a nation where corruption is endemic now embroiled in a battle to hold the power.
there's this radical transformation.
i mean.
to me that if you look.
on the remaining pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption.
people.
on al-jazeera.
donald trump accuses china of secretly selling oil to north korea.
i know there are more kyle this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up.
celebrations on the streets of liberia with the announcement that football legend george
waya will become the country's next president.
how some greek farmers are creating opportunities for the country's many refugees.
and tech giant apple apologizes after a million slam is deliberate slowing down of older model
i phones.
u.s. president donald trump has accused china of violating u.n. sanctions against north
korea by not cutting off oil supplies to pyongyang has tweeted caught red handed very disappointed
that china is allowing oil to go into north korea that will never be a friendly solution
to the north korea problem if this continues to happen a white house correspondent kimberly
hawk it has more from washington d.c. . china's denying the accusations that the president
made on twitter you have to
sometimes decipher why and what has prompted donald trump to go to twitter and often this
is when he feels that an issue isn't being covered adequately in his view in the media
he will tweet knowing that then in turn we will take a look and see what he's talking
about and this is a really good example of that if you go back to the u.s. treasury website
last month you'll see that it first called attention to these satellite images that said
that it had of chinese ships applying oil to north korean ships in the west see now
apparently these satellite images put out by the u.s. treasury department were taken
october nineteenth but again it didn't get a whole lot of media attention even though
the united states says that this is in violation of sanctions that were put in place specifically
speaking to this by the u.n. security council in september so perhaps it's a little bit
of frustration on that level and frustration too by the president that he's tweeting this
given the fact that when he first came into office in january he
immediately began to address the situation of north korea's nuclear program by investing
heavily in the relationship with chinese president xi hosting the mar-a lago speaking enormously
about the investment that was being made in the hope that china would use economic leverage
to limit the north korean program but in recent weeks and months we've seen some frustration
with that while the treasury department says there has been some success with china helping
to isolate north korea from the global financial system again there is some frustration by
the united states with examples like this of these satellite images so well china is
denying these charges saying that there have been no u.n. security council violations as
far as it's concerned the u.s. sees it differently and now we see the frustration playing out
on twitter by the president donald trump.
hours after the president's tweet south korea seized a ship suspected of violating the u.n.
sanctions cell says the hong kong flagged vessel transferred oil to
a north korean ship in international waters in october yes proposed blacklisting the ship
for ignoring international sanctions placed against.
a correspondent rob mcbride joins us now live from beijing several brought response of we
seen from china hare well china will certainly not be happy with this stinging criticism
coming in such a public rebuke but to be honest laura i mean the past year china has gotten
used to a new type of relationship with the united states and also become accustomed to
this kind of tweeting diplomacy we are not likely to see a direct response from china
to this latest attack what china is likely to do will be merely repeating its denial
so we had yesterday thursday here a very strong press conference given by the defense ministry
categorically denying that these transfers of oil have been taking place the day before
at the regular
ministry of foreign affairs press briefing they played down these reports they said that
they have no knowledge of this transfer taking place this illicit trade asking for anybody
to come forward with specific evidence but interestingly saying that questioning whether
all countries all member nations of the united nations can be sure the entities or companies
in their countries are not getting around these restrictions which does seem to be far
less than a categorical denial that's really and is asking for evidence but we've got these
satellite images we've got south korea seizing this ship just in the past few hours i mean
it does seem that it has been caught red handed.
it is difficult to see how this trade could be taking place without china's knowledge
you know people believe it does give evidence or give ammunition to many
in the u.s. administration who suspect and claim outright that china could and should
be doing more to rein in north korea and it does fit with the general narrative that quietly
behind the scenes china is still prepared to support north korea to stop it collapsing
not out of any sense of loyalty to an old ally but more as a pragmatic measure just
to stop the place collapsing to keep it going forward and we are seeing for example other
allegations about about and bar goes and sanctions being circumvented for example much was made
about china stopping imports of north korean coal that's a big money earner for the north
korean regime but there's a lot of speculation that some coal at least is finding its way
from north korea to ports in russia where it is then unloaded and then reloaded onto
ships that then come down to china as a way of getting around that embargo from china's
point of view it is still the
case that it is while it's not ideal it is still acceptable for china to have a nuclear
armed north korea what is find unacceptable is to have a collapsing north korea with access
to nuclear warheads that's what really scares china ok rob thanks very much.
liberia's election commission says former football star star george where has won the
country's presidential runoff where the project has sixty one point five percent of the vote
ninety eight point one percent of the votes have been counted and tallied ahmed out to
reports from the capital monrovia was celebration on the streets of the liberian capital neutral
was supporters will find some national football adored with greeted news of his victory in
tuesday's runoff election with song times it was broke down in t. is a soon as the results
won last he's seen he have been consulted by his running mate
if you will take that who is an ex-wife or former liberian president charles taylor who
is currently serving a fifty year sentence in the u.k. for war crimes committed in neighboring
sierra leone was full we any supporters it's a dream come true a struggle they say that
started we back in two thousand and two us pointed to succeed because i saw a need. for
us that we can take was good but this time in a trip to come to it was such a just we
had a president talk through the electoral commission had just announced the preliminary
results were all present ages are c.d.c. thank you mr president is sixty one point five percent
for the c.d.c. and thirty eight point five percent for the unit body and now his opponent
and current vice president just have block i says he has had deep misgivings about the
elections from the beginning he contends that there is also the fuss wound on
supported a case taken to the supreme court by the county they took him out in the race
we've gone into an election that we knew from stopped it had a lot of problems we were not
satisfied with.
whether or not they have structure in the supreme court were followed we were.
constrained to go but what we want to see what we wanted we had all hoped for a free
fair transparent election i doubt seriously if that is why we're going to get the vice
president on his unity party and not say whether they will challenge the results in court.
don't waste said to succeed ellen johnson sirleaf africa's first elected female president
who led liberia for the past told fees she's credited with presiding over the longest period
of uninterrupted peace
in liberia since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine.
played for st will football clubs including s.c. milan chelsea and parties and german
he's the only african football to have worn the feet for a while play up the old way as
a victory in the presidential race is attributed mainly to his support base within the country's
youth who are calling for up to sixty percent of the population he grew up in want to be
a slums and he success against all appeals to many in what is one of the world's poorest
countries.
where and the politics of the his retirement from football in two thousand and two and
is currently a senator in liberia's pilot.
would be the first time since one thousand nine hundred two for the home but by the us
leaves in the mountain center will have transfer of power from one elected president to another.
one groovy liberia. at least fifteen people have died and dozens more injured in
a fire in the indian city of mumbai plays broke out late at night in a restaurant that's
pretty quickly throughout the four story building that's like cases in an area popular for nightlife.
a new york apartment fire left at least twelve people dead including a one year old baby
four others were critically injured more than one hundred seventy five has battled the place
in the bronx neighborhoods the cause of the fire is unclear and made the mayor of new
york says it could have been was. this. is the worst fire tragedy we have seen in this
city in at least a quarter century because of f.d.a. and wise quick response based on
the information we have now at least twelve people were rescued and will survive but the.
search of the building continues.
so we know that even though it's horrible report that twelve are dead or
are dead already we may lose others as well greece which already has huge unemployment
is struggling to find jobs for refugees one has been made worse off to some in countries
refuse to resettle some of them but one great thinks refugees could help crease his feeble
economy lawrence lee reports.
language class for this group of refugees in northern greece jason from it live in syria
has decided to seek asylum here that will need greek anyway because he'll be here for
months or even years so slow is the bureaucracy.
jason said he wants to study and maybe become a hairdresser.
but he's open to suggestions for work.
across his country similar scenes are happening the rest of europe has decided the greece
can cope more or less greece has got a big problem the economist on the whole more than
forty percent youth unemployment and at the same time greece is having to deal with the
brunt of the refugee influx
and the european quota system for sharing the mouse has fallen apart completely so is
the big question if there's not enough jobs for greeks and what to expect refugees to
do. in the absence of any other bright ideas some people here have decided to celebrate
the new arrivals farmer demetrius makes some dried tomatoes and grows herb's but he has
a problem his village like hundreds of others has shrunk by half since the economic crisis
as the young people moved away their empty houses here waiting for families to move in
to breathe new life into the community he'd love nothing more than refugees from rural
syria to help him out you think you can help each other yes if they're if you just want
to stay here we can do it many thinks look at that so the idea came from a local organization
working with refugees it argues that greece's economic crisis could be partly solved by
the refugee influx not cheap labor but co-operative farms
giving the new arrivals an economic stake and encourage them to stay refugees that used
to be in.
their original country or they have experience in farming we think that they can also assist
the locals and the locals can assist then and in developing a future for both in the
camps it's becoming clear what happens when refugees can't access the jobs market a groups
are warning of a huge spike in drug abuse by refugees stuck for years in a shipping
container cannabis is sold alongside fruit on the road side of the noses of the police
of the camp male refugees telling their bodies has become common as well they are buying
the drugs they are the ones that have a some people using headline also or. in their camp
and they are just because they're plants and just because you don't have any hope they.
hear these last life of.
their life.
you don't have any hope.
many greeks
here claim refugees get special treatment while they're left to suffer in poverty and
their life in the camps hardly looks generous there are apparently no greeks to work the
fields in these agricultural lands and grow the economy it's only one idea but maybe they're
starting to realize you can make a virtue out of a crisis barnsley al-jazeera in the
increase.
so has had on al-jazeera a look ahead to see what could be in store for the trump administration
next year's u.s. midterm elections.
hello and welcome to the international weather forecast now to take a look at the weather
across europe through friday we've got the front across
eastern areas you know says southerly winds so temperatures on the rise for ukraine for
instance there are nine degrees in kiev but low pressure pushing into wards the u.k. and
western parts of europe is going to give some heavy rain and indeed some heavy snowfall
in areas to certainly as we get on through into software is that he went to a few minutes
with him on across more western areas but again we've got more heavy snow for across
the alps really has been exceptional start to the season here states that front moves
further away towards the east and a slight drop in temperatures behind it and the circulation
around parts of greece and into turkey could do some heavy rain at times on the other side
of the mediterranean the winds are quite brisk along the coast of north africa some showers
through the gulf of sirte karo looking at russia be quiet weather conditions temperatures
just around about the twenty twenty one degree mark into central parts of africa still picking
up some showers or congo too otherwise across much of the region for west africa weather
conditions looking dry and fine nice day in lagos nigeria with highs of thirty more so
than there is still some heavy rain
across some be zimbabwe and along the east coast of madagascar highs of twenty five in.
hello again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s.
president donald trump has accused china of violating u.n. sanctions against north korea
by not cutting off oil supplies to pyongyang the u.s. treasury has released satellite images
that appear to show chinese ships transferring congo to north korean vessels china denies
the accusations.
liberia's election commission says former football star george way has won the presidential
runoff where defeated vice president joseph cohen will take over from ellen johnson sirleaf
next month.
and a new york apartment fire has killed at least twelve people including a one year old
baby four others were critically injured more than one hundred seventy five feiss were on
the scene in the bronx neighborhood the cause is unclear . more than six years ago japan
shut down all its nuclear reactors off the fukushima disaster now the government is going
ahead with plans to bring them back
to life on wednesday it cleared to react as if the world's largest nuclear power plant
was a kike cairo cairo up in total fourteen reactors across the country have been given
the green light to be restarted it may say good is until all of them can operate because
it requires an approval from local governments and there's strong opposition to the plan
sean bernie as a senior nuclear specialist with greenpeace and joins us via skype from
glasgow good to have you with us so is the public right to be nervous about this plant
reopening i mean even with all the safety measures in place can tepco prevent another
fukushima like disaster.
the simple answer is nobody can correct.
the public in niigata which is on the sea japan coast the overwhelming majority are
opposed to the restart of the question was attacking reactors even before these reactors
were built in the one nine hundred seventy s. and one nine hundred eighty s. it was known
that the seismic conditions the geology of the site was highly
vulnerable to major earthquakes in fact they had to go forty meters to reach bedrock for
the foundations of those reactors and there are twenty one seismic fault lines running
close to or through the actual nuclear plant site so yes the public in niigata but also
across japan are still very strongly opposed to restarting nuclear power in japan they
do think it will restart and we did an analysis earlier this year which looked at tepco as
business plan tepco is the owner of the fukushima site but also the owner of these reactors
basically they're absolutely desperate to restart at least to the two new u.s. reactors
unit six and seven they shut down in two thousand and eleven in two thousand and twelve their
analysis was that we could restart by twenty nineteen our analysis is that there's no prospects
of those two reactors we starting at least the four and twenty twenty one the simple
reason is that the governor of the region
heigho yama he was elected on a mandate recently investigate the nuclear plant site and he
came out shortly after his election which was a big surprise to techno to see that he
was opposed to restarting until there are enough full investigation as to the actual
causes and consequences of the fukushima accident so the prospects are they may have given approval
but those reactors are not going to restart anytime soon and why is tepco so desperate
to restart them.
simple reason you mentioned the number of reactors approved two are through the region
agency in japan actually only four reactors are operating there were fifty four in two
thousand dollar took your trip has no reactors operating and therefore has no income generation
from its reactor fleet the only prospects are for cash was akhi talk really that would
generate perhaps around two billion dollars per year in profit protect you but they're
looking at a bill a financial bill of the fukushima accident of at least four some would
even same
perhaps ten billion per annum over the coming decades so that the basically the economic
issue the needs of those reactors to restart if they have any prospects of finding some
funding to take over the submission of eighty accident i just pray they were looking at
lots of pictures and focus post two thousand and eleven tsunami and it's absolutely decimated
what's the situation there now.
still an ongoing crisis in fact that the government has not lifted the emergency and there are
tens of thousands of people still evacuated the utility still has not found the molten
fuel that six hundred tons of molten fuel that burst through the reactor pressure vessels
in units one two and three or four million tons of highly contaminated water in storage
tanks opposed to being released into the pacific by the local community it's an ongoing disaster
and we're nearly seven years in but this will go on for decades ok sean bernie great speak
to thanks very much for taking time to join us there from glasgow on the.
well u.s.
politics is the subtext this time and also he's looking ahead at the major stories we
expect to see and twenty eighteen mid-term elections in june and they could have a major
impact on donald trump's presidency up for grabs all seats in the u.s. house of representatives
and a third of the senate the president supports.
donald trump as a lower approval rating than any other president in modern times at this
point in their first terms of office and that's bad news for members of congress in his own
republican party as they face the november twenty eighth teen midterm elections works
it's very helpful to have a popular president at the top of the ticket but with this point
in pro rating and only one in thirty years i'm not sure how much of a plus donald trump
will be disservice faction with trump and the unpopularity of his tax cut legislation
which is seen to benefit the wealthy has created
a big enthusiasm gap between republican and democratic voters that was vividly on display
in recent elections when a democrat won the virginia governor's race and even more so
when democrats turned out in large numbers to help the democrat doug jones eke out a
narrow win over accused child molester roy moore in the senatorial race in conservative
alabama democrats are fired up we saw some significant electoral movement particularly
among african-americans a solid constituency for the democratic party but we weren't sure
that they would be enthusiastic in both of those contests they were very enthusiastic
and the other group that we've been looking at in particular are white college graduates
who see many of whom seem very disenchanted with.
many analysts believe democrats have a good chance of taking control of the house of representatives.
winning the senate is more difficult for democrats because many of them are defending seats in
states
which voted republican last year but even control of one house of congress would allow
democrats to block trump's legislative agenda for the rest of his cerm ending in twenty
twenty overshadowing the entire political scene is the investigation by special counsel
robert muller of russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election if mohler is
able to show collusion between the trump campaign and the kremlin it would be a political bombshell
and a disaster for the president and his party robert oulds al jazeera los angeles but our
series continues on sas they were me visit some ball play two thousand and eighteen will
be a significant question that but how much change should we expect we'll bring you that
story from harare.
the u.s. embassy in ankara says it's lifted all restrictions on visa services ending
a two month round between the u.s. and turkey as turkey has met all assurances that local
u.s. embassy staff would be detained or arrested us stopped issuing visas in turkey after two
staff members were detained. at the consulate in istanbul apple has issued an online apology
to customers following weeks of anger over intentionally slowing down to i phones the
tech giant says the slowdown is to preserve the life of degrading batteries a hostile
reaction from customers has led to several class action lawsuits against the company
apple is now offering a discount for replacement batteries larry magid is a technology analyst
in california he things handed the situation badly.
it seems to me that they should have been forthcoming at the very beginning before they
even slow down the phone they should say we want to slow down your phone because it's
going to help you preserve battery life it's going to avoid potential crash it is that
ok and most people would probably say yes i would rather have a slow phone than a dead
phone and so it actually was a feature not
a bug but the way they handle it was so poor that i actually want to becoming almost a
crisis for the company but if you have an old phone with an old battery you can expect
erratic behavior that is the nature of the battery technology they degrade over time
so apple is right that older phones with older batteries are likely to hear through all that
run for as long and potentially crash unexpectedly so that's not the problem that's just the
nature of the technology the problem of where they handled it in check i don't know what
people said i know i would have said yes slow my phone down in exchange for not crashing
and i would have rushed out and bought a new phone or a new battery and i think the way
apple with the ultimately have to live by making the batteries relatively cheap twenty
nine dollars does pretty much solve the problem for most people but they irritated a lot of
people in the process more than one in one hundred women worldwide suffer from hair loss
but some are finding new and inventive ways of talent in the stigma of baldness for about
money but one woman who's using her skull to showcase
traditional hannah not kony said bell has been battling the skin disease the let her
have falling out in large clumps but instead of hiding a head in hats wicks the school
teacher in kata is celebrating her baldness with hannah i'm embracing it i'm embracing
my boss because this is what i haven't you have to work with what you have and i feel
like in a way that's what makes me unique. and different can each was diagnosed with
alopecia more than ten years ago the auto immune illness can cause total head loss and
affects one in every one hundred people it doesn't matter if you have hair of your don't
have air you see hannah is one part of a process of reconvening her confidence but getting
to the stage has been an uphill struggle in the beginning it was very painful to get the
needles in moscow but you get used to it after a while.
as i would get them once
a month the hair will grow back and then it was start to fall out again and then it will
grow back henna has been used as a natural type of body art for thousands of hears and
is often painted on paper for celebrations such as birthdays a weddings this has a crown.
is a symbol of her unique identity and she now wants inspire others from other patients
suffer of the cancer patients to do the same the american hair so c.h. and says four out
of ten had no supper as are women around seven million americans are also affected but little
research has been done to find out why.
society has forced women to suffer in silence it is considered far more acceptable for men
to go through the same hair loss process.
which.
you know.
usually.
it's very much
a rouge alopecia sufferers all cancer patients having chemotherapy in kata can turn ten knots
the head the artist is making baldness a thing of beauty to see how customers confidence
once they applied to him on her head she was taking filthy and she is sending all the oil
to her friends it's it's it's made me cry.
denise is the next step to where her new crown with pride at walk and challenge the stigma
a female baldness head all.
the more about a man the al-jazeera.
you're watching out is there are these are the top stories u.s. president all trump has
accused china of violating u.n. sanctions against north korea by not causing off oil
supplies to pyongyang u.s. treasury has released satellite images that appear to show chinese
ships
transferring call go to north korean vessels china denies the accusations.
by bear is election commission says former football star george where one the presidential
runoff where defeated vice president as a more takeover from ellen johnson sirleaf next
month.
at least fifteen people have been killed and dozens more injured in a fire in the indian
city of mumbai it happened late at night and a restaurant the fire spread quickly throughout
the four story building in an area popular with nightclubs. and in a new york apartment
fire twelve people have been killed including a one year old baby four others were critically
injured more than seven hundred seventy five fighters battled the blaze in the bronx neighborhood
and the cause of that blaze is unclear.
this is the worst fire tragedy we have seen in this city in at least a quarter century
because of f.d.r.
and was quick response based on the information we have now at least twelve people were rescued
and will survive but the.
search of the building continues.
so we know that even though it's horrible report that twelve are dead or are dead already
we may lose all of those as well the u.s. embassy in ankara says it's lifted all restrictions
on visa services ending a two month route between the u.s. and turkey is that all assurances
that local u.s. embassy staff won't be detained or arrested the u.s. stopped issuing visas
in turkey up to two members were detained in october at the consulate in istanbul and
apple is this is an online apology to customers after weeks of anger over intentionally slowing
down old i phones the tech giant says the slowdown is to preserve the life of degrading
batteries apple's now offering a discount for replacement batteries.
those are your headlines i'm back with
another full news bulletin head on al-jazeera that's after inside story.
in a country where parents often pick who you will marry falling in love can have serious
consequences one on one east meets the men risking their lives to protect india's young
lovers one east at this time on al-jazeera.
race to the red sea china israel you am the us are just a few of the countries building
already have bases in the region now turkey is the latest to that group so why the growing
interest in the red sea this is inside story.
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