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secret talks president trump's nominee for secretary of state meets the north korean leader head of a highly anticipated meeting. and sam is a dan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. if the u.n. security team decides that the situation is sound and the fact finding mission could begin its work on wednesday syria's u.n. envoy confirms chemical weapons inspectors are expected to enter the duma in the coming hours plus. political solution to this war is indeed available a new u.n. mediator on yemen offers hope of ending the three year old conflict which has claimed over ten thousand lives. we need a scientist infected with malaria

a child who is now leading the fight against the disease. let's begin this news hour with news out of the korean peninsula it's been confirmed that the u.s. secretary of state nominee mike. has met north korean leader kim jong un in north korea's capital pyongyang senior u.s. officials said the former cia director went there as the u.s. president's envoy over the weekend it was there to prepare for a possible meeting between trump and kim expected in may or june north korea has also began has been on high has been high rather on the agenda in talks between japan's prime minister and the u.s. president in the u.s. . this here is diplomatic editor james bias joins us now on the phone from north korea's capital pyongyang so james you're having a rare look inside the north korean capital what is the official line if any on

this reported meeting between the u.s. secretary of state nominee and north korea as they do obviously i've been asking north korean officials they have no comment they have nothing to say they are confirming the speech and it is being confirmed by the u.s. side and that makes state the highest level meeting of all hospital visits. u.s. officials of the year two thousand when secretary of state madeline albright came here to pyongyang there is no u.s. embassy here in the korea they don't have diplomatic relations but i have been. diplomatic community they have confirmed to me that they are aware as a print channel because the ation going on between the u.s. and north korea and that channel is among the intelligence community between the

cia which my companion was the head of the you know going to be the secretary of state. by the senate and the north korean intelligence one of the different maps i've spoken to says that they think it's highly likely that the beating took place and now have confirmation of the u.s. that has taken place very important. how about the general issues of denuclearization when you speak to north korean officials do they get into whether there's been some commitment on that. we're getting no information of what commitments to be made remember what we've got coming up on two summits potentially the first one is just a week away and that is a summit on the twenty seventh of april that is between the north koreans and the south korea it will take place in the demilitarized zone between north and south korea and kim jong un the leader of this country will be going all that summit and

going for the first time a north korean leader going across the border across the demarcation line still in the. south side i think u.s. officials will be watching very closely what happens in that first meet before they finally commit to a date for a summit between president trump and supreme leader kim i am sure that the cia director compare was talking about the possibilities for that summit what sorts of things could they agree to do off to a first meeting most diplomats say what they need to do is set up a process in motion a diplomatic negotiation process box both sides want something out of a first meeting the u.s. probably would like to see three u.s. citizens who held as prisoners here in north korea released and on and on the line

i'm glad you mentioned south korea that the reports seem to indicate there's a belief at least that south korea north korea now very close to signing a peace agreement what if anything are you hearing from north korean officials on that one. certainly they are talking about that the north korean news agency is mentioning the meeting with south korean officials in fact at the demeter tris where i was recently i spoke to a spokesman for the north korean army who confirmed the meeting and showed me the spot pointed to the spot across the other side of the more cation line in south korea where the president of south korea will beat supreme leader kim but what they actually going to agree on that is not clear and we know that. between the two starts. the possibilities for summits and i can tell you in the process being stumped up between the south koreans and the u.s. but the u.s.

a little concerned the south koreans will not mentioning some of the issues the u.s. is most concerned about not just the nuclear program but those intercontinental ballistic missiles that could potentially reach a very long way costly as well as the u.s. all right fascinating good to get that perspective from james bays all seen it if not to get inside north korea we can continue talking about this issue though south korean media reporting as i mentioned out of the presidential office is considering a peace treaty with north korea with kathy novak joins us from salt can tell us about that kathy. well these are all questions leading up to that into korean summit that james has been talking about between the south korean president when j. in and the north korean leader kim jong un of course there have been two intercourse summits in the past and after those summits we had seen some into

korean cultural exchanges for example the reunions of family members who had been separated by the korean war now as the questions are being asked leading up to this summit as to what might be on the agenda what seems to be the message coming out of the south korean government is that denuclearization is firmly on the minds of the south korean government as it goes into this meeting with north korea seems to be playing down at least suggesting to play down any expectations of cultural or economic exchanges that we might have seen in the past and putting more of the focus on denuclearization on into korean relations and on peace so this suggestion that there may be discussions of a peace treaty transitioning the armistice that was signed to end hostilities at the end of korean war into a peace treaty is coming out of the semi official news agency yonhap attributing those comments to the presidential blue house saying that is one of the things that

may indeed be on the table but it must be said of course the korean war is still officially going on it did not end at the end of those hostilities but south korea was not a signatory to the armistice that was signed so this is it seems to be that these are topics that could be discussed between me and kim jong un they could talk about how they might go about transitioning the armistice into a peace treaty but perhaps that may ultimately just lead the groundwork laid the groundwork rather into the summit that would be expected between kim jong un and donald trump because it was actually the u.s. that led to the united nations command on this side of the demilitarized zone that signed the armistice at the end of the fighting in the korean war all right we'll leave it there for now flynt so much over. north korea's already been dominating talks between don trump and japan's prime minister

shinzo arbaaz visited trump at the president's mar a lago resort in florida they've discussed pyongyang's weapons program. japan and ourselves are locked in we are very unified on the subject of north korea we will probably be depending on various meetings and conversations we'll be having meetings with him. very soon it'll be taking place probably in early june or a little before that assuming things go well it's possible things won't go well or we won't have the meetings and we'll just continue to go along this very strong that we've taken. but we will see our syria's ambassador to the u.n. says chemical weapons inspectors will enter doom on wednesday if it's safe enough he says the u.n. security team is at the site and will make an independent decision on access for an opiate c.w.t.

the investigators will look into a suspected chemical attack on april the seventh but won't assign blame they arrived in damascus on saturday and of called for access as soon as possible syria's state media were earlier reporting that weapons experts have entered the formal rebel on klav when you die i mean today the u.n. security team entered duma around three pm in order to assess the security situation on the ground and if the security team to you and security team decides that the situation is sound in duma then a fact finding mission will begin its work in duma on wednesday the decision for the arrival of the fact finding mission is the decision of the u.n. and the old p.c. w. alone then to hold it has more now from beirut. now the russian government and the syrian government have been criticized for what they called preventing the team from entering western nations said that the team was not given access now the team

arrived in the syrian capital damascus on saturday both the russian and syrian government cited security concerns and that's why there has been a delay now the o.p.c. w.'s mission is to determine whether or not the chemical weapons attack actually happened its mandate does not a portion any blame the united states and other western countries like france for example believe that the proof or the evidence could have been tampered with because when this alleged chemical weapons attack happened the opposition that was in control of they then surrendered russian military police entered duma and they carried out their own inspection and declared that they did not find any traces of chemical weapons that were used now the o.p.c. w. it's still not clear when they're going to release the findings but we have to make clear that western nations are not waiting for the results because they already carried out retaliation they carried out attacks on saturday targeting syria's chemical weapons facilities so the findings are not going to trigger another

response but definitely if the o.p.c. w. finds that indeed a chemical weapons attack actually happened it will be damning for the russian and syrian government the russian military says it's found a chemical weapons stockpile that belongs to the rebels and duma a russian state media outlet put out this video which apparently shows chlorine and components for producing mustard gas moscow's repeatedly accused rebels of involvement in chemical attacks. a new framework for negotiations to end the war in yemen or be presented to the un security council within the next two months as the assurance of the new u.n. special envoy on the yemen martin griffiths he was appointed in february he also briefed the council for the first time about the humanitarian crisis in the country where eight million people face famine mike hanna reports the message from the special envoy that a resumption of political dialogue is essential and he maintains that all parties

in the conflict that he's spoken to in the past four weeks agree but the portrait too of a nation on one one in which a single violent event could consume attempts at conciliation our concern is simple that these the any of these developments would at a single stroke take peace off the table the us ambassador picked up on her recurrent theme that iran is waging a proxy war in the region through the opposition in december she displayed the fragments of missiles fired at saudi targets that she maintained were supplied by iran and this year is quoted the entire security council to view what she described as evidence. the who things didn't just figure out on their own how to build and fire ballistic missiles more than a thousand kilometers to hit the saudi capital iran is supporting them this council

taking action to stop the flow of arms to the who these would be a step forward helping to resolve this war in his response to russian ambassador pointed out that civilians on both sides of the saudi yemen border were under threat when we should know this was the news business going fairly quick condemns indiscriminate strikes his victims are civilians we also categorically reject ballistic missile strikes against populated areas on saudi arabia soil all security council members though united on the need for dialogue and welcoming the special representatives pledged to deliver a framework within two months as one cause for optimism who three opposition boycotted talks with the previous special representative accusing him of bias but it appears willing to engage with the man who's just been appointed the un's humanitarian chief warned that the coming rains could herald a massive cholera outbreak and asked all parties inside and outside yemen to allow

greater access for food and medical supplies the stark fact facing the council that while political resolution remains in limbo more than eight million people in here many are facing famine. mike hanna al-jazeera united nations. still ahead on al-jazeera the old guards about to go we examine whether cubans expect a change of direction after the castros. i. guess that bring up the pressure massive protests continue in armenia to stop the former president's bait to stay in power. a lot of the vicious and long seasonal weather in the u.s. encounters gone away but not all of it not by

a long where this cohere was still effectively wintry in nature but we've seen big contrast in temperatures disappear so we haven't got a storm problem at the moment we've still got the remains of snow to blow through eastern canada and another lick of snow is running through the midwest if you want to be in chicago yes yourself do i want to stay here for the rest of the month because this is looking disappointing four degrees snow quite possible in northern illinois is some woman for time on the east coast so nice warm day in new york after the dismal last twenty four hours and the pacific coast is increasingly cloudy was rain or even some snow in land tejano says all the way down south look at from san francisco up into the hills you might see in white once more and at the same time there's more white spreading across to new england chicago even the sunshine can manage no more than five degrees so we haven't exactly turned the corner to summer yet just quietened down a bit in fact active weather could be seen now and recently in the caribbean the

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know watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines this hour the u.s. secretary of state nominee mike pompei recently traveled to north korea to meet its leader kim jong il on top secret talks happened two weeks ago ahead of a potential summit between president trump and kim syria's ambassador to the u.n. says chemical weapons inspectors will learn to do more on wednesday if it's safe enough he says a u.n. security team is out the site investigators will look into this month suspected chemical attack but want to sign any blame. new special envoy for yemen is working on a plan for talks when the three years civil war martin griffiths will outline his proposal to the security council within two months he says all sides of prepared to negotiate an end to the fighting. on our top story now a high level contact between the u.s.

and north korea reports of a peace treaty with the south robert kelly is professor of political science and diplomacy at sand national university he joins us from on skype good to have you with us style and with those reports of a peace treaty between the north and the south are they two sides close. well i we don't really know yet the south korean president the the blue house here has not really released a great deal of data or information yet about what a final sketch of a deal would look like certainly the south korean president a liberal he's a dove he would like one right i mean this this is something the south korean left has campaigned on for many years but i mean ultimately the strategic and ideological issues are still pretty wide and i think we're all kind of waiting to see what kind of south korean concessions on would be made and what we get back in exchange for from the north koreans i mean you can just you can just sort of stop things where they are and i suppose you can but that would leave some of the issues up in the i'm not sure work all right and what do you make of the reports that the

u.s. secretary of state nominee has met with north korea's leader is meeting at that level a sign of progress on issues all simply on the process of putting together a meeting between trump and can jump on now i think it's a sign of progress i mean the sea was director the sea at the time i mean this is pretty high up right this is this is kind of thing that hasn't happened in many years a good ten years or so since officials at this level in the states have talked of the north koreans. i mean this is this is pretty new so i think everybody's kind of assuming it's pretty important and what they're laying the groundwork doesn't have to go in there completely do it all by himself and we know that my compare was highly trusted by the president right he's probably going to become the next secretary of state and he's very close personally to the president so my guess is yeah that the signals that the americans are actually really serious they're probably starting to lay not just sort of not just trying to find where they're going to actually have the some but start to lay the groundwork for what a deal might look like is japan and the u.s. now on the same page about meeting with kim jong un. yeah this is sort of

a thorny issue right in japanese a little bit surprised because last year i think all of us were right i mean last year was fire and fury and totally destroying north korea you know six months ago we were talking about nuclear war and all that kind of stuff and then all of sudden here we're talking about a peace treaty and all this is going very fast and diplomacy in east asia doesn't usually move this rapidly and that's why many people are kind of surprised with this is going is a lot of sort of anxiety about what this means for the japanese side in the sense abi took a bit of a leap there last year supporting trump's hard line and then all of a sudden we're talking to north korea i think that's really been the concern with the japanese want to make sure they're kept in the loop and that there are particular issues regarding north korea there's an abduction issue where north koreans have abducted japanese citizens they want to make sure that this gets mentioned and i think that was important part of the meeting all right good to get your analysis on that one robert kelly that thank you for having. well one family's dominance of cuban politics since the nine hundred fifty nine communist revolution is coming to an end a successor to present role castro will be chosen on wednesday our latin america

newman reports from havana. barring the unthinkable eighty six year old president old castro will be handing over power for the first time in six decades to a cuban who doesn't carry his last name and who was born after the one nine hundred fifty nine revolution that he hoping to power for only four generations of cubans live in this have an apartment grandmother daughter ianna granddaughter another girl and her two children only eighty five year old elsa remembers a time when cuba was not ruled by fidel castro you know where you're going to know when the revolution triumphed everyone was happy because there were high expectations. but like the beautiful decaying city of havana the expectations began to crumble cubans had free education and health care but they became isolated economically and technologically under

a one party communist system oh twenty six year old plans to join millions of other cubans who've emigrated very. young people are hungry for something else to have access to things we don't have to be paid a decent wage. some say roll castro a pragmatist came to power too late after ill health forced his elder brother fidel to resign pradelle castro is still glorified here as the supreme leader of the cuban revolution but it is our gastro who will be remembered for introducing some of the most long awaited reforms to the communist system and the decade that he has been at the helm none of these reforms though include easing even slightly the one party states absolute grip on political power. and while castro's attempts to improve cuba's socialist economic model have fallen far short of their mark his

main objective now is to ensure political continuity with the communist party dictating policy guidelines and that's the way he liked that's that's the style he was known to have been a fan of soviet style political decision making process. and so not surprisingly on the eve of what will be the end of the nira on the streets of cuba's capital there's a sense that little is about to change you see newman and just see how that. france's president has warned that the e.u. could descend into what he calls civil war because of increasing divisions between liberal democracies and euro skeptic nationalists emmanuel mccall was setting out his vision for the future of the e.u. in a speech to the european parliament he urged members not to sleepwalk towards nationalism at the expense of european unity micron's speech comes in the wake of election victories by right wing euro skeptic parties in hungary and italy and the

government rallies have intensified in armenia after a vote to make the former president the prime minister tens of thousands of people processed in the capital of yellow and other cities accusing the cia of trying to grab power he was president for a decade and stepped down this year because of a term limit on the news new constitution strengthens the office of the prime minister allow him to maintain his influence i believe that the best way to do that the change of government i'm going to secure to have my voice heard and to let the government others know that i am against the regime loyalists down. my president has cheated people he said that he won't rule for a third time but he won't be the head of state he cheated the people i want justice i want to live in a free armenia. police in nigeria have fired tear gas at hundreds of muslim protesters a number it's the second day of rallies in the capital demonstrators want the

release of their religious to the exactly who was being jailed without charge since december two thousand and fifteen the head of the islamic movement of nigeria is believed to have three million followers a new way of detecting malaria is being credited with cutting the number of people have died from the disease in senegal scientists have developed technology seen cases dropped by twenty percent reports a small lifesaving effort to combat africa's biggest killer in the year barely visible our mosquitoes carry that deadly belayer parasite last september record yet as fourteen year old niece woke up in this bed suffering from pains in her stomach they took her to the doctor who sent her back home saying she contract had malaria then followed an intense fever aches and nausea i mean i never recovered. the doctors diagnosed her too late she was a child just fourteen years old full of life she was just days away from graduating

from middle school when she suddenly died. every two minutes a child dies of malaria worldwide the fight against the parasite starts here in this hospital lab indycar. the parasite sent to professor india in a coma as a child now he's doing everything he can to save other children from suffering his team developed an early detection kit just an hour the machine can recognize even the tiniest amount of parasite in the blood he says this is key to stopping malaria seeing the parasite often goes undetected. and if you live off the minute an infected. the life. humans can not only act as a reservoir to the parasite but also spread it when bitten by mosquitoes during a malaria outbreak although senegal and five other african countries have reduced

malaria according to the u.n. two thousand and sixteen saw five million more cases most were in sub-saharan africa the this is coming back and coming back normal. a lot of people in the car researchers and health policy makers gathered to discuss ways to eradicate the parasite altogether some discussed the use of traditional plants others wait to beat a parasite that has become resistant to drugs and so there is a sense of urgency with scientists gathered here sharing new techniques and research in order to help african countries come closer to eliminating malaria at stake is protecting the hundreds of millions of people across the world for who fighting malaria is a daily battle it was hard al-jazeera to car u.s. investigators will examine the engine of

a southwest airlines plane after it exploded mid-flight smashing a window and killing a passenger the seven three seven jet was traveling from new york to dallas with one hundred forty nine people on board they made an emergency landing in philadelphia female passenger was partially sucked out of the broken window four other passengers pulled her back in officials haven't confirmed if she's the person who died all starbucks outlets in the u.s. will close for an afternoon at the end of the month for what it's calling racial bias education nearly one hundred seventy five thousand staff or more than eight thousand stores will get training on how to combat this criminal nation video released this last week rather showed two black men being arrested at a philadelphia store while they prepared for a business meeting. former u.s. first lady barbara bush has died aged ninety two the wife and mother of two former presidents was in hospital several times this year barbara bush was often ranks in polls as the most popular first lady in modern u.s.

history. and let's take you through some of the headlines out in syria now the u.s. secretary of state nominee mike compare has traveled to north korea to meet leader kim jong il and the top secret talks happened two weeks ago ahead of a potential summit between president on trump and kim north korea's already been dominating talks between trump and japan's prime minister shinzo abbay has visited the president as mar a lago resort in florida they discussed pyongyang's weapons program. japan and ourselves are locked in we are very unified on the subject of north korea we will probably be depending on various meetings and conversations will be having meetings with gives young very soon it will be it will be taking place

probably in early june or a little before that assuming things go well it's possible things won't go well or we won't have the meetings and we'll just continue to go along this very strong period that we've taken but we will see what happens syria's ambassador to the u.n. says chemical weapons inspectors will enter doomer on wednesday if it's safe enough he says a u.n. security team is at the site the investigators will look into this month's suspected chemical attack but want to sign any blame the un's new special envoy for yemen is working on a plan for talks to when the three year civil war martin griffiths will outline his proposal to the security council within two months he says all sides of prepared to negotiate an end to the fighting. i think government rallies have intensified after a vote allowing the former president to become prime minister tens of thousands of people protesting in the capital there accusing him. of

a power grab he was president for a decade i mean these new constitution has given him more power more power to the office of prime minister u.s. investigators will examine the engine of a southwest airlines plane after it exploded mid-flight smashing a window and killing a passenger the seven three seven jet was traveling from new york to dallas with one hundred forty nine people on board it's now time for rebel education stay with us here now. just. seeing. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for our media opinion listening to at this time on al-jazeera education. the universal rights to expand the right. to a better life yet around the globe. an institution.