more freely on the other hand gord's can move freely as far and as much as they want it's a multinational colonialism this is of the another moment of the democratic process these companies they just want the money europe's forbidden colony episode one at this time on al-jazeera. i really felt liberated as a journalist when i was getting to the truth as i was that's what this job. some syrian fighters and their families leave east and go to for the first time since it came under siege four years ago. although i'm adrian for again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up

nearly three years of war disease and death in yemen we meet those who've escaped across the red sea to djibouti. u.s. president donald trump tweets confirmation that a deal is in the making with north korea after a mixed messages from the white house plus. i'm a clock reporting from an expedition in antarctica on the effort to. see the largest protected area. the first group of syrian rebel fighters to leave east and reached a government controlled area outside the own place the group that josh had released thirteen fighters from a rival group that is imprisoned along with their families meanwhile two people have been killed in government shelling on saturday during a russian led five hour truce that's currently under way at least fifty five people were killed at least and kusa on friday let's go live now to gas up. border with

syria. is there allan with the latest in eastern guta this group of rebel faces has left the area who are they where have they gone. certainly there was no indication that they were going to leave and use this humanitarian corridor that had been set up by the russians they're being released from prison thirteen fighters by those in control of guta at the moment the thirteen fighters and their families are going to that is part of the the operation that could be ongoing according to syrian state television they say that there are others in the city you want to make use of this humanitarian corridor talking of humanitarian aid you'll remember that there was a need convoy which went into eastern ghouta earlier this week forty six lorries went in only thirteen couldn't unload anything because there was ongoing fighting near where they were carrying out their operations and they had to pull out they

went back in on friday and again they weren't fully able to unload all the trucks because of increased fighting in or own word they were trying to unload the aid now you remember that the red cross red crescent got permission to take food in for about seventy thousand people in the end the only got food in for about twenty thousand people and country the population of scooter is estimated to be somewhere in the region of four hundred thousand known as you see fifty five people killed on friday a number of people killed an airstrike and saturday the concern is that the number of dead will go up because a number of buildings were attacked in some of the main population centers and there is the fear that there are still bodies underneath the rubble island to the north of the country and close to the turkish border in our freend you've managed to get into that area along with turkish forces what's going on there. while the assault on our free in continues we thought there may be some pause after

some big cities were taken by the free syrian army along with the back by the turkish military but it appears that the sweep on to afrin is ongoing six tones and villages to the north and to the south of the city have been taken over by the free syrian army aided by the turks just in the last few hours now one doctor in the city says he's concerned that there could be a massacre if this continues and one of the leading a council people in our friends has said please to the u.n. please come and speak to the people here please try and do what you can to stop what she says is an assault by the turkish state certainly we nor that the why p.g. have moved a number of troops away from fighting i saw elsewhere in syria to shore up defenses around afrin a but many people tell me that they're going to be vastly outnumbered and certainly gunned because the turks are involved in this operation so they can carry out air

strikes as we've seen there in the last few hours now this operation is all part of operation all of branch which the tocs launched to push the kurds away from the border area and there are no significantly well into that and just on friday we went to visit one of the villages has been taken over by the free syrian army backed by the turkish military. we drove into syria with a turkish army escort they decided where 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 and all of runge 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'm an

animal the family's name was called and someone stepped forward some fairly tall enough to carry it home but people are standing here waiting patiently for the aid to be handed out but as 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. hundreds of men are since the f.s.a. came we are receiving aid it is enough for us it's enough six years we lived under the y.p. gene that one day aid materials 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 you can with what it has. to beat you up to 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. it's almost three years now since the saudi led coalition entered yemen's civil war on the side of government forces against scooty rebels the consequences for millions of yemenis have been catastrophic more than five thousand civilians have been killed according to the un the saudi led coalition has been criticized for not doing enough to prevent civilian deaths and for blocking the delivery of aid the world food program has warned that yemen is on the brink of famine millions are going hungry including nearly two million children who are acutely malnourished the conflict has also led to

a cholera epidemic with more than a million people impacted and the u.n. says that more than three million people are displaced with many taking refuge across the red sea in djibouti but conditions in the refugee camps there are harsh with food supplies stretched to the limit mohammed atta reports now from a book. its food distribution day at the markets he come for yemeni refugees in the dusty port town of. the law the law has just picked his family's food a location for the month he came here two years ago when a missile hit and destroyed his house in ha ha south of the yemen had a hand look at the shooting device they've given us there won't be enough for my family in five days our situation is really bad. apart from the legal reasons people here also complain of conditions of the come. the sweltering heat and ferocious sun hardly been many away this is

a place where many don't want to stay for long at one point this company is home to more than six thousand refugees today one thousand eight hundred one lived here most of them have either gone to all the towns or to the capital djibouti you have others hover tante lemon preflighting the un 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 something primal but a cut 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 jennet

southwards across the bubble mandeb straight to djibouti since march two thousand and fifteen from the beginning to open its doors to yemenis fleeing from the war the country has been uprooted for an investment in recent years due to. but extreme poverty is still widespread. officials here say it is little else they can do for the refugees beyond giving them safety and also i'm one hundred at all just. duty russia's president vladimir putin has rejected accusations by u.s. intelligence services that he ordered citizens to interfere in the twenty sixteen presidential election in an interview putin said that he couldn't care less if anyone meddled in the campaign as they were not connected to the kremlin but he also said that he has no plans to extradite thirteen russian citizens who are accused of attempting to interfere by special counsel robert mueller is investigating suspected links between the trunk campaign and russia. donald trump

says the deal between the u.s. and north korea on its nuclear program is very much in the making in a tweet the u.s. president said that if completed the agreement will be quote a very good one for the world the white house says there will be no preconditions to trump meeting leader kim jong un by may trump spoke earlier with china's leader xi jinping by phone both agreed to continue their sanctions against north korea until it takes steps to end its nuclear program more from us here 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 saunders 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 headfirst 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 we're going to weather a tape thanks he announces here and then india and france six change agreements on

defense and trade during president backgrounds first visit to the deli plus. study in concentration will meet highly educated palestinian women who are still struggling to find work. hello there things are a lot calmer for us now in japan we're seeing this area of cloud gradually clear away from the east coast and things are a lot drier and calmer behind it we do have this is leiria of snow that is making its way towards us for sunday that will clear across as we head through sunday night and by monday it will be in the east and it should be another fine fettle day look at tokyo there up around fourteen degrees but in beijing it's actually higher than that we're looking at a top temperature of around seventeen that's a long way above average really will be quite mild if you're out of the sunshine

further towards the south we're also looking at a top temperature in shanghai of around seventeen degrees you see the winds feeding up from the south they might bring a little bit of moisture at times and maybe a few showers but nothing too significant as we head through the next couple of days i mean for the south and there's plenty of what weather here some of the heaviest downpours been over borneo recently some places reporting two hundred seventy millimeters of rain that system still with us as we head through sunday and monday so this whole region still seeing some particularly lively showers mostly in the western parts of borneo but also stretching through singapore there down through the southern parts of somalia and into java jakarta's looking rather wet at times thirty one degrees there will be for the northern part of the philippines it's dry. an act of youthful defiance we've ruled your turn next doctor also in the school will be arrested me at home with four in the morning while the electric shock

treatment was the worse that triggered a revolution. the arrest of those children sparked it all of which became a battle with als and that was the beginning of the armed struggle in syria. the boy who started the syrian war this time on al jazeera. i get the top stories this hour on al-jazeera the first group of syrian rebel fighters to leave east has reached a government controlled area outside the own place the group josh al islam had released thirteen fighters from a rival group that held captive along with their families meanwhile two people have

been killed in government shelling obsessively. a major international conference underway in london examining the consequences of a war in yemen millions have been displaced in the conflict with many taking refuge at daybreak djibouti yemen is also struggling with widespread hunger and a cholera epidemic affecting more than a million people and donald trump says 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 north korea's leader kim jong il. india and france have signed deals worth some sixteen billion dollars after prime minister narendra modi met president emanuel mccraw on the agreements span cooperation in the fields of defense energy space and counterterrorism and include the. the big nuclear plant in india the two countries also vowed to work together to ensure the freedom of navigation in the indian ocean the two leaders met for ninety minutes on the first official visit to

india. after twenty years of strategic partnership we are now opening up to a new era new chapter of strengthening our strategic partnership with unprecedented alliances the pacific or the indian ocean cannot be places for head to money powers we are building a strategic partnership in this respect this is also the purpose of our defense cooperation it was born a while ago and was also tested in difficult times but beyond political alternatives both in france and in india this cooperation in the defense field now has new significance. bodog on please believe that for world peace progress and prosperity in the future the indian ocean region is going to play a very important role. matter time security and least sources of freedom of navigation or flight we are committed to strengthen our partnership this is why today. joins to be degree. in the indian ocean region.

is a research fellow at the institute of defense studies and analysis he joins us via skype from new delhi good to have you with the president of france says that he wants france to replace the u.k. as india's gateway to europe what will delhi make of that. yes all of our plans know destructively partners but india and in fact are we are still living to eat your subsetting but fancy getting back in ninety eight and. you know it you may do something to india and and then stop but no see no need us is sent and many other areas and i didn't see up to the big. house yet you would get in on the legal powers to meet the people department but really in terms of the military deals that have been signed india is france rather a natural partner for india yes thank you sir stanley partner and

many. parents in years and even if you saw what was last year did during the woodwork so plans is now i do mean doctors won't know our individual and so or if we look at the partners. this is. last and on buses almost everything depends are going to be new cures this is yet another never meant it in really well i don't believe this listen submitted. micron says that that he wants to see more of india's young talent in france and vice versa are they obvious synergies between between the two countries and their. economies particularly in terms of business how deep is this relationship going to go. another book with citi now the bank to buy it or to be certain not that it be i don't have been sixteen billion dollars but this is a very balanced there listen see between the two countries but so are so many

sectors are openly that it's the this didn't listen we love of money through that first one they didn't and still does least of impact not only do all right good stocks many thanks indeed for being with us. the e.u. japan and u.s. trade officials are meeting in brussels right now to discuss donald trump's planned tariffs on steel and aluminum imports the european block a certain to impose tariffs on u.s. products in retaliation washington's international allies warned that the us president's move could end up causing more harm to them than to china which is the plan's intended target let's go live out of brussels where officials from the e.u. the u.s. and japan are meeting on trump's planned tariffs as soon as paul brennan is there paul at this meeting was originally supposed to be about something else was that.

there was this was arranged in the back of the world trade organization last december to talk about overcapacity in the steel industry and in fact overcapacity of course is the root cause of the current situation that trip president trump is trying to address all those his critics say he's using a bomb to to to hit fully the four choices nature of the meeting here in brussels today is that the man from america the u.s. trade envoy is robert light ties and now he is the one who's going to be in charge of negotiating the exemptions from president from tariffs and the expectation is here in brussels at least is that the european union being such a close ally of america should be granted exemptions from these tariffs in fact it depends entirely on what the president's intention is and although we've seen a tweet overnight from president trump saying that working on a security arrangement with australia which president trumps hopes will exempt

enable an exemption to be given to to australia president trump has had some harsh words for him particularly germany so the idea of an exemption for europe is not necessarily a given or it's a what's at stake here paul. well it's a combination of two things first of all does the economics now not reality in the bigger context europe doesn't actually expand export much of its steel production to america europe produces around one hundred seventy million tonnes a year of which only about five million goes to america not that five million will be impacted but overall it's not going to really impact the u.k. sorry the e.u. steel. the real impact i think is going to be diplomatic and political you know the way the president from perspire can about europe leaves a bad taste in the mouth of the european diplomats and politicians given the long track record of close ties between america and europe and for him to be saying in effect that european steel presents

a national security risk to america is not going down very well here and is really straining relations paul many thanks indeed paul brennan there live in brussels women in palestine a largely more educated than men thirteen percent of them hold university degrees compared to just nine percent of the male population but despite their higher level of education many struggle to find job opportunities as harry forces reports now 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 need our needs are of course. working in an

environment the situation byrd said reflects a wider premium that's been put on female education in palestinian society or than sixty two percent of the current students are women a 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 miss says 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 long acting 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 and it's easier to sit at the desk than work the land we've lost lands 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 but arsenal 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 to twenty one it follows

weeks of campaigning by survivors of last month's parkland high school shooting in which seventeen people died the law also paves the way for some school staff to be armed. i'm an interim member and i was in a remember when i became governor i'm going to be an n.r.a. member when i'm not governor i'm sure there's an array members that agree with the bills on the don't agree with this bill. and the you know but the way i think about it i'm going to do what i think are common sense solutions common sense things that the father is a grandfather the governor is is we need to have offers for schools we need to harden earthworks 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 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 people living in japan's fukushima prefecture still waiting for compensation seven years after

a tsunami triggered an unprecedented nuclear catastrophe that they want the governments and the tokyo electric power company to take responsibility for the disaster a local courses a lot of the payments of four point five million dollars in compensation. but i will say in an tartars antarctica is the coldest on the planet yet it's home to an extraordinary ecosystem the posts and estimated fourteen thousand species everything from killer whales to starfish now there's a proposal to turn those rich waters into the largest wildlife sanctuary on earth in the first part of an al-jazeera series on the weddell sea then vironment editor nick clark has joined a greenpeace expedition that. it's a city near the end of the maritime history. in the main square in punta arenas but none miguel and looked out towards where you go across the strait that bears his day 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 toot a signatory to a very important treaty preserving the integrity of the antarctic continent works as a kind of international cooperative if you walk into the chilean and talk to institute you're presented with a map of the continent 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 can't because of the antarctic treaty which was signed back in one hundred fifty nine to ensure in the interest of all mankind that shall continue forever 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 the spirit of cooperation in a really if you don't compare it maybe you can be or can do

anything because this is an extreme. with extreme conditions. writers 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. so here we know you're dialing and ask here we made it seem. like you know. this is where the world's geography is turned upside down where russia neighbors chile along side it does not the nations research stations it is the antarctic treaty in action survival suits for the trip from shore to ship. on board we quickly on our way south bound for the site of the proposed ocean sanctuary an isolated wilderness of sea and ice home to an astonishing erev life sort of is for the wealthy marine protected area proposal by the german government

and backed by the e.u. and that sort of starts at about sixty four degrees it's 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 nic long al-jazeera antarctica. it is good to have you with us adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines allows us here at the first group of syrian rebel fighters to leave eastern has reached a government controlled area outside the old clave the group josh al islam had released thirteen fighters from a rival group that is held captive along with their families two people have been

killed in government shelling on saturday alan fischer reports now from turkey's border with syria. what we're hearing from state t.v. reporters in the area is that they believe more fighters will follow this humanitarian route that has been established by the russians to allow them to leave the on cleve certainly we know that the russians created this humanitarian corridor but up until friday no one had taken any advantage of it whatsoever 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 there will be no preconditions for a meeting between trump and kim jong il and by made russia's president vladimir putin has rejected accusations by u.s. intelligence services that he ordered citizens to interfere in the twenty sixteen presidential election in an interview putin said that he couldn't care less if

anyone meddled in the campaign as they were not connected to the kremlin he also said there are no plans to extradite thirteen russian citizens accused of attempting to interfere in the trump campaign india and france have signed deals worth sixteen billion dollars after prime minister narendra modi held talks with president emanuel mark on the agreements include cooperation on defense energy space and counterterrorism and the construction of a nuclear power plant in india and has also pledged to work together to ensure the freedom of navigation in the indian ocean the european union and other steel producing countries are lining up to be excluded from u.s. steel at any million tariffs the e.u. is warning that it will retaliate if washington doesn't relent president trump has already waived canada and mexico from the twenty five percent levy on steel and ten percent on aluminum japan brazil argentina australia and south korea all say that

they will also seek exemptions. those are the headlines the news continues here on inside story next. saudi. man has been given a welcome few world leaders could expect in london the british government has been accused of ignoring rights abuses in saudi arabia so what is behind this controversial trip this is inside story.

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