to address a critical issue march on al-jazeera just is influencing. from journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for out of the hole in the media or opinion the listening post at this time on al-jazeera is not one way of telling a story keeping is telling right and to be respected as much as it is great we have to get to know the person fully taxed. hello i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera hopes are building for a breakthrough in peace talks on the korean peninsula after a delegation from the south held a successful meeting with north korea's leader they say kim jong il agreed to meet his south korean counterparts next month and is willing to talk about getting rid

of his nuclear weapons from seoul years old macbride. delegation arrived back in seoul clearly delighted the mission had achieved 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 jay end of south korea and north korean leader kim jong un pam and john 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 that 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 early a 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 on how. we must talk to north korea you know they are to denuclearize the korean peninsula but at the same time 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 their allies on the details of the agreement that will be a far tougher sell but macbride al-jazeera so. well president trump gave the announcement cautious welcome. but we are prepared to go either way i think that their statement and the statements coming out of south korea and north korea have been very positive that would be a great thing for the world. russia's military has offered a guarantee of safe passage to syrian rebel fighters and their families if they leave eastern huta but rebels are accusing russia of escalating the fighting and

ignoring a temporary truce in the un phase near the capital damascus russian air strikes killed ten people on tuesday. has that cleared a week long state of emergency to stop the rising violence against the muslim minority there the military has been the voice of the city of candy and the curfew is now in place after muslim owned homes and businesses are set alight and that midget in riots the unrest began after reports a truck driver from the majority buddhist community died following an altercation with four muslims. the u.k. has threatened russia with more sanctions if the russian government is shown to be behind the suspect the poisoning of a former double agent said gave screw probably was found unconscious on a bench in southern england on sunday along with his daughter he's a former russian intelligence officer who's been convicted of betraying dozens of spies to british intelligence russia has the night and involvement those are the

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a world that can be dominated by men but it was shot in saudi arabia and a stud made up the crew of. their boat were named after a constellation of stars. i am lucky to have been had i know a lot of them. but run over them with a god not a hostile but have. good to carry i can't say hey i'm going to go here but how did that oh my god evident i knew. i would have my i name to a going to be it i knew that i had been very different but how one can white cottage. with the head to look at us as a little. you but not as a pattern that i saw as and how i was the. land and. or lives do that instead i was do that in this should. have been

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and the menorah. team for one mud hut i want to part. of them. is funded by the government and started in two thousand and eight it's stated aim is to revive our months merry time heritage promote the country internationally and quote use the power of sport to contribute to the development of the people. there kali if i just know. that i but my own mind if i let it go and if you have been there.

all up till now i've dumped enough to. well have been a woman to look at them turn into. need of them time i need to. i will you probably can fly home collapsed on him and don't let up on that interview in a w. that. when i joined the company a year and a half ago those women would just starting to do some racing and it was just a one off opportunity but then they did so well the idea was such

a good one that it was decided we should we should let them continue they enjoyed it. it's hard work but they seem to like. this point here we. want. the same mad. men who've been out to look on and. get on the ice

the minute. the had been feeble almost half a. and son i am in bed most of. the jeff had been i was just sort of got out of bed when that i thought i. feel left about all sorts. so you have to but now i was there i thought. i would assume. it was

a book and nothing just i'm just my own working with it then the resume has the thoughts i would in a can a little file and slip would. have been a part of the live hit that i would miss. the young women had to pass an initial training stage in order to be accepted at home and sail. like a. mobile again but not. under seal but had come to look i'm. just a. kid doesn't agree why we got on with the guy a good woman and why every day when you get. there with a wife you got a good fantasy but at the end it was a matinee with a. smile and a thing and wife but i don't want to have any. of them any any local t.v. . and. then watch

a video grab me on the shouting about you make sure your sleeve. gets more typical after that was on most of us in march we were like that so we it's going to make the high forwards of our. net. trade in progress out at sea was unfortunately affected by an untimely illness but the company offered her a job on dry land in the education center now she teaches young children about the sea and tries to inspire other young armani's to get involved in sailing. i think it would be a comfort if that's the book. they can still have and then this is. about

a survivor and i went off to. the attic and. then there's the. mother and. in my state of them. a man has over three thousand kilometers of coastline and so has always had a close relationship with the sea and not just through fishing. pearl diving goes back centuries before the common era and the ancient probe ground stretched along the gulf coast beyond the strait of hormuz that separates from. five in one thousand nine hundred twenty to centuries golf pearls were among the most highly sought after and brought in considerable revenue. but pearl

diving was an exclusively male domain. for mr. minister. and i think that had them up and get ready but we had to do whole a whole. lot of. the heavy it was and. had. this stereotype is that men go to sea to fish and that women stayed home to keep house. but some parts of our money society have always challenged that common beliefs and then wish them and they did then my ability i think a. good. thing elected that have. he.

thought would be you. know our money in the. gulf countries to change is a question they wrestle with on an almost daily basis how to maintain traditions in the face of rapid growth and miners station and how to balance local values with outside influences. different countries adopt varying approaches as do individual families. and.

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a model that. it can it does your well i don't know ruger. i think the reaction has been great because i think the most important thing that we have shown people with very very. women's program and that's not just the race team but all all the program is you can be a very. good woman in a traditional sense you know you can you can be. a wife you can be your daughter you can be a mother but you can also have this adventure you can also learn to sail and teach other people than inspire people and i think because we've shown that you can do both. you can still you can still be a good i'm only woman i'm also a very talented so going off around the world showing or showing everybody how how

strong our money people are. the young women and their families had to think carefully about the effect they're certainly would have on family life and whether it might affect their marriage prospects or responsibilities in the future. tessa the clip of a silent miscall and then markel is work with what i want to have the. results have been a man hour this claim was that it gave us this apart what he was sure that we are his lab again and could develop a little hematoma haven't. got. one bad day off. or any. ahead. and or in any within. the so we saw what has happened and whether it should helo it up and.

role models are important in sport especially for young people. the most successful sports women in our man has been the tennis player fast men in the planning. and then the kids and i took up one of her new year and they were them up with. a little within a human a human can within her maybe even a normal reality. be ac with me that's when my salary of a kid in that when i had one nearly forgot the land i like living here you know so i thought i set up until i had given. somebody who didn't how was the need for some fun or. assured us enough of my number on him. they're meant to. dawn when a girl is a lucky woman that got away with her cell phone where. the heck couldn't have run

out of it. at the one of them. and their pennies are man's number one tennis player she started playing at the age of four and at her best in two thousand and ten was ranked three hundred and sixty two in the world. she still plays an international tennis federation tournament and is a successful doubles player winning in las palmas in spain in august twenty seventh . for as she is a role model. have a lie have a set of free will i met them and sell them i can invest in the falcon i can on a seven four. or five and a half or actually have a stake in the fire and then the second it's terrific in the chill fifi i have funny. nickel boma and. out of beer and say it's anecdotal and at a man and a cornfield ma ma fuck all of us them and fuck my dad and so.

public support from high profile figures like fast men on the panel did not guarantee except in a by every sector of our money society. even the men's team sometimes the trucks opposition. can then he gets them into by the way the distance to model into cars that are on the money or how the union if a footman is a in the mess an artist was early on in the subtle i had the full leno or lowest in bed and shovel full of. the gun. to her back to show her. my fee she ya need to hunt for. or how the

she took off never. is that often also the kind of stuff about the within the. apollo accept then when the what going under. in a lot of on a shoot or how. many in the comfort of them when steve. but not them at the what's ma home for them michael free to what could be a company what's. going on and how. they can know when they're out of going out and. the girls come along and they work just as hard as the boys and if they lose to the boys then they say right tomorrow you know tomorrow we win so it's it's it's it's interesting all i see is someone who's driven someone who's committed and somebody wants to work so i find it very

difficult to tell them apart to be honest. coming up in part two these are many women became about something more than just going out to sea in boats. has been with. maybe not the sort i had wanted to. do in a month and lot of. fun for us and what i've been kind of talk to. and the impact made when they took part in international competitions at the end of the. going up to the go. ok. you know well

you know you have all respect i have been for twenty five years you've been sailing for one year. in a country beset by poverty and lack of infrastructure. sometimes we risk our lives in taking these roads. saving lives is a dangerous job the vaccines talks on a good twenty four hours of patients waiting for these medicines who must be in pain lives earth risk a week ago one of the gang stops some vehicles on the road at that can do it with weapons risking it all guinea at this time on al jazeera and hundred forty on the. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural

gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. their future problem is something which is a geopolitical issue that's for governments international institutions to manage under one thousand refugees don't have the right to war freely on the other boards and will freely as far and as much as they want it's a multinational colonialism this is a v i'm not and over the democratic process these companies they just want the money europe's forbidden colony episode one at this time on al-jazeera. the most memorable moments with al-jazeera was when i was on as host of about. the

crowds in tahrir square talking. if something happens anywhere in the world al-jazeera is in place we're able to cover news like no other news organizations. were able to do it properly. that is our strength. hello i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera 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 for more

than a decade and the first since kim jong un took power in north korea 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 the shown its willingness to discuss denuclearization with the u.s. washington has always insisted that north commits to giving up its nuclear arsenal as a precondition to talks but it's far from clear this agreement gives that commitment or president trump gave the announcement a cautious welcome. russia's military has offered a guarantee of safe passage to syrian rebel fighters and their families if they leave eastern huta but rebels are accusing russia of escalating the fighting and ignoring a temporary truce in the enclave near the capital damascus russian air strikes killed ten people on tuesday in sri lanka has the cleared a week long state of emergency to stop rising violence against the muslim minority

the military has been deployed to the city of candy and the curfew is now in place after muslim owned homes and businesses were set alight and damaged in riots the unrest began after reports a truck driver from the majority buddhist community died following an altar cation with four muslims the u.k.'s threatened russia with more sanctions if the russian government is shown to be behind the suspected poisoning of a former double agent surrogate script was found unconscious on a bench in southern england on sunday along with his daughter he's a former russian intelligence officer who's been convicted of betraying dozens of spies to british intelligence russia has denied any involvement. or those are the headlines i'm going to have more on all those stories on the al-jazeera news hour that starts in just under half an hour from now do stay with us though coming up next al jazeera world continues thanks for watching.

four young women in our man took part in a government initiative to widen their horizons and develop their skills by training to sail competitive. it was part of an ongoing national strategy to put a man on the global map and open up opportunities for young armani's even if it meant challenging some gulf stereotypes. the crew and the boat took their name. from a constellation of stars. but they mean on live how to lie down and be counted the law of. but of commitment the for a year by then. all the chaos and the one to go hard or old of such if and with them a lot of it if what if cornel is more thorough here who is

a midget than. home because we had forty of us learn the cigarettes in a month at. yeah i mean fred and. when the air crew took part in the muskets regatta in two thousand and eleven it was their first big race as a team. of the cut. point. market that an awful lot of assenting inherently lower and lower. that he can then you know what it was about the contents and will continue to have left. because of what. sam can be

a sport for different shapes and sizes as with other sports mental resilience is just as if not more important than physical strength. not about sport for women because you don't have to be the strongest if you're strong helps but there's positions on the boat where actually we need someone to be as small as possible we need the tallest we need the smallest we need someone strong we need someone very gentle the most important thing you need for sailing is you need a good mind if you go to a good mind and you can understand the game then when there's a position on the boat for you to ten men ships ten men a little high and it. will be it will be can he. ten men going any. team or american head going to get the.

idea and so we. so we want to we have a sort of head. places that have a good. any i can the other but any of the anything i've said and said. it does does this about. to happen that matt is at the head of the fattest save those at the hands of those that live in the. catholic church and. the head for the i would also have to had that women in sailing in general there is the perception that women are not as strong. and nor does dedicated and therefore they'll be they'll be easy to beat but we've had a wonderful some of this year with the girls of going round to europe on good racing and they competed in a world championship and there was at the end of the regatta there were male teams

going up to the girls and saying to them ok respect you know well done you know you have all respect i have been sailing for twenty five years you've been sailing for one year. and you beat me and hopefully you know the goals realize that even though you're starting in a position where people don't believe that you will be a good competitor when you are they are so impressed that you have their respect for life. the my. uncle and one of them. and is

going to. let me get out of that we're going to have all of the didn't bit the foreign policy doctors say and if so what you did how did. she say i mean arabia tore it in two thousand and twelve started and. went past. and the united arab emirates and didn't know how much. for the women joined for professionals for the race to make a crew of eight. it's

often out of use outside of stimulus of any need for the head of it and back out of that i divide mad men because that. can of the faster we use it.

in though it into our bargain and our sauce it's all our own. kind of. welcome and. the photon seok or kind it's dick a father here and. it's a hundred caught up but they and i feel having a. baby. i don't adamson our family have been what i had. fear and it has a. lot of professionals. a sauce with god up

at the months going to. suck up to most of what through the window. i mean behind. i want to come up but in john's been spotted in the i'll do a sausage for you. at the loo and the only thing. i want to you know it at the cab of a well hasn't been any in. a month and it's going to well the but the gifts are the top on the right look i'm not going to. guess and you and. so what. you've been so we listen to each other. within. and so we judge my own common sense and you've gotten full aka. apart from gender driving motivation and the mix and chemistry of the team are all

key factors in a successful crew accession moved to how did but then even though i. know. what the hum was a woman of the city. where she father. was somehow delayed them underfoot if they. want to have one also knocking about in the uk each one is a little different. they're all very individual we have some girls who are very very quiet very calm under pressure but inside they're all thinking when it goes badly for them we make a mistake we don't do very well you really see them getting upset we have all the girls that always like to joke and always like to turn everything into a smile and laughter but when we start the race.

everyone becomes very serious and everyone becomes very very driven on that as there is always an atmosphere of next time we do even better next time we do it better. as well as empowering these young on many women in ways they didn't imagine possible sandlin enabled them to develop as people. way to share any of that i have a teeny kid my nephew been ascii much to my your oid the second lot of anatomy of

pain they had so how far can be any and. been done. good on the come on in j.t. on a was a meeting at a bar one. and professional. so we're not the hot assessment. officer welcome to one j.t. ward for our hundred love the one of jay toward jim not hands and well had to say when. someone. with robin have a come a was a no but skin of having to been at the moment and bella hannah a dreadful bit milan a good lesson she is so we don't that lohan wouldn't. get invalid

handful of unwanted so sitting out when it was in. as was the first woman sailing team in the whole gulf region. they set out to change perceptions of women in the region by doing the same thing as the men in the same conditions. but it was about more than just yacht racing they wanted to move barriers to achieve something different. has been with. well i don't know. maybe not the sort i had been with. the. unknown for us and what i've been kind of. for. a full manassas. effect. and now

to be. told. this should have. any. effect. on. the. should that have seen first competitive the in two thousand and twelve. twenty thirty. in the eighty world competition i must say. a month later she became the first of many women to compete in the fastnet race and i'm months flagship boat. or.

we send them and who are caught a. because of the britney know how the car. companies spy you know when one of. them. or when you can watch it from hannah has been a welcome to. any model for. see the. but how. about a. motivational. talk and so we would be fired holmes and i know you cannot or or. or sidney or. kind of monitor him to learn or i want. done or.

i want to come in. because you thought it might because you know. a lot of club it comes. in two thousand and thirteen was the first time i had competed outside. going to france was a. double

come. the rest got and so we did rebut that seebach shark at will and. i have. done sheriff a dollar. and so and so was so so in just almost i went in just for the simple reason so we say and you know if you've been out there a host of. the last. humans if you're not friends that's good on your end but if you're. unsure about. the blood in turn to get much out there much i'd rather you and. and what would you. rather than. let it come back to american most only but when i can but i dunno if you can because he doesn't and if you. got

much but. could have i went. through could. make one heart of it. i cannot be. what i would really what i would really like the authorising to do and if i if i leave i'm on sale twenty years' time you know i look back what i want the author writing to do is to show other people women men that this is a good adventure it's hard work but if you work hard you race against other people around the world and you earn their respect there is there is nothing better than it is something really special to have people say. well you know you were impressive you really you know i respect your talent and

that's what this team is about it's about hopefully some children looking at the team and think it will maybe maybe that is for me maybe i should work hard enough that i can go to a world championship with your mom flag or you know on my back and show everybody how strong we can be. as today and gradually began to see themselves as role models and that they had a responsibility to send example to other young are many women who might follow in their footsteps in the future. and that it can sell human am i one what money at the phone and a relative. and good i thought that they landed in. my city but the big thing for all of us and that's the same for the girls is hopefully we don't want to be the only thing we want to show everybody that it's possible is

possible to be to be a good arab woman and to be fantastic athlete as well but they are both very possible so the more teams the more happy we are. can be come in. for a common walk the well out of via. a day in jazz mama kind of changes pretty cool. i don't. today a team represented on the for four years. the four women laid the ground for what's

now called the on man woman sailing team. it has new members who've picked up a day as baton like a. medal and safety and. they took part in the twenty seventeen. arabia event sailing in this new far thirty class boat. verity have track records and sports medal was an athlete and handball player. a mother comes from an equestrian background and played football volleyball and basketball. in twenty fifteen it de sam was invited by her british coach. to join the only all female crew at the vaal full ocean race which covers over forty thousand nautical miles and nine months. she's part of the same class of graduates as and food and is one of the new generation of

professional female sailors in the middle east. the team's goal is to represent our men in the international arena and add more offshore miles to their sailing careers. i guess. hello there we've had plenty of rain over queensland recently and there's more still to come you can see the area of cloud very clearly on the satellite picture stretching all the way down through brisbane there some of us have seen some very wet weather particularly in the western parts of the state when winter there we've

seen two hundred twenty eight millimeters of rain just in seventy two hours and if you compare that to the entire year before when it's almost twice as much it's been incredibly wet here and that system slowly sinking its way towards the southwest as we head through the next few days so for more of us through the northern territory and into south australia we'll be seeing that wet weather too elsewhere just going to stay pretty warm for some of us adelaide office thirty three degrees and matching the temperatures that we're expecting in perth now over towards new zealand we're seeing this area of cloud with us at the moment but for the south island it's breaking up and it's brightening up and instead it's going to be the north island where we have the wettest of the weather over the next few days have for wednesday and for thursday lots of heavy rain here and at times some pretty strong winds but for the south island will have a ridge of high pressure in charge it'll be fine unsettled questions there will be up around seventeen for the north and for many of us in japan this fine weather to be had on wednesday but the rains working its way towards us but those take.

it is culture living here since i've been covering the war. it's. kind of between twenty five to life and i'm told. we're the only country that got. to grow up freaking divine public trust.