the extraordinary journey from polish to tajikistan braved ordinary join to. do high up there's no oxygen. just to experience life simple pleasures. risking it all. this time on al-jazeera. and i do. some of it i like. the u.s. president says he remains committed to meeting north korea's leader but there is no mention of the talks in the media in pyongyang. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up some

syrian fighters and their families leave eastern 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 plus. life after dancing how performers are getting a foothold in new professions after leaving the limelight. donald trump says that a deal between the u.s. and north korea in it 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 there will be no preconditions for a meeting between trump and kim jong un in may earlier trump spoke to chinese leader

xi jinping both agreed to continue with sanctions until north korea take steps to end its nuclear program more now from al-jazeera as mike hanna in washington. 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 will the announcement of the meeting between trump and kim is made headlines right around the world except in north korea proper pride reports from 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 goods reached a government controlled area outside the own clave the group josh al islam had released thirteen fighters from a rival group that did it imprisoned along with their families and since the decision was made after consulting the u.n. and international parties russia and the syrian government have offered a safe passage to opposition fighters who surrender in eastern let's go live at about zero as alan fischer who's in gaziantep the turkey's border with syria so alan this group of rebel fighters has left eastern airstrikes have now resumed the

red cross saying that some of those strikes coming very close to an aid convoy there on friday despite assurances from the warring parties. that's right the movement of these soldiers and their families there were thirteen soldiers thirteen families it was a surprise there been no indication in the last twenty four hours that this was even being considered but they were loaded on to buses and taken off. you know the red crescent are telling is that thirteen trucks went into eastern ghouta you'll remember that there was a need convoy earlier this week not all of the forty six trucks could unload because of the airstrikes that were carried out near to that convoy so thirteen pulled out those thirteen went back in on friday but again the airstrikes were so close that not all of those trucks could onload and so at this stage there's no indication of when those trucks or any other aid trucks will go back into that area

something that the red cross will have to make an assessment about over the next twenty four forty eight hours or so percent what we're hearing after a very brief respite while those convoys that convoy was moving into the area airstrikes have continued again the figures we're hearing from on the ground is that eleven people were killed overnight but a number of buildings have been destroyed and the fear is that the number of dead will go up simply because there could well be numbers of people trapped under those structures and to the north near the turkish border in africa and you've been able to get into that area along with turkish forces what did you see. what we know is that the free syrian army backed by the talks are continuing their assault towards our friend no we suspected that it me take a few days for everyone to get organized before that started but this operation is underway we know as well that the kurdish militia the y. p.g.

have moved their own seven hundred troops towards a friend to try and confront the free syrian army and the target as the mc that this. but a number of villages have come under the control of the free syrian army and the turks we were in one on friday where we saw not only military aid being provided medical aid being provided by the turkish military but also food aid being provided by the turkish red crescent. we drove into syria with a turkish army escort they decided where we would go the destination the village of one of the first retaken from cutting militia by the free syrian army supported by the turks in the operation and all of french 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 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 one. hundred from an absence the f s a came we are receiving aid it is enough for us it's enough six years we lived under the wife 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 are prepared food and hygenic material for everyone. every so often the growing shakes with the stone to the activity fire the big guns pointed so in support of the ongoing military operation the children told me they don't like the noise it may have grown up with the war but it's something they will never get used to alan fischer al-jazeera balut northern syria. a government and three female hostages have been killed in a shootout at a veterans home in the u.s. state of california police in unifil exchanged fire with a man who'd 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. . but asheville rifle association has filed

a lawsuit challenging new gun control laws in the state of florida calling them unconstitutional and leaders of the largest gun lobby in the u.s. are angry that the governor signed a bill increasing the minimum age for buying firearms from eighteen to twenty one it follows weeks of campaigning by survivors of last month's parkland high school shooting that killed seventeen people but more paves the way 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 commonsense solutions commonsense 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 about we know we the people talking i mean 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 holy text coach as the group women against gun violence she says 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 coach's either way in a state where stand your ground is legal that means that if any of this school of this 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 we're the future we're tomorrow and we're going to make this happen we're going to weather update next year and i was here then we'll take a look at why some french businesses are finding it difficult to find qualified staff despite the economic revival in the country but a study in concentration beat highly educated palestinian women who are still struggling to find proper work. from the recent. to the war trying to those of southeast.

hello there it's milder now for many of us in the western parts of europe but it's also a lot wetter his the lace a system that spiraling its way in bringing some more mild also plenty of what weather as well so it's up temperature of around fourteen in london there on saturday round eleven in zurich but plenty of plenty of rain with this and that stretches down through the iberian peninsula once more heavy downpours the parts of spain and portugal all of that mild unsettled weather is gradually pushing its way eastward bringing that mold with it but it's not reaching us in moscow here we're still below average on maximum temperature over the next few days will still be hovering at around minus five so still feeling very cool here is the southeastern parts of europe where we've got the better weather really there's plenty of sunshine and it's also overall the war with them is sitting pretty head around twenty one degrees on the other side of the mediterranean we're seeing a few bits and pieces of rain what their way through turkey there and eventually

into the east coast of the mediterranean and then further towards the west we've also got a few bits and pieces of cloud around making their way through parts of morocco and into out cheerio we'll see more here as we head through the day on sunday so it took temperature of around eighteen and there will be some sunshine but do expect a bit of cloud at times and maybe the or shower to. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. winning the will of the people hinges on the mass media state p.r. machine is going to overdrive. but just who is going fill in saying. we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between what can be said and what conduct that. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for outside the polling the media opinion the listening post but based time on al-jazeera.

again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour 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 the north korean leader kim jong il. the first group of syrian rebel fighters to leave east and good says reached a government controlled area outside the own place the group josh al islam and released thirteen fighters from a rival group that it 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 calling them unconstitutional the country's largest gun lobby opposes raising the minimum age for pieing firearms from eighteen to twenty one

dollars weeks of campaigning by survivors of last month's part and high school shooting that killed seventeen people. the leaders of france and india have just signed deals to strengthen cooperation in the nuclear trade and space sectors these are live pictures out of new delhi france's president is holding a press conference right now with the prime minister in the red remotely on his first official visit to india later they'll be hosting the first meeting at the international solar alliance that initiative launched on the sidelines of the paris climate conference in twenty fifteen. france hued be the best daughter. in europe the point for europe and i dream to have more more on. indian students coming to france really becoming on creating start ups and i want my gone through to be the birth partner in europe and.

france is enjoying its strongest economic growth in six years but many companies there are struggling to find qualified workers some economists are worried that the shortage could slow down growth but our 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 that twenty years ago people joined young trained on the job and worked their way out but today that's rare

because fewer 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 near a clear implement for growth in the next few months but as a liberal pages can be a real drag for growth in the next few quarters the french government wants to fix the country's labor shortage and get more young people into work it's already reformed the labor allow the workplace to be more flexible and it works to bruce the number of training in apprenticeship schemes like this one. teachers at this

school near paris hope the government's focus on training will improve the image of apprenticeships and create more opportunities. for your fuels who are having thinkers when a young person arrives at a company with two years of training like this they are much more attractive and it's what companies want. and what i want to learn as much as possible here then one day i open my own company to what extent the government's reforms will ease the labor shortage will be clear for a few years but investing in this generation can only help the economy in the future natasha al-jazeera. france russia's foreign minister has concluded his five day tour of africa in ethiopia a lover of confirmed moscow's support for the continent to have a seat on the un security council of also visited angola and mozambique zimbabwe and namibia is talk and sided with a trip to the region by the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson kenya's president and main opposition leader have

promised to begin a process of reconciliation after months of political turmoil around one hundred fifty people were killed after last year's disputed election which was boycotted by the opposition katherine sawyer reports from nairobi. a surprise public show of unity that has caught many of their supporters off guard president hu hu opposition leader. have agreed to bury their political hatchet after two acrimonious presidential elections last year that led to the deaths of many people a mock swearing in as the people's president his refusal to recognize the legitimacy of king at is presidency and the government's hass reaction to a swearing in cracking down on the media and opposition now the two say all that is behind them. 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 good defenses you guys must be able to discuss freely and openly what is our country what. is the reason and the cause. divisions and sections and we see a constituency many opposition supporters want to know what really was discussed behind closed electra 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 not to king ends agree on the other use of the differences and what the. millions of our children continue to be born and mounted into these differences people are dying out of these differences my

brother. and myself of them come together today to see this descent stops 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 and hops want to show that already as well now they want to move the country forward and help your deep apnic divisions t.v.'s on the map to the president when he arrived we shared our concerns there and our discussions with the president about the importance of democratic institutions and kenya as a leading democracy and africa we believe that. there are actions they need to be taken in kenya and that they need a correction actions like shutting down t.v.

stations and threatening the independence of the courts they also discussed economic ties between the us and kenya and the fight against terrorism in the region catherine saif al jazeera arabic kenya donald trump's former campaign aide sam number has testified in the investigation of suspected russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election bundaberg appeared before a grand jury at the federal courthouse in washington on monday in a series of media interviews he did the justice department to arrest him declaring that he would ignore an order to testify. women in palestine are largely more educated than men thirteen percent of them hold university degrees compared to just nine percent for the male population but despite their high level of education many struggle to find job opportunities harry force reports from the occupied west bank. university attracts some of the most able and ambitious students in the occupied west bank and what's noticeable on this most prestigious palestinian

campus is how many of them a female natalie salama is in a fourth year studying civil engineering and business she says she dreams of a career in the field and in academia but is all too aware of the realities of the palestinian job market i think i have like a good chance but not the best not because of my academics or my g.p.a. it's because of the type of the meet our needs are often. working in the environment the situation byrd said reflects a wider premium that's been put on female education in palestinian society woman sixty two percent of the current students are women the problem for them is what happens when they graduate. palestinian women are some of the region's best educated thirteen percent have a university degree compared to nine percent of men but only nineteen percent of women are in or seeking work that compares to twenty five percent in the middle east in north africa and fifty one percent in the world as a whole palestinian society is certainly patriarchal women often face pressure to

marry young and stay at home there's also political and cultural pressure in favor of having large families the palestinian fertility rate is among the region's highest but economists some here are both misses the critical difference from the rest of the region is the impact of the israeli occupation in the palestinian context israel has worked. very hard since nine hundred sixty seven on undermining the productive capacity of the economy that is undermining agriculture and acting and these are the sectors that employ women culture has long been a mainstay of female employment especially here in the village of the about loot where the women say it's rare to spot a man in the fields but these days it's just as red or find a woman under forty five because they might think that other jobs are better it's easier to sit at the desk than work the land we've lost plans to confiscation and we've lost our mountains the settlements it disarm has six daughters she says

education has been crucial to their upbringing but the two who have already graduated university of both unemployed are a force at al-jazeera in the occupied west bank specialist british soldiers are removing potentially contaminated objects in the english city of solsbury where a former russian double agent and his daughter or poisoned officers trained in chemical warfare are assisting police so gay and you'll get a scrip our remained in intensive care after being targeted with a nerve agent moscow denies any involvement and is dismissed the u.k.'s warnings of possible retaliation as propaganda. professional dancers like many sports stars are elite athletes with short careers but when injury strikes or retirement looms few have lucrative endorsement deals to fall back on many struggle to move on into other careers but one british organization is now at least trying to help make that transition easier catherine stansell reports from london. dancers captivate

audience with their beauty and grace but it cheating that delicate balance of athletic prowess and artistic expression takes years of training and seemingly endless personals. daniel davidson started training when he was eleven he's not ready to leave the stage yet but at thirty three he knows that pushing the body beyond its limits inevitably takes its toll it's hard on the body with the long hours we have to train constantly. it's you know is difficult. but i feel like the emotionally exhausting aspects of the job is probably what makes me think more about what's next. like professional sports dance favors the very young and ironically it's often when dancers reach their artistic peak that the time comes to retire the professional dancers career tends to be very short while the average takes thirty five and. that's because their bodies can no longer withstand the

rigors of their profession and many dancers find because. they want to. that's where dancers career development steps in the organization provides emotional and practical support helping dancers as they reach train in new fields is a very or long nothing career and very often that's from the age of three up until thirty five so you can imagine when that time comes of perhaps when you're no longer in the same place and it's time for you to think about doing something else it can be incredibly daunting isolating and also people have to hurry on shore of what they do they are what they are outside of a studio workshops like this help dancers looking ahead to retirement like tom clark who is struggling with injury and looking to pursue a career in photography what we get from study is healthy small business. ventures the highlights of my complete transition with nobody gives up. so i'm

saving them ready. after eight years on stage kevin mascot made his transition from the dance studio to the design studio i was thirty at the time i knew i maybe had a few more but. at that point i knew i didn't want to do it forever i didn't want to be an old dancer so that kind of made up my mind for me i can stop this and i can retrain in something else kevin turned to dancers career development for help four years later he owns a thriving fashion business. but a life of a dancer can always have a second dr kathleen. london. could tell you the same dream fitting in here in doha the headlines 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 will be quote a very good one for the world the white house says there will be no preconditions for a meeting between trump and kim jong un in. the first group of syrian rebel fighters to leave east and has reached a government controlled area outside the own plave the group. had released thirteen faces from a rival group that it had imprisoned along with their families earlier the red cross and airstrikes and shelling came extremely close to an aid convoy in the main town of duma and fisher reports now from on the turkey syria border. what we're hearing after a very brief respite while those convoys that convoy was moving into the area airstrikes have continued again the figures we're hearing from on the ground is that eleven people were killed overnight but a number of buildings have been destroyed and the fear is that the number of dead will go up simply because there could well be numbers of people trapped under those

structures turkey's president 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 enough to seizing control of the neighboring town of genderless turkey began its campaign to push the syrian kurdish y.p. g. away from its border in january france's president about the all macron has been holding talks with prime minister narendra modi on his first official visit to india the focus areas are trade security and fighting climate change and there co-hosting the first meeting of the international solar alliance for the initiative launched on the sidelines of the paris climate conference in twenty fifteen the national rifle association has filed a lawsuit challenging new 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 from eighteen to twenty one

those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the listening post next. facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter why is activists to live in jail just because he expressed himself he had their story on the talk to al-jazeera at this time. broken hearts and yet another american town shocked by devastating violence this time for the high school i felt today the survivors of the deadly school shooting in florida say they're turning their anger into action i guess that's the rallying cry politicians of the playing around my generation. lives hello i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we've been tracking this week we. the teenage

survivors of the latest u.s. school shooting have brought the skills of a.