days. five years on the syrians still feel battered even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape. well look i'm. not you know. some of it i like. a humanitarian aid convoy is forced to turn back from the syrian enclave of east and go to shelling continues. and i'm jane that and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a summit

between north and south korea is possible after a meeting with the two sides in pyongyang. leaked e-mails u.a.e. links businessman and he suspects a plan to get america's top diplomat five plus. no family should endure what we have endured. students and parents protest as florida politicians debates a bill to allow teachers to carry guns into school as. an aid convoy has been forced to retreat from syria's the sieged east and region as the government pressed on with its and ground assault the convoy of forty trucks pulled out of the town of duma without unloading all of its aid the government has already confiscated most medical supplies reports and a warning some of you may find images in the story just. it's the first time

aid has entered the rebel controlled enclave of 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. again that yes 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 by the international criticism and outrage the syrian president bashar assad promised to continue the offensive until eastern 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 and neither does your army but you shouldn't be opening doors for us to leave 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. beirut north korean state media are reporting that leader kim jong un wants to advance relations and ease military tensions with south korea after meeting envoys from seoul at the banquet dinner kim jong un hosts

of the south korean officials at his ruling workers' party headquarters and pyongyang a high level south korean delegation has traveled north for two days of talks focused on averting a nuclear conflict pride joins us live from seoul so a lot has happened in a few hours that the delegation has been there tell us what's been going on tell us more about it. that's right i think this is probably going to be seen as the biggest achievement so far this apparent agreement on moving forward with a summit involving moon j.n. the president of south korea this was jane is you recall one of the main missions of this delegation heading north and the announcement that an agreement has come came from kim jong un a banquet hosted by himself and his wife that banquet is seen as also an achievement of this mission in the very fact that it took place that kim after being in office since twenty eleven actually met any officials from south

korea for the first time the government here in seoul in south korea is really playing up the landmark achievement of just this mission taking place but we are short on detail about what this agreement means in practice we are relying for the most part on coverage by the official news service of north korea no south korean media i've been allowed to accompany the delegation we are expecting to hear more detail when that delegation who are still in pyongyang having more talks when they return later today choose day to seoul when they'll brief not only people here but then possibly all equally important they will go on to washington to brief people there and obviously what makes it even more significant is how rare summit like this would be. that's right the last one was in twenty seven

the summit though possibly there is more at stake given the summit now given the extent to which north korea has advanced its missile program and also its nuclear capability its nuclear development in the president of south korea says this whole process is day and the ultimate denuclearization of the korean peninsula but has many critics of this mission have pointed out north korea has given no indication its willing to release any of its arsenal indeed it seems to be so close to having a functioning long range ballistic nuclear missile that it's not going to concede anything on the nuclear front so there is a lot of skepticism here about just what foundations any future summit will take place on there are people here who believe it will be so vague it will be relatively meaningless and the other thing we're still waiting to find out is if there has been any progress on bringing about some sort of grounds for dialogue

between north korea and the united states and so far we've heard nothing on that right thank you for that drop evidence as a mode suggesting a businessman with links to the united arab emirates trying to convince the u.s. president or trying to sack his secretary of state rex tillerson lead to e-mails obtained by the b.b.c. find any it's brady or major trump fundraiser wanted to listen fired for not supporting the u.a.e. backed blockade against cattle wasn't jordan has more. u.s. citizens have the constitutional right to lobby the government but they have to obey the law when they do so on behalf of another country please write news reports say the special counsel for the russia investigation robert muller has expanded his work to include those who may be lobbying on behalf of the united arab emirates the new york times says muller has already interviewed this man businessman george

nader about his ties to the iraqi government and his meetings with white house officials the news reports also say nader knows another u.s. businessman elliott brody brody too has u.a.e. ties according to the b.b.c. broidery reportedly lobbied to president donald trump in october to support the blockade against qatar to hold secret talks with the crown prince and to fire secretary of state rex tillerson because he opposed the blockade to be clear there is no indication moller is investigating broidery. what analysts like interesting is the extent of the influence the emirates hold inside washington it seems to have invested so much good is now this over confidence that they can have their way into the us administration and to the extent that. they were trying to get to the

head of some because of his position toward the gulf crisis at the same time what is a lot of. it's an act of. national role being part of the game in washington but it's rather you have two agents any hopes. and george made that hole or trying to establish a diabetic can link between tromp and mohammed have been. there's also the question of whether the president's initial support for the blockade was in any way influenced by his son in law jarrett cushion or news reports say a few weeks before the blockade began family business tried and failed to get a business loan from a car to reinvest or all this comes as it becomes clear muller is investigating the communications of everyone close to the president and wants trump's communications to on monday one of those former aides repeatedly turned up on american television

to say he would not comply. so we would take it what they want i think it would be funny if they arrested thank you very much we nunberg runs the risk of being jailed if he doesn't cooperate a fact that can't be ignored is the moeller investigation grows beyond the russia question and into other countries as well. al-jazeera washington. a former russian spy is critically ill in hospital in england after being exposed to an unknown substance sixty six year old sergei schiphol and a woman in her thirty's are both in intensive care they were found unconscious on a park bench at a shopping center in the town of souls three script has been living in the u.k. since twenty ten after being freed from a russian jail in a spy swap police say they are keeping an open mind in the case 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 were on stating that 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 rangel has more from london 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. 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 that. still ahead on al-jazeera as nick violence escalates in the democratic republic of congo's the displacement of tens of thousands of people continues. and russia returns to africa what it's hoping to gain by building new relationships there. hello there there's plenty more cloud of rain that's crossing parts of the middle east at the moment the satellite picture is showing the latest batch of cloud working its way across turkey and then all the way across into tech missed on heavy showers out of this at times and gradually will see edge its way towards the east

they've tashkent will see if you will bits and pieces of cloud fuel showers there during the day on tuesday who will see that all tries to edge of way as we head into wednesday but i think our marty will still be clinging on to that cloud we could see a couple of flurries of snow at times too elsewhere largely fine and dry good day of trial there over the northern parts of iran and further west it should be dry forcing beirut on temperature of a twenty degrees bit further towards the south and here in doha the temperatures will be rising over the next few days so our maximum temperature on tuesday and wednesday will be around thirty or thirty one degrees say fairly but warmer than it has been recently for salada we'll also be seeing a temperature of around thirty one as well that ends well with the southern parts of africa and here with the more she also i cloud that's crashing now tracking its way towards the south and hopefully will move away from madagascar behind it though it's taking quite a long time before the trailing leg of cloud that clears it so we're seeing plenty of what weather across the northern parts of the could be more in the way of

flooding out of this. on counting the cost the italian job what the next government has to do when it comes to the economy the first drop rates a treaty gets a frosty reception in the u.k. will explain what five g.'s all about and if even max is counting the cost at this time on are just.

because you're watching al-jazeera amount of our top stories this hour another eighty nine people were reportedly killed in airstrikes on monday in eastern go to is the deadliest day so far in syria's latest offensive against rebel forces the news comes as an aid convoy has been forced to retreat from syria's besieged eastern goods region as the government presses on with its and ground assaults. 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 delegation for more than four hours in pyongyang on monday the two sides are also discussing a possible summit offer made by the north. new evidence has emerged suggesting a businessman with links to the united arab emirates lobbied the u.s. president to sack the secretary of state the leaked e-mails obtained by the b.b.c. found any it's brody a major trump fundraiser wanted to listen out for not supporting the u.a.e.

back to blockade against qatar. politicians in the u.s. state of floor. a one step closer to new gun legislation following the high school shooting that killed seventeen people a proposed bill would place new restrictions on the sale of assault rifles and allow some teachers to be on but critics argue it doesn't go far enough and we got to get reports. outside florida state capitol young voices that are driving calls for gun reform continue to put pressure on politicians this is the bill that addresses school safety inside the chamber the marjorie stoneman douglas high school public safety act cleared the senate it includes money for school security mental health and raising the age limit for buying a rifle to twenty one for democrats who are in the minority here it doesn't go far enough is it appropriate to slap the name of martyrs dome and douglas on the entire bill or shouldn't we be passing

a bill without their name on it and just saying hey this is the best we could do because that's honestly how i feel for many the most controversial proposal is ongoing stuff in florida schools measure the state's governor is against a ban on assault rifles was voted down on saturday there's not a single teacher there's not a single student that i've spoken to over the past several days about this topic that thinks it's a good idea to introduce more guns into our classrooms seventeen people were killed at the school and parkland parents who lost children in the shooting had a simple message for politicians this time must be different and we demand action we come from different backgrounds and hold a variety of viewpoints yet we are united on this. no family should endure what we have endured what happened in portland almost three weeks ago has led to a nationwide debate on gun control it's long been a divisive issue but increasingly the us public is in favor of gun reform and

political action so far that's been slow in coming the bill will now go to florida's house of representatives in the hopes it will reach the governor's desk by friday governor scott has said he won't approve arming teachers that's a sentiment echoed by the survivors of the school shooting but their desire to see assault rifles banned is now off the table and gallacher al-jazeera tallahassee florida canada's prime minister just entered as called u.s. president on a trying to express his concern about suggestions of tariffs on steel imports the proposed jerseys have been the subject of the latest round of talks to renegotiate the north america trade agreement which have wrapped up in mexico city john heilemann has more. even from three thousand kilometers away washington d.c. president trump managed to attend the seventh round of nafta negotiations we are renegotiating nafta as i said i work and if we don't make a deal all terminate now after that would be i would imagine one of the points that

we're going to go sure there will be tariffs on steel for canada and for mexico. he'd already announced plans to impose tariffs on steel imports from around the world that kind of durham mexico felt that as the u.s. is part of the nafta free trade bloc they should be accepted canada was especially displeased should restrictions be imposed on canadian steel and aluminum products canada will take appropriate response of measures to defend our trade interests and our workers they've been decimated president trump indicated he could be flexible if mix going canada capitulates another sticking points in the negotiations they include an increase a go to parts made in the u.s. but of mexican labor standards to make the u.s. workforce will competitive of the clues said big nafta every five years the common ground on those issues has been extremely hard to find us has indicated that the time is running out president trumps announcement as made already tough and slow

moving the goetia actions even more difficult unless canada a mexico give the united states exactly what it wants the future seems uncertain for nafta john homan how does it or mexico city the un's top human rights official said that man mars ethnic cleansing of random muslims is continuing here in assistance acreage i know for human rights and gilmore was speaking after a four day visit to refugee camps in bangladesh aid agencies say tens of thousands of the refugees are now at risk of death or serious illness from seasonal monsoon rains then it's with reports. johnny alarm is doing what he can to try and strengthen his home against the monsoon rains that will soon for on this road endure refugee camp incautious bazaar but really there's not much you can do to stop these ten being swept into the canal a few meters below. the bottom of

a hill so this place could be easily washed away is also a risk of mudslides a might be able to rebuild the heart but i'm more afraid of my family being killed by storms and floodwater. ranges started running for me and my last august and around seven hundred thousand and up in these camps in bangladesh conditions are squalid and the people living in these homes built on steep terraces will have little chance against a rental rain that will turn everything to mine. ideally we would like to evacuate many people from the sites but that depends on the saleable land which we don't have so we are extremely concerned and the steps we're taking are only mitigating steps we're not claiming it will help everybody and we are worried about the future very words indeed the u.n. says around one hundred thousand refugees here could be in grave danger from landslides and floods and the ranger come from a part of me and where they have no experience of how to manage extreme weather.

but other than what scares us the most as if it rains during the night time we are sleeping there might be landslides we could die in our sleep there's some engineering work going on a canal is being cleared to make way for the rainwater retaining walls are being built pathways reinforced but it's going to be hard work to withstand the destructive force of monsoon downpours which are on the way. bernard smith. aid agencies say tens of thousands of people have been displaced by ethnic violence in democratic republic of congo at least seventy nine people were killed over the weekend when fighting broke out between rival tribes in northern it to move province china bellus reports. a two day march every step taking these homemade tribes people further away from their enemies the lender's tribal violence has pushed tens of thousands to leave the villages seeking safety in the

provincial capital witnesses say six villagers who are raised by the rival linder tribe over the weekend they say linders went house to house killing him is before burning their homes unicef says more than forty six thousand children are on the run. it could be going up lenders are chasing us from our village with their arrows and guns machetes and deadly weapons if you're not able to run they kill you many people weren't killed i'm only alive because i was able to run away we left so many dead bodies in the bush where we were hiding. now they are hiding in borneo next to the main hospital more than sixty thousand people have set up camp here and less than a month many more a sleeping with host families in the town and sheltering in schools and churches over two years some two hundred thousand people have fled their homes scared of lendu hema clashes. we don't see peace in our region or even in the presence of a government we don't feel safe because we are suffering and dying from insecurity

as women we don't have peace at all this is however by leaving everything behind burned by militias. a cattle herders linders a farmers a long standing in a maze who often fight over who owns what land they first clashed in one thousand nine hundred ninety two before it is still a ship with tens of thousands killed in the early to thousands the conflicts amid on but this is an escalation not seen in years. d.l. sees a minister of the in teria visited the area on monday he said to provide solutions to the upsurge in insecurity the hey me you store trust the government they say the army has lift the front line leaving borneo vulnerable to attack. they won't guns to defend themselves all they have is bamboo. shallot ballasts al jazeera. leaders of latin american countries that are part of an anti us bloc gathered in

venezuela to commemorate the fifth anniversary of former president chavez's death cuban president raul castro and everyone alice of bolivia were among those who attended the event in caracas a latin american country continues to suffer from a deepening economic crisis which has forced thousands of venezuelans to flee to neighboring countries. thousands of teachers have gone on a forty eight hour strike in argentina marching towards the country's ministry of education protesters want the government to give them more supplies open new schools and increase teachers' salaries to compensate argentina's high inflation rates at an event marking the start of classes present a mockery admitted the public education system faces huge challenges he's made social spending cuts and offered at fifteen percent raise but teachers say that's not enough. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov is said to meet his u.s.

counterpart rex tillerson during his five day africa tour lover of will visit five different countries including angola and ethiopia where he will sit down with the american secretary of states where the challenge is more from moscow on russia's growing trade with africa. and. the more 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 confidence. sergey lavrov 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 tour coincides 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 there you have guinea current us of was a soviet and russian ambassador in africa he thinks the confidence is increasingly interesting for many global powers. and you know this is a very important period in the history of africa and international relations african influence in world politics and economics is growing in the past fifteen years african treaty 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 thirty three billion dollars that's beaten by the u.s.a.'s with forty nine billion dollars in trade but the country has developed the highest spending relationship with africa is china on one hundred forty nine billion dollars russia no longer has the ideology with which to woo developing countries like it could with soviet socialism but moscow is trying to make up for lost time with africa it's hoping that trades defense natural resources and energy can win back some of the partners it lost when it soviet superpower status collapsed while the challenge al-jazeera moscow. the top stories on al-jazeera at least eighty people have been reportedly killed in airstrikes on monday in eastern is one of the deadliest days so far in syria's

latest offensive against rebel forces the news comes as an aid convoy has been forced to retreat from syria's besieged eastern there's a region as a government places on with its and ground assault. north korean state media reporting leader kim jong un wants to advance relations and ease military tensions with south korea kim jong un made to the high level south korean envoy for more than four hours in pyongyang on monday the two sides are also discussing a possible summit offer made by the north more from rob mcbride insult. south korea is very much playing up this visit and the importance of it in the importance which north korea has also been crediting to the visitors apparently kim told the visitors that they were on the brink of writing a new history of national reunification but also said that an agreement had been breached satisfactorily on accommodating the intentions of moon j.

in the president of south korea to hold a summit new evidence is emerge suggesting a businessman with links to the united arab emirates tried to convince the us president to sack the american secretary of state and its brody a major trump fundraiser wanted rex tillerson out for not supporting the u.a.e. backed blockade against cattle. a former russian spies in a critical condition in hospital in the u.k. after reportedly been exposed to an unknown substance sixty six year old cripple and a woman in her thirty's were found unconscious on a bench at a shopping center scribal was freed from a russian jail in a spy swap in twenty two. politicians in the us state of florida are one step closer to new gun legislation following the high school shooting that killed seventeen people a proposed bill would place new restrictions on the sale of assault rifles and

allow some teachers to be armed those are the headlines counting the cost is coming up next forced to be displaced by their government in one nine hundred twenty three. it was very greek and turkish villagers returned to their own distance really try. and reconnect with the past they thought they'd lost forever. be forced to move from the border which are. the great population exchange at this time. oh and as i'm seeking this is counting the cost on the news you know your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week we'll look at how italy's fragile economic recovery could be a row.