zero. when winning the will of the people hinges on the mass media state p.r. machine is going to overdrive. but just he's been feeling saying. we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between what can be said and what conducted. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for access polling the media opinion the listening post base time on al-jazeera. china says north korea is prepared to abandon its nuclear program after a meeting between xi jinping and kim jong.

il logs or rather this is al jazeera life my headquarters here in doha also coming up the u.n. security council members trade blame and vent frustrations over the failure to enforce a syrian cease fire. i'm natasha butler in paris where we're watching live pictures from the memorial for i don't know the french police officer killed in an attack on friday. and why is a barbarian schoolteachers threatening to storm the president's office. welcome to the program north korea's leader has met china's president on his first foreign trip since taking power seven years ago kim jong un's secretive meeting for the first time with pain was revealed after it had happened chinese state media reports that kim is saying he's open to giving up his nuclear program his all china correspondent adrian brown with the latest from beijing. and so he was here after

all chinese state controlled media waited until kim jong un was back home before confirming what officials had tried so hard to deny just a day earlier in the great hall of the people kim jong un and his wife were welcomed like old friends by president xi jinping a brief greeting in korean was the only time kim's voice was heard. appearance is important at times like this kim looked like an old style communist leader where is she opted for a business suit. the wives of both men were present during most of the photo opportunities. this visit was powerful symbolism for both men but especially for president xi now the first world leader to meet kim and a reminder that china still holds sway over its neighbor and allies. it's not clear

what motivated kim jong un to come to beijing now and whether he was offered any incentive to do so but china remains north korea's only ally so it's fair to assume the president she might have wanted to know what kim's negotiating strategy will be during the summit is expected to hold with president trump before may it's a visit the would have seemed unimaginable just a few months ago when a chill in relations deepened over kim's refusal to halt the development of his nuclear weapons and long range missiles at an exhibition showcasing some of china's technological achievements the message appeared to be we can help you with all of this if you behave china's leaders are fond of metaphors at a lavish banquet she told his guest that in the beautiful season of spring everything comes to life. kim replied with another metaphor i believe our meeting will yield abundant fruit that could mean making good on his commitment to give up

nuclear weapons while the fruits of spring were apparent in the garden of the state guest house where friendship also seemed to blossom she accepted an invitation to visit north korea and told kim he was welcome to visit china now and then the visitors left happy adrian brown al-jazeera beijing south korea's ministry of unification says she and kim's meeting is help set the right tone for upcoming talks between pyongyang seoul and washington d.c. kathy novak has more from the south korean capital. the south korean government says it welcomes the visit by kim jong un to china and says that it hopes that the meeting between kim and she jinping will help contribute to the overall goal of denuclearization and peace on the korean peninsula the spokesperson for the presidential blue house though added that the situation is evolving beyond their

expectations and that they will have to monitor things as they go forward with all possibilities in mind there is an acknowledgement there i think of the surprise that was involved with this visit by kim jong un the first that he has taken as leader out of the country indeed the surprise that many felt when donald trump accepted the invitation to hold a meeting with the leader of north korea kim jong un in fact chinese state media reported that kim said he was willing to have that summit with donald trump and it was the first time that we had a direct confirmation from the north korean side of plans to go forward with that meeting there were indications that even the north koreans were surprised that trump accepted that invitation so there are a lot of moving parts here now on the korean peninsula for the south korean side they are moving ahead with plans for an intercom summit on thursday there will be a high level meeting at the d.m.z. at the border that separates the two koreas and we are expecting china's top

diplomat to be in seoul to brief the south korean government on the meeting between xi jinping and kim jong un the robot kohli is an associate professor of the department of political slogans and diplomacy a national university though he says it will take a lot to get north korea to abandon its nuclear weapons. it would be amazing if they were to give them up for anything other than a massive concession from the american and south korean side probably something really extreme like the end of the american south korean alliance more likely is that they'll allow build like caps on nuclear weapons or on missile count or something like that but i would be amazed if they would just agree to go to zero they would ask for something enormous i think the sanctions have played a role i think the to a certain extent right we don't know right because the north koreans don't tell us a great deal on the north koreans don't give us proper trade statistics but there's a fair amount of anecdotal evidence flowing out of northeastern china and north korea to suggest that the sanctions have begun to bite and we have heard the north korean media talking about sanctions and sanctions relief more and more if only to

say you know that we don't need it and stuff like that but the fact they're talking about it is suggested i think from here the issue is that the north koreans now have these weapons and they feel like they can negotiate right they've probably got the ability to strike the united states so why not now that you have it once you would you can get i think the first meeting the one between going on and seoul in april that's the most important one right i mean that really i mean ultimately this is a korean issue right the chinese the americans the russians japanese you know we're all kind of involved in how but shakes out but it's really ultimately this is a korean issue the two koreas really need to work out their own fate as well it should be right that one will set a lot of constraints on what trump has a lot to offer the north koreans if the south koreans come back with some really good deal some kind of do nuclearization in exchange for something or other you know constraints on the u.s. alliance south korea or something like that if the president of the group bring someone back like that back and he can sell it to the south korean public that will put a lot of constraints on what donald trump can do right so the first one is more important but the trump one is getting more i think attention because it's trump. no the u.s.

ambassador to the united nations security council should be ashamed that the bombing of eastern continues despite a cease fire agreement syrian government forces with russian support intensified their offensive to retake the rebel held on place more than a month ago the u.s. ambassador nikki haley blamed the two countries for what she called a slaughter but a syrian counterpart struck back. meanwhile russia's defense ministry says thirteen thousand fighters and their families have left eastern ghouta over the past three days they're heading to live in the north west of the country the last rebel held province in the country so hot or has more from beirut in neighboring lebanon. ahmed says he never carried arms against the syrian government but some of his family members belong to the five man 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 the 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 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 opposition controlled province in the northwest are fighters. is one of them the rebels controlled eastern huta 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 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 acid regime for seven years but no food no water no medicine until the regime and 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 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. beirut russian president vladimir putin has declared wednesday a national day of mourning for the sixty four people killed in a shopping center fire on sunday at least forty one children were amongst those who died in the shopping center in the siberian city of comb over the victims' relatives held a huge rally on choose day demanding those responsible for what he described as criminal negligence to be held accountable the fire alarm system wasn't working and the exit doors were blocks. now a memorial service is being held in paris for the policemen killed in last week's supermarket siege in southwest france are no bertram was hailed a hero after trading places with a female hostage when police raided the premises and killed the gunman they found with gunshot wounds he died later in hospital the attack a red one like heard killed three other people that he was known to french

intelligence services but not deemed a threat then tasha butler joins us live from paris a day to reflect really for the french nation is a although a national hero i mean what's the exact sequence of events. that's right it is a day of national mourning a day of remembrance and reflection as you say. the coffin has been draped with the french it has been taken through the streets of paris and people came out to pay their respects as the car went by it will then be taken here to france's most famous military memorial we will hear from the french president tomorrow michael he will give a speech there will be minutes of silence also and my call will award with a medal the commander of the nation one of the most prestigious medals you can be awarded in france because of course has become for so many people here national

hero also here there will be politicians from all persuasions past presidents phosphor law and nicolas sarkozy who's been through some legal difficulties recently but all of that will be put to side to come together in this show of unity there also of course families relatives of the victims as well as members of the public because for the first time a memorial service like this is being made open to the public so anyone can come and pay their respects i think we can sort of underlined how unusual it is to have a sarah brady like this for a member of the security services in such a public quite as well natasha. this is a great all no for this police officer. but i think that his story his actions of really captured people's imaginations in france and even around the world because he did something there's so few people could really imagine themselves doing he

really gave up his life for a complete stranger he walked into that supermarkets on friday he put down his weapon so he was unarmed he knew at that point that this gunman inside the supermarket already killed people that had already pledged allegiance to i saw but he went in and he swapped himself for a female hostage and i think for many people that's just a real act of bravery and courage that they admired and respect which is why this memorial is being held today but i think it's also important to note that in france they have been so many attacks over the past few years and each time afterwards there were lots of questions and lots of pain as a lot of trauma and many people questioning why such a thing could happen but so rarely has there been any sense of hope and i think that all nobel trump has given people in a way has given france a symbol of hope instead of concentrating perhaps on some of the divisions that have plagued this country both of them i will leave it there natasha will continue to follow the whole ceremony as the day progresses thank you. well still ahead here

on al-jazeera outrage after a ruling in a police shooting case that helped spark nationwide protests over the killing of a black american man. and why victims of last year's bouts lives in sierra leone say the government has failed to stay with us here on al-jazeera. weather looks pretty good for the philippines over the next couple of days despite the close proximity this massive cloud which is typhoon again a lot further south lotsa showers there across much of malaysia down into internation into qantas a hundred thirty millimeters of rain twenty four hours compared to a march average to ten millimeters of rain so lots of heavy downpours here in a similar picture as you go through thursday big scattering of showers in place

here but they stay they see some showers there just up towards the gulf of thailand for a time in the lab right now as we go on through friday still a fair bit of cloud having said that well humid but it should turn somewhat some say less wet wet weather will continue for the south and showers still in place across a good part of indonesia but hopefully not as wet as it has been recently sunny not as wide as it has been recently to northern parts of queensland still a few showers you notice just up towards that east coast of queensland must drive conditions across much of a stright as we go on through the next few days could see a few showers just getting squeezed into the sunshine coast but for many it is an improving picture so a lot of dry and sunny weather coming through pristina twenty nine celsius still a few showers just around the cape york peninsula for the south melbourne twenty one degrees in the sunshine and find the path. we will get a feel for you there longer. going to send us all. very.

short documentaries from around the world about those who won't give up their fight for justice. al-jazeera selects justice. welcome back you're watching algis there i'm still robin a reminder of our top news stories state media in china north korea's leader is open to giving up his nuclear technology kim jong un has met china's president xi

jinping on his first foreign trip since taking power seven years ago the secretive first meeting was only revealed after it happened. and the u.s. ambassador to the united nations says the security council should be ashamed that the bombing of eastern continues despite a cease fire the syrian government an ally russia stepped up its offensive on the rebel held enclave a month ago vicki haley blamed the two countries for what she called a slaughter. turned a memorial service is being held in paris for the policemen killed in last week's supermarket siege in southwest france on noble trum was hailed a hero after trading places with a female hostage when police raided the premises and killed the gunman they found with gunshot wounds he died later in hospital the attack a red wire like to have killed three other people. in the united states the announcement that two white policeman won't be charged with the shooting

of a black man is outraging his family video of alton stylings death in louisiana two years ago cause national outrage and spurred the black lives matter movement mike hanna reports now from washington d.c. . the death of alton sterling was caught on mobile phone video he was shot by officer blaine salamone each year in a struggle. the other opposite did not destroy 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 there is no those being protesting the similar shooting of stefan clark in sacramento last week we'll 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 dead 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. in brazil two buses being used by former president lula da silva election campaign have been hit by gunfire no one was hurt in the attack the silver was in either of

the vehicles which were transporting brazilian and foreign journalists police also due for at least two suspects is seeking a third term in october's presidential election despite a corruption conviction the bars him from running for office. thousands of soldiers and police have entered a slum complex in rio de janeiro it's the largest operations since the military took control of security in the brazilian city last month now security forces arrested twenty four people and seized large quantities of drugs they're cracking down on a wave of violence driven by fighting between rival drug gangs critics say the military intervention is curbing the civil liberties of rio's poorest residents. now survivors of the mudslide disaster in sierra leone seven months ago are struggling to rebuild their lives temperature elders for the homeless have closed and only a fraction of them are being cared for by relatives and neighbors over there to

support freetown for the first time since the disaster in august two thousand and seventeen percy for four and i must is enough courage to take me to where her mother and sister still lie and the rocks and debris. it's an emotional foster she couldn't complete and i feel bad i feel bad right now because i remember my mom my sister and people are not under that pile of rubble coming here is hard for me healing is taking a long time for the twenty three year old she lives with neighbors along with her son just three hundred meters from her mother and sisters multi-tool. more than five hundred people were killed and hundreds more remain missing after part of the sugarloaf mountain collapsed following torrential rain the tide of rubble slipped over homes and anything else in its path just as people are waking up emergency

workers have given up digging here they say the sheer size of the area is overwhelming however residents say many bodies still lie under the rubble and some i will say not enough has come their way most of them are broke and homeless. who lost his wife and three children as well as the house they moved into just before the disaster the house i've been. up to now i cannot get to where i built my house everyone living there including neighbors died we thought the end of the world had come. the civil union government took possession of fifty two rooms donated by some construction companies to help the victims but survivors say the government is demanding their pay for them governmentally says intro i need to do something for us up to now the fifty two hours that we're talking about that we didn't get access to was the central union government said each family affected was

given about six hundred dollars money the victims say is inadequate some of the victims of this disaster are buried alongside thousands of victims of another which recently shook solely on their border crisis they have a resting place but survivors are struggling to build their lives comedy trees i'll just freetown sierra leone. ethiopia's ruling coalition has chosen the country's new leader and it will be the first roma prime minister in nearly three decades his appointment comes about a month after the former prime minister holly maddux resigned in a surprise move that prompted the government to declare a state of emergency the oromo is are one of the largest ethiopian ethnic groups to start a string of anti-government protests since twenty fifteen. well staying on the continent teachers in zimbabwe have threatened to storm the offices of the president and bring the public sector to a standstill they want to pay rise and better working conditions around which also

has more from harare the 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 to have big bill was not a big huge design to be saying where is the money that was due to much to 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 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 divorce 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 adviser jared cushion or is facing more investigations into his business practices white house officials are looking into the legality of two loans totaling more than five hundred million dollars made to question a who's married to donald trump's daughter ivanka physical him. not from washington d.c. . 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 setting 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 kushner'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 u.s. 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 operation and now congressional investing. haters 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 petty calling al-jazeera washington. now story is cricket captain has been banned from playing for his country for twelve months for his role in the cheating controversy cricket australia hundred down the lengthy penalty to steve smith along with vice captain david warner they plan to cheat by changing the ball condition with a piece of tape in a test match against south africa cameron bancroft who was caught on camera in the act will serve a nine month ban. your geologist there over the whole robin these are all top news stories north korean leader kim jong un has met chinese president xi jinping for the first time during a secretive visit to beijing it's kim's first trip abroad since taking power in two thousand and eleven details of the meeting were only revealed after it had taken

place chinese state media reports kim as saying that he's open to giving up his nuclear program the visit comes ahead of planned summits between the north of the south as well as between pyongyang and washington south korea's ministry of unification says she and kim's meeting herself set the right tone for upcoming talks between pyongyang seoul and washington d.c. . i think improvement in the north korea china relationship ahead of the enter korean summit and u.s. north korea summit will we helpful in solving the problem in the korean peninsula such as denuclearization and establishment of peace the u.s. ambassador to the united nations security council should be ashamed of the bombing of eastern ghouta continues despite a cease fire agreement syrian government forces with russian air support intensified its offensive to retake the rebel held on place more than a month ago that years and battered and nikki haley blamed the two countries for what she called a slaughter but her syrian counterpart denied the allegation. yes russian president

vladimir putin has declared wednesday a national day of mourning for the sixty four people killed in a shopping center fire in siberia on sunday forty one of those who died were children the fire alarm system in the shopping mall wasn't working an exit door was blocked. a memorial service is being held in paris for the policemen killed in last week's supermarket siege in southwest france on noble trum was hailed a hero after trading places with a female hostage when police raided the premises and killed the gunman they found both trum with gunshot wounds forty four year old the forty four year old died later the hospital the attack a red wire. had killed three other people he was known to french intelligence services but not deemed a threat. parliament has elected a new president. my husband is loyal to me a mars leader and son suchi than his predecessor. chore resigned

a week ago blaming health problems those with headlines were about more news in thirty minutes to stay with us a.j. selects its next. us president donald trump has said he will slap new charis on imports of steel and alum in your brand by gene would mean the data transfer time starts in fourteen we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera.