just say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards. if you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when mess was that somehow time as aiming to replace america and go around the world all the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china part one on a jazzy. al-jazeera . where ever you.

go. if i think that it's a meeting that is not going to be fruitful we're not going to go. donald trump steps up pressure on north korea's leader to end his nuclear program ahead of much anticipated talks. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up syrian rebels green deal with the government of the town of. cuba after the castros miguel diaz is named as the only candidate to become the next president and. the state's new mission begins to find a planet that will support life. u.s.

president donald trump has warned he'll walk away from planned talks with north korea's leader if they are not fruitful meeting japanese prime minister. has confirmed cia director mike pump secretly went to pyongyang to meet kim jong un white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. as japanese prime minister shinzo ave wrapped up two days of meetings with u.s. president donald trump the parish reporters their relationship has never been closer. yet their summit held at trunks florida mara lago resort was largely overshadowed by news that trump it once again sidelined america's top asian ally confirming he had said to 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 unorthodox move for

a nation that's traditionally consulted with japan on both matters involving north korea still as abbay 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 respectfully leave the meeting ave implored 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 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 kimberly held at al-jazeera west palm beach florida in north korea's state media say the ruling party will meet on friday to decide on policies for this new period of hazaras diplomatic editor james bays has more from pyongyang

. the state controlled media here in north korea do not work at the pace of donald trump and his pronouncements on twitter and his news conferences so there's still no response to the secret visit secret until a few hours ago it might pompei zero to pyongyang all the latest statements that have come from the u.s. president from the north korean side the state media and the state news agency reporting that the central committee of the ruling korean workers party will be having a meeting on friday to discuss important historical developments now i don't think they are in any where going to change the course put in place by kim jong un the supreme leader for these negotiations with the united states what i think is happening is they're preparing the korean people for a change of course remember that for many years for decades the media here have talked about the u.s. as an imperialist stick power as an evil power now they're preparing their people

for a possible meeting between their leader and the president of the united states a lot of interest in a summit next week between north and south korea ahead of donald trump's meeting with kim jong un 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 ave 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 conjunction. fighters in the rebel held area near syria's capital of agree to lay down arms in an evacuation deal brokered by russia members of a rebel group known as the army of islam in demand will begin leaving in the coming days but to the north groups and kalman are still holding out despite government strikes have been given a deadline within the next twenty four hours to surrender or face attack i still fighters in the pocket of the capital of also being given an ultimatum while talks between rebels and the government are continuing in homs saying that is following the story from neighboring lebanon. rebels in the town of to marry have surrendered

without a fight accepting an offer from the syrian government and the russian military for safe passage to rebel controlled areas in the north of the country by agreeing to this deal they have really staved off the possibility of an all out military offensive according to rebel faction the rebel faction there they agreed to lay down their arms in order to save the lives of civilians and to prevent a repeat of eastern for weeks pro-government alliance you know but heavily bombarded what was the rebel enclave of eastern hundreds of civilians were killed and at the end rebel factions had no other choice but to leave up to five thousand people will be evacuated in the next few days among them one thousand five hundred fighters now there are other towns in this column or an enclave northeast of damascus under the control of the rebels but rebel factions there have so far refused to surrender and the syrian government has stepped up airstrikes on these

towns piling yet more military pressure to bring about some sort of a deal so the government really in a much better comfortable position exerting military pressure on a number of rebel enclaves including the rebel enclave of homs that's in the northern countryside of homs right now a cease fire is in effect until today until negotiations resume they are discussing some sort of a deal to hand over the area to to the syrian government to retain to return state control in that region so the government pushing ahead with the with the with military pressure but at the same time trying to bring about the deals because at the end of the day if the government can avert some sort of a military offensive it's it ensures that it doesn't lose men in battle international inspectors are waiting for approval to enter the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack in syria on tuesday u.n. team came under fire in the area they were checking it safe to investigate the scene of the attack. within forty people were killed in the town of duma almost two

weeks ago cuba's parliament has nominated the first presidential candidate outside the castro family in nearly sixty years miguel beers kewell succeed outgoing leader roll castro out as there is latin america tennessean human reports from havana. tall serious efficient 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 believes her cuban revolution. as the communist party secretary of his home province of viet lauder the earned a reputation for being open minded. the maine coon here is

a hangout for young people including gays lesbians transsexuals and punks d.s. 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 they do is come see us of them in he's the same i'm assuming humble person. maybe 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 what he thought of the selection process. let my silence speak for itself it's the silence of many cubans . those who may be expecting a major shift will clearly be disappointed with. we are encouraging real. and

consolidating continuity which is very important for the defense of the revolution which today is being threatened by a relationship with the us that deteriorated the truth is that the s. kernel 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 than. kyrgyzstan's president to sack the government after a vote of no confidence in parliament the cabinets performance and twenty seventeen was described as unsatisfactorily the coalition put forward the vote citing put execution of the state's budget and delay of several projects turkish president rigid type at a one as announced early presidential and parliamentary elections in june the votes are supposed to take place in november next year constitutional changes were passed

last year in a referendum allowing turkey to switch from a parliamentary system to a presidential one. from the turkey project at chatham house is the result of the election will depend on how voters will see the surprise move from the ruling party . 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 are the elections as a sign of weakness so given the worsening state of the turkish economy at the government twenty with the present air down under wing party went for an early elections i think that in all like a pleased at this stage the likelihood is that the ruling party will maintain its majority in the parliament and type erred on should will probably win the presidential elections however the key question is how will the voters perceive this early election will it will be perceived as a sign of weakness and

a sign of panic and therefore try to hurt to the ruling party or will they rally to the president aired the one as a known quantity in turkish politics still ahead on al-jazeera health workers say they stretched by an influx of injured from eastern go to. pockets of poverty more than a million people are living in mud houses around one of those modernized cities in africa. from the clear blue sky of the doha morning. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city of love. hello and welcome to international weather forecast now we're enjoying some really fine weather conditions across many parts of europe at the moment these shots come from the netherlands where people are getting on the beaches all along the coastline saying for germany too and the sunshine looks set to continue

probably into the weekend in many areas and warm weather staying with it in this is this frontal system which is pushing in across western parts the u.k. that will add further east as we get into the weekend but in the shorter term looking fine temperatures well into the twenty's with that so that the flow the find with a sense of central part syrup but once you get further towards the east then we start to draw more of a northwest the furnace result significantly cooler here so heading into friday temperatures still well up for most places but in moscow it's just twelve degrees care nothing special is seventy not cooler air extends around the black sea region but certainly for athens greece twenty four degrees is not too bad on the other side of the mediterranean we've got fine conditions for this part for egypt their current thirty three but further towards the west we could see a few showers for coastal parts of algeria and some fairly brisk winds affecting morocco times down into central parts of africa we've got some showers shower pull on the coast of west africa and further towards the east some heavy showers likely

in uganda. the weather sponsored by cat time release. the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join a sunset there are people there are choosing between buying medication and eating this 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 our disease. there mind of the top stories on al-jazeera u.s.

president. talks with north korea's leader if they're not fruitful at a meeting with japanese prime minister. has confirmed cia director mike compare secretly went to pyongyang to meet kim jong un. parliament has nominated the first presidential candidate outside the castro family. will succeed. will remain the communist party. rebel fighters and northeast of syria's capital damascus have agreed to lay down weapons and deal brokered by russia to the north groups are holding out despite government strikes. syrian government media accusing health and emergency workers of providing aid to rebel groups but doctors insist they focus on injured civilians in areas where hospitals are regularly bombed by the government. reports. as the buses full of people forced from their

homes left parts of eastern after years of siege and bombings forces and. government t.v. crews rushed to show how the enclave was run by rebel fighters they call terrorists the relentless brooke baldwin forced 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 to billions were prohibited charities supporting health institutions like this deny those claims. but. one according to syrian media every organization helping the besieged population of almost four hundred thousand people was supporting terrorists but doctors say their oath demands that they treat people who need medical assistance irrespective of political. or idealogical affiliations the government says there was no medicine shortage in d.c. tutor medics say the boxes of medical supplies brandished a regime propaganda are misleading the situation in. was extremely dramatic.

their needs were absolutely unique he was in and seeing the situation dominica 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 and collateral medics a 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 concrete

when they do the gov it is not enough you don't have a specialist you don't have 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 feast and water for the whole population is viewed with suspicion of supporting the opposition some of the garbage in the turkey syria border a military commander has survived a car bombing in the eastern libyan city of benghazi after resit during is the chief of staff. forces run by renegade general khalifa haftar they're loyal to libya's rival parliaments in the east and reject the un backed government in the

capital tripoli. qatar signed a two and a half billion dollars deal with the us air defense company rate than military spending is at record levels during cattles ongoing gulf standoff with saudi arabia egypt united arab emirates and last year finalized arms deals worth at least twenty billion dollars u.k. is looking to push for trade deals at this year's meeting of commonwealth leaders as it prepares to leave the european union but a scandal surrounding the treatment of immigrants from the caribbean has overshadowed the event jenna reports britain was pleased to take over this year's commonwealth meeting after a cycle of damage incapacitated intended to host the tiny pacific island nation of running water too. the government is keen to promote its post breaks it global britain vision to the fifty plus other leaders many of whom it is hoped will become future trade partners. for three so it

was an in or specious start for prime minister to reason made to find herself instead apologizing to caribbean leaders this week her government was forced to admit to discriminating against the children of migrant workers who arrived by invitation in post-war britain more than half a century ago and want to reiterate how much we value the contributions it's been. like was the sense. to the united kingdom and if you want to increase that you can do so because the ties between us and the connection. arrival of more than four hundred have it to make and critics will see in the unfolding wind rushed scandal much of what they say is wrong with the commonwealth today not only are fifty three mainly former british colonies a third of the world's population with shared history and common values but also the sometimes blunt remnants of empire of questionable modern purpose and geo

politically irrelevant they will during the course of this week be fresh commitments to shared problems like education climate change and malaria the values and cultural crossover of the commonwealth on full display what they would be is much talk of democratic and human rights abuses among some members laws against homosexuality for instance tax havens and presidents for life nor of the gross inequalities that exist among these nations that sometimes seem anything but a commonwealth. central to the existence of the commonwealth has its leadership often seen as an extension of britain's royal family and serving british interests the commonwealth has been headed by the queen for more than sixty years. when their era comes to an end as it must some suggest it will be time for democratic leadership to restore the commonwealth relevance and ensure its survival. jonah hole al jazeera london. under the protests is of marched in london over sexual

violence in india the demonstration coincided with indian prime minister narendra modi's visit to the u.k. ahead of that commonwealth heads of government meeting that we were talking about there's been anger over the investigation into the rape and murder of an eight year old girl in engine administered kashmir in another part of india a state legislator from murder his party the b j p is under arrest for raping a teenage girl the world's chemical weapons watchdog has rejected russian claims that traces of a second nerve agent were found in the city of salzburg in the u.k. that's where the former russian spy sergei scribble and his daughter were poisoned last month what was really striking about the session today was the russian continues to provide huge amounts of disinflation to others including on this occasion a russian government official actually accusing the united kingdom of poisoning the

script and inducing them into a coma before they could poison them so that the u.b.c. w. could then go and investigate that is an outrageous accusation was made by a russian official in the o.p.c. w. today and those kinds of false narratives need to be stopped. nigeria's capital is one of the most highly modernized cities in africa but the original residents of the federal district of abuser continue to live in homes built of mud and they complain that fundamental rights are being ignored vall reports from a butcher. and discussions never seen in the village of pico outside the nigerian capital since it was chosen to build a new capital forty years ago they say their social and economic status has continued to deteriorate they still live in humble mud homes without basic amenities. when i die as a beauty i have no medical care here and we have no functioning schools the teachers refused to stay here and don't have electricity water is our most urgent

problem we had a bullhorn that soon broke down we almost never used it. and two other villages around this place have up to three thousand people living in them the only source of drinking water they have is this might depend more than it are generously gave it to them for survival but they say the government isn't even considering sanitizing it and pumping it to their homes the spring is only a thin stream it takes time for the point to feel supplying the village with what to me is hard work by these women throughout the day there are more than eight hundred villages such as pico surrounding of which are the area is called federal capital territory more than one million nigerians live in the f. city pockets of poverty side by side with posh new residential districts owned mostly by people who came from other regions to government a resentment period that if it is verging so you would and i live in the if you do

people doubt from order to sift it that's where they are calling the eight hundred it village you said to lay down here it does villages existed before even and you know what i'm going to need to fourteen or does it as a request for comment from the government was declined the other day and his community continued to demand reform but they say their voice is hardly head because they don't have any meaningful representation at the high level a constitution says the president is also a government f. city villages doubt mohammed will heidi has time to fix their problems. in our own country or do what of the matter that is no says so far can't ability for the government entity please. food justice. and democracy do what they are does no where in the world or the head of state will become to go but on the third day of the game is don't die in our little league with up with people

your. government did not have a governor did not have a meal so it is like they are deprived and they believe that it is only by instating the people putting them in this position of authority dudu will be able to make any meaningful impact without an elected mayor governor the local council or minister of city people say they feel powerless which means economic deprivation for them. and disease. a team of international researchers has concluded that a third of the coral on australia's great barrier reef was cooked to death during a heatwave a study says increased sea temperatures from march to november and twenty sixteen caused the bleaching it affects anything that lived on the coral and other power blackout has hit upon a rico nearly seven months after devastating hurricane is 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 people. the search for life beyond earth has

taken a big step forward with the launch of nasa's latest satellite it is the agency's most ambitious attempt in the search for other worlds and we got to get reports. lift off the space x. falcon dime carry to us 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 last light 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 that 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 then was the case for cup or 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

. maybe the project. result is there these are the top stories u.s. president donald trump has warned he'll walk away from planned talks with north korea's leader if they are not fruitful at a meeting with japanese prime minister has confirmed cia director mike pompei was secretly went to pyongyang to meet kim jong un rebel fighters and north east of syria's capital damascus have agreed to lay down weapons under a deal brokered by russia but to the north groups are still holding out despite government strikes. following the story from neighboring lebanon the rebels have surrendered without a fight agreeing to an offer by the russian military and the syrian military for

safe passage to rebel controlled areas in northern syria basically preventing an all out military offensive because what the government is telling them is that if you do not surrender then we will launch an all out military offensive similar to what happened in eastern that rebel controlled enclave which really saw ferocious for weeks hundreds of civilians killed so these rebels agreeing to surrender up to one thousand five hundred fighters will leave along with some three thousand five hundred members of their families. international inspectors are waiting for approval to enter the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack in syria and choose day u.n. team come under fire came under fire in the area they were checking if it's safe to investigate the scene of that attack where than forty people were killed in the town of duma almost two weeks ago the world's chemical weapons watchdog has rejected russian claims that traces of a second nerve agent were found in salzburg that's where the former russian spies cripple and his daughter poisoned last month. take

a stance president of the government after a vote of no confidence in parliament the cabinets performance and twenty seventeen was described as unsatisfactorily the coalition put forward the vote citing poor execution of the state's budget and delay of several projects turkey's president dredger tiber one has announced early presidential and parliamentary elections in june the vote was supposed to take place in november next year those are the headlines the stream is coming up next getting to the heart of the matter if the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have to would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification would look like there are two people keep the peace for unification is the only option for prosperity or for south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera.