Destruction from the bomb was massive. Shock waves, radiation and heat rays took the lives of some 140,000 people. Three days later, the u. S. Dropped a second atomic bomb on the japanese city of nagasaki, killing another 74,000 people. Today, tens of thousands gathered in hiroshima to remember. [bells toll] amy today, in a rare extended interview, well go to tokyo to speak with acclaimed japanese novelist and winner of the 1994 nobel prize for literature kenzaburo oe. Now 80 years old, he is one of japans most respected intellectuals and humanitarians. If mr. Obama were to come to the Memorial Ceremony, what he could do is come together with the survivors ensure that moment of silence and also express considering the issue of Nuclear Weapons from the humanity and how important Nuclear Abolition is from that perspective, think would be the most important thing and the most important thing that any policy or representative could do at this time. Amy then well go from the target to the b
Fully back to watching aljazeera live from doha also ahead tensions grow between kurdish authorities and the Iraqi Government after last months disputed secession referendum. Spain celebrates its national day i made a deepening political crisis over the future of the catalonia region. And demonstrations in kenya as crisis talks continue over whether or not they will be a rerun of the president ial election. Thank you for joining us the palestinian faction hamas says its reach a deal on political reconciliation with fatah a move that could signal an end to a decade long divide between the two groups hamas and fatah have been meeting in egypt and capital cairo to disk. At the formation of a National Unity government. Brokered by egypt started on to sleep live to aljazeera as harry foster who is in ramallah for us in the occupied west bank harry it seems they delayed the press conference we were expecting out of cairo on the details out this agreement what do we know they have agreed on e
Alarms all rommany watching aljazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up new hope that a decade long dispute has come to an end rival palestinian factions hamas and fatah signed a reconciliation deal. The kenyan government bans protests as it decides what will happen next to its president ial rerun. Also spain celebrates its national day as the political crisis deepens over the future of the region of catalonia. Out of the u. S. And the United States has sent a notice to unesco saying it will withdraw from the key u. N. Cultural agency says americas decision to end its. The ship is a loss to the u. N. Family and multilateralism and the u. S. State Department Says washington is concerned with mounting costs lack of reforms that has accused the organization of anti israel bias the paris based cultural scientific and Educational Organization was established after World War Two for more on this lets go straight over to mike hanna whos in new york how much of a blow is this to
Too high we can. Wait a while we can actually and theyre actually and globally so we got this question here we have just about thirty seconds left but. What percentage of people you interviewed use religion as a reason to continue the practice so totally. Cultured with actually much much time going to listen because like you could see from the phone there is more than isnt that said that this was this is acceptable and its just its just a culture with mainly mention and i also want to emphasize that this is not an african problem its a global problem even if. Its a global its a global issue and its important to remember its not just an african problem. Is a generous shes also in al jazeera correspondent sara as you should watch this film its remarkable the cut exploding f. D. M. You can watch it online right now at aljazeera dot com thank you so much for watching this episode of the league and i will see you on live as always. In the heart of the amazon the libyan family has put their
Better quality of life. So we really started expanding our perspective on what we were trying to accomplish here. Woodruff and, its friday. David brooks and ruth marcus take on a week full of foreign tests for the Trump Administration. All that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff it was the most highly anticipated meeting yet of the trump presidency. For the First Time Since he took office, mr. Trump was faceto face with his russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. On the agenda . Syria, north korea, and moscows meddling in the 2016 election,