tradition to a story as feel weaker this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know it's very challenging we believe but to feel because you will get people that are devoid of political. realities of people belief to tell the real story so i'll just mend it is to do the work individualism we don't feel inferior. because to look. north korea says it will send a team to next month's winter olympics in south korea as the rival neighbors meet for the first formal talks in more than two years. low this is al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha fully back also ahead french president emmanuel mccoy is in beijing on a state visit ways pushing for

a more balanced access into the chinese market china braces to prevent environmental disaster is feared an oil tanker which has been on fire for three days may explode and sink and we meet the nigerian migrants forced to return home from libya who aren't giving up their dreams to get to europe. north and south korea have been holding their first official meeting in more than two years with a few diplomatic breakthroughs kyung young says it will send a high level delegation to next month's winter olympics in the south seoul is considering temporarily lifting sanctions against north korea and has proposed military talks it also wants every union of thousands of families that were separated after the korean war senior officials from both sides met at the demilitarized zone in on one john on the border now people from both sides of the

borders say they are optimistic about the talks. and you know every korean really wants relations between the north and the salty prove it's origin it's an important thing that the whole nation should solve by coming together anything that provokes either side to creates obstacles to enough occasion should completely stop. and i think that the winter olympics which will take place in south korea are a good chance to show the world a good image of our nation since i'm korean it's natural for me to want to congratulate my fellow koreans for this happy event and i hope that our fleets from the north and south can do well and be successful in doing on the morning i came here to see north korean people and how they live today i hope the talks today go well and it will be a good opportunity to find a win win situation for both countries. let's speak to kathy novak our correspondent in seoul kathy tell us more first about who was in today's meeting and how much of a breakthrough is this. well there you have the point people from either

side of the border when it comes to enter korean relations so from the south korean side the unification minister and then his north korean counterpart their deputies and then other representatives for sports culture and the olympics five members on either side so it was significant that they were sitting down and talking at all as you said it's been more than two years since any formal talks in almost as long since there were any unofficial talks between north and south korea there is a hotline at the border that is used to make phone calls from the south to the north and vice versa south korea had been calling the north for months and months with no answers so as you heard there it is being seen as a positive sign from residents here that these men are sitting down for talks and that they were able to come to an agreement for north korea to send a delegation here to south korea for the winter olympics yeah the winter olympics

kathy is a platform for these talks but is there any hope they could be expanded to other issues like north korea's missile program and the u.n. sanctions. well i think in the short term it's hoped that the tensions here on the peninsula will be diffused precisely because north korea has agreed to visit south korea for the olympics monday and the president of south korea has long been calling for them to become the peace olympics and to have this show of peace and unity with north korea in pyong china going forward though there is hope that there will be more talks on the possibility of those family reunions for separated families on the possibility for military talks to defuse tensions at the border and then broadly to talk about denuclearization that of course is the elephant in the room south korea says it did mention denuclearization at the talks today with not much response from the north and what countries such as the united

states and japan want to see is a serious discussion on north korea giving up and scaling back its missile and nuclear weapons testing but so far north korea has shown no signs of willing to do that so that's the fear of skeptics that this talks may be a small step towards progress but not go far enough to resolving the bigger problems here for the thank you for that kathy novak in seoul for us where they've been several rounds of talks since north korea's leader kim jong un came to power in twenty thirteen after pyongyang unilaterally scrapped a non-aggression pact with seoul and pulled its workers from a joint industrial complex delegates met several times to reopen the case on industrial sites a symbol of corporation between the two countries in february twenty fourth both sides met again to discuss family reunions hundreds of families separated by the korean war met for the first time in decades in october that yap young young sent senior officials to the closing ceremony of the asian games in south korea many not

just twenty fifteen talks were held again in which north korea expressed regret for a land mine attack south korea agreed to hold on top young young broadcasts the law . strand of dialogue was held in december of that year neither side failed to reach an agreement o.b.j. came is an adjunct professor at hancock university of foreign studies he says he is not surprised by surprised by north korea's overtures in the wake of his missile tests this is their time for peace offense they are finalizing their nuclear weapons and right now they want to buy time perhaps. at the opening statement by the head of the delegation from the north this morning he said we have to find ways out of overall situation because people want it and i thought their statement was quite interesting because he's talking of people in north in the north korea they don't have democracy so they don't care about people's will and what they mean is

they want to play the south korean public opinion here and they said people wanted so we need the results here and this and the head of delegation even offered to make the talk open to the public so that they will mean they want to say things to the korean public you know the things that they want to have korean people in public heard from them communicating with the korean public directly so it's a propaganda strategy clearly on japan is rejecting extra demands from south korea on a compensation deal for so-called comfort women in twenty fifteen tokyo apologized to women who were forced to work in brothels during world war two and agreed to set up an eight million dollars fund for the victims critics of the deal want to rex compensation instead south korea's foreign ministry says her government doesn't want to renegotiate the agreement. come on our government will not demanded we

negotiate but hopes that japan will accept the truth as it is according to international standards and continue efforts to help the victims regain honor and dignity and shield their hearts. france's president to mannion mccoy is on the second day of his official visit to china historic the forbidden city in beijing an address business leaders call wants china or any european union to increase trade ties and work on issues such as global warming he's expected to sign bilateral agreements with the chinese president xi jinping later this year state rob mcbride is following events from beijing this visit is being treated very favorably here in china as you would expect given extensive coverage with one state run newspaper even describing it as a milestone in the development of franco chinese relations grant has met with xi jinping his counterpart vent monday evening here in beijing along with their respective wives it was described as very amicable so amicable in fact that macro

has now stated that he wants to visit china every year during his presidency it gives an indication of the growing importance of the relations between china and europe the e.u. is china's biggest trading partner and macron arguably would seem to be the most influential european leader right now and below merkel of germany has domestic political problems at the moment britain of course is busy break sitting so macron comes here is very much the e.u. standard there are the visit continues with a visit to the forbidden city and also more dialogue culminating of course in the communique at the end of this second day when we can expect the major results the major successes of this trip to be announced. i mean rainy an oil tanker that collided with a freighter off china's east coast on saturday's still on fire

a dozen rescue forces spent three days trying to control the brains at sea edge and the tanker may explode and sink rescuers are looking for thirty one crew members who are still missing the body of one of them was found on monday agent brian has more from near shanghai the drummer's happening some one hundred sixty nautical miles out in the east china sea it's happening in international waters which is why the response has been international south korea has sent a number of coast guard vessels u.s. military has sent an aircraft to help in the search for the thirty two missing crew members from that stricken iranian oil tanker now at the moment there are two operations taking place one to put out the fire the broke out on the tanker the other of course to find those missing crewmembers now the tanker was carrying more than a million barrels of ultra light crude oil no condensate it's very toxic it's also

colorless odorless which means it's very very hard to detect the priority now is to prevent the ship exploding and then sinking and of course that would threaten a real environmental catastrophe in the meantime officials in shanghai say there is no evidence that this accident is affecting traffic going into or out of the port shanghai of course is one of the world's busiest ports officials also say that an exclusion zone is now in force which means that no vessel can sail to within ten kilometers of the accident site and it's possible there is this rescue operation continued that exclusion zone will be widened. iran is warning it may reconsider its corporation with the un's nuclear watchdog unless the u.s. honors the agreement it signed with tehran in international powers in two thousand and fifteen present donald trump has refused to certify the deal which lifted sanctions in return for iran scaling back its nuclear program. has more from tehran

. that and leaders in iran are again gearing up to defend the nuclear deal finally signed in two thousand and fifteen after years of delays on monday president hassan rouhani had this reminder donald trump has failed every time the white house has tried to confront iran. and the foreign ministry warned washington not to do anything it might regret. only we have to wait for their decision as for iran stance we've made all the necessary predictions about any scenario and all options for different situations are on the table depending on what the united states decides to do. at a security conference in toronto attended by foreign dignitaries and regional allies iran's defense minister told us that the us is orchestrating artificial conflicts in the middle east to create perpetual war. maybe. we understand well why do i especially the us are pursuing iran of hope this is

a total american story that says for the progress of america's economy staging wars is inevitable so from their perspective it's necessary to produce permanent war intention to sell weapons then it will be done but. iran's foreign minister zarif is scheduled to meet his european union counterpart later this week in brussels the e.u. has been a vocal supporter of the nuclear deal and talks are expected to focus on how to save it from collapse in the face of u.s. threats there is broad international support for all sides to remain committed to keeping iran from restarting its nuclear enrichment program but the fact that it would only take a few days to do so will no doubt be on the minds of iran's enemies as well as its allies same bus route al-jazeera deborah. still ahead on al-jazeera protesters take to the streets in sudan after an increase in the price of bread plus. a new day is rising. oprah winfrey for u.s.

presidents her rousing golden globe speech now as stars and fans calling on her to run for the top job. why the sky knowing that. or off the coast of the italian riviera. hello there is so very unsettled for some of us in europe at the moment the satellite picture clearly shows the cloud there piling into the corner of europe and also working its way through parts of france and the low countries and for france has been an awful lot of heavy rain over the past few days and that has given us a problem with the water levels on the set and you can see the very high here and we've had to close some of the roads thanks to those high water levels and it looks like they'll be some more showers as well maybe not today but as we head through into wednesday the wetter weather for choose day there that's a bit further south over the southern parts of france work their way into it today

of course snow on the outs there but is this system out in the west as that works its way eastwards it's likely to bring a few showers around paris again as we head through the day on wednesday the system though is breaking up as it works its way eastwards the next system though does look rather heavy for the far eastern parts of your vote finally settled here we have a high pressure in charge so the weather isn't causing too many problems to talk for the northern parts of africa you can see this huge area of cloud here that's giving us so very heavy rain and some rather unusual weather as well across the sahara we've seen some snow of course that did melt as the temperatures rose very unusual and it looks like that won't be repeated over the next day or so but we will see some showers across the far northern coast. there with sponsored by qatar . you are making very pointed remarks whether online the main u.s. response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been the criminal mind or if you join us on sat. in the morning and says i want to cover the

world of darkness this is a dialogue and that could be what leading to some of the confusion online about people saying we don't actually know what's going on join the colobus conversation at this time on our dizzy. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour north korea says it will send a delegation of athletes supporters and officials to next month's winter olympic games in south korea pyongyang is holding its first high level discussions with seoul since twenty fifty. france's president is on the second day of his official

visit to china emmanuel mccall wants beijing and the european union to increase trade ties and work on issues such as global warming is expected to sign bilateral agreements with the chinese president xi jinping nature to state. and any rainy and oil tanker that collided with a freighter off china's east coast on saturdays still on fire a dozen rescue boats have spent three days trying to control the blaze rescue is looking for thirty one who members who are still missing. now the world news syrian government and russian air strikes have targeted several towns in eastern guta near the capital damascus twenty three people have been killed the rebel stronghold has been under heavy bombardment on monday government forces reach a military base in the city of harassed a free two hundred troops now the spokesman for the u.n. secretary general says civilians are being forced to flee into areas already overcrowded with displaced families. the un is deeply concerned for the safety and

protection of tens of cells and of people in southern italy in rural hama in northern syria northeastern syria where ongoing hostilities have reportedly calls hundreds of deaths and injuries of civilians tens of thousands of civilians already in dire circumstances have been recorded as displaced since the first of december due to the fighting with the onset of winter save shelters among the biggest concerns as many families are fleeing into areas that are already at full capacity into communities with depleted resources pro-democracy activists in hong kong are in court again over their roles in mass protests in twenty fourteen. was the. legal scholar benny ty and eight others are attending a pretrial hearing they face charges of incitement connected with their roles in the umbrella movement demonstrations sarika has more. i got to the fight i believe all courts when giving to political pressure and hand

unfair judgments that's why we will calmly faced a long lawsuit today and the next few days we are reviewing what will happen in the trial and the procedures we will be ready and. this is the pretrial hearing for nine pro-democracy activists who've been charged with inciting public nuisance for their role back in the twenty four st occupy hong kong protests which shut down parts of the city for almost three months the group arrived at court determined to have some of these charges dropped stating that they are politically motivated now there have been a number of pro democracy activists before the courts but this particular group has attracted greater interest simply because there are three of the founders of the occupy hong kong movement that includes many times the hong kong university legal academic dr ten thousand men and reverend chu you mean right now the group started that they don't regret initiating the pro-democracy demonstrations back in twenty fourteen but i believe the charges of inciting public nuisance are inappropriate as

they were one of hundreds of thousands of people who took to the streets during these demonstrations now the pretrial hearing will determine if these charges are up held or chimes before the group goes to trial and coming up. the head of nigeria's immigration service is urging more international cooperation in the fight against people trafficking the government ordered the immediate evacuation of about five and a half thousand of its citizens from libya after reports of abuse slavery and torture but many of the migrants returning home still hope to one dave reach here al-jazeera travelled with some of them and has this exclusive report. these first time nigerian migrants heading from the schooling facility in tripoli i worried that the plane will leave without them. the only thing on their mind now is to get to know that when you people leave here they're taking us back to the. i don't want to continue we should help us by only. but many others here have been

through this routine before for that person or ceratin vincent says his destiny allies in europe and he will make another attempt to get there so almost everything i have to embark on a journey but now i'm going back all like like you are like a month month not a minute it was this attitude has surprised even the experts who say as many as forty five percent of deported migrants from libya attempt to go back. as a human being you are assuming that. i would my most important goal in life is to preserve my life and knowing that i come so close. to true to what i've seen i wouldn't go but you know survival is also important to to a person. if you are in a place you don't see a future the net pushes you government officials in west africa admit that their vast porous borders makes it difficult to stop what they call irregular migration i

most times border police feel powerless to make arrests because of an existing pact that govern cheese freedom of movement of goods and people. it's that same agreement traffickers and illegal migrants exploit but the challenges go beyond that is frustrated that we as country when working together including europe it takes more than a tiny it takes more than public city to do this we need to walk together what's sauce placide this nation going to to do with a clean metal groups. for now african countries continue to evacuate citizens from libya preventing those citizens from attempting to reach europe again is proving difficult regardless of what happens to them in transit. al-jazeera. a man has died during an anti-government protests in tunisia the interior ministry

denies the protesters was run over by a police car saying he suffered a medical condition demonstrators have been fighting with security forces in the town of terror group near the capital tunis protests have spread to as many as ten townspeople are angry at austerity measures that have led to tax hikes and higher prices for basic goods. in sudan at least two people have been killed during protests against rising bread prices the government is warning demonstrators that accept destruction will be met with force the seven arresting opposition leaders and confiscating newspapers to control the situation osama bin jabot has more. there's anger in the sudanese capital her to them in videos posted on social media people in small numbers have been protesting against a sudden increase in prices of basic commodities. it's not limited to southern. almost half of the city is also the protester now but the voters.

because it's being treated in a very. violent way. fred is the most important staple for most of the knees and the prices have gone up after the government began a series of reforms to improve the economy the government stop importing rate since last month hoping that it would create competition between private companies and bring down prices but bakeries say they have raised prices due to a shortage of flour will have glowing money they don't pick up from and says flour is subsidized by ten percent and they are saying we will remove it next month is one hundred sixty and next month it will reach five hundred fifty pounds and that's an increase of three hundred to four hundred percent. yeah newbie mismanage the price might be ok for me but not for other people some families couldn't even afford it when it was one pound. in line with recommendations by the international monetary fund subsidies are being eliminated sudan recent be devalued its currency

and now the dollar is worth eight hundred sudanese pounds instead of seven last year the us government east financial sanctions against sudan which led many to believe that there is an economic boom on the way. because the sanctions ended we were pleased to begin to rearrange our lives but we are certain prized that life is . some say there was too much expectation for change too soon because the sanctions were lifted just a few months ago many people are very likely to do that well now the site has been lifted maybe you're going to have a magic one for which it was lifted yes then today you're conditions are actually changed which is not missile the case but of course that is politics also this government continues to be rather repressive. the interior minister has denied that the demonstrations are indisposed to the hike in prices he told the state news agency that protesters who cause destruction will be dealt with force in recent weeks and the security forces arrested three opposition leaders and broke the seal

of six newspapers but the unrest has an end it. there. israel says it has restored full power supply into the gaza strip after the palestinian authority agreed to resume electricity payments palestinian president mahmoud abbas withdrew payment guarantees in april last year in an attempt to loosen the grip of the ruling party hamas in gaza it left gaza's two million residents with only a few hours of electricity a day the move could raise power delivery to six hours a day and so we are very happy about the news because we can't finish any jobs we currently receive electricity around two hours a day and there is not enough time to finish the job so we can finish baking all washing clothes we can't finish anything now the white house says president donald trump would gladly face media personality oprah winfrey as an opponent in

twenty twenty a spokesman was reacting to speculation that the business woman may run for the top job the hashtag oprah two thousand and twenty has been trending on twitter since sunday after she gave a rousing speech at the golden globe awards alan fischer reports. the new day is on the rise of i was best known for a talk show which made her billions of dollars no the talk is of corporate running for president for too long women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men but their time is up for. comments at the golden globe awards in hollywood and several standing ovations was described as inspiring by those in attendance and brought the hashtag oprah twenty twenty trending on twitter but while the idea has growing support the media giant has already said she doesn't want to run for office wondering if you've narrowed down your shortlist of b.p. candidates. and how she's lost her mind how. donald trump went from

a hugely popular reality t.v. show to the presidency his star power in name recognition his brand help significantly several democrats have been named as possible candidates for twenty twenty. cory booker joe biden elizabeth warren and kiersten jila brand are just a few of the names being thrown around none are as well known as oprah but one political analyst strikes a note of caution i think that's a very huge and tremendously for someone who has operated as a media personality moving into the space of governing we are at we're already seeing how that hasn't worked out as many people had hoped it would oprah has done nothing to that don't speculation of a presidential run for the still two years before the race for the white house starts to get really serious. alan fischer al-jazeera washington. french prosecutors are investigating tech giant apple after it made it last month

that it deliberately slowed down older phone models the inquiry focuses on a commercial practice forcing consumers to periodically replace products this is illegal in fund says the slowdown is intended to extend the lifespan of phones by putting less pressure on aging batteries technology analyst larry magid says it will be hard for the course of cool apple is criminally liable. i think apple has given an explanation which is likely to make it very difficult to get any punitive damages from apple and less it turns out apple with completely lying but frankly in the tech world that i live in if they were lying i think i would know about it not because i'm so smart but because a lot of smart people have looked into this and so far i think most people are thinking that apple was actually correct in how would finally got around to explaining why they did what they did a little late but they finally did give an explanation that most experts i've talked to think it's probably accurate if they really cooperate with authorities

and try to be forthcoming and accurate and provide detailed information as to why they did what they did then i think that any fair court would probably rule that apple certainly had no criminal intent maybe they're they certainly did the right in my opinion the right thing in the wrong way so there's no question that apple deserved to have its risks lapped because they did so stupidly they should have disclosed it in advance they should have given customers an opportunity to opt in or out and say you know what i want my phone operated full speed and yes i'm willing to take the risk of it crashing unexpectedly if that's indeed what the risk was but to simply slip this in and not tell customers that's what apple did wrong. headlines on al-jazeera north korea says it will send a delegation of athletes supporters and officials to next month's winter olympic games in south korea pyongyang has been holding its first high level discussions

with seoul since twenty fifteen south korea is considering temporarily lifting sanctions against north korea and has proposed military talks. north korea's participation in pyongyang as winter olympics is needed to promote peace olympics will consider lifting the sanctions against north korea if it's necessary to facilitate the visit of a north korean delegation under close consultation with the un sanctions committee the united states and relevant countries. japan is rejecting extra demands from south korea on a compensation deal for so-called conflict women in twenty fifteen tokyo apologized to women who were forced to work in brothels during the second world war and agreed to set up an eight million dollars fund to help the victims critics of the deal want to rex compensation instead france's president of onion marco is soon expected to sign around deals with china is pushing to gain better access into the chinese market for french companies my coins lying opportunities in the nuclear arrow space

and food sectors and iranian oil tanker that collided with a freighter off china's east coast on saturday's still on fire a dozen rescue boats have spent three days trying to contrary control the blaze rescuers are looking for thirty one who members who are still missing the syrian government in russian airstrikes have targeted several towns in eastern guta near the capital damascus twenty three people have been killed the rebel stronghold has been under heavy people bartman. protesters have marched on to the white house because a two hundred thousand immigrants from el salvador face expulsion from the united states the government says it will draw the temporary residency status granted to el salvadorans who fled the earthquake disaster seventeen years ago families who made a new life in the u.s. here being torn apart and some in the latino community are accusing donald trump of persecution you upset with the headlines on al-jazeera the stream is coming up next

here do stay with us. head of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed germans satisfied with the state of their economy this is easily a slow news biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. hi i'm femi oke a walk cause anti-government sentiment to flare up in a wrong one week after protesters called for an angel to high prices and some cases the removal of iran's elite hundreds rally this weekend in support of the nation's leadership so what do these demonstrations tell us about what's happening in the country today on the stream well i've been out.