has more from washington d.c. some experts have called trump's impromptu meeting with kim jong un and his steps into north korea as the 1st sitting u.s. president to do so a gift to north korea because the u.s. scott really nothing in return while north korea was bestowed with a certain legitimacy well this statement from north korea's u.n. mission is essentially saying it's not going to say thank you for this shift its statement is accusing the u.s. essentially of talking out of both sides of its mouth while president trump was initiating these peace talks with the north north korean leader members of his ministration at the urging of the u.s. state department was leading an effort at the u.n. to try to get member countries to send north korean foreign workers home this was in response to u.s. allegations that north korea is violating saying sions against oil imports and in

this statement from north korea notes that the u.s. sent a letter to member countries along with the u.k. france and germany that was delivered on june 29th urging for this retaliation against breaking the same sions and that on that same day trump had tweeted his impromptu invitation to meet kim jong un at the d.m.z. so certainly the fact that this statement from north korea's u.n. mission comes out today is an indication that it's saying things are not hunky dory between the 2 nations after this photo op and that tensions are still high. joining us from seoul is he's a professor at cookman university who specializes in north korea good to have you on the program thank you very much for joining us what do you make of the timing of these statements from north korea. well basically is what they

say if you're not going to be very happy because you visit us it's a good news by the need something material because right now for the north koreans their major problem is essential introduced by the united nations but bizarre at us a pro what is essentially cannot be removed sanctions are international but united states has a veto power and you can not nobody can release ascensions unless americans approve those sought more steady and are sending signals there more to go into however i believe this signals you have little impact because current line of the americans they want to talk to the north koreans about some serious it is that action of the north korean nuclear program and all live ones no scare you deliver something as much as possible they will probably agree to. partially the sentients because of their major leverage so if you're going to see

a great deal of new show accusation the chief will be just the kind of sort of background noise a big ground for the working level talks which are just about to begin yeah which is which brings me to the point is does north korea make this inflammatory comments knowing that they will be forgiven regardless of what they say and. what kind of fur result do they expect from ed whose benefit are these comments for is it for their domestic audience. partially but largely for the international audience because the cattle situation is a kind of very for a general state beauty and here it comes dawn talk about a possible strike against small scarier they're on sanctions by the do little else and not don't have nuclear terror see dawn lunch long and me your range missiles and the like and the a.g.s. the north koreans say if you don't give us what we need more that is sanctions

relief and we will probably start doing something you are not going to like like say nuclear tests or missile launchers and definitely the view but not anytime soon or right now it's a part of if you're a diplomatic game to increase pressure on their americans to make sure that americans view more direct their feet and if you give us some proposal as soon as possible because not scary is under some pressure from the sentients it's not a disaster economy stuart durational nothing is falling apart but in the long run sanctions making possible economic growth. it used to be quite large and contrary to what many people believe in the recent few years north korean economy was growing very fast and they want it to resume girls they want to have sanctions lifted so emphasize it and they sort of hint that if you don't get it will be trouble so does it look like there will be a whole new raft of sanctions are north korea and if so what does that say or how

does that play out with these new proposed nuclearize asian talks that trump had talked about at the d.m.z. . i've you'd be very very surprised if there is and you're wrong because if you are talking about u.n. sanctions you are approved by the un security council needs a chair not a profit united states blocking power but china and russia has the same power to soar more additional to national sanctions are likely to be introduced now nor met or what the americans see and want sick and you do it all sentients introduced by the american so-called secondary sanctions against individuals and corporations who are doing this mosque area and merican treasury is very reluctant to use this kind of you know reference of mess destruction in the international trade because it will have very bad impact on the general situation in the international trade

and especially for america's economic relations connections and directionless china so yes said it equally americans can introduce new sanctions bought the r a's up painful sort of counter problem i've become counterproductive or non inefficient in the international sanctions are not going to heaven because it permanent members of the un security council russia and china will be definitely against it and good to speak to you thank you for your insights on north korea. still to come on al-jazeera environmental groups sound the alarm over plans to fly in the ocean floor. to tell you why the chips are down for south korea and it's as collating trade disputes with japan. and in sport with raul she's done it again 15 year old henri god he needs to take wimbledon by storm.

talks of regime between saddam's opposition and the ruling military jumped on transferring power to civilian government negotiations between the 2 sides collapsed a month ago after security forces raided a sit in protest killing dozens of demonstrators the talks in the capital khartoum are being mediated by the african union and ethiopian officials the opposition said it would only resume talks once certain conditions were met including an investigation into the killings of protesters in dark is the president of cd global strategies group and international affairs analyst he says the military will be under increasing pressure to make a deal with the protest leaders. well i think that they're coming to terms with what we're all seeing now there's an asterisk beside what we're all seeing because

you know the internet is still out so we're not getting all of the real time. kind of reaction of what's going on on the ground but they see that even without the internet that the sudanese people are continuing to protest they are not relenting and they realize this is not something that the sudanese people or the people outside of the country support them are going to easily give up so i think they're basically going to try to manage transitioning to that civilian led transitional body with. maintaining as much power as they possibly can well i think that if it was up to those neighbors and those countries are support them that are more in favor of military rule because it supports their and then the sudanese people who are protesting wouldn't really have a chance but i think that they do i think that people have been you know focusing on what's been going on sudan more. than they had and then they had before and that i think it's a pretty easy argument that folks are making around the world that there should be civilian led. transitional government especially after the sheer study years in

power so i do think that it's going to be a hard climb for the protesters but i don't think that the military has any choice because as they see the protests of only increased even after they tried to clamp down now another mass grave has been uncovered near the syrian city of raka the former headquarters device so you know harder has more from not been on a neighboring. mass graves continue to be a nurse in the syrian city used to be the defacto capital of ice still the armed group was defeated almost 2 years ago but the bodies continue to be it is a painstaking and challenging process but these mass graves hold answers thousands of people went missing during isis rule families still looking for their loved ones many of these people were either imprisoned or executed so far nearly

5000 bodies have been in recent months a few 100 of them have been identified in the latest mass graves discovered what we understand is that there are a number of bodies belonging to men who were wearing orange jumpsuits it is not clear if these were people who were beheaded in those infamous videos that i sold release be heading there are prisoners among them were foreigners many of the foreigners being held by eisel their bodies were never recovered and there are still foreigners whose fate is still unknown so these mass graves really hold the answers but it is a painstaking task and local officials are not receiving much help from outside a volcanic eruption has killed at least one person on the island of strong bully the victim was hiking up the side of the volcano when the explosions began media

say scared tourists have been running into the escape. greenpeace is calling on the un to create a new global ocean treaty to protect international marine environments from deep sea mining the organizations put out a report which warns that deep sea mining could cause a reversible damage to sensitive ecosystems it also says it would work or send climate change by releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide and high costs have prevented deep sea mining projects in the past but you technology could change that more countries are now i'm the sea floor as a possible source of wealth we don't know very much about the deep ocean this is why quantifying the damages is very tricky task and is why scientists have won the irreversible damage could mean loss of species that live only in tiny parts of the deep ocean and once they're gone they really are gone there's no bringing them back

it could mean pollution being taken up through the water column and spread throughout the oceans there are number of ways deep sea mining could really impact on the ocean and as i said we are still understanding the value of the duke ocean we know that it stores a lot of carbon source so at a time when we should be doing everything we can to make sure that we're prepared to tackle climate change and mitigate against the worst impacts of climate change to disrupt carbon stores on the deep sea but it seems a complete folly the international civil authority who manage the seabed and in theory regulate deep sea mining they've been selling off licenses to explore the seabed they've even sold a license for the lost city which is a unesco world heritage recognized site and one that greenpeace are going to with our ships the esperanza in the coming weeks so they're just proving themselves to be irresponsible that managing the seabed and we're worried that the deep sea mining industry are going to be going to these places and like the scientists of one causing irreversible damage to them. the future of world heritage sites is

being discussed in azerbaijan and the annual meeting of the un's cultural and scientific agency unesco not one 3rd of the $166.00 sites are considered to be under threat and they include the sunderbans mangrove forests in bangladesh it's facing several dangers both natural and manmade victoria gayton b. has the story. a complex network of waterways mudflats and islands makes the sunderbans unique one of the world's largest mangrove forests forms a natural wall protecting both bangladesh and neighboring india as well as nearly 4000000 people to live near the coast. the defects of climate change and industrialisation to becoming increasingly visible like millions of fisherman and women seem howlett relies on the sunderbans for his livelihood but fears that could end soon much of bangladesh is less than 5 metres above sea level and global

warming is causing sea levels to rise further the mangroves face various threats such as pollution and changing levels of salinity cyclons in the building of a new power plant or additional dangers. we're dependent on the sunderbans so we'll be the ones most impacted by the harmful effects of a coal fired power plant they'll stop us from entering the mangroves to catch fish or collect honey. fatema back and also relies on fish in the mangroves to feed her family as well the older their mother must know how will the sun the past people live if the fish are gone we're already struggling to survive there are fewer fish now last year. from power power plant is a joint venture between india and bangladesh the bangladeshi government says the one and a half $1000000000.00 project poses no threat to the sunderbans environmentalist's disagree. looking for alternative sources of energy rather than the us and we are

not saying that. we have to really explore all the options. for some villages a power station nearby could transform their lives with a bag of his life is a daily struggle that says it could be easier if her home had electricity what the numbers element would be about and the 1st problem is my children can't. in the dark the 2nd is the hassle of cooking on firewood especially during the unbearable hot summer we need electricity. says the sunderbans home to endangered tigers and hundreds of other animals and red plants is of universal importance with its own unique ecosystem scientists and many others say it's vital that it isn't destroyed victoria gayton be al-jazeera and still have this news hour donald trump farce a new warning out there ron telling its leaders the threats will come back to bite them. i was out of

a job within the 3rd does it and i'll tell you how these created living women are changing their communities by driving trucks. and sports action from england's crucial game of new zealand at the cricket world cup. the weather sponsored by cattle and. hello again it's good to have you back well we are watching still some very heavy rain showers here across parts of eastern as well as southern china taiwan and also into the ring of the seeing some very heavy rain of course in japan we are talking about heavy rain so much so that hundreds of 1000 people are being evacuated right now where the rain is going to continue and over here towards the parts of vietnam the rain has been quite heavy as well that is going to continue including parts of annoy over here towards an ending and even hong kong you're going to be seeing some rain over the next few days to the north

though it is going to be off and on rain mostly cloudy for you with temperatures into the low thirty's and one that means you're going to be seeing about $32.00 degrees there where across much of south asia we're going to be seeing in southeastern asia we're going to be seeing some rain showers here across parts of malaysia but down here towards the south for indonesia things are looking quite dry so that means bali is going to be seeing a beautiful day temperatures into the low thirty's not so much rain across the philippines like we had last week but we're still going to be seeing some off and on showers there but the rain is going to be quite heavy across parts of central india we did see some flooding of course in mumbai now the rain is shifting more towards central india rain totals over the next 3 days could exceed over 400 millimeters but up towards the north it is going to be a day of $39.00 degrees there and kolkata clouds in your forecast at $32.00. the weather sponsored cattle and ways it's my privilege to name al-jazeera english the broadcaster of the year the cartels are fighting each other that we've been told that we can still hear this is the largest demonstration that's been held by

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hello again you're watching al-jazeera c take you to our top stories this hour the u.n. security council has failed to agree on how to respond to an attack on america detention center in libya that killed 44 people want to deny the allegations by the tripoli government that his forces for sponsible. north korea's accuse the u.s. a big hell bent on hostility and obsessed with sanctions it comes just days after a landmark meeting between donald trump and kim jong un and north korea. and talks have resumed its. when sudan's opposition and the ruling military joined on transferring power to civilian led government the opposition had said it would only restart negotiations once certain conditions were met and putting an investigation into the killing of protesters. let's get more now on our top story and that's

libya which has been in chaos since the long time the ruler muammar gadhafi was overthrown in 2011 it is divided between warring militia groups which mostly back to rival governments the un recognized administration led by prime minister fayyad is based in tripoli it's supported by turkey and most western nations including italy which is worried the fighting near tripoli will force more people to cross the mediterranean and in the east the based government the center of power for war . he's backed by egypt saudi arabia russia and the united arab emirates france is also accused of providing military support to his forces. is a senior fellow at john hopkins university foreign policy institute and he says the un's failure to take action against terror sets a dangerous precedent for the region. it doesn't look like the united nation is

going to do anything beyond issuing under nation which is quite sad given that what's happening in libya. very serious and dangerous precedent globally i mean the united nation is basically telling a warlord who's been trying to a takeover a capital of a government that the united nation it's out recognizes and all of the security council members recognize as a legitimate government and not being able for 3 and a half months now almost 4. of even condemning that aggression by a warlord that in itself is is is a sign of a serious failure happening at the united nation and the highest levels and it can actually signal to every warlord around the world or will be a war lord that they can get away with such an action so donald trump has

posted another forceful tweet about iran after its president has an rouhani said they would increase you a name in richmond beyond the limits that was set in the 2015 year clear deal that the u.s. president wrote iran i says issued a new warning rouhani says that they will enrich uranium to any amount we want if there is no new nuclear deal the careful with the threats iran they can come back to bite you like nobody has been bitten before airplane leaders meanwhile say they aren't looking to punish iran yet same as robbie reports from tehran. with just days to go before iran is expected to take another step in its plan to reduce cooperation with a 2050 nuclear deal president hassan rouhani had an angry rebuke for the united states. over the past 20 years it is them who started to light the fire extinguisher if you say it is dangerous to play with fire why did you start it

. rouhani was responding to comments by president donald trump after the international atomic energy agency or the i.a.e.a. on monday confirmed iran had breached an agreed stockpile limit for enriched uranium. you know what they're playing with and i think they're playing with. the us pulled out of the deal last year imposing ever widening economic sanctions including stopping iran from exporting excess nuclear material another example iran says that illustrates the u.s. is to blame for how fragile the 25th or joint comprehensive plan of action has become caught in the middle attempts by europe to salvage the have not worked iran sees europe's lack of stronger public condemnation of american sanctions as a weakness. the instrument in support of trade exchanges or a banking bypass to mitigate u.s. sanctions essentially an oil for good scheme iran's president says is tokenism. showing off it could be an acceptable action if there was real money in it now it's

like a bank without money so why should people come to this bank. this is a critical time for the nuclear deal if nothing changes by sunday july 7th iran says it will start enriching uranium at higher purity levels and will expand the scope of nuclear activity stopped with the signing of the deal. was something you don can see there is. a in the interest of the region and the world the best thing for america to do is return from their mistake. but as to her own runs out of patience world leaders are running out of time. rolling back on the deal is meant to be a way for iran to take back some autonomy with regards to its nuclear program something it gave up for economic relief that iranians say they have yet to fully experience it's also meant to call into question the commitment of the remaining signatories to the 2015 deal who no doubt worried that this diplomatic stress test might be the

thing that breaks it. down as well as return several boats it confiscated from palestinian fishermen in gaza the government was ordered to do so after a long legal battle with whites groups who said the boats were seized illegally matheson explains. this is one of dozens of boats which the israelis confiscated from the gaza fisherman it's here because back in may an israeli court said that the boat should be returned this one had to come back by land because it's so badly damaged it can float the owner says he's going to need about $70000.00 to repair it . 13 families worked on this boat everyone ended up without a job if we can rebuild the boat we can fish again and we can repair loans to get the boat repaired and ready for fishing needs thousands of dollars confirmation that the boats were going to be returned came in as part of an agreement that was reached at the end of june and the everyman thomas said it was going to stop people

of gaza flying balloons carrying incendiary devices over the border into israel and it said it would also control the protests that really happening at the border every friday as part of what's called a march of return for its part israel said that it would continue to a lot of fuel into gaza for gaza's only power station and it would extend the fishing limits for gaza fisherman and it would return the boats since that agreement in june to protest on the gaza side of the border how things quiet but. truces and cease fires and agreements like this can be very fragile particularly in this region people on the israeli side of the border as well as the cars are starting to order are waiting to see if this if it holds. the final of the palestine football cup has been postponed after israel deny gaza based players permits to travel to the occupied west bank and the competition has faced problems with permits for years how listening activists are accusing the father world

football body of failing to follow its own rules by not taking action. china is one of the united kingdom to keep its hands off hong kong and not to meddle in the ongoing protests earlier china as you can buster was summoned by britain's foreign secretary jeremy hunt threatened serious consequences of beijing fails to honor international agreements on all calls autonomy. hong kong fleas have arrested 12 people over the violence which broke out on protests on monday probating politicians there say it could cost around $1300000.00 to repair the legislature building which is ransacked a special task force has been set up to look into the mass protests most of which were peaceful they were triggered by a controversial bill which would allow the extradition of suspects to mainland china but public opinion within hong kong is split and some are to fund defending

the protestors while others think they went too far under thomas reports. on monday night they were protesting on cheese day night they were taking down the collage of protest posters and notes they had left behind protestors in hong kong say they want to keep an archive of their struggle but many think monday's vandalism went too far this is not what i expect while i expect this to not go too far just. peaceful many protesters don't want to show their faces for fear of arrest but this man was one of those who broke into alleged hong kong's parliament on monday night he justifies the action we're going to hurt and the police just wanted to go. and find. our last agent. another older protester thinks that by not intervening earlier police deliberately allowed violence knowing it would reflect badly on the protesters even so he to feel to

ballance against property was justified high all the teaching are you coming my generation failed to do enough for the last 20 years i've got children i fear for them it was violence it was against property not people we need to keep the protests of. these protests began over an extradition bill that would have sent suspects to mainland china for a trial they've now turned into calls for greater freedoms part of the battle is about public opinion and most people in hong kong did not take part in monday's protests instead of watching them on t.v. if they felt the violence went too far that could hurt the protest discourse on that opinions a mixed with broadly splits between older and younger people in an upmarket tea shop but supports a protest as action for me i think it's reasonable to deny her any people or they didn't. rob anyone they don't burn a car they don't read to shop but elsewhere there's irritation of the violence like

i'm old it's not good it was wrong they broke all the government stuff citizens shouldn't do this july the 1st was the climax of months of protests there aren't any more planned but to protest to say they're not over after thomas al jazeera hong kong. south korea is threatening to head back against japan for tightening trade restrictions on materials used to make smartphones and other high tech gear it's a worrying development in the wrong running dispute over wartime forced labor i'm abroad as this report from seoul ironically this dispute comes just days after japan hosted the g. 20 summit of world leaders went to foster good neighborly relations and promote free trade. and it could harm south korea where it hurts most in its production of semiconductors. the restrictions made it will be harder to export essential materials from japan to korean manufacturers. as one of the world's leading

producers of chips especially for use in smartphones it could have a knock on effect in other countries and industries if. the thread be smart to realize about the really big broad to the industry and not only through the korean industry and they have a disruption of the global value chain south korea has long been angered by what it sees as japan's failure to take responsibility for atrocities committed during world war 2. japan maintains that the issue was settled when the 2 countries normalize diplomatic relations in 1965. but courts here recently ruled in favor of former workers used as slave labor by japanese companies ordering them to pay compensation japan denies this is in retaliation for that under

this is not a counter measure but a review of operations from the point of view of appropriately implementing export controls for national security reasons if citing national security as a reason for trade control sounds familiar that's because it is the administration of u.s. president donald trump has often used the same excuse its trade disputes with neighboring countries and many people here believe japan is resorting to tactics drawn straight from the trump ian playbook i think they copied it from trump of course a trump tactic makes toys much easier so i think. they are using this economic measures seemingly new norms being adopted in international trade with in this case south korea losing out rather pride al-jazeera so. prosecutors in the u.s. state of alabama have dropped a manslaughter charge against

a woman lost her fetus after being shot during a fight by say jones was arrested last week when a jury decided he deliberately started the fight to cost the death of her unborn child a case sparked outrage alabama's district attorney says pursuing the case wouldn't be in the interest of justice. really a day for picnics in the park and fireworks but for residents of the u.s. capital this year's 4th of july independence celebrations will be different president donald trump is putting himself front and center along with a display of military might critics say he's hijacking the day for political gain political gain takes a look. this is not normal this is not something people usually pass in the nation's capital now the sight of tanks and assorted military equipment here for a celebration created by u.s. president donald trump. on thursday there will be fly overs of some.