is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and she's close to the story joining the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. swear every since. three weeks into the assault on the syrian rebel enclave of eastern go to the death toll has passed one thousand. this is al jazeera live from doha. also ahead donald trump thanks china for its

help with north korea but the details of the proposed summit with came junk only remain vague and voting is underway in hong kong for by elections that test the strength of the democracy movement plus. on the clock reporting from an expedition out all to go all the effort to turn the vast and remote weddle sea into the largest protected area all. syrian government forces have made significant ground in their battle to take the last remaining rebel stronghold near the capital damascus for the past three weeks they have been pounding eastern go deaf from above killing more than a thousand people in the process according to the syrian observatory for human rights now grand forks have advance into areas between the main towns of duma and have roster that has cut off the main rebel supply line the government also says it has full control of misrata cutting off another key vote to duma and splitting the

enclave into three alan fisher has more from the turkey syria border. all syrian government forces have made big gains in the last twenty four hours they're still facing resistance. this video from josh al islam claims to show regime forces being pushed but they have surrounded two large home to the. duma and harasta and circling tones is something syrian government forces have done consistently especially since enlisting the help of the russians militarily and tactically by cutting off roads and important supply lines they've essentially left the fighters. with no place left to go he's isolating the two cities now the two big cities in the in the east he's weakening them and he's. supporting its military approach by having this political strategy separating them both on the ground and politically by trying to have a deal this deal with. across the country the free syrian army supported by the

talks are closing in on the city of afrin. positions held by the kurdish militia the why p.g. . is strikes have been ongoing water has been cut one doctor in the local hospital says he fears a massacre the chair of the local council has called on the u.n. to intervene. was the u.n. official claims that self administration and the y. p.g. prevent the population from escaping we invite those who sit somewhere and say something like this to send a delegation to a free and to talk to people here the people of our free prefer to voluntarily stay in their country and defend against the occupation of the turkish state. president says he expects turkish troops to be in the city. if we placed on a shelf put on solid our conscience ethics and sensitivities just like other countries and terrorists do well in syria capturing affray will be a job that would take is just three days. back in eastern guta syrian t.v.

says government forces now control fifty one percent of the area they're still considering humanitarian corridors for people and fighters who are ready to leave but they still continue to push for full control alan fischer al-jazeera on the turkish syrian border. and turkey's president has criticized the nato alliance for not supporting his military operation in syria as a free region turkey launched the operation to clear the area of kurdish y p g pfizer's in january turkey considers a y p g a terrorist group that is nato ally the u.s. has backed the fighters to combat eisel. the law says. i'm calling on them now he nato where are you we are putting up a fight isn't turkey a nato country where are you invited nato member states to afghanistan immediately so how about in syria if the nato countries who are in syria really have the power they would openly clearly stand against us but they don't dare because they can see

that turkey is standing tall but what we wanted was this you called us to afghanistan we came you called us to somalia we came you called us to the balkans we came now i'm calling on them so come to syria turkey with nine hundred eleven kilometers of order with syria is under threat right now so why aren't you coming to us present donald trump s thanks china for his help in trying to find a diplomatic solution with north korea that's after south korea announced an agreement from trying to meet kim jong un face to face present time says his spoken to the leaders of both china and japan who are both enthusiastic about the diplomatic breakthrough mike hanna has more from washington. president trying to pierce confidence that all is going well in the north korean front he issued a series of tweets in the course of the day among them saying that north korea has not conducted a missile test since the vent of the twenty eighth apparently indicating he has

faith in the message that was relayed to him via south korean intermediaries that north korea was going to suspend testing until the meeting between him and the north korean leader takes place president trance also holding phone conversations with the president of china and the prime minister of japan as well as the french president clearly trying to build up international support for this unprecedented move by a u.s. leader to meet the north korean leader face to face but there are concerns certainly among many women washington about the lack of preparation in the trumpet ministration this is know as best to south korea the leading expert within the state department on north korea resigned a week ago so there is no level of preparation terms of any negotiation that much the might take place this light of the fact that north korea has had a negotiating team in place for decades now striking deals on negotiating with

various parties so should the meeting take place should negotiations happen the u.s. from the very beginning is going to be at a distinct disadvantage one news of a planned meeting has been making headlines all over the world but not in north korea where it passes a major problem for the nation's propaganda machine robin wright has more 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. hong kong police have detained a number of protesters as polled polls opened in the legislative council by elections the vote is expected to be bitterly contested as a pro-democracy camm looks to keep its one third veto bloc in the legislative election is seen as a litmus test gauging reaction to beijing's perceived increase interference in the city's governance even though palin has more. edward you knows too well that victory doesn't guarantee is placed on the legislative council. the former professor won in the twenty sixteen elections and while being sworn in he added to fray saying he would fight for universal suffrage after a year in office the beijing government reinterpreted hong kong's constitution to

deem him ineligible because of that this time he promises his supporters he has a plan ranging if you are going to unite and they believe in the end of this year we will discuss about the political rights of all called people i usually did since the twenty fourteen pro-democracy demonstrations known as the umbrella movement beijing has tightened its grip on the city as i was it is that you would like to have the government meet these new hair this new cap our. law says god the legal system and although he made calcutta these elections to a place for ousted legislative councillors are divided along very clear lines the candidates are either probate are pro democracy. and this is the other camp rallying supporters in front of the government headquarters the poll beijing parties the main office there used to stabilize hong kong government so i suppose

that these are the governments preferred candidates if they win the opposition will not have the numbers in parliament to block bills or question beijing sections but many here believe these candidates will help the city run smoothly i hope it is a problem i know i keep trying to write talking so and then i think all it takes is a kind of hard to tell the. analysts say this vote is mostly symbolic a victory for the pro-democracy candidates would be an expression of frustration at beijing's increasing interference in hong kong's affairs former colonies macau and hong kong are the only territories in china where the public can directly vote for their government but many here say with beijing becoming more intrusive and pushing for more integration with their. to china voting is increasingly regarded a something that matters less and less the bigger pollin are does their home call. to head on al-jazeera. stop mass illegal immigration and limit illegal

immigration to get our sovereignty back and to help our workers donald transform a chief strategist man supported in the arena and spotlight party in france. to witness lists in a british probe of the poisoning of a former russian spy grows what east two hundred feet. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. hello there it's mostly settled across the southern parts of china at the moment there's plenty of fine weather to be found and it's also roll tomorrow shanghai up at seventeen degrees at the moment hong kong is not too much higher than that where up at around twenty one you can see the winds that they are feeding in a fair amount of moisture so there will be a bit of clapper ticky over the hunan province could see a shower here and then we'll see some more showers over the chunk chicken province

as we head through monday there's also the chance of a few showers around the northern parts of vietnam but then the exception rather than the rule really am for most of us it will be dry a bit further towards the south and it's also mostly dry across the philippines at the moment to the west whether well that's over parts of borneo stretching down into java and also affecting us in some march are we seeing some very heavy showers in this region that area whether there is just pushing a bit further towards the north as we head through monday so more of us will see those showers i think singapore will see quite a few also we've been seeing some showers over parts of sri lanka has been very very wet here and there showers are just been drifting a bit further northwards just into the fall for them parts of india now we're going to see some more wet weather here over the next few days some of the showers over sri lanka are likely to be rather heavy once more to the north of all of that though it's fine enjoy it woman now looks like new delhi will be up but thirty fall . there with sponsored by the time race. and act of

youthful defiance we've route your turn next to the rest of the school they arrested me at home at four in the morning the electric shock treatment was the worst that triggered a revolution. the arrest of those children sparked it all of which became a battle without and that was the beginning the armed struggle in syria. the boy who started the syrian war this time on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top story syrian government forces have made significant gains in rebel held eastern ghouta in advancing to areas between duma and harasta cutting

off a major highway more than a thousand people have been killed in eastern government stepped up its campaign three weeks ago. us present donald trump says he secured an agreement from pyongyang to suspend missile testing ahead of a planned face to face meeting with north korean leader kim jong il and he's also thanks china for its help trying to find a diplomatic solution to the political standoff and police in hong kong have detained a number of protesters as polls opened in the legislative council by elections they are seen as a litmus test gauging reaction to beijing increased interfering in the city's government's. police in britain have identified over two hundred witnesses in their investigation into the poisoning of a former russian spy the u.k. home secretary said more than two hundred forty pieces of evidence are also being considered ex agency cripple and his daughter yulia remain

a critical condition in hospital after being poisoned with a nerve agent sonya gago has more from london. this is a fast moving investigation which is coordinating intelligence officials see a cabinet ministers as well as security officials as well now while the investigation continues in salzburg and all the locations there which have presumably been visited by the victims said basically paul and his daughter a year there is also a plan being formulated as to what will be happening beyond this and from this point onwards and as the home secretary amber rudd said this is an investigation which is going to require some fine combing of the evidence before being pointed out who's behind it. this is a serious substantial investigation for over two hundred fifty counterterrorism police from eight out of far left and counterterrorism units involved there's over

two hundred witnesses involved and there's over two hundred forty pieces of evidence so we need to give the police and all the investigative parts around them the space to get on with that with that in mind there have been tensions also rising between britain and russia with certain politicians and officials tentatively pointing the finger that perhaps this bears the hallmarks of if not a state sponsored attack on mr sleep island his daughter then perhaps it could be that of a criminal organization this has been something which the russian government has been strenuously denying from its part saying that has nothing to do with such a thing bartz at the same time the british officials this does raise parallels with the death of mr alexander litvinenko a russian dissident who was living in the u.k. and was killed by radiation poisoning twelve years ago however there will there

will be the matter of how do. it tightly define exactly who was behind this once the end. dence yields that officials are saying that they will be raising this issue at a nato meeting in july together with nato partners as to how to proceed with perpetrators of such attacks on british soil and that of course is adding to a difficult time tense time diplomatically between london and moscow. yes present on a transformer advisor as address the far right national front party and its congress in france steve van and praise party leader malena pen for what he called her vision that pits nationalists versus globalist require some. arena le pen is still bruised by the scale of the defeat to emmanuel macro nine months ago but as quoted britain's wartime leader winston churchill failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts a change of brandon a change of name

a coming in lille this weekend but not it seems a change in policies a ballot of eighty questions sent to national front members just return of majority of ninety percent in favor of a bridge that referendum on the european union and ninety eight percent want a drastic limit to immigration which delegates here described as a tsunami. it's not often that the spotlight moves away from the marine le pen the president trumps former chief strategist stephen bannon managed it when invited on to the party platform we had the single greatest candidate in american history thanks all we had to do was let trump be trump number one stop mass illegal immigration and limit illegal immigration to get our sovereignty back and to help our workers told the national front they were part of a world wide movement that history was on their side and it was the tide that would

bring them victory after victory after victory. but it didn't happen for marine le pen and twenty seventeen many blamed her poor showing in the campaign's final debate with emanuel macro eyes are now turning on her twenty eight year old niece marion maddox charlotte penn although now retired from politics she has been identified as a rising star by bannon and was spreading her message anew knighted states last month i'm not offended when i see a president on the trail and say america first. improv . i want america first for the american people i want reading first for the british people and i want friends for for all the friends we've all. arena pen hopes exercise in rebranding will help bring support back and allow us to form alliances with other parties to change or how to steer

a lever. india in france or sign sixteen billion dollars worth of deals during french president demanding that cost first official visit to india the agreements include cooperation on defense energy space and counter-terrorism and the construction of a nuclear power plant in india it was also a place where together to ensure the freedom of navigation in the indian ocean. and . the pacific or the indian ocean cannot be places for head to morning hours we are therefore building a strategic partnership in this respect this is also the purpose of our defense cooperation was born a while ago and was also tested in difficult times but beyond political alternatives in both fronts and in india this cooperation in the defense sector now has a new significance because it is essential to our strategic independence happy monday jacob is a professor of national security and international relations said. mary university

he says political instability in the u.s. and britain has pushed india for new strategic partnerships. i think that is not a consequence of sir or what is happening in the voucher system today especially with britain reeling under blair said it's on its own because the programs if you are or do partners with the united states or. you know you know there's a very close to the neglect going to the united states and therefore crime scene is now looking like the biggest. but given is a very big market that india has. it you're all underground but this is not just. defense partners or it is also civilian partnership and there's a law or order to that is going in the body in the debate or speedier and so i think this is it meeting of minds and it is perhaps has been more of a guess i'm very unlikely he's going to be ever since the seventy's and eighty's so

it is no surprise here it is good to see that this is the relationship it is far more robust cata has fined a complaint with the united nations security council denouncing violations of its aspace by military planes from the u.a.e. and bahrain the qatari government outlining to sions in an letter to the un secretary general the u.a.e. and bahrain are yet to respond the two nations and i'm with santeria dandy to talk ties with qatar in june banning cattle from their space the gulf nations accused of supporting terrorist groups denies the allegations. a second round of voting looks likely in sana'a and with results from wednesday's presidential election too close to call both the ruling all people's congress and oppositions generally on people spotty on iran forty three percent with half of the votes counted candidates we quiet fifty five percent to win our prize the election itself is largely peaceful

but rival supporters clashed on saturday as results came in iran awful must take place two weeks after the final results and i mean interests has more many civil unions believe that this election is headed for a run up with fifty percent of the vote counted that is little difference between the two leading candidates candidate of the ruling a.p.c. party and the biggest opposition party in the country the p.p. all of them have scored more than five hundred sixty thousand votes the third candidate is hundreds of thousands of votes behind them now they are reported cases of. stuffing which the election officials say they are investigating now the election commission is expected to announce twenty five percent more of the votes by to morrow probably by the end of. sunday the results will be finally in and no civil unions are bracing themselves for

a second round of voting on the streets of seven young they are new to celebrations in certain places the celebrations were actually wild people commending the election commission for conducting what looks like very very raw vote in syria leon . trade officials from the european union and japan economy for exemptions on steel import tariffs imposed by donald trump the demand came during a meeting in brussels in which the e.u. threatened imposed on u.s. products key u.s. chain partners have won that trump status which come into force in two weeks massively backfired comes to plan we'll see a twenty five percent tariff on steel and ten percent on a new minimum point spoke brennan reports from brussels this is a meeting that had been put in the diary several weeks ago to talk about the root cause of the industries the steel industries where as and that is overcapacity but president trumps announcements on tariffs have put new impetus into that part of

the discussions that have been taking place here in brussels and the opportunity for the european union trade commission and the japanese trade minister to have face to face time with robert light hisor the u. s. trade envoy is very valuable at the start of this two week period before president trump's tariffs actually start to be imposed there are going to be intense negotiations over this next two weeks to decide whether or not the european union can be exempted from those tariffs and the big implications if they're not are an escalating tit for tat kind of trade war involving all kinds of other products such as peanut butter orange juice harley davidson motorcycles blue denim jeans all of these kind of things that the european union are threatening they will the slack tariffs on in retaliation essentially for what's happening to the steel industry now it's not a foregone conclusion by any means that the european union will find that it still

has tariffs imposed upon it overnight president trump appears to be coming close to a deal with the australian prime minister on security arrangements there which will mean president trump won't impose tariffs on australia so there is a glimmer of hope that european union still produces will escape the worst effects of it but with this president it's not there's no guarantee at all and that is why the european union is seeking clarity from robert lighthouse and here in brussels. now the weddell seen and talked to is the coldest on the planet yet it's home to an extraordinary ecosystem boasting an estimated fourteen thousand species now there's a proposal to turn the rich waters into the largest wildlife sanctuary on earth in part one of al-jazeera series on the web all see our environment as an economic joint a greenpeace expedition. it's a city near the end of the maritime history land. in the main

square in punta arenas but none miguel and 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 toot 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 continent incredibly rich in resources from copper to oil to golf 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 nine hundred fifty nine to ensure in the interest of all mankind that 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. 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. here with no king george island and john sculley 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 nation's research stations it is the antarctic treaty in action. survival suits are on for the trip from shore to ship. it is our ride out to the arctic sunrise and. up in the mist out there somewhere. on board we're quickly on our way south bound for the site of the proposed ocean site

tree an isolated wilderness of sea and 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 about sixty four degrees is described by everyone who goes as pretty in the hospital so 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 fall we get will depend on whether ice conditions and a good deal of luck make long al-jazeera antarctica. now again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera syrian government forces have made significant gains in rebel held eastern go to have advance into

areas between duma and have vasta cutting off a major highway more than one thousand people have been killed in eastern grotesque since the government stepped up its campaign three weeks ago. he has frozen donald trump says he has secured an agreement from pyongyang to suspend missile testing ahead of a planned face to face meeting with north korean leader kim jong un during a campaign stop under way right now in pennsylvania he said the meeting would be a great success. transformer chief strategist has addressed the far right national front party in france and its congress and leading steve van and praise party leader in a pen for what he called her vision that pits nationalists versus globalists. police in hong kong have detained a number of protesters as polls opened in the legislative council by elections elections are seen as a litmus test gauging reaction to beijing's increased interference in the city's

governance india and france have signed sixteen billion dollars worth of deals after prime minister narendra modi met present a man in my call the agreement includes cooperation on defense and space and counterterrorism and the construction of a nuclear power plant in india. from bloomberg i'm on board boken please believe that we will be progress and prosperity in the future the indian ocean region is going to play a very important role beat environment maritime security and blue sources of freedom of navigation or flight you're committed to strengthen our partnership this is why today be a person doing a joint strategic reason for corporation in the indian ocean region and british police have identified two hundred witnesses in their investigation into the poisoning of a former russian spy ag home secretary said more than two hundred forty pieces of evidence are also being considered ex agency is crippled and his daughter yulia remain in a critical condition in hospital after being poisoned with

a nerve agent you're upset with headlines on al-jazeera the news continues right after inside story. traded in what's the u.s. president on north korea live to say. tomcats kim jong il and to give up his due. and young one from the talks this is inside story.