the calling for the president peter without reka to resign after what they say was a rigged election last month protesters say bullets were fired at them and the police spokesman sort of child had been accidentally shot the u.s. ambassador to malawi was also caught in the arrest were meeting at the opposition headquarters. pig farmers in south korea taking a motions in measures to stop an outbreak of swine fever in north korea from crossing the border farmers in the concerned the north is ignoring calls for joint quarantine efforts florence louis has more. well here on gungho island one of several places designated by the south korean government as a special surveillance area following an outbreak of african swine fever in north korea were really close to the border with the north it lies just beyond the riverbed about 2 kilometers away an endless island that about $35.00 pig farms african swine fever is harmless to humans but it's fatal to pigs to prevent the disease from spreading south korea's agriculture ministry is taking several

measures access to and from pig farms is now on tightly controlled farm workers have been told to carry out disinfection and then fences and traps have been set up to prevent infected wild boars from coming into contact with domestic pigs not many wild boars will be able to cross the bob wire fences or make it across the heavily mined border area but that's a possibility that some of them may be able to swim across the river and get into south korea and that's why the south has proposed to the north that they work together to prevent the spread of the disease and that is the political dimension to this story relations between the 2 countries have cooled considerably since a february summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong il and ended without agreement on the outbreak of the disease cannot come at a worse time for north korea which is already experiencing a severe food shortage following its worst harvest in a decade but while some analysts say the promise of aid may not be enough to north

korea back to talks there are others who say that humanitarian assistance may lead to other exchanges perhaps even in the political arena and that could possibly be what south korea's strategy is. the world health organization says it's estimating that around a quarter of a ball infections in the eastern part of the democratic republic of congo are going undetected have been more than 2000 confirmed cases since the epidemic broke out in august and nearly 1400 deaths the u.n. health agency says its teams have been unable to reach some areas because of violence by rebel groups we are definitely missing cases because when you have can community deaths like that and probable cases then you are definitely missing transmission and there the the 1000000000 dollar question is how big is that number we believe at this point i'm and let me be let me be very cautious here or we

believe. we were probably. detecting in excess of 75 percent of cases we may be missing up to a quarter of cases. the women's football world cup will be decided before. you.

gleaming glass soaring steel concrete columns those are the usual things that come to mind when you consider skyscrapers but in the future the world's great cities may have skylines built out of a different material wood architects from around the world are meeting in the us to discuss just that john 100 is that if a new generation of rogue architects has their way the era of the concrete and steel skyscraper might be over the future they say lies in a millennia old building material would they challenge is actually not believe it or not not structural it's more of a psychological barriers of getting over there we're working on the new buildings are made with cross laminated timber stronger because the layers of wood are stacked in opposite directions the technology has been used for years in europe wooden buildings like the airy 80 story river beach project in chicago might just be a blueprint for a new era in architecture the reason this is kind of exploding right now is because

it's an engineered what technology that uses small diameter trees but are combined to make massive panels. wooden buildings go up faster and cheaper a concrete floor takes at least 2 weeks to dry for each story timber weighs 80 percent less than concrete so it takes fewer trucks to deliver the wood which is cut in the factory in snaps together with not a saw on site but there's another more pressing reason to use wood timber buildings are greener both ice caps are melting and storms are getting worse it we all have to step forward and do what we can and in my profession what i can do is change my material choice for what i'm going to build with and build with something that's more socially and environmentally responsible the manufacturer of concrete and steel emits planet warming carbon dioxide wood absorbs carbon actually cleaning the air i fell in love with a building i love their windows the view was at 29 meters this is the

tallest cross laminated timber building in the united states but the architect who designed it is already designing another one at 137 meters and he says with these materials the sky's the limit the growing industry faces 2 nagging questions is it deforesting the plan and they say by using smaller trees from certified renewable forests there would supply is sustainable and what about fire architects a wooden buildings can be as fire safe as any other is treated mass timber char's rather than burns. the biggest open question is whether builders and consumers will buy into the idea of living in a wooden building towering into the sky john hendren l.g. 0 portland oregon time for sports is pull. thank you very much less than 24 hours after its president gianni infantino claimed that days of corruption were

in the past one of its leading officials was detained by police in france. has been questioned in paris in relation to his role as the head of african football he's been accused by a former official at the continent's governing body of misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars is also a fee for vice president we don't have. any concrete information. where the outcome of this but in general. at the press conference 0 tolerance if anyone anyone thinks he can enrich himself or felicity leading up to this around football he has no place in football. well it's not the ideal build up to one of flagship tournament's the biggest women sporting event in history kicks off in france on friday with the host nation playing south korea in game one of the world cup interest in women's football is a new page as a sports correspondent lee wellings reports. so perfect the world's best

female footballers have their biggest stage yet the world copied from 24 teams 52 games and 9 venues it's a bigger deal than the last women's world cup in canada 4 years ago this is the biggest sports event for women along. it needs to be a game changer i want to harness the energy of the millions of women and girls around the world. to watch their feet work out and be inspired by the world class players. as the quality has risen so has the interest from duke constantine sponsors around a 1000000 tickets sold or where they are. finally players are getting the recognition they deserve social media is playing a significant part of the german same rank so in the world this still work to experience something that's an honest can't. trophy how does and favorites of the

united states who won the 1st world cup in 1991 to a lukewarm response in $29.00 team competition will be fierce but there's still a gap it's a bridge to the men's guy who received 10 times more prize money will be united states star hope solo called it discrimination others say it shouldn't spoil the positive tone around the event the fans coming in for this one just is so in the standard really before even the 1st game is even kicked off people at the planning butin party that already know what time the kickoff to going to be and just the investment and the buzz around this one it's going to be the biggest one yet we're looking forward to the women's world cup again we watch of course of course i'm going to be there for your. host nation france have a chance of emulating the men's team that beat the world in russia last year. and that the wins a european champions and expected to be strong along with england canada and japan and then in a month's time the semifinals on the final of the tournament where. the home of

a limping leon i lay on is the current epicenter of women's football french champions for the last 13 years in succession european champions the past 4. leons are to heck about is the world's best player but the norwegian won't be at the world cup she quit the national team over concerns female players are not respected it's a call she's doing fights for it's up to other players to take this opportunity to show just how far women's football is come. of the women's world cup in france. to men's football in the netherlands will play against hosts portugal in the 1st ever european nations league final the dutch beat england $31.00 in their semifinal with a game level at $11.00 after 90 minutes the netherlands seized on to defensive areas in extra time to win the game the final takes place in porto on sunday.

australia have made it 2 wins from 2 games at the cricket world cup with a 15 run victory over the west indies the defending champions were in trouble early on when they slipped to 79 for 5. steve smith led their revival before sheldon cotterell held on to a spectacular catch to dismiss him for 73. nathan coulter gnarls scored $92.00 was australia or bowled out for $288.00. shay hope led the west indies reply with a steady half century but 5 wickets from mitchell starc decided the game in australia's favor as the windies finished up on 273 for 9. defending champion samoa how it has been knocked out of the french open how it lost her quarterfinal match to 17 year old amanda and the some over the unseeded american sealed the match 664 to reach her 1st grand slam semifinal and the smoker is the youngest u.s.

woman in the semi since jennifer capriati in $99.00 to. last year's semifinals madison keys for the quarter final stage as well the american no match for australia's ashley barty she'll be playing her 1st grand slam semi when she meets on the same over on friday. men's top seed novak djokovic has stayed on course to win his 4th straight grand slam title jack rich beating germany's alexanders vera in 3 sets in the quarters for serbs only french open title victory was in 26 days. a 4th seed dominic team will take on jack rich in the series at roland garros the austrian progressing with a straight sets win over russia's current catch of. the toronto raptors of moved a step closer to winning their 1st ever n.b.a. championship. canadian franchise beat the funding champions the golden state warriors 123 to 109 in game 3 of the finals the raptors leave the fast of 7

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also coming up mexico plans to reinforce its border with guatemala as the u.s. threatens tariffs unless there's decisive action on immigration. a warm welcome from brazil's conservative president from his argentine counterpart but a cool reception from protesters. commemorations in from and the u.k. to remember d.-day 75 years ago which helped end world war 2. top story the african union has suspended sudan's membership in response to the military crackdown on protesters doctors say more than 100 people have been killed since monday the african union says the suspension will remain in effect until there is an end to military rule it's also considering the imposition of sanctions

on individuals found to be responsible for the violence ethiopia is reported to be stepping in to help mediate the prime minister is expected to meet military leaders and opposition members on friday the a use decision to suspend sudan follows widespread condemnation of the worst violence since omar al bashir this fall the united nations is calling for restraint . we strongly condemn. and lament the tragic one justified loss of life and reminded the transitional of forty's in sudan obvious obligation to protect civilians and to spend out right. bernard smith has the latest. oh another person with a bullet wound medics rushed to stop the bleeding. then another wounded person all the while endless sound of gunfire. this was khartoum on monday

and this is the latest video to emerge from when the palace military group known as the rapid support forces fired on unarmed protesters and we have urged restraint of from the security forces and we've urged that the government respects all of the basic human rights of the people including freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. but the paramilitary force behind this crackdown is known to respect basic human rights amnesty international says the r.s.s. then known as a gender we killed raped and tortured tens of thousands in darfur during the civil war that began in 2003 it's commanded by general mohammed how to garlow the deputy leader of saddam's transitional military council he's close to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. on thursday khartoum was quieter opposition groups have tried to block the roads to stop they are set militias the opposition had been in talks

with an interim military council the negotiations faltered on a civilian led transition to democracy. the sudanese professional association which has been leading the anti-government demonstrations says they'll be no more talks with the military council it wants the militias to be disbanded and the transitional authority handed over to civilians the african union also says there should be a civilian government and has suspended saddam from the group until that happens. they say that's. military guys who feared to hand over power to civilian authority without any for deadly automatic. beneath cvs measure. and entities that out of stocks in the establishment of the city will lead to. protesters detained by the r.s.s. found police were shown crouching on the ground during monday's crackdown this

week's violence has been the worst since omar al bashir was removed as president by the military in april after 3 decades in office bernard smith al jazeera. ari is associate director of the africa division of human rights watch she says the situation in the country is deeply worrying. the atmosphere is still tense there earlier today certainly there were armed forces around our rapid support forces we're still in the city. people are you know our very extensive it's really unclear what will happen obviously the last few days i've seen a lot of really gruesome news dead bodies being pulled out of the river a lot of killings at the protest state and there are still people missing unaccounted for there have been arrests are abductions what we want is actually a commission of inquiry or some other investigative body to be deployed to sudan to

carry out a thorough transparent prompt investigation into the crimes that have been committed information isn't coming out easily now the internet has been blocked and there is a much tighter control of the information and it is desperately needed it's needed because many things have happened that we don't know about if needed because people want to know what's happened to their loved ones so more scrutiny monitoring and investigations of the crimes with a view to holding people the right people accountable. the u.s. vice president mike pence says he's encouraged by mexico's offer to do more to control the flow of migrants into the u.s. but mr pence pointed out that it's up to president trump to decide if the steps are enough to avoid terror of set to go into effect on monday june the 10th during your solutions with american officials mexican representatives said they will reinforce

their southern border with what amala by sending up to 6000 soldiers that washington proposed to porting undocumented quite a moment migrants to mexico but so far there's been no deal live now to washington and our correspondent rob reynolds so rob is it beginning to shape up as if the. but ministrations going to get exactly what it wants. unclear at this point peter as to whether the trump administration will get exactly all of what it wants i think there's a general agreement on all sides that there's no way to really stop all migrants in a cycle of seekers from leaving central america to getting to get through mexico and approach the united states but the foreign minister of mexico marcello ebrard emerged from talks here in washington late on thursday confirming that mexico would deploy part of its national guard to the southern border with what amal up to 6000 national guard forces will be used to try and stem the flow of migrants coming from

guatemala honduras el salvador and other countries who make their way to the united states and apply for asylum. says the talks will continue on friday so that's an important piece of news there that indicates that there is some progress being made earlier on thursday president from ireland said that something dramatic may emerge from the talks but he declined to give any details on that any u.s. official also confirmed to al jazeera that progress is being made now vice president mike pence you referred to a few moments ago told reporters that president trump is ready to pull the trigger on a 5 percent tariffs on monday june 10th if no agreement is reached and that those tariffs would then increase month upon month reaching a total of 25 percent by october if again no agreement is reached here's more

of what mr pence had to say. our message to the mexican delegate are met our message to the next government the time has come for mexico to act decisively work with the united states of america to assist us in forcing our laws by forcing their along by securing their border and we've made clear to them the president from is going to continue to stand firm so we bring this. crisis of illegal immigration at our southern border to an end and will give us a sense these tariffs you know june the 10th is 5 percent then it gets high and then it gets high if nothing changes what kind of impact will that have on the economies opas countries well mexico would suffer considerably more but here in the united states there would be disruptions to manufacturing supply chains according to trade a manufacturing experts

a lot of. exported goods from mexico such as fruits and vegetables would immediately become more expensive for consumers to buy and mexico also imports a lot of goods from the united states especially. agricultural goods and finished products from california and from texas so those would presumably also be affected and that could be bad news for u.s. farmers especially if mexico imposes retaliatory tariffs on u.s. goods rob thank you. well the mexican president under as manuel lopez obrador says reaching an agreement is in the best interest of both countries. i'm calling all the mexican people from all classes sectors and cultures to rally in defense of mexican dignity and in favor of friendship with the people of the

united states. let's get more now from john holeman in mexico city. mexico's foreign minister marcello abroad has just confirmed that the country is willing to send members of its national guard this is a new quite militarize force to its southern border as part of any deal with the united states on trying to reduce migration and try to avoid the tariffs the president trump is planning with threatening to bring into effect on monday the 10th of june the negotiations between the 2 countries continue what's at stake here and what is the problem really large amounts of central americans mainly from tourists and salvador guatemala coming through mexico often without documents and many of them trying to get into the united states there's been a real surge about mexico has had some success in detaining them in recent months but for the united states that's not enough they're demanding more action now

mexico has been sending signs all through thursday that it's trying to do more it's arrested for example a prominent migrant right migrant rights activists that was guiding caravans large groups of people through mexico and it also froze the bank accounts of 26 people that have been suspected of people smuggling now come to the point where certain proposals are obviously on the table with the united states and it's up to that government and to president trump to decide whether this is enough as negotiations continue. an attack on for oil tankers of the last month was quote a sophisticated and coordinated operation likely carried out by a state actor that's what the u.n. security council has been told by the u.a.e. saudi arabia and norway who ships were targeted but they didn't blame anyone specifically they said the attacks required fast boats and trying.