al jazeera one of the reuters journalists on trial in myanmar pretending state secrets has told the court he hasn't broken any laws while lone was arrested alongside his colleagues who in december he says are being punished for reporting on the killing of ten hindu men and boys sebastian has more from bangkok. finally it was his time to speak after being detained for seven months and a pretrial that lasted nearly as long reuters journalists were long for the first time got a chance to tell the judge just what happened on this number twelve two thousand and seventeen. that's the day he and his colleague chelsea were arrested after being invited for dinner by police officers and were handed secret documents. the most you know north of where artists of art in court today that are contacted would tell you in order to cover a story and story line operating ethics we tried to contact the person in charge regarding a story in order to be balanced in covering the news he and his colleague who are charged with violating myanmar's of facial secrets act the law dates back to the colonial era and can

reuters president and editor in chief steven j. at that says the news organization is deeply disappointed with the ruling in a state when he said these reuters journalists were doing their jobs in an independent and impartial way and there are no facts or evidence to suggest that they've done anything wrong or broken any law the case is being viewed as a test for press freedom in this government is proving that they'll go to any length to sort of caution any independent or credible reporting of the conflict that's going on in rakhine state and we have to keep in mind this is the government of aung san suu kyi a nobel prize winner who at one time with was a staunch defender of freedom of expression and now this government's overseeing ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity as well as a really remarkable crackdown on press freedom. for now it's back to prison for wallow and to await trial the case is a gent till next monday florence lee al-jazeera. ok we can speak to rage to our chief operating officer of reuters he's joining u

the two reuters journalists arrested him in amman last year are going on trial the pair was investigatingthe killing of ten men and boys when they were arrested we can go live now to set us on our correspondent who's in bangkok but he's monitoring the case from there and stir this is a trial that has now fallen into the list of transgressions allegedly committed by the me among government when it comes to human rights particularly when it pertains to issues surrounding the regime to people. yes exactly this is of course a trial that everyone around the world who's watching me on maher is watching very closely because it's not only seen as a task for press freedom because i should know in two thousand and twelve it became much more freer for the media in them before it was extremely restricted it was one of the most restricted media in asia but in family there was this new spring a lot of more freedom people could go in journalist could go in and report on stories when i'm trying to achieve became the state conflict that was still going on there was still this freedom but then of course th

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report that the white house video of this exchange has also skillfully cut out that question from the reuters reporter as if it didn't happen. i'll show you back to back here. i'll show you the real one first and then i'll show what you the white house has posted online. here's the real one. >> they all can be found -- >> did you want president trump to win the election? and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? >> translator: yes, i did. >> that's the real one. watch what the white house has post online instead. >> they can all be found in an appropriate legal framework. >> and did you direct any of your officials to help him do

you can can we actually call this a campaign i mean reuters writes about that it is you know how does this correlate really. it i think it was very heavy on describing problems internally largely with iran political repression corruption economic problems some of which i have no doubt are quite true although i couldn't help comparing mentally and many cases that yes in saudi arabia is ten times worse but nobody's talking about sanctioning they were changing their regime. but it terms of what we're going to do about it was already on the thin side of radio broadcasting and of course more sanctions i think it was largely aimed at the europeans as we know we're already turning the screws on the europeans with regard to new sanctions on iran and and i think that's who israel audience was even more than the iranian american community so if we go to what the president said rouhani said that peace with iran is the mother of all peace and that war with iran is the mother of all wars does that leave a possibility for peace in any way i mean it seems that we're kind of going beyond regular sabe

you that their interests are at the moment we're not sure yet that really when this is all right reuters correspondent punter one shown outside the cave where the boys are trust speaking to us thank you very much now to some other stories making headlines around the world until america has defended her new migration policy in parliament today after reaching a compromise with her hardline interior minister to limit illegal migration the german chancellor said europe's future depends on the way it deals with the issue chill said the e.u. will make every effort to avoid a trade war with the u.s. iran's president hassan rouhani has said the u.s. decision to abandon the nuclear deal was illegal speaking in austria at rouhani also said iran would only continue to abide by the terms of the agreement its benefits were guaranteed former malaysian prime minister not just has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges he was arrested tuesday following an investigation into how billions of dollars went missing from a sovereign wealth fund that he set up a decade ago the probe into the one n.d.b. scand

and said diving experts speaking to us earlier and let's get more on the story now we can speak to reuters correspondent punter one chair own who is outside the cave where the boys are trapped he joins us on the line and a panel its banks at the rescue as we heard there might take months how are authorities dealing with the emotional strain that's facing both the boys and their families. well the plan is at the moment. is sending many other soldiers. sized. to save the for duty and company and then now he must receive communications also communication line is also being established so the plan is to make him as comfortable as possible i'm out of the timeline when you say months it's not set in stone the pipe already has a really. clear timeframe but many of the divers and those involved operations there will definitely try to get them out as soon as they can when the conditions are much safer having said that in terms of the psychological support. for he said that sadly from the station and also and they're going to have a comfortable stay inside the cave i would sort of help them psycholo

the white house transcript has no reference tons jeff mason from reuters asking president putin, did you want president trump to win the election. that's not in the white house transcript. now, yuri free mann was first to report on this anomaly right after it happened. the sometimes transcripts are wrong, very rarely on such a high profile simple thing. that moment probably got more immediate attention than anything else that happened in that remarkable q & a with reporters. it's not unheard of for a white house transcript to be inaccurate. when that happens, there's sort of an informal process where reporters point out something that's wrong or something that's missing or mischaracterized in the transcript and the white house later makes a fix to the official transcript. it happens not all the time but it happens fairly frequently. it's not that big a deal. after this incorrect transcript came out, from the trump and putin summit with the question did you want president trump to win the election, with that gone from the transcript, the atlantic published this criticism noting that t

medical supplies rescue teams now need to work on a plan to get the group out earlier we spoke to reuters correspondent. who was outside that cave in thailand and he described the main challenges rescuers are now facing. well the main challenge now is water apart from the fact that the cave is still flooded in many pods that continues with the rains with more rainfall cause over the coming days and hot and with falling through its monsoon season like this is not really help you don't want to level with the inside to pay for what you have bargained for on the do beyond to pump water is out there trying to decipher what his bosses thought the monsoon is while to make sure that water that's falls in the rain doesn't go through the case so this is a huge it's a war of attrition if you lie against mother nature this operation is the ongoing such operation and therefore he said that you can get rescue that jim of this this operation was didn't need more to be done in terms of bringing the water and that was the water that was reuters correspondent pun when chatham speaking to us from thailand e

reuters have confirmed a local report saying two of the boys have come out.turn to bill. let's carry on bringing you those like pictures, we haven't got him. visibility is very difficult, there. let's bring you up to speed. as to what that thai mission has started to rescue those 12 boys and their football coach. it started at ten o'clock on sunday. they were trapped by monsoon floods in the north of thailand. i believe we have got bill again. i was asking whether you not heard from your colleagues and what more information you have. i haven't heard anything direct. it may be that some on the team back here have said something. the important thing is that two of them are out and hopefully others will follow, but i think, a reality, it is going to be quite a long time before they are all out, even if everything carries on going well. what has been the biggest challenge of this operation? the challenges, they have been huge numbers of challenges. the diving is not easy. the diving is bad enough, having to plan and carry out a rescue of a single person out of a

i mean mark orders charged to reuters journalists for obtaining state secrets. alone were arrested in december while investigating the killing of ten ring of muslims and myanmar's rakhine state but they pleaded not guilty to the charges and say police planted evidence on them it's been decided that brazil's former president luiz inacio lula da silva will stay in prison from now earlier a judge granted an injunction for lula's release sparking a series of contradictory judicial decisions over the politicians fate an appeals court later said the former president must remain in jail for the time being. ethiopia and eritrea are restoring diplomatic ties and opening the boat after twenty years of hostility leaders met in the eritrean capital for a historic summit the country's seven times in one nine hundred ninety eight when the war over the border killed eighty thousand people those are the headlines in half an hour. getting to the heart of the matter if more stuff i can see the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept facin

pundits and nato diplomats in full panic mode as reuters notes quote two senior nato diplomats told reuters they are prepared for a worst case scenario that trumpet announce a freeze and u.s. military exercises or withdraw troops in the baltics and a gesture to putin said that's that's the madman policy and reverse saying that's what i said i said look at the balance sheet of america when he came in he said the military budgets too high the easy win is to pull out of south korea make peace with north korea that's what he's doing another easy way to pull out of nato because having fifty thousand troops in america in germany makes no sense and that is going to make peace in the middle east why to save money why because he's a new yorker why because he doesn't want to be a shock ok and so frickin easy just look at the balance sheet i don't want to be a schmuck you know if you go to a poker game and you're the one they don't know who the schmuck is or the loser it's you you know trump sat down all these international organization the same guy who at the table to big loser if you don't know it's

reuters said they documented evidence of the execution of these ten rohingya men. ina investigation, which are summarised in a statement on facebook, this statement, corroborated what the two journalists found that the authorities are saying the two meant illegally received documents from the police. they were given a call by burmese police and invited to a dinner. at the dinner, they were handed documents they say. they told their families that immediately after leaving this dinner with the police they were arrested by the police. since then we have gone through quite a lengthy pre—trial hearing whether burmesejudge quite a lengthy pre—trial hearing whether burmese judge was trying to decided there was enough evidence in the case to proceed and actually charge these two reporters with violating the state secrets act. so this hearing was quite long. there was one quite dramatic moment when one burmese police officer admitted he'd been told to frame the reporters, to trap them and to give them documents. however, prosecutors say that the reporters did actually have

the two reuters journalists have been charged under the official secrets act which carries a maximum penalty of fourteen years in prison the case will now go to a full trial which means it could be several weeks possibly even months before a final verdict is given now the defense lawyer had argued that this case ought to be thrown out because the prosecution failed to prove that these men are a threat to national security that the so-called secret documents they had on them were already in the public domain the court also heard testimony from a police witness that a senior officer had all of this his subordinates to plant the documents on one of the reports is to trap him yet these two men have been charged now and there are several things troubling about this case apart from the circumstances of these journalists arrest one concerns the issue of press freedom these two men have been arrested they've been denied bail since their arrest in december for simply doing their jobs as reporters the second concerns what's happening in rakhine state as some rights activists put it these two r

pundits and nato diplomats in full panic mode as reuters notes quote two senior nato diplomats told reuters they are prepared for a worst case scenario that trumpet announce a freeze on u.s. military exercises or withdraw troops in the baltics and a gesture to putin said that's that's the madman policy and reverse saying that's what i said i said look at the balance sheet of america when he came in he said the military budget too high the easy win is to pull out of south korea make peace with north korea that's what he's doing another easy way to pull out of nato because having fifty thousand troops in america in germany makes no sense and that is going to make peace in the middle east why to save money why because he's a new yorker why because he doesn't want to be a shock ok and so frickin easy just look at the balance sheet i don't want to be a schmuck you know if you go to a poker game and you're the one they don't know the schmuck is or the loser it's you you know trump shut down all these international organization the same guy who at the table to big loser if you don't know what you

handed some documents and were put under arrest shortly after the journalists of the news agency reuters and now charged with breaching the official secrets act dating back to nine hundred twenty three after a pretrial that lasted six months. we didn't commit any crime what i would like to say in relation to the court's decision today is that we will not give up the court's decision is not the decision that we are guilty even though we are charged we are not guilty we have an opportunity to defend ourselves in the upcoming sessions we will testify to our innocence we will not tremble before the charges laid on us the charges lead to condemnation worldwide and are seen as a test for press freedom in myanmar you have had evidence introduced which effectively said that the case against the two journalists while alone and jaw so it was a put up that the police intentionally handed them documents precisely so they could arrest them and charge them under the official secrets act by any international measure of judicial process has been a farce so far right it's been a travesty of justice the g

to investigate what actually has happened against the range because that's what exactly what the reuters journalists were doing they had investigated this massacre of ten men in a particular village and interestingly after they were detained and arrested the military actually arrested some soldiers who day say were involved in that exact same massacre and they have been put in prison for ten years now so basically the government and the military was admitting that that massacre the reuters investigated was actually really really had to happen. you what you told is their own the whole role but these are all top news stories donald trump of law to be uprooted of a closed door meeting in helsinki they made a few opening remarks before they went into the meeting in finland's presidential palace in helsinki trump says they discussed the nuclear rods in china while putin said he wanted to talk about hotspots. i think we have a great opportunity to go there has to come thank you you have been getting along very well with the leadership you have been here not to warm to the getting close to two.

act the law dates back to the colonial era and can land them in prison for up to fourteen years the reuters reporters were investigating the killing of ten raw enjambment in the village of in then when they were detained their arrest is seen as a warning from the military to journalists not to investigate what happened during the crackdown against the muslim minority during the violence thousands of for him joe were killed and nearly seven hundred thousand fled to neighboring bangladesh a few weeks after the journalists were detained the government confirmed a massacre had happened in and the soldiers responsible were sent to prison for ten years while reuters has reported it was civilians who were executed in the village the military had said they were terrorists. since the crackdown media and myanmar have come under a lot of pressure the case against a reuters journalist is seen as a test for press freedom in a country that started a fragile transition to democracy eight years ago a. step fastened to syria bangkok. blasien lawmakers including indicted ex leader. have taken the oath and pa

reuters is reporting that six boys have exited the thai cave. this is according to a senior member of the medical center. they go to an emergency triage situation that's been set up to get a helicopter to the chiang rai hospital. if six boys have exited that cave, that's got to be extraordinarily good news. we were looking at maybe a 24-hour rescue operation from start-to-finish, from the first of thewater levels have been successfully reduced, it's potentially weak kids but making the way back out the same way they came in. many would be able to walk a good portion of that. would you agree with that? >> well, it's not like walking on a sidewalk. you're talking about walking over large boulders with slippery mud. they're wet. it's not a simple process to walk out. i would guess they're being assisted out, through some of the more difficult areas. and the areas where you might have to climb, vertical in nature, are being hauled up or down in those, which would make it substantially faster. a lot of the kids have last weight because of the nine da

ernst reuter was dead but his work was already showing great results. meanwhile in the years of uneasy truce the soviet union has systematically turned her zone into a purely communist regime and blocked every attempt to treat germany as a whole. the three western powers had no alternative but to move forward with the economic unification of their zones. this was followed by political unification. independence was not long in coming and there was born a new sovereign state, the federal republic of germany. the status of berlins not changed and it remained the responsibility of the four occupying powers and the garrisons stayed. the guarantee of security for western germany depended on the overall strength of the atlantic alliance. the chancellor and federal parliament agreed the new republic should join nato so bringing the organization's strength up to 15 nations. by now strength was no misnomer. though the crisis was far from over nato's process was such to make any aggressor think carefully. now the west could negotiate from provisional strength and

the two reuters journalists have been charged under the official secrets act which carries a maximum penalty of fourteen years in prison the case will now go to a full trial which means it could be several weeks possibly even months before a final verdict is given now the defense lawyer had argued that this case ought to be thrown out because the prosecution failed to prove that these men are threat to national security that the so-called secret documents they had of them were already in the public domain the court also heard testimony from a police witness that a senior officer had ordered his subordinates to plant the documents on one of the reports is to trap him yet these two men have been charged now and there are several things troubling about this case apart from the circumstances of these journalists arrest one concerns the issue of press freedom these two men have been arrested they've been denied bail since their arrest in december for simply doing their jobs as report says the second concerns what's happening in recalling state as some rights activists put it these two rep

handed some documents and were put under arrest shortly after the journalists of the news agency reuters and now charged with breaching the official secrets act dating back to nine hundred twenty three after a pretrial that lasted six months. we didn't commit any crime but i would like to say in relation to the court's decision today is that we will not give up the court's decision is not the decision that we are guilty even though we are charged we are not guilty we have an opportunity to defend ourselves in the upcoming sessions we will testify to our innocence we will not tremble before the charges laid on us the charges lead to condemnation worldwide and are seen as a test for press freedom in myanmar you have had evidence introduced which effectively said that the case against the two journalists while alone and jaw so it was a put up that the police intentionally handed them documents precisely so they could arrest them and charge them under the official secrets act by any international measure of judicial process has been a farce so far right it's been a travesty of justice the go

and of course shortly thereafter the reuters journalists was sent to jail and are still in jail despite huge international efforts to get them out. have you spoken to the military chiefs? have you spoken to aung san suu kyi? do they have any sense this is getting too big, too hot, they need to rethink? >> well, my sense from our back-channel communications with people who are in touch with, not directly in touch with the officials you referenced is that there is a hope that somehow repatriation can be managed without answering this question of accountability and transparency so that is why every time we talk about this we say there must be an independent investigation. the u.n. fact finding mission is collecting data right now which is of critical importance. ultimately we've been calling for a referral to the international criminal court for an investigation so those mechanisms have to stay on the table as we're discussing all of the other real humanitarian issues because that accountability if yugoslavia, in iraq and other places is ultimately what perpetrators with request these type

and we can speak to reuters correspondent who is outside the cave where the boys are trapped he joins us on the line is there any indication how long it will take to get the boys out. for the time frame has not been fixed. pyar forty has to be prepared different contingencies and. installing communication lines to escape where the two are boys and their coach are currently reciting to enable him to be able to speak to the family sometime tomorrow however. the thai party also stresses that when the conditions are right. that would not wait the process in time periods when the conditions are right and when the size of the navy seals digressive or the international died i think that it is a kind of present state for the boys to come out of the caves then they will certainly go for this and an extraction but if it is too soon we don't know it when exactly that can take place because the water levels relatively high. then to stand atop a ration by a. c.t. and bring him out to a mosque for the boys inside at the possibility of them coming out to the water we have to do some sort of sorting

that was the reuters correspondent speaking earlier.nating the rescue mission are two british cave diving experts, john volanthen and richard stanton. martyn farr knows the pair and is an expert himself. he said the operation seemed to be going "very well". he spoke to me earlier. this is absolutely fantastic news. the boys are starting to come out of the cave. that will be a massive morale booster. it obviously is an indicator that things are going very well at this point in time. clearly it is a big ask for everyone involved. we all understand how critical this weather window... well, it is shrinking as we speak, but the right people are doing the right things, and i am optimistic that things will carry on like this. you mentioned the weather. clearly you have some reservations. you have the experience. what are your primary concerns? like everyone else watching the programme, we all know that if you have a torrential downpour, we have seen images of the current in the cave today. that would be a major problem for everyone if that rai

and another readout from reuters inside of the room as well, and what reuters is saying and maybe thel is coming out behind me, but what reuters is saying as well is that the key word that president trump says that he for got to say is the not, that he saw no reason that it would not be rush sharks and in the comments in helsinki, he said that he found a reason to the say it would be rush sharks and trying to clean it one one negation. >> he is saying that he misspoke now? that is the argument? >> according to reuters who was in the room that the president said that he could see no reason why it would not be rush sharks and he for got that not in helsinki, and again, when we hear the full tape, we will hear it better for ourself, and according to peter alex sander repeated the idea that he has full faith in the united states intelligence community and at the same time he still maintains the idea that it could be other people, and this is really what as ashley is talking about the contradictions of the square and square that cannot be circles. you not simply believe those two things th

. >> one of the other thing that was surprising is when i think it was reuter's reporter jeff mason. the american reporters, john la meyer from ap and jason from reuter's did a great job and demonstrate why tough questions of president trump are necessary and the weak subjects we often see are a disservice to the united states. one of the things that jason said, phil, was you put out that tweet saying the made to is responsible for the bad state of relations. is there nothing you would hold russia accountable for? and president trump didn't list anything. he didn't list one thing, not ukraine, not crimea, not the poisoning in the uk. not the election interference. >> he is violating a basic rule. let's make sure we are clear on what we are talking about here. when he goes into north korea after five hours of meeting and comes out and says i think we are safe, people are scratching their head saying can you show me. that's a question about his judgment. this time he is going overseas and there is a fundamental difference on questioning his judgment in north korea and questioning his j

roberta ramped him of reuters, please. -- roberta of reuters, please. >> you spoke a little bit about iran today, and your discussions. wonder if you could tell us what you think iran needs to do to reduce some of the tensions. you met with the leaders of north korea and russia, are you also willing to meet with president -- and under what conditions? president trump: i'll meet with anybody. i believe in meeting. the prime minister said it better than anyone can say it, speaking to other people, especially when talking about the potentials of war and death and famine and lots of other things, you meet. there's nothing wrong with meeting. we met with chairman kim him and he hasn't had a missile fired off in nine months. we got our prisoners back. in mya great meeting, opinion, of course the news didn't cover it that -- the fake news didn't cover it that way, i russia,eat meeting with with president putin. in terms of safety, and protecting israel. with nato, hundreds of billions of dollars of more money will be paid into the coffers of nato. and much already has. i believe in meeting.

for more now let's cross to thailand where reuters correspondent tony one shop owner is standing by just outside the cave where the boys are trapped punit we're hearing reports that the boys in their coach might have to stay underground for months before they can be brought out is that a real possibility. water authorities certainly not ruling that possibility out because it said that there will be some time needed to make sure that the boys can come out of this safe safely as two issues that the first one with the help. that he does have on the ground ball more than nine days the medical doctors the divers who need to make sure that they are ready to tough conditions to be able to make the difficult journey out of the chase where part of the cases do not it and second of causes the level of water. before is a cause that doesn't have any training in terms of diving so many many possibly life now used to require to die fluids and this is the problem the authority of trying to come out as much more to try to drain as much water as they can from the cave to pumping ground war to look around

investigators would actually go to north korea and find more soldiers who were left behind there reuters correspondent speaking to us from seoul thank you very much. thank you. now a major international conference on hiv and aids is wrapping up in the netherlands experts agree the fight against the epidemic isn't over last year around one point eight million people were newly infected by the virus and rates of hiv infection are rising in around fifty countries health officials have long stressed the use of condoms to prevent hiv infection now there's a new medication known as prep that can significantly reduce people's chances of catching a hiv. emanuel is a professional musician and he's hiv negative to keep it that way he relies on prep a medicine that can stop people catching it so he has to take the day to stay for texted. for sort of not till about two years ago i just use condoms. is always risky situations for calling i started to mistrust condoms than i had about prep and it really sounded like a savior. but this is. i know that's wrong. until recently the medicine cost as much a

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the speech comes as part of an alleged campaign to undermine the iranian government the reuters news agency says sources in the us government have told. it there is a driver actually supported by pompei o two consistently portray tehran's leadership in a negative light that's on top of attempts to weaken iran's economy through the use of sanctions and my pump has repeatedly posted tweets criticizing iran's domestic policies and accused its government of destabilizing the region by supporting extremist groups he has also said that iranians are fed up with corrupt and incompetent leaders and that their frustration fueled the mass protests in december and january here's how a state department official commented on the campaign to reuters let me be clear we're not seeking regime change we're seeking changes in the iranian government's behavior we know we're driving around to make some hard choices either they can change their ways or find it increasingly difficult to engage in emeline activities a senior iranian official contacted by the news agency dismissed the campaign saying it's des

medical supplies rescue teams now need to work on a plan to get the group out earlier we spoke to reuters correspondent. who told us more about the main challenges rescuers are now facing. what the main challenge now is water apart from the fact that the cave is still flooded in many that continue to be rain. with more rainfall over the coming days and part and only include monsoon season like knowledge in my community oh please don't want that level within five days but what you have argued from the two beyond the pumping water is that attracted by water faucet off them off in a while to make sure that water that at all from the rain doesn't go through the case so this is a huge that a war of attrition through law against some kind of nature of operation is still ongoing in the search operation and authorities say that even gets rescue that's enough to do this operation which didn't need more to be done the bringing the water and i thought it was a that was reuters correspondent pun who won't speak to us from outside the cave in thailand earlier today now to some other stories making new

who works for the reuters news agency were arrested in december while investigating the killing of a muslim or a hinge or face pleaded not guilty and say police planted evidence on them. why did we have whistle blew on human rights violations and corruption in russia and state by following journalism ethics because of that we face trial where maybe only when the police act unjustly we have to investigate it that's why we can say we've acted according to journalism ethics florence louie has more from kuala lumpur. the two reuters journalists have been charged under the official secrets act which carries a maximum penalty of fourteen years in prison the case will now go to a full trial which means it could be several weeks possibly even months before a final verdict is given now the defense lawyer had argued that this case ought to be thrown out because the prosecution failed to prove that these men are a threat to national security that the so-called secret documents they had on them were already in the public domain the court also heard testimony from a police witness that a senior o

earlier i spoke with reuters news agency‘s japan bureau chief billy mallard who gave us more detailssed. well, they are finding a lot of mud and now that the rains have passed, the mud is turning into dust, it is quite messy and unfortunately as they are getting to some of the more secluded locations, they are finding people who were not able to get out of their homes, unfortunately not surprisingly a lot of older people who are less mobile so we are in that grim phase of the process. many of the deaths took place in the hiroshima prefecture. that is one of the worst affected areas? that's right, western japan got hit pretty hard. hiroshima and okayama, and also on the island of shikoku. in terms of the rescue efforts and the evacuation advice, it wasn‘t mandatory. these were orders to leave. that is true, and there is some rethink of that going on. it has to be said, the advisories, the weather advisories are very frequent, very clear. japan does that sort of thing extremely well. whether they were mandatory or advisories, there is some after—the—fact guessing about that but it‘s pr

the two reuters journalists have been charged under myanmar's official secrets act they were arrested in december shortly after they were handed some documents by policemen who had asked to meet them the two reporters had been working on an investigation into the killing of ten was the in rakhine state the military launched a crackdown there in august after a hinge of fighters attacked some police posts more than seven hundred thousand range have since escaped to bangladesh amid allegations of murder rape and acid attacks by security forces the defense lawyer had urged the judge to throw out the case arguing that journalists had been set up to block their reporting on the kind state police captain also told the court in april that a senior officer had ordered his subordinates to plant documents on wadlow to trap him the chief operating officer for reuters says he's disappointed in the judge's ruling on the face of it and certainly following the line of evidence we think they should be freed we think the charges shouldn't have been laid to begin with but we certainly hope that the cour

oh i'm maryam namazie is a quick look at the top stories now hamas officials have told the reuters news agency the cease fire has been reached with israel to end recent violence in gaza but it has not been confirmed by the israeli government and. gaza strip two teenagers were killed during israel's largest daylight attack on how mass in the gaza war in two thousand and fourteen israeli jets targeted several neighborhoods in the gaza strip dozens of hamas targets were hit meanwhile hamas fired more than seventy mortar bombs and rockets at southern israel nearly a dozen were intercepted one exploded near an israeli border community but no injuries have been reported allison in the local media is reporting that a cease fire mediated by gyptian security officials came into force at sixteen hours g.m.t. ceasefire between hamas in gaza and the israeli military but that ceasefire didn't come into force before we came perilously close to a rapid escalation of a confrontation between israel and forces in gaza and our other top stories haiti's prime minister foreign talent has resigned after days

. >> final question from reuters. need toconcrete steps be taken to now to show they are committed to denuclearization? [inaudible] have you seen those proposals, and what is the agreement they have reached? >> so lots of discussion taking place. discussion between president trump and president putin about the resolution in syria and how we might get the refugees back. the president shared with me the eight conversation they had. it is important to the world that these refugees are able to return home to their home country. it is what we have been working on, what the united nations has been working on. president putin and president trump did discuss that. the united states wants to be part of helping to achieve that resolution in syria. your first question was about what we need to see. it is straightforward. not my description of what needs to take place. made a promise and told not only president trump, but president moon, that he was prepared to denuclearize. the north koreans understand what that means. there is

overweightness we're joined now on the line by pan no one char omar reuters correspondent is out the rescue site in thailand now rescuers originally had said the best option might be to wait for water levels to recede after monsoon season tell us why is that no longer viable. well the position could get much one when the brain contiki two thousand thought was issued yes that's after the fact. helps all the boys trapped inside. if they waited longer they might see that the average there and might also be from the date of. may well i think they have to use that weekend facebook it's very critical right now it's easy. to find ways to get rescuers to you have to get the boys out but at the moment it's probably several ways to get this work. what do you know about the boys condition are they strong enough for a grueling rescue operation at this point. well we are told. all the most wise we should like all of these guys to give a pretty boy. much worse condition. than time to really get that help. people out of those dividing them get supplies of food and medical attention. that you're alr

not to investigate what actually has happened against the ranger because that was exactly what the reuters journalists were doing they had investigated this massacre of ten men in a particular village and interesting we asked that they were detained and arrested the military actually arrested some soldiers who they say were involved in that exact same a massacre and they have been put in prison for ten years now so basically the government and the military was admitting that that massacre the reuters investigate it was actually really really had happened. now a community school in the occupied west bank is opening early for the new academic yaz it faces the threat of israeli demolition of palestinian bedouin village of. to be raised to expand an illegal israeli settlement but earlier this month israel's supreme court issued a temporary injunction blocking the demolition of schools future remains uncertain as the israeli government pushes for villages to relocate a land full size well let's get more on the smell correspondent stephanie deca is live at that village in the occupied west bank

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that was reuters correspondent penny wong speaking students a bit earlier there. now some other stories making news around the world the bodies of three migrants including one child have been recovered by libyan rescue workers after the boat capsized last friday at least two hundred people are estimated to have died off the libyan coast last weekend more than a thousand people have drowned this year sailing from libya to europe. disgraced hollywood film producer harvey weinstein faces new sexual assault charges in new york prosecutors say they involve alleged crimes against a woman in two thousand and six feinstein has already pleaded not guilty to charges involving two other women more than seventy five women have accused him of wrongdoing. and the white house says u.s. secretary of state mike pong peo will visit north korea for further talks on denuclearization this week it would be pumped his first trip since a june summit between the u.s. and north korean leaders at that summit county vowed to work towards ridding the korean peninsula nuclear weapons. and aust

this is actually relevant to the option reuters report israel hamas gaza truce largely holds after flare up that's not good for trade maybe not maybe not but it might be good for saving lives because in incredibly short order the tense peace became a very violent situation where israeli soldiers were attacked and i think there were some deaths there and then israel hit back by hitting sixty eight hamas targets this was a violent how do you know that others are good because the international red cross or thirteen thousand dead or wounded u.n. sixteen thousand dead or wounded for gene march thirty of them to july seventh between two thousand six hundred children of all the figures a huge massive collateral damage with civilians a lateral damage that's what it's called and have a you have innocence involved but the israelis say well these individuals were directly protesting and this goes right back to various demonstrations along the border there it's a big mess and it looks like there's a truce now both sides seem to be holding to it but this can fall apart not in just days but in minutes