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spring surprise north korean leader kim jong predicts his surprise visit to china one year old fruit. hello i'm seaters and this is the line from london also coming up from this on as the police man who sacrificed his life to save a hostage as egypt's president sisi had for reelection a panel of u.k. m.p.'s holds him responsible for torture over his predecessors detention and santan and disgrace australia's cricket captain forced to contemplate here out of the game . of korea's leader kim jong un has made his first. since taking power seven years

ago ken met with chinese president xi jinping jaring a surprise visit to beijing chinese state media described the talks as a success with kim saying he's open to giving up his nuclear weapons china correspondent jim brown reports from beijing for xi jinping this was a diplomatic triumph he not u.s. president donald trump now the first world leader to meet kim jong un the chinese state controlled media waited until kim 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 and his wife were welcomed like old friends appearance is important at times like this she opted for a business suit whereas kim stuck to the look favored by his father and grandfather the wives of both men were present during most of the photo opportunities. visits

like this are all about symbolism for she it served as a reminder that china still holds sway over its neighbor and intends to be at the center of diplomatic efforts to achieve a nuclear free korean peninsula. it's not clear what made him come to beijing or indeed what incentives he may have been offered to do so but china remains north korea's only real friend and ally so it's fair to assume the president xi jinping might want to know what kim's negotiating strategy will be during his upcoming summit with president trump. kim's visit made it possible for china to know what north korea will be talking about to south korea and the united states in these discussions on the nuclearization china has also learned what north korea demands will be which will help china. india it's a visit the would have seemed unimaginable just a few months ago where north korea was ignoring chinese appeals for restraint 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 that are lavish banquet she told his guest that in the beautiful season of spring everything comes to life kim replied i believe our meeting will yield abundant fruit that could mean making good on his commitment to give up nuclear weapons the fruits of spring were apparent in the garden of the state guesthouse where friendship also seemed to blossom she accepted an invitation to visit north korea and told him he was welcome to visit china again the visitors left happy adrian brown al-jazeera beijing well south korea greeted news of the china summit with keen interest kathy novak has the reaction from seoul. 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 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 rian 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 u.s. president gave his reaction to that meeting on twitter he wrote received a message last night from machine paying of china that's his meeting with king one very well that came looks forward to his meeting with me earlier this month trying to surprise the world by agreeing to meet came at a place and time to be determined.

there are conflicting reports about who is in control of the northern syrian town of tell or if our turkish troops have been closing in on time or if after taking the kurdish held enclave of a free in ten days ago president time further on has said his forces will continue to move east as far as i'm being to push out the white b.g. fighters who he says are terrorist. group has more now from istanbul. turkish officials have told me that white beaches withdrawing from tel rafah but they underline that there is no military operation as an offering on the other hand why p.g. has denied all these statements that they are withdrawing from tel rafah the town which they conquered from the syrian opposition groups in early two thousand and sixteen what we understand is that there is a deal between russia and turkey over the strategic town of northern aleppo but this time told her father is going to be more different compared to our friend because in our friend there were boots on the ground at the f.s.a.

and the turkish military but in tell her father it is more about diplomatic and political talks between two sides both russia and turkey also turkish foreign ministry under secretary who will be in washington d.c. on march thirty to talk about violator all issues and also about the ongoing operations in northern syria so probably we are going to be hearing more detailed information within the coming days about the strategic town of northern alabama it is very strategic for all parties in syria because it is a strategic transition straight across syria so if you take tel referred under control you are controlling the east west route also the area between aleppo and. the french placement killed in last friday's terror attack on a supermarket in southern france has been honored in a ceremony led by president emmanuel markel lieutenant colonel swapped places with

a hostage during the supermarket attack in tribe saving her life but losing his own is being posthumously awarded france's highest award for bravery that russia butler reports from paris. trams coffin was a school to paris and to pouring rain people came to pay their respects to a french police officer has become a national hero in imposing courtyard of the adelaide france's most famous military memorial think tim's families joined politicians of all persuasions and former presidents in a show of unity on friday beltrami had swapped himself with a hostage in an attack in southern france it was a display of courage that cost him his life. a preschool just as soon as we learned of this high risk act all french people trembled as one one of us said stood up straight clear headed and brave he was standing up to islam missed aggression to

hate the folly of murder and with him the whole country's heart swelled with the french spirit of resistance the bravery of one man taking the whole country with him back all war did beltrami the commander of the legion of honor one of france's highest accolades the nobel transactions have touched so many people in france because he did something that very few people could imagine doing sacrificing his own life for that of a stranger. beltrami had rushed to the supermarket in the town of taib last week after news broke that a gunman had taken hostages twenty five year old writer one black dem had been on a shooting spree in the name of eisel he'd killed three people including two men in the supermarket and it injured a police officer who'd been joking facts that beltran would have known when he volunteered to put down his weapon and take the place of the female hostage french police said lacked him was radicalized and under surveillance but he wasn't

considered a threat on tuesday the prime minister dismissed criticism by the opposition that the government's not doing enough to prevent such attacks research because of those who say that this attack could have been avoided those who believe there's a guarantee to french people that as a residual risk all i say to them the dimmest take responsibility falls on the e.v.g.a. . more than two hundred forty people have been killed in attacks in france in the last three years each time many people in the country feel a sense of anger and despair in bell tram some of found a reason to hope for tasha butler al-jazeera paris. funerals are being held for some of the victims of a fire at a shopping center in such siberia on sunday is a day of national mourning in russia to remember the sixty four victims forty one of whom were children and as really challenge reports from moscow people now want. oh. on sunday now dish. took her grandchildren ten year old

maria and eight year old constantine to the cinema they didn't come back just three victims of the russian shopping mall fire that killed at least sixty four people said again natalya's house will be quiet now the children to go on there are many more shattered families like the ago because most of those who died in the fire were kids thank you so this tragedy is made even worse by the fact the children became victims of the blaze great grief is upon all of us and the no words that can express our shared pain the bereaved siberian city of camera began burying its dead on wednesday but as more bodies are identified many more coffins will be lowered into siberia. it's not just one city grieving though wednesday is a day of mourning across russia in moscow flags were flying at half staff and there are two memorial sites best still considerable anger being voiced in this country

some people feel they haven't been told the whole truth about the fire and there's a sense that official corruption and a disregard for safety regulations are largely responsible for the horror that unfolded in kemah rivers burning shopping mall the shopping centers director is one of five people that have appeared in court as suspects in the investigation she denies doing anything wrong even. in the city i wholeheartedly bring my sincere condolences for the fact that this tragedy this disaster happened i'm a mother myself i perfectly. understand what people who are now burying their children are experiencing but i do not want to blame myself for this. the search for bodies in camera is now officially over but the investigation continues locked cinemark doors blocks fire exits nonfunctioning alarms these are reasons

investigators have already given for how or shopping mall fire became a national disaster or a challenge how does iraq moscow still to come on al-jazeera parliament and protesters in catalonia keep up the pressure on the central government in spain plus a chinese mining company accused of almost wiping this village in mozambique off the map. how i would say it's a really lively stones across the east the sot of the met it's right you know some clown had rain rolling in hay on a very brisk wind his al latest batch of disturbed weather seems some volume weather making its way across cyprus and thursday looks like another pretty alive to day basis out of the mad what we're looking at temperatures by a rate of around twenty two degrees celsius and blustery showers coming through

here some really heavy rain that will make its way for the northeast which as we go through friday clear skies do come back in behind temperatures forty back to eighteen in by route ninety some snow there with the turkish mountains increasing cloud will push its way across iraq into iran and notice how it just stretches down across a good part of kuwait as well so northern parts of the arabian peninsula could also see a fair bit of cloud as we go on through the next couple of days here in doha not too bad of around thirty three degrees celsius light breeze might see a little bit of early morning mist and fog as we head towards that the night into friday friday sees a hive around thirty four celsius and his that cloudy weather just around northern parts of the gulf south of that general retry with plenty of sunshine plenty of sunshine so into the eastern side of south africa at present we have got some cloud and right welcome to how to write for the eastern cape the third stay.

part. well come back remind all of the top stories here and i'll just hours after he left

china it was funny confirmed that north korea's leader kim jong un did indeed make his first trip abroad since taking power seven years ago to meet president xi jinping in beijing there are conflicting reports over who is in control of the northern syrian city of tal afar turkish troops closing in on it ten days after taking the kurdish enclave of a free. and a french police officer killed off the trading places with a hostage has been posthumously awarded the lesion donna the country's highest accolade. voters in egypt have just a few hours left to cast their ballots in the presidential election or risk of falling is the third and final day of voting but authorities are concerned that turn a very low president abdel fattah el-sisi is expected to win a second four year term he's only opponent. is

a supporter he's made no efforts to campaign against him although the serious challenges were forced to pull out of the race or were arrested with several international rights groups calling the election a farce while egypt's jailed former president mohamed morsy is being held in conditions that could amounts to torture according to reports from a group of u.k. parliamentarian's the detention review panel to investigate by morsy is family found on the balance of probabilities probabilities rather that these conditions constitute. cruel inhumane and degrading treatment after reviewing evidence from various sources the panel said morphy is receiving inadequate medical care for his diabetes and liver disease which could lead to premature death the report concluded that most his detention could meet the threshold for torture under egyptian and international law a crime of universal jurisdiction for which president fattah el-sisi could in principle be responsible the employees receive no response to requests to visit

will say and they report the egyptian government to allow a visit by reputed will outside body well for more on this i'm joined in the studio by crispin te's a member of the u.k. parliament and former chair of the foreign affairs select committee and a member of that panel thanks very much for coming into al-jazeera to discuss this report this of all of the evidence you did i think approach the egyptian authorities they wouldn't let you in to visit the former president what have you based this report mostly all over then try to look at all the available evidence so there's. a transcript from mohamed morsy himself a trial in november twenty seventh teen where he gives an account of his health and his conditions then there are a number of reports from his family. and his lawyers of human rights watch reports honest international reports united states state department of course on saying he's in egypt the united kingdom government's human rights work so

there's been a whole plethora of evidence all of which corroborates the general narrative which mohammed morsi was giving us is his trial which is a record of transcript no surprise i suppose that certainly the school pins units in tora prison has such a bad reputation we have some of our own colleagues who were held there for over four hundred days but the report goes into who might respond. simple and it goes all the way to the top once you base found well the chain of command is responsible for conditions of prison and it is. beyond doubt that the current president of egypt is going to have an interest in the incarceration conditions of his predecessor. and the idea that everyone is. not paying interest in the commission is being held i think is highly unlikely so therefore that engages the entire chain

of command up to the presidency who i'm pretty certain would be aware of the conditions in which he's being held of course they wouldn't let you in to see him where i've often heard about conditions that doesn't seem to be an awful lot of effort by the egyptian authorities to take any notice how can you have an impact and hope to increase improve this conditions for the president if the government and the british government isn't willing to put pressure because of this which are probably not what why should they take any notice of this report well this is the way the family is trying to get a review of his conditions in the only way that's actually open to them certainly within the united kingdom of us in the. united kingdom solicitors that represent the freedom and justice party to put a panel together then it's an issue about the credibility of the panel and i believe we have put together a very credible panel i have received foreign affairs experience over some time and

considerable experience of middle east issues. and was a justice minister and did minister for prisons there have some lockers that and then i was joined by dr paul williams who is a practicing general practitioner a labor member of parliament and then a conservative calling in the house of lords who is also. a minister in the ministry of justice which is actually quite hawkish on issues such as human rights and appreciation of of your opinion situations into british human rights so. that ought to give comfort to. gyptian parliamentarians are accusing me of having. a particular view about political islam which i think is highly wholly untrue but even if they did the fact that we operated by university. for example. panel should give comfort the we will have reviewed the evidence properly and come to a balanced for judgment see if the gyptian authorities respond because simply thanks

very much for coming in to talk to us the u.s. military says a high ranking al qaeda official has been killed in an air strike in libya u.s. officials say. it was one of two people killed in a position strike on saturday sarin secy of the u.s. state department listed as a specially designated global terrorist he was accused of training recruits as well as providing funding and weapons to the group known as al-qaeda in the islamic magreb with three of its leaders behind bars catalonia has not been able to elect a president to fix that the parliament there hasn't voted to allow politicians who have been detained or are in exile to stand for elections in absentia but the central government has the final say from barcelona david chaytor explains why. the spanish judiciary is treated as the catalan parliament you know legal head law no matter what resolutions up there to to hear of barcelona celebrations are

privileged sure. any candidate for the presidency must appear in person in this chamber to get elected but all of them are in jail facing charges of rebellion that's the message was we are in a national emergency and we really at all times defend the serenity of catalonia as parliament in the face of interference way the spanish judicial system is that. if this deadlock can't be broken then catalonia could be forced into yet another election in july and election that neither sides in this constitutional battle really want. historians who studied the deep roots of the independence movement are pessimistic a solution can be found it's like watching a poker game in which two final players are just indefinitely bidding higher each time one against the other yet another catalonian politician was in the hands of the police on wednesday clar upon sati the former education minister gave

herself up to the scottish police in edinburgh an economics professor at sedan duce university she surrendered her passport but was allowed to leave. klara remains defiant resolute and is determined to fight back. testers throughout catalonia and in barcelona also determined to keep up the pace of their demonstrations the latest one an attempt to surround the city's main railway station the police proved design moving as the government did madrid. chaytor al jazeera barcelona. have been tense scenes at a memorial march in paris honoring a holocaust survivor who was killed in a suspected anti semitic attack a scuffle broke out between some demonstrators at the march against racism eighty five year old mirai know was stumped eleven times and her apartment set on fire in paris on friday investigators say her jewish heritage may have been why she was

targeted. a chinese company has been accused of almost destroying an entire village in mozambique while illegally mining sound amnesty international investigated high you mining company following the allegations shelob ellis reports. on your as a small fishing village built upon sand dunes in northern mozambique it's an idyllic setting for a simple life but on their doorstep a global battle is building the people of new gone you know this is china's high you mining company the villages complaint high you sand mining blocks look good which they say cause severe flooding in twenty fifteen forty eight homes was swept out to sea and more than one hundred seventy damaged in barry's amnesty international spent two years investigating how it happened. ripon reveal this because brit conduct of a chinese mining company that threatened to wipe out

a small village of about one thousand people into the indian ocean higher mines the sand to extract certain minerals it boasts it can process twenty tons of sand a day and employs more than five hundred people china is the largest source of direct foreign investment in the country and holds the majority of its foreign dares. the investment should be welcome in the go in your eyes and one of mozambique's poorest provinces the pint. is that the company and the government are putting the profits first they. mean and also the human rights of people who almost three hundred people are now homeless but high use is the flooding was a result of abnormally heavy rain the company received its mining concession in twenty eleven and denies it's also the germans and anyway ninety nine percent of the sand remains at its point of origin and is not extracted this contradicts the

idea that there was a change in the channel for underground water which is not true. time is not on the side of these mozambicans satellite images showing mining activities getting ever closer to the village they want to safeguard what's left of their lives and want the government to investigate high year and negotiate for compensation to go near was named after a crocodile that taunted locals from a nearby lagoon these days villages say the crocodile comes from china shallop ballasts al jazeera. australia's cricket captain will be banned from all forms of the sport for twelve months for his part in a cheating scandal that's rocked his nation and his home and has more. australia's cricket captain steve smith being a school to out of south africa with his career in tatters the world's top ranked batsman won't be playing for his country for the next year neither will be vice captain david warner

a third player cameron bancroft has also been banned for nine months the his role in a ball tampering scandal copping to very sad and disappointed and and remorseful for what has happened they want to use their own words but cheating is certainly one of them that is probably appropriate in the circumstances bancroft was caught on camera placing a small object on his trousers during a match in cape town on saturday he lied to pies on the field and later claimed it was a piece of tape that he was using to change the ball condition in breach of cricket's rules of cricket australia as investigators have now revealed it was sandpaper warner is being blamed as the instigator who instructed bancroft to do it smith being charged with knowing about a potential plan and failing to stop it. they had been called for a strategy of cards darren lehmann to also be punished but officials maintain he had no knowledge of the plan or do in daryn's defense i do want to just clarify

that specific matter and i want to what aside that he sent a message to say what in the hell is going on i mean this this has been i shocking affront. to a strike. even the prime minister has had an opinion in a country where cricket is the national sport and the consequences may extend far beyond the three ply is sponsors for cricket australia are questioning the why they manage the brand in the brand of the straining cricket team add to that at the moment cricket australia is negotiating the t.v. rights for cricket in this country they will be severely compromised by what is happening in south africa so this could cost cricket in this country millions. the indian cricket board has also bob smith and warner from competing in the indian premier league a decision that will cost each player one point seven million dollars they will be permitted to appeal their strelley and cricket bans but it's going to be

a very long way back to the top if it all elites homan al-jazeera. let's give you a reminder now the top stories on al-jazeera hours after he left china it was finally announced that north korea's leader kim jong un and in fact when he's first trip abroad since taking power seven years ago kim met chinese president xi jinping carrying the sequel visit to beijing officials had remained tight lipped over who is making an official trip after a motorcade was filmed driving through the capital chinese state media have been reporting the talks were a success with kim saying he is open to giving up his nuclear weapons south korea's minister of unification says she and kim's meeting with house has helped set the right tone for upcoming talks between pyongyang so and washington 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 denuclearization and establishment of peace. there are conflicting reports about who is in control of the northern syrian city of tal afar turkish troops have been closing in on the area after taking the kurdish held enclave of a free ten days ago to president time birder one has said his forces will continue to move east as far as man beach to push out the y.p. chief who he says are terrorists. a french peace officer killed in last week's supermarket see has been posthumously awarded the legion honor the country's highest accolade the tenant colonel. has hailed as how the hero after trading places with a female hostage at a supermarket in tribe in the south of france last friday funerals are being held for some of the victims who died in a shopping center fire in the siberian city of kemah rovio on sunday flags have

been flying at half mast across the country on a day of national mourning to remember the sixty four victims forty one of whom were children. focus in egypt have less than two hours left to cast their ballots in the presidential election or risk a fine in the third and final day of voting incumbent president abdel fattah el-sisi is expected to win a second for. those are your top stories stay with us here on al-jazeera next up inside story.