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if i think that it's a meeting that is not going to be fruitful we're not going to go. ahead of much anticipated talks donald trump steps up pressure on north korea's leader to end his nuclear program. and sami say dan this is al jazeera live from dollhouse so coming up. cuba after the castros miguel diaz canal is named as the only candidate to become the next president. turkey's president calls snap elections in june nearly eighteen months ahead of schedule plus. lift off the space a new mission begins to find the planet that supports life.

donald trump has threatened to cancel planned talks with north korea's leader if they're not fruitful the u.s. president and japan's prime minister both insist the pressure will remain on kim jong un until he ends his nuclear program. reports from west palm beach. as japanese prime minister shinzo off a wrapped up two days of meetings with u.s. president donald trump the parish reporters their relationship has never been closer. yet there some it held it trumps florida mara lago resort was largely overshadowed by news that trump it once again sidelined america's top asian ally confirming he'd sent his cia director mike pump ale to secretly lay groundwork for a meeting with the north korean leader kim jong il and in a matter of weeks he just left north korea i think great meeting with him and. have got along with him really well really really it's an an orthodox move for

a nation that's traditionally consulted with japan on both matters involving north korea still as ah they saw security assurances truck made clear there's still the possibility talks with north korea's leader may not happen at all if the meeting when i'm there is not fruitful i will respect for lee leave the meeting abbay implore the international community and the united states not to reward kim just for showing up to direct talks but to demand concrete commitments to denuclearize. just because north korea is responding to dialogue the should be no reward maximum pressure should be maintained it's a promise trump says he'll keep and will work for the release of three americans currently being held by north korea there's a good chance of doing it we're having very good dialogue we will keep you informed but we are in there and we are working very hard on that. we have come a long way with north korea during their summit the two leaders enjoyed

a game of golf still trump did not extend exemptions he's granted to other nations on the foreign imports of steel and aluminum but even as trump was highlighting what he believed to be a summit success overshadowing that headline was the news the confirmation of trump's pick for secretary of state was in doubt. a growing list of u.s. senators say they will not vote in favor of the confirmation of mike pompei o to be the next u.s. secretary of state it is a concern for the trumpet ministration given it is preparing for historic talks with north korean leader kim jong un in a matter of weeks can really help at al-jazeera west palm beach florida. even before trump meets kim this intense interest in the summit next week between north and south korea kathy novak has more from seoul well with donald trump leaving open the possibility that he may still walk away from any talks with north korea the

south korean government is finalizing plans for a summit in just over a week between the south korean president and kim jong un it says a record number of journalists almost three thousand have registered to cover the summit and at least some portions of it will be broadcast live the south korean government says it wants the focus to be on denuclearization and promoting peace on the korean peninsula in the past north korea has seemed to not rule out discussing denuclearization but what that might mean to north korea could differ to what it means to south korea the united states and japan we heard donald trump and the japanese prime minister shinzo of a refer to complete verifiable denuclearization whereas in north korea it has tended to take a more broad view saying that it needs its nuclear weapons to counter any threat from the united states and that it wants for example the united states to remove troops from the korean peninsula so this could be an interesting sticking point as

goes into talks with kim jong un well as we mentioned earlier don trump was spoken to go cheri sions to release three u.s. prisoners in north korea all diplomatic go to james braze has more on that from pyongyang. remember the trumpet ministration judges many think by the domestic angle in the way that things are seen this would be seen in the u.s. as an important victory early victory guessing these three u.s. citizens of korean descent who are being held in north korea. it's something and remember these are people and one of them is being in jail since twenty fifteen that this is something diplomats would call n.g.c. deliverable which would then. create an atmosphere and to start a more detailed process of negotiation on the need clear if diplomats i've talked to say they think that the north koreans may well be saving at least three u.s.

citizens for this very moment qatar has signed a two and a half billion dollar deal with the u.s. for air defense technology military spending is at record levels during causes ongoing gulf standoff with saudi arabia egypt the united arab emirates and behind last year finalizing arms deals worth at least twenty billion dollars. miguel diaz can now has been nominated by cuba's national assembly is the only candidate for president he's the first from outside the castro family in nearly sixty years m.p.'s have voted but the results won't be confirmed until thursday that's when the canal is expected to be sworn in more from our latin america and italy seeing human. talk serious a fish and and above all discreet rising up the communist party's ranks from the bottom fifty seven year old. is making history he's done it in part by never

ever having tried to outshine or question fidel or raul castro as others once earmarked as their successes learned the hard way and i think he also feels it's true. that he actually genuinely from. her cuban revolution. as the communist party secretary of his home province of viet lauder the earned a reputation for being open minded. women cool here is a hangout for young people including gays lesbians transsexuals and punks d.-a scandal was by their side in the one nine hundred ninety s. when alternative lifestyles were severely frowned on. even after he rose to the top every time he came to santa clara one of the first things to do is come see us of the men who he's the same unassuming humble person. may be so but in most of cuba people know very little about the first man in six decades who will rule

the silent whose name is not castro in fact he was the only candidate in the vote by the national assembly on wednesday. we asked this man would he vote in the selection process. let my silence speak for itself if the silence of many cubans. those who may be expecting a major shift will clearly be disappointed. we encouraging reaffirming and consolidating continuity which is very important for the defense of the revolution which today is being threatened and attacked by relationship with the us that deteriorated the truth is the beer scandal has been chosen not to reform but to improve cuban socialism if he can and he does represent a generation younger than that of the castros he will have to answer to a power much higher than his own cuban communist party you see in human al-jazeera . thousands of demonstrators have swarmed armenia's capital for

a sixth day of anti-government protests. let's just ok dozens of people were arrested as police tried to clear out of on city center the area has been blocked by protesters for days have been rallies throughout armenia again. being elected prime minister after his two year limit as president and it critics say it's a power grab in a surprise move turkish president. has announced they'll be early presidential and parliamentary elections on june the twenty fourth a vote was supposed to take place in two thousand and nineteen constitutional changes were passed last year in the referendum allowing turkey to switch from a parliamentary to presidential system. manages the turkey project chatham house a think tank in the u.k. he says public perception of the decision could decide the outcome of the election

. this is the first time that the ruling party since assuming power in two thousand and two if it's the first time that they have gone for voluntarily and actively for an early election usually they they prefer they were against any early elections as a sign of weakness so given the worsening state of the turkish economy at the government twenty or the present and the ruling party went for an early elections i think that in all like at least at this stage the likelihood is that the ruling party will maintain its majority in the parliament and. should will probably win the presidential elections however the key question is how will the voters perceive this early election will it will be perceive it as a sign of weakness as a sign of panic and therefore try to hurt to the ruling party or will they rally to the to present the one as a known quantity in turkish politics the u.n. refugee agency says it's alarmed by the horrific conditions faced by new refugees

in yemen the agency says migrants and asylum seekers fleeing countries including somalia and ethiopia can face violence and sexual abuse some are being kidnapped for ransom while others have been forced back into the sea williams is the spokesman for the un refugee agency he says many refugees are falling victim to the evans armed groups. yemen has been transept country and a country of this nation for people fleeing the horn of africa for for many years. many somalis but also people from european and other countries in africa have been going to yemen looking for protection and some of them have also gone there with the hope of moving on to other countries in the gulf for instance or in saudi arabia or even to move on to europe but many of them are finding now that because of the conflict they are stuck in yemen also because of the conflict

many of them are being abused and exploited by different groups including smugglers and groups that are holding them captive in some cases. extorting money out of them told to bring them raping them and we have seen horrific cases of this in detention in southern yemen specifically in the tension center in the garden and that's why we are so concerned that because of the. conflict in yemen many people are falling into the hands of criminals who are exploiting them. still ahead on al-jazeera housework is a stretch by the injured from the still a voter syria's government accuses them of helping rebels and the probe into what caused a crack in the plane's engine leading to the death of

a passenger partially sucked out the window. from a long flowing mine in winds to an enchanting desert breeze leave. or the weather settling down nicely now across much of the middle east as one would expect sorry a cloud will bring some rain some plate and some snow into the higher ground over the next couple of days in between is to me fine in try with some warm sunshine baghdad thirty three degrees celsius by a rate of around twenty six degrees as you can see is generally settled close at least the saga of the medics right in but as we go on into friday there will be some west of weather just not seeing its way in spite say little cloud of rain just drifting down across southern parts of the northern areas of syria with a bit of wet weather between the black sea and the caspian sea so well swimmers generally try and wintry mix that we have further east is in the process of easing

out of the way i generally try to work cross the arabian peninsula was a chance of one of two spots of rain anyway you see the cloud central parts of saudi arabia if you want to see showers it's the possibility that sports of right here because as we go on through friday but for the most part it is looking warm dry and sunny temps and thirty four degrees well the wet weather continues meanwhile across the central parts of africa the long rains still pushing some very heavy downpours there into towns and then all the piles of mozambique come further southeast and we dry fine and sunny. the weather sponsored by qatar raise. the scene for us whether online what is a very nice time in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is bad but because no one cares or if you join us on set there are people that are choosing between buying medication and eating basis is

a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who is an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. bank you're watching out zero time to recap our headlines donald trump has threatened to cancel planned talks with north korea's leader kim jong un if they're not fruitful u.s. president says he looks forward to meeting kim hopes the talks will be successful. as carroll has been nominated by cuba's national assembly as the sole candidate for president the first from outside the castro family in nearly sixty years m.p.'s

have voted but the results won't be confirmed until first day that's when diaz canal is expected to be sworn in. and turkey will vote in presidential and parliamentary elections much earlier than scheduled voting will take place on june the twenty fourth elections were due until november next year will be held under a state of emergency. government have opened fire on a u.n. team in duma in syria forcing their withdrawal they were assessing if it's safe enough for investigators to examine the side of a suspected chemical attack eleven days ago the head of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons or o.p.c. w says it's now unclear when the team will be able to enter duma arrived in damascus on saturday will determine if a chemical attack happened but want to sign blame so hold on has more from beirut. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons confirming what a u.n.

official told us earlier and that is the u.n. security team that entered tomb on tuesday came under small arms fire the o.p.c. w. also confirming that during their visit to one of the sites an explosive device was detonated now there were no injuries but the security team left the duma and right now the o.p.c. w. does not know when they can deploy their chemical weapons inspectors to do more the site says that alleged chemical weapons attack will be c.w. saying any deployment will have to follow a security clearance from the united nations so it really raises a lot of question about the fate of of this mission now neither the u.n. nor the o.p.c. w. blamed any particular side for that shooting incident but tomorrow is under the control of the russian military as well as the syrian government both both of them confirming a few days ago that they quote fully liberated the area from terrorists now both moscow and damascus have been accused by western powers of trying to prevent the

inspectors from reaching the site and to delay and hamper their work accusations that both both moscow and damascus have denied but there really concerns about whether or not there is still hard evidence because it's been what twelve days now since that suspected chemical weapons attack will the evidence be still there some western nations even accusing russia of tampering with the evidence and another question is will the witnesses and survivors or doctors that the o.p.c. w. inspectors speak to will they be speaking freely or will they feel intimidated by the new authority on the ground so right now we do not know if and when still p.c. w. inspectors will reach duma and while syrian government media are accusing health emergency workers of helping rebel groups doctors say their focus is on helping injured civilians in a country where the government has regularly bombed hospitals saw a bunch of aid for. as the buses to. people forced from their homes left parts of eastern ghouta after five years of siege and bombings government forces and allied

militia moved in through assad government t.v. crews rushed to show how the enclave was run by rebel fighters they call terrorists the relentless bombardment force people in the ground into basements such as this one job or frequent attacks on hospitals meant even frequent was being provided below ground level in the ration says only fighters were allowed in and civilians very prohibitive ferrety supporting health institutions like this denied those claims all of them offer but we don't know what according to syrian media every organization helping the besieged population of almost four hundred thousand people was supporting terrorists but doctors said their oath demands that they treat people who need medical assistance irrespective of political or ideological affiliations the government says there was no medicine shortage in d.c. to the medics say the boxes of medical supplies brandished a regime propaganda are misleading the situation in sudan was extremely dramatic.

the needs where absolutely unique he was and seeing the situation demigod police that we were supporting him now they were clearly showing me as we've asked the concern of not having enough medical supplies. the influx of tens of thousands to live in aleppo is making things difficult for an already stretched health infrastructure doctors at one hospital in collateral say five thousand people were dropped off on the first day of the evacuation most of the injured were hit by bombings and some had gunshot wounds to be treated in the hospitals only operation theatre in addition to the hundreds of cases the trauma and injuries they had to deal with pregnant women giving birth in cases of malnutrition it is dire it is definitely acute and once the arrival of the displaced becomes more of a stable to do ation steal the health system existing in the northwest or completely in they'd government it is not enough you don't have a specialist you don't have in every in every health facility enough medical

supplies back and medical workers are calling on un agencies to use the proximity to the capital damascus to rebuild and support the devastated health infrastructure now that the bombs are not falling there's no media attention on the health needs citing previous examples of neglect in aleppo in homs if workers are warning of a looming health crisis for the tens of thousands of people left behind in feasting with a with the whole population is viewed with suspicion of supporting the opposition some of the. if the turkey syria border. a group of armed men of storm dined cheeriest parliament before stealing a ceremonial mace. was legislators were pushed out of the way before three intruders seized the main some wednesday media reports a suspended politician. ordered supporters to take the item which symbolizes the authority of nigeria's legislature he denies any involvement. the

united arab emirates has suspended operations at a hospital it ran in somalia's capital mogadishu it comes amid growing bilateral tension which is seen businesses banned and marotta diplomats searched in somalia mohammed atta reports. the u.a.e. iran ship zite hospital in mogadishu and now close to the public staff there say they received orders to stop operations in definit. we met the u.s. ambassador at his residence and we asked him about the hospital status and if it had been closed he told us that funding for the first stage of operating the hospital had run out and that they were forced to shut the hospital until second stage funding were available he said reopening the hospital could happen at any time without preconditions the facility offered treatment mainly to poor on this please people in the somali capital medical workers also performed lifesaving surgery on those injured in mogadishu as frequent car bomb attacks confirmed how

they are this is basically a punishment for the people of somalia for simply defending their sovereignty if the u.a.e. had opened a hospital for humanitarian purposes they would not have close to the residents of mogadishu have been reacting to the news of the bill of the powerful and humanitarian aid should never be politicized where the u.a.e. has done a shameful then pinafore malia somalia is a free country we might be weak today but we don't want the aids that comes with strings attached relations between mogadishu and abu dhabi have been frosty since june last year when mogadishu resist the pressure from the u.a.e. and so did a bia to cut ties with qatar and during the blockade they impost on it. in march somalia bond uys dubai ports world from doing business in the country after that an album agreement the company had entered into with ethiopia and some other land for the management of better but up port in the breakaway and clear last week

somalia intercepted a plane chartered by u.s. diplomats and confiscated almost ten million dollars in cash saying it would investigate the intended purpose of the funds. on monday security forces in north somalia's puntland prevented another u.a.e. plane from leaving port after emirates. military trainers are refused two hundred of their luggage to be such that it really looks like nobody can win so money is a very. poor country you know i was really struck in need to focus on rebuilding and developing internally and not to be bogged down in these kind of disputes. and in the latest sign of a father breakdown in relations both countries have ended the military corporatization program that began in two thousand and fourteen in which the u.a.e. trained equipped and paid the solid is of hundreds of somali troops mohammed at all

just. as another power blackout in puerto rico nearly seven months after a devastating hurricane it's the second major outage in a week in the u.s. territory officials predict it will take up to thirty six hours to restore electricity to one point four million customers the power grid been unstable since america hurrican in september air investigators in the us say a crack inside a jet engine caused tuesday's fatal accident on a southwest airlines flight shrapnel after it broke up smashed a window causing a woman passenger to be partially sucked out of the plane she later died u.s. airline regulators will issue an order for similar engines to be inspected in the next six months alan fischer reports. they know what happened they just don't know at this stage why a look at the damage shows one of the engines fan blades is missing the southwest airlines flight was at thirty two thousand feet when the left engine exploded sent

shuttle flying shattering a window that caused immediate decompression and killed a female passenger from her seat through the window at the people who are there are radical interferon we are our thoughts. and your passengers are ok and are you as your airplane physically on fire bear that a fire that started this. fire far as has my house the victim has been named is forty two year old bank executive jennifer right in a mother of two of her was out the window and so i made my way to earn a job to bring a real her back in. and it is crazy to passengers walked on the woman for twenty minutes trying to stabilize her condition seven other passengers were also injured the engine has twenty four blades one was broken off at the base it was fine more than one hundred ten kilometers away there is evidence of metal fatigue where the

blade separated. we located that a media lee and sent photos to our materials lab in washington says west is a budget airline this is its first on board passenger death in its fifty one year history the seven three seven just went through a maintenance check on sunday the airplane in my opinion is proven as very reliable so it doesn't create any doubt in my mind at least at this point around six months ago the engine maker ordered every airline that flies the seven three seven to check engines for signs of metal fatigue after another bleed broke off an engine though south west which only flies this type of plane is inspecting its entire fleet the federal aviation authority has called for engine inspections of seven three seven for every other airline alan fischer washington. the search for alien worlds has taken another big step for the launch of nasa as latest satellite transiting expo planet survey satellite or tess is the agency's most ambitious

attempt to discover planets just like our own and the gallica has that he tells. liftoff the space x. carey yes this isn't the first mission to search for new worlds but it may be nasa is most revealing for the next two years that test sounds like will take over from the kepler space telescope in search of alien planets whilst in orbit this new telescope will observe two hundred thousand of the brightest stars in the sky mission scientists say could discover twenty thousand new worlds now tess is going to dramatically increase the number of planets that we have to study. it's going to more than double the number of the have been seeing and detected by by kepler and moreover the planets that we're going to find will will span a much greater range of host star types than was the case for cupper when the

kepler space telescope launched in two thousand and nine it transformed our understanding of planets beyond our own solar system based on its observations astronomers now believe the milky way is home to at least two billion potentially habitable planets kepler only observed a fraction of the sky tess is able to see far more the exoplanet community is very enthusiastic a vibrant community and there are a lot of people very eager to get their hands on the data and start doing some great science with it and i think you know i think that over the coming years we're going to see an enormous number of brilliant scientific results coming out of test data from across the entire community i'm really excited for the next sixty days mission scientists will be running tests and ironing out bugs as the satellite begins its orbit the first. batches of data won't be released for months but if life is out there test maybe the project that finds it and al-jazeera.

and let's take you through some of the headlines here in al-jazeera now donald trump is threatening to cancel planned talks with north korea's leader kim jong un if they're on fruitful but the u.s. president says he looks forward to meeting kim and hopes the talks will be successful i hope to have a very successful meeting if we don't think it's going to be successful mark we want to have it we want to have it. if i think that it's a meeting that is not going to be fruitful we're not going to go if the meeting when i'm there is not fruitful i will respectfully leave the meeting and will continue what we're doing or whatever it is that will continue but something will happen so. i like always remaining flexible and will remain flexible here. as canal is being nominated by cuba's national

assembly as the sole candidate for president the first from outside the castro family nearly sixty years and piece of voted but the results won't be confirmed until first day when the ass canal is expected to be sworn in eighty six year old their own castro will stay on as head of the communist party. turkey will have presidential and parliamentary elections march early on june the twenty fourth initially the vote was scheduled for november next year the polls will be held under a state of emergency a gunman opened fire on a u.n. team in duma in syria forcing their withdrawal they were assessing if it's safe enough for investigators to examine the site of a suspected chemical attack eleven days ago. signed a two and a half billion dollar deal with the u.s. for air defense technology military spending is at record levels during causes ongoing gulf standoff with saudi arabia egypt the u.a.e.

and bahrain last year finalized major arms deals worth at least twenty billion dollars thousands of demonstrators have swarmed armenia's capital of yet a van for a sixth day of anti-government protests dozens of people have been arrested at the rallies throughout armenia against the election. as prime. headlines the news continues here after this story stay with us. getting to the heart of the matter if the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept realities what do you think reunification of look like there are two people think the peaceful unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera.