and bring photography to the. story of. the city. government supporters and iran rally for a third day opposition protests. hello there. there are live from doha also coming up. opening the door to

diplomacy north and south korea agreed to hold talks for the first time in more than two years. an early release for a controversial book about the u.s. president which suggests close connections between the trumpet ministration and saudi arabia's crown prince. disappointed by the us to spend millions in the. supporters of a wrong government to rally following friday prayers and demonstrating for a third day across the country against a week of unrest opposition supporters have been protesting over economic instability the iranian revolutionary guard says that outside enemies have failed to pose a threat. he does live now from the capsule tehran just how big are these pro government rallies. connection to

try to get him back. in the program. now after two years of silence north korea and south korea are set to hold talks cheers as negotiations will initially focus on the north's participation in the winter olympics in the south next month but souls that scotland's are expected to move on to other areas of common interest reports from seoul in a few days the truce village of panmunjom on the demilitarized zone that separates north and south korea will be a hive of activity representatives from the two countries will hold high level talks here for the first time in more than two years earlier this week north korean leader kim jong il to dialogue in his new year's day address four days later his government agreed to hold talks the announcement came just hours after the u.s. and south korea agreed to postpone annual military drills for the end of february

these have long been regarded as provocative by pyongyang. leaders agreed not to conduct south korea yes joint. and to do their best to ensure the security of the olympics. next week's discussions will center on north korea's participation in the upcoming winter olympics as well as generally improving into korea relations. but officials here in south korea are also hoping the negotiations will eventually lead to north korea returning to international talks on its nuclear program even so president when jay and it's cautiously optimistic saying we should refrain from making premature judgement expectation. the japanese defense minister also sounded a lot of caution but successful. north korea goes through phases of apparent dialogue and provocations but either way north korea is continuing its nuclear and missile development we have no intention of weakening our warning and surveillance

. it is new year's day speech said north korea would meditate its nuclear weapons program and even called for the mass production the deployment of nuclear warheads it sounds from the conservative perspective in north korea trying to buy time the majority seems to believe the north korea is trying to finalize its technical development to to achieve operational i.c.b.m. so you know as us the cia has announced before they are talking about two three month time in terms of finalizing the i.c.b.m. system and it looks like this is a perfect action on their side you know to buy time. last year north korea test fired three intercontinental ballistic missiles or i.c.b.m.'s including one that it's capable of reaching the u.s. made me really hope the upcoming talks will be the best option for now of deescalate the crisis on the korean peninsula largely al jazeera so.

ok west top story a first day of pro-government rallies and a ron same bus ravi joins us from the caps so ron say just how big are these rallies. well this is several days running now it's almost a matter of routine seeing street movements like this now these rallies in the last two or three days have been in support of the government's pro establishment rallies very large a number larger than the anti-government demonstrations we've seen in the previous week and today was kind of a perfect day for it it's the weekend post friday prayers the expectation was that the crowds would be large and would come out to show their faith in the current government here in iran now there have been unconfirmed reports ongoing over the last several days of anti-government demonstrations continuing all these and small overnight and those remain and verified but there still is discontent among some

people with regards to the economy but be that as it may be running leadership holding these large rallies in cities across the country several days running now to reflect the fact that they do enjoy a great deal of public support and that anyone observing either within the country or outside the country should be aware of the fact that they're not going anywhere anytime soon ok and meanwhile the u.s. has gone ahead with imposing mole sanctions ever on tell us about the. well yes there are five entities five companies that are associated with producing materials for iran's missile program according to the us treasury and they have been to the appropriate place sanctions on those five entities and really here in iran it will be seen as an extension of an ongoing effort by the united states to place pressure on iranian people iranian business as we've seen this with the travel ban we've seen this with american opposition to the nuclear deal and. the

latent or the economic benefits that would have come from that you're not bearing fruit here in iran and that kind of pressure being placed on people hoping that that eventually inserts into pressure on the government but iranians are very accustomed to all kinds of u.s. pressures and so this is likely to be seen as par for the course here in iran ok joining us live from tehran thanks from our side. now a new book exposing what's described as chaos behind the scenes at the white house has been released ahead of schedule donald trump's personal lawyer is threatening legal action against the publisher and former white house advisor steve bannon the book paints a highly critical picture of life inside the oval office describing the president as mentally unfit for the job that estabrook reports from washington. president donald trump's press secretary came out swinging thursday saying americans are more concerned about policy then 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 ban and 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 call me great madeleine aside so you know you obviously changes to 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'd repeat word 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. already 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 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. another revelation in the book is donald trump's close connections to saudi arabia with its crown prince mohammed bin salmond. chump told close friends we've put. on top of. the political rival in june and became the next in line to the throne and the decades of custom within the royal family. is a professor of conflict resolution of george mason university he says the book reveals trumps foreign policy approach in the middle east. this is a research document based on several schools of interviews with people inside the

white house or around trump explained to some extent how trump managed to influence the decision of man and i think it goes back to the period between mohamed bin cinnamon's visit to the white house in march and the summit. attended on may twenty second twenty and twenty first apparently he was nobody in in the to have a powerful man and he was basically grooming mohammedanism and this goes well with his own political philosophy he wants to deal with individuals not institutions not government so it's a one to one and for some reason he favored them and i think what trump did was part b. to a previous plan. remember back in early two thousand and seventeen man was positioning himself as an influential leader and he managed to climb the ladder

from the pretty crown prince to crown prince so i think trump saw somebody who has the right influence and also who put the saudi relations in a higher dimension. pakistan says disappointed with the u.s. decision to suspend millions of dollars in military assistance washington claims as failing to take action against taliban fighters targeting u.s. troops in afghanistan on monday president donald trump tweeted that the u.s. and british to give in pakistan billions of dollars in aid with nothing in return but lies and deceit pakistan has rejected the accusation. you know there is a partnership which is called start cooperative partnership with china we are building everything from the fire gloria graf to the sea pick to the major investment of sixty billion dollars that john is making in pakistan there it's

everything is happening on the basis of partnership but been pakistan and china so basically this strategic direction has already shifted from washington to be doing just that there is certain mindset still in islam that maybe we still need to be connected with washington and maybe at a limited level so once as the time goes by and if the us sanctions going to new i think. the united states might lose pakistan for a long time to come still has hair on al-jazeera overcrowded and broken and we look at haiti's huge challenge to reform its justice system plus. going going gone the final acts and take cues famous fish market.

however we've got some dry a clear weather coming into japan over the next couple days it will be pretty cold having said that the cloud is in the process of pulling away into the open waters of the northwest pacific securest guys coming in behind with some crisp sunshine to take you around nine degrees celsius just a few wintry flowers still possible for a time over the high ground they should diminish as we go on through sunday ten celsius left by this day little cloud just easing its way and they will help to not to temperatures up getting up to the highs of three degrees there in seoul as a result of that increasing plastic a fair amount of cloud so into southern parts of china with some heavy rain a little bit of snow into those central areas shanghai dry and fine for sas day but the rain does push back in as we go on into sunday the southeastern corner of this state really seeing some very very heavy downpours that could be some localized flooding hong kong not averse to seeing some of that wet weather also pushing its

way through showers to across a good part of southeast asia no change here they change a suspect will be that it is not going to call ices wet across the malaysian peninsula as it has been recently the heavier rain is in the process of easing a little further east was shipped a little dry with us sunshine than the showers on sunday for the philippines and on into next week. explores prominent figures of the twentieth century. influenced the course of history. the struggle. to free the.

top stories this hour supporters of iran's government have taken to the streets. demonstrating for a third day across the country against a week of on the arrest opposition supporters have been protesting over economic instability. north korea has accepted proposal for official talks on the first in two years the meeting will be held in the demilitarized zone set to focus on next month's winter olympics. and a new book on the trunk administration is revealing the u.s. president's close relationship with saudi arabia and its crown prince. told close

friends we've put on top of mohamed bin solid became the next in line to the throne . says it was behind an explosion in the afghan capital kabul that killed at least twenty people a suicide bomb dogs and security. operation against illegal drug and alcohol sales have previously claimed responsibility for three suicide attacks in kabul in december that kills. always happily and carrying tourists in southern egypt has crashed state media has confirmed that one american tourist has been killed and seven all the foreigners have been injured it happened just outside the city of luxor. samba has launched a major military operation to clamp down on a cholera outbreak has killed more than fifty people in just over three months the u.n. has led to support providing two million vaccines and beds for one thousand six hundred people victoria case b. has more. extreme measures to contain

a national health crisis this is the barricade in zambia's capital lusaka street sellers pitching in to help the military close off one of the city's crowded marketplaces that have become a breeding ground for cholera before the unsettling season there were this petition ready to terminate but he called it in season is getting. deeper into a period where there will be crowded waters in several places where government decided to mediate discredited air force one thirteen defeated the outbreak began at the end of september with bacteria showing off shallow wells in two densely populated areas on the outskirts of. the wells were filled in but not before the disease spread to the city moved in two thousand people have been infected in just over three months color is a bacterial disease usually spread through contaminated water that preys on the most vulnerable the frail and weak but even the healthy are at risk left untreated

it can kill with an ounce with the backing of the un zambia has launched a color a vaccination campaign set up treatment centers and closed off some public spaces. it's gatherings in the. areas. and lists as has been provided by. the command center and not. the reason i'm not allowed public. the ban extends to schools due to resume classes this week and two restaurants where health workers are found contaminated. the government says it's confident the outbreak can be contained within the next few weeks but spreading the message of proper hygiene and sanitation may take longer to . save the children says thousands of pregnant ranger women

and new mothers need urgent care in bangladesh aid organizations says expects as many as forty eight thousand babies being born in refugee camps this year as 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 are children and almost five percent a pregnant women. ok is a complex and humanitarian because the advisor at save the children he says there are limits to what aid agencies can. 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 it is 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 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 by on and she'd been born prematurely. about three hundred meters away from the health center in and literally on the bamboo on the top all in and it was already too late and you know we were unable to 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. peru's former president alberto fujimori has been released from hospital he was pardoned last month by president had to a public because of poor health incision triggered a nationwide protests and led to the resignation of three cabinet ministers fujimori was serving a twenty five year sentence for corruption human rights abuses during his rule. haiti has some of the most overcrowded prisons in the world human rights groups say around eleven thousand inmates live and humane conditions is just one of the many problems being addressed by a new u.n. mission to the country. that has been trying to find his brother for more than a week he visited more explicit patients and has just been notified that he's being

held here at the port au prince national penitentiary. when. the police arrested my brother and he was not part of a gang and they took him away and we're looking for him he was sowing water on the street. counts of relatives visiting the prison highlight the problems the justice system here is facing we were just inside the prison and we were not allowed to film it is overcrowded and people are living in dire conditions all the . video obtained by the associated press use agency last february shows what life is like inside malnourished inmates barely surviving in prison cells overcrowding is one of the highest in the world at more than three hundred and fifty percent of over eleven thousand prisoners eight thousand are detainees awaiting trial. united nations peacekeeping troops left haiti two months ago the u.n.

mission is now fully focused on improving the justice system. that we met the un representative in port au prince who says the task ahead is an enormous challenge we have started trying already to work in local. tribunals of premier installs and help them with the people who have been in prolonged pretrial detention for the longest period of time to actually appear before a judge. and it's not just what's happening in the prisons but also the conduct of . security forces. a police operation last month in the grand ravine area of port au prince left at least nine people dead some inside a school the victims included a professor and an armed security guard among others human rights groups fear an increase in abuses and they need to confront impunity they need to hold people to account even high level high ranking people so that there isn't an abuse of the law

like overcrowded prisons allegations of police abuse as well as massive corruption are some of the biggest challenges for the next few years the question is whether haiti's government leaders and the new u.n. mission can succeed in reforming a system that urgently needs to change. port au prince haiti. large parts of the eastern u.s. are in the grips of a historic winter storm system called a bombsite plane this map shows the areas that will see the worst of the record low temperatures the national weather service says heavy snow hurricane force winds i am tired of flooding expected until late friday when the storm moves towards canada and the extreme weather has caused travel chaos with thousands of flights canceled under 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 made out conditions along the coastal regions of the state there was icy 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 anytime soon further south in georgia water thousands were no match for the cold the rare sight where temperatures this low are highly unusual this is the first time. i've seen so cold in ice the switch. but back up in the northeast the situation could get worse overnight the governor of massachusetts saying friday likely won't be any better a foot of snow wasn't enough the forecast predicts single digit temperatures to move in on friday a storm that 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. new york. now japan is insisting it will not agree any changes to a compensation deal for so-called comfort women that agreed with south korea during world war two thousands of south korean women were forced to work and japanese brothels under the two thousand and fifteen agreement take you apologized and said it would provide eight point eight million dollars in compensation sol now says the deal is flawed. this is a promise to the international community has got therefore the japanese government as previously stated is not considering to move one millimeter on this japanese korean deal now says he lovers this story is for you take years world famous fish market has at its last auction and its historic site and a prized bluefin tuna fish more than three hundred twenty thousand dollars had a hoax or has more. they get taken allegedly stroll down

a supermarket aisle this is how competitive shoppers buy. auction house in downtown tokyo is the world's largest fish market where tourists mix with michelin starred chefs hoping to relearn a worthy catch all of. this shoppers snag a prize attraction pain over three hundred twenty thousand dollars for a four hundred five kilos premium pacific bluefin tuna this big fish was paraded through the market not an easy task considering where you see equivalent of a grand piano this market has been here for over eighty years and it's expected to close its doors and move to a different site as part of the city's redevelopment of the twenty twenty and pick ups some say that's the reason for this year's high prices but if there was an air of excitement of the auction i'm expected to fish market will grow livelier as the year goes on although i feel some concern for the markets relocation i'd like to

enjoy the moment too. despite the excitement here activist a warning bluefin tuna numbers are dwindling there is an international push to have the fish registered as an endangered species the japanese government wants pino regulations on pacific bluefin for fishermen who exceed the sec quota. it's hoped these new international controls will help the bluefin tuna numbers saw to record levels in fifteen years' time and as this take a landmark gets ready to move to a different site two kilometers away on a manmade island the traders here hope their good fortunes continue hannah hawkster algis there. this is out there these are the top stories. supporters of iran's government are rallying after friday prayers demonstrating for a third day across the country against a week of unrest opposition supporters have been protesting over economics to build

instability in north korea has accepted south korea's proposal for official talks on choose say the first in two years the meeting will be held in the demilitarized zone set to focus on next month's winter olympics in. a book on donald trump's white house is being released ahead of schedule that's despite chance lawyers threatening legal action against former white house advisor steve 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. or another revelation in the book is donald trump's close relationship with saudi arabia and its crown prince suggest told close friends we've put our man on top and borrowed been salman became the next in line to the throne in. pakistan says it's disappointed with the u.s.

decision to suspend aid for security and has been blamed for failing to take action against taliban fighters targeting u.s. troops in afghanistan on monday donald trump tweeted that washington had previously given back billions of dollars in aid with nothing in return but lies and deceit pakistan has rejected the accusations i saw says it was behind an explosion in the afghan capital kabul that killed at least twenty people in the suicide bomb dogs as security personnel carrying out an operation against illegal drug and alcohol sales i saw that previously claimed responsibility for three suicide attacks in kabul in december that killed dozens. northeastern u.s. and in the grip of a historic winter storm called a bomb in new york's mayor has declared a weather emergency with forecasters predicting up to twenty five centimeters of snow extreme weather has forced schools and offices to close and many travelers

stranded and. news continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story. threatens to cut off financial aid to the palestinian authority and of palestinian officials and islamabad how strongly push back against the u.s. president so what's behind. this is inside story.