spaces of the metro buses and even at the hands of taxi drivers the conversation starts with do you have a boyfriend very young you feel threatened about how to react what do i do if this gets way. to uses a new service it's called loud drive it's for women passages only and drawn by women drivers. features like a panic button in twenty four seven monitoring of drivers. the u.s. president says he remains committed to meeting north korea's leader but there's no mention of the talks and the media in pyongyang. hello i'm adrian for again this is al-jazeera live from doha also coming up some

syrian faces and their families leave for the first time since it came under siege four years ago. america's biggest pro gun group the n.r.a. sues the state of florida over a new gun control law plus. i'm reporting from an expedition in. the effort to promote. the largest protected area. donald trump says that a deal between the u.s. and north korea on its nuclear program is very much in the making the u.s. president tweeted that if completed the agreement would be quote a very good one for the world the white house says that they will be no preconditions to the meeting earlier trump spoke with the chinese leader xi jinping and both agreed to continue sanctions until north korea takes steps to end its nuclear program plans to meet kim jong un by may has more for us from washington

d.c. . it appeared that the u.s. had introduced new preconditions when the press secretary said that the meeting would not take place unless north korea provided strong guarantees and took strong steps to indicate the authenticity of its position however subsequently administration officials said that mr sanders was not introducing new preconditions they said she was indeed emphasizing the consequences should north korea continue or resume nuclear or missile testing or interfere with the joint military exercises taking place between the u.s. and south korea but this confusion underscores the developments that have occurred with president trump leaping head first into a potential face to face negotiation many expressing concern that negotiations such as these begin from the bottom up that the face to face meeting between leaders

comes at the end of a process not at the very beginning in addition some experts point out the north koreans have had decades of negotiating deals with various states the trumpet ministration new to the game they going to be at a disadvantage in any negotiation with the north koreans should it take place from the very beginning when the announcement of the meeting between trump and kim has made headlines world over except for pyongyang rob mcbride has more for us from south korea's capital seoul. if you are in north korea right now and you do not have access to an outside source of information then you will not know about the historic summit in all six pages of the road long since this is the state controlled main party newspaper there's not one mention of it the only related item is an article attacking the latest u.s. sanctions which it says are

a further provocation possibly leading to war the problem in north korea is a propaganda machine that turns out a daily diet of common trees all the tacking the imperialist united states as the great war monger how do you now turn around and tell your people your leader is about to sit down and have a friendly chat with the leader of your arch enemy even harder it seems will be explaining that in preparation for this is sturrock summit you have put on hold work on your intercontinental ballistic missile this has been heralded as a great achievement of the socialist north korea the thing that will offer salvation from the very same imperialist americans it seems the north koreans need time to work out these complicated narrative in order to be able to explain it to its people looking even further ahead becomes the prospect perhaps of normalized

relationship if this talks continue between north korea and the united states maybe even relations veering towards possibly the friendly or at least less hostile should that happen north korea it seems will have to perform some kind of propaganda contortionists act in order to explain it all luckily for the people in the propaganda department that prospect does seem a long way off. the first group of syrian rebel fighters to leave eastern has reached the government controlled area outside the own plave the group josh of islam had released thirteen fighters from a rival group that it imprisoned along with their families as the decision was made after consulting the u.n. and international parties russia and the syrian government have offered safe passage to opposition fighters who surrendered in eastern guta with the red cross says that shelling and airstrikes targeting syria's eastern goods are came extremely close to an aid convoy in the main town of duma despite assurances of safety from the warring parties airstrikes began shortly after thirteen trucks of

food aid crossed into the rubble on klav on friday social media video appears to show fighter jets targeting a number of areas in duma a group say that more than one thousand people have died in eastern guta since the renewed military campaign began on february eighteenth. turkey's president russia type one says that his troops could enter the northern syrian town of are free and quote at any moment the turkish military and its ally the free syrian army have surrounded a free in after seizing control of the neighboring town of genderless turkey began its campaign to push out the syrian kurdish y p g from its border in january one has vowed to take the campaign east to the town of mann beach next where u.s. troops have been deployed the un says it's received disturbing reports of civilian deaths from the fighting across the african region tens of thousands of people have been displaced while local authorities are reportedly preventing some civilians

from fleeing the violence al-jazeera as alan fischer has been with turkish troops inside syria in dare ballot in southwest southwest of genders didn't do this. 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 kodesh militia by the free syrian army supported by the turks in the operation and all of branch 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 aid but i mean and the family's name was called and someone stepped forward some merely tall

enough to carry it home the people are standing here waiting patiently for the aid to be handed out that is they say they waited 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 sanitary products enough to last the family three weeks. since the f.s.a. came we are receiving aid it is enough for us it's enough six years we lived under the wife. 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 are prepared food and hygenic material for everyone. every so often the growing shakes with the sound of

artillery fire the big guns pointed so 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 there balut northern syria a gunman and three female hostages have died in a shootout at a veterans home in the u.s. state of california police in unifil exchanged fire with a man who barricaded himself in a room with his captives the women who died worked for an organization that treats veterans for post-traumatic stress the home is the largest of its kind in the u.s. residents include veterans of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. but national rifle association has filed a lawsuit challenging new gun control laws of the state of florida branding them unconstitutional america's largest gun lobby is angry that the governor signed a bill increasing the minimum age for buying firearms to twenty one it follows

weeks of campaigning by survivors of last month's parkland high school shooting in which seventeen people died but also paves the way for some school stuff to be armed i mean are a member and i was in a remember when i became governor i'm going to be an interim member when i'm not governor i'm sure there's an array members that agree with the bills and they don't agree with this bill. and the you know but the way that i think about it i'm going to do what i think are common sense solutions common sense things that the father the grandfather the governor is is we need to have offers for schools we need to harden or we need more mental health counseling we need to make sure people that you know are going to do harm and think that we know we the people talking when we know we know they're out there talking we need to do something about it and and we need to take all these all of us everybody needs to take this this seriously when somebody is threatening people. as the co-chairs of the group women against gun violence she says that the n.r.a. could use the new florida laws to push its agenda for getting more guns into

schools. we're very concerned about this law being passed because of course it has a kickback in it for the n.r.a. in that they want to arm school personnel so i don't know exactly what they mean by that is that the lunch lady is at the coaches either way in a state where stand your ground is legal that means that if any of this school of the school personnel is said that they feel threatened by a student they can shoot to kill and legally get away with murder many people have sort of this this cycle of learned helplessness we've seen the mass shootings the thoughts and prayers. the got the call for new gun laws and then nothing happens and we've just sort of gotten used to the fact that the n.r.a. gets to control everything and dictate policy from the white house but now these students are saying they don't have a learned helplessness response they're seeing this their friends are being gunned

down and they're saying no we're not going to take it we're going to change this where the future we're tomorrow and we're going to make this happen because if i so is mourning the victims of last week's attacks on its military headquarters the french embassy an investigation into the violence has resulted in more arrests including of soldiers because hawke reports from want to do. the honors for those who died in last week's attack. most killed were soldiers. with. ricky in a phone so is in mourning still in shock. distance. this is a moment of incredible sadness for us my brother in law went to the army headquarters to run an errand he was a bit late in the attack as took his life his body was so wounded he was unrecognizable. nine armed men drove

a car full of explosives undetected through rush hour traffic to the most secured areas of the capitol the french embassy and army headquarters. the car bomb took protein afonso security forces by surprise overrun and overpowered the french special forces who have a base in the capital intervened and killed the attackers investigators say the target was a scheduled meeting of the army chief of staff of five countries part of a multinational force led by france to push rebel groups out of the region on a visit to britain to foster the forces coronating country needs share vowed to hunt down the group responsible for the attack. we know that terrorists and their accomplices seek to undo our alliance they say they are foreign forces but they are allies fighting a common enemy eight men in the capital were arrested after a rebel group operating in this and how it claimed responsibility for the attack news that men are not foreigners but

a mix of active and former soldiers surprised many here but all. the time came forty eight hours after the start of the trial of general gen derry the former head of the presidential guards orchestrated a failed coup attempt in two thousand and fifty since then many of his soldiers have been fired and his men negotiated with the rebel groups on behalf of western countries he was key to the release of european hostages. since his arrest attacks have multiplied killing hundreds of people these soldiers on the front line of an expanding war with what now seems like an enemy within their midst nicholas hawk. we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then refugee camps and to djibouti stretched to the limit as thousands flee the war in yemen. and the pharmaceutical executive once known as the most hated man in america discovers his

fate after defrauding investors. welcome back it's turning considerably manta over parts of western europe as we are southwest the flow coming in the price of paying for that warmer air he comes in the form of rain or over the alps in the form of snow and also the risk of significant thoughts taking place where we have got snow over the ground of parts of the u.k. for instance so it's a pretty unsettled picture across the west is fairly subtle across more central areas milder than has been and certainly for berlin temperatures on sunday up to sixteen degrees a long time since we've seen those sort of temperatures across germany further towards the east much that has been very cold are still in place moscow they're going to minus five hours a night some but for the south twenty in athens can be bad on the other side of the

mediterranean so looking fine along the coast their way through towards cairo a temperature of twenty five but for coastal parts well cheerio and then later on here we will see some showers working their way along those coastal regions of quite brisk winds into central parts of africa we've got showers across kenya tanzania and then further towards the west towards the gulf of guinea gabon seeing some downpours bunch of west africa those don't look too bad there are a few showers around but cherry find bamako mali up at forty one degrees for southern portions of africa certainly fine across much of south africa with highs of twenty in cape town.

right. well again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera donald trump says that a deal between the u.s. and north korea on its nuclear program is very much in the making the white house has confirmed that there will be no preconditions for a planned meeting between the u.s. president and north korea's leader kim jong il. the first group of syrian rebel fighters to leave eastern has reached a government controlled area outside the enclave the group. had released thirteen

fighters from a rival group that is imprisoned along with their families. and the national rifle association has filed a lawsuit challenging new gun control laws in the u.s. state of florida running them unconstitutional the country's largest gun lobby opposes raising the minimum age for buying firearms to twenty one it follows weeks of campaigning by survivors of last month's parkland high school shooting in which seventeen people died. france's president emanuel has arrived in india for his first official visit there he is a meet prime minister there in ramadi the talks that are likely to focus on trade security and fighting climate change leaders are expected to sign several agreements strengthening ties between the two countries saudi arabia has signed a preliminary deal to buy forty eight typhoon fighter jets from the u.k. it was sealed during a three day visit to london by saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman he's held talks with the u.k.

is the u.k.'s prime minister to resign may on wednesday reports now from london. britain selling large amounts of weapons to saudi arabia is nothing new in fact the u.k. has been selling weapons and arms to the saudis for years and those sales are brought in billions of dollars worth of income to the british economy but whereas previously critics of these arms sales would focus on the saudis domestic policies in terms of not letting women to drive beheading people in public in the general lack of freedom in the kingdom the brits would answer and say well you know it's not the fighter jets that are preventing saudi women from driving now however the criticism in the connection between british weapons arms sales to saudis and the infringements on human rights is much more direct and clear and that it is british workers that are being used through bomb civilians in yemen for human rights watch as international say thousands of civilians have been killed as a result of the war in yemen which was announced launched and is being led by specifically the crown prince mohamed bin sideman it is the british weapons that

are being used by the saudi air force that has turned yemen into the worst humanitarian crisis today according to the united nations and that's why the head of the labor party germy corben had demanded from to resume to use this opportunity this visit of the crown prince to announce a halt in weapons sales to saudi arabia but tourism a has decided to do the exact opposite and signed this memorandum of understanding to sell even more weapons and the reason for that according to analysts obviously is that may finds herself presiding over an economy that is in the west has been for many years and she's struggling to inject confidence in the u.k. markets because of her inability to find a deal post brackets and to convince investors and to convince. the population of how opposed burke that britain would look like and therefore her critics are accusing her of selling out on the principles of freedom and democracy and

essentially the ideals that britain holds dear leader in favor of saudi money. the humanitarian consequences of the war in yemen of the focus of an international conference that stupid begin in london in the next few hours thousands of people have been forced to flee across the red sea to djibouti in north africa but conditions in refugee camps there are harsh with food supply is stretched to the limits how many other reports now from. its food distribution day at the mackenzie come for yemeni refugees in the dusty port town of. the law the law has just because his family is food a location for the month he came here two years ago when a missile hit and destroyed his house in whole south of the yemen now a mother who had a hand look at the shooting that i say have given us there won't be enough for my family or even five days a situation is really bad. apart from the relations people here also complain of

conditions of the come. the sweltering heat and ferocious sun hardly been many away this is the place where many don't want to stay for long at one point this camp was home to more than six thousand refugees today one thousand eight hundred one living here most of them have either gone to all the towns or to the capital debility have others hover tante lemon preforming there and something terrible was on to life in this can. also have chosen to stay see the option of a shared choice we have nowhere else to go where can we go we are forced to stay here yet the massive insecurity and shortage of some basic supplies in yemen is forcing many more refugees to cause the sea are some but are cut robbed of the come just three days ago from the city of thais which is under the control of both the fighters and again the human we fled from yemen because of war and hunger the hutu militias are also making life unbearable destroying homes of bullying and arresting

people who will it's a disaster back in yemen. nearly thirty five thousand people admitted the gen is southwards across the bubble mandeb straight to duty since march two thousand and fifteen from the beginning to open its doors to yemenis fleeing from the war the country has been uprooted from an investment in recent years. but extreme poverty is still widespread. officials here say there is little else they can do for the refugees beyond giving them safety and also. to all just. duty russia's foreign minister has concluded his five day tour of africa in ethiopia so gay lover of confirmed moscow's support for the continent to have a seat on the un security council also visited angola mozambique zimbabwe and namibia is talk and sided with a trip to the region by his u.s. counterpart rex tillerson protesters in slovakia have called for foreign experts to

join an investigation into the killing of a journalist and his fiance young cook shack and martina nineveh was shot dead in their home last month last unfinished report was on the activities of the italian mafia in slovakia and their ties to people close to prime minister robert faecal starting early years were to ben's here that we want our government to investigate the murders with international expert and also we want a new government a trustworthy government with no existing links to corruption in organized crime a former u.s. hedge fund manager once known as america's most hated man has been jailed for seven years for fraud martin scraggly became notorious after investing in pharmaceuticals and then massively increasing the price of a lifesaving drug used to treat hiv aids kristen salumi reports from new york. martin scrawly apologized to investors and admitted he'd made mistakes as he sobbed and pleaded for leniency but his own attorney admitted sometimes he wanted to punch

his client in the face because and for convicted of lying to raise money and then again to cover his losses the hedge fund manager was already famous when he was arrested for securities fraud for raising the price of a life saving aids drugs five thousand percent and then smirking his way through a hearing when called to account by congress it's not funny mr truly people are dying and they're getting sicker and sicker and it's more the fact that he and tag and eyes journalists and mocked authorities on social media during the trial did not endear him to the judge she revoked his bail after scrawly offered his facebook followers money for a snippet of hillary clinton's hair john zack is a former federal prosecutor who now works for new york law firm boies schiller flexner to sort of engage in that kind of conduct while your in a criminal trial is a bad idea because you once you get to sentencing you basically have an audience of

one the judge and the judge is going to be looking at him and trying to evaluate what kind of person he is squarely who has been teaching inmates math in prison insisted he's a good person i've learned a harsh lesson he said in his sentencing letter a trial in six months in maximum security has been a frightening wake up call i now understand i need to change. his attorney argued he deserved eighteen months in jail or less but the judge handed down a seven year sentence she also forfeited seven million dollars plus of the man's assets including a rare wood ten clan album that martin scrawly once bragged about paying two million dollars for kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. it's a little companies in the northeast of the united states a racing to restore power before another severe storm that stu's it on monday more than four hundred thousand people were about electricity after wintry weather

knocked out power lines and blocked roads two storms in a week and dumped more than sixty centimeters of snow at least two people in the dive forecasters say a third storm system is moving up the east coast the one i'll see in antarctica is the coldest on the planet yet it's home to an extraordinary ecosystem boasting an estimated fourteen thousand species everything from killer whales to stuff ish now there's a proposal to turn the rich waters into the largest wildlife sanctuary on earth in the first part of an al-jazeera series on the well sea environment that isn't a clock joined a greenpeace expedition vessel making its way to the century. it's a city near the end of the maritime history land. in the main square in punta arenas but none mckellen looked out towards way go across the strait that bears his dame from scott shackleton this is where famous antarctic

expeditions came and sometimes returned and today it's home to the chilean and it's to cheat a signatory to a very important treaty preserving the integrity of the antarctic continent works as a kind of international co-operative and as you walk into the chilean and talk to institute you're presented with a map of the constant incredibly rich in resources from copper to oil to gold and a lot of nations would like to get their hands on that but they called because of the antarctic treaty which was signed back in one hundred fifty nine to ensure in the interest of all mankind and shall continue for ever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene object of international discord and so far that has worked to the principle of the spirit it's a corporation in a really if you don't compare it maybe you can be or can do anything because this is an extreme and with extreme conditions.

from point a right as to king george island on the fringes of antarctica it's well below zero and the tourists off the cruise ships are on their way home. you know george island and downscaling made it seem like landing on. this is where the world's geography is turned upside down where russian neighbors chile along side it does not the nation's research stations it is the antarctic treaty and action. survival suits are on for the trip from shore to ship. there is a ride out today. on board we're quickly on our way south of the site of the proposed ocean sanctuary an isolated wilderness of sea and ice home to an astonishing erev life campaign sort of for the wealthy marine protected area proposal by the german government and backed by the

e.u. and that sort of starts about sixty four degrees described by everyone who goes there is pretty inhospitable i think that's the feeling we're going to have as we round this corner the greenpeace expedition is taking in scientific studies of the ocean floor as well as an exploration of this remote outpost how far we get will depend on whether ice conditions and a good deal of luck nick long al-jazeera antarctica. could tell you with a savory infant again here in doha the top stories this hour on al-jazeera donald trump says that a deal between the u.s. and north korea on its nuclear program is very much in the making the u.s. president tweeted that if completed the agreement would be quote a very good one for the world the white house says that there will be no preconditions to the meeting earlier trump spoke with china's leader xi jinping and

both agreed to continue with sanctions until north korea take steps to end its nuclear program trump plans to meet kim jong un by may. the first group of syrian rebel fighters to leave eastern ghouta has reached a government controlled area outside the old place the group josh islam had released thirteen fighters from a rival group that it imprisoned along with their families it says the decision was made after consulting the u.n. and international policies turkey's president wants is that his troops could enter the northern syrian town that are free and at any moment the turkish military and its ally the free syrian army have surrounded a free enough to seizing control of the neighboring town of jindal this turkey began its campaign to push the syrian kurdish y p g away from its border in january early one has vowed to take the campaign east to the town of man beach next where u.s. troops have been deployed. the national rifle association has filed a lawsuit challenging you gun control laws in the state of florida branding them

unconstitutional america's largest gun lobby is angry that the governor signed a bill increasing the minimum age for buying firearms to twenty one it follows weeks of campaigning by survivors of last month's parkland high school shooting in which seventeen people died but the law also paves the way for some school staff to be armed a gunman and three female hostages have died in a shootout at a home for war veterans in the u.s. state of california police and you would fill exchanged fire with the man who barricaded himself in a room with his captives home is the largest of its kind in the u.s. residents include veterans of the wars enough in iraq and afghanistan france's president emanuel mark ron has arrived in india for his first official visit there these two to meet with prime minister narendra modi for talks that are likely to focus on trade security and on climate change the leaders are expected to sign several agreements. and those other headlines the news continues here on

al-jazeera right after today's inside story next. on counting the cost in what's been a big week for global trade we'll look at how the u.s. is bending the rules of commerce and free trade is really worth fighting for. cause from the geneva. counting the cost at this time. has been given a welcome few world leaders could expect. the british government has been accused of ignoring rights abuses in saudi arabia so what is behind this controversial trip this is a story.