capital the capital which makes a great if. when nature is transformed into a commodity big business takes a new interest. in protecting landscapes it's a phenomenal opportunity to be able to use a business model to achieve sustainability of nature but at what risk banks of course don't do that because they have at the heart protection of nature they do that because they see a business in pricing the planet at this time on al-jazeera. president trump agrees to meet kim jong un but the white house insists it needs concrete action from north korea first. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up more

aid has been delivered to eastern ghouta in syria despite continuing as strikes the u.n. warns more than two million children are at risk of dying of malnutrition in the democratic republic of congo. here. in kenya as opposition leader and the president promised to unite the country at that meeting since last year's election. as president donald trump has accepted an invitation from the 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 mcbride has more now from chan. 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 from says yes to kim president from. the review and said he would meet kim jong un by may or to monitor the new priority. seizing the moment south korea's president in has been quick to credit both north korean and u.s. leaders or the trumpeter to norman denuclearization m.p.c. on the korean peninsula are beginning to be realized i believe the punk shanklin pics 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 about 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 end up having u.s. rockets landing in pyongyang 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 jay 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 dialing less talking to each other then you know i think sport played 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 but the white house has been saying before such a meeting can take place it needs to see concrete action from north korea can really help get explained. well the white house continues to work out the details on where and when the u.s. president donald trump will meet with north korean leader kim jong un there are growing questions in washington about if kim jong un could be trusted to keep his

commitment to denuclearize something that the white house press secretary sara sander says is being taken into account the president will not have the meeting without seeing concrete steps and concrete actions take place by north korea so the president would actually be getting something and frankly the world would be getting something if we can get to a place where north korea is denuclearizing that is a massive step and it's something that will make the entire globe much safer in other words sarah sanders the press secretary there suggesting that if north korea does not live up to the expectations of the united states that in fact the meeting may not take place but when pressed by reporters of how that might be verified there were a few answers from the press secretary there was also a dismissal of the suggestion that essentially the u.s. may be falling into a trap by the north korean leader and that is that this could be nothing more than

a photo opportunity that would allow kim jong il to get exactly what he wants and that is respect and elevation on the world stage here i spoke to kevin rudd the former prime minister of australia and the current president of the asia society policy institute i started by asking him how likely it is that the meeting will actually take place. well difficult for us all to know we've had a statement so far effectively from the south korean national security adviser. reflecting an oral account of a discussion which they had with the north korean leadership. and then we have what seems to be a communication from president trump that he's willing to meet the north korean leader but there's still a lot of water to go under the bridge so i wouldn't be putting all my money on it just yet but as i've said consistently in the public debate on the north korean nuclear question we should seize with both hands the opportunity for substantive

negotiation as we know president trump has his own remarkably unique diplomatic star let's remember this is donald trump it's it's not being done according to the classic international diplomatic handbook but it hasn't been for the last twelve months so the bottom line is he's the president this is were up to the question is therefore what can we produce by way of substantive outcome from these pre negotiations about the substance of what would be on the negotiating table on denuclearization and so i don't have any particular problems by the process by which we've got here but i'm concerned about based on historical skepticism of north korea's bona fide g.'s is what the result will be but we should give diplomacy a chance. five civilians were killed in attacks by government forces on parts of east and bhutto

on friday an aid convoy crossed into the rebel held enclave delivering desperately needed food despite heavy fighting that broke out by the delivery included supplies that were not offloaded on monday when a convoy was forced to retreat because it renewed violence. meanwhile the syrian rebel group the army of islam has agreed to release fighters being held as prisoners in eastern guta syrian state t.v. showed footage of thirteen fighters from the group formerly known as the nostra front and their families beginning to leave the rebel held enclave the rebel group said the decision was made in consultation with the united nations and a number of international parties it's not clear if the deal would lead to a wider evacuation of fighters from other groups or civilians in other developments the turkish president says his troops have surrounded the northern syrian town of african and will enter it imminently but. that's after the turkish military seize control of the fleet nearby town of gender as helping the

troops advance turkey an allied syrian rebels are trying to push kurdish fighters out of the area out of issue has been with the turkish troops inside syria in their balut southwest of gender as. we drove into syria with the turkish army escort they decided we would go the destination the village of dead one of the first retaken from kurdish militia by the free syrian army supported by the turks in the operation named all of brunch sitting in the shade the children waited for the truck to distribute its boxes the 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 minimal family's name was called and someone stepped forward some barely tall enough to

carry it home the people are starving here waiting patiently for the to be handed out that is they say they were too long enough for the aid to arrive but they don't mind waiting that little bit longer. each box is all in sugar and flour and son a tree products enough to last the family three weeks. since the f s a came we are receiving eight it is enough for us it's enough six years we lived under the y.p. . the age 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 eight but one or two boxes are not enough one family because they're all gathered in one house. the turkish red crescent says it's to turn with what it has. opted for 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 growing cheeks with the same

victory for the big guns pointed so in support of the ongoing military operations the children told me they don't like the noise that we have grown up with the war but it's something we will never get used to. al-jazeera balut not in syria. there are still producing nations are lining up to seek exemptions from the new u.s. tariffs on steel and other minium imports president trump has already weighed canada and mexico from the twenty five percent levy on steel and ten percent on alimony and that he signed off on thursday japan brazil argentina australia and south korea have already said they will seek exemptions as well china's steel industry is calling for its government to take retaliatory measures well the e.u. is already preparing counter measures targeting products from swing states that help donald trump win the us presidency like cranberries from wisconsin and orange juice from florida it's also putting pressure on the world trade organization to rule trumps tariffs unfair the e.u.

is the world's second biggest steel producer off to china or the now to seven hundred seventy seven million tons a year around eleven percent of global outputs but just five million tonnes of that is exported to the us around one and a half percent of the e.u. output so why is the e.u. so concerned it's worried it may become a dumping ground for steel produces around the world who would usually sell to the u.s. imports would drive down the price of steel and could cost tens of thousands of jobs in the industry and in related sectors. we have been very clear that we think this is not in compliance with w.h.o. so we will go to w.h.o. possibly with some other friends 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 and to into force we hope that will not be the case of course because nobody has an interest of escalating the situation but we if we have to do that that is what we do fulbright and has been

following events in the e.u. 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 in position 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 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 bloc. watching out is there much more still to come on the program saving else sees pledges to focus on sustainable fishing at the wild ocean summit that has everyone on board in japan build fifty metre high tsunami defense falls but not everyone is happy with concrete protection. welcome back severe storms continue to plague parts of queensland in the northern territory and some places have seen two three months worth of rain the space of a few days is serious pretty unsettled still some heavy rain across this region elsewhere we still get a southerly flow for sydney september twenty four more there in melbourne and

adelaide the thames in the low thirty's and to a pretty woman perth as well as the east the flow heading into sunday not much change here and across the rest the countries as you were ready so the warm for adelaide but for the north still those showers effects in the gulf of carpentaria region in particular across into new zealand well to the north between new caledonia and vanuatu we've got our tropical cyclone which is moving southwards across the loyalty and weakening as it moves across colder water of course in towards new zealand but we head through the latter part of sunday it will then begin to make its presence felt so turning pretty stormy across the north out of new zealand the south island looking largely dry and fine with highs of nineteen in christchurch the really heavy rain is cleared away from japan or so ensuring south you should be seeing brighter conditions well a quarter drop in temperatures but with the rain that will be a welcome change we want across the korean peninsula is looking fine highs of nine in seoul and it should be a bright day in beijing for the mix from temperature of fourteen.

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president all trumpets except in an invitation from north korean leader kim jong un for a face to face meeting before the end of may well still producing nations are lining up to seek exemptions from the new u.s. tariffs on steel and all its president has already agreed to waive the canada and mexico there's been renewed violence in east and relief workers trying to deliver aid they were across strike hit the outskirts of duma just as thirteen of its trucks and the town. kenya's president and the main opposition leader of promised to begin a process of reconciliation the past first meeting since last year's disputed election which was followed by widespread violence across the country comes as the u.s. secretary of state has arrived in the country for the sake of his official africa tour catherine so reports from nairobi. a surprise public show of unity that has caused supporters off guard. opposition leader.

have agreed to bury their political. after to accrue more news presidential elections last year that led to the deaths of many people swearing in as the people's president his refusal to recognize allegedly mysie a contract his presidency and the government's reaction to it being a swearing in cracking down on the media and opposition now the two say all that is behind them we have come. from an understanding and understanding this country of kenya is greater than any one individual and that for this country to come together leaders must come together us 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 that we see across the country many opposition supporters want to know what really was discussed behind closed doors electric justice that the dinka has been so passionate about the credibility of the presidential election and what about justice to the many people who died in the election montagne that what he and the president have done is provide leadership to king and agree on the of the differences and. millions of our children to be born and mounted into these differences people are dying out of these differences my brother. and myself. of them come together to. see this descent stopped here this meeting appears to have been particular times to coincide with the visit of the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson the us has been critical of both sides in how

they've handled the political situation kenyatta and perhaps want to show that all is well now they want to move the country forward and help heal deep apnic divisions. t.v.'s on met the president when he arrived we shared our concerns burned our discussions with the president about the importance of democratic institutions and kenya is a leading the marker see in africa we believe that there are actions the need to be taken in kenya and that they need a correction or noxious like shutting down t.v. stations and threatening the independence of the courts they also discussed economic ties between the u.s. and kenya and the fight against terrorism in the region catherine saw al jazeera kenya the un has warned that more than two million children in the democratic republic of congo at risk of dying from acute malnutrition about three hundred

thousand of them live in the kasai region where fighting between armed groups have forced millions to leave their homes over the past year the u.n. humanitarian chief will meet donors in the d.l.c. next week yan agel and is the secretary general of the norwegian refugee council in visited the country recently and says that trying to reach the west affect it. you know well there is x. is very difficult but we can reach people i would see congo more than these other places where. a lot to do to it's a funding crisis of epic proportions one example i was in northern healing. that 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 soon too dangerous to be there one hundred and thirty armed groups so

women and children in north kivu are left to fend for themselves we have forgotten and they collected them. a turkish court has ruled two journalists from the opposition sham harriet newspaper should be released for that year ration of that trial the two journalists are among a group of seventeen staff members being tried for allegedly aiding u.s. based cleric lafferty to glenn turkey's government accuses glenn of orchestrating the july twenty sixth seen coup attempt. once dubbed america's most hated man former drug company executive martin scraggly has been jailed for seven years for fraud mr became notorious for increasing the price of a life saving drug by more than five thousand percent prosecutors a push for the thirty four year old to be jailed for fifteen years after being convicted of defrauding investors separate the price increase question salumi was in the new york court. the sentence was less than prosecutors had asked for

seven years instead of fifteen but substantially more than the defense had requested they were looking for an eighteen month sentence it's a substantial sentence considering that the investors who were defrauded in this case actually ended up making money at the end of the day but the judge said that the substantial and egregious lies that he had told factored into this decision he lied to get investors to put up their money he then lied when he lost their money and there were more lies and sketchy maneuvers to raise more money and cover up his fraud so all of that was taken into account by the judge and you know martin scully's own lawyer said during the sentencing that there were times when he wanted to punch his client in the face this is someone who ignored his lawyers advice during the trial he antagonized journalists on social media he. lashed out at authorities in the court during the trial and then after the trial he after

he was convicted went on facebook and he had a substantial following on social media there and he offered money to anyone who would bring him a lock of hillary clinton's hair and the judge talked about that during the sentencing and said that this was a public safety concern at the time she revoked his bail and made him wait until his sentencing in jail so all of that when into account as the judge handed down her sentence. saudi arabia signed two billion dollars worth of commercial deals with the u.k. it includes a polygamy agreement to buy forty eight typhoon fighter jets the deals were announced on the final day of a three day visit by saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin soundman to the country aimed at strengthening the lateral ties. i sill has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on the afghan capital kabul nine people were killed and eighteen more wounded in the blast which happened near a crowded she had protesters they were commemorating a political leader from the shia has are

a minority. workers in the northeastern united states a racing to restore power before another severe storm that is due to hit on monday more than four hundred thousand people are without electricity after wintry weather knocked out power lines and blocked roads two storms in the space of a week of dumped more than sixty centimeters of snow at least two people are known to have died forecasters say the first storm system is moving up the coast. well now the economist while the ocean summit is wrapping up in the riviera mayor in mexico it's a chance for business government and environmentally does to talk about the problems facing the wild scenes and to come up with solutions actions to come out of the summit include a pledge from the central american nation of bullies to triple its no catch signs john heilemann has the story. this is soon going to be the first insured coral reef in the world a trust fund of government n.g.o.s and document leaders has been created to take

care of policy to cover the mix conception of the mess with american research against hurricanes the nature conservancy mastermind the scheme and hopes it can be replicated elsewhere we should take what i raised as an important because two hundred million people in the world live close to three and they are protected like what i was really for and you're against seeing them in the rice beach erosion so we continue to see and i will reeve's as we are doing right now we will start off by protection so being sure without was to have some funding to restore the we've after the unique and keeps them. the pioneering plan was announced to the world ocean summit every year it brings decision makers in conservationists together to find sustainable ways to use the world sees the environmentalists here this is about more than just the scheduled events it's about the chance simple ways in the lobby bar the rare chance to network with government and business leaders who have

the power to put their plans for the future of the oceans into practice. mexico's president. showed up so did iceland's i think we all need to face the fact that the future of the oceans is a common concern whether you're a head of state or an ngo we all need to get inside the proton grow in the same direction in mind and put more governments meet take responsibility says the u.n. envoy. are meant to direct to the oceans it belongs to everyone but still no one is protected so if there is one issue that i would say it's crucial to get sorted out is this sort of global governance that's the reason why we are facing a huge problem. a borrowed to problems in fact eight million tons of plastic go into the sea every year three quarters of coral reefs are under threat around ninety percent of fish food straight or overexploited here at least there's no lack

of ideas or willpower to turn things around john home and. the mayan riviera in mexico. it's been seven years since japan was hit by an earthquake causing a tsunami to crash into its coastal cities more than twenty thousand people were killed now huge concrete walls of being built along parts of the coast to protect against huge waves but some are saying that the new barrier is a too high and could have an impact on tourism and reports. for fishermen atsushi frizzy to the open waters of the to hokkaido coast swelling beneath a hazy blue sky where he earns his living pulling oysters from the sea bed. but when he returns to the shore the rolling hills of his home have been obscured by high concrete walls. 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 in that sushi is home time the focus shima nuclear reactor was swamped leaking radiation into the surrounding land and sea their original tsunami barrier 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's an oklahoma 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 the world 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 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 this is an army stored off the sea beds some complain to are is and will be affected because the walls obscure the views but others say they're willing to pay that price for protection from mother nature rob matheson al-jazeera. there's more in everything we're covering right here al jazeera dot com a you can find the latest on all top stories but of course analysis that takes you behind the headlines as well. that's update you on the top stories now u.s. president donald trump has excepted an invitation from the north korean leader kim jong un for a face to face meeting before the end of may it's been brokered by south korea and is being hailed as

a major breakthrough off to months of aggressive posturing between the two men well the white house says it will korea will still have to make concessions before the meeting can take place they've made promises to denuclearize they've made promise just to stop nuclear and missile testing and they recognize that regular military exercises between the u.s. and its allies south korea will continue the maximum pressure campaign without letting up we're not going to step back or make any changes to that we're going to continue in that effort and we're not going to have this meeting take place until we see concrete actions that match the words in the rhetoric of north korea and our other top stories the world still producing nations are lining up to seek exemptions from the new u.s. tariffs on steel and other many of them all its president is already waived canada or mexico from the twenty five percent levy on steel in the ten percent on alan minium that he signed off on thursday china's steel industries calling for their government to now take retaliatory measures whilst the european union says they

expect to be excluded as well. the un has warned that more than two million children in the democratic republic of congo are at risk of dying from acute malnutrition about three hundred thousand of them live in the fighting between groups of force millions to leave their homes over the past year the u.n. humanitarian chief will meet done as in the aussie next week. saudi arabia has signed two billion dollars worth of commercial deals with the u.k. including a parliamentary agreement to buy forty eight typhoon fighter jets this was announced on the final day of a three day visit by saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin summoned to the country aimed at strengthening the lateral ties kenya's president who are kenyatta and the main opposition leader raul promised to begin a process of reconciliation it's the first meeting since last year's disputed election which was followed by widespread violence across the country you're up to date with all of our top stories that for myself and the team here in london

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