fair few showers but through much of the long go through. too much of south africa weather conditions are drawing fine with temperatures expected to be in the mid twenty's for kate and the risk of a shower for durban in johannesburg johannesburg seeing highs of twenty two degrees . south korea's president says he's open to meeting with north korean leader kim jong un but only under certain conditions. and this is al jazeera live from coming up. later freight train coming down.

at least thirteen people are killed after a powerful rainstorm triggers floods and mudslides in southern california. more anger over austerity protesters in tunis clashed with police after the prime minister promises to crack down on rioters. a court blocks the u.s. president's plans to end a program that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from being deported. south korea's president says he's open to meeting north korean leader kim jong un if certain conditions are met. choose days official talks between the two sides the first in more than two years from seoul reports. the first official talks between

north and south korea in more than two years ended with an agreement that could make president vision of a piece of lympics a reality says domestic support for his policy of dialogue with north korea helped bring about the rare meeting and he had some one else to think as well. there will be accomplished mint of south korean dialogue was largely credited to president trump i'd like to express gratitude to him in a statement the white house welcome to the talks and said the u.s. and south korean presidents recently agreed to continue the campaign of maximum pressure on north korea toward the goal of complete and verifiable denuclearization moon says the other purpose of that pressure is to bring the north to the negotiating table adding that he would be willing to talk directly with north korea's leader kim jong un. i keep myself open to any meeting including a summit if it's helpful for an improvement of south and north korean relations or

a settlement of the north korean nuclear issue president says even though south korea prefers a policy of engagement it also supports the u.s. approach of maximum pressure but he acknowledges that with more sanctions come more risks of escalating tensions that could lead to a possible armed conflict ultimately south korea wants to find a diplomatic solution to the problem of north korea's nuclear weapons but north korea has continued to indicate they are not up for negotiation. regarding the nuclear issues strategic weapons including atomic bomb hydrogen bomb and intercontinental ballistic missiles only i aimed at the united states not our fellow koreans but moon says both south korea and the u.s. are threatened by the north's nuclear weapons and will continue to work together to address that threat kathy novak al jazeera seoul. dozens of homes in southern california buried in a thick layer of mud and debris off to

a powerful storm the flooding and mudslides of killed at least thirteen people and forced thousands of others to abandon their homes robert oulds reports from los angeles. torrential rains moving inland from the pacific ocean devastated the very same parts of california that were ravaged by wildfires last month the only words i can really think of to describe what it looked like was it looked like a world war one battlefield it was literally a carpet of mud and debris everywhere. deadly mudslides raced down canyons in montecito near santa barbara leveling homes and destroying everything the fires left on harm i heard the rumble of the rocks and we looked over the river and the trees are just coming down to the truth we've heard of a little baby. cable. dug down. the road can you. got it out of the bottle that's no.

hope that's ok to. a car lay stranded the fate of its owner on known rivers of thick gray muck course through upscale neighborhoods and roads were overwhelmed including the major north south coastal highway one hundred one the recent fires stripped steep hillsides of brush and other vegetation that normally anchors the earth in place firefighters say the burnt landscape makes the soil more susceptible to giving way without warning in heavy rain what happens once the ground gets saturated the soil it starts giving it's kind of like building a sand castle at the beach says out sand get saturated with water it's going to slough off and that's what we're seeing here behind me. as crews work to. clear roads and move debris word came that several residents had died in the floods

thousands of others were under mandatory evacuation orders the death toll is expected to rise rob reynolds. was essential these twenty nine people are dead after tropical cyclone battered madagascar over the weekend emergency workers say the southeast region of ot. is the worst affected further north many parts of the capital antananarivo remain flooded of a crossed into madagascar on friday bringing winds of up to one hundred ninety kilometers an hour twenty two people are still missing and more than seventeen thousand have been displaced. police internet fire tear gas at demonstrators are stormed a supermarket in the capital tunis anti-government protests have been taking place since monday when people rallied in more than ten towns against planned price and tax rises the government says the measures are necessary to reduce a ballooning deficit and to satisfy international lenders prime minister use of

childhood says twenty eighteen will be the last year of economic hardship. it's been seven years since twenty eleven have the government didn't do anything for us so it's natural to protest i think the demonstrations will be bigger than before because of these major price increases people are no longer accepted this high cost of living and that is contributing to the parties to all of the country of poor people like me can no longer bear the burden of these high prices some of them i'm sorry. it's normal for people to demonstrate when they find it difficult to buy necessary and everyday things this is normal the same thing also happened last year when people demonstrated against the cost of living and this year will be more severe illness chrisman rotty says the protests show the government must address people's concerns. we've received the tax increases in new budget coming to be you know this is going to a lot of people nervous and. upset their country we see kind of

the arab spring which number one for the people itself carries worries also for external investors carries that same old view of the middle east of trouble not a safe place to invest and the government really needs to do something about this in order to fix to change expectations and to help the country flourish unrest continues throughout the streets of sudan over the rising prices of bread and wheat products since sunday three people have been killed during fighting with security forces two prominent opposition leaders have also been arrested as police confiscate newspapers and crackdown on dissent to the more than joins us now from khartoum aber what's the situation on. all right now in car two it's pretty quiet most of the protests have been happening here has been happening around one of sudan's mean aversives cartoon when you first who were students were trying to go out on the streets to protest but they were met by riot police so they were prevented from coming out but we also know that protests

happened around different parts of the country a student was killed in darfur and several opposition members of been arrested the sudanese congress party which is one of the major opposition parties in sudan reported that at least half a dozen of its members around the country have been arrested and that nearly a dozen of its students around the country have been arrested as well and they've been calling on the government to release them now let's remember jane that the protested not just because of the government lifting subsidies or subsidies of the wheat products in the country but also because of the country's economic situation the dollar and the sudanese pounds the responsibility to the dollar has been devaluing sense two thousand and five when it was one one dollar to two sudanese pounds then it went on to want to eight in two thousand and twelve and want to twenty eight up until early january just yesterday it had a record low where one dollar is equals to thirty sudanese pounds and the world bank said more than half of the country's population live below the poverty line so for a lot of them it's quite hard to be able to afford basic necessities basic food and

the price of a loaf of bread has gone from have a sudanese pound to one pound a lot of families find that very hard to afford now the concern is that there might be more students coming out to protest more people coming out to protest but the government made it very clear that they are not going to allow this protest to happen unless they give clearance and that becomes very hard in sudan and any idea what the government's going to do to improve the economy. the sudanese finance minister is expected to appear in front of the parliament today to discuss further reforms but let's remember that the sudanese pound has been devalued early january from one to six point nine to eighteen hours of new sponsor dollars but that the government said it was based on recommendations from the international monetary fund to try to reverse the economy which has been an downfall partly because of south sudan seceding in twenty eleven and taking with seventy five percent of the country's oil field which is the main source of which was the main source of revenue for sudan and also because sudan had been under u.s.

sanctions for more than twenty years which was just lifted last october so sudan's economy really needs a lot of work to be able to reverse itself and the government is trying but this year's budget has two point four percent deficit so it's quite hard to take a lot of work for the government to try to reverse it thanks for that here but still ahead on al-jazeera steve bannon steps down from the right wing great bad news after a public forum out with donald trump. blasting iran and still no government in northern ireland's political troubles deepen. hello and welcome to international weather forecast the weather is quite down across europe at the moment after a very unsettled spell was to us 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 over ukraine western areas seeing some showers in temperatures that average already hates nine something like that still the cool side for 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 east of us a bit unsettled across some of these western areas morocco through intel chair the chance of a few showers and some showers through the gulf of sirte but once we get across into egypt things are looking fine for carra and fight warming up as we head on through into thursday as we get the winds coming in from the desert southwest is falling across much of central africa two showers a long way towards assize a few for cobol but 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 a tropical cyclone moving away from madagascar still some showers on the east coast

some showers across the eastern cape of finding cape time with highs of twenty six .

again you're watching al-jazeera mind of the top stories south korea's president says he is open to meeting north korean leader kim jong un if certain conditions are met jane says he has no plans of easing sanctions against pyongyang until it ends its nuclear program. dozens of houses in california are buried in a thick layer of mud and debris after a powerful storm the flooding and mudslides of killed at least thirteen people and forced thousands of others to abandon their. police and to have fired tear gas at demonstrators who stormed a supermarket in the capital tunis and together protests have been taking place since monday when people rallied in more than ten towns against planned price and tax rises. temporary israeli checkpoints and roadblocks are cutting off the city of nablus and surrounding villages in the occupied west bank security forces are

looking for the killer of an israeli rabbi carrying out multiple raids in the area the thirty five year old victim was killed in a drive by shooting and illegal israeli settlements no one has claimed responsibility for the attack kerry force it is live in west jerusalem for us tell us what you're hearing what's the latest harry. well this is a pretty major israeli military operation inside the occupied west bank as you were just outlining eleven palestinians have been detained overnight in the west bank and as you are saying a number of major routes have been closed off the one of the main links between the north and south portions of the west bank just south of nablus the check point of horror is closed a number of other roads are also close with checkpoints to the southwest of nablus as well to villages which were raided overnight they've had soldiers stationed

outside them and there are several checkpoints which aren't allowing entry into the city of nablus as well the man who was killed a thirty five year old rabbi as you were saying was a resident of the illegal outpost of have at key largo he was in his car on the main route sixty nearby when he was shot from a passing vehicle these are really the trees and saying whether there was one shooter or more but there are reports that more than twenty bullets struck the car he was saying in hospital and pronounced dead many israeli politicians have been paying tribute to this man talking about him as a rabbi and as a volunteer medic and promising retribution the prime minister benjamin netanyahu also issuing condolences saying that justice will be brought to his killers whereas hamas in the gaza strip has welcomed this saying that it is the first practical response with fire presumably they mean

a response to the donald trump declaration on jerusalem or that wasn't entirely made clear and they're saying it's a reminder of more to come out harry thank you. the rain and company his oil tanker collided with a freighter off the east coast of china says there is little hope of finding survivors bad weather and a fire on the tanker are hampering the search for such a one crew member skew been missing since the collision on saturday the body of one sailor was recovered from the sea on monday the tanker was carrying more than a million barrels of oil agent brian as more from his son port where the hong kong freighter has been towed. we're here in the city of joe shannon in eastern china because this is where twenty one of the survivors were brought to and details of the dramatic rescue operation are starting to emerge we've been speaking to the captain of a chinese fishing trawler just like the one behind me and he was in the area at the time of the collision he says he saw a huge explosion on the horizon they then received

a distress signal by the time they got to the scene of the collision twenty one crew members of the hong kong freighter the sea of cristal were in a lifeboat the fisherman was able to haul those twenty one members on board the trawler they then made their way towards the iranian sanker by this stage the tanker was well alight he said the flames were burning so fiercely it simply forced them to pull back well those twenty one survivors were then brought to this port and they eventually went on to shanghai where they've been receiving hospital treatment and also been interviewed by officials from shanghai's maritime safety board who have begun an official investigation we've also been hearing from officials from the south korean ministry of oceans and fisheries and they say it's possible the fire on the radio could burn for another two to four weeks and also officials here in china say the oil slick so far is not that big malaysia's

government has signed an agreement with a u.s. based private firm to resume the search for m.h. three seventy the airliner that went missing nearly four. years ago the company has dispatched a vessel to the southern indian ocean to look for debris from the plane under the deal payments will only be made if the wreckage is found the malaysia airlines plane disappeared with two hundred thirty people on board in twenty fourteen to fifty migrants are feared drowned of the coast of libya after the rubber boat sank the coast guard found sixteen survivors of the city of so we have migrants from two other boats trying to make the journey across the mediterranean sea were rescued libya is the most common departure point for migrants trying to reach europe from africa by sea. u.s. judge has blocked the trump administration from ending in a bomb era program the protects immigrants who enter the country with their parents without documents the deferred action for childhood arrivals program provides legal

status to around seven hundred thousand people in san francisco judge said they would suffer serious reparable harm if it ended abruptly president on trump decided to stop the policy in march but congress has remained deadlocked on the issue despite this blow chimes immigration reform is one thing he's not backing down on is the border war with mexico. to build what you did the wall and i will tell you this the ice officers and the border patrol agents are out of just recently you know they say if you don't have the wall you know what certain areas obviously that are protected by nature if you don't have the war you cannot have. more now from committee in washington d.c. . well certainly there has been repeated speculation about the president's mental fitness when it comes to his presidency those accusations intensifying in the past week but that may have been countered by a spontaneous press conference by the president

a bipartisan appearance of both democratic and republican lawmakers here at the white house that appeared to run in front of the press real time negotiations on a thorny issue that has been under resolvable in the united states for years and that is the issue of illegal immigration as well as border security the president showing that he not only despite accusations to the contrary was engaged in new the issues but he also seemed to signal that there was a willingness to work with his critics particularly when it comes to issues like border security and something known as doc our deferred action on childhood arrivals essentially what to do about thousands of illegal immigrants brought to the united states living here for years but brought here as children. many now adults we don't have six months for the doctor but i think you're going to negotiate and maybe we'll agree to admit we won't i mean you know it's possible we're not going to agree with you when it's possible but this should be no reason

for us not to get this done a joke i will say when this group comes back hopefully with that agreement this group and others from the center for the house comes back with an agreement i'm shouting at me i will be shown now the issue of immigration is key to a looming deadline and that is funding the u.s. government that deadline a little more than a week away may have something to do with the fact that republicans democrats along with the president working together in a bipartisan fashion the president is still insisting that he wants funding for his border wall along with southern u.s. border with mexico but seems to be striking a more conciliatory tone with his political opponents that may have something to do with the fact that this is an election year congressional elections are set to be held in november. donald trump form a visor steve benen has resigned from his role as executive chairman of the right wing news website break but this comes just days after bannon's remarks about trump and his son in a new book bannon called

a twenty sixteen meeting between donald trump jr and a group of russians treasonous easterbrook has more from washington d.c. . well steve bannon and breitbart are both saying that he left the his position at breitbart but there's a lot of speculation in washington that he was probably pushed out. one of the investors and one of the board members that breitbart is a republican a billionaire republican donor by the name of rebecca mercer she hopelessly called gran an out last week over the comments that he made in fire and fury so there is speculation that she probably had something to do with his leaving the breitbart news. this afternoon what is the political future for steve bannon kind of hard to tell right now he appears to be rather toxic this was a man who had a very meteoric rise started at breitbart in two thousand and twelve sort of led

this nationalist movement and helped get president elected and then was part of his staff now he's fallen out of favor with trump he's lost his job at breitbart and he's also lost a show a radio show on sirius satellite radio so he's sort of lost that platform for that nationalist movement but washington is a city where there are a lot of second chances he was working to try to get some people that were running for the midterm elections elected he may have to step aside at this point because of his relationship with president trump but again this is a town of second chances he's likely to step aside lick his wounds and maybe really emerge over the next several months bill schneider is a professor of public policy at george mason university he thinks trumps forty out to steve bannon may only be temporary. donald trump is very critical he calls him

or you call him sloppy steve and he denounced him he said that he thought he had lost his mind but trump has this history of attacking people and then eventually reconciling with them if trouble needs bannan particularly as we get closer to twenty twenty banning could be resurrected everything depends on how donald trump regards the band and how we use him how he treats him the most republican members of congress critically in the senate especially the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell they're doing a little happy dance tonight because they're very pleased with the downfall of the band and he was threatening to oppose them with insurgent candidates the insurgent candidates are still there look before there was the man and there was a tea party movement which ran insurgents against republican incumbents so the threat is still there but battle really a pit in my eyes than personalized that threat so for the moment the republican establishment is relieved police and man charged two voices janice for breaching the official secrets act while on and choice rested in december after police said

they acquired information illegally to share it with foreign media the pair was covering the crisis from a kind state where hundreds of thousands of rangoon muslims have fled a military crackdown since all this they face up to fourteen years in prison colombian rebel group the national liberation army or e l n has announced the end of a cease fire with the government it expired at midnight on choose day off that one hundred one days during that period would be no direct confrontations between government forces and the l.n. something that hasn't happened in five decades of fighting the l.n. says there's an agreement with the colombian government to negotiate and not a ceasefire. police in germany and italy have announced a major mafia bust arresting some two hundred members of a criminal gang around fifty million dollars worth of assets were seized in the joint multinational operation for money color clan based in southern italy and infiltrated businesses in southern and central germany it's been eight years since

the government of northern ireland collapsed politicians from both sides of the divided community are warning that the peace process could be at risk they say the british government has failed to come up with a plan to guarantee economic stability and security lawrence lee reports from belfast when the mainstay of an economy is farming you might expect it to be reassured that it's safe in a changing world but apparently not the border between north and the republic is fifteen kilometers down the road and cross border trade is crucial yet there has been no agriculture minister in northern ireland for nearly a year brics it is knocking on the door the farmers have come to look at politicians like these sheep leaderless and quite stupid it is hugely frustrating with that minister and to make the final decision to be sitting round the table.

getting the point across about the importance of more of margaret culture it is frustrating to recap the former leader of the irish nationalists shin fein party collapse the government of shared with the pro british unit is a year ago when their problems became too difficult to resolve since then the two sides have refused to compromise. it means in the government buildings in belfast the lights are on but nobody's home no major piece of local legislation or work in northern ireland can happen there is no sign of a resolution it's only fourteen months until this province is on the front line of a u.k. outside the european union everything here has gone wrong at once the people voted to stay in the european union but the u.k. is leaving anyway the government fell apart and after a year shows no sign of being able to get back together the u.k. government has proved incapable of sorting it out let alone the much greater issue of what's going to happen to the border between northern and southern islands and

all that volatility that sense of vacuum is very dangerous for a province that's not really at peace with itself predictably nationalists who wants a united ireland and hate the idea of borders here are looking to dublin to help them two hundred leading nationalist figures written a joint letter to the irish prime minister urging him to in-city by virtue of the fact that there is a constitutional vacuum. there only. considered conclusion from bob there is a risk to the peace process because it caused by bribes that but as with everything here the same argument cuts both ways union this saga that a violent is helping the nationalists when they leave london to support them it is very unnerving for unionists and i think that there is an irony in this a very deep irony that the d.p. with the largest voice in northern ireland calling for brags that they are not the party which faces deep uncertainty as

a result of breaks it and what was once an absolutely cast iron guarantee it seemed for at least a generation in northern ireland would remain british is no longer quite as certain as it seemed the good friday agreement is twenty years old in april the treaty which officially ended the sectarian war here has guaranteed the peace since then but brett sits astride it in the doubts london and dublin between them need to cut through the fog at the moment nobody has any idea how. lower sleep al-jazeera belfast. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories south korea's president says he's open to meeting north korean leader kim jong un if certain conditions are met. and says he has no plans of easing sanctions against pyongyang until it ends its nuclear program his comments follow choose days official talks between the two sides the

first in more than two years. i keep myself open to any media including the summer with north korea if it's helpful for an improvement of north relations or a settlement of the north korean nuclear issue but to have the summit some conditions must be established i think a certain level of success must be guaranteed dozens of houses in southern california buried in the thick layer of mud and debris after a powerful storm the flooding and mudslides of killed at least thirteen people and forced thousands of others to abandon their homes recent fires have made the area vulnerable to flooding and more rain is expected on wednesday. police into nazir fired tear gas at demonstrators who stormed a supermarket in the capital tunis and to govern protests have been taking place since monday when people rallied in more than ten times against planned price and tax rises more protests are happening in sudan over high prices for bread and wheat products three people have been killed since sunday and scuffles with security

forces price increase is one of the government's measures to combat high inflation . dog charms former adviser steve bannon has resigned from his role as executive chairman of the right wing news website break but this comes just days after bannon's remarks about trump and his son in a new book bannon called a twenty sixteen meeting between donald trump jr and a group of russians treasonous. here is judges block the trumpet ministration from ending and the bombing era program that protects immigrants who enter the country with their parents without documents the deferred action for childhood arrivals program provides legal status to around seven hundred thousand people the judge said they would suffer serious irreparable harm if it ended abruptly. the rain and company's oil tanker collided with a freighter off the east coast of china says there is still hope of finding survivors bad weather and fire in the tank are hampering the search for thirty one crew members who've been missing since the collision on saturday as the headlines

the news continues on al-jazeera of the inside story news has never been more available but the message is a simplistic and misinformation is rife listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera and go over the pricing price of bread in sudan the government is warning protesters that they'll be confronted with force if they don't stop with sudan suffering from other problems how much of a threat is the public anger to president over all bashir this is inside story. i welcome to the program i'm adrian so they've been calling them bread protests.