the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called a meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasise the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life is part of life it's culture. north and south korea agreed to hold military talks but discussions on nuclear weapons will be off let's take. what i'm doing with all of this is a live from london also coming up accusations that

a deescalation zone and syria has been violated turkey some of the ambassadors there won and russia. has a a protest the prime minister promises the twenty eighteen will be the last year of economic hardship. and french prosecutors investigate apple over its admission about slowing down the fall. of their very warm welcome to the program north and south korea have agreed to hold military talks after their first highlevel meeting in two years that pyongyang has nuclear ambitions will be avoided efficient from the two sides met for eleven hours on choose day and eventually agreed that seoul would lift sanctions temporarily to allow north korea athletes to visit the south for the next month's winter olympics in florence lu ports not from seoul. until recently north koreans refused to even pick up the phone when south koreans called the border hotline so it was

significant to see resawing gorn who's in charge of into korean relations for the north korean government stepping over the border into the south he led a five member team of high ranking diplomats into a meeting with his south korean counterpart in what's known as the truce village at puntland job. our talks resume after north and south korean ties have been severed for a long time but i believe the first step is have the journey with the we came to this meeting with a serious and sincere attitude and with the thought of giving our brethren who have high hopes for this dialogue and valuable results as the first gift of the year on the meeting did produce results north korea says it will send a delegation of athletes and team members to next month's winter olympics in south korea the south says it will consider suspending sanctions if it helps north korea's participation in the games in. both sides have also agreed to hold military talks to prevent accidental clashes and ease tensions as well as conduct other high

level exchanges to improve into korea ties but attempts to discuss north korea's nuclear bomb and missiles program got nowhere with the head of the delegation from pyongyang warning that such discussions could damage relations the north has long maintained that its nuclear arsenal is necessary to deter an invasion by duras troops and south korea's proposal for talks on reunions for family members who've been separated for decades met with little response from the north despite that many in the south see any talks happening at all as a positive step. for us. i believe these forward diplomatic discussions can result in peace for an a c. the korean peninsula is a dangerous place that's under the constant threat of war and i hope those concerns to him become a reality and after a year of high tensions on the korean peninsula and in japan and across the pacific

including the threat of military action by the u.s. these talks are already being heralded as a breakthrough florence li al-jazeera seoul turkey's foreign ministry is someone's of the ambassadors of iran and russia to protest against what it provides is a violation of the so-called deescalation zone in syria turkey is reportedly accusing syrian troops of breaking that agreement in their push to retake opposition held areas of a province russia iran and turkey agreed on for deescalation zones last may in an effort to wind down the seven year war russia and iran support the governments of syrian president bashar al assad or turkey backs opposition groups well another deescalation zone is the damascus suburb eastern ghouta now the syrian government's bombardment of the rebel held and claims is intensifying forty thousand four hundred thousand civilians rather struggling to survive the winds of their medical and food supplies running low tasha can name has more. the fog of dust from

buildings reduced to rubble was still thick as people began transporting the injured and pulling out the dead. twenty three people were killed in airstrikes in eastern guta on monday night the now home to the derby the warplanes didn't stop day and night they shell only civilians and tall good residential neighborhoods and markets eastern ghouta is a short drive to the capital damascus which is remained relatively calm throughout the war but the lives of the four hundred thousand people here are very different the never ending stream of bombs has created shortages of everything from food to fuel. the last two weeks have been especially intense one hundred twenty six people are estimated to have been killed since december twenty ninth. the new i five a man on the video meet him on the international community stops the shelling of

innocent civilians we don't have any food or mates in here and use kuta we under siege for a long time and we hope god will help us. syrians contemplating leaving their homes are faced with a dilemma for example the displaced who sought refuge in opposition held it lib are in danger again it is the largest rebel stronghold and government forces are in the midst of an offensive to regain control 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 people in eastern guta fear if they leave their homes they'll never be allowed to return the un is accusing the syrian government of implementing a policy of force displacement to radically alter the demographic makeup of areas

previously controlled by the opposition natasha going to aim al-jazeera. chinnis is prime minister use of cha head has tried to sooth anti-government sentiment promising twenty eighteen will be the last year of economic hardship and almost protests in ten towns on monday where demonstrators took to the streets angry over price and tax increases that the hikes have been imposed as part of new austerity measures agreed with foreign lenders have been protests in sudan as well where the cost of a loaf of bread doubled after the government removed subsidies from its twenty eight hundred budget the move is in line with reforms agreed with the international monetary fund jordan has announced it's cutting state subsidies on bread as of next week prices could surge by a hundred percent and recent protests in iran were triggered by price rises for basic with items like eggs and poultry. receive the tax increases in the

new budget coming to be you know this is going to a lot of people nervous and. upset their country we see kind of influence of the arab spring which number one for the people itself carries worries also for x. sort of investors carries that same old view of the middle east of trouble not a safe place to invest so the government really needs to do something about this in order to fix the change expectations and help the country flourish in egypt more than three hundred seventy people have received jail sentences for taking part in the deadly sits in protests in giza four years ago they were charged with causing the deaths of two policemen and other counts of attempted murder taking part in the protests in support of i was to president mohamed morsi and twenty thirteenth dozens were killed after gyptian security forces stormed the square. this in germany and italy have announced a major mafia bus arresting andrian sixty nine members of the taurus organized

crime gangs around sixty million dollars worth of assets were also seized in the joint multinational operation for all our modern cola based in southern italy and infiltrated businesses in southern and central germany including wind food refuse collection and funeral services a number of public officials are suspected of corruption. but if you believe. the relationship between mafia and politics changed completely many times we documented how politicians deal with mafia bosses to get vote packages in exchange for future contracts and putting the public administration at the service of being drunk at a so that they handle it directly we have seen on many occasions how many inside the criminal organization handle the public administration bad weather and toxic gases are complicating the search for thirty one missing sailors off the coast of china they were on board in a rainy an oil tanker which collided with a cargo ship on saturday fire has been burning on board for three days and is preventing crews from getting close to the tanker the vessel was carrying more than

a million barrels of oil sparking fears of an environmental disaster in the east china sea well the chinese government says it has not signed a large scale oil leak it jim brown has more from near shanghai. the drama is happening some one hundred sixty nautical miles out in the east china sea and it's happening in international waters which is why the response has been international south korea has sent a number of postcard vessels u.s. military sense and aircraft to help in the search for the thirty two missing crew members from that iranian oil tank but now at the moment there are two operations taking place one to put out the fire broke out on the tanker the other of course to find those missing crew members now the tanker was comparing poor than a million barrels of ultra light crude oil closed spondon say it's very toxic it also polus odorless which means it's very very hard to detect the priority now is

to prevent the ship exploding and then sinking of course that would threaten a real environmental catastrophe in the meantime officials in shanghai say there is no evidence that this act is affecting traffic going into or out of the port shanghai of course is one of the world's busiest port 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 if possible business rescue operation continues that exclusion zone would be why the united nations has approved the largest ever emergency relief of fifteen million dollars from the yemen u.n. has disclaimed humanitarian crisis there is the worst in the world seventy five percent of the population is in need of aid hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the fighting are trying to survive in camps for that basic health and sanitation provisions bernard smith reports this family will get just

a few minutes of warmth from the fire here in merritt province yemenis who've lost their homes in the civil war are beyond the reach of even the most basic relief that aid groups can provide. people here are escaping either hoofy fighters who control the capital some or they're escaping as strikes and attacks by a coalition of countries led by saudi arabia two million yemenis have been displaced since fighting began in september twenty fourth teen as it should do little but in the should we lift our homes because of the war we found ourselves here without anything we have nothing here but are low we don't have food and the weather is very cold. four hundred sixty thousand displaced people are in camps like these in mara province they don't get any humanitarian assistance. we leave here in despair we have kidney problems my kids are also sick i have nothing and i can do nothing we urge all countries and international organizations to pay

attention to us. disease is rife as well as the world's worst cholera epidemic to piri is on the increase and following the killing of ten thousand people in the fighting the un says eight million yemenis are on the verge of famine bernard smith al-jazeera. has condemned the closure of its bureau in the offices based in the summer and city of ties so it is shows security authorities entering the building calls on tice authorities to reverse the decision to allow its journalists to carry out their professional responsibilities. still to come here on al-jazeera cracking down on crime online why we look at a new way of combating hate speech in germany whites face it so much criticism. and motoring mayhem in mexico city where they're finally getting people to take a driving test.

hello and welcome to international weather forecast the weather is quite mean down across europe at the moment after a very unsettled spell we saw some heavy rain across parts of italy through into the balkans quite a further towards the east temperatures around the freezing mark across much of russia mulled over ukraine western areas seen some showers in temperatures but average really hates nine something like that still the cool side of madrid there nine degrees and some rain pushing its way in across parts of the iberian peninsula the risk of snow a high elevations of a head on through into thursday on the other side of the mediterranean sea still is a bit unsettled across some of these western areas morocco through intel cheer the chance of a few showers and some showers through the gulf of circle once we get across into egypt things are looking fine for cairo in fact warming up as we head on through into thursday as we get the winds coming in from the desert southwest is fine

across much of central africa to showers a long way towards assize the future kabamba otherwise much of west africa is looking dry and fine plenty of sunshine for lagos nigeria and i cry in ghana for southern portions of africa we've got the remnants of our tropical cyclone moving away from madagascar still some showers on the east coast some showers across the eastern cape of finding cape town with highs of twenty six. there were over forty charges as i recall but primarily it was material support for terrorism the holy land foundation was the biggest muslim charity in the usa i definitely said that this was a political trial and that these were political prisoners because we were able to see the secret of it and we were unable to challenge it in a two part series al-jazeera world examines one of the most controversial court cases of the so-called war on terror the holy land falling at this time on

al-jazeera world. minds of the top stories here on al-jazeera north inside korea have agreed to hold military talks after their first high level meeting in two years the pyongyang's nuclear ambitions will be avoided officials from the two sides have met for the first time in more than two years. turkey's foreign ministry has summoned the ambassadors of iran and russia to protest against what they were gods is a violation of the so-called deescalation zone in syria jim is his prime minister has promised twenty thousand will be the last year of economic hardship as he faces

a wave of anti-government protests against demonstrators of calling and on budgets . iran says it has foiled attempts by its foreign enemies to turn the just some a quote into a plot so overthrow the islamic republic supreme leader ayatollah khamenei wrote so on his twitter feed that there's evidence of a plan made by the u.s. in israel funded by a rich country in the gulf there have been more protests or they've been protests rather in more than eighty cities since late december with at least twenty two people being killed five people in a less that same bus ravi has more now from tehran. he's basing what he's saying on no doubt. the country's intelligence apparatus and the information he's gleaning from the state and the status of an institution's but it has to be said that a lot of this has to iran's experience in context of foreign intervention in the country this is very reminiscent of the nine hundred fifty s.

when demonstrations against a democratically elected leader led to his overthrow those were found to be instigated by foreign agents for a leader of states really cia. that that thinking that experienced that historical context plays into. every facet of iran's leadership certainly always is wrong and it is always tied with their current experiences garc to what they've experienced in terms of foreign intervention in the country in the past and that colors a lot of what they see on the streets now u.s. president don thompson reiterated his desire for a border wall as part of immigration reform the president says lawmakers need to find a bipartisan solutions protect thousands of young so-called dream or immigrants but he says any agreement must include funding for a border wall with mexico. for its present a man will not come is hailing his visit to china as the beginning of

a historic partnership he's been overseeing the signing of several trade deals with china's president xi jinping mccrone spend pushing for french companies to have greater access to the world's biggest population especially nuclear power aerospace and inserted rob mcbride has more now from beijing china and france are hailing this visit as a new era for strategic partners. she didn't paying and emanuel mccraw signing multi-billion dollar trade deals from aerospace to nuclear energy projects and reaching what they say is common consensus on a range of issues from climate change to international security. we have made an agreement to improve global issues we are faced with climate change and terrorism china will be working together with france so we can have a win win situation and develop a new strategy that helps everyone in the world we have both agreed to have open

and deep communications macross says his visit is a recognition of china's role on the world stage and she's preeminent position as chinese leader this is mark rance first state visit to china as president and he wants the trip to become an annual event to highlight the deepening relationship between china and europe are growing stronger as their respective relations with the united states become more unpredictable and strained and i think. it is time for european leaders including the french president jacques rogge to really balance off their relations against the united states with their relations with china macron began his visit in the ancient city of scheana one of the starting points of the ancient silk road his full support for what president xi calls his belton road initiative of new road and rail links seen as the modern day equivalent

of connecting east with west is popular here. macro will also take away from beijing a recommitment to the paris climate agreement seen as crucial after the united states walked away from it in doing so france and china are positioning themselves as global environmental leaders setting an example for the world to follow robin bryant al-jazeera beijing. prosecutors in france are investigating the u.s. tech giant apple admits it slowing down all the models of its i phone last month inquiry focuses on accusations that they've broken french consumer law by attempting to force existing customers to buy new phones data but that has more from paris. in france one in five smartphone users owns an i phone each new model causes much excitement but not everyone is happy with the u.s. manufacturer a french consumer watchdog has filed

a legal complaint saying apple deliberately slows down old i phone models to encourage customers to buy new ones where they know they're there doing what we call planned obsolescence two or two in the purpose for people to buy a new one if it's a marketing strategy think care about three have enough proof to make this. pope says apple uses software updates to slow down its phones the watchdog says recent updates come in sided with the release of the i phone eight in france such a practice is illegal under french law it is a crime to deliberately shorten the lifespan of a product in order to try and force consumers to buy new ones those found guilty can be punished with a prison sentence a large fine and companies can be forced to pay up to five percent of their annual earnings in paris some apple customers welcomed the investigation to see. if will

work it's important to know what's going on because we are all hostages of multinational marriage and looking once i bought a new find that i have to charge all the time and the updates make it slower i think it's done on purpose even though it's illegal here after a flurry of similar lawsuits in the u.s. last year apple admitted to intentionally slowing down its old phones saying it was done to help prolong battery life some analysts say the. he should have been more transparent everyone knows that their phone starts to lose power after a certain time and this is actually quite a clever way of dealing with it was interesting is how it's been presented in rather a negative light i think that's apple's fault for not communicating better that they were doing this to help the users al-jazeera contacted apple in france for comment but has not received a reply faced with a criminal investigation though the stakes here for the take joined are high the tasha butler i'll just sirrah paris internet activists and opposition politicians

in germany are outraged at the new law and combating a rising tide of online hate speech facebook twitter and other social media sites have been forced to remove the sense of content or face fines of up to sixteen million dollars the legislation has been widely condemned for allowing the policing of freedom of expression in germany to be placed in the hands of large multinational companies based in the u.s. david tacey reports now from berlin. the first victim of the new law is no less than the deputy leader of the extreme right alternative for germany party tricks one stork responded to a new year's eve preaching by police in cologne posted in arabic on twitter the city was the scene two years ago of mass sexual assaults during celebrations both of the suspects were described as being of north african origin. in a post on twitter and facebook she asked what the hell is happening in this country do you think it's to appease the barbaric gang raping hordes of muslim men stalks

accounts were temporarily suspended on the ground should violated the new hate speech law party said legitimate political opinions have been censored not about censorship but of course this law does give politicians like mrs fun story the opportunity to claim that there is political censorship in germany and to portray herself as a martyr and i think this is one of the biggest political mistakes in passing the end i hate speech law because it helps parties like the if the to transport their narratives into the population and gain greater popularity the justice minister marx who introduced the legislation said it will prevent calls to murder hate speech and holocaust denial which he described as attacks on other people's freedom of expression but opposition is mounting. the green party is leading the charge for changes in the law. it's

a very sensitive area and the question of where freedom of speech ends and the protection of personal rights begins has been determined to the very highest judicial levels in germany for decades the law now is too abrasive and gives too much power to the companies facebook says the legislation is fundamentally new it's unique in the world because of its complexity is a challenge for all involved even a german satirical magazine on the internet has become a victim of the new laws twitter suspended their account after the use of frayed barbaric horse while poking fun at the controller see i spoke to the editor in frankfurt over skype just. like we'll have to keep watching this because funny talk is ambivalent and we know that real people struggle with it how are a bunch of bots going to distinguish german courts struggle as well the magazine is

now back online its latest issue has a cartoon of president donald trump asking his secretary of state how they can restore some safety rex tillerson replies stop all this tweeting you idiot david chaytor al jazeera berlin thailand's foreign minister has confirmed that former prime minister again lection awad had been in london since september for tolls purporting to show you in the uk were posted on social media actually seen posing with a woman nightside london's harrods department store former prime minister left thailand to avoid being jailed over a rice substance and skill that lost billions of dollars about thirteen thousand people have been snowed in at a swiss alpine ski resort after heavy snow on a power outage the snowfall call closed minds and left and ski runs as well as train services in the village of sarah. mexico city is taking steps to change its reckless driving culture thousands of

accidents on an average of three deaths every day now despite being one of the world's biggest and busiest cities drivers card they don't have to take a test to get their license david marr six planes from mexico city. it's a typical tuesday morning in mexico city and parents drop their children off at school it's a chaotic scene on the prize make up in her rearview mirror another leaves her car in the middle of the street an argument breaks out after a man backs into a vehicle that's being double parked. in mexico city is one of the world's most populated metropolises every day more than five million vehicles clogged streets. road accidents are common more than a thousand people die in crashes every year traffic accidents are now the leading cause of death for children between five and fourteen years old. the government says this must stop as much as what it does traffic related that's unacceptable

because they can be prevented we can do this in steps through new regulations infrastructure that knowledge or some training. officials have already reduced speed limits and install traffic cameras now efforts to change driving culture are focused here this is one of the government offices in mexico city where people come to get their driver's licenses or maybe i should say where people come to buy their licenses because all you need to bring here is a piece of government id a utility bill and pay the equivalent of forty dollars and within five minutes you're walking out with a license to drive it's just that easy. but this is changing starting in two thousand and eighteen drivers will have to take driving courses run by internationally credited schools before applying for a license it's a big change but one that many residents say is necessary but. they still feel a little bit nervous even though i try to control it but i feel

a lot safer particulates course will help me avoid getting into accidents when changing the habits of millions of drivers will take generations but in one of the world's biggest cities the cost of doing nothing is simply too high david mercer al jazeera mexico city. well you can find much more about the stories we're following head to our website you can see our main story on the front page there about iran's supreme leader you can find all of that more delts called. a quick reminder now of those current headlines here on al-jazeera north and south korea have agreed to hold military talks after their first high level meeting in two years officials from the two sides have met for the first time in more than two years north korea will send

a large delegation to next month's winter olympics in south korea but rejected sil's request to discuss denuclearizing the korean peninsula. regarding the nuclear issues and strategic weapons including its home of bombs of hydrogen bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles aimed only at the united states nor britain turkey's foreign ministry has summoned the ambassadors of iran and russia to pretend against the violation of a so called the escalation zone in syria turkey is reportedly accusing syrian troops of breaking the agreement in their push to retake opposition held areas of the province another deescalation zone in the damascus suburb of east and good will the syrian government's bombardment of that rebel held on cave is intensifying four hundred thousand civilians are struggling to survive the winter there with medical and food supplies running low u.s. president donald trump has reiterated his desire for a border wall as part of immigration reform the president says that lawmakers need

to find a bipartisan solution to protect thousands of young so-called dream or immigrants odds he says any agreement must include funding for a border wall with mexico. chynna z. as prime minister has promised twenty eighteen will be the last year of economic hardship you said child's been facing a wave of angry antigovernment protests over the budget demonstrations erupted in more than ten times on monday against the price and tax hike measures designed to reduce the government's ballooning deficit. iran says it has foiled attempts by its foreign enemies to turn legitimate protests into a plot over for the islamic republic supreme leader ali khamenei wrote on his twitter feed that there is evidence of a plan made by the us and israel funded by a rich country in the gulf and portishead more than eighty six he since late december with at least twenty two people killed on. your plate those are your

current headlines stay with us the stream is coming up next but by. ok you're in the stream the u.s. attorney general has made a legislative change that goes off the legal marijuana jeffrey sessions move is actually in contradiction to general u.s. public opinion about cannabis use so now what effect will this legislative change have today we're getting to the debate about the impact that legalizing marijuana has.