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u.s. media says north korea's leader trumps nominee for secretary of state. plus now there's talk of a peace treaty between north and south. i'm sorry this is al jazeera live from also coming up. if the u.n. security team decides the situation is sound and the fact finding mission will begin its work on wednesday on syria's u.n. envoy confirms chemical weapons inspectors are expected to enter a doomer in the coming hours. and we need the scientists infected with malaria as a child now leading the fight against the disease.

there's been some big developments on north korea we're getting reports out of south korea of a peace treaty in the making this comes on top of us media reports that the secretary of state nominee has met north korea's leader in the capital the washington post is quoting unnamed officials about the former cia there. actor's visit as the u.s. president's envoy at easter weekend he was reportedly there to prepare for a possible meeting between dog trump and german expected next month or june al-jazeera is diplomatic editor james plays has more from pyongyang. north korean officials are not commenting on all confirming the visit of mike pompei o two this city all of the information at this stage is coming from the u.s. side but this is the highest level visit for a serving u.s. official since secretary of state madeline albright came to pyongyang in the year two thousand the u.s.

doesn't have diplomatic relations with north korea there is no embassy here members of the diplomatic community have told me though they are aware that there is a channel of communication of negotiation ongoing between the u.s. and north korea but tween the cia and the north korean intelligence service they clearly are looking at the possibility of a meeting between the supreme leader kim yong and president trump the possible things that could be discussed possible things that could happen at the end of that meeting for example three american citizens who are held in jail here in north korea the americans want them to be released they'll also have been talking about the possible venues for a meeting could it be in europe could it be here in pyongyang could it be down in the demilitarized zone between north and south korea are there other places that we mentioned mongolia for example kathy novak has more now from sol on those reports of a possible peace treaty between the two koreas. one of the reasons that this upcoming

meeting between the south korean president mungy and the north korean leader kim jong un is so notable is because these two been are leaders of two countries that remain technically at war an armistice not a peace treaty marked the end of hostilities in the korean war in one nine hundred fifty three so going into the summit the south korean government is keen to discuss denuclearization and also how to promote peace on the korean peninsula so now the suggestion is that one of the items that could come up for discussion between monday and kim jong un could be how to transition from that armistice to a more long lasting peace agreement and the us president donald trump has suggested he has given his blessing for the two koreas to discuss this but it may not alternately be a decision that can be made at the interest and summit that is because south korea was not actually a signatory to the armistice that was signed in one nine hundred fifty three it was

the united states that ledley allies in the united nations command that signed the armistice with north korea and china so the suggestion may be that if monday in and kim jong un do discuss this it may lay the groundwork for the summit that is expected between kim jong un and donald trump who may be more in a position to make it concrete agreement to move on from that armistice north korea's already been dominating talks between donald trump and japan's prime minister shinzo ave as does trump of the president's mar-a lago results in florida discussed john young'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 kim jong il very soon it'll 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 path that we've taken but we will see what happens china is conducting live fire drills just off the coast of taiwan for the first time in two decades it comes amid growing tension over the u.s. relationship with taiwan which china sees as a breakaway province a dream brown has more from beijing. beijing has given no official reason as to why this large scale military drill is happening now in the narrow strait of water that separates china from taiwan but of course this military drill comes at a time of heightened trade tensions between washington and beijing as well as deepening concern in china over the growing interaction between taipei and washington in the past few months we've seen a current gresh an all delegation visit taiwan we've also seen the house of

representatives pass the taiwan travel act if that becomes law it would allow high ranking government officials from taiwan to visit the united states also in may officials from taiwan and the united states a jew to meet in taiwan to discuss arms sales and the united states is also beefing up its trade representative office in taiwan so all these factors a feeding into the deepening frustration and anger here in china now of course this military drill in the straits of taiwan comes just less than a week after china held a large scale a large scale military display in the south china sea involving its new aircraft carrier the leone ng that display was watched over by president xi jinping who warned that now was the time for china to strengthen its military especially its navy 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 and will make an independent decision on access for an

obese e.-w. team 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 reporting earlier that weapons experts have entered the rubble on clay former of one close when you. the i mean today the u.n. security team and to do more around three pm in order to assess the security situation on the ground if the security team the u.n. 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. has more from now. now the russian government and the syrian government have been criticized for what they called preventing the

team from entering duma 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 a chemical weapons attack actually happened its mandate does not a portion any blame now 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 o.p.c. w.'s 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 the chemical weapons stockpile that belongs to the rebels in 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 will be presented to the un security council within the next two months that's the assurance of the un special envoy on yemen griffiths he was appointed in february 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 agreeing but the poultry to of a nation on my third one in which a single violent event could consume attempts at conciliation and our concern is simple that these that 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 escorted 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 a russian ambassador pointed out that civilians on both sides of the saudi yemen border were under threat when issued missiles the news business going federally 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. there's 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 him and of facing famine. mike hanna united nations. well still ahead on al-jazeera the old gods about to go we examine whether cubans expected changing direction after the castros. cutting up the price of protests continue in armenia to stop the former president's visit to stay in power. and i would is still writing in afghanistan or snowing depending on how far above

sea level you are and you can see why it is pretty obvious frontal system of some sort and he's still hanging around in tashkent as well marty but to the west of that part from the kaisha shall do something caspian it's a dry scene and that's right back to the coast of the mediterranean temperature wise you're very dependent on the wind direction but twenty five in beirut thirty four in baghdad you can see this and back is much warmer than it was so the sons are for a while the breeze is not overly strong stop particular dusty that's true throughout the arabian peninsula as well but look at the koreans the coast of them out it's not yet monsoon clades not we'll start in the fifth period but it's interesting to see is there it might be useful to go into the coastal part of them on a case where showers are possible in the center of saudi would think is unlikely equally slightly dry in yemen and it should be dry now in a good part of southern africa we do see a full cross of occasional shower on johannesburg and even a line of rain that wants to get into western cape into cape time but i think it

will skirt science and do no good so then the picture is effectively a pretty dry one ok so showers near durban maybe but dry as far north as lusaka beyond. water is an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognise water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very glad to impose water privatisation on anybody they really killed. those people who see every two years something to invest a profit of the one dollar up to the last drop on al-jazeera. come

back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines and us media reports say secretary of state nominee mike common peo has traveled to north korea to meet its leader kim jong un a top secret talks are reported to have happened two weeks ago ahead of a potential summit between president donald trump and. syria's ambassador to the u.n. says chemical weapons inspectors will end to do more 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 or 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 are prepared

to negotiate an end to the fighting. for our top story now reports of high level contacts between the u.s. and north korea robert kelly is professor of political science and diplomacy at national university he says mike pompei is trip to pyongyang demonstrates how keen the u.s. is to arrange a meeting between donald trump and king john. i think it's a sign of progress i mean the the sea was direct to 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 to the north koreans. i mean this is this is pretty new so i think everybody's kind of assuming it's pretty important soon when 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 all of 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 and the questions are we talking bit of a leap there last year supporting trumps 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 saudi arabia says it's in talks with the u.s. about sending forces into syria president donald trump said he wants to end washington's involvement in the conflict and he's encouraging other arab nations to commit their troops and money instead political hand reports from washington d.c. . for weeks u.s. president donald trump has made it clear he's growing impatient over syria this will become another syria like very soon. he made the how

a bit clearer when he announced limited u.s. strikes in syria last friday we have asked our partners to take greater responsibility for securing their home region now the wall street journal is identifying the country's trump is apparently asking to give money and soldiers as egypt cutter the united arab emirates and saudi arabia but the u.s. military won't confirm that it will leave that to individual nations to first make that announcement and if they want to then we will be able to echo that egypt qatar in the u.a.e. have not publicly commented yet that saudi arabia's foreign minister acknowledged the ongoing discussion we are in discussions with us in that have been for since the beginning of the syrian crisis about sending forces into syria. it's not clear if other countries will make similar offers but if they do they're likely to agree only if some of the two thousand troops and american air power stays in the region that may not be something trump will be willing to do he's already put

a hold on two hundred million dollars that the u.s. had pledged to spend rebuilding syria with his words and deeds sending the message that he wants out of syria and soon he believes it should be someone else's responsibility to deal with what's left. al-jazeera washington. one family's dominance of cuban politics since the nine hundred fifty down communist revolution is coming to an end a successors of president raul castro will be chosen later on wednesday our latin america through soon human reports from havana. barring the unthinkable eighty six year old president rolled 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're here 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 healthcare but they became isolated economically and technologically under a one party communist system our 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 raul 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 one. medical 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 that's the style he 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 in human and just how than

france's president has warned that the e.u. could descend into what it calls civil war because of increasing divisions between liberal democracies and euro skeptic nationalists emanuel micro was setting out his vision of the future for the e.u. in a speech to the european parliament he urged members not to sleep for towards nationalism at the expense of european unity micron speech comes in the wake of election victories by far right wing euro skeptic parties in hungary and italy. dozens have been injured in protests in armenia over what the opposition calls a power grab by the former president so goes out of his yard has served his maximum two terms in office but is now being sworn in as prime minister the hocks to reports. this isn't quite the welcoming greeting a new prime minister will be hoping for tens of thousands took to the streets on tuesday for the fifth consecutive day braving a heavy police presence to show their fury over search suffer sins appointment

armenian police made dozens of arrests using water cannons and stun guns to keep the protesters far away from disrupting the election within parliament. anger not shared by lawmakers in the assembly with an overwhelming majority of seventy seven to seventeen votes the former president became the new prime minister got our children to the stage of forming the government starts now it will not last long. a change of role but not in power he oversaw a constitution shift to a new parliamentary system in two thousand and fifteen increasing the power of the prime minister role was diminishing the power of the president changes due to come into effect when his term expired last week that date had been denounced by european observers who alleged vote rigging two years on armenians reacting to those changes coming into effect. give yourself enough of our compassion after two

presidential terms search the kissin wants to become prime minister and all that despite the fact that his ten years of presidency have caused great harm to society poverty migration fourteen percent of the population of lift the country. protests have always clouded his time in power ten people died in clashes when he was first elected ten years ago when supporters of the defeated candidate reacted ten years on his position seems even stronger with the lack of opposition. the focus seems to be on the. young but let's not assume starkey's young leader who's shown just his mind. the parliament he's done me no good by. and great because look he's bug. sasha sacca c.n.n. was a military officer who served in the save it army in the one nine hundred seventy s. despite armenia voting for independence from the save it union in one thousand nine hundred one his links with moscow remain strong but the key issue is how easily

russia are going to react to these are developments because i. mean. did you buy a. book of those analysts a dubbing his move as doing a putin opponents look no closer to being appeased. britain's environment department says the nerve agent used to poison former russian spies so ghostscript holland his daughter was in liquid form and says it will take months to clean up all the traces of the toxin nine sites in the city of salisbury will need specialist cleaning that includes the restaurant that's for falls visited before they were found unconscious on a park bench. human rights watch says were on the government forces of killed in between those who oppose an upcoming referendum the vote next month will decide whether to extend presidential terms from five to seven years yes votes could

prolong the rule of president. who's been in power since two thousand and five human rights watch says it's documented nineteen cases of violence related to the vote since december new way of detecting malaria is being credited with causing the number of people who've died from the disease in senegal scientists have developed technology that 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 just 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 it 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 professor 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 saying the parasite often goes undetected. and if you live off the minute an infected this 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. a lot of people indycar 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 the close hawk al-jazeera to car me and president has granted amnesty to more than eight thousand prisoners women signed

a presidential pardon which includes the release of foreigners and political prisoners drug offenders along with the sick and elderly would also be free to jail reuters journalist facing trial for investigating me and miles range of prices have not been released southwest airlines will inspect its entire fleet after an engine broke apart mid-flight smashing a window and killing a passenger a forty three year old woman who died was partially sucked out of the broken window before other passengers pulled her back in the u.s. national transportation safety board says a preliminary examination of the engine showed signs of metal fatigue. u.s. presidents have been paying tribute to former first lady barbara bush who died at age ninety two her son george w. bush says she was a fabulous first lady who'd be missed dearly jimmy carter says her work to promote literacy gave countless families the skills to thrive and current president on

trump says she'll be remembered for her strong devotion to country and family. and let's take you through some of the headlines now us media reports say secretary of state nominee mike pompei hours travel to north korea to meet its leader kim jong il and kind of top secret talks of reported are reported to have happened two weeks ago ahead of a potential summit between president donald trump and kim are diplomatic editor james bays is in pyongyang says north korean officials are tight lipped over the visit by pompei oh this is the highest level visit for a serving u.s. official since secretary of state madeline albright came to pyongyang in the year two thousand the u.s. doesn't have diplomatic relations with north korea there is no embassy here members of the diplomatic community have told me though they are aware that there is

a channel of communication of negotiation ongoing between the u.s. and north korea between the cia and the north korean intelligence service they clearly are looking at the possibility of a meeting between the supreme leader kim yong and president trump. north korea's already been dominating talks between trump and japan's prime minister shinzo obvious visited the president at his monologue or resort in florida to discuss from young's weapons program. 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 at the site will look into this month's suspected chemical attack but won't assign blame. the un's new special envoy for yemen is working on a plan for talks to win the three year civil war martin griffiths will outline his proposal to the security council within two months and to government rallies have

intensified in armenia after a vote allowing the former president to become prime minister tens of thousands of protesters are accusing sergio service of a power grab southwest airlines will inspect its entire fleet after an engine broke apart during a flight from new york to dallas smashing a window and killing a passenger those are your headlines it's the listening post while the news continues at the top of the ass they with us here on al-jazeera. seven million in the. demonstrably. giuliani was there but. do you think i'll get you back because we've been.