the world from a different perspective on al-jazeera. in a country beset by poverty and lack of infrastructure. sometimes we risk our own lives in taking these road splits cadel saving lives is a dangerous job it's a vaccine that sucks on a good twenty four hours there are patients waiting for these medicines who must be in pain life's worth risking their lives a real could go one of the gang stops on because of the road a decade of good luck for them risking it all guinea at this time on al-jazeera. north and south korea agreed to hold a summit to discuss a possible nuclear deal. hello

i'm maryam namazie this is al jazeera live from london also coming up aid has reached east and continued as strong air raids prevent its distribution to syrians in need sri lanka declares a nationwide state of emergency after riots target and the country's muslim minority. and a cold war style mystery unfolds as a former russian double agent his wife and my six lies critically ill in a british hospital. hopes a building for a breakthrough in peace talks on the korean peninsula after a successful meeting between the north korean leader and a delegation from the south a high level talks on the escalation took place in pyongyang and a joint summit set to take place next month but president trump's cautioned against

what he's called false hope the talks bribe reports. the delegation arrived back in seoul clearly delighted the mission how to achieve all its objectives and more most importantly an apparent commitment from north korea to denuclearize under the right conditions that. north korea made it clear that there will be no reason to possess nuclear capabilities if there is no military threat and also north korea's regime security is guaranteed the two sides have agreed to a summit between president when j. end of south korea a north korean leader kim jong un come and join inside the demilitarized zone separating the two koreas where a truce was signed to end the korean war in one nine hundred fifty three. and for the first time a hotline will be set up between the two leaders to diffuse any future crises south

korea says the north has also agreed not to hold any provocative new clear or ballistic missile tests while these talks are ongoing and has shown its willingness to discuss denuclearization with the u.s. washington has always insisted the north commits to giving up its nuclear arsenal as a precondition to talks but it's far from clear this agreement gives that commitment . greenman follows an extraordinary visit lasting little more than twenty four hours with a banquet and smiles at the invitation of kim jong il on north korea's state run media giving the visit extensive coverage. president moon's government will hail this is a landmark achievement of his policy of engagement earlier choose day he was attending a graduation ceremony at a military academy he clearly believes in his mission of long term peace through

dialogue but this was a reminder to his critics that south korea should remain militarily strong if the initiative falters you know how. we must talk to north korea you know to denuclearize the korean peninsula but at the same time so we must put our maximum effort into establishing effective measures against north korean nuclear and missile capability. south korea's envoys now travel to the united states to fill in the allies on the details of the agreement that will be a far tougher sell. mcbride so. russia's military has offered a guarantee of safe passage to syrian rebel fighters and their families if they leave eastern but rebels are accusing russia of escalating the fighting and ignoring a temporary truce russian as strikes kill ten people on tuesday and

a hoarder has the latest now from beirut in neighboring lebanon. the latest bombing campaign and. into its third week. with the number of civilians killed is climbing with a life. civil defense volunteers are overwhelmed now russia is offering a way to stop the war russian military commanders say they will guarantee safe passage out of the besieged enclave for rebel fighters and their families this. immunity for all fighters who choose to leave is still personal weapons and with their families is guaranteed it by the russian center we call upon the leaders of all illegal armed groups to make everything possible to reduce the civilians from suffering and secure unobstructed delivery of humanitarian aid to.

the hundreds of thousands of people in eastern who are trapped in a war zone many refusing to cross into government controlled territory because of the lack of security guarantees the pro-government alliance blames the rebels for preventing civilians from believing and holding them as human shields the rebel factions deny that and accuse russia of insisting on military escalation. enforced displacement what is not is the revolutionary leadership announced general mobilization to defend the cities and towns of eastern huta. us in order to shut that this unite and forget the differences of the past the world with your steadfastness and perseverance with all your sacrifices during these hard victories near many men requested to join devoted so we opened many recruiting centers for volunteers and the show the opposition has lost ground in recent days rebel defenses collapsed in the eastern side of the enclave the

fighting hasn't yet reached heavily populated areas but pro-government forces seem to want to avoid direct combat the strategy appears to involve surrounding the main towns and cutting rebel supply lines to force a surrender that is what they did in the battle for aleppo they laid siege to the rebel controlled east of the city for months and then they launched an all out military campaign it was only when the rebels found themselves trapped in a small pocket of territory that they agreed to leave with their families many others left with them particularly those involved in opposition activities the people of eastern who fear the same fate doctors civil defense volunteers media activists are all considered terrorists by the government they don't want to be forced from their homes but the likelihood is increasing dozens are killed every day the suffering is only getting worse. beirut.

more than four hundred thousand people are trapped any with around a thousand in need of urgent medical evacuation alan fischer reports now on how aid is lost arriving in some besieged neighborhoods but not all. it's been a long time coming stretching through the shattered streets of the scooter bringing relief for some disappointment for others. some vital medical aid was stripped from the trucks before they set off a question mark placed over their approvals and obey him i don't know about yet we don't need most of the food supplies we need medical aid the most because the regime has prevented it from entering. then it was about getting them unloaded quickly and safely on going is strikes meant not all the trucks could be emptied fourteen had to head back. now we are dying here with our children under the bombing please save us we have no water food or medicine we are normal people we

have no nose for a fight is we are syrian people in the bases on cleve close to the city capital see ongoing is strikes makes it too difficult to distribute the aid for the moment it sits and we have houses while the people take shelter where they can no longer and . many are no living underground junichi are says basements are being turned into crude living quarters some are packed two hundred people or more seeking shelter seeking sanctuary and safety humanitarian agencies know there is a critical need for aid in east ghouta what was delivered on monday should be enough to feed their own twenty thousand people they have permission to take in enough food for seventy thousand but the population of the enclave at the moment is four hundred thousand a new eight convoy is planned for later in the week it's something for the people of the scooter it's nowhere near enough alan fischer al-jazeera on the turkey syria border. russia's military says it's considering all possible causes of

a plane crash that killed thirty nine people at an air force base in syria russia's defense ministry says the transport plane crashed while trying to land at the base near the port city of latakia there were no survivors initial reports suggest a technical fault was to blame. the u.k. has threatened russia with more sanctions if the russian government is shown to be behind the suspected poisoning of a form of double agent. was found unconscious on a bench in southern england on sunday along with his daughter is a former russian intelligence officer has been convicted of betraying dozens of spies to british intelligence from seoul's brain neve barker reports a police cordon surrounds the scene where surrogates could powell and his daughter yulia visiting from moscow were found fighting for their lives the bench where they've been sitting it's covered by a forensic tent nearby police have set up an investigation unit both victims of

critically ill and in intensive care forensic teams combs the area sealing off the shopping precinct where they were found in the hospital where they were rushed this is been a fast paced investigation and our focus has been on trying to establish what has caused these people to become critically ill and whether or not criminal activity has taken place police say they're being treated for suspected exposure to an unknown substance but say there is no known risk to public health the possible by who called the emergency services so the two are in a semi paralyzed state boma thing and foaming from the mouth before passing out a script always then airlifted to hospital a father surrogate followed by road sixty six year old surrogate script was a retired military intelligence colonel this is the moment he was arrested by russian security services he was jailed for thirteen years by moscow for passing

the identities of russian agents working in europe to british intelligence. it was released during a high profile spy swap in two thousand and ten one of four prisoners released in exchange for ten russian sleeper agents planted in the u.s. he was later flown to the u.k. where he's been living and no i am not not pointing fingers because we cannot this is because your son point fingers i say to governments around the world that move tend to take innocent life on u.k. soil will go either unsanctioned or unpunished the mystery poisonings led to comparisons with the two thousand and six killing a former russian agent alexander litvinenko he died in agony twenty three days after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium one of his suspected killers and look of oil is now a russian m.p. immune from prosecution an inquiry into the death concluded the president vladimir

putin probably approved the killing police say they're keeping an open mind over what happened here the life of a russian double agent is fraught with danger a new joins us live from cells bring out me what's the latest on the investigation . well hi mariyam we know the investigation is very fast paced we know that it's complex and we know that it's highly unusual which is why the decision was made to replace leadership of the investigation being currently led by the regional wilshere police by teams from the national counterterrorism policing network which pulls together resources from across the board was all about forensic specialist toxicologists intelligence officers from the domestic intelligence agency m i five and the international intelligence agency m i six clearly a lot more work needs to be done to establish exactly what led to the contamination

and the serious condition that surrogates cripple are currently in at the moment as well as looking into those details that are also poring over other intelligence also the shopping precinct where they were found unconscious is of course an intelligence rich environment there are many c.c.t.v. keep t.v. cameras pointing around that particular area and the police are said to be focusing their attention on one image in particular as showing the moments possibly before the contamination before they felt quite so seriously ill and images also emerged of yulia script form social media we know now that she was visiting her father former russia she was said to be in her early thirty's and may also have lived here in the u.k. with her father and also mother who died mysteriously in

a car accident a few years ago might also add that her brother died in a similar accident in moscow only last year and concerns have been raised by the family that perhaps they were also being targeted that people were out to take surrogates cripples life. all right thank you very much with the latest on that story from spree you're watching al-jazeera much more still to come it was an election that saw a rise in anti immigrant rhetoric could it bans attacks on foreigners. tens of thousands displaced into tribal violence in the since the nineteen seventies a lot more coming up very shortly. how

i will after what's been a pretty disturbed spell of weather on places say we have got things squatting down across a good part of the middle east a fair amount of cloud sliding out of the eastern side of the mediterranean but i think the most it will be dry fine and sunny as we go on through the next few days twenty celsius there in beirut and in aleppo struggling to get to around fifteen degrees but not looking too bad there's a little more cloud across northern parts of iran could be some rain coming through here cloudy easing out of the caspian sea pushing a little further research as we go on through thursday chap pushing over towards to many stan i mean even the old winfrey floury into afghanistan but clear as guys do come back in behind and notice yeah there will be a little bit of writers coming into the northern parts of syria to spilling out of turkey over the next dial to the right in the forecast across the middle east as we go on through the next as i said across the region potentially thirty thirty one celsius here glorious sunshine and die hala can get as we go on through the next few days not looking quite sick across northern parts of madagascar. now in the

process of pulling further south but we still have this legacy of plough bring you some very heavy showers into northern madagascar well there was a mess and bake into tanzania into the democratic republic of congo still a few showers there into and also the eastern cape. ard.

welcome back you with al-jazeera a recap of the top stories this hour north and south korea all to hold a historic summit next month after pyongyang said it would be willing to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees the u.k.'s counterterrorism police are investigating the suspected poisoning of a russian double agent in southern england. and russia's military is offered a guarantee of safe passage to syrian rebel fighters and their families if they leave east and guta. un investigators say war crimes were committed in syria in two thousand and seventeen by all sides in the conflict including

russia and the us a report by view as commission of inquiry on syria found that an attack that killed eighty four people in a market in west of aleppo in november was carried out by russian ak rofft the attack using on guided weapons may amount to a war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks it also concluded that u.s. led coalition strikes on a school in iraq in march two thousand and seventeen killed one hundred fifty residents the un rejected the pentagon's claim that dozens of militants were killed and found that the u.s. failed to protect civilians was a violation of international humanitarian law investigators said syrian government forces used chemical weapons in densely populated areas of east and three times in july and again in november the report found the siege of eastern ghouta characterized by pervasive war crimes the report also covered armed groups finding that actions in june two thousand and seventeen and preventing residents of leaving areas under attack amounted to the war crime of using civilians as human shields

well earlier i spoke to you honey my galley one of the commission is behind that u.n. report he's calling for serious international pressure to impose a thirty day ceasefire in east and kuta. but i think we go back again to trying to remind people that these are laws that everyone has agreed to abide by and if and if they don't as we've seen we're back to the rules of the jungle were basically you know the laws are there to protect everyone and if they're not respected then they come back to haunt you the pressure no is for a cessation of these on board rooms for the thirty day secession that would also a low humanitarian access to help those who most need it. you know if we can get that moving we can begin to talk about some of the other issues like the people in detention or the people who are missing you know secret detention places or of

completely disappeared or been killed but the families are still looking for them hundreds of women have begun their journey through turkey to raise awareness about the plight of syrian women international conscience convoys meant to arrive in the tech city of hatay on thursday to coincide with international women's day women from fifty different countries that want to shed light on the suffering of syrian women especially women who are in assad regime prisons i say more than needs to be that easy more awareness about the thousands of women being tortured raped and executed some consumer reports from istanbul. march two thousand and eighteen marks the seventh year of the syrian war which course that these five hundred thousand lives inside syria according to the human rights organizations at least thirteen thousand people lost their lives in prisons by torture by the syrian regime and the

muscles here are full of women hitting the road from istanbul to hype turkey's border city with syria there is no reason why six thousand women should be held in prisons in syria this is the twenty first century you know what was unearthed this happening twenty first century and women are being tortured in brutalized it has to stop you know some women have had to give birth behind bars you know can you imagine the the horrors that they've had to endure it has to stop it is not really human who have been in syria so as we follow. in the footsteps of mr mandela we hope this is it to make a change so that it is a way we hear these people are gathered here to give support for the women who are imprisoned in my area by the regime and they are trying to create an international awareness and initiate

a campaign that will let the syrian regime release the women who are in prison and the whole they want is that the syrian women should be for it and they are giving this message which is going to end up by a convoy on the international women's day. schrank has declared a ten day state of emergency to stop rising violence against the country's muslim minority military's been deployed to the city of candy and a curfew is now in place of the muslim own homes and businesses with satellite damaged in riots began officer pulls a truck driver from the majority buddhist community died after an altercation with muslims who schrenker is largely divided into two ethnic groups according to the last census almost seventy five percent are similes they are concentrated in the southwest in the center of the island eleven percent can tamils who mostly live in the north and east buddhism is the main religion particularly among the sinhalese

accounting for seventy percent of the population twelve percent are hindu many of them tamils while nine point seven percent a muslim and a seven point four percent christian are just there is male phenomena as has more on this now from can the province. a heavy blanket of security around the affected areas of beginning and candy in said to the authorities very keen to make sure that there's no room for any for the flare ups any more confrontational the muslim community and the sing haley's know what had started off as a fluke quickly small scale argument on an altercation about drug ways all right of way. has basically taken on a communal proportion it never started this way and this is what the government is urging people not to give in to sort of hate rhetoric or any of this hate crime and violence but ensure that they work together the government has pointed towards the

violence this country has seen for almost thirty years reminding people that they can't afford to go back to that era now basically the muslim community very one of its own a youth who was caught in a house that was born down by an unruly mob last afternoon he couldn't get out on time and basically his funeral happening on tuesday afternoon now the singhalese community also sort of cutting off to a truck driver forty one year old truck driver basically was assaulted to death a few days ago which formed the sort of catalyst for this tension for this country hoping very much that they don't return to this kind of commuter clash because the country simply cannot afford it. sunday's election in italy has seen the anti immigrant party known as the lego all the lead become a dominant force in italian politics. says he's the only possible candidate for

prime minister but there are fears increasing the xenophobia rhetoric from politicians is feeding into attacks on foreigners as nadine bob reports now from rudd. in the run up to sunday's. election formerly the northern league is grown from a northern separatist movement to a nationwide populist party under matteo salvini and there's a familiar slogan with a clear subtext for the hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees who've made italy their home. and i mean. those who choose the league do something clear a talent's first italians first. and it's that same slogan you can see on the banners of the extreme right like at this gathering in rome of the cause a pound of movement there a small party in a failed to win seats in parliament but their opponents such as these counter protesters say electoral success is not their only purpose and the. school in the most of them some organizations are hiding disguising themselves as speaking about

democracy but using words of hatred discrimination racism and carrying out aggressions and stabbings. one attack last month hit the headlines a gunman drove around shooting at african migrants in the central city of much errata wounding six of them when police arrested suspects look at trainee he had the italian flag draped over his shoulders but inside his home they found nazi material people who know him say trainee was a league party candidate in local elections before turning to the neo fascist group fortson over as well as cause a pound here in the capital the bangladeshi community is one group that's been targeted more than seventy bangladeshis many of them street vendors have been beaten up in the last few years a sort of initiation rite for young fascist activists this roam based journalist says the anti immigrant language that dominated much of the election campaign is having a knock on effect. immigration and. itself is that that extreme

right five days not just these two parties. they are creating small groups who. target. they make it and parties like their electoral allies the brothers of italy deny links to neo fascist groups and have spoken out against physical attacks on foreigners but their detractors say they're knowingly creating hatred with dangerous consequences. there's a growing climate of fear in the country and often that immigrants don't report violent incidents because they might not have residents as well because they're scared that speaking out might have worse consequences. salvini and his party are on the rise and expanding their support base but as attitudes harden against immigrants some fear that's already making life dangerous for minority communities here the dean barber al jazeera run. aid agencies say tens of thousands of people

have been displaced by ethnic violence between rival tribes in the democratic republic of congo at least seventy nine people have been killed in recent days in northern it terry province. reports. a two day march every step taking these 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 villages who are raised by the rival lendu tribe over the weekend they say linders when house to house killing him is before burning their homes unicef says more than forty six thousand children are on the run. he could be going to 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 the militias. our cattle herders linders of farmers the 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 escalates it with tens of thousands killed in the early to thousands the conflicts amid on but this is an escalation not seen in years. d r c's minister of the in teria visited the area on monday he

said to provide solutions to the ops surge and insecurity the hey me you store trust the government they say the army has lift the front line leaving borneo vulnerable to attack. they want guns to defend themselves all they have is bamboo. charlotte dallas al jazeera. a quick look at the top stories this hour north and south korea are to hold a historic summit next month after pyongyang said it would be willing to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees the agreement follows a two day visit by a south korean delegation to pyongyang it will be the first such meeting some more than a decade. in the first since kim jong un took power in north korea the u.s. which has always insisted on denuclearization before any talks can be held says

it's cautiously optimistic so korea says the north has also agreed not to hold any provocative nuclear or ballistic missile tests while these talks are ongoing under shown its willingness to discuss denuclearization with the u.s. washington has always insisted the north commits to giving up its nuclear arsenal as a precondition to talks but it's far from clear this agreement gives that commitment russia's military has offered a guarantee of safe passage to syrian rebel fighters and their families if they leave eastern ghouta but rebels are accusing russia of escalating the fighting and ignoring a temporary truce in the enclave near the capital damascus russian as strikes killed ten people on tuesday. the u.k.'s counter-terrorism police will investigate this is spectator poisoning of a russian double agent in southern england sergei script was found unconscious on a bench in salt spray in southern england on sunday along with his thirty three

year old daughter he is a former russian intelligence officer who was convicted of betraying dozens of spies to british intelligence russia has denied any involvement or knowledge of the case over the top stories the news hour is coming up in twenty five minutes time that's off the inside story which starts now so without is there. he's been in office for one hundred days in bobby's new president. is under pressure to improve the economy and corruption but is there any change from the robert mugabe era and is going on up to the challenge this is inside story.