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china confirms a historic face to face meeting between president xi jinping the north korean leader kim jong un. this is al jazeera live from our headquarters and. also ahead u.n. security council members trade blame and vent frustrations over their unheeded demands for a syrian cease fire the russian president vladimir putin promises action as anger mounts over a deadly shopping mall fire. and why zimbabwean schoolteacher has threatened to storm the president's office. hello beijing has now confirmed that the north korean leader kim jong un did travel

to china for a face to face. meeting with president xi jinping it's kim's first official foreign trip since he came to power in two thousand and eleven speculation of kim's visit began circulating on japanese and south korean media on tuesday that's when a special armored train was seen near the border while it confirmed the visit china's state news agency didn't say if the two sides discussed north korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons which has led to tough u.n. sanctions backed by china let's speak to our china correspondent adrian brown joining us on the phone from beijing so after all the speculation adrian we now do have come for confirmation that it was it was the north korean leader in beijing. that's right there you mean few visits to china have been shrouded in as much secrecy as this one even late tuesday off the new year in beijing china's foreign ministry was continuing to insist the big didn't know who the mystery does it

involves which is probably disingenuous to say the least and that since spawns of the blanket security when the aging where the dying tide state get out says this is where it's stored that came and his delegation stayed during that visit which lasted less than two days but of course the key possible visit is the fact that kim has met president xi jinping which leaves president xi jinping become the first world leader to shake and we can jump on this not donald trump but kim president xi jinping so this i think is a reminder. china did not want president from to get all the limelight but he has expected meeting with president kim in several weeks time and i think it also demonstrates that actually china continued to have sway over north korea the question is this who what motivates thing to invite president clinton

here or did president kim did kill him off to come to beijing if so what is china but it wasn't a threat of more sanctions or have they given him new incentives either way it demonstrates to the united states i think that once you know because once you know peace talks begin about the house the result the crisis on the korean peninsula china will have to play a pivotal role will we be expecting the chinese to release any more information on this trip at all or does it just end here. look i don't know i think that inevitably more details are going to speak out during the day i think what would be significant is whether the chinese release a picture of president xi jinping shaking hands we can younger than that of course would would demonstrate as i say that you know it's in a sense business as usual mobile services being reviewed in the relationship

between china and north korea remember the relations between these two lives have been strained over the north's refusal. and nuclear program this is cool real anger in beijing and of course it could among chinese community along the border region the areas with the border of north korea but i think the fact that conditions have now we will leave with another headache as being result of president xi jinping but as i say it gives him a bit of one upmanship over president ok adrian if i think you for that update from beijing. there has been another round of blame trading among u.n. security council members as they discuss the failure of their call for a cease fire to take effect in syria they agreed on five or the twenty fourth a call for a thirty day break in hostilities it's allowed some extra aid to reach people but bombings have been soft and is sort of both off where syrian government forces and

their russian allies have been fighting to recapture the rebel on clave it's on the outskirts of damascus. russia will stop at nothing to use its permanent seat on this council to shield it out on the charlotte side from even the faintest criticism and we cannot take these actions because instead of calling out how assad russia and iran made a mockery of our calls for a cease fire too many members of this council wanted to wait. this is a travesty. this should be a day of shame for every member of this council and it should be a lesson about what happens when we focus on fleeting displays of unity instead of on what's right. well in response russia's u.n. ambassador accused fellow members of wasting time instead of taking action against the armed groups. some members

of the security council prefer to squander time on letters and rhetoric with claims against our country probably this is to conceal their own willingness to do something constructive in implementing the cease fire resolution along with the groups they sponsor. thirteen thousand fighters and their families have left over the past three days and they're heading to the last rebel held province in the country. more from neighboring beirut. ahmed says he never carried arms against the syrian government but some of his family members belong to the five man faction that's one of the reasons why he left his home in eastern as part of the surrender deal reached with the pope government alliance the other reason is his opposition to reconciling with a government that has killed so many people. every family in lost a family member i lost a lot of friends i lost

a colleague who was among twenty six who died in the famous airstrike i lost two children that i was teaching at school we decided to move away from this brutal regime. ahmed now lives in a mosque he is among some eight hundred thousand people who have been displaced from what was once the rebel controlled enclave in the suburbs of damascus many of those deported to adlib opposition controlled province in the northwest are fighters. is one of them the rebels controlled since late two thousand and twelve but months later it was besieged by government forces. and it's sad that we lost this battle after seven years of remaining steadfast after so many sacrifices we had to surrender because of the. civilians killed many children the hospitals were out of service anyone injured would die slowly. camps are being set up for syria's newly displaced the refugee camps are overstretched this is

a province with a population of one million displaced people and local communities are struggling to cope when rebels are defeated they go to adlib those who don't want to live under the rule of president bashar assad also moved to adlib but there is nowhere safe in that province airstrikes continue to hit nonmilitary targets such as schools and health facilities. the rebels arrived with their light weapons it's not clear if they will join the ranks of the armed factions an adlib where there has been rebel fighting. left before the all said regime for seven years but no food no water no medicine until the regime the russians launched a barbaric campaign we promised the opposite regime that we will return we will liberate the area there are those who refused to admit defeat but the loss of eastern huta is the worst setback for the opposition since it was forced to surrender the eastern part of aleppo city in two thousand and sixteen after a similar military campaign sent to. beirut. five people are facing

charges related to a fire in a russian shopping center that killed sixty four people forty one of them children the tragedy sparked a rare protests on the streets demanding justice for the victims president vladimir putin visited the siberian city where it happened and when the tragedy on criminal negligence our moscow correspondent reports. two different memorial events in moscow on tuesday evening two different aspects of a nation's grief first the official one beneath the walls of the kremlin with flowers and toys supplied by the city authorities later a people's gathering on pushkin square here there was anger at the country's political system for allowing cameras appalling fine to happen. citizens are deeply unhappy with your thought these actions including the president who should be responsible for everything happening in the country but you

nevertheless doesn't do anything to minimize things like corruption. i think that the other rallies hundred percent state i don't think that many people willingly when there are many of them receive salaries from the state and they were forced to attend here people came because they wanted to in camera itself which lost so many people in this disaster understandably the mood was even more roar that's a rally demanding truth and justice a man described his last words to his dying young daughter would you give me a good i said where where is my daughter i was talking to her on the phone she cried i'm here dad here i told her lie down on the floor i'm brave breathe and don't die i cried i was crying to my daughter she said dad i love you i'm suffocating i'm losing consciousness excuse me people here say they believe the death toll is much higher than officially admitted. vladimir putin often stays away

from domestic disasters but earlier on tuesday he visited camera and it's been removed residents criminal negligence was to blame he said but it was too early to point fingers this says the investigation team of one hundred people is working here they will go along the whole chain starting with those who issued licenses and up to those who are responsible for safety and that security firm employee who was sitting there and did not press the button on time in the gutted remains of the windsor cherry shopping center those investigators are trying to piece together what happened and how blocks fire exits and nonfunctioning alarm system and the slow emergency response might have contributed to the deaths of so many children and families relaxing on a sunday afternoon five people have been charged the director and the technical director of the mole have already appeared in court they insist all safety inspections and training were done by the book rusher is no stranger to horrible

tragedy so it's quite difficult to put one's finger exactly on what it is about of this one that's made people so hurt and angry perhaps the high number of children dead is a factor but also too i think the belief amongst many russians that corruption and bureaucratic indifference on just nuisances they can be devastatingly fatal to a country systemic failings are often most exposed by disaster and it's the failings of eighteen years of putin's rules that are on display just as he begins his fourth and potentially last in office rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. whether charters coming up right after that. there could be a difference in the best way. you know how they're not being in my view. the man who blew the whistle on the facebook data scandal testifies that dirty tricks were used in the u.k.'s bret's a campaign and police are cleared in the killing of

a black man in the us state of louisiana. through a tranquil review. i do not. see in the simulation going to. hello there we've got some heavy rain that's gathering over china at the moment for a look at the chart there for wednesday we'll see some of the wettest of the weather is through the sichuan province and into the gui zoom province and then gradually the whole system is working its way eastwards it's weakening a little bit as it does so but still for some of us in the young she province down through going down i need to go and she it does look like we're going to see some fairly sharp showers at times during the day the further towards the south and here we've been watching our cycle but that's here away to the east of the philippines and it looks like it's running northwards as it strengthens that means for the philippines it shouldn't be too bad we're looking at a fair amount of cloud maybe one or two showers but nothing too sinister there we

heavier downpours ever parts of borneo through java and into somalia and i think this region is where we're going to see some of the wettest of the weather on thursday as well jakarta is likely to see some very hefty downpours meanwhile if we had out towards the west we've just seen a few showers over sri lanka recently and elsewhere it's been largely dry even though showers over sri lanka look like they're easing and for most of us it will be dry over the next couple of days dry i don't so very very hot we're looking at a maximum temperature in a pool of of around forty degrees so the temperature is above average for this time of year thirty seven. the women sponsored by cats own and raise. a scandal that's rocked the nation to its core and exposed hundreds of cool to fish . brides just to show the most dangerous school movie team on and sometimes take a spot on the ball in a difference to build up a personal bond gains judicial too much as. i come out of my car

in an exclusive documentary al-jazeera examine the man extraordinary battle for justice in donna. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera china has now confirmed that its president xi jinping has met face to face with the north korean leader kim jong il there had been widespread media speculation about the meeting on tuesday beijing says kim is committed to getting rid of his country's nuclear weapons. the u.n. security council members have again traded blame over the failure of their cease

fire agreement to take effect in syria and five people are facing charges related to a fire in a russian shopping center that killed sixty four people forty one of them children . the facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg will reportedly testify before a u.s. congressional committee next month over the social network's role in harvesting millions of users data without their knowledge facebook and the data analytics firm cambridge analytical are at the center for rao over how personal information was used to influence the outcome of the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election while the whistleblower at the heart of the scandal has also been giving evidence to british m.p.'s christopher wiley said dad i gather that unlawfully was used to manipulate people in the u.k. to vote to leave the european union lawrence the reports. christopher what his extraordinary relations are now casting a shadow over democratic elections on both sides of the atlantic here he was

speaking to a u.k. government committee explaining how he knew that public opinion had been unlawfully manipulated before the referendum which is leading to the u.k. leaving the european union to irrevocably alter the constitutional settlement of this country on fraud is a mutilation of the constitutional settlement of this country and you cannot call yourself a lever you cannot call yourself somebody who believes in british law and and win by breaking british law in order to achieve that. while the central claim is that the campaign group to leave the european union hired an offshoot of cambridge analytical the data mining company accused of harvesting personal details of millions of people through facebook and manipulating opinions in an attempt to put on trump in the white house the company he said had subverted elections for its own aims in countries including nigeria and trinidad now it was doing the same in the

u.k. the company will send out billions of people being murdered to intimidate voters this is the company that goes out and tries to illicitly acquire you know live internet browsing data of everyone in an entire country so i think a lot of questions should be asked about the role of patriotic here in this election and whether they were indeed actually complying with the law here to add to this it had already been claimed to leave campaign broke u.k. election law by using campaign funds on lawfully allegations the leave camp denies it but in an emergency debate in parliament m.p.'s hostile to brick sets have begun to demand the referendum results be declared null and void inherently untrustworthy if the allegations are true that a potentially six hundred. and he five thousand pounds was spent illegally

in a very focused targeted campaign which by definition would been focused on targeted on a very small number of people then i think it's very hard to predict the effect that that would have passed the law to new york and nobody is above at least one prominent m.p. who backs the leave campaign said he agreed with the need for a criminal inquiry so he's ended up in a situation where you get newspaper headlines like this questioning not just the ethical value but the sheer legality of the vote to leave the european union of course supporters of brecht's states would say the entire thing is a made up plot to discredit the democratic decision but in this hall of mirrors it's becoming increasingly difficult to know what's real and what's fake gloriously al-jazeera westminster in london.

some of gyptian zur facing a campaign if intimidation and bribes to push them into voting in the presidential election local officials and security forces are threatening voters with confiscation of goods and other disciplinary measures that's unless they cast their ballots others have been offered food and cash if they go to the polls it's part of an effort to boost turnout on the third and final day of the vote which president i've been fact that has sisi is certain to win while sisi came to power after overthrowing the muslim brotherhoods mohamed morsi egypt's first democratically elected president the brotherhood was later outlawed by the country's military government. has more. there was a small window of democracy in egypt's long history of strongman backed by the military that was in two thousand and twelve when mohamed morsi was sworn in. but the triumph of egypt's first democratically elected president and the party he represents the muslim brotherhood lost in just twelve months the largest

representative of political sunni islam in egypt is now labeled by the state as a terrorist organization which the brotherhood denies there's no room for any kind of political practice nobody is allowed to express his opinion nobody is allowed to field him self as a candidate in as a serious candidate in front of sisi the military controls everything. you muslim brotherhood has been on the hit list of egyptian rulers for nearly a century has an alumna the first guy general was believed to have been killed by egyptian secret police in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. despite supporting the nurse said who became president the brotherhood was banned in one nine hundred fifty four dozens of members were arrested or escaped another brotherhood leaders say it but it was hanged on the orders of president and were sadat throughout the one nine hundred eighty s. efforts by the muslim brotherhood to become a political force failed it wasn't until the removal of hosni mubarak in two

thousand and eleven that the brotherhood's freedom and justice party was elected for the first time along with president mohamed morsi who's known death row for ordering the killing of protesters. just a year after taking charge he was removed in a military coup led by the current president of the fatah and sisi morsi supporters accused the so-called deep state especially within the military hierarchy of not allowing the muslim brotherhood government to function in that single year after the first fully democratic election the main mistake is actually handing over their responsibility of managing the transitional period after the revolution after ousting hosni mubarak handing over this power to to the military took to the military and the military had all the time in order to abort the achievements of the revolution and. like other military rulers of egypt sisi has ordered the jailing of thousands of brotherhood supporters and successfully lobbied regional backers to declare the group as

a terrorist organization. exiled members and brotherhood supporters say the ruling clique is suppressing moderate voices and warning that could result in an extreme reaction in egypt. from a bit of their. teachers in zimbabwe have threatened to storm the offices of president emerson and bring the public sector to a standstill they want their salaries to be doubled her was also reports from harare. public school teachers in zimbabwe say not much has changed since president investment and what took over from robert mugabe in november they say they earn between two hundred and three hundred fifty dollars a month they want a one hundred percent salary increase and better with the conditions we still see a lot of the villains of the sort of guns in government poses we're told all of the big booms are a big huge who's going to be saying where is the money that was due to market translate into our pockets was a little a blizzard out the government is slow what is do we have fitness to feed with

children to send to school we have bills to pay we have transport costs to reach in things like that we also have daily day to day needs even the. medical hold facilities we also need to take our children then also to do that but then the money is not enough. by doing it doctors have been on strike for nearly a month crippling the public health sector the teachers are saying that they will also down tools if their demands are met and they will stop going to teach in the public schools the government has ceded to civil servants to striking doctors and to the teachers who are disgruntled with the government is trying to address the needs they say that the government is broke that there's a shortage of foreign currency and right now the state can't afford to raise salaries but people are seemingly agitated seemingly running out of patience they say it's time for the government at all they will bring the entire public sector to a standstill. the u.s.

president's son in law and senior advisor jerry christner is facing more investigations into his business practices white house officials are looking into the legality of two loans made to crisler who is married to donald. daughter ivanka paddick ohio reports from washington. jared kushner often seen but rarely heard always at the center of power but also controversy and now once again facing questions about meetings he had at the white house with business c.e.o.'s who soon after loaned his family company hundreds of millions of dollars his lawyer tells al-jazeera the white house counsel's office did look into the meetings but says they quote concluded there were no issues involving jared there have been plenty of issues surrounding the president's son in law the f.b.i. recently said he wouldn't be given clearance to see the nation's top secrets they didn't say what their investigation uncovered but there have been constant questions about his family's business and his role in the government much of it

goes back to this manhattan building six six six fifth avenue at the height of the housing bubble cushion are paid a staggering record set in amount for it one point eight billion dollars next february he has to come up with six hundred million dollars or risk losing the building his father admits meeting with qatari officials about a possible investment there are reports cutter said no something cushion or denies but its belief special counsel robert muller is looking into the meeting to find out if his business deals are affecting foreign policy not long after the meeting president donald trump came out strongly on the side of countries blockading cutter and their reports other countries have been caught talking about being able to exploit kirshner's inexperience and financial issues for their advantage. is also central to the ongoing investigation into potential collusion between the trump campaign and russia during the transition he met with then russian ambassador to

the us and asked to set up a secret back channel to moscow one the rest of the u.s. government couldn't hear he said it was to talk syria and there is a new focus on his role in the campaign he ran the digital op. aeration and now congressional investigators want to know how they used cambridge analytical and facebook to target voters there are many questions about businesses role in the campaign and time in the white house all things that muller will likely try to answer peggy calling al-jazeera washington. a prosecutor in the u.s. state of louisiana has ruled out criminal charges for two white police officers in the two thousand and sixteen killing of african american alton sterling the thirty seven year old was held down by the two officers and shot dead outside a convenience store in the city of baton rouge footage of the incident sparked nationwide protests louisiana's attorney general said the officers had good reason to believe sterling was armed mike hanna has more from washington. well emerging in

the course of the day essentially the tale of two shootings judgment was deliberate in the charges against two police officers who'd been accused of shooting alton stirling back in two thousand and sixteen the attorney general who'd been investigating that case found that the officers did not have any charge that they had attempted to lawfully a risk however his shooting sparked a wave of protests playing a very big role in the rise of the black lives matter movement particularly as no weapon was found around the man after he'd been shot the shooting actually captured on mobile phone camera but coincidentally on the same day we have a scenario where there was a now the shooting of a black man by police officers last week in that particular case the investigation

into the death of twenty three year old steven clark who was shot twenty times in his grandmother's backyard by two police officers who believe that the mobile phone he was holding was a gun they said in that particular case the secretary police chief says that law enforcement officials will not investigate it will be supervised by the california department of justice in a bid to create greater transparency around the investigation importantly to in this particular case the body camera footage from the police has already been released in the sterling case the footage from those police officers has still not been released nearly eighteen months after the shooting this blood by the sacramento police chief in attempt to diffuse the massive emotion that is swirling around yet another shooting off an african american funeral due to take place on

thursday and the police chief attempting to calm feelings and. an outraged community. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera china haas confirmed that its president xi jinping had a face to face meeting with the north korean leader kim jong un there had been widespread media speculation about the meeting on tuesday beijing says kim is quote committed to getting rid of his country's nuclear weapons our china correspondent andrew brown has more. the key particle this is the fact that kidman has met president xi jinping which leads president xi jinping become the first world leader to shake hands and we can jump on this not donald trump but kim president xi jinping so this i think is a reminder that china did not want president from to get all the limelight but he

has expected meeting with president clinton in several weeks time and i think it also demonstrates that actually china continued to have sway over north korea. well the u.s. ambassador to the united nations as all members of the security council should be ashamed that the bombing of eastern route of continues despite a cease fire agreement. and syria for what she calls a slaughter but her syrian counterpart struck back saying the area has now been liberated from rebels five people are facing charges related to a fire in a russian shopping center that killed sixty four people forty one of them children the tragedy sparked on the streets of moscow and the siberian city where it happened demanding justice for the victims some are facing a campaign of intimidation and bribes to push them into voting in the presidential election it's part of an effort to boost turnout on the third and final day of the vote which president. is certain to win facebook boss mark zuckerberg

reportedly testify before a u.s. congressional committee next month over the social network's role in harvesting millions of hughes without their knowledge facebook. cambridge analytic are at the center for rao over how personal information was used to influence the outcome of the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election those are the latest headlines on al-jazeera story is coming up next. the u.s. and many european nations have expounds more than one hundred.