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a decade. ah. hello, i'm adrian said again. this is al jazeera alive from dough home. also coming up a course in indonesia, hands down its verdict to 3 police offices, charged off the last year's football stadium crush. where 135 people died. peruse, malawi, i'm sorry. has the flu, the lack of rescue services such as anger and we'll all be off the floods president appeals for international help. ah, we begin in tokyo, where the leaders of south korea japan beating it what is being held as a new milestone in that relationship. it's the 1st time korean leader has been

invited to tokyo in 12 years. the 2 countries hopes, rebuild security and economic ties. in the face of the continued threat from north korea. we're just hours before that meeting north korea fight an intercontinental ballistic missile into waters between, between the korean peninsula and japan. it's the 3rd missile launched by pyongyang . this week. japan is called a national security council meeting in response to the latest test. rob mcbride is in so he reports now on north korea's miss our launch amber meeting of the leaders of japan and south korea. this is seen as a very significant visit. it's the 1st time that a south korean president has gone on a bilateral visit to a japan in more than 10 years. president units took yell at, wants to restore relations with japan, but it is a very controversial, a summit meeting at which has a drawn, a lot of opposition here domestically in south korea, from different groups protesting about different aspects of the relationship with

japan. but at present you wants to restore relations, meeting with whom yoshida, the japanese prime minister. they take a similar view politically and also a very tough position when it comes to north korea wanting to re establish relations. but there has been a lot of pushback here, politically, a what is often a very fraught relationship between these 2 neighbors, thomas co tanika. she is a professor of politics of care university and a former special advisor to the cabinets of the former prime minister, sions, or abbey. he joins us now live from tokyo. good. have you with us, sir, sir? so it's a significant beating, but is it going to make any difference to the relationship between south korea and japan? there has got to be a significant difference going up. going, going ahead for the bilateral relationship for an obvious reason that south korea

and japan share the same zip code, postal code if you like. of the street where you have russia, north korea, china, 3 of the nuclear, a pas lining up together, challenging status quo. and challenging the u. s. alliance structure, which by both south korea and japan are members. but you'd have a very weak political position back of home. i mean, whatever he does to repair the relationship with japan right now, despite that, that the, the pressing matters that, that you, you highlight there won't make a blind bit of difference if someone else is elected into office and decides to take a different approach. i would imagine so after all present in pack, cooney and then prime minister, she's obey made a final deal about some of the a pending issues saying that this deal is e reversible but

with the incoming of the president, the new president, president, moon, things have changed almost over night, given the fact that prison in humans, political ha is still weak. the parliamentary dynamics are not in favor of president yoon. ah, one can say present in you and has a bit the bullet. and he has shown pretty political courage. but whether he can deliver is quite a different matter in south korea, recent polls just at the top half of the country supports of a nationalistic approach to japan. what, what's the feeling that integer japan towards self career? it's a recurring pattern of van drama being played out in the same tune. ah, one can say that there is a sense of weariness for sure. but if the 2 leaders have stood up

and convinced both peoples that we've got to look soley at the future, one can hope that there is going to be a difference. finally, what are your thoughts professor on today's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile up by north korea? once again the 3rd this week? yes, i was astonished to be honest because it does flu full as long as 17 minutes. this missile could have easily hit any target on the north american continent. and this is one of the a show cases of great may i say achievement that north korea has done in developing vehicles to carry the nuclear warheads. so north korea is making advancement faster than many in the region have anticipated. a dot

itself also gives a compelling reason for president ian and prime minister kisha a forge a stronger ty midi totally economically and politically. good talk to professor many thanks to you for being with us. thank you. a police officer implicated in a fatal football stadium crush and indonesia has been sentenced 18 months in prison . 2 of the offices of been found not guilty. $135.00 people died when officers 5 tear gas into the stands after a pitch invasion. the east java city of milan in october. jessica, washing to reports from suitable the squad commander off the east java mo brigade who was charged with or ordering his subordinates to find a t, a guest. so facing that charge of criminal negligence, resulting in death and injury. he will now face 18 months in prison. now the judge

noted that the defendant had failed to anticipate how the situation could have turned out. and it should have been a situation that would be easy to anticipate. and that there were other options, rather than using tear gas, but also a consideration. and he is still in the, his deliberations what the behavior of some spectators, the defense had argued throughout this trial, that some spectators were violent and posed a safety threat at the lives of security officers. so that was the 1st that we heard today for the other 2 officers at the head of operations of milan police and also the head of prevention. both had been acquitted and found not guilty of negligence. and the judge recommended that they can even be returned to the positions within the milan to police. the reaction in serbia has been rather subdued. just a few family members. the relatives of those who lost their lives in this tragedy came to court to day. only

a handful of them. there were some tears in the courtroom as the verdicts were read out. but many more decided that they would stay in my lung that they wouldn't make the journey to court to day because they felt the lives of their loved ones. the lives of survivors had been disrespected by this process by sentences which they consider to be true. lenient shares in the swiss bank. credit suisse have rebounded after announcing that it would borrow up to $54000000000.00 from switzerland central bank. the european banking child shares plunged to record lows on weapons day after its biggest linda, saudi national banks, that it would not be able to provide more financial help. credit suisse is troubles so being watched closely since the collapse of 2 u. s. banks last weekend, which spot drops in european or do us stock markets. and new york christine salumi has more from wall street the swiss banks falling share praises re ignited concerns here at the new york stock exchange over the us banking sector. after the

government stepped in over the weekend to protect the depositors and shut down to you as soon institutions, these were regional banks and regional banks, which are less regulated in the united states, continue to suffer. some of the sharpest declines on wall street on wednesday. but major banks were hit as well, like jp morgan chase city bank, bank of america. and others also seem declines ranging from 2 to 3 percent as investors worried whether or not these institutions can deal with rising interest rates and an unsettled economy. the scandals are really assigned that management is not where it should be. and i think that's the 1st thing that anyone looks at is that say, what does this institution have? good management? can we rely on that to take care of our money? if that can't be a resounding yes, that everyone is going to doubt everything else about the bank, but it wasn't just financial sector stocks that suffered on wednesday across the

board. the markets took a hit. the dow jones industrial average at one point down more than 2 percent recovered slightly. put commodities also took hits and investors poured their money into government bonds, treasuries that are seen as a safety investment driving down yields on the bonds as well. now the head of the securities and exchange commission did i try to reinstate reassure investors by warning that any misconduct that threatens global markets would be investigated and prosecuted will always president is appealed for global support. offer tropical cyclone had the east of southern africa, but always commercial hub. seen the most damage with flooding a much slides around 225 people have died. and as for me, the miller reports from bram tire. hundreds of people are still missing. oh, this is one of the most recent bodies found at searching the city of blan tire. as

men carried by foot to mortuary, nearly 10 kilometers away, they shouted frustration, angry. they are no rescue services. over 3 days after the worst of the flooding and mud slides that hit this area, david period is still searching for, for missing family members that know you called us you see here, nor in it is for team in your forty's, walkerson indigo middle. he could read nothing. will it all ordinary people, be people that most people out here tibbs, where there's now several meters of mud and fallen rocks was once a village, dozens of homes was swept away view on higher ground by the strong winds and flooding. hundreds of people on missing and it's evident in a place like this, where people say just a few bodies have been recovered compared to the number of people missing. and the search has been made all the more difficult. as the rain continues, people use make sure bridges to escape the widespread flooding. and as the search continues with whatever is available,

a man's body is found within the muddy hills. and around him what remains a bits and pieces of other lives at once. what can you read? thicker beast, where is to be our graveyard though that your people can be that you are to you or? or ever? a question that may only be answered if and when help eventually arrives. and from eda is with us now what live from blank tire up for me to what? where are you, what's happening there? well we've moved a little outside the commercial capital of bland ty and that so be so so much of that distraction. now the weather is improving, but there continues to be concerns around how people are affected and especially what needed a rescue operations we may need do remain missing. some have lost hope that any more people will be found alive and that we do know that there been complaints around the government not reacting fast enough,

but we're in and condo just outside blan tire, where the flooding was severe and the community impacted. and to give us a better idea of, of what happened in the last few days were speaking to frank, catch him, but he is a resident in a condo, frank, what was it like when i come pretty hip this area and you experience at flooding the last few days. yeah, it was friday renewed, started raining, andy therein continuously continued. and the people here went doing their businesses just us no more thinking like it was going to be like the other sake roy's body of use was something else. therein give 20 coming. and to those heavy wind saw it is studded frauding, some of the people their houses are destroyed. they have no place to stay and either been kept in their friends introduce for show dock there of nor food. so far we have neither krista nor running water. oh, this is that

a bud for the people because that bridges are destroyed. so for people to get what they want is very difficult. what people he are given a warning about how severe the flooding might be and how they might be impacted. and once that happened has help come use view or wound, but you just as of said, it was lay key going to be the, the way to what he does, beliefs, other cycles like cycling, anna and the others. so that people were thinking that he is not going to be very much disruptive. but we are surprised. we heard this kind of wood destruction now that people are in need of electricity running water. you've also told me that the schools have been closed out. what is the assistance that has reached people here? if any, are different organizations are new, the government are bringing some more help, but to cc her it is just like clearing up. their sisters are coming lokey of

seat that people have no show. does food made seen running, running water and electricity? so these are some of the things that people need right around right now. frank, thanks very much for explaining to us what's happened over the last few days. we know that the government has set up a number of shelters in some areas about 5, a places for displaced. people have been set up and people are trickling in. our locally communities are using schools and our places like that to provide shelter for those who don't have homes anymore. but this is very much the picture we're seeing in a number of areas in and around blan tires. people try to recover from the impact of cycling. freddy asian out zeros from it. mila reporting live from black tire malawi, manufactured from either so to come here on al jazeera, the growing smell of discontent, and france as rubbish piles on the latest strikes against pension reform. the u. s

. nuclear war stocks has more than 2 tons of you. radium has gone missing in libya . ah, what we're dialing up the heat across australia. those details right here right now . thank you for joining in 1st the precipitation story not much going on on friday . so with these clear conditions that allows the temperature to go up, we've got a wind coming out of the interior, so that will drive the temperature up in places like sydney colors are on top of the read, the higher that temperature. if we take a look at the 3 day forecast, we could certainly have our longest stretch of 30 degree and above days on record in sydney. so keep tabs on that. over the next few days, off to new zealand. it's a wet and windy pitcher through the y slant that what weather also creeping into

the northland could see burst here about a 100 millimeters of rain across at west coast of new z. that there has been some flooding in bangkok, destroying hundreds of homes. and we've got some severe fight advisories just to the north of sabu city. now this looks like our plum rains, but it's not the east asia rainy season doesn't typically clean began until may, but you've got that wet weather roll and across the yangtze river valley out over the east china sea. and then that pours into japan's que shoe island did have a weather front roll across the main island of honshu. so that struck temperature is down a bit in tokyo to 16 degrees on friday. that's it for now. susan. ah . with

blue. oh, hello. yes, this is l 0. let's remind you of the made years to so for the 1st time in 12 years to lead of south korea is in japan. the 2 nations say they want to rebuild security and economic ties. in the face of continued threats from north korea, a police officer implicated in a fatal crash on a football stadium and indonesia has received 18 months of prison to other offices

of have the charges against them dismissed 135 people died in the decides to last year, on the lobby as to 2 weeks, warning, often 225 people died when psych current freddie talk through southern africa for the 2nd time in a month. it's commercial how black tie up the see the last time it was flooding. mudslides, senegal, us opposition leader as jew in court to hear if he's eligible to run and next year's presidential election is growing concern. the president bucky sal could run for a controversial 3rd term, which the opposition says is unconstitutional. a stick. you lived out to barker al jazeera nicholas. hark is there. like where are you? what's happening? ah, well adrian, i'm in the neighborhood where we spend, so go live, then i'm just gonna step out of the county to see, to show you the extent of the security apparatus that's out. you can see police in

the right gear, blocking the roads units like that. it feels like the capital of synagogue, the car is a fortress just moments ago, we saw the convoy of the opposition leader. you spun sancho slowly, make its way towards this tribunal where he's expected to meet the judges over a defamation case. now he's accused of accusing a government minister of corruption. now now that minister, which was the minister of tourism, sued him. and if he's convicted today, he will not be able to run in the upcoming election the election of that supposed to take place in a year's time. but you can see the right police now going out towards the convoy. they're trying to disperse or crowds as much as possible. there's so much tension over this court case. and yet these presidential elections adrian, are a years away. adrian ok that he thinks deep nicholas huck reporting live there from

tucker. efforts are underway to fight more than 2 tons of uranium reported missing in libya by the u. n. z nuclear watchdog. 10 drums of the radioactive material had been declared as being at a site in libya, but was missing with the i. e carried out an inspection. the agency will now try to clarify the circumstances behind the removal of the material and where it is mach fitzpatrick is a former u. s. deputy assistant secretary for non proliferation. this is largely governing less territory lawless territory. and the uranium in question was left over from nuclear weapons program is not very dangerous in preparation terms because it's, it totally unimed rich. you have to, you know, do a lot of concentration of the enrichment level to, to make it worthy of being used in a reactor and much more for

a bomb. but probably somebody stole that. who thought it was valuable. and that's why it went missing the amount of material. i mean 2.2 turn sounds like a lot. and it could contribute to any country or non state actor that had a nuclear weapons program, but it wouldn't be enough to make the where with all of one bomb, if you need to. but 10 tons of natural uranium to then concentrate to producing of highly enriched uranium per box. so it's not that much material. you know, the idea doesn't track all yellow cake around the world, but they were tracking this yellow cake in libya because it had been part of a nuclear weapons program. so it had some special status attached to it. even though it's, it wasn't a proliferation risk in and of itself. tens of thousands of people have lost again in cities across france, in the latest attempt to stop pension reforms. it was the 8th round of protests

against president and mcmillan's plan to raise to the time of age from $62.00 to $64.00. politicians have been working on the final wording of the bill, which could be voted on this week. waste collectors are among those on strike in france, that's left mounds of rubbish piling up on the streets of paris. they say the president cons plan to raise the retirement age is unfair, given their tough working conditions. natasha butler report ludovic has worked as a st. keener in paris for 6 years. he began on a garbage truck. now he's on foot. he loves his job, but he's been on strike on and off now for a week. he's protesting against the french government plan to raise the retirement age by 2 years. under its proposed pension reform, ludovic says people who de challenging jobs shouldn't be made to work longer. within on the 2 more years is far too much because it is a difficult job with rapidity tissue re madame woman. because i uses all the

time i can barely move my aunts and fingers in the morning. garbage workers and street cleaners in paris have been on strike for more than a week and it shows the city council says thousands of tons of rubbish hasn't been collected. there were over slang bins, like this, nearly everywhere in paris, more garbage collectors. hope is that the dirty streets will help put pressure on the government to scrap their proposed reform. french present, emanuel macaroni says the reform is necessary because the pension system is too complex and costly work is on this picket line at the cities biggest garbage incinerator, say the changes will affect poor people. the most fredericks cleaned paris is suicide for more than 2 decades. he works under ground with heavy equipment in conditions that a hot, humid and polluted miniature day to fit your. a study was done that shows the life

expectancy of garbage and sewage workers is 12 to 17 live there for other people. this is where the government still wants us to work longer, which is unfair it on the i invite the french president to spend the day working in the sewage, which i imagine we are very different than sitting at his desk in nearly say rusty diondra world is ill macros government doesn't have a parliamentary majority, so it's trying to win support for its reform from some opposition and peas. but it's not easy to build on popular with many lawmakers. meanwhile, trade union leaders say they'll continue to call for more protests and strikes until the reform is been katasha butler, al jazeera paris, at least 15 people have died in flash floods, that had se and turkey a heavy rain rattled the cities of shanley or for an earlier mom with more expected through the next few days, much of the region was already struggling to recover after last month's earthquakes

was all sadder soda has more paulson's of houses are under the water, the roads are broken or damaged. the public buildings, historical sites are now being flooded. so the life is now extremely difficult and the rescue teams or trying to find on one hand, trying to find the leasing peoples. but also did the municipality workers trying to clean the, the, the streets and the houses that are still under the water. so these region was affected by too powerful or creeps over a month ago. and thousands of people have died over there, more than one 100000 people were injured and more than 100000 houses. buildings have either cor left or heavily damaged in anyway, they are inhabitable so now this to racial rain that caused the heavy floods. there is just adding to that disaster. i have been talking to the mayor off at the emmon

and he the peak, the some very much horrific scenes that particular the pants cities that have been set up of the earthquakes there. that is now the house foot tens of thousands of the people who has lost their houses, that 10 cities are now under the water. perused president dana blotto has declared a red alert emergency and has ordered schools be closed. in 400 districts are to cyclone yahoo! but of the nation, nearly 60 people have died since the rainy season began. marianna sanchez reports from point to homicide. oh, this is a community, an alert police pushed back people as a river of mud and debris rumbles through the center of the coastal district of that masa landslides caused by cycling yackel. he pumped at most or twice in less than 24 hours. mere geared more for mandy says they were taken by surprise dilemma in the blue below again, the magnitude of the water was so big we would have never been able to tell. it

would be like this. men and women carried sand backs to build contention walls to guide the mud and debris streaming to the ocean. but it overflowed along most of produce coastline. thousands of homes have been destroyed and tens of thousands of factors at agriculture. land has been flooded. this on wednesday a child was saved from the deadly current precedent. dean of a lot of the has declared a state of emergency and announced measures to deal with a disaster affecting more than 400 districts. and more they played out, well, there's a lot, we've began a fairies of actions to address the emergency and the northern regions of the country, both to evacuate, those affect it and to provide them with support and humanitarian aid. although the cycle and jak who didn't hit land, the national hydrology and meteorology services, it expects the storm to dissipate in the next few days. authority, se,

although cycle and ya cause more than a 1000 kilometers of the coast of the pacific, it will continue to produce more rain, more damage, and more misery to a large part of the country improved at most. her neighbors were buckets mud from flooded homes. upon her keep was we've made teams and we are in every home supporting each other in this all heavy machinery is helping people to clean up. but for now the force of nature continues its deadly path. medina sanchez and just eat up a bit masa. ah, it's good to have you with a solo, adrian, so they get here and go all the headlines and al jazeera for the 1st time. at 12 years, the leader of south korea is in japan. the 2 nations say they want to rebuild security of economic ties in the face of continued threats from north korea. 40 follow me.