mentored a groundbreaking scheme. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. ten years on we return to see how the students and the scheme a helping change the face of india. super thirty at this time on al-jazeera. south korea's president says he is open to meeting with north korean leader kim jong un but only under certain conditions. and i'm joined up in this is al jazeera live from doha it was a coming up. to the koreans come and go true true true mudslides

floods and a deadly rainstorm in southern california at least thirteen people are killed as dozens of homes are bearing. transformer advisor steps down from the writing great part news after public forty yard with the u.s. president. more anger over a stereotype protesters internet clash with police after the prime minister promises to crack down on rioters. south korea's president says he is open to meeting north korean leader kim jong un if certain conditions are made to moon jay ins comments follow choose days official talks between the two sides the first in more than two years from seoul kathy novak 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 peace

a limb pics a reality says domestic support for his policy of dialogue with north korea helped bring about the rare meeting and he had someone else to think as well during. the accomplishment 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 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. china has backed several un sanctions against north korea for its nuclear program pyongyang depends on its neighbors for ninety percent of its trade but beijing ordered the closure of north

korean businesses to comply with the sanctions and the deadline for the closure pass and choose david as rob mcbride reports from beijing some still remain open according to the directive yesterday the ninth was when all north korean restaurants were meant to have closed so that by today the tenth north korean lunch should be off the menu but we've just been inside this restaurant and were able to order a full meal with no sign of it being closed down we don't know exactly what the setup is here with this restaurant but it suspected that sound north korean restaurants may be changing their management structure to make it look as though they're now owned by chinese management when in fact money from them is still finding its way into north korea china has promised to implement fully all un sanctions but coming after claims that it's been allowing north korea to get around some other embargoes news that some north korean business is still seem to be operating will fuel suspicions of

a disconnect between what china promises what china implements staying with south korea where protesters are calling a deal with japan on world war two sex slaves invalid in twenty fifteen japan apologized to woman who were forced to work in brothels during the war and agree to set up an eight million dollar fund for the victims critics of the deal one direct compensation instead but south korea's government says it will not seek to renegotiate the agreement. dozens of houses 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 rob reynolds 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 choose truth we've heard of a little baby. she will. cut down the food and the right can you. got it out of the bottle that's no. hope it's ok to buy 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 clear to. 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 al-jazeera los angeles 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 they're carrying out multiple raids in the area thirty five year old victim was

killed in a drive by shooting near an illegal israeli settlement air force that has more from west to east them there is a major military operation underway in the occupied west bank as israeli soldiers who have been reinforced in the area are searching for the killers of this thirty five year old man a rabbi. who was a resident of the illegal outpost of hovered gilad and was shot in his vehicle on the main route outside that outpost from a passing vehicle israeli military isn't saying whether there was one shooter or more but they are searching for the perpetrator or perpetrators of this killing they have closed a number of roads in the area with checkpoints the main north south artery or at least one of the main ways linking the north and south of the occupied west bank has been cut off at the who are a checkpoint there also checkpoints which aren't allowing access into the city of

nablus there are cameras along these routes and there have been reports over the last year of increasing use of cameras within palestinian villages as well so doubtless that will be part of the investigation the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has issued his condolences to the family of the dead man and also promising swift justice there are also a number of israeli politicians who are talking about retribution. turkey is accusing russia and iran of helping syrian government troops break agreements on so-called deescalation zones russia iran and turkey agreed on four such areas in may last year turkey's foreign ministry says violations in syria could not be possible without the support of the two countries they both support president bashar al assad while turkey backs opposition groups. go to transform adviser steve bannon has resigned from his role as executive chairman of the right wing news website great part this comes just days after bannon's remarks about trump and his

son in a new book band called the twenty sixteen meeting between donald trump jr and a group of russians treasonous the book is 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. still ahead on al-jazeera a year on and still no government northern ireland's political troubles deep and.

does the u.k. takes action against these plastic tiny beats that are charging us. from the waves in the south. to the contours of the east. well we've had the two meters snow in very quick time the massive cloud that dorsey is just gone this far as is left but it's early and sort of the snow falling on the high ground of western austria tucked in behind a bit more sunshine of course an unstable base is still probing to avalanches but this message maybe some we should watch these mostly cloud but on the frontlines and they'll be rain up through italy thirty eastern slovenia it's only mountaintops will get snow from this attempt his single figures and to get us into thirteen and

following it's the weather's not quite as active as it was nine in london but the rain eighteen madrid to right to portugal as well as atlantic weather having broken through so that the sun should be out from those to talk unless you are in this part of europe it's still color up in poland for example two degrees in the in the quiet sunshine and folks become a bit of a problem on two places but i think it will slowly disappear as a problem the breeze picks up. the bottom end of our frontal system is brought well resort but it's not our dear a few days ago this is now not much left to be honest because the road maybe through libya or west of the ship the followed through by the debris rains coming down the coast to the cheery of maybe to news is a long term storage is a mere thirteen. the weather sponsored by cattle race. you are making a great point where on line the main u.s. response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been the criminal or if you join us on sat. in the morning and says i want to cover the

world in darkness this is a dialogue and that could be what leading to some of the confusion about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the colobus conversation at this time on al-jazeera. and again the top stories this hour 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 to ease sanctions against pyongyang until it ends its nuclear program dozens of houses in southern 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 homes. 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 any israeli rabbi following that attack there are reports of israeli settlers through. stones of passing palestinian cars in surrounding villages. up to fifty migrants are feared drowned of the coast of libya after their rubber boat sank of the coast guard found sixteen survivors of the city of so we hear on 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. a u.s. judge has blocked the trumpet ministration from ending and obama era program that protects immigrants who entered the country without documents the deferred action

for childhood arrivals program provides legal status to around eight hundred thousand people the san francisco judge said they would suffer serious irreparable harm if it ended abruptly trump decided to stop the policy in march but congress has remained deadlocked on the issue despite this blow to trans immigration reforms one thing he's not backing down on is the border war with mexico let's get more from can really help it 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 from the start but i think you're going to negotiate and maybe we'll agree and maybe we won't i mean you know it's possible we're not going to agree with you when it's possible but there 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 senate from the house comes back with an agreement i'm shouting at me i will be signing 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 a. election year congressional elections are set to be held in november presented as if i had to guess the demonstrators who 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 tests are going to reports. it's the economy just as it was in tunisia during the revolution that spawned the arab spring in two thousand and eleven. tunisians are looking at their circumstances and saying enough

. although this time they're also saying not much has changed since they succeeded in bringing democracy to their country. but. it's been seven years since twenty eleven and 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 accepting the high cost of living and that is contributing to the process of the country poor people like me can no longer bear the burden of these high prices and i'm afraid that i mean. there have been protests across tunisia at least one man has been killed dozens of demonstrators arrested and petrol bombs have injured a number of police officers the government is urging people to protest peacefully we saw that. you have i think what happened yesterday is a violation of the law since

a state of emergency has been declared in tunisia these protests are the results of operations that aim to revive the unrest on social media about protesters say they have only to look at their wallets to be reminded of how they're struggling to afford basic necessities anger has been bubbling since the government introduced austerity measures on january first after the government raised the price of fuel and taxes on many items in an attempt to reduce. annual deficit. though the bylines we witnessed yesterday the vandalism of the stores and the private property we obviously don't accept it however it can be seen as a natural result of the starvation and the impoverishment of the tunisian people for years. while tunisia has been heralded as the one success story of the arab spring nine governments have been unable to ease the economic concerns that have driven protesters onto the streets people have vowed to continue demonstrating

until the austerity measures are lifted natasha going to zero. in sudan more protests are happening against high prices for bread and wheat products three people have been killed since sunday and scuffles with security forces the price increase is part of the government's measures to combat high inflation to opposition leaders have been arrested as police confiscate newspapers and crackdown on dissent and he's in charge to reuters journalists under the official secrets act well known and choice oyo were arrested in december after police said they acquired information illegally she shared with foreign media the two had been covering the crisis in rakhine state where hundreds of thousands of random muslims a fled a military crackdown if convicted they could face up to fourteen years in prison. iran's supreme leader is blaming foreign enemies including the united states for provoking recent protests and trying to overthrow the government ayatollah ali

khamenei says iran's enemies took advantage of economic problems but failed with a destabilization plot. has more from teheran. and i when anti-government protests began last month iran's supreme leader said he would speak about the unrest at an appropriate time knowing his would be the final word. on tuesday ayatollah ali khamenei blamed foreign intervention by iran's enemies for the demonstrations that resulted in the deaths of at least twenty two people you can. see that even according to evidence there's a triangular part and it was formed by the u.s. and zionists the money came from a wealthy government it appears in the gulf and they had element one henchmen hide his minions but his plot he also had a warning for anyone seeking to use these demonstrations to overthrow iran's government you failed he said and you will fail in the future to i

i in his speech the supreme leader said that what he called foreign agents who were behind the anti-government demonstrations adopted the slogan of high prices knowing that that was something that would resonate with many iranians someone they acknowledged economic hardships faced by iranian fans and admitted the country had work to do to solve its own problems. but people struggling to pay their bills say there needs to be less talk and more action to improve living standards letting the most effective the said yeah these protests are because of economic problems people are frustrated they have to pay rent they have university students and their families to sally's are not enough for their expenses that john walker quoted on child there's been some economic depression in society for a while job opportunities have decreased god willing it will get solved we're still not just this so the more economic problems were a preliminary cause but some people and some foreign agents misused the situation

to create tension with one man who didn't speak to us on camera said iran's leaders have been blaming foreign countries for domestic problems for years and that it's natural for people who are frustrated with their leaders to take to the streets after all he said that's how the islamic republic of iran came to power in the first place. same bus robbi zero to one colombian rebel group the national liberation army or e l n has announced the end of a cease fire with a government that expired at midnight on tuesday after one hundred one days during that period had been no direct confrontations between government forces and in something that hasn't happened in five decades of fighting the eleven says there's an agreement with the colombian government to negotiate another cease fire. it's been a year 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 go and teach economic stability and security 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 the minister and he has 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 be 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 a 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. caused by bribes that but as with everything here the same argument cuts both ways union this saga of the developers helping the nationalists in the 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 u.d.p. with the largest voice in northern ireland calling for briggs 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 the 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 has guaranteed the peace since then but bricks its throat it into london and dublin between them it's a cut through the fog at the moment nobody has any idea. al-jazeera belfast a burn on using tiny pieces of plastic in cosmetics has come into force in the u.k. micro be used by manufacturers and products such as toothpaste face scrubs and shower gels they wash down drains an end up in the sea where there swallowed by fish and other wildlife momentum is growing to clamp down on the use of plastics campaigners are pushing to ban the use of straws which can take hundreds of years to decompose and politicians in the u.k. are proposing a so-called latte levy where consumers are charged thirty cents extra when they buy coffee in a disposable cup a plastic oceans foundation says more than eight million tonnes of plastic are

dumped in the oceans every year erik solheim is executive director of the united nations environment program he says much of our waste of plastic is single use and could be replaced with recyclable materials. obviously companies should do much threat that a number of companies are now also contemplating how to replace these products when new have much spread to my can to make a plastic from potatoes so sugarcane some of the stuff but in the action from consumers from governments from from from the big big industries together isn't there make the moment here bones pressed that you have above this two fish of the drinking water and my previous are particularly harmful those are so small they become the controller when they get into office the stars are actually should get the heat of the press to he simply don't need luck straws on these micro beans i mean that they have no use this into don't need them and then we should find that

a clay spent for those present brothers may need said to preserve too much longer there can be a close by prestige made from by the variable probably materials and them those present big plastics of the time very useful so make a car to light them then use less gasoline or make it building a tighter that's kind of plastic we should recycle some combination of get the rhythm up you don't need it place what is useful and the wealthy in the. results there are these are the top stories south korea's president says he is open to meeting north korean leader kim jong un if certain conditions are made in says he has no plans to ease sanctions against pyongyang until it ends its nuclear program his comments follow tuesday's official talks between the two sides the first in more than two years. two hundred. oki was 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 homes in southern california 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 others to abandon their homes recent fires have made the area vulnerable to flooding 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 a thirty five year old israeli rabbi police internet fired tear gas at demonstrators who 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. more protests are happening in sudan over high prices for bread and wheat products three people have been killed since sunday in scuffles with security forces the price increase is one of the government's measures to combat high inflation. donald trump's former advisor 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 called the twenty sixteen meeting between donald trump jr and a group of russians treasonous here is judges blocked the trumpet ministration from ending and obama 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 eight hundred thousand people the judge said they would suffer serious irreparable harm if it ended abruptly. those are the headlines

the stream is up next news has never been more available but the message is simplistic and misinformation is rife the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera. ok in the stream the us attorney general has made a legislative change that those of the legal marijuana jeff sessions move is actually in contradiction to join the us 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 and here are two experts with differing opinions.