as prominent figures of the twentieth century and how why the reason influenced the course of history beginning with the giants of the struggle for civil rights the. resistance to evolve over. to oppress people look at me and continue to think that negroes. that's what you mean by malcolm x. and martin luther king preached to face at this time on al-jazeera. opening the door. to hold talks. for the first time.

also coming up. an early release for a controversial book about the u.s. president and the white house donald trump says it's. for the government in iran. set to meet to discuss a week of protests against economic problems. are hard or soft we'll look ahead to what's in store for the u.k. and. north korea has accepted the south's proposal for official talks on tuesday the meeting will be held in the demilitarized zone the area between the two countries earlier this week cross border communications between. reopened for the first time in two thousand and fifteen set to focus on north korean participation in next month's winter olympics in chiang. a research fellow. for

north korean studies joins us now live from seoul good to have you with us so the focus of these talks is supposed to be the winter olympics one of the chances of getting on the table. well coding to the museum of natural unification of south korean government the government to govern meetings will be focused on talking about the coach olympic games and quote unquote other issues of common interest how expensive the other issues of extra shoes of recovery interest might be or will be determined we have to wait and see why why this sudden turnaround from north korea do you think suddenly calling the hotline and offering this all of branch because of north korea is left with a south korea as only hope as an alternative to you know its financial resources because of the tough sanctions imposed by the united states and the

series of united nations security council resolutions north korea used to just simply skip south korea south korea has no place in direct talks with north korea ironically speaking because those sanctions have been working very effectively in squeezing and putting pressure on north korea move north korea needs to turn to south korea as the only hope is it also perhaps because the north is saying china is turning its back slightly on it facing in favor of new sanctions against oil imports for example. there is a concern that the improvement of dialogue which may lead to easing you know some of the economic cooperation programs between the two koreas may on their mind very effective in there so you can rick sanchez and me you know. make china

changes their attitude away from participating in the international effort to put pressure on north korea. so the u.s. isn't quite a tight spot here isn't it between the south koreans a tight spot between the u.s. and north korea how prepared is it to actually unilaterally in its dealings with north korea perhaps diverging from the official u.s. approach. here since unlike them when gentlemen the south korea is fair very aware that this is a trap trap set by north korea are you have to work walk into the trap in order to for us to use that dangerous tension on the north korean produce lower the risk of the actual war taking place and second by improving the entire korean relations and creating an atmosphere conducive to meaningful dialogue and negotiations eventually north korea and the united states are likely to agree to have

a direct talk on the new collusion issue because our you know say united states government has insisted there north korea first has to demonstrate genuine attitude there and it is really interested in you know easing tension and make a deal with the united states at least for sixty days here to restrain yourself from our taking provocations ok thank you very much for taking the time to join us there from cell. a new book exposing what's described as chaos behind the scenes and the white house has been released ahead of chateau trump's personal lawyers threatening legal action against the author of fire and fury writer paints a highly critical picture of life inside the oval office describing the president as mentally unfit for the job and estabrook has more. president donald trump's press secretary came out swinging thursday saying americans are more concerned about policy than a new book on the white house i don't think they really care about some trash that

an author that no one had ever heard of until today or a fired employee wants to peddle earlier attorneys for the president sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher and author demanding the book not be released they also threaten former white house strategist steve bannon with legal action for telling author michael wolff that donald trump jr was treasonous and unpatriotic for meeting with russians before the twenty sixteen presidential election after excerpts of the book were released wednesday and enraged president trump said of bannon when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind initially bannon fired off a tweet saying i won't speak about who lost their minds or ever had one but he later tweeted that the president was a great man that prompted president trump to downplay the vitriol at a white house meeting thursday don't really tell me a great man last night so you know you obviously changes tune pretty quick the book is a distraction for

a president who is trying to advance his policies in the face of a deepening special investigation into russia's meddling into the twenty sixteen presidential election author michael wolff says he spent eighteen months and conducted roughly two hundred interviews with president from senior staff during the transition and the first year of his administration in a column thursday wolf seems to question the president's mental fitness for office it used to be inside of thirty minutes he. for word and expression for expression the same three stories now it was within ten minutes the book is prompting speculation that the twenty fifth amendment to the constitution could be used to remove the president from office but former federal prosecutor melanie sloan says that he is unlikely to imagine the majority of the cabinet and the vice president of the united states actually sending a letter saying that the president of the united states is mentally incapacitated is very hard to imagine and there are many commentators who believe this could lead

to a constitutional crisis sions sloan says impeachment is a more likely scenario but with the congress still controlled by the president's own party that too seems unlikely at least for now dion estabrook al jazeera washington. journalist who interviewed steve bought in for this week's cover story and newsweek's magazine is out exeunt another ra and he says bond's involvement with the book burned his bridges with the current white house administration. he is terrified of what robert muller the special counsel is going to come up with and he is pointing to gerald question and downtime to new specifically in saying these guys are in real trouble he's sending out sort of almost flares maybe even messages to president trump saying these are the guys you better you have to include in your son there they could be in real real trouble why do that in

a book like this in such explosive language i don't know i don't think steve benen really worries about what he says i don't think he's out there to make friends to make money. he doesn't want the former and he has plenty of the latter i think this is for his ideas and his ideas are bigger than steve benen according to steve benen bigger even than donald trump so he's willing to burn any bridge in order to get where he needs where he believes he the country needs to go i think he is a dangerous enemy even more than he has a use for our i i don't think president trump can eliminate steve benen fully even if he will no longer embrace him the way he once did all the commotion over the new book on the trumpet ministrations diverted attention away from the president's recent policy pushes on thursday the attorney general reversed an obama era policy on marijuana it kept federal authorities from cracking down on the states where

recreational use of pot is legal the government also proposed new rules allowing small businesses and the self-employed to band together to buy health insurance it's another attempt to roll back obama's signature health care law trump is also moving to expand offshore oil drilling and any five year plan ninety percent of the nation's reserves would be opened up to private companies including waters off the california case which have been restricted for decades. as. protests. still ready to. at least twenty people have died. so. the size of these pro-government rallies is a message to iran's critics at home and abroad. iran's government has plenty of public support and is here to stay speaking to

a crowd in the northern city of mush even a political rival of iran's president in the last election said the predictions by foreign foes of an imminent overthrow of the government was a miscalculation. this crowd is glorious and meaningful when iranian people felt the footprint of the enemy they came to the scene and declared their hatred of america and all the arrogant power. in recent days would suggest that a majority of iranians are in favor of maintaining iran's way of government especially in the face of violent instability but they don't necessarily support president hassan rouhani policies the economic problems that sparked in the waning anti-government demonstrations in the first place are still a challenge for the rouhani administration. the main issue for the papal is currently inflation and the economy economic problems have resulted in corruption and moral issues in society economic stability is very important everyone who takes

office makes some promises but they can't fulfill. the recent protests because of high prices things shouldn't be so expensive that people have to cry out it was because officials didn't care about the people the cost of living is on the rise as unemployment and the economic boost drawn he promised with his reelection has yet to materialize despite the partial lifting of economic sanctions following the nuclear deal in two thousand and fifteen. government supporters are calling for all iranians to be a part of solving the country's problems. the government should adhere to its promises the promises talked about during the election and be accountable the whole country can help solve the economic and political problems here for now public support for the government appears to have ended a violent week of anti-establishment protests what comes next will depend largely on how iran's leaders deal with the country's economy and what even if they admit are the legitimate grievances of their own people. deborah. peru's former

president has been released from hospital he was pardoned last month by president petro pablo kaczynski because of poor health the decision triggered nationwide protests and led to the resignation of three cabinet ministers jim moret was serving a twenty five year sentence for corruption human rights abuses cheering his role. thousands of government workers in argentina protests in the capital against job cuts the layoffs are part of reforms by president create to reduce government debt and attract investors unions say at least one thousand two hundred federal employees have lost their jobs in the past month or so ahead here on al-jazeera find out why the world's leading tech companies are having a meltdown plus. i'm going hey in northern thailand home to many ethnic minority groups many people living in these hills who've lived here for generations but still can't officially call thailand home.

hello there we've got a really messy picture weather wise across europe at the moment take a look at the satellite picture we can see this whirling mass here this is a storm and there has expanded running up towards the northeast but behind it it certainly isn't draw i've got plenty of cloud plenty of rain in a couple of separate areas of low pressure will dancing around each other so plenty more in the way of wet weather as we head through the next few days as well plenty of rain over parts of the u.k. and then that stretches down through parts of spain and into portugal now this weather system pig actually edges its way eastwards and it is likely to give us some snow over some of the higher ground here from madrid though looks like it will see mostly rain and all temperature will get to around nine degrees all that unsettled weather still extends towards the northeastern parts of europe the exception really for all this unsettled weather is the southeast. and here it's

fine and dry fifteen degrees with no problems there in athens the bit further towards the south and you can see this weather system that we've got with us over the event a region that's giving some of us some very heavy rain could well it give a problem with some flooding or some landslides that clears through pretty quickly there and on saturday it does look drawing there instead on saturday we're going to see another weather system work its way into the northwest that's going to bring rain to many parts of morocco and probably some showers to rip.

current. again you're watching out of there as reminder of our top stories this hour north korea has accepted the south's proposal for official talks on choose say the first between the two countries into yaz will be held in the demilitarized zone set to focus on participation in next month's winter olympics and. a book on the white house administration has been released ahead of schedule despite an attempt by his lawyers to block it they have threatened legal action against former white house

advisor steve bannon. who describes the president as mentally unfit for the job. reports looking ahead to the big stories expected over the coming twelve months we travel to canterbury and european union says it wants albrecht negotiations to be completed by october there was much to be done correspondent barnaby phillips explains. all the busy holiday. towns deep to the glitch history and one which voted in favor of brics it by almost exactly the same percentage as the entire u.k. so a good place to find out what people think about it and whether to reason they can meet the challenges of twenty eight. she. didn't expect this. also.

i think the economy i think it's embarrassing. i think. yeah. just like the people of canterbury the governing conservative party and the opposition labor party are badly divided over. in twenty eighty the realities of what it means will become much more tangible a prime minister to resign may and labor leaders. will struggle to hold their parties together. the prime minister faces a dilemma does she choose a so-called soft breaks it that keeps britain closely aligned to the e.u. to minimise economic disruption. or does she choose a hard breaks it bore divergence from europe both freedom for britain to make its

own decisions but also a risk that it becomes a poorer more isolated country. is seen by his supporters as the prime minister in waiting but he too has dodged the most difficult decisions on bracks it if he wants to lead the country labor's ambiguous some say confused position will have to become much clearer in twenty eighteen. scottish nationalists and their leader nicholas sturgeon had a disappointing twenty seventeen support for independents dropping but if bracks it talks flounder they will sense opportunity so which way will the political winds blow for the future of the united kingdom and not just its leading politicians a crucial year to be phillip's al-jazeera countering. well our next report in the series is from a crowded refugee camp in bangladesh that is now home to hundreds of thousands of

writing two thousand and eighteen could see some returning to neighboring miramar under a volunteer repatriation plan you can see that story here on al-jazeera on saturday . save the children says thousands of pregnant women and new mothers in ranger refugee camps in bangladesh are in urgent need of care aid organizations as it expects as many as forty eight thousand babies to be born in the camps in twenty eighteen that's more than one hundred thirty women a day giving birth often in unsanitary conditions and without adequate medical help there are now more than eight hundred fifty thousand range refugees in bangladesh it's estimated that sixty percent of children and almost five percent of pregnant women. ok is conflict and humanitarian advocacy advisor at save the children he says there are limits to what age agencies can do. it is six hundred fifty thousand refugees who came over in the space of just a couple of months into an area that wasn't really prepared to accept them in terms

of the conditions the size of these camps the sheer scale of it is like nothing i've witnessed was work as an aid worker and there's huge issues now there in these camps and just the die a living conditions that agencies like save the children are trying shore these vulnerable women vulnerable children dying perish from completely preventable causes there's just so many people who are desperate and completely in need of humanitarian support and there is only so much that agencies can do to to meet those needs and in fact on my last day in the camps just before i came home we had a very young child probably the smallest baby ever seen coming to one of our health centers a boy in by on and she'd been born prematurely. about three hundred meters away from the health center in and literally under bamboo on the top all in and it was already too late and you know we were able to rescue that child and they perished

and unfortunately that was a real him home is tragic you know when you're working on these responses that actually there's only so much you can do and the die situation now is that even the children who do survive those who are born who are healthy the conditions are so bad that there's a real very large chance you know they'll be set for disease to mount a tradition and that they might not reach their fifth birthday. at least four hundred thousand people in thailand are considered stateless with no rights to system except the actual number could be more than three million many a members of ethnic minorities living in border areas and as wayne a reports from a tongue it's a problem the thai government wants to resolve by twenty twenty four. in the hills of northern thailand there are millions of people whose lives have been hanging in the balance for years people in this village in chiang mai province belong to the ethnic group whose ancestors migrated around the region centuries ago facing

persecution along the way. those living here now have been in thailand for generations but many still don't have type paperwork the village chief says he was the last person here to be granted citizenship sixteen years ago. and in the past i only had a car that identified me as a highlander but now i have a tiny nationality car i'm very happy when i have money i can buy everything i want i can buy a house a car i'm glad those things remain a dream for so many others like hmong tong d who was born in thailand to parents from me and my eight years ago he won a paper plane throwing competition and was granted a temporary passport to represent thailand at a competition in japan the government at the time promised he would be granted permanent status upon his return he's now twenty and is still stateless he works part time in a drone shop and teaches stateless children how to fly them. i feel very sad

because people promised they would give me time nationality they were senior people and had promised me when i was just a little boy but they broke their promise. last year the military government valid to grant time nationality to another eighty thousand people but that would still leave hundreds of thousands if not more waiting there are many challenges facing stateless people in thailand they have to ask for permission before leaving their village they have difficulty accessing proper education or employment and can often become victims of corrupt government officials trying to take advantage of their vulnerability. in fact in the last few years many people have had their id cards revoked after it was found they had paid bribes for them at this small government office alone four thousand corrupt cases were uncovered the government sent in more staff to resolve the problems but those in charge say the workload is huge. this is a very delicate job and it can slide into corruption we have to be careful that's

why we can only process two nationality cases per day. for people waiting it's not just a case of having an id card it's a matter of dignity pride and a sense of belonging after generations of uncertainty when hey al jazeera made ten district thailand's. at least eighteen people have been killed in a train crash in south africa two hundred have been injured it happens near the city of couldn't stand the train was traveling from perth to johannesburg when a truck collides with the first two carriages causing them to deal. the truck driver miscalculation the train speeds and try to dash across the tracks. large parts of the eastern u.s. are in the grips of a historic winter storm system called a bomb in. the areas that will see the worst of the record breaking low temperatures and national weather service says heavy snow hurricane force winds and tidal flooding are expected until late friday when the storm moves towards canada.

where there's cause travel chaos with thousands of flights canceled and even many travelers stranded at airports there are reports from new york. a large chunk of north america was already in a deep freeze now the northeast coast is being hit particularly hard from a winter blizzard massachusetts bearing the brunt of it blowing snow near white out conditions along the coastal regions of the state there was flooding. in the seaside town of scituate massachusetts boats were seen floating in icy waters all of the northeast of the u.s. was hit with what meteorologists were loosely calling a snow hurricane it closed many schools and government offices in new york heavy snow and particularly high winds nearly brought the city to a halt and by afternoon most businesses had closed up for the day the mayor declared a winter storm emergency and has to residents to stay indoors. this is

a serious serious storm a tween the very low temperature the strong winds the driving snow everyone should take this one very seriously and take precautions that conditions brought airports to a standstill thousands of flights canceled in the northeast leaving travelers either queuing up to rebook or stranded unsure of when they might be able to fly appetite was canceled and we never got any information that they would be canceled. or delayed and we're not sure it would be on the plan to see further south in georgia water bottles were no match for the cold the rare sight where temperatures this low are highly unusual this is the first time five years have seen snow even cold an ice is much safer but back up in the northeast the situation could get worse over night and governor of massachusetts hit hard when the temperatures now expected to

dip down again to minus twenty degrees celsius and below there seems little chance of much melting away gabriels on dough in new york. that's tech firms have admitted to a serious floor in chips that could expose sets of information from millions of computers services and small files around the wild experts are now scrambling to fix the issue before they become vulnerable to hackers or pop forms are at risk including apple and microsoft reports. the world's biggest technology companies are scrambling to fix critical cyber security flaws that could compromise every computer smartphone and server sold in the past twenty years packer's if they are able to install some malicious software on a computer and then go the extra step to take advantage of this problem they can access some really sensitive information including passwords encryption keys that

let them access even more sensitive data security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in computer chips used in nearly all devices the flaws dubbed specter and meltdown by security experts would allow intruders to steal any data on the systems companies involved including apple microsoft and google the flawed chips are made by intel a r m a m d google's project zero security team said it found the flaws some time last year the company announced details of how it is working to protect users of google cloud and android devices it says a new version of the chrome browser debuting later this month will include fixes microsoft is also developed an emergency patch that will automatically be applied to all devices running on windows ten apple has not publicly disclosed any fixes for its operating systems those patches will address the meltdown bug but they

could significantly slow down device performance in some cases by as much as thirty percent if i have news for if you've got no device it'll become more vulnerable. because if you got a new device it may slow down if it's a government chip and saw it the other flaw specter is harder to fix and will ultimately require a redesign of the chips themselves rob reynolds los angeles. within with al-jazeera this saga top stories north korea has accepted the south proposal for official talks on tuesday the first between the countries in two years to be to be held in the demilitarized zone set to focus on participation in next month's winter olympics in china a book on donald trump's white house administration has been released ahead of

schedule despite an attempt by his lawyers to block it they have threatened legal action against former white house adviser steve bannon and the author who describes the president as mentally unfit for the job. it's just graceful and laughable if you was unfit he probably wouldn't be sitting there and wouldn't have defeated the most qualified group of candidates the republican party has ever seen pro-government rallies have taken place throughout a run in office issued an arrest in the country over economic instability the iranian government says that outside enemies have failed to pose a threat to iran at the end of this edition. of three meeting on friday to discuss the antigovernment protests peru's former president alberto fujimori has been released from hospital he was pardoned last month by president petro popular kaczynski because of poor health and cision triggered nationwide protests and led

to the resignation of three cabinet ministers pretty boy was serving a twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights abuses during his rule . thousands of government workers in argentina have protested in the capital against job cuts the layoffs appalls of reforms by president create to reduce government debt and attract investors say at least one thousand two hundred federal employees have lost their jobs in the pos month. of northeastern u.s. and some catheter in the grip of a winter storm called a bombsite plane. has declared a weather emergency with forecasters predicting up to twenty five centimeters of snow fall and extreme weather has forced schools and offices to close and left many travelers stranded in the u.s. . those are your headlines and back with another full of news here on inside al jazeera inside story.

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