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the north korean leader kim jong un has been treated to a lavish welcome by chinese president xi jinping during a secretive visit to beijing now this is kim's first known trip abroad since he took power in twenty eleven and the first time he's met she face to face china and north korea are seeking to salvage frayed ties ahead of landmark summit between pyongyang south korea prion yang in the united states it was featured speculation about the meeting as it took place on tuesday both countries so the only confirmed just a few hours ago we have two correspondents on this story we've got kathy novak in seoul and we've got adrian brown in beijing adrian me start with you and very much similar this first encounter between kim and president xi very similar to the kinds

of encounters between north korea and china of the past. that's right in this era of political and diplomatic surprises martine here was another as you say in the past north korean leaders have always been given lavis receptions and that was certainly the case this time president xi jinping was you know wearing a sort of western style business suit whereas kim jong un was dressed like a conventional or thorough tarion communist leader and of course on occasions like this appearances all important it was also notable that the wives of both men also enjoyed a very high profile they appeared at most of the picture opportunities that have been released by state television during the past few hours of course this is a visit martine that china's foreign ministry was basically denying it was happening twenty four hours ago they were giving the lie that they had no clue as

to who this mystery guest was in beijing well finally on wednesday morning the chinese government confirmed that indeed kim jong un had been in beijing his visit ran from the twenty fifth of march until the twenty eighth of march three days in total now why did kim jong un come to beijing at this time well i think it's fair to assume that president xi jinping wants to know what his negotiating strategy is going to be when he sits down or is expected to sit down with president trump in a few weeks time and of course what inducements if any did president xi have to walk for kim jong un to make him come here because remember until now kim jong un has not stepped outside of his country so was it the threat of more sanctions or is china offered something meaningful either way it demonstrates the china clearly does have sway over north korea and also and i think this is the most important

point china wants to illustrate to demonstrate that it's not prepared to be sidelined when. north korea and the president the united states have the face to face talks all right adrian thank you for that let's go over to kathy now in the south korean capital seoul and is this a welcome gauge or into a welcome addition to this these multiple axes of dialogue as far as seoul is concerned. that seems to be what the south korean government is saying that this improvement in relations between china and north korea is a positive signal ahead of these major summits between president of south korea and kim jong un and of course between kim jong un and donald trump the unification ministry saying that the improved relationship helps to address the issues on the korean peninsula denuclearization and addressing peace china's top diplomat is expected to come to seoul tomorrow to brief south korean officials on kim jong un's

visit and of course we have the north korean state media reporting that she jinping has accepted an invitation extended for him to come to pyongyang so the government here has always talked about more engagement and dialogue with north korea but more broadly in the south korean public and outside of the government there is a little bit of skepticism questions around what political game they can really be playing here as he seeks to negotiate at these high levels between xi jinping between donald trump and even with the president of south korea there had been commentary on the south korean media that perhaps kim was looking to pivot more to be more pro united states china would not be happy with that so questions about whether kim jong un is trying to play china off of the united states and some of the parties outside of the ruling party saying that perhaps south korea should be

perhaps a little bit more cautious going into this interest in the summit because if kim jong un is able to extract more concessions and perhaps get the international community to agree to reduce sanctions then maybe that is taking a step back on the path towards the ultimate goal of denuclearization martine kathy novak live in seoul thank you very much. well the trump administration has been quick to claim some of the credit for this meeting a white house statement said the u.s. sees this development as further evidence that our campaign of maximum pressure is creating the appropriate atmosphere for a dialogue with north korea that christopher hill is a former u.s. diplomat who in two thousand and five negotiated directly with north korea and china on pyongyang's nuclear program he says president trump will sell this as a big foreign policy victory clearly the talk of this regime wants to say that this

. possible either you are. talking about why they are included in the group of sanctions that the u.s. is considering so you know i am not sure really matters too much as you know how people are going to take credit but the best question is will all donald trump sit down your job hunt it will be on central park was a ship yours or hasn't been in some eight years ride toward the news hour and there's been another round of blame trading among u.n. security council members as they talk about the failure of their call for a cease fire in syria now they'd agreed on february the twenty fourth to a thirty day break in hostilities that would have allowed for extra aid to reach people and some indeed did get in but the bombings didn't stop in east and go to where the syrian government and its allies have been fighting to recapture the rebel on klav which is on the outskirts of the capital damascus russia will stop at

nothing to use its permanent seat on this council to shield it south 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 the russian ambassador accused fellow members of wasting time instead of taking action against armed groups and. some members of the security council prefer to squander time on letters and rhetoric with un 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. for meanwhile the russian defense ministry says thirteen thousand five years and their families have now left. over the past three days they're heading to in the northwest of the country it's the last rebel held province in syria then a hard one has 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 rebel faction that's one of the reasons why he left his home in eastern huta as part of the surrender deal reached with the pro-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 here is among some eighteen 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 an opposition controlled province in the northwest are fighters. is one of them the rebels controlled eastern. 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 they 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 those who don't want to live under the rule of president bashar assad also moved to 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. regime for seven years but no food no water no medicine until the regime the russians launched a barbaric campaign we promised the also regime that we will return. there are those who refused to admit defeat but the loss of east 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. coming up we're having a look at the weather and. the facebook chief mark zuckerberg agrees to testify

before congress over a growing data scandal and police are cleared in the killing of a black man in the u.s. state of louisiana. was. the on. the a. hello there we're expecting some severe weather over parts of north america over the next couple of days you can see the weather system already with us it's giving us some heavy downpours and we're likely to hear the odd rumble of thunder in with that we're also expecting some large hail and maybe the old tornado as well so here's that weather system during the day on wednesday stretching all the way up towards washington d.c. and not really moving anywhere in a great hurry even as we head through thursday said the still the risk of seeing some more heavy downpours him potentially some flooding as well meanwhile towards the west there's a bit of

a break in the weather more in the way of sunshine but then we all sing a few showers for the western parts of canada and of course at this time of year you'd expect a lot of those to be wintry now a bit further towards the sound is plenty of fine weather through mexico and down towards costa rica but towards the east there's more in the way of cloud hair that's mostly just grazing the east coast for many of us it should stay following and dry if we had down towards south america there's more in the way of wet weather here we've got some particularly heavy outbreaks over the southern parts of brazil and the northern parts of argentina very wet hair has been for the past couple of days as well to the south of that though it's looking largely fine and dry the temperatures have recovered in what is always so it's fairly warm we're getting to around twenty six. the a. and new year new lessons and new rules this is the time when you get to choose your english teacher is for the next two years meet the teachers empowering their

students might say i'm michael all about freedom we're going to look at the spectrum i want you to develop the skill with which you speak by letting them choose the lessons they learned revelent acacia and democratic schooling in one to condemn at this time on al-jazeera. you know with. the top stories china has confirmed that its president. his first face to face talks with north korean leader kim jong un. says kim is committed to getting rid of his country. and u.n.

security council members have traded accusations over the failure of the cease fire agreement to take effect in syria. where five people are facing charges related to a foreign a russian shopping center that killed sixty four people and forty one of them were children the tragedy sparked protests on the streets demanding justice for the victims president putin visited the siberian city where it happened and blamed the tragedy on criminal negligence a moscow correspondent. two different memorial events in moscow one tuesday evening two different aspects of a nation's grief first the official one beneath the wheels of the kremlin with flowers and toys supplied by the city authorities later the people's gathering on pushkin square here there was anger at the country's political system for allowing cameras appalling fine to happen. on the ground our citizens are deeply unhappy

with your thought these actions including the president who should be responsible for everything happening in the country but who nevertheless doesn't do anything to minimize things like corruption. i think that the other rallies hundred percent staged 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 want to tune 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 lighter on the floor and bri breathe and don't die i cried i was crying to my daughter she said 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 winter 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 mall 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's 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 lost in office rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. now 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 candidates or analytics

firm cambridge analytical or at the center of a rout over how personal information was used to influence the outcome of the two of the sixteen u.s. presidential elections. now for generations fishermen in indonesia have relied on catching sharks to make a living and that's one of the reasons why shark numbers a falling so fast in indonesian waters scientists are warning that many species risk being wiped out altogether if restrictions aren't in force now this is being discussed right now at a meeting of experts taking place in the capital jakarta occurs when the set vasant is therefore so how bad is the problem. well moment more and more species of sharks and rays are now put on the site as a list of species which means that if you keep fishing them and catching them then they will get threatened but shark fishing is still

a very big business here although more and more restaurants are basically not putting shark fin soup on the menu anymore it's still a big business to export shark fins to china mainly so that's why the government has organized this symposium to get a better side of the data out of how many sharks are actually there would which species are being threatened so we went to one of the biggest shark fishing places in indonesia a huge shock market in the east of lombok. there are predators at sea but against fishing lines sharks of all sizes float the fish market in limbo nearly every day. they're caught for one reason they are expensive fins mostly sold to china to end up in soup we filmed fifty five sharks be auctioned on a single day some still babies. just fishing is legal in the movie except for whale sharks which have become an endangered species the government has also impose an

export ban on hammerhead sharks we've been more populations coming under threat conservationists are keeping track on the trade. we have found is a populations of sharks a declining and also a bit of saws of sharks are becoming smaller. sharks are at the top of the ocean's food chain scientists say they keep populations of fish stock healthy and protect the ecosystem. fat populations are easily threatened because of this low reproduction rate some female sharks can only give birth to fifteen or even twice that's why the government three perfect. shock fishing is big business in indonesia with export revenues of hundreds of millions of dollars a year traders not only sell shark fins but also disk ins and bones they say the export ban and other protection measures have hit them heart. says the government

is banning all kinds of shocks the prices have dropped drastically we can now only sell locally and the prices we get for export a much higher. but marine scientists say law enforcement has been weak and more needs to be done to enforce the export ban and protect vulnerable shark species something the government wants to discuss at this week's symposium in jakarta. has a symposium if during a symposium we find data showing that certain species are being threatened we will for comments further steps. in order to protect fishing communities the government does not plan to impose a total ban on shark fishing but rather increase restrictions but with the month likely to remain high conservation is worried that it will be hard to prevent fins of protected species continuing to end up at markets. i'm now joined twitter so see put yesterday she is the minister for marine affairs

and fisheries here in indonesia and one of the organizers of this symposium it was to see a very well known for tough policy as you have been growing up fishing vessel foreign fishing vessels because they were illegally fishing in your country how are you going to protect the sharks and race. well from our side of course we try to put both in the same. view of angle between the livelihood of the fisherman and the sustainability of the sock existence itself so what we try to do we will work together with minister of environment to put also tough measures on the business side because i think that's the easiest actually to start to make the fishermen understand it's going to take time to tell them look there is sharks and there is really normally there is many other kinds of fish that they allowed to catch but that's really thick sometimes what moves you will go to china right and you know

into china how are you convinced in the chinese for example not to eat their child anymore i think to talk to a country and state policy. together the government of indonesia and that minister will try to do a diplomatic communications of course together with minister of foreign affairs minister of environment that we have to start also protected some spacious that is already in the situation and the second we have to also the international community major social and also. to work together to come pain more what i see is when the buying stop the killing will be also saw like what my son telling me you know this is very important thing that every everyone is understanding that actually the easiest unprotected on protecting our protected

spacious is by corrupting the buying side and when i go into all of will. the killing will be also controllable sorry to interrupt the other problem is plastics right indonesia is the second largest producer of plastic waste in the world a lot of that this plastic micro plastics and ending up in shocks and into manta rays bodies how are you going to prevent that and clean that up well we try in our department capacity to all who start our war our duty. normally get cleaning day. program one day cleaning because the line i make to competitions on the lake an example with the vice governor or the regional governor and one thing i think it's also important we all have to start campaign from ourself in a car company an example everybody come with the building bringing a bottle of mineral water you're going to print out the five hundred thousand just

a little part to start and normally i have to interrupt you here little things can make a huge contribution i hardly believe be done every office is going to be pawns of plastic every day thank you so much for talking to us a lot of course can be discussed in the future and i'll also hear at the symposium which will take two days a lot of data will be presented and then the government will take further steps to see if they can protect sharks and rays much more back to you in the. service and with the interleave the ministry minister for fisheries thank you both very much indeed now criminal charges have been ruled out for two white police officers in the twenty sixteen killing of an african-american man in the u.s. state of louisiana video of the thirty seven year old steph calls national outrage and helped build momentum for the black lives matter movement mike hanna reports from washington. with just

a pulse and sterling was caught on mobile phone video he was shot by an officer. blaine salamone each year in a struggle. yeah the opposite did not to start his weapon but did wrestle sterling to the ground the state department of justice left the investigation to the louisiana attorney general who's now announced the two officers will not be charged as in his view they attempted to make a lawful arrest this decision was not taken lightly. we came to this conclusion after countless hours of reviewing the evidence gather it turned over to us by the u.s. department of justice the dead man's family is outraged by the decision he was murdered . he was murdered. and. yes those being protesting the similar shooting are stefan clark in sacramento last week will hope for a different time to come. the twenty three year old was shot by officers responding

to reports of a man smashing car windows they chased him cornered him in his grandmother's backyard and paul had twenty shots fired. but no weapon was found on the did man only a phone. and in an attempt to calm the community the second mento police chief says the investigation into the shooting will be supervised by the california department of justice not local law enforcement officials as our city's police chief who has lived in this community my entire life i'm dedicated to making sure that we gather all the facts conduct a thorough investigation and promise we will continue to be transparent about the process another major difference in approach the body camera footage in this case was released within days that in the sterling case has still not been made public it was definitely encouraging that the chief of police is. the attorney general to

take the lead here and all we can hope for is that this is this investigation is going to be conducted fairly and transparently the question is whether this is indeed a more transparent and proactive approach that could signal the beginning of the end to the ongoing cycle of police shootings and consequent protest with a funeral planned for thursday the answer could well lie in the reaction of the tens of thousands that continue to protest and were in the death of yet another african american at the hands of police. mike hanna al-jazeera washington thousands of soldiers and police have entered a slum in rio de janeiro and it's the largest operation since the military took control of security in the brazilian city last month the soldiers arrested twenty four people and they seized large quantities of drugs there cracking down on a wave of violence driven by fighting between rival gangs but critics say the

military intervention is crushing the civil liberties of rhea's forest people. time for sake a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera china has confirmed its president xi jinping has held his first face to face talks with north korean leader kim jong un pyongyang state media also says the chinese president has accepted an invitation from kim to visit north korea beijing says kim is committed to getting rid of his country's nuclear weapons at china correspondent adrian brown has more it does demonstrate the china does have sway over north korea because in the past of course during recent years when north korea has carried out missile tests china was always given the impression look we only have so much control over north korea will now we know that china has in many ways absolute control over north korea in some matters

the u.s. ambassador to the united nations says all fifteen members of the security council should be ashamed that the bombing of continues despite a cease fire resolution nikki haley blamed russia and syria for what she called slaughter but her syrian counterpart struck back saying the area has been liberated from rebels. five people are facing charges related to a far in a russian shopping center that killed sixty four people forty one of them children the tragedy sparked rare protests demanding justice for the victims president putin visited the siberian city where it happened blaming criminal negligence facebook boss mark zuckerberg will reportedly testify before u.s. congressional committee next month over the social network's role in harvesting millions of users days without their knowledge facebook and the data firm cambridge on the list are at the center of

a rile over how personal information was used to influence the outcome of the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election. earlier turned down a request to testify before british m.p.'s. a prosecutor in the u.s. state of louisiana has ruled out cruel charges for the two white police officers in the killing of an african-american man alton sterling the thirty seven year old was held by the two officers and shot dead in the city of baton rouge in twenty sixteen right you're up to date though the latest headlines revel education is next. and for your. education. the universal rights to

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