the boy who started the syrian war at this time on al-jazeera as poverty and desperation sweep across or he just settlements women and girls are being bought and sold and given away and refugee camps one on one east investigates yet another dark side of the real hinge a crisis at this time on al-jazeera. this is zero. tell them to do a double this is the news hour live from london coming up u.s. president sets up his biggest gamble yet agreeing to talks by may with the man he previously branded the course. this is america's trading partner is seeking

exemption from trump's new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports the e.u. says it's not afraid to retaliate the u.n. wants more than two million children are at risk of dying of malnutrition in the democratic republic of congo plus. this deceit stops here. kenya's opposition leader and president promised to unite the country at their first meeting since last year's election. in a sports arena williams is back in competitive singles action six months on up from giving birth williams makes the women were at indian wells. they're going to have your company a warm welcome to the news hour u.s. president donald trump's accepted an invitation from north korean leader kim jong un for a face to face meeting the two men have agreed to hold the unprecedented talks

before the end of may it's been brokered by south korea and is being hailed as a major breakthrough after months of the two men trading insults well it has more from film chang. this fast moving diplomatic saga has seen many extraordinary twists and turns then the announcement to beat them all south korea's special envoy emerged from a meeting with the u.s. president to reveal trump says yes to kim president from. the review and he would meet. by may for cheap hohner. seizing the moment south korea's president in has been quick to credit both north korean and u.s. leaders or the trumpeter to one denuclearization m.p.c. on the korean peninsula are beginning to be realized i believe the punk change lympics and paralympics as well as our endeavors for peace will help create

a new global peace or the credit should go to those people around the world who wish for peace should you know those. moons liberal government says the way is now open to achieving denuclearization of the korean peninsula through peaceful means something almost inconceivable until recently but many conservatives say it's only been made possible by the u.s. threat of force so i think the south koreans and the north koreans kind of put their heads together and said well we need to come up with something otherwise we might all wind up having us rockets landing and coming in where they're acting out of fear or seeing an opportunity much credit will go to south korea special envoys went to pyongyang on a mission of hope bringing back a landmark agreement and seoul exploited its good fortune in hosting the winter olympics just when the world needed a path to peace it's still early days but this is being seen as

a major diplomatic achievement for south korean president moon j in building on the goodwill of the winter olympics two remarkable effect as the paralympics get underway south korea will be hoping these games continue to work their magic. as it did in the winter olympics north korea is sending a team of paralympians sport and politics mixing it seems with the beneficial outcome at least they are dialing their stock into each other then in all things ford play their part in nor putting the door from then on it's up to the politicians until now south korea's politicians and diplomats only have to plan for the agreed into korean summit at the panmunjom truce village at the end of april a first in eleven years now they face the prospect of a first ever summit between north korean and u.s. leaders rob mcbride al-jazeera south korea or both china and japan are officially

welcoming when you say james brown has this reaction from beijing. i think china is very much sticking to the script the foreign ministry spokesman said on friday the china welcome these positive signals of course on thursday the country's foreign minister wang need said that he wanted washington and pyongyang to hold talks as soon as possible the fact those talks could now happen within the next two months is a time line the beijing will be very comfortable with i think but the foreign ministry spokesman said that while china she welcomes these developments it still believes that all relevant parties have to do more to ensure that the korean peninsula becomes free of nuclear weapons or made whole from of aren't we welcome these positive signals by the u.s. and north korea on having direct their log on the korean nuclear peninsula issue is a moving towards the right direction to the settlement we fully acknowledge and support their role in the party's efforts to resolve this issue through their log

elsewhere in asia the japanese prime minister has said that japan welcomes the news but at the same time says pressure must be kept on north korea to get rid of its nuclear weapons japan of course is one of the few countries that has had north korean missile to pass over its territory i think for china it is both good and bad bad because china doesn't want to be marginalized it doesn't want the united states to get all the glory and it also feels the china deserves credit for what it has done because it is china that has been enforcing sanctions against north korea china didn't want to do this it's always believed that the only way to bring about a lasting peace on the korean peninsula is true dialogue but now it's almost having to accept that in fact sanctions have worked here we have of course two of the world's most unpredictable leaders president trump and kim jong un and of course in today's politics two months is

a very long time but if this event happens it's going to be an event laden with. history the sort of history that accompany president nixon's visit to china in one thousand nine hundred two that led to the united states establishing diplomatic relations with china christopher hill is a former u.s. ambassador to south korea and head of u.s. negotiations with north korea between two thousand and three and two thousand and seven he is surprised by this latest news but says the real the hard work begins that it is quite unprecedented i spent four years negotiating with north korea koreans in my capacity as the head of the u.s. delegation to the six party talks and i tell you we've never had a day like today so this is quite unprecedented quite extraordinary and the question really is how much will president trump try to ensure that a meeting which is apt defter all over climate of the realm when you have a meeting with the president the united states whether that meeting will really

lead to the full dinnick denuclearization that we all are demanding if he has in mind just a sort of get together i think that's going to be very poorly received politically in this country so i think he's going to have to get his staff to work and they're going to have to figure out what the steps are they want to see coming from north korea they want to see what the north koreans expectations are from us and there's going to be an extraordinary amount of work in the coming couple of months well our white house correspondent kimberly help that joins us live from washington so kembali it's quite startling raisins that these two men have spent a lot of time in the past few months her leg insults at each other but now they're going to meet. and that's what makes it really such a surprise nobody saw this potential face to face meeting that is now being planned coming in any way and that really includes the west wing staff of the trump administration we did get out understanding that there were south korean envoys here on the white house grounds late thursday but there were no scheduled meetings

with the president fact they were here to meet with some of the high level national security staff including h.r. mcmaster and it's then that the president learned of their presence here and there they were in fact in the west wing and he voted them into the oval office and that's when this invitation was extended that the president accepted from the north korean leader but it still gets stranger after that because as you remember donald trump is a reality t.v. star and he may not understand some of the fine points of diplomacy but he really knows how to produce a good t.v. show well perhaps he was excited or wanted to make sure that people recognize the importance of this breakthrough which is a diplomatic breakthrough of twenty seven years he went to the briefing room something he has never done before the white house briefing room where most of the reporters have gone he popped his head in and said there's going to be a big announcement and i spoke to the reporter there he said what with that announcement being the president said it's going to be on north korea so that's

when we had this announcement it caught everybody by surprise and i think many people are now kind of scrambling as you heard there from the expert you had playing just before me about what happens between now and then certainly there is a recognition of the historic opportunity it's a big bold move but there's also this bit of reticence about what happens next to making sure this isn't squandered. and kim but i want the level of optimism then would you say this right now or does it come down to what christopher hill pointed out which is you know we've got to wait and see what happens and then pay attention to the details. i think what's really important to remember in all of this is despite the fact that there is an overall optimism there is no change in u.s. strategy or policy so what that means is that the president was on the phone with the japanese prime minister shinzo abbay shortly after this announcement sort of casting some reassurances that nothing has changed in terms of the u.s. posture so what that means is there is still the expectation as we heard in

reporting on earlier in the week that of the commitment by north korea to denuclearize to work towards that goal to refrain from testing nuclear weapons and also there is this sort of reassurance that was discussed that by no means is the u.s. going to stop its joint exercises that are planned for the end of this month after the para military a lympics with south korea and the united states that north korea needs to recognize those are going to continue and that nothing has changed with regard to that so what has really been kind of the cornerstone of donald trump's policy with regard to north korea since he's come in has been maximum pressure showing that type of might and also isolation diplomatically and then of course those sanctions that will continue to be enforced until this meeting takes place on behalf of the life of the white house committee thank you and the world still producing nations are lining up to seek exemptions from the new u.s. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports president chum's already weighed canada and

mexico from the twenty five percent levy on steel and ten percent of aluminum that he signed off on the first day japan brazil argentina korea have already said there were some exceptions china's to the industry's calling for its government to take measures. well the e.u. is already preparing retaliatory terrorists targeting products from swing states to help when the us presidency such as cranberries from wisconsin and orange juice from florida it's also putting pressure on the world trade organization to will trump tariffs on fear the e.u. is the world's second biggest producer after china with an i could have one hundred seventy seven million tons a year that summer and eleven percent of global i could but just five million tons of that is exported to the u.s. around one point five percent of the e.u. i would put so why is the e.u. so concerned it's worried it may become a dumping ground for steel producers around the world would usually sell to the u.s. import surge would drive down the price of steel and could cost tens of thousands

of jobs in the industry and related sectors we have been very clear that we think this is not showing compliance with w.h.o. so we will go to possibly with some other fronts we will have to protect our industry with rebalancing measures safeguards and we are also preparing a moment with the member states a list of rebalancing measures that could possibly enter into force for hope that will not be the case of course because nobody has an interest of escalating the situation but we have to do that that is what we do well paul brennan has been following events at the news headquarters in brussels. the approach from here in brussels appears to be a pragmatic one of trying to work out exactly how donald trump's tariff imposition will work and whether or not the european union can negotiate for itself some kind of exemption from those tariffs what they're saying here in brussels is that the justification that don't trump is putting forward that there is a national security threat from europe or that the european steel producers are

dumping subsidized steel into america simply doesn't stand up to scrutiny what they're saying as well is that it's not crystal clear how donald trump's door that's been left ajar to exemptions is actually going to work but what they're absolutely clear about is that individual countries within europe will not be picked off by the u.s. for example donald trump appears to have a particular problem with the german still produces the message from the european commission behind me in brussels at a news briefing which you've attended today is very clear you deal with the european union as a bloc as a trading block and they will have negotiate a solution to this if possible as a block. coming up on the news hour thirteen aid trucks and to do much carrying food but no medical supplies despite more airstrikes hit since stern picked up why britain has sent specialist ships to the city where former russian double agent and his daughter will poison with a minority. and sport the biggest winter paralympics in history are officially the

only. event has warned that more than two million children in the democratic republic of congo are at risk of dying from the cute monye attrition about three hundred thousand of them live in the castle region where fighting between armed groups a force millions to leave their homes over the past year the end humanitarian chief for me don't i said the d r c next week well yes it is the secretary general of the norwegian refugee council he visited the country recently and says they are trying to reach the worst affected you know well there is x. is a very difficult but we can reach people i would see congo more than these other places where our. alerted you to it's a funding crisis of epic proportions one example i was an inordinate feeling.

that the place has gone from five hundred fifty thousand to one point two million internally displaced a doubling of needs in one year what happened the back in the year half of the humanitarian groups packed and left because there was no money for them because it became too dangerous to be there one hundred and thirty armed groups so women and children in north kebo are left to fend for themselves we have forgotten and they collected them. well i still claim responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in the afghan capital kabul nine people were killed and eighteen wounded in the blast which happened near a kreider shia protest as they were come omar commemorating a political leader from the shia minority kenya's president hurry kenyatta and the main opposition leader raul have promised to begin a process of reconciliation a pledge came as they met for the first time since last year's disputed election which sparked violence across the country earlier this year

a dentist for himself and as the so-called people's president refused to recognize election when i can yeah as head of state we have come. to the understanding and understanding that this country of kenya is greater than any one individual and that for this country to come together leaders must come together leaders must be able to discuss their defenses you guys must be able to discuss freely and openly what is our country what. is the reason and the cause. divisions and situations and we see a constituency the time has come for us to confound him his own differences these differences of becoming too interesting not to king ends

agree on the other use of the differences in order to put in. millions of our children continued to be born unmounted into these differences people are dying out of these differences. my brother. and myself have come together today to see this descent stuff here well catherine soil has more from nairobi. when you take too many kenyans including the opposition coalition partners of rival od'ing other will tell you that this meeting has come as a complete surprise to them considering that both leaders have been talking more on completely different ends right alluding to saying that he wants to talk about electoral reforms and a new election routing addresses you can only talk about development issues so we

don't we didn't expect a meeting this soon a lot of supporters of the opposition i talked to said the very interested in knowing what exactly was the liberated on behind closed doors for example the issue of electoral justice that who's. very passionate about was that talked about the credibility of the presidential election and also importantly the people who died during election violence how will that be dealt with will they get justice will people want to know all that and going forward what is the end game really but i also think that this meeting between the two leaders was positively timed to coincide with the visit of u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson on the u.s. has been very critical on both sides both political sides and about how they handled the political how they have handled the political situation in the country so i think the leaders want to say to him look we have buried the hatchet we want

to move forward this is a democratic country all is well now and i like i said a lot of people are off kenyans really want to know outside of this public show of unity that the leaders how this played out what exactly was deliberated what do you were made of if any and what going forward is going to be the end game. in renewed violence in the sense confirmed as really for chris trying to deliver a there the red cross says airstrikes. at the outskirts of do my just as thirteen of us trucks and have the time the largest and most populated of the rebel held on place the united nations says the shelling happened despite safety issue and says from those involved in the conflict including russia turkish president reject tired already one says its troops are surrounded the northern syrian town of a free now and will enter at imminently. some of the turkish military seize control of the key nearby town of to india's helping the truth advance turkey and

allied syrian rebels are trying to push kurdish fighters from the area well alan fischer has been with turkish troops inside syria and they're both southwest of jim davis. we drove into syria with the turkish army escort they decided where we would go the destination the village of dead one of the first retaken from cultish militia by the free syrian army supported by the turks in the operation named all of branch sitting in the shade the children waited for the truck to distribute its boxes to date here has been the scene for a while. in a small building a makeshift doctor's office treating a lot of minor injuries anything serious in the transfer to turkey for further treatment. for some who knew nothing but war. it's a new and frightening experience. then it was time to hand out the aid but i mean the family's name was called and someone stepped forward some fairly tall enough to

carry it home but people are starving here waiting patiently for the aid to be handed out that is they say they were at it long enough for the aid to rival but they don't mind waiting that little bit longer. each box is all in sugar and flour and sanitary products enough to last the family three weeks one. hundred america since the f.s.a. came we are receiving aid it is enough for us it's enough six years we lived under the wire there was the aid material should be a little bit more because of the number of people here and the number of people in those families some of them received aid but one or two boxes are not enough for one family because they're all gathered in one house the turkish red crescent says it's doing what it can with what it has. up to but we came to the area yesterday and assess the needs of the village residents who prepared food and hygenic material for everyone. every so often the grain shakes with the sound of

activity fire the big guns pointed in support of the ongoing military operation the children told me they don't like the noise they may have grown up with the war but it's something they will never get used to alan fischer al-jazeera balut not in syria. of course in turkey sentenced twenty five journalists to jail for alleged links to the network blamed for a failed coup twenty sixteen meanwhile the trial has resumed of seventy reporters from the newspaper home and at now they face similar charges of allegedly aiding u.s. based muslim cleric for two local and claimed by on quest for the coup attempt prosecutors have also issued arrest warrants for two hundred and forty three people including ninety two teachers in an operation targeting suspected fall is mr. well britain sent specialist troops to remove potentially contaminated objects from the english city of seoul spray where a former russian double agent and his doctor were poisoned with

a nerve agent when secretary amber red visited the scene on friday the target of the attack sixty six year old certainly scope well and his daughter remain in intensive care a total of twenty one people have been treated following the incident russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov dismissed the u.k.'s war in the use of retaliation as propaganda well we've been seeing new activity in salzburg relating to this case so let's get some more now from china angela who joins me in the studio hi there charlie what's the latest we know in terms of the investigation well it's certainly intensifying we are seeing military vehicles coming in and removing one an object but also vehicles ambulances also mr screwballs car taking them away to be tested. these extraordinary scenes because the ridge is quite a sleepy part of the u.k. it's a very small small city and i think residents are quite shocked to see the forensic experts in their protective clothing to see military personnel on the ground there the defense ministry has confirmed one hundred military personnel operating on this

investigation. and it seems that what we're seeing is the number of sites been cordoned off. basically. to do with the authorities plotting the journey that the two took that days is starting with mr scruples home which is now the scene of a major police investigation police working to a theory that the two came into contact with a nerve agent that not actually on the bench in the shopping center where they were found slumped and unconscience and what does it seems that after they left the house they visited the cemetery where mr scruples wife and son are buried military personnel cordoned that area off with seeing forensic experts in protective clothing and tents over at least one grave so it could be that those sites were also contaminated by the same nerve agent and we don't know too much

about the deaths of those family members we know his wife died of cancer his son died only last year unexpectedly instant petersburg and details of that death are quite unclear but it seems that he was actually cremated the wife was buried so it would be ashes they would be looking into so these are extraordinary scenes and police are saying the military are now in charge of this operation due to the contamination fears and also because of the specialist chemical knowledge that they do you have it's been interesting hasn't it seeing had the british media has sort of treated this like it's a kind of extended chapter of a cold war spy novel it's been fascinating hasn't has i mean. with the litvinenko case in two thousand and six in london. the scenes of him dying in his hospital bed in the using putin of his murder that was reminiscent of the john le carre novel but to see these scenes not in london but in this small sleepy part

of the u.k. really is it's quite unusual and we heard from russia's foreign minister a little bit earlier who is dismissing any accusations of russia's involvement as propaganda of course the u.k. has not formally accused russia in any way but britain's foreign minister boris johnson so has said the case does echo what happened in two thousand and six with the russian spy turned british citizen of xander. thank you so to come this hour. the president. needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric evaluation un human rights chief says rodrigo to charity needs help but he contends his attacks on u.n. officials japan builds fifteen meter high tsunami defense walls but not everyone is happy with this concrete protection coming up in sports a former world number one making an emotional return to action in california.

welcome back we'll take a look at the weather across the levant and western parts of asia this area of cloud is shielded some snow across the hindu kush but there's no largely cleared away to far north so temperatures sixteen degrees there in kazakhstan tashkent is focused on up to twenty five degrees we've got a bit of snow still from the caucasus and temperatures in back nothing special just nine degrees celsius there on the eastern side of the military as will cool off some eighteen degrees as a high in beirut and then as we move the forecast through into sunday germany falling conditions around this area we have had some fairly brisk winds results in some lifted dust but i think that's our gerry disappearing now here in the arabian peninsula it is pretty warm at the moment with temperatures of thirty degrees already on the other side of the printer some sort of picture with temperatures well up into the mid thirty's there for mecca now is and on through into sunday not

much change expected here temperatures still staying above average so let's head across into southern parts of africa where it's looking very fine across much of south africa botswana and through into the movie we've got some heavy showers across northern parts of some bia lusaka may see some don't pour some showers also across parts of zimbabwe so harare seeing the downpours it come back into south africa it should be fine for johannesburg heise here expected to reach twenty two. bigger and potentially more dangerous that's the best way to describe what's happening with a smoking alternative known as favorite i enjoy the taste of it and not get the harmful effects of what smoking does between two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and fourteen a lone star tripling in use among us high school students and head to head comparison ysaye versus conventional cigarette which one do you think it's healthy for my opinion i think they're both dangerous take no at this time on al-jazeera.

the nature is news as it breaks it's estimated ten million children of school age are still roaming the streets of baghdad with details coverage children what amala face and number of serious problems from chronic child malnutrition to extreme poverty from around the world should one has lost us law suit in two thousand and ten by then he'd spent more than twenty million dollars in legal fees. the mind of our top stories here on al-jazeera this president donald trump has

accepted an invitation from north korean leader kim jong un for a face to face meeting before the end of may and the u.n. has warned that more than two million children in the democratic republic of congo are at risk of dying from acute malnutrition and there's been renewed violence in east and cool to us relief workers trying to deliver aid red cross says airstrikes at the outskirts of too much justice thirteen of its trucks entered the time. the united nations commissioner for refugees says syria remains too in secure for refugees who fled the country to go back to you has been visiting refugee camps in lebanon he says the u.n. is making preparations for their eventual return the situation on the ground remains to volatile well in twenty fifteen lebanon decided to stop the un registering new refugees fearing numbers could cause on refs at that point there were nearly one million registered syrian refugees living in the country but the real number of course is estimated to be much higher but that's already

a quarter of lebanon's population the country's also been hosting four hundred fifty thousand palestinian refugees who live in twelve formal camps across the country provided by the u.n. well palestinians who rely on support from the un's relief and welfare agency are facing a crisis after the u.s. withheld much of its funding in january there's also growing and refugee seven sentiment in lebanon with many high profile politicians saying that the syrians should go lebanon's president has said syrian refugees pools an economic and security threat to his country. filippo grandi joins us live from beirut mr grandy a war was warm welcome to the program you've been visiting refugee camps tell us about the people that you met there and what sort of conditions the camps are facing. well of course humanitarian assistance has been delivered now for several years to respond to these crises i think

in the last couple of years the international community has also tried to invest more in the longer term aspect of this situation to try to respond to the impact on the environment on water resources on public structures but that effort must continue a conference he's coming up in brussels in the next month where once again the international community will rally to see what can be done to help syrians affected by this terrible conflict and i do hope that it will result once again in commitments to support the countries to lebanon in particular but also jordan turkey and other countries that are hosting more than five million syrian refugees still unable as you said as i said here to return to their country and just how difficult is it mr grandy for those countries hosting so many millions of

people and of course taking care of their their citizens to. very difficult resources are limited the images you are showing are of the trip that we made yesterday with the executive director of unicef to the border with syria we saw schools where the morning shift is for lebanese children the afternoon shift for syrian children so really the country is making every possible effort to support the these refugees from syria about the they need help and that if that help is not forthcoming is that head if those if that aid is not implemented with concrete results for the host communities i do fear a backlash and we cannot afford that until the situation in syria continues to be unstable as your images just showed a few minutes ago and of course mr grandy we have the situation at the moment where we're seeing the fighting in east of who and in some places in syria of course

that's only going to create more refugees. well you know the tragic situation is that. already several years ago syrians stopped exiting syria in large numbers because borders are basically closed they've become more internally displaced but now as we see in ghouta even that option to flee for safety is becoming impossible people in what i spoke to my colleagues who were there a few days ago people don't know anymore what to do to stay there is the injurious to go out of the enclave is dangerous how much worse can it get for civilians anywhere in the world well what do you think it mr grant of the international community needs to step up to because you have the situation the way that a lot of these camps that need extra long term funding and of course as you

mentioned you're making preparations for the eventual return of refugees to wherever they came from so just how much money and focus and energy needs to be directed towards this cause. i think it is very important to help the host countries like i said that we will have this conference in brussels this is about humanitarian aid which is still needed but he's also like i said about investments for example in water which is a big problem in the border areas here in lebanon or in the school system that he's having to to absorb temporarily this large number of refugees so those investments are important at the same time you said it it's very important also to continue preparations for the return so that whenever it happens and the majority of refugees in lebanon eventually want to go home indeed then we're ready for that to

be to it is very important to do both and this is these are always complicated situations because we're asking door nurse to support both the both the areas one of response and one of preparation at mr grandy well when we're watching pictures of you in the refugee camps i noticed there was a little boy next to you in one of them and i'm just wondering what kinds of things are people saying you know are they hopeful that your the person who or one of the people who might make this better. well they see me as a person that can give them a voice to speak to the world and their message is clear you know it's very interesting when you talk about the situation in syria they're very worried they see like us the images on t.v. on on on on media and they see what's happening in ghouta but not only in what i mean diddly been a frame in many other countries their country is still very inhospitable very very

unstable but then when you know i asked a group of women yesterday i said how do you see your future in the long term nobody has it it that they see their future back in their homes back in their cities back with their communities so we we must make every effort to stop this conflict i know that it sounds almost idealistic at this point but what else can they say we need that the international pressure to continue to stop the conflict and we need above all like the secretary general has said many times more unity on the part of the international community in addressing this horrible horrible conflict for the people ended there commissioner of the united nations high commission for refugees thank you. that's why has complained to the u.n. that an m.r.i. naval vessel intercepted and hijacked a qatari fishing boat doha says on january the one nine hundred that's maritime surveillance system so the vessel trespassed into its waters it then hijacked

a fishing boat which was carrying eight indian nationals. saudi arabia has signed a memorandum of intent with the u.k. for a multi-billion dollar contract to buy forty eight typhon fighter jets it comes at the end of crime prince mohammed bin solomon's three day visit to the u.k. during which time he met prime minister to resume a defense and security are the haass of bilateral ties between the u.k. and saudi arabia well the u.k. is the world's third largest arms exporter with fifty eight percent of its arms going to the middle east saudi arabia has been consistently has consistently been the u.k.'s top export market for the last five years receiving two thirds of its arms exports and twenty fifteen well this has a tried to criticism from those who fear the weapons have been used to kill innocent civilians in yemen the u.k. has licensed six point four billion dollars of arms for saudi arabia since the conflict began in twenty fifteen. let's talk

a bit more about this now with jamal sile so use than following the visit over this past few days jamal and ethic it's fair to say that the media here has been pretty fierce seven am in the commons we've seen some commentary on the country seems split between this idea that this relationship of course is about business but at the same time that there's conflict that person is doing deals however positive for its job numbers with a country that doesn't always share our values well that's the thing i mean the question was where do you put an end to the need for financial benefits and where do you put it beginning to how much you will defend those ideals and values that our country is founded on and what's interesting i mean as you mentioned there is nothing new that the u.k. has been selling weapons to saudis have been doing it for years what is new though is that was previously critics of the arms sales to saudis would be critical because of the saudis domestic policy so not letting women to drive beheading people in public and so forth the u.k.

government could say well it's not the typhoon's it's not these fighter jets that are preventing women to drive so you shouldn't mix the two things today however you have a direct correlation it is british weapons that are being used to bomb yemen it is british weapons that have enabled the saudis to turn yemen into the worst humanitarian crisis as described by the united nations and that's why for example just in the past few minutes a statement came out from one organization warchild which says in the wake of the u.k. doing this deal prime minister tourism it has shown me it is means to where it has shown what it means there probably stand up for british values obviously in a sarcastic way it means lining the pockets of the arms industry at the expense of children's lives and by doing so the u.k. is complicit according to the statement in the suffering of humans children and i think that's where the main criticism is we had been head of the british opposition party label party saying that actually the juries are made should use this opportunity to announce a halt in ansel's but the prime minister i guess has done the exact opposite of next. increased their sales and so just explain why this relationship which as you

point out has been historically important is even more important right now well we all know that the u.k. is i'm experiencing let's say the best of moments when it comes to its economy there is it locks but you know financial tools are say is confidence and it's markets and primarily because this current government first went ahead with the whole break that referendum and then secondly when the results came out has so far failed to come up with a deal as to how the u.k. economy would look post briggs's which has made people essentially worried and that means less money is coming into the united kingdom's economy means more people or major companies are looking to set up elsewhere where they have the single market opportunity in europe so tourism is desperate for money and that's why for her i guess when she's waded up you know lives of innocent people freedom and so forth as far as her critics are concerned money the ability to actually lay off her

opponents and bring security she's realize why she money is more important the nuts and that's maybe the major significant points in here and that's whether the u.k. public then will make her pay for this in terms of votes and elections and so forth or whether she'll be able to ride this storm and people will forget about these arms sales in the future that's what we'll wait to see tomorrow funky now the u.n. say human rights two for suggesting that the philippine president should seek psychiatric evaluation they drag out his aim was referring to a court petition filed by one triggered the territories government last month which accusing un reportory and others of being members of a key communist rebel group human rights watch says the allegations have could hire and some six hundred other people in danger. this is of course on acceptable for a special operator. acting on behalf of the international community whose expertise is sort by the human rights council to be treated in this way and hooper

might expect the human rights council to respond accordingly and read makes one believes that. the president of the philippines needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric evaluation this sort of this this sort of common reed is unacceptable comus returning to ms the neighborhoods in trying because can the region after army reinforcements help to stop violence there security forces have managed to control the buddhist small violence that hit the air earlier in the week many shops to reopen peace say they've arrested more than eighty people so far the religious divide is cornish wrong in recent years with british nationalist groups accusing minority miss them of stealing from buddhist temples or desecrated them. well it's been seven years since japan was hit by an earthquake causing a tsunami to crash into its coastal cities killing more than twenty thousand people well now huge concrete walls are being built along parts of the coast to protect

against huge waves and some say the new barriers too high and could have an impact on to resume matheson explains. for fishermen atsushi frizzy to the open waters of the to ho coal coast swelling beneath a hazy blue sky where he earns his living pulling oysters from the sea there. but when he returns to the shore the rolling hills of his home have been obscured by high concrete walls or head on either how do i get a rock on there i feel like i'm working inside a fence it feels like we're in jail even though we haven't done anything bad. in the two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami wave slammed into coastal cities two thousand people were killed and at sushi's home time the focus shima nuclear reactor was swamped leaking radiation into the surrounding land and sea their original tsunami about it was just four meters high but the waves just swept right over it now japan is building sea walls fifteen meters high they offer more

protection but not everyone thinks they're worth it she said i called the board today at the local i think about fifty years ago we used to bring our kids here and enjoy the beautiful ocean and bay area while driving but there's not even a trace of that left or to it that knocked me down i don't think we need a sea wall if we could see the wave coming we could shout run but because of the wall we can't see anything. many local authorities refused to give planning permission for new homes until the walls were built of wood to the begin to build after the construction of the seawall was confirmed i was able to get permission to rebuild my bed and breakfast that is why i can't say things like the wall should be lower or we don't need it it's thanks to the wall that i could rebuild and now i have a job. and the oyster fishing has improved because the. tsunami stirred up the sea beds some complain to resume will be affected because the walls obscured the views but others say they're willing to pay that price for protection from mother nature

rob matheson al-jazeera donald trump's former campaign aides some number has testified in the investigation of russian meddling in the twenty six thousand election nunberg appeared before a grand jury at the federal courthouse in washington this part of the special counsel robert melissa vest again should a monday in a series of media interviews he did the justice department to arrest him cheering he would ignore an order to testify. workers in the northeastern united states are bracing to restore power before another severe storm is due to hit on monday more than four hundred thousand people are without electricity after wintry weather not-i power lines that broke till two storms in the space of a week of don't wind sixty centimeters of snow at these two people are known to have died forecasters say a third storm is moving up the coast. france is enjoying its strongest economic growth in six years but many companies struggling to find qualified stuff some economists are worried the shortage could slow dive. reports. in the

french city of konar blitz another busy day at this building material supplier business is booming for the subsidy group that has outlets across france to keep growing the company needs more staff but it's struggling to find skilled workers. this fall says we have five thousand three hundred staff but two hundred and sixteen job vacancies we may need sales people forklift drivers and tireless it's really hard to find people who are specialized in areas such as woodwork so it's difficult for us to recruit staff with the skills we need. the boss says the twenty years ago people joined young trained on the job and worked their way out but today that's rare because he were people are attracted to industry. we can't fill vacancies internally anymore so we must recruit externally but the skills we need are not always taught in training schools so there's

a lot of available talent we train in the house but it's not enough. france is experiencing its biggest economic growth in six years but nearly half of its manufacturing companies find it hard to recruit staff even though unemployment is high experts say the labor shortage could slow growth there isn't clear but even for growth in the next few months but as a liberal they g.'s can be a real drag for. the next few quarters the french government wants to fix the country's labor shortage and get more now people into world it's already reformed the labor allow the workplace to be more flexible and it works to bruce the number of training apprenticeship schemes like this one. paris hope the government's focus on training will improve the image of apprenticeships and create opportunities.

for the company with two years of training like this they are much more attractive and it's what companies want for the more i want to learn as much as possible here then one day i open my own company. will. be clear for a few years but investing in this generation only help the economy in the future the al-jazeera. still ahead on. the good times exhibit heading back to miami details in sport next with some. an after life in the white house find out what the obama.

it's got all the day's sports news with sun. thank you very much julio serino williams has returned to competitive singles action with the when williams is back six months after the birth of her first child her opening round when that indian wells setting up a possible on court reunion with her sister venus and the richest and has. the biggest name in women's tennis is back on course serena williams returning to action at the indian wells tournament in california. prior to this match against celtic stands is arena d.s. the twenty three time grand slam singles champion hadn't played a top level tour event since winning the australian open at the start of last year i. was i her only appearances since the birth of her

daughter have been in doubles games all exhibition matches but that famed fighting spirit soon reemerged. williams winning in straight sets dutch player kiki persons in round two assist of venus a possible third round the comments. that i was almost going to cry because i missed my daughter and i was a sight you know but i pulled myself together and i was excited to go to do it but it was good i was really in it when i was really happy to be out there you know just as we'll play tennis again. victoria azarenka was also back on calls after a prolonged absence the former world number one taking on britain's at the since. the belorussian is involved in a custody battle which means she can't leave the state of california so this is a rare chance for her to compete at a top level tour event. which prompted this match the two time grand slam champion

hadn't played competitively since appearing at wimbledon last year as a rank a winning this match in straight sets and the richardson al-jazeera. roger federer gets his bed for reckless sixth indian wells the title on saturday said six year old is back at the top of the world rankings with world number two on the dow missing from this event just injury. as little pressure as they seem to be there is always on the top guys you know because to say you're always in the center of attention and expectations are there. you know but i'm def in a good place i also feel like i have less to prove today than in the past but that doesn't mean that i don't want it badly. made a strong finish to pre-season training ahead of the new f one championship which begins with the australia goal on the march twenty fifth cameo right when it was quickest in the final session of boston on the caps a promising week for ferrari with

a sense to me sebastian vettel process on thursday and there are tribals are taking that three threat seriously as well that all fred will we definitely think it is going to be a tree treat team battle this year which is always good for more than it's good for for us as well to try you know half and half have some clear targets and some someone always to push us forward that makes us to work harder so i think consistent consistency is definitely going to be be the key you know it's it's a long season ahead. the biggest winter paralympics in the history is officially on the way the opening ceremony has finished earlier north korea will be making its games the debut but

north and south korean actually smart separately at this event the two countries united for a joint for a session at last month's lympics this time the north had wanted disputed islands on to be put on the unified flag but the self disagreed war record of five hundred sixty seven athletes from forty eight countries will be competing along with north korea georgia and tajikistan have athletes at the game for the first time eighteen medals our programs and six sports all pious skiing snowboarding power ice hockey will chair curling and the nordic skiing events of cross country and bicycle and as with the winter olympics russia's athletes are deemed drug free by organizers that will be able to compete as neutrals around the thirty russians role be in showing chang all must have had at least sue anti doping tests in the past six months. has quit

a day add to has created a app engine open the finish friday's second round in a tie for second despite nearly missing his tee time span and said he missed his morning a long call and woke up less than forty minutes before he was due to tee off tends to a quick shower and fast driver. was still able to get to the new dehli course on time . the miami heat have moved a step closer to the playoffs and basketball top proly go with the when they get to philadelphia seventy six is heading into the final six weeks of the n.b.a. regular season that has signed the whiteside lead the heat with twenty six points supported by sixteen from dane weight. and that's it for me back to julie. so barack and michelle obama reported to be in negotiations to produce a t.v. series for the video streaming service netflix according to the new york times the obama's hoping to make shows focusing on uplifting and inspirational stories they

apparently do not intend to use the program to respond to criticism by obama's success or donald trump. you can find out much more about the stories we're following on our website we got loads of good there from our correspondents and contributors around the globe will be here just to say. what makes this moment this era we live in for so unique this is really an attack on its truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding but distortion isn't what free speech is supposed to be

about the context it's hugely important level wise to publish if you have a duty to be offensive or provoke that's about it as people to setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. is was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distant shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp say going to be up at the gala the government raised our hopes and then abandon us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government will fail.

i am doing this for the benefit of saddam people. so bad they see the importance of the outcry. witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. the president agrees to meet north korea's leader kim jong un his secretary of state presents it as a victory for u.s. diplomacy the policy that was put in place and has been executed by the state department over the past year has succeeded.