drugs terrorists we've proven that barriers are built to impose division and it's not to sixty's instead of being an obstacle or doing a job least it became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame at this time on al-jazeera. south korea's president says he's open to meeting his north korean counterpart but only under certain conditions. james up mrs al-jazeera live from doha it was a coming up at least nine hundred migrants drowned almost three hundred rescued in

separate incidents off the libyan coast. it's janda later freight train coming down the. mudslides floods and a deadly rainstorm in southern california claims lives and homes. anger over austerity sparks protests in tunis the birthplace of the arab spring but the government warns it will crack down on rioting. south korea's president says he is open to meeting north korean leader kim jong un if certain conditions are met smain jane's comments follow to 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 fix 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. 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 our 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. beijing's ordered the closure of north korean businesses in china to comply with u.n. sanctions the deadline for the closure passed on tuesday but as rob mcbride reports

some businesses 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 some 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 businesses still seem to be operating will fuel suspicions of a disconnect between what china promises what china implements at least ninety

migrants have drowned after their boat sank off the coast of libya on tuesday almost three hundred people were rescued from other boats trying to make the journey across the mediterranean sea libya is the most common departure point for migrants trying to reach europe from africa by sea. head has the latest from the libyan capital tripoli. according to libya's coast guard from ninety to one hundred migrants died in the mediterranean during the last twenty four hours libya's coast guard spokesman says that they have risky would two hundred seventy nine migrants including the nineteen women and seventeen children they also include seven migrants from bangladesh and two from pakistan the majority of the risk you would migrants are from african countries now libya's caused a spokesman says that they have received distress calls from the migrants on the

dingus and we know that usually the people smugglers give three or four or way or less devices for the migrants to call the libya's coast guard in case the dingoes capsize now during the last twenty four hours libya's coast guard have managed to reach out to the drink is and they have found those homemade it were clinging onto the elastic elastic rubber parts of the dingle is and the thing is were very very bad and they were partly destroyed now many people here in libya are angry these say that this crisis if excessive bit more there of their word that this could be taken as a pretext for international intervention in libya according to libya's coast guard the waves are in the middle fenian were as high as two meters and there were that was very honest table and that's one of the reasons why. capsized

during the last twenty four hours temporary israeli roadblocks are hampering access to the area around the occupied west bank city of nablus security forces are looking for the killer of an israeli rabbi the thirty five year old died in a drive by shooting near an illegal israeli settlement following that. there are reports of israeli settlers throwing stones at palestinians driving through the area the u.s. ambassador to israel has condemned hamas which applauded the killing harry force and sent us this update now one of the main israeli checkpoints on the road to nablus in the occupied west bank. well a fairly major israeli military operation continues as the search continues for the person or people involved in the attack last night in which a thirty five year old israeli rabbi a resident of an illegal outpost near here was shot in his vehicle by apart from a passing car the jeep so you can see behind me that israeli military jeeps there

is a heightened presence however the situation does seem to have eased a little bit from what it was earlier today when for example the who are a checkpoint just further down this road south of nablus that was entirely closed to traffic now it's running more freely it seems that the focus of this operation is shifting to some extent now the attack killed this thirty five year old man he's a resident of this place however gilad itself was founded in two thousand and two in the rear in response to the killing of an israeli settler at that time those homes were built without any kind of even israeli government permission so it is an illegal outposts more generally this area does have a lot of illegal israeli settlements and outposts the people who come to live here tend to be pretty ideologically driven israeli settlers were a long way from the border with israel proper where largest settlement blocks are and so we have seen a lot of tension between those settlers and palestinians in the area even over the

last few months during the olive picking season there were a lot of attacks carried out by israeli settlers all of trees burned and of course since this attack we've seen other instances of settlers coming out throwing stones at palestinian vehicles one person has spoken to just here says his parked car next to his home was attacked its windows smashed so it remains a tense situation now as it has been for the last few months as it has been for many years around nablus. turkey's foreign minister is demanding both iran and russia fulfill their responsibilities as go on tours of cease fires in series comments full of the latest attacks by syrian government forces and their allies on a province which is controlled by opposition fighters has been its most reports. northern syria is supposed to be one of four so-called deescalation zones set up to reduce fighting if anything battles between government and opposition forces are intensifying russia turkey and iran agreed last year to be guarantors of cease fires in those mainly opposition held areas now the turkish government says the

syrian regime is claiming to attack what it calls terrorists targeting the so-called moderate opposition. ninety five percent of the violations are carried out by the regime or the groups who backed the regime why is the aim to exploit this process to completely wipe out the moderate opposition in the civilians iran and russia should meet their obligations as guarantors and stop with the regime this is not about simple airstrikes near the border the regime is advancing toward the inside of it live so here the intention is different. but the syrian government's russian allies disagree saying recent drone attacks on its air and naval bases in syria were launched by opposition groups from italy russia's defense ministry released photos it said was of a downed drone in a statement apparently aimed at the us russia says data for the attacks could only

have been obtained from one of the countries that possesses no how in satellite navigation. with the kremlin knows the perpetrators russia will increase the shelling bombardments against them but if the attack represents a message from those who are not happy with the russians and want to negotiate with them then russia can slightly change it stands and put some pressure on a damascus regarding active groups around latakia. the syrian army's offensive around it is forcing thousands of civilians to flee towards the border with turkey turkey's foreign ministry has summoned both the russian and the iranian ambassadors to lodge a formal complaint about what's happening there bernard smith al-jazeera. qatar's foreign minister is considering more legal moves against the blockade inflicted by four arab nations on humanitarian grounds saudi arabia the u.a.e. in an egypt cut ties with seven months ago restricting their airspace and banning catteries from entry a un human rights council investigation found the blockade was having

a great impact on cattles population by separating families it also said the measures weren't only aimed at the government but also the people qatar says it's proof enough to move forward with international arbitration. dozens of homes in southern california buried in a thick layer of mud and debris off to powerful storm mudslides and flooding have killed at least thirteen people and forced thousands of others to leave but 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 true true true we've heard of a little baby. cable will. take down the food and the right 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 al-jazeera los angeles. still ahead on al-jazeera man mark cracks down on journalists who've been covering the rangar refugee crisis secret documents reveal how advisers to the ukrainian president played a role in the seizure of one point five billion dollars we'll have the latest from al-jazeera as investigative units.

watch this and tell me if you don't see winter it looks to me pretty obvious these clouds that like snow showers and even rain showers if you're really lucky in southern japan and that's right the time the there's the forecast a killa snow running into the high ground or even the low ground of the western side of honshu and up through hot car into the as cold behind it a high temperature in pyongyang of minds eleven only a modest one in beijing surprisingly equities still reported as good in beijing so here's the cold air comes across slightly warmer water well a lot will water really the sea of japan and produces snow that's true for the next two days that will be a vast amount of snow again at the western side of northern home shoes cold enough in a socket for that to be occasionally snow as well bit further south you might get away with writing but it's going to feel pretty awful a lot colder has has now finally spread dance through eastern china shanghai as mark says five degrees done most of this is going to be fairly settled not necessarily gray or foggy so sometimes it is but it should be fine by day but it

feels like when today seventeen s in hong kong about nine to ten in showing do that took a long time if not temperatures drop as well there is heavy rain in the wet season further south and it's concentrated in the next day or so around singapore and problem. there were over forty charges as i recall but primarily it was material support to terrorism the holy land foundation was the biggest muslim charity in the us so i'd definitely show that this was a political trial and that these were political prisoners because we weren't able to see the secret over them we were able to tell 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.

of a watching of zero amount of our top stories south korea's president says he is open to meeting north korean leader kim jong un if certain conditions are met to mean j. and says he has no plans to ease sanctions against pyongyang to that end its nuclear program. at least ninety migrants drowned when a rubber boat sank off the coast of libya another three hundred on other boats were rescued from the mediterranean sea on tuesday that is where most migrants are trafficked from as they try to reach your. 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.

the european union's called on man march to release two reuters journalists who've been charged under the official secrets act way loan and choice were arrested in december after police said they acquired information illegally to shared with foreign media the two had been covering the crisis in rakhine state where hundreds of thousands of reading of muslims have fled a military crackdown if convicted they could face up to fourteen years in prison daniel bust out is the head of reporters our borders for the asia pacific region he says me and mars government is using this case to scare off journalists covering the rangar crisis. the way the schemes are conducted is totally unacceptable. gridley the two journalists were handled some secret documents by two policemen in a restaurant. the government announced that two that two policemen and police officers and been arrested under the same official secrets act but the fact that

the two. boys never. come down are not the same who and all the documents so it clearly shows that no one on and us who are just gay groups to shut down the mouth of korea's journalists we have to take an image into account is durai jack presence. where at the ministry doesn't want jollies to report on sensitive issues especially the rodger crisis. should be reminded that the north african state is a place where journalists are not allowed to go. and of course they cannot monitor what is happening there. as a reminder you. mention some possible elements of genocide considering the situation in the region so it's very crucial that journalists

should be allowed out there al-jazeera is demanding the release of its journalist and what his say and it's been more than a year since he was arrested and jailed in egypt the same as accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny he's repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail police internet fired tear gas at demonstrators who stormed a supermarket in the capital tunis and to government protests have been taking place since monday when people rallied in more than ten towns against planned price and tax rises attacks again there are 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. 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 while people like me can no longer back the part of these high prices in the faith and i'm sorry. there have been protests across tunisia at least one man has been killed although there are conflicting reports about because dozens have been injured including police officers. we saw. you have i think what happened yesterday is a violation of the law since the state of emergency has been declared in tunisia i mean these protests are the results of operations that aim to revive the unrest on social media but 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 the annual deficit. down from the side of the bylines we witnessed yesterday the fan to listen to 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 they've been more protests against high prices for bread and wheat products three people have been killed since sunday in violence 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 crackdown on media and the scent of a morgan has the latest from khartoum. right now in khartoum it's pretty quiet most of the properties have been happening here has been happening around one of sudan's mean aversives cartoon when you first there were students who 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 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 the country's economic

situation the dollar and the sudanese pounds the responsibility to the dollar has been devaluing sensor two thousand and five when it was one one dollar two tuesdays pounds then it went on to want to eat in two thousand and twelve and want to twenty eight up until early january just yesterday it had a record low where one dollars equals to thirty sudanese pounds and the world bank said more than half of the country's population live below the poverty line in the poll they've been protests over the rest of a popular anti corruption crusader detained because he called for the resignation of the chief justice dr given casey whose campaign to clean up all practice in the medical sector has now gone on hunger strike behind bars as more from a protest in katmandu. where in the middle of government to where protesters have gathered to protest against the arrest of dr goh in the case he had an anti-corruption crusader who was arrested on charges of contempt of court just

a case in point of fast on today demanding the resignation of the chief justice who week used. the chief justice slapped a contempt of court case against the. has been slipping down in the transparency international's corruption index is the economy has been crippled and scraped the structures are seen to be highly corrupt cats very little has been done about it this is the fourteenth time dr casey has been fasting demanding action be taken against corruption especially in the medical field casey has been demanding that the medical education be free off corruption political parties have been seen to ruin the standard medical education many of the agreements between the government and dr casey have failed. now dr casey has

a very strong support across the nation especially among scots men whose middle class and the protests on the streets have been supported with protests on social media i would have tagged with dr casey if chief justice has wanted to bury dr cases or is the rest of the princess have not only amplified it but it is also given many a chance to question the entire independence of the. firefighters say the four day long delays on an iranian oil tanker could burn for another two to four weeks so far there's been no major spill off the coast of shanghai in china the ship's iranian operators say they still hope of finding survivors the body of one sailor was recovered from the sea thirty one others remain missing after the tanker collided with a cargo ship on saturday. dog transformer advisor has resigned as executive chairman of the breakpoint rightwing news website steve benen has been in the

headlines because of a new behind the scenes book about the trump white house transformer right hand man is quoted describing a meeting between trump's son and a group of russians as treasonous trump said bannon had lost his mind and his lawyers have tried to have the book banned al-jazeera as investigative unit has obtained a confidential ukrainian court document detailing how former president viktor yet to covert stole one point five billion dollars the document also reveals that the current president's advisors played a role in the scheme the money was seized abruptly in may last year but the court order remained a secret until now well jordan reports november twenty thirty and thousands protested in ukraine's independence square the uprising led to the overthrow of the government of then president on a covert which by june twenty fourth teen officials in the new government had traced him frozen one point five billion dollars that they claim to been siphoned

off shore by the ousted president and his clan but they have to prove the money was stolen and that yana covert had stolen it returning us it's always complicated it requires cooperation across multiple jurisdictions it requires very long elaborate legal processes and you are fighting against very very rich defendants who are going to hire the best lawyers to defend themselves briefly there is robbery in may last year the prosecutor general suddenly announced the government had seized the one point five billion dollars but how they done it was a mystery because he declared the order a state secret. it is shocking that rather than being something which is open in which ukrainian people should know. who and what has been taken from them by whom instead of that it's all kept secret al-jazeera investigations has obtained this exclusive copy of the ruling this ruling clearly identifies

investment capital ukraine acting as a brokerage firm for some of the companies involved in yannick overages corruption . it's embarrassing for the government because at the time i.c.u. was led by the current head of ukraine central bank larry a counter over and it has advised president petro poroshenko has seen with his predecessor viktor janak overage in twenty twelve our colleagues in kiev want to see a government that is committed to transparency a government whose actions in tackling corruption today i'm from past eras are subject to public scrutiny so that people can have confidence. now campaigners are asking tough questions why has the not been investigated for its role in a multi-million dollar fraud and why four years on his nobody from the unit covert clan face justice will jordan which is zero president poroshenko told al-jazeera he

strongly supports efforts to fight corruption in ukraine and that i see you are no longer his financial advisers i see your invalid area god had ever said that all the firms transactions fully complied with the no and that the transactions had been found by law enforcement bodies and market regulators to be above board i see his role was limited to that of an agent they don't watch al-jazeera is full investigation the oligarchs at twenty g.m.t. on thursday. the top stories on al-jazeera south korea's president says he is open to meeting north korean leader kim jong un if certain conditions are met moon j.n. 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. i keep myself open to any media including the summer with north korea if it's helpful for an improvement of self north. or 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 at least nineteen migrants drowned when the rubber boat sank off the coast of libya another three hundred on other boats were rescued from the mediterranean sea on tuesday libya is where most migrants are trafficked farm as they try to reach europe 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 the thirty five year old died in a drive by shooting near an illegal israeli settlement turkey's accusing russia and iran of helping syrian government troops break agreements on so-called deescalation zones russia iran and turkey agreed on for 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 back president bashar al assad while turkey supports opposition groups fighting him 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 recent fires have made the area vulnerable to flooding and more rain is expected on wednesday the european union's called on myanmar to release two reuters journalists who've been charged under the official secrets act well known and. were arrested in december after police said they acquired information illegally to share it with foreign media the two had been covering the crisis in rakhine state where hundreds of thousands of random muslims have fled a military crackdown if convicted they could face up to fourteen years in prison

those are the headlines and news continues but first it's inside story. anger over the horizon price of bread ensued on the government's 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 to president obama. this is inside story.