forced to be displaced by their governments in one nine hundred twenty three it was very bug the greek and turkish villagers return to their roots almost a century later. and reconnect with the past they thought they'd lost forever. people should be forced to move from dilemma where they were born which are. the great population exchange at this time on al-jazeera. a humanitarian aid convoys forced to turn back from the syrian enclave of eastern goods has shelling continues. and i'm jane dutton this is live from doha it was a coming up a former russian spy living in england is in critical condition in hospital after

being exposed to and known substance. leaked e-mails from a fundraiser for donald trump who advised the united arab emirates says he was over to get dearest secateurs ted rex tillerson fired of a catch up plus. if. you look at the new strategy in afghanistan to educate its children. an aid convoy has been forced to retreat from syria's besieged eastern goodson region because of an escalation in fighting the red cross says aid workers are safe and most of the forty trucks have been unloaded but the world health organization says about seventy percent of the medical supplies were blocked by the government monday's aid delivery was the first since mid february about seven hundred people

have been killed in eastern goza since the government intensified its offensive the more than two weeks ago saying acosta reports and a warning some of you may find images in the story disturbing. it's the first time aid has entered the. eastern huta since the latest offensive began just over two weeks ago but world health organization officials say seventy percent of what was loaded on the trucks was removed during inspection. it's not the first time syrian government officials have prevented trauma kids and surgical supplies from reaching besieged areas they have been systematically removed from aid convoys in the past to prevent rebel fighters being treated. but such life saving medical equipment is what is urgently needed medics say they are struggling according to the united nations up to one thousand civilians some of them critically ill need to be evacuated to receive proper treatment already

a few thousand people have been injured in the airstrikes and the toll continues to rise. there yeah. we were sleeping when my cousin came and told us my sister's husband was killed god bless him then the warplanes hit nearby my cousin my mother and father and two of my siblings were injured two of my other siblings are safe because they were in the underground shelter. on the ground a pro-government forces are advancing on several fronts taking territory in recent days mainly farms and villages in the east forcing many people to flee to the western parts of the enclave this spite international criticism and outrage the syrian president bashar assad promised to continue the offensive until easter is recaptured the government says it is fighting what it calls terrorists and it blames rebels for holding civilians as human shields the people in eastern would

say the government wants to depopulate the area. they are wrapping children killed in the bombardment with u.n. aid bags to show their anger over the organizations inability to help them others had a message to the syrian government backer russia. putin wants to displays the people of eastern you have no business here neither does your army but you shouldn't be opening doors for us to meet you should just stop getting us we will remain steadfast and no one can force us to leave our land god willing. the united nations says it has permission to deliver supplies enough for seventy thousand people in the next few days but it is estimated up to four hundred thousand people are in eastern huta an area that has been under siege for four years an area that doesn't receive aid regularly whatever aid does reach those trapped inside will help but it is far from enough that. beirut a former russian spy is critically ill

in hospital in the u.k. after reportedly being exposed to an unknown substance sixty six year old script pole and a woman in her thirty's are both in intensive care they were found unconscious on a bench at a shopping center in the town of salzburg script has been living in the u.k. since twenty ten after being freed from a russian jail in a spy swap this has not been declared as a counter terrorism incident and we would urge people not to speculate however i must emphasize that we retain an open mind and we continue to review this position we have access to a wide range of specialist resources and services that are helping us to understand what we are dealing with at this time the focus at this moment in trying to establish what has caused these people to become critically ill and we are working with partners to prioritize this diagnosis and ensure that they receive the most appropriate and timely treatment charlie until it has more. police here are calling

this a major incident and the two individuals are in critical condition in intensive care where hospital workers are working on diagnosing and treating them as quickly as possible the sixty six year old man has been identified as surrogates for a russian national and former colonel in the russian military intelligence who in two thousand and six was convicted on charges of espionage and jailed for thirteen years it seems that he had been supplying u.k. intelligence service m i six with the identity of undercover russian agents operating in europe but in twenty ten he was released as part of a spy swap deal orchestrated with the united states he was flown to the u.k. and is since been living here probably keeping a low profile and given a new identity by m i six or this use of an unknown known substance does remind us of the case of alexander litvinenko a former russian spy turned british citizen who in two thousand and six was

poisoned here in london it turns out he had been exposed to radioactive polonium he became gravely ill and died three weeks later not before accusing president putin of his murder a government inquiry take that took place under the u.k. authority found that president putin had probably sanctioned the murder of alexander litvinenko and that incident led to a souring of relations between russia and u.k. obviously this incident it's too early to tell if we're looking at something similar but the speculation is there. north korean state media are reporting leader kim jong un wants to advance relations and ease military tensions with south korea after meeting with officials from seoul at a bank and then to kim jong un hosted the south korean and voice of the ruling workers' party's headquarters in pyongyang and high level south korean delegation

as traveled north for two days of talks focused on a conflict rob mcbride joins us live from seoul what we hearing about some sort of agreement what are the details if any at this stage. details are slowly coming out but yes the highlights of this trip so far and the biggest successes. concerned with supporters of this mission would be this banquet that was held last did something like four hours hosted by kim jong un and his wife and as you mentioned they took place at the workers' party of korea headquarters in pyongyang which the south korean government says is the first time that south korean officials have actually been entertained there they have been very keen to play up the significance of this trip kim apparently told the delegates that they were writing a new history of national reunification and as you mentioned intriguingly they he

also said that a satisfactory agreement had been reached on accommodating the intention of south korea's president in to hold a summit now we don't know any more details than that we are waiting for more details to emerge there are some communiques coming from the south korean government here in seoul more meetings are taking place today we probably won't get a full picture of what agreement has been reached until the delegation arrives back in seoul later this evening choose day briefs the president here and then the media j yes i mean that summit said he would be keen to print gracing strained relations right robin what do we looking at here that the bigger picture. these summits are very rare the last summit to take place was in two thousand and seven the one before that was in the year two thousand in some respects the stakes are a lot higher now for any future summit given the advances that north korea has made

in its missile and nuclear program now moon j.n. of south korea says the whole intention of going forward with this dialogue of having a summit is ultimately to reach the denuclearization of the korean peninsula but as many observers keep pointing out north korea seems to be so close to gaining a long range nuclear missile it is unlikely almost impossible to conceive that it will give up anything on the nuclear front so there is a lot of speculation here especially from critics of this mission that any summit would be based on such flimsy grounds such noncommittal grounds that it wouldn't really be worth having it would just be a photo opportunity we will wait to see the other thing which is conspicuously absent so far jane is any talk about moving forward the kind of dialogue that has to take place between north korea and the united states that was the other stated

intention of this mission and so far we haven't heard any progress on that thanks for that rob. still ahead on al-jazeera donald trump doubles down on controversial plans to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and he says he just might be there when it happens. the dispute over here controls a major port in the horn of africa intensifies. hello there another storm is lumbering its way across north america you can see it on the satellite picture is this bright white area of cloud here gradually edging its way eastward still developing as it does so and it's giving us some heavy outbreaks of rain in the south and snow in the north and so much snow is very heavy and accompanied by some pretty strong winds giving us blizzard conditions and that

system will continue its journey eastwards as we head through the next few days but it will be breaking up a little bit as it does say so for us in the northeastern part of the u.s. on the eastern parts of canada on wednesday we'll see some outbreaks of snow but they won't be quite as extreme as those that we've seen over the past few days meanwhile further west and here it's a lot quieter now so for wednesday we'll see a top temperature in seattle of around ten degrees i should feel fairly pleasant in the sunshine as well it's also going to be pleasant in the sunshine a bit further south as well plenty of sunshine with this at the moment not a great deal of wet weather at all in fact that's the way things are going to stay even as we head into wednesday i think wednesday we'll just see a few more outbreaks of rain in the eastern parts of mexico there even further towards the south there's plenty of showers over south america some of them very very heavy particularly though those in the northern parts of argentina and stretching their way into bolivia this is a region we have seen flooding in recent days and it looks like the showers on tuesday wednesday could be heavy. with.

all the benefit of saddam people. so mad b.c. being bored and all these. witnesses documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. because you watching al-jazeera might have our top stories this hour an aid convoy

has been forced to retreat from syria's the sieged eastern goodson region because of an escalation in fighting the red cross says aid workers are safe and most of the forty trucks have been unloaded but the world health organization says about seventy percent of medical supplies were blocked by the government. a former russian spy has been admitted to hospital in the u.k. after reportedly being exposed to an unknown substance sixty six year old sergei scrupled and the woman in her thirty's or both tricyclic ill in intensive care he's been living in britain since a spy swap in twenty ten. north korean state media are reporting leader kim jong un wants to advance relations and ease military tensions with south korea kim jong un met with a high level south korean envoy for more than four thousand people now and on monday the two sides are discussing a possible summit often made by the north. u.s. president donald trump is considering attending the opening of the american embassy

in jerusalem and. trump has been holding talks with israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the white house their fifth meeting in am committee help of reports. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and u.s. president donald trump smiled broadly in their white house meeting despite both being embroiled in scandal netanyahu wasted no time turning the attention to the u.s. president for his decision to recognize drew slim as israel's capital disapproves of this be remembered by our people throughout the region netanyahu is in washington in advance of his address on tuesday before the largest israeli lobby group in the us a pack but netanyahu made it clear he was also seeking u.s. support for what he sees as israel's greatest security challenge it's who cops. were. is not giving up its nuclear ambitions that came

out of this nuclear deal and rich both netanyahu and trump have made no secret of their loading of the twenty fifteen agreement agreed on by the u.s. and the other world powers with iran to limit tehran's nuclear program both believe the agreements duration is too short and is weakened by the fact it does not address iran's ballistic missile program. is also shared concern over what they believe is iran's rising influence and a desire for a permanent presence in syria. more support against iraq. very very little the u.s. president has also talked about striking a peace deal between the israelis and palestinians trumps jerusalem declaration in december infuriated palestinian leaders they're now calling on the international

community to negotiate a deal. not the u.s. a point the president seems to have ignored the palestinians i think you are wanting to come back to the table very bad. if they don't you don't have peace. you don't have peace if they don't you don't have peace and that's a possibility also i'm not saying it's going to happen indeed donald trump's mideast peace efforts are almost nonexistent still he said on monday he may now himself go to israel to open the new us embassy in jerusalem kimberly helped get al-jazeera washington. leaked e-mails suggest a businessman with links to the united arab emirates reportedly tried to convince the us president to sack his secretary of state the e-mail seen by the b.b.c. found that any it's a major trump fundraiser wanted breaks to listen fied for not supporting the against cats are in the current blockade according to the e-mails board he advised

trump to continue his support for the u.a.e. and saudi arabia and warned him against getting involved in there with cattle you also told trump to fire to listen to a quote politically convenient time to listen has repeatedly criticized the sea and land blockade the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt imposed on cats nine months ago this latest revelation comes at a time when another white house regular and advise a georgian neda has reportedly been questioned in the ongoing probe into trump's twenty sixteen election campaign roslyn jordan has more from washington d.c. . the upshot of these latest reports on what two u.s. based business men may or may not have been doing in terms of lobbying the trumpet ministration is this the special counsel's investigation into whether russia had anything to do to try to throw the two thousand and sixteen presidential election

as well as to exert influence on u.s. foreign policy once donald trump became president apparently is now covering whether other countries might have been doing the same thing there are a number of reports now out suggesting that two businessmen george nader and elliott brody both try to influence the trumpet ministration in twenty seventeen to actually take a harder line against the government of qatar as well as to try to get rid of the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson all of this in a way to basically try to bolster the u.a.e. efforts to expand its political influence across the gulf region and across the greater middle east now there have been a lot of back and forth about what u.s. foreign policy particularly in the middle east should be and certainly with the june fifth blockade imposed against the state of qatar there have been a lot of questions about whether the trumpet ministration is actually standing by

or harming a longtime national security ally in the gulf region so this really does raise the specter of whether the investigation is broadening and whether any persons both within the united states and outside the united states might find themselves in legal jeopardy because of it. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said to me counterpart rex tillerson his five day africa tour lavrov will visit five different countries including and and their wales sit down with the american secretary of state challenges law from moscow on russia's growing trade with africa. they'll be plenty of this in the coming days russia's foreign minister shaking hands in africa the message he wants to convey is that russia has returns to the continent. of africa tour takes him to five countries in five days

angola on monday then it's off to namibia for tuesday wednesday it's mozambique neighboring zimbabwe on thursday finally on friday he's due to head north to ethiopia in the horn of africa russia's interest in africa has been building for a while president vladimir putin and prime minister dmitry medvedev have visited in recent years the diplomatic push carries faint echoes of former times when the u.s.s.r. contested western influence by supporting marxist guerrillas fighting against colonial rulers such as in mozambique but when the soviet union dissolved so too did russia's influence far from home of robb's africa talker and sides with a similar visit by u.s. state secretary rex tillerson they'll overlap in ethiopia and russia's foreign ministry has suggested a meeting where you have guinea current yes of was a soviet and russian ambassador in africa he thinks the confidence is increasingly

interesting for many global powers. you know. this is a very important period in the history of african and international relations african influence in world politics and economics is growing in the past fifteen years african greedy pay has doubled without africa none of the global issues of our century can be solved russia's trade with africa is growing it was fourteen point five billion dollars in two thousand and sixteen but that's dwarfed by the e.u. use africa trade which amounts to apologise for that canada's prime minister just in today has called us president trying to express his concerns about suggestions of tariffs on steel imports the proposed unities have been the subject of the latest round of talks to renegotiate the north american trade agreement which have wrapped up in mexico city john heilemann has

more right so we seem to have a technical problem there which we are working on at the moment now a contract by divide based port operator the battle for control of shipping and ports in the horn of africa is intensifying dubai based operating d.p. world has announced a major investment in a port in the self-proclaimed state of somaliland however neighboring somalia says it's their territory and the divide deal is illegal there are reports of djibouti where d.p. world ports contract was suddenly canceled prior to the somali land deal. of the dollar quintin airport in. this team for ethiopia are loaded onto a train the port is the dickey today almost exclusively to imports and exports from

europe here. it's also in the middle of a dispute between the ports can put a d.p. world on by dubai in the united arab emirates and the government here do good to nationalize the ports last week bringing to an end up thirty year concession d.p. world war in two thousand and six. we already unwilling to discuss in a contractual issues arising from a disease we have family members in the rule of law and don't want to take what belongs to us but we will never accept anything that harms our country in a move seen as a response to djibouti d.p. world signed a deal last week with european on the better but up port in the breakaway and global somaliland device port operator has a fifty one percent stake in but better while somaliland has thirty percent and the remaining nineteen percent is controlled by theo peer port managers in djibouti or dismissive of the u.s. move to court with european the biggest client the metallic. pays

a country of one hundred million people and need a enormous at liberty to say no agreements with anyone so my lands a relatively small puerto exports livestock to the middle east and imports food and other items all boxes said to changes d.p. world says it's prepared to invest up to four hundred forty two million dollars to develop the port for somaliland the dubai ports deal is not only a financial windfall but also a vote of confidence that some major problem for somalia which view somaliland as its sovereign territory should get that if you will d.p. world is dividing our country it's unacceptable and illegal for this deal if allowed as it is will damage relations between somalia and the u.a.e. we urge them to reconsider. on a smaller building up as new players such as the u.s. build influence of course. some even say is the ability mohammed atta was eager

to put. unemployment in afghanistan is at more than forty percent and that's causing an exodus of the country's educated youths now the afghan president has initiated a new strategy to get young people into work but his twenty thirty find out the plan poses new dangers. there's an army of desperate street kids selling whatever they can in a daily battle for survival it's not just the bombs and bullets that kill in afghanistan but poverty and hunger too the young work wherever they can mostly for a pittance there are hundreds of thousands of them most with no hope of an education these children at the internationally supported are often aging kabul a more fortunate they are a mix of street kids often and those abandoned by desperate parents afghanistan is officially one of the worst countries to be born and it has high infant and child mortality rates it has high rates of child sexual and physical abuse but it has one

of the lowest literacy rates in the developing world. it's estimated more than six million children don't go to school yet education brings hope when they're found and out that show i want to be a doctor in the future so i can help people in afghanistan. all i want to be a policeman so i can kill i still serve the country i arrest the eaves and stop suicide bombers. their chances are slim forty percent of young afghans are unemployed what jobs there are tend to be obtained through nepotism or bribes it's led to an exodus of the country's educated elite a trend president garny is trying to reverse with a new strategy simply put it's aimed at replacing the old with the new he started a youth parliament offering them a bigger role in the future the young know of this they are really educated and open minded and they have very good idea. they can build this county had again

toward peace and. prosperity and peace and in. the clear out of the old has also hit the security forces many senior officers have enjoyed cushy positions in high salaries up to the age of seventy and beyond hundreds have now been sacked as part of the u.s. backed initiative. chuckle carr was a colonel in intelligence and says he risked his life many times in a forty year career he's angry at being thrown out with a small pension and warns of potentially dangerous consequences while because of a dialogue with our work for the government has been honest however there's a possibility that some could be recruited by the enemy for money because of our knowledge of the government that could help the opposition. to the seventy thousand street kids and under-age workers of kabul the only aim is to get enough every day to eat elsewhere it would be

a tragedy here it is what passes for no manatee it's all afghanistan's children know and they make the best of what they've got. tony burke zero. the criminal known as carlos the jackal is back in court in france as sanchez is appealing his life sentence for a bomb attack which killed two people in paris forty four years ago natasha butler has the details. we've lost that one as well apologies for that let's take a look again at the top stories here on al-jazeera. an aid convoy has been forced to retreat from syria's besieged eastern goods a region because of an escalation in fighting the red cross says aid workers are safe and most of the forty trucks have been unloaded the world health organization says about seventy percent of medical supplies were blocked by the government. a

former russian spy has been admitted to hospital in the u.k. after reportedly been exposed to an unknown substance sixty six year old surrogates cripple and a woman in a surgeons are both critically ill in intensive care scribal has been living in britain since a spy swap in twenty ten. north korean state media reporting leader kim jong un wants to advance relations and ease military tensions with south korea kim jong un met with a high level south korean envoy for more than four hours in pyongyang on monday the two sides are also discussing a possible solid offer made by the north of the head. when it comes to the economy. first. even. counting the cost.

this is really. a distortion. to be a. serious debate. up front at this time. and. the biggest is. what to do with these resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed. most of the days. five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape.

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for our morning are you doing this are you. when you hear. the thirteen's. war but. for a little finger ten years i haven't been to syria for probably thirty years i'm fortunate that i was able to come over here and to going to many.