The city. Every available inch of space has become a stage. In burundi, the president is expected to be sworn in later today. The inauguration ceremony follows his landslide victory in a disputed election marred by violence. Kathryn has reported extensively out of burundi and joins me live from the kenyan capital at nairobi. Despite four people being killed in the last few day, this inauguration is going ahead. People are expecting more violence. Absolutely. This inauguration is going ahead. This is very sudden. We knew that the president was going to be sworn in at some point before the 26th when the president ial time limit expires. It has happened suddenly. People are given good notice, the date is announced well in advance. Dignitaries, heads of state are invited. This has not happened. The people in burundi has saying it hasnt started yet, they are waiting for the president. The people are settling in. Hes going to be sworn in by the attorney general. Hes going to be witnessed by
And the. Im in the borneo forest, a hideout for alshabab fighters. Ill report on how the activities are affecting local communities. Hello. We start w worrying developments in korea. South korea fired shells into north korea, a calculated response to a rocket attacks by pyongyang. Lets go to harry fawcett, live in south Koreas Capital seoul. Why in the first place did north korea fire the rocket . North korea has been verbally attacking south korea for some days now about the use of loud speakers broadcasting antinorth korean rhetoric across the border into north korean territory, threatening that it would carry out a strike against the loud speakers unless they were taken down, now it appears thats what they attempted to do before 4 00p. M. Likal time on the korean peninsula, at least in south korea, and south Korean Military radars detected the strays from the north, pinpointed the source, and then South Koreans losing dozens much 155 millimetre shells in response. What has come out
This is al jazeera live from new york city and im tony harris and former president jimmy carter is getting radiation treatment this afternoon for cancer that has spread. The 90yearold spoke candidly about his illness earlier today at the Carter Center in atlanta. I just thought i had a few weeks left. But i was surprisingly at ease. Ive had a wonderful life, ive had thousands of friends and ive had an exciting and adventure existence and i was at ease, but not my wife. This is the god of my worship and i will be prepared for anything that comes. Wow, carter called his pain so far very slight. He also said it is still not clear exactly where the cancer began. The 39th president did not give a prognosis but said radiation treatments will continue for the next couple of months and earlier Randall Pinkston spoke to a medical doctor about carters diagnosis. President carter announced today he had a very slow growing malignant melanoma and with slowgrowing cancers is this insidious and years
Welcome to the programme. We start this hour with some breaking news. That is that reports are coming from both south korea and china suggesting that north korea may have carried out some sort of test. This follows seismologist picking up on some sort of explosion from the United Statess Geological Survey, they have picked up a magnitude 5. 6 tremor, im sorry, thatis magnitude 5. 6 tremor, im sorry, that is actually from the chinese authorities, from the us they have picked up also on tremor is. South korea saying the north may have conduct did another test, that is coming from the newsagency in south korea. We can speak now to Yogita Limaye tell us what we are hearing in the last few minutes. We have spoken to the south Korean Defence ministry who are saying they have detected the earthquake in the North Eastern pa rt the earthquake in the North Eastern part of north korea. They are still analysing to see whether it was triggered by any sort of explosion ora triggered by any sort of e
Have been in the 4. 5, 4. 6 range. You know, a couple of kilotonnes, which isa know, a couple of kilotonnes, which is a big explosion, but it is not a big nuclear explosion. Much smaller than the hiroshima weapon. So the second one looks like it may not have achieved what they wanted it to. But if the first one was a 6. 3, thatis to. But if the first one was a 6. 3, that is a big deal. And they will be barely going a week without hearing from north korea about some of their tests, what they can launch, last week launching and b cell overjapan. Launch, last week launching and b cell overjapan. We do you think this is all heading . I think we have to interpret this as being kim jong uns effort to try to build very quickly a Nuclear Capability before more serious sanctions are put on him. By the un Security Council. He is really going to be challenging china with this explosion is of the damage that was likely done in china. Korea is a granite underlying geology and that undoubtedly have