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china says north korea is prepared to get rid of its nuclear arsenal after the first seven meeting between the two leaders. there live from doha i'm all team dennis also coming up in the program u.n. security council members trade plain and vent frustrations over their own heated demand for a serious cease fire. but it could be a different look in the rest of. you know how they're not being in my view. the man who blew the whistle on the facebook days a scandal testifies that dirty tricks were used in the u.k.'s brecht's it campaign plus. shock fishing is still big business here in indonesia a population i declining and the government and treat its protection i'm struck by

reporting from the fish option in the east of lombok. china says north korea has expressed willingness to get rid of its nuclear arsenal that softer the first seven meeting between china's president xi jinping and north korea's kim jong un is also kim's first trip abroad since aching power in twenty eleven relations between china and north korea have cooled in recent years and this meeting comes at a time of intense diplomatic activity on the korean peninsula as preparations are made the summits between the north and the south as well as between pyongyang and washington. well south korea's ministry of unification says president xi and kim's meeting has helped set the right tone for those upcoming talks. i think improvement in the north korea china relationship ahead of the into korean summit and u.s.

north korea summit will we hope for in solving the problem in the korean peninsula such as dean. and establishment of peace. we can talk now to kathy novak our correspondent who's in seoul the south korean capital and kathy it seems very much to say the south koreans are very welcoming of what has transpired in beijing of the past couple of days. yes i would say the government does see this as a positive development of course president had always pushed a policy of more engagement and dialogue with north korea he is preparing for his own summit meeting with kim jong un next month in fact there is an intercom rian high level meeting tomorrow thursday to discuss those preparations and the presidential blue house spokesman has said that the situation has developed beyond their expectations and they have to monitor developments closely with all possibilities in mind as things move forward because there are

a lot of things going on in the next couple weeks and months here on the korean peninsula they're expecting a briefing the south korean officials that is are expecting a briefing from china's top diplomat on thursday following this high level meeting between xi jinping and kim jong un there's also an art troupe from south korea visiting pyongyang in the next couple of days and of course on the first day of next month we will see the beginning of joint u.s. south korean military drills which ordinarily very much anger kim jong un and his government in north korea but as far as we understand it south korean envoys who had met kim jong un say that he understands that these drills are routine and will go ahead seeming to suggest we're not expecting the same kind of angry reaction that we would usually get from north korea when these drills take place so needless to say a very different situation here than the one we were experiencing even just a few months ago martin indyk i think having said that i mean it has been

a most amazing remarkable turnaround doesn't it starting at the very beginning of the year what with now coming towards the ends of knowledge is there any degree of skepticism as to what the ultimate objective is of pyongyang. absolutely i think there will definitely be people here in south korea outside of the government and indeed around the world who are questioning what kim jong un's motives are here because of course towards the end of last year we are seeing regular missile launches a very tense situation here on the korean peninsula exchange of words with the u.s. president donald trump who had been threatening north korea with fire and fury and north korea in turn threatening to attack the u.s. territory of guam then as you mentioned on new year's day we heard from the leader kim jong un talking about more engagement with south korea and then we had the winter olympics here in south korea which saw a delegation from north korea and now we're looking forward to all of these high

level meetings between kim jong il and other world leaders and the question is why is kim jong un changing his tune why now there are some who believe that the campaign of sanctions against north korea is starting to bite and they're forcing kim jong il into the negotiating table he rather says that he is in a more strong position that because of his leadership and because of the development of his nuclear and missile program he's more in a position now to leave the country to come to the table to talk with people like she jinping and donald trump and the warning from skeptics here in south korea is that if kim jong un is able to extract any concessions perhaps the lowering of sanctions against. south korea and its allies in a more difficult bargaining position when it comes to the end goal of denuclearization all right kathy thank you very much kathy novak there live in seoul in apologies for that tiny glitch on the line but that was kathy novak our

correspondent in the south korean capital and further to what kathy was saying at the trump administration is very quickly claim some of the credit for the meeting that's taken place in beijing a white house statement says the u.s. sees this development as further evidence that ad campaign of maximum pressure is creating the appropriate atmosphere for a dialogue with north korea well michael is a senior advisor at the international crisis group and he says the meeting is a positive development but the world needs to be cautious. we have been calling for a shift from provocations and testing and threats of war to a negotiating track it's still going to be a very difficult process and complicated process to actually come to some kind of solution or at least management of the situation that reduces tensions and sets us on a track towards a peaceful resolution of the dispute but this is a big step first of all it's kim jong un demonstrating that he's now consolidated

enough power at home feel sufficiently secure with his current defensive posture and nuclear deterrent that he's ready to meet other foreign leaders so this increases the likelihood that he would really be willing to meet with south korea's mungy in and then with donald trump at the same time the fact that he said that he's willing to denuclearize we should take that as a long term political expression of intent not necessarily anything that he would actually implement in the forseeable future north korea has said before that it will be nuclearize the question is what conditions it has for denuclearization and they usually tend to involve a complete end to any what they describe as a hostile policy by the united states removal of u.s. troops from the korean peninsula removal of the american nuclear umbrella from south korea and a range of other conditions that the united states has not been willing to meet so it's a positive sign that he's ready for dialogue but we need to have a clear eyed real recognition that this is going to be

a complicated process but at least the first steps are being taken toward a negotiation. to other news now and there's been another round of blame trading among the fifteen u.n. security council members as they talked about the failure of the cease fire resolution for syria they agreed on february the twenty fourth you may recall to call for a thirty day break in hostilities it's allowed in some extra aid but the bombings haven't stopped in these in ghouta with syrian government forces in their russian allies have been fighting to recapture this rebel on crave on the outskirts of damascus russia will stop at nothing to use its permanent seat on this council to shield it south by bashar al assad 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. russian ambassador accused fellow members of wasting time instead of taking action against the 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. well meanwhile the russian defense ministry says thirteen thousand fighters and their families have now left over the past three days they're heading for in the northwest of the country the last rebel held province in syria then

a honda 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 rebel factions that's one of the reasons why he left his home in eastern 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 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 move to live 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 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. in brazil drew buses being used for former president. silver's election campaign of being hit by gunfire no one was hurt in the attack but lula wasn't in either of the vehicles which were transporting brazilian as well as foreign journalists police are now searching for at least two suspects lhuillier is seeking a third term in a presidential election despite a corruption conviction the passage from running for office. so come on

this program find out why zimbabwe and schoolteachers threaten to storm the president's office plus. it is not a good day for a strong christian. three cricketers at the center of a cheating scandal are sent home to face the anger of the nation. hello there for some of us around the mediterranean the weather has been a little bit murky recently and cyprus is one of those places that seen some rather polluted air this is dust brought up from the northern parts of africa and it looks like we're going to see more weather from the northern parts of africa over the next few days we've got another weather system is edging its way towards us for the time being it's staying clear but then you can just about make out some clouds and then some rain on our wednesday chart knocks the beginnings of this system and it's

running its way towards the northeast so on thursday we'll see lots of what weather not only for cyprus but also for parts of turkey and as that sweeps its way across as the temperatures will be dropping behind it ahead of it though is driving up a lot of air from the south so the temperatures are rising we're also likely to see a fair amount of dust around as well here in doha the temperatures are rising too so our maximum we are around thirty five degrees as we head through wednesday on thursday but towards the west is even hotter hit with mecca up around forty degrees that's the maximum for thursday before this was the south and for many of us in the southern parts of africa there's plenty of showers with us at the moment there stretching from angola all the way across into mozambique to the north of that line is just unsettled expect showers at times but to the south there's more in the way of drawing weather but we could see some showers in capetown on thursday. with. winning the will of the people hinges on the mass media and state machines go into

overdrive. just. influencing. and we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between what can be said and what conduct. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for outside polling the media opinion the listening post but based on al-jazeera. look at the top stories here it out today or china says north korean leader kim jong un has expressed willingness to get rid of his country's nuclear weapons

ballot after president xi jinping held his first meeting with him in beijing. u.n. security council members have again traded accusations over the failure of the cease fire resolution to take effect in syria. and brazil two boxes being used in former president lula da silva as election campaign have been hit by gunfire. in the blue the wasn't in either of the vehicles. iraq's prime minister ordered the military to take full control of the country's borders after neighboring turkey said it was conducting operations in the northern kurdish region the turkish president rather tired everyone says he wants to push kurdish p.k. k. fighters out of synch region but he won't do anything without iraq's consent. yesterday we received a phone call from his excellent see the turkish prime minister who affirmed his respect for iraq's sovereignty on the borders and assured us that they would not do

anything that would harm iraq's sovereignty he also confirmed that we did not have any agreement on any joint operations he repeated what he said at his press conference that the media may have reported his words mistakenly he said that they would not do anything without the approval of the iraqi government. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg reportedly testified 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 days of cambridge analytic and are accused of using people's personal information to influence the outcome of the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the whistleblower at the heart of the scandal has also been giving evidence to british m.p.'s christopher wiley said data gathered unlawfully was used to manipulate people in the u.k. to vote to leave the european union lawrence the ripple. 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 essential claims of 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 answer they said had already been claimed to leave campaign broke u.k. election law by using campaign funds on lawfully allegations the leave camp denies but in an emergency debate in parliament m.p.'s hostile to bricks it's have begun to demand the referendum results be declared null and void inherently untrustworthy if the allegations are true that a potentially six hundred two. 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 the effect that would have passed the law. 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 it 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 breakfast it 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 lawrence lee al-jazeera westminster in london now nato has joined twenty six individual countries that are expelling russian diplomats in response to the poisoning of

a former spy in the u.k. seven russian diplomats will be sent home from natives headquarters in brussels three others will have their accreditation blocked they to secretary-general yen stoltenberg says russia has underestimated the unity of the alliance her minister meanwhile sergei lavrov says russia will respond adding that many countries had been forced to expel diplomat. richard nixon you are in spite of a story we will respond on down to only because nobody wants to tolerate switchboards behavior and we won't either we know this is the result of colossal pressure causal blackmail which is now unfortunately the main tool of washington on the international arena. iran's revolutionary guard has denied accusations by saudi arabia that it is arming hoofy rebels in yemen on sunday who has filed several missiles across the border targeting saudi arabia's capital riyadh michelle fragments killed

a person and injured two others iran has often been accused of sending weapons to the youth is but a report by the iranian news agency tells them quote the revolutionary guard is saying yemenis are capable of producing their own weapons. teachers in zimbabwe are threatening to storm the offices of the president them as an imminent and bring the public sector to a standstill they want the salaries to be doubled as her image after 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 problems of the sort of guns in government poses we are told all of these beings are a big huge design of the same ways the money that was due to market translated into our pockets was a little

a blizzard out the government is slow what is doing we are finished in seed with children to send to school we have bills to pay we have transport costs to meet 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 to go soon but then the money is not enough. for all our junior 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 the government is trying to address the needs. they say that the government is broke that there's a shortage of our parents and right now the state can afford to raise salaries but people are seemingly agitated to see me 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 authorities in france a two man arrested for the murder of a holocaust survivor may have killed her because of her religion eighty five year old mariah i know was found dead in her apartment in paris on friday after being repeatedly stabbed her apartment was also set on fire the mayor of paris called on all residents to join a silent march ahead of her funeral on wednesday in spain more than a thousand protesters gathered near barcelona's main train station to demand the release of former catalan leader colace voyage to mount riot police blocked the entrance to stop demonstrators staging sit ins on the train tracks courage to mount is currently detained in germany as the authorities there decide whether to extradite him to spain he's wanted in spain on charges of addition and rebellion following last october's independence referendum. after generations fishermen in indonesia have relied on catching sharks to make

a living and that's why the shark numbers in the region are falling fast and scientists are warning that many species risk being wiped out altogether if restrictions on tim forced service or reports from a fish market in the east in indonesia. they are predators at sea but again species lines jobs of all sizes float the fish market in nearly every day. their court 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. teaching is legal in malaysia except for whale sharks which have become an endangered species the government has also impose an export ban on hammerhead sharks to prevent more populations coming under threat conservationists are keeping track on the trade. what we've found is

a populations of sharks a declining and also a bit of a 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. fact populations are easily threatened because of this low reproduction rate some female sharks can only give birth to fifteen or even twenty years so 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 this kins and bonus they say the export ban and other protection measures have hit them heart. says the government is banning all kinds of shocks the prices of drop 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 the most important if during a symposium we find data showing that certain species are being threatened we will recommend 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 step fasten al-jazeera. in east. three australian cricketers at the center of a cheating scandal have been sent home from south africa they're facing lengthy battens after one of them of course on camera tampering with the ball to give his team an unfair advantage you are being melhem reports from city. the three

players at the center of the controversy captain steve smith vice captain david warner and batsman cameron bancroft are being sent back to a stray in disgrace in regard to the group of three players on report i want to stress that we are contemplating significant sanctions in h. kers. three sentients will reflect the gravity with which we view what has occurred and the damage it is done to the standing of australian cricket. a cricket australia investigation into the ball tampering incident in cape town concluded that only three players knew about it it involved scouting up the ball with a small piece of tape that was improvised into send paper one of the players hit the tape in his trousers the cricket australia chief was at pains not to use the word t.t. and confined the incident to just the three players but cricketing greats like former astray captain michael clarke and former england captain mark are born to

social media to question how nobody else could have known they were also doubts on the streets of sydney calls for tough sanctions are convinced of the culture that we know about of i can't imagine the senior players doing that without their own demons approval i'm sure most aussies with think the son i think that's of mr downer. and probably both suspended for a long period of time i think what most people would expect is like pretty harsh punishments the foreign minister julie bishop says it's damaged australia's reputation a stranger is seen as a country that plays fair that plays by the rules that abides by the rules and any attempt to gain an unfair advantage by carrying out an unlawful act since the cheating is a surprise sanctions against the three players are expected within the next twenty four hours but it may take more than that to repair the image of

a sport very much intertwined with the nation's identity. al-jazeera sydney. obviously take a look at the top stories here doubters here are the north korean leader kim jong un has pledged to get rid of his country's nuclear weapons and his first face to face talks with china's president pyongyang state media says she jim ping also accepted an invitation from kim to visit north korea kathy novak has more from seoul. there's a suggestion that perhaps sanctions that have been imposed are starting to bite and that is what's forcing kim jong un to the table but on the other hand the narrative that certainly north korea wants to promote is that kim jong un is more confident now that he has solidified his position and his nuclear and missile weapons program and he can come to the table be seen he wants to be seen as

a world leader that can negotiate with the likes of xi jinping and donald trump confident in the knowledge that he has this missile program that he has built up the u.s. ambassador to the united nations his own members of the security council should be ashamed that the bombing of eastern ghouta continues despite a cease fire agreement that he haley blamed russia and syria for what she called slaughter but her syrian counterpart struck back saying the area has been liberated from rebels in brazil two buses being used in the former president lula da silva his election campaign has been hit by gunfire no one was hurt in the attack lula wasn't own either of the vehicles. facebook boss martin zuckerberg will reportedly testify before a u.s. congressional committee let's month over the social network's role in harvesting millions of users data without their knowledge facebook and the data firm cambridge analytical 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. well in the thousand protesters have gathered near buffalo in his main train station to demand a refund for mccaskill and lida colace pushed him and is currently in detention in germany if artie's are considering whether to extradite him to spain where he faces charges of sedition and rebel a rebellion following last year's independence referendum coming up next the listening post. the consequence. of russia he served in the marine corps for mentioning two hundred ninety five that just doesn't go away. to a lot of troops the last couple years. he's homeless. follows a group of u.s. army veterans much sized by war. as they struggle to get their lives back shelter.