harry fossett, al jazeera, japan. >>> still ahead on that al jazeera: >> i'm in lebanon's valley where a growing diplomatic dispute between lebanese leaders and gulf country is could have a catastrophic effect on the agricultural industry here. >>> a controversy korean movie triggers memories of the war time past. >> we're here to fully get into the nuances of everything that's going on, not just in this country, but around the world. getting the news from the people who are affected. >> people need to demand reform... >> ali velshi on target. >> hello again, the top stories on al jazeera, the united nations accused all sides in south sudan civil war of targeting civilians for murder and rape. a new report describes what it calls a multitude of horrendous human rights violations. >>> tens of thousands of iraqis have taken to the streets of baghdad calling for a government shakeup and end to corruption. supporters of the iraqi cleric are protests another third friday in a row. >>> japan has marked five years since the earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 18,000 people. a minute

harry fossett reports from fukushima where cleaning up the disaster is expected to take decades. >> i'm guided through the streets of this hometown. the chinese restaurant here he says made the best ram men noodles in the world. he finds small signs of hope like the almost magical appearance of a new gate at the shrine, an area designated to store radioactive waste. >> the people made this gate. jo. >> his home abandoned five long years, be a but he is determined to keep a sense of connection to it and his community. his delight is clear when he bumps into an old school friend. his hope is to share this feeling by making a film about his town to show that life hasn't forever been extinguished here. >> watching my fear. i will make the community again. >>s scat that scattered the population began five years ago but it's not over. along the coast, thousands of workers struggle to stabilize let alone decommission the crippled power plant. >> the problems continue to accumulate. hundreds of tons of ground water are newly contaminated every day. this disaster still goes on. >> its effects ar

harry fossett has more. >> it was arms headed for syrians war but fueled a battle in turkey. published last year, this video purports to show turkish intelligence officers trying to transport weapons and ammunition to what the paper called jihadi fighters in syria. the government said it was bound for ethnic turkmen and called the story an act of espionage. the chief faces charges of revealing state secrets aiming to overthrow the government and aiding a terrorist organization. >> my responsibility not to the government but to the public, and if an intelligence service is tracking illegally arms to a neighboring country who is in civil war, so this is a crime. >> last month, he and his anchor bureau chief were released from pretrial detention. the constitutional court ruled their rights to liberty and freedom of expression has been violated. now comes their criminal trial. >> less than a woke ago on this busy street, a suicide bomber believed to be an isil member killed four people. days earlier, 38 people died in a suicide talk in ankara claimed by kurdish separatists. the g

harry fossett is following developments from japan. >> the ministry of defense in south korea simplying a number of projectiles had been fired into the sea of the eastern court. how the local media in south carolina are reporting a little more fully. they do sometimes get briefings from military officials, talking about a range of apparently 100-150 kilometers. various numbers have been mentioned, six or eight to nine projectiles, unclear it seems at this stage whether they were short range missiles or perhaps from a multi-rocket launch system such as unveiled in a major parade in october in pyongyang last year. it's understood analysis is underway on that point. the ministry of defense is saying that its military remains in a heightened state of readiness, watching out for further actions by counter parts in north korea. we are coming into a period of annually heightened tensions between north and south because there are military exercises getting underway between u.s. and south korea forces on the korean peninsula. this year, it's expected they are going to be a lot bigger than usu

. >>> let's crossover and bring in our correspondent harry fossett to tell us whether there's clarity on the motivations of this hostage-taker. >> reporter: no, there have been all sorts of discussions about what his motivations might have been. of course, we have those reports that it was to do with a woman. that's according to the prime minister of cypress. he was talking about potentially this man's ex-wife being the motivation for this entire incident, and there were reports that she was brought here to the airport as negotiations proceeded. at the same time, there were reports also of this man asking for female prisoners in egypt to be released, asking to speak to a representative of the european union. now, of course, these are unconfirmed reports so far. we only have to go by what we were hearing ourselves. we do know, though, that the police here in cypress will hold a news conference at 6:30 local time in about 20 minutes' time. we understand that will be streamed live, and so we're expecting at least that we might find out a bit more about the details of exactly who he was,