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u.s. president donald trump who warns he'll walk away if talks with north korea aren't fruitful. and our intake of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. out with the old in with a new round castro hands over power to cuba's new leader hugo diaz kind of. abandoning their arms and pulling out syrian rebels and their families start to leave a town near damascus a deal with government forces plus. cooked to death a stock new warning that australia's great barrier reef will never fully recover from coral bleaching.

and a u.s. president donald trump has warned he'll walk away from planned talks with north korea's leader if they're not fruitful the meeting is expected to take place next month or early june cia director and sector state nominee might pompei or held a secret meeting with kim jong un in pyongyang earlier this month as part of an effort to lay the groundwork for talks trump says he hopes they'll be a success but adds he is willing to cool off if not 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. south korean president says kim jong un will not demand that u.s. soldiers leave the south as a precondition of denuclearization america's military presence in south korea has been a major sticking point in negotiations with pyongyang is that the talks between the

korean leaders will smooth the way for a chance summit with kim our diplomatic editor james bays is inside north korea for the latest there's clearly plenty for both sides to continue to discuss one of the things they must work out is the venue for this historic summit where are they going to meet could it be here in pyongyang and some diplomats i've spoken to say that might be giving too much to the north korean side for a u.s. president to actually step foot in this country could it be in the de mille tries zone where that intra korean summit is taking place in one week's time could it perhaps be in china in beijing again diplomats saying that that would effectively give china a seat at the table something the u.s. may not like there are other countries neutral countries that are offering to be a venue for the talks we have norway we have sweden one in the region that's been

mentioned is the capital of mongolia battle then you get to what they might get out of a first summit most observers hope that there would be after a big meeting a process an ongoing process to deal with all the details but both sides would probably want something out of a meeting of this level and certainly the u.s. will be concerned about the three u.s. citizens of korean descent who are being held prisoner here in north korea president trump has already mentioned them and the fact that he's working to get their release. cuba's new president has vowed to continue the socialist revolution as the nation turns the page on eighty six decades of castro rule. has been sworn in by m.p.'s in havana as role castro stepped down after ten years as president. is the first cuban

leader born after fidel castro's nine hundred fifty nine revolution and also the first not to fortunate. the people's mandate given to this legislature is to ensure the continuity of the cuban revolution in a crucial and historic moment marked by advances in the development of our economic and social model perfecting and strengthening our work in all aspects of the life of the nation. in america to lucy in human joins us now from havana this is there's a new man in charge but is he likely to bring actual change to cuba. well actually the big message today was and still is because former president raul castro has been speaking now whole one and a half hours as opposed to the thirty five minutes that the new incoming president spoke about message is that there is continuity not change or not to expect any in fact to call this the end of one era and the heralding in of

a new one might. but sure because it was made clear that at least for the next three years old castro is going to be the power behind the throne he will remain as the first secretary of the all powerful communist party and as the scan is the new president underscored in his address to the nation all major decisions will have to be vetted by a little so as you can see this is a very very very slow transition the new man in charge is a loyalist a person who has known castro said several times had been chosen specifically said the a scandal is not there by chance he was it was our choice he has been groomed for this job and he is just the person we want. and how cubans reacting. to expected this perhaps they didn't expect it to be so absolutely clear that i would pass through is still going to be that in all the decisions i think many

people are disappointed they would have hoped that who was from a younger generation and will in the past has shown himself to be more open minded on some issues would have had more independence but at least for now we're not expecting anything to happen that is going to be significantly different than what we've seen under the old castro and before well i won't say under condell castro but certainly under raul castro lauriston newman thank you very much indeed thank you iraq has launched as strikes against arsenal targets in syria where mr hunter liberties office says iraqi scientists jets carried out a deadly raid against a suffices in a border area syrian and iraqi forces have driven hussle nearly all of its previous territory iraq has stepped up its campaign to clear the remaining are still held there is this week. hundreds of rebels who hold off an area near syria's capital agreed to lay down their arms in an evacuation deal negotiated by russia members of

a rebel group known as the. have already started leaving duma but to the north opposition fighters in kalamunda still holding out despite government saying a halt to reports from neighboring lebanon. they surrendered without a fight rebels into may or have agreed to leave accepting an offer from the syrian and russian military for safe passage to rebel areas in northern syria hundreds of fighters are to be evacuated along with a few thousand of their family members they didn't want to repeat of the pro-government alliances military assault against what was once the rebel enclave of eastern huta but. after the brutal regime displays that people of used to it now wants to do the same here sold to prevent prevent further destruction we accept the surrender this will save the lives of civilians. as part of the deal the rebels handed over their medium sized and heavy weapons the town in

the region northeast of damascus has been under siege for years more than one hundred thousand people live there half of them internally displaced the deal avoided a military offensive. the army and its allies are now giving the rebel factions that control the other towns in the color enclave twenty four hours to surrender or face a stepped up bombing campaign the pro-government alliance has been using the threat of military action to force their opponents to lay down their weapons without a fight it has given i so forty eight hours to leave the districts the armed group controls in southern to ask us or face an all out military offensive those districts are under siege and the army has sent reinforcements to the front lines. and in the past seventy two hours and after months of a relative lull in the fighting the opposition controlled northern countryside of homs was heavily bombarded. they started

a military assault on northern homs and neighboring southern hama to pressure the negotiating committee that represents the opposition to surrender these areas are supposed to be deescalation zones agreed in a star no we're looking for a solution that doesn't involve the military option. the opposition is in talks with the russian military a cease fire is now in place until negotiations resume on sunday the pro-government alliance wants the enclave returned to state to rule the opposition however is hoping for a long term ceasefire agreement a lot of people in the northern countryside of homes don't want their town to be destroyed we don't want war we want peace and we don't want to be displaced that is what we want but if the regime and the russians launch a military assault rebel commanders have said they will fight back rebels are increasingly under pressure their territories are under siege the syrian government and its allies are in a strong position and are clearly pushing ahead with

a military solution to crush the rebellion. beirut. protest as in gaza shot by israeli soldiers are being forced to have their legs amputated because of a shortage of specialist care hospitals already lack supplies to treat the wounded and war fighting with israeli forces is expected on friday but his face is that sheaffer hospital. gaza's hospitals are full of young men with injuries where the bones have been shattered by israeli bullets and this is mohammed he's twenty four years old and he was injured two weeks ago and across the other side of the room is nasser also twenty four with the same injury and one of the problems the hospital house is it's running out of these metal rods this operator says that they have to put on the leg to trying to the bone in place while it heals and at the other end of the room is seventeen year old mahmoud he was injured three weeks ago this poor guy's in is not in a lot of pain and with me in doc is dr takes it all tunnel one of the major

surgeons dr first of all have you got enough equipment to treat these sort of injuries and those of us with a no enough because we have a difference of the extent to fix it or a suit shut one of us could have surgery and a patient like a mahmoud what are the chances for him what sorts of what might happen with him who were injured in the pretend artery and vein and may have a destructive of the mustn't the left of the born sinner fix it or mom would know we had for amputation above me if this vision turns fear that that was done or does that only maybe is that of the limb are you ready for tomorrow. i don't know. dr thank you very much for talking to us the hospitals all of them concerned that they haven't got enough equipment to give the people the treatment they will need when they come in with those leg injuries. so to come one on jazeera.

anger in the streets goes capital dhaka as hundreds protest against possible changes to electoral rules. the commonwealth heads of government meeting in london as leaders prepared to pick a successor to queen elizabeth. welcome back across southern and eastern china weather conditions split across more western areas we got this area of rain some quite heavy rain as well further towards the east fine away from shanghai down towards hong kong and fine across much of indo china a few showers around but nothing particularly heavy expected to move through into suffering see the area of rain continues to develop

a feller thinks there is some heavier bursts of rain and likely but other side of it should be largely dry and fine so let's head across into south asia quite interesting here because we've had some really severe storms across more eastern parts of india and into bangladesh this is it this time of year yet tornadoes and severe thunderstorms often rossetti dry features not a great deal of rain but can be very damaging indeed and these are resulted in some fatalities so if you look at the suffer imaging see these shows pushing across kabul sharkey's as in the this time of the year meanwhile further south you've got a lot of cloud may want to showers but once you get further north it is looking very hard indeed forty two degrees in one pour heavy rain across on the hill station some snow over the himalayas delhi looking at highs of thirty eight degrees dropping as we move through into stuff eight to thirty five more manageable me one in pakistan a maximum temperature of thirty six is likely in karate. a

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jong un is expected to take place next month or early june. cuba's new president. who has vowed to continue the socialist revolution as the nation moves on from nearly six decades of castro rule fighters in the rebel held town of demand near syria's capital damascus handing over their weapons under an evacuation deal. security forces of fired tear gas at protesters outside the senegalese parliament while i agree m.p.'s inside for to have a proposed changes to electoral laws demonstrations and opposition members fear the proposals will block many candidates running in next year's presidential election. because more from sent signals capital dhaka. inside the national assembly our lawmakers debating a law that has brought parts of the city center of the capitol to a standstill schools are closed roads are shut down i can smell tear gas that was

fired moments ago to disperse an angry crowd of protesters members of the opposition the police have also arrested some of them now what's this law being debated inside well it requires for anyone running for office to have at least sixty seven thousand signatures to be illegible to run a political campaign why is this important well there are three hundred political parties in senegal if this law passes through the national assembly and that would be the end of it for most of them and some members of the opposition accuse the president of tweaking the constitution ahead of the presidential campaign this would bring more support to his political party human rights organizations accuse the government of heavy handedness of using the security forces to clamp down on the opposition arresting some of them firing tear gas unnecessarily and making protests illegal in a democracy at stake for many this isn't just

a law being passed it's about protecting democracy and the reputation senegal has as a longstanding democracy in africa. france's president is facing another day of nationwide protests it's the latest in weeks of demonstrations by railway employees public sector workers and students i guess it might cause planned reforms for public services and universities earlier this week rail workers resumed their rolling strike adding two weeks of train delays across the country. with protesters in paris. this is the second time i. can swim across the public sector come together with students to meet the street protests they are angry with the government over its planned reforms of the public sector but also called for universities what they say is that the government is trying to take away the working rights that their working conditions will be worse than they were in the boston for the students they are angry with the government because the government

wants to put in place a selection process for universities well grill way workers all of the full brunt of these demonstrations they are very angry with the leadership of government because they say the government is trying to take away the special privileges they've had for many years such as the retirement of. the president and the government that these reforms necessary needs to change in order to take it to great opportunity and to reduce unemployment and what we have seen over the past few days in prison to. really launch something of a charm offensive on some television interviews which is why bring him he's going to work this in the street and try to speak to them directly to try and find his baby she is determined to see these are true because from his would you be if he doesn't it will be ready to continue the rest of his very ambitious repeat of the continuation of his presidential. queen elizabeth has appealed to color well heads

of state to appoint her son prince charles as the next leader of the block the queen has been the official head of the alliance of britain's former colonies since nine hundred fifty two although the talk was not hereditary the u.k. has been hosting more than fifty commonwealth leaders to try to strengthen trade ties as the country prepares to leave the european union. it is my sincere wish that the commonwealth will continue to offer stability and continuity for future generations and will decide that one day the prince of wales should carry on the important work started by my father in one thousand nine hundred forty nine by continuing to treasure and reinvigorate our satiation is and activities i believe we will secure a safer more prosperous and sustainable world those who follow us. now you can a correspondent on be phillips's live from all brewhouse in central london to be

what might happen with the succession. well you correctly said lauren that it's not hereditary and i think that will come as a surprise to a lot of people the general assumption was that prince charles would take over as in when queen elizabeth the second eventually dies i think that within the carefully guarded coded language if you like of the british royal family for the queen to have stood up today and said it was her sincere wish that prince charles does follow i think that the british government must be fairly confident that most of the commonwealth heads of government who are here almost fifty of them are happy to go along with that but there's nothing written down we expect a formal announcement tomorrow there have been some counter suggestions ideas of some sort of rotating presidency but it looks likely as if britain and its royal family will get its way and what's the real purpose of the commonwealth going

forward. well of course the accusation will always be there that it is a shadow of the british empire and that i suppose that's where that issue of who's the head of the commonwealth comes into the debate i think that if we look back at the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's and we remember the struggle against apartheid we remember the battle for to become zimbabwe and black majority rule in that country there was a real bites an edge an emphasis in commonwealth summits that isn't always there now and it can end up feeling a bit nebulous an organization that's looking for a cause having said that in fairness to the commonwealth countries which have been thrown out or which have moved away from it for various reasons in recent years i can think of nigeria gambia zimbabwe pakistan have tended to want to rejoin and in fact the organization in fact has continued to expand and

in some cases like mozambique has even spread beyond what was the british empire itself. on the phillips thank you very much indeed. yemen has ordered the arrest of a commander in charge of a refugee camp in the southern port city of aden where african migrants were raped and tortured a un refugee agency says it's alarmed by the horrific conditions faced by newly arrived refugees in yemen it says people fleeing countries including somalia and ethiopia can face violence and sexual abuse some of them being kidnapped for ransom while others have been forced back into the sea country troops have been taking part in military drills in saudi arabia despite a major diplomatic rift between the two gulf nations saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain cut ties with doha eleven months ago accusing it of funding terrorism which qatar strongly denies the cattery defense ministry says the

armed forces chief of staff attended the closing ceremony of the exercises at the invitation of his saudi counterpart carter's participation was not announced beforehand twenty five other nations also took part. and here is capital as one of the most highly modernized cities that africa but the original residents of the federal district of a budget continue to live in homes built of munt many accuse the government of ignoring their fundamental rights my invalid reports from a butcher. when i was angry discussions never ceased 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 refuse to stay here and don't have electricity but water is our most

urgent problem we had a ball that soon broke down we almost never used it. and two other villages are 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 b.f. city pockets of poverty side by side with posh new residential districts owned mostly by people who came from other regions to go out resentment period that if it is virgin so you would and i live in the if you do it would are from order that

assisted that's where they are all in eight hundred it villages settler down here it did villages existed before even and you know what i'm going to now to fourteen does it as a request for comment from the government was declined the other day and his community continue to demand reform but they say their voice is hardly head because they don't have any meaningful representation at the high level the 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 nurses so far can't ability for the government able to do police. food justice. and democracy it well there is nowhere in the world that the head of state who will become the governor of the territory of the game is not doing well little to please liquid up with people yet governors 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 local council or minister of city people say they feel powerless which means economic deprivation for them. are dizzy. nigeria a new report says the great barrier reef has suffered a catastrophic die off after a marine heat waves killed much of its coral in recent years and researches that australia's james cook university set up likely ever to recover they say a third of the reef was cooked to death as water temperatures rose one degree above average in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen due to a combination of climate change and the el nino weather cycle the coral reefs make up less than one percent of its marine environment a home to around twenty five percent of ocean life but coral bleaching has

destroyed nurseries for many kinds of young fish meaning only the toughest species have survived scientists say then are fighting to protect the remaining corals by curbing climate change and water pollution but they're warning that if emissions continue as they are the great barrier reef won't survive. the two things can happen when a coral breaches it can either regain its color or the temperatures drop in the following winter or if the bleaching is extreme which it was in the northern seven hundred kilometer stretch of the great barrier reef in significant numbers of the corals will die so this study involves revisiting the same reefs where we documented the bleaching in march nine months later and on average across the entire length of the great barrier reef we found that one in three corals died from the twenty sixteen pleating event the search for life beyond earth has taken a big leap forward with the launch of masses latest satellite the transiting

exoplanet survey satellite or tess is the agency's most ambitious attempt at finding all the world's i think out of a force. liftoff the space x. falcon dime carrying tess 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 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 a 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. al-jazeera.

all rounder of the main stories on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has warned he'll walk away from a planned talks with north korea's leader if they're not fruitful the meeting is expected to take place next month or early june cia director and secretary of state nominee mike compared held a secret meeting with kim jong un in pyongyang earlier this month as part of an effort to lay the groundwork for talks trump says he hopes they'll be a success but adds he's willing to call them off if not. 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 we'll continue what we're doing or whatever it is that will continue but something will happen cuba's new president has vowed to continue the socialist revolution as

the nation turns the page on nearly six decades of castro rule again dia's canada has been sworn in by m.p.'s in havana as role castro stepped down after ten years as president yes commands the first cuban leader born after fidel castro's nine hundred fifty nine revolution and also the first not to fulton it. in syria rebels in a town near damascus have agreed to hand in their weapons under a deal negotiated by russia the fighters in two men are being evacuated to rebel held areas in northern syria hundreds of rebels are leaving along with their families. iraq has launched air strikes against targets in syria from mr hodder in about his office says iraqi jets carried out a deadly raid against arsenal fighters in a border area syrian and iraqi forces have driven arsal nearly all of its previous territory iraq has stepped up its campaign to clear remaining arsal held areas this

week front as president is facing another day of nationwide protests it's the latest in weeks of demonstrations by railway employees public sector workers and students it gives in money and because plan reforms for public services and universities earlier this week rail workers resumed their rolling strike in two weeks of train delays across the country those who had once rebel education is next more news for you after that thanks for watching xena but i have no.