny action north korean children's lives. or because of a nuclear situation so we should not have connived full well that prefer. and foster carter as the united states look on at the situation they would have been very well aware of the impending crisis affecting millions of people in north korea

as they continue their negotiations or go back and forth with. the administration in north korea how much of a factor do you think this crisis is in how they play that hand. sad to say i mean if i was as i would assess it and not very much a toll i mean you know what king out what matters to donald trump apart from bill trump himself that is really quite difficult the trouble is and i think we have to say a little bit about the broader context and again tabulations barry but and pop and i might agree on this and the red cross has no prospects as we don't have a compass blending it i mean i had hoped you know i was very hopeful about the peace the various peace processes summits that he had lost 2800 seem to be history already unfortunately i thought we were going to get from the longest a circus we've had into a virtuous month where south korea the struck a moment which doesn't help the north could go ahead starting with things like

joint ventures with reconnecting the rebuilding roads and railways so that you could actually stop the north korea gradually all attempt to your it into a a more benevolent relationship with the outside well i think that was a possibility trump blew that annoy kim jong un blew it as well but i don't really conceding anything at all i guess we don't have time for too much detail on that but there is that broader context and to come back to your question that i don't think trump gives a cop say that kind of i don't think trump has very much about the welfare of the north korea people. with 40 percent of the population in trouble in north korea what about the the other 60 percent would they be aware of the situation or is it kept under wraps as far as they're concerned is it manage this crisis yet most creation the mockery. you got to tell you in society everyone knew somebody had 40 percent to dine with starvation the rest of 50 percent are very.

saw the horn country serious trouble but they're not going to feel go away the security as i said we just in nuclear capability they have declared dead there already nuclear power so all we can do not. korea adds that the way it's. so we don't have to publicly acknowledge north korea as a nuclear state but we just move on in. the denuclearization you seem for but more important than. the expansion need deep rooted not renewed ration over nuclear capability is just said in court so are we should move on to non rich ration edge of the nuclear is a should indicate show north korea certainly very troubling a worrying situation and one that we will watch very closely here at al-jazeera

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coalition retains power defying all the predictions. austria heads for a snap election after the vice chancellor resigns over a video showing him offering government contracts for political favors. remembering the 10s of thousands of lives lost sri lanka marks at decade since the end the 26 year long civil war and i'm peter simply call your sport conscious and certainly complete and historic indestructible by winning the f.a. cup and it's also party time in munich as by making a record 7 league titles in a row. but we begin with breaking news just hours of austria where the chancellor has

called for a snap election after his far right deputy was forced to resign over a leaks video sebastian courts said the votes would happen as soon as possible his vice chancellor heinz christian struck her with secretly films apparently offering government contracts so an unknown russian woman in exchange for political supports well the video threaten the stability of all she has governing coalition just days before key european union elections. the only criminal offense that is present here is the state secret service trap with the legal recordings were someone waited 2 years and then set it off and yes that was a targeted political assassination well so i had to go has more now from london. certainly comes as a prize to those who would have not anticipated this happening at all but with struthers in this case there would have been no other option but for him to step

down from this incredibly in glorious moment for him and his political career he came out with with that in the press conference earlier on and said that his fellow freedom party member nor but of would be stepping into his place is currently the transport minister but this has really been quite an extraordinary downfall for the leader of the freedom party unless of course exactly how the freedom party managed to get into its position of power only for it face an enormous scandal of such proportions just only a week to go before the european elections and they already hold. a few seats in as part of the austrian delegation there so really a very badly time for them but also don't forget of course that this video was actually made all recorded back in july 27th and that was just

a few months before the austria lections themselves it really raises a lot of questions exactly how the freedom party handles this sort of. intention for it to finance its own coffers and to what lengths it is willing to do so. well this truly is reading a conservative coalition has clinched a surprise victory in their general election despite all the polls predicting he would lose prime minister scott morrison was celebrating in sydney and the us does not get clear whether he will have great majority he may yet need support of some independents politicians his challenger the opposition labor leader bill shorten conceded defeat and also resigns the party's leadership. i have always believed in miracles you know the

i'm standing with the 3 biggest miracles in my life here tonight the and tonight we've been delivered another one of the with the how good is a stride here the quantity almost says more now from melbourne. well the party was supposed to be here the opinion polls had the labor party at had consistently they were expecting a celebration and they sort of clearly has not turned out that way the party is in sydney with the prime minister who you saw all that say how great so study how bright are australians full busy reelecting again still betting old sin against all the opinion polls his government and him as prime minister bill shorten the life of fatah it was in this room about 20 minutes ago now not only conceding defeat in this election but resigning the leadership of his party this was not the way it was

a post upon out the things of the environment of taxing the rich molds a pipe a better education better health but it infrastructure those were supposed to tight labor over the line for the government said those sorts of commitments would cost the average australian money that increased environmental standards for example would get people to people in their pockets and that all those extra taxes well they would mount up to a really dental study its economy and that was a message that clearly got through in the swing seats that might at the marginals just 20 or so around the country there was a swing towards the rights of center coalition that's remarkable because maybe some people were expecting the swing not to be as right towards labor consistently as the opinion polls predicted but very few people saw a swing towards the governing rights of same policy happening but that's exactly

what happened in queensland in the north the big story in the south in western australia as well 2 and in new south wales around the city of sydney the coalition has done remarkably well and so morris and resolder remain astride is prime minister. michael taught as a former political correspondent for the astray in a broadcasting corporation he says it is far from a resigned in victory. as a win for scott morrison it's a narrow win and at this stage while counting until news we don't know whether he will actually be able to have a majority between him and his coalition partner and whether they'll either go for a minority government which suggests more instability in the future or be able to get some of the independent voters or minor parties on board to support them in what could be an unstable and very slim majority government so the future is

uncertain however the counting ends up from here there is some suggestion that the a labor party manifesto so to speak was too detailed and they gave a lot of clues about what they do which involve being tough on what they call instead of the beginning of town tough on the the capitalists and tough on the richer people and that seems to have scared quite a few people you've also got to take into account that people also take. polling results into account quite often in many countries when they vote and so the poll said a big labor win to bill shorten who's now actually leaving his job as leader of the labor party and they were nervous about that and seems enough of them were nervous and perhaps some were not telling the pollsters exactly the way they really were going to vote and as a result we've got

a surprise. well across sides of pennsylvania where the former us vice president joe biden is launching his campaign for the white house with a call for unity in america that rally taking place in philadelphia pennsylvania is counted head coaches the key states but hasn't total come in 2016 let's listen in herself to really smart folks say democrats don't want to hear about unity. they say democrats are so i agree that the anger candidate can be the better chance he or she has to win the democratic nomination well i don't believe it i really don't i and democrats i believe democrats want to unify this nation that's what our party has always been about. it's always been about you. if you care to people want a president to add to our division lead with a clank fish a closed hand hard hard to demonize your opponent to spew hatred they don't read me

they got president donald trump. i'm going to go for our country democrats republicans and independents a different bad. not back to a past that never was but to a future that fulfills our true potential as a country now some of the same people are saying you know biden just doesn't get it you can't work with republicans anymore that's not the way it works anymore well folks i'm going to say something outrageous i know how to make government work. because i've talked to pretty divided because i've done it i worked across the aisle to reach consensus make government work in the past i can do that again with your help we're. ok that was vice our form of the u.s. vice president joe biden as speaking cheering and opening riley in philadelphia

pennsylvania biden of course using this opportunity to launch his official campaign for the white house let's cross state see al-jazeera is gabriel elizondo he's listening and see that speech live from washington d.c. and gabriel even from that short snippet we were listening to it seems that bites it has already hold his message he's looking for unity. yeah he is that's what the message of today is that i mean he did. his presidency very run for president about 3 weeks ago and he started out by really attacking donald trump now he's pivoting to this big official 1st big rally to more of a unity message because the democratic party right now is unified and they want to defeat donald trump they're just not unified on how they should do it and who should necessarily do it you know there's 23 people running for the nomination democratic nomination there are 6 women 3 african-americans one asian american and

2 people that are under 40 years old you got a whole spectrum of people going out there on the democratic party of very diverse field biden's basically saying let's work on coming together as democrats to defeat donald trump and his message here in philadelphia is he thinks he's the best person to do it now this is. joe biden's 3rd. at the top job the presidency what is chance. he thinks he has very good chances and if you look at the polls. if the election was to happen tomorrow the polls are indicating he would beat donald trump and if you look at the polls in pennsylvania where he's at now this critical state that hillary clinton lost by less than one percentage point to donald trump and the president today primarily because he won a small number of very important states one being pennsylvania critical states with a lot of electoral votes so.