Is aljazeera. Watching the news from our headquarters here in sixty minutes of news and comment today. A critical meeting gets underway in south africa as the African National Congress Prepares to choose a new leader. Protesters in israel tomorrow and the Prime Ministers resignation. A china south korea summit comes to an end but it isnt exactly smiles all round. Also this hour well tell you why the trumpet ministration has ordered scientists to stop talking about science. Lets get going we stop. In south africa where president jacob zuma has made an urgent plea for the governing party to unite as members gather to select a new leader mr zuma whos facing a raft of corruption allegations is stepping down as head of the African National congress the vote to replace symbol take place on sunday but in the build up to that the party has been riven by deep factional battles tanya page now from johannesburg. The conference started with two warnings dont to saying divisive songs and to keep th
Australia. Im Richelle Carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. Worldwide outrage grows against the us decision to recognize treason as the capital of israel tens of thousands converge and then youre going to see an entire nation. Decision day for the a. N. C. South africas ruling party prepares to choose a successor to president jacob zuma. And a billionaire a palestinian businessman arrested in saudi arabia is released he was detained as part of the state anticorruption campaign. Place in australia have charged a man they say was a loyal agent for north korea who tried to sell missile components and coal on the global black market australian resident Shanahan Choi was arrested and sydney after allegedly trying to make sales on behalf of pyongyang worth millions of dollars or koreas cash flow has been severely restricted under un sanctions aimed at pressuring the government to stop its Missile Program australian Prime Minister says north korea is trying to support itsel
This is the news live from doha coming up in the program a Suicide Attack at a church in pakistan leaves at least eight people dead. Outrage continues against president trumps Jerusalem Decision tens of thousands converge on the American Embassy in indonesia. Decision day for the south africas ruling party prepares to choose a successor to president jacob zuma plus. Im going hey in the vietnamese capital hanoi will tell you why motorbikes could soon be disappearing from the citys streets. We begin with breaking news from southwest pakistan where gunmen have attacked a sunday Church Service killing at least eight people and injuring dozens of others to attack has detonated a bomb and then opened fire on worshippers and joins us live from islamabad what do you know about this why did this happen. Well as you mentioned the. Dog ate they were to attack a board which jack cage however it was a timely action of the Security Guard spread and inside. To at least one of the attack and add to ga
Again, good morning and welcome to the fifth annual United Statesjapankorea trilateral symposium organized by International Student conferences and generously sponsored by Sasakawa Peace foundation usa and the Korea Foundation. We thank you all for joining us on this cold and blustery day as impacted hopefully other parts of the east coast more than us but we know it wasnt the easiest commute this morning. For those of you that i follow us and paying attention today on social media we like to point out that we have greater a hashtag for todays conference and that is hashtag isctrilat. For those of you not following on instream and twitter that at so my name is Alexander Evans and i will be your master of ceremonies for todays event and i currently work as the research and Program Coordinator at the center for east Asian Studies within Johns Hopkins. The preps perhaps more portly r todays event i am a lump of the 63rd japan america student conference back in 2011. I think in a lot of wa
Are at isctrilat d. C. So my name is Alexander Evans and of the your master for todays event and i currently work as the research and Program Coordinator at the center for east Asian Studies within Johns Hopkins sais. Perhaps more important for todays event i am an alum of the 63rd japanamerican student conference back in 2011. I think in a lot of ways it was bad experience that really continued to motivate me to study japan put you on the path that i am in the creek of that experience. Particularly given that it was right after the march 11 triple disaster, an opportunity when japan was not open to many students to be able to go in and have persontoperson exchange with something that i would say it may sound corny but i changed my life. And so before we get started today will have a couple introductory marks so i would first like to introduce ms. Linda butcher, secular director of isc. Prior to this role she served as a director of Media Relations and Public Affairs at the current Eco