an act of youthful defiance we've ruled your turn next doctor also on the school will they arrested me at home at four in the morning the electric shock treatment was the worse that triggered a revolution. the arrest of those children sparked it all of which became a battle without and that was the beginning of the armed struggle in syria. the boy who started the syrian war at this time on al-jazeera. progress in pyongyang as north korean leader kim jong un indicates he may be willing to suspend this nuclear program the whole talks with south korea and the united states.

alone barbara sorry you're watching out live from london also coming up on the program russia for is a syrian rebels that safe passage out of eastern as the number killed in the last sixteen days reaches eight hundred plus. to take innocent life. unsanctioned. a warning from britain after a russian former spy and the daughter are found unconscious in southern england and st lanka declares a state of emergency and curfew to stop attacks on muslims. after years of refusals and threats of war north korean leader kim jong il and finally seems willing to discuss suspending his nuclear program to engage in talks with the united states the us state department has confirmed it will be holding a meeting with south korea later this week to the sky potential denuclearization

talks with pyongyang it follows an agreement between the korean states to hold a historic summit of their own expounds from seoul years rolled with pride. 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 capability is 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 kammen 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 how. we must talk to north korea you know there to the nuclear ice cream. 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 they're skeptical at first u.s. president donald trump says he believes the north's motives for the talks are genuine i think that they are sincere but i think they're sincere also because the sanctions and what we're doing with respect to north korea

including you know the great help that we've been given from china and they can do more but i think they've done more than certainly they've ever done for our country before so china has been a big help i think that's been a factor but the sanctions have been very very strong and very biting. and we don't want that to happen so i really believe they are sincere i hope they're sincere we're going to soon find out. a little earlier i spoke to aiden foster carter and honorary senior research fellow in modern korea at leeds university and he explained how the most recent talks and the care to change in south korea's policy towards the north i think it's so hard to read kim jong un and s.s. why i think it's a really helpful that some south koreans have gone and actually met him and have a chance to see what he is like but i think maybe at some level he gets it their differences north korea has made itself because of its nuclear missile developments

a global look at the local threats are now the u.s. will for it i mention is just as important as the into korean dimension that's very frustrating for south korean president mungy in because of course the u.s. is a close ally but he's a veteran of the sunshine era he went to pyongyang as as chief of staff to the then south korean president and he wants to south korea back in the driver's seat i would say he's done that really very much have the donald trump who is rather hard to predict shall we say on many things will just give the south koreans you know some time. 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 fight and ignoring a temporary truce at least twenty seven civilians were killed on tuesday more than eight hundred people have been killed in the enclave in just the past sixteen days santa holder has more now from beirut in neighboring lebanon. the latest bombing

campaign and. into its third week. with the number of civilians killed is climbing with the away. from the. 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. immunity for all fighters who choose to leave personal weapons and with their families is guaranteed 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 their every offer 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 and force displacement what is not is the revolutionary leadership announced general mobilization to defend the cities and towns of eastern. well. enough in order to show 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 many requests to join devoted so we hope in many recruit the centers for volunteers and the should be here 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 the u.k. says it will respond robustly if the russian government is shown to be behind the

suspected poisoning of a former double agent russia has rejected the allegations as groundless seven case was found unconscious on a bench in southern england on sunday along with this thirty three year old daughter from a salzburg bar reports. a police cordon surrounds the scene where sergei script and his daughter yulia were found fighting for their lives the bench where they were sitting is covered by a forensic tent nearby police have set up an investigation unit c.c.t.v. footage shows the pair shortly before they became critically ill after exposure to an unknown substance they remain in intensive care in hospital 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 in london the british foreign secretary promised

a robust investigation he threatened to extend sanctions against moscow if it turns out the kremlin's to blame though i'm not not pointing fingers because we can't this is because you don't sound point fingers i see to governments around the world that move tent to take innocent life on u.k. soil will go either unsanctioned or unpunished two police officers have also been treated for minor symptoms of contamination but were later discharged the authorities say there's no known risk to the public but possibly who called the emergency services said the two were in a semi paralyzed state vomiting 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 scrip our 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 this is an image of yulia scripts while she is in her early thirty's and was visiting her father from russia 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 british counterterrorist specialists have now taken control of

this fast paced investigation the life of a russian double agent is fraught with danger. i mean if barca al-jazeera sold sprit. and still to come this half hour. on the sierra leone prepares to vote in one of its most contested polls in years with security and economic concerns high on the agenda italy's inconclusively lection saw a rise in anti immigrant rhetoric but it also inspired tax on foreigners they. cut. the us. 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 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 to elsewhere just going to stay pretty warm for some of us adelaide up at 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 and settled christchurch 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 for thursday. in a country beset by poverty and lack of infrastructure. sometimes we risk our lives in taking these roads risk saving dangerous jobs vaccine strikes on the good twenty four hours there are patients waiting for his mother to muster the. life threats. of. risking guinea at this time on al-jazeera.

a reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera north and south korea are holding a historic summit next month after pyongyang said it would be willing to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees russia's military has offered a guarantee of safe passage to syrian rebel fighters and their families if they leave eastern. and the u.k. is counterterrorism police are investigating the suspect the poisoning of a russian double agent in southern england. sri lanka has the cleared a week long state of emergency to try to stop rising violence against the country's muslim minority the military has been deployed and a curfew is now in place after a muslim owned businesses were burned been damaged by rioters from the majority buddhist community middel from now on those reports.

a heavy military presence deployed to keep the peace. witnesses say organize mobs from the single majority targeted mosques muslim homes and businesses on monday afternoon mama brother abdul died in their burning home one of many set a late early morning game do inside the house check with my parents. that they may store my brother he was really down in the. bottom of the attacks were sparked by the death of this man. the forty one year old driver was beaten by four reportedly drunk was lim utes for not allowing them to overtake his vehicle days later he was dead muslims were attacked on the day of his funeral after thirty years of brutal conflict lankans don't want more violence but have made increasing nationalist sentiment promoted by hardliners minorities are feeling vulnerable

president might be powerless serious in acted to address those concerns imposing a state of emergency to last for a week. rest my deepest regrets and pain to every family and relatives suffered the loss of life and property and i strongly condemn all acts of violence i've also asked the police to strictly enforce the law against whatever group individual organization that was behind the. show lanka has had a violent past helping for many theories on why and what is happening today boils down to. the believe the us that. some observers say police and special task force personnel couldn't control the mobs that ran riot in and on monday and the state of emergency is aimed at preventing similar incidents cd image is among the last summer

a leader has said enough is enough calling for inciting racial violence to be baited non-bailable offense and politicians who lead such violence to be stripped of their civic rights behalf and then there's. the sri lanka u.s. president donald trump has admitted that russia did interfere in the two thousand and sixteen election but he said he did not believe it had any impact on the final result kimberly healthcare has the latest from the white house. since donald trump's inauguration he has been reluctant to acknowledge that russians interfered in the twenty six thousand u.s. election in fact even though his intelligence agencies have said that there is no evidence that that russian interference in any way affected the outcome of the election donald trump has been sensitive to acknowledge this russian meddling for fear that it may undermine the legitimacy of his presidency however in

a joint press conference with the swedish prime minister here at the white house donald trump on tuesday made his furthest declaration yet in acknowledging that there has been russian meddling in the u.s. election system and also indicated what he hopes to do about it. russians had no impact on our votes whatsoever but certainly there was meddling and probably there was meddling from other countries and maybe other individuals and i think you have to be really watching very closely you don't want your system of votes to be compromised in any way and we want to allow that to happen we're doing a very very deep study and we're coming out with some i think very strong suggestions on the eighteen election and well donald trump appeared to lack specifics when it comes to exactly what his administration can do to combat russian interference there are

a number of options that are available for the president he could put in place the sanctions that were passed into law by the u.s. congress many months ago but that his administration has failed to act on he could also introduce other retaliatory measures one thing is clear is that the pressure on the president to act is intensifying even members of his own staff including his national security advisor h.r. mcmaster say when it comes to russian meddling the evidence that it occurred in the twenty sixteen u.s. election is incontrovertibly. well the u.s. secretary of state has announced around five hundred million dollars in humanitarian assistance for african countries affected by drought and food insecurity ethiopia somalia south sudan and nigeria are among the countries that will benefit she has more. mr rex tillerson. eight days the u.s. secretary of state will visit the capitals of ethiopia kenya chad and in nigeria

rex tillerson says the u.s. wants to show its commitments to african development this administration six to deepen our partnership with africa with the name of making african countries more resilient and more self-sufficient the trip was first announced in january shortly after donald trump allegedly used a profanity to describe african countries other than sentiments which the president denies having expressed this is one of the few on the record comments the president has made about the continent's absalom many friends going to your country is trying to get rich it is not clear that president shop has ever been to africa that he knows very much about the continent it's all. and nor does he appear particularly interested in learning which is the great irony because for it administration such as his which is trying to grow economic relationships around the world as a means of improving american businesses there is enormous opportunity at the state

department background briefing about to listen strip officials they were keen to emphasize the u.s. sees more in africa than u.s. corporate profits and military bases in fact u.s. officials criticize china and russia for exploiting the resources of african countries without giving back to the african people but while china has poured money into the development of african infrastructure and trade the u.s. under president obama massively expanded the u.s. is military and cia footprint throughout the continent and it is notable that while key african vacancies remain in the trump state department for example an assistant secretary to coordinate diplomatic policy the white house has managed to appoint a former cia official to be its senior director for africa but the five countries are fifty four trays unfit to listen strip key to the u.s. is military strategy in. the region suggests here at least there will be continuity with president obama's african policies thank you for your very kind of tension. to

listen this trip will be the first of many to africa but there is a suspicion that the trumpet ministration doesn't intend to engage with the continent diplomatically and there's a debate as to whether that's necessarily a bad thing for african nations. zero washington. voters are preparing to head to the polls in sierra leone on wednesday where sixteen parties will vie to succeed the outgoing president and missed by koroma but many are skeptical as to whether the candidates can actually address the huge economic challenges facing the country. reports now from freetown. sierra leone civil war ended fifteen years ago but fears of violence are me pamela williams is among dozens of women who are campaigning for a peaceful vote. was. was. was for them the violent clashes seen during electioneering are

a major concern. others nationwide are cautiously optimistic. what might come out of trucks five kilometers from home to this newspaper stand every day the businessman scans newspaper classified adverts for work. because. he says he's made up his mind of a particular candidate who he believes can turn things around but not everyone shares his confidence. when economists will call out. different things they do different things each of them for instance she says she's going to vote anyway you unemployment instead of your own is more than seventy percent many voters here expect the next president to find

a way to critically create jobs something that's not going to be easy at a time when the prices of the country's key exports. while some feel that leaders have lost touch with the people are those who were ever becomes president will be a change for the better. but it reese. frito. sunday's election initially saw the anti immigrant party known as the league become a dominant force in italian politics its leader met there salvini says he is the only possible candidate for prime minister but there are fears that increasingly xenophobic rhetoric from politicians is encouraging attacks on foreigners reports from. i lay go rally in the run up to sunday's election formerly the northern league it's 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 mortgages and i mean. those that use the league to something clear the talents 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 cars a pound of mint there was a small party and 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 and 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 leak party candidate in local elections before turning to the neo fascist group fortson over as well as cars of pounds here in the capital the bangladeshi community is one group has 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 fashion. activists this based journalist says the anti immigrant language that dominated much of the election campaign is having a knock on effect using immigration and. itself is that that extreme right fight is not just these two parties. they are creating small groups. and 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

then 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. material salvini and his party are on the rise and expanding this support base but as attitudes harden against immigrants some fear that's already making life dangerous for minority communities here dean barber al jazeera runs a court ruling in brazil makes it more likely that the former president. could end up in jail the superior court of justice has turned down the request that he not be sent to prison on corruption corruption before he has exhausted his appeals well that conviction was upheld by another court earlier this year and he may have to serve his twelve year sentence in a matter of weeks. it's remained undiscovered for more than one hundred thirty

years before being found washed up on an australian beach this is the world's oldest known message in a bottle it was thrown from a german ship in the indian ocean back in eight hundred eighty six and it's one of thousands used as an experiment to better understand the ocean's currents that record could be broken again because hundreds of those bottles have actually never been found yet and much more on that and everything else we've been covering on our website the address on your screens right now al-jazeera dot com. now a reminder of 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 the u.s. has always insisted the denuclearization should happen before any talks can be held and it says it is cautiously optimistic i think that they are sincere but i think they're sincere also because the sanctions what we're doing with respect to north korea including you know the great help that we've been given from china and they can do more but i think they've done more than certainly they've ever done for our country before so china has been a big help i think that's been a factor but the sanctions have been very very strong and very biting and we don't want that to happen so i really believe they are sincere i hope they're sincere we're going to soon find. 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 the u.k. has threatened russia with more sanctions if the russian government is shown to be behind the suspected poisoning of a former double agent surrogate scare polly 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. sri lanka has the cleared a week long state of emergency to stop rising violence against the muslim minority there 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 . well do stay with al-jazeera my colleagues and though how we'll have more news in

half an hour coming up next it's risking it all thanks for watching. the continent of antarctica is facing multiple threats from climate change to overfishing tourism but now a campaign is underway to create the largest protected area on the remote waters of the wideouts sea stay with al-jazeera for a series of special reports from the greenpeace expedition in antarctica.