this is just one of several building museums taking part in the project called meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasize the contribution of. the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life is a part of life it's culture the fact. place on the planet and one that could soon be lost. in this national team of science is determined not to happen without intervention. i would say to a vast now it's a race against time to try and frame the she's like a crisis that's in the. trying

to save the iran nuclear deal french president poses reworking the agreement to address u.s. concerns about xerox. which i carry this is al jazeera one point zero also coming out of court charges a man with ten counts of murder after a van plowed into people on a sidewalk and toronto. the u.n. calls for an investigation into the deaths of anti-government protesters in nicaragua. and five years after the bangladesh textile factory apps which killed over a levon hundred people trading in say workers still face danger. france has proposed negotiating a new deal with iran that builds on the existing agreement to curb its nuclear

program president mandela wrong pitch it is aimed at saving the two thousand and fifteen deal which u.s. president donald trump has threatened to pull out and really help it has more from washington d.c. . and a labyrinth military welcome on the south lawn of the white house as u.s. president donald trump greeted france's president emmanuelle back from. what if peers to be a warm friendship was on full display trump even somewhat oddly perhaps deciding to wipe some dandruff off of a chronic shoulder if we have to make a bird used for it but i asked the pair of barked on the substance of their bilateral meeting from had a stern warning for iran they restart their nuclear program they will have bigger problems than they have ever had before his statement underscores the leader's kieffer. policy differences truck favors was drawing from the iran nuclear deal as

one of the signatories to it mcraney wants to preserve the twenty fifteen agreement to limit tehran's nuclear powers before may deadline on whether to pull the u.s. out or not trump wants his concerns addressed those include a plan to stop iran's ballistic missile testing and limit iran's influence in iraq yemen levet on and syria a chronic greed they may need to address those issues to keep the deal alive huli home on iran we disagree on the j.c. but i believe we can come up with something that can deal with the fundamental issue of the j.c. which is the nuclear issue but also deal with these other three issues that are included thanks trying to get suggested gulf nations need to make a larger financial investment in syria's future stability and security following the defeat of eisel the countries that are there that you all know very well are immensely wealthy they're going to have to pay for this but the meeting

appeared to do little to ease fears of a looming trade war with no sign trump had agreed to exempt the european union from tariffs on steel and aluminum imports set to take effect on may first we have the very first issue on trade which is overcapacity is still in a limb and it doesn't come from europe and not even from france the meeting between u.s. president donald trump and french president emanuel mccraw has highlighted key policy differences between the two leaders their divisions mccraw may address on wednesday before a joint session of the u.s. congress can really help that al-jazeera at the white house president warns tehran of bigger problems if it restarts its nuclear program while the iranian foreign minister said his country may abandon the deal if the u.s. pulls out. we've said that the united states has not lived up to its to its side of

the bargain that is to its commitments to lift certain sanctions not to impede. economic relations between iran and its economic partners it has done all of that it has prevented. basically dissuade threatened companies from engaging with iran so the economic benefits of the of the nuclear have not been delivered that had been promised and as kimberly has been reporting a lot of what their two presidents talked about today was the iran nuclear deal iran weighing in there as well alan alan fischer joins us now from washington d.c. so but tonight it's pivoting to this the state dinner the first official state dinner for the trump administration with someone that he clearly seems to get along very well with. it but he didn't he said that he wasn't going to do these types of things what is the significance at the state dinner alan. he said he wasn't going

to do during the campaign he said that he wouldn't hold a state dinner until the balance of payments of the united states wasn't in deficit anymore and he really killed barack obama for holding state dinners during the election campaign obviously he gets on very well with emanuel mccrum he's decided that he wants to all of them with the very first state dinner that he's ever held of course donald trump has been the receiving end particularly in south korea and also in france itself he was the guest of honor during the bus deal day celebrations so he obviously feels an affinity with emanuel mccrone there are those in terms or but who would suggest that being invited to his private club in florida monologue or for dinner there is perhaps something more in keeping with the way that donald trump likes to on earth people but this is certainly a big deal and the french president is aware of it with all the pomp and circumstance that america can do exceptionally well almost as well as anyone else so tomorrow mariel micron will be i believe it's tomorrow will be addressing

a joint session of congress but at this dinner tonight which is usually. i would say bipartisan not really just a nonpartisan thing they're all democrats were not included is there any real significance to that. well there are no congressional democrats they're on the guest list of one hundred fifty there are about five congressional republicans including the speaker of the house paul ryan there is one democrat there and he is the governor of louisiana no students of american history will know that louisiana was part of the french empire as it was then until the louisiana settlement and they sold that territory to the united states so that perhaps explains why he's the there are those who would suggest that the reason democrats were not invited is that they did not want to give them the opportunity to snub the event tunde don't the president and see they were going but as we've seen in the past some of the

relationships between democrats and republicans between members of congress and the presidency have been pretty vitriolic but still they've set them aside and event like this to try and present a united front to have or was the guest of honor and to the world in general but there are. no congressional democrats there a tall but there are some olympians there are a number of business leaders and tim cook of apple is also on the guest list as well as people like the vice president and his wife and the homeland security secretary and the treasury secretary ok alan fischer thank you very much appreciate it syrian government forces and their allies have intensified their operation in southern damascus the army wants to reach all the territory surrounding the capital campaign began last week after a raid to eastern good bye i saw controls one of the pockets targeted by the army

next to another area held by rebel factions and special envoy for syria says the recent government gains won't bring the country any closer to peace steffen than the story of a speaking at a conference in brussels where the u.n. is hoping to raise nine billion dollars for a. we have seen ended last few weeks days. we have seen it with ice that made it three games to total gauge military escalation just enough to bring a political solution has not built any change on the political will on the contrary we are going through a very difficult moment the truth is that everyone has to go solution and that is the water we need to work on and it's time for. fish the man accused of killing ten people by driving a van into pedestrians and serrano has appeared in court alan has been charged with ten counts of murder and thirteen attempted murder case for investigating social media that may offer clues to his motive reports. it took just twenty horrific

minutes for a van speeding along a sidewalk to hit injure and kill many pedestrians in a crowded part of toronto during a brief appearance in court twenty five year old alex was charged with ten counts of first degree murder thirteen of attempted murder without speculating about motive police say they've seized a cell phone and are looking into social media posts that appear to warn about a pending attack as has been reported in the media the accused is alleged to have posted a cryptic message on facebook minutes before he began driving the rental van and he drove it southbound on young street and onto the crowded sidewalks media reports say this post now taken down by facebook referred to in cell or involuntary celibacy where members reviled women who they say refused to have relationships with them the post also praises someone with similar views who killed six in

calculus six in california in two thousand and fourteen all the security services in canada and elsewhere will be some contracting people to do some research on a movement like. to see if this is a one off or are dealing with are rising crescendo individuals sounding this call to rebellion against it for now police have cordoned off several city blocks to gather evidence they say more charges are likely nearby a park that's become a memorial to victims and their families political leaders say the political leaders say the public should feel safe because this attack looks increasingly like the work of a single person as was indicated last night by a public security minister. at this time we have no reason to suspect that there is any national security element to this attack but obviously the investigations

continue just a day ago this busy shopping district was full of people enjoying the spring sunshine then it became a killing ground and now it's the country's largest crime scene as investigators struggle to answer the burning questions canadians still have first among those why did this happen daniel lak al-jazeera toronto still had on al-jazeera armenia remember its mass killings during world war one with this year's emirates taking on the significance of a rare meeting between the leaders of north and south korea every report from both sides had to militarize. from the clear blue sky of the doha mooning. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the city of enough. the weather still looks a little disturbed across western parts of china further east is fine and dry warm

sunshine for hong kong twenty five celsius temperatures have recovered nicely for shanghai at around twenty one degrees but further west yet we do still have some wet weather coming in the nice shop showers they will be heavy at times once again the possibility of some localized flooding may extend their way down into vietnam or more the same as we go on into thursday and notice over towards by this stage we could even see some really heavy downpours coming through eight in parts of the country yet the sunshine has on its side not looking too bad for some time of two hobs as such sunshine is showers to head southeast asia as per usual philippines looking fine and dry want to heat of the day showers i think the worst of them going to be across borneo they will ease as we go through the day what the weather just sinking a little further south was by that stage will see some heavy rain once again into some pushing up towards the mill a peninsula joining up with the showers that we have across southern parts of the gold a lot of clout here making its way over towards us for lanka southern parts of india

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helps here and this is a reminder the top stories this hour france has proposed negotiating a do deal with the ron that builds on the two thousand and fifteen agreement to curb its nuclear program president emanuel mcraney made that pitched and u.s. president donald trump who is threatening to pull out of that deal. syrian government forces and their allies have intensified their operations other damascus army wants to regain all the territory surrounding the capital i still controls one of the pockets targeted by the army next to another area held by rebel factions the man accused of killing ten people by driving a van into pedestrians and toronto has appeared in port allen asin this charge but ten counts of murder and thirteen of attempted murder place are investigating social media posts that may offer clues to his motive. but it'll change continues to gather steam in armenia following the resignation of prime minister serge

psyche's him he stepped down following almost two weeks of mass protests but tens of thousands marched for a different cause on tuesday to remember the mass killing of armenians during world war one robin forrester walker reports from your own. armenians were back on the streets of the capital. this time to commemorate the immediate victims of mass killings in one hundred fifteen by the ottoman turks it's an ideal occasion but after weeks of street protests ending with monday's dramatic resignation of prime minister said assad and his cabinet the pilgrimage this year feels different live show for elderly people of more excited today's commemoration as an added level of significance. this is something completely different it's like people broke free of their chains. today armenians have gathered as they do every

year to remember their past but for the last two weeks they have been gathering by the thousands for political change change which may finally have a arrived. the leader of the opposition movement which forced sarkozy out for power joyed with the people to pay his respects or tuesday they called is the hero of this self-styled the revolution he says the movement now has a popular mandate to form a transitional government and he has made those demands to sightsee adds governing party the only only change for you will cherish came the peaceful. and full transition of power. and that. so the republican party still dominates the politics but if it's willing to accept that armenians desire change the velvet revolution is set to

be take its movement to rabid for a sea walk. that. the united nations is calling for an investigation into the deaths of anti-government protesters and. human rights groups say at least twenty six people died in a violent police crackdown on the protests which began last week demonstrators are demanding president on your take out resign john heilemann reports. people continue to come out in the streets of nicaragua despite president donnie it'll take a pic ching the reform to the social security system that is first sparked protests last week. of the thousands who marched through the capital menar were on monday this is now become about something move they're protesting against the president himself the money is going to those other markets look at their final seconds this protest is bigger than all the rest because people have grown tired people are worn out from the violation of rights rights of the people the violation

of the constitution this was the vote that knocked over the glass as they say the president or take is now on his third consecutive term and has been accused of nepotism his wife is the vice president and for undermining democratic institutions to tighten his grip on power. his critics will now add to that list repression police have used heavy handed tactics in dealing with protesters close to thirty people have been killed among them offices themselves was others have been the timing of these relatives saying outside a police station as they called for their loved ones to be released. what the president originally bullish in his response to the protests i don't see. sunday struck a slightly more conciliatory tone let me turn the symbol to the incidents of violence that have happened i regret about we express solidarity with all the families whose

loved ones have died from the violence. and it's you know i saw nothing but after that address police rushed to university campus that has become the bastion of the protests the students occupying it full back at least one was killed a man i am familiar right in the army afterwards they promise to carry on what they need is the backing of the country's powerful business community and the rest of the population. the president will be hoping his concessions are enough to dampen the anger john heilemann does either. three suicide bombers have attacked the pakistani city of quite a killing at least six police officers on bomber detonated his explosives near a police truck on the road towards the airport while two others attacked a paramilitary checkpoint on the outskirts of the city fifteen police and soldiers were wounded no one is claimed responsibility for the attacks. rights groups say

thousands of factories in bangladesh are still unsafe five years after its worst industrial disaster or than eleven hundred people mostly female textile workers died in the two thousand and thirteen rana plaza collapse trial strafford reports. he's been described as the worst industrial disaster in bangladesh is history but twenty fourth two thousand and thirteen more than eleven hundred people were crushed to death in two thousand and two thousand injured when an eight story building collapsed in an industrial suburb of the capital dhaka. the majority of the victims were women working in garment factories in the rana plaza building and . they were making clothes for a well known brands including bennett's and and primal an investigation found the workers had complained about the cracks in the walls despite warnings the building was on safe survivors say they were forced to work regardless if there are

five years on and family members of some of the victims gathered at the disaster site demanding justice hannah began says her daughter's body was never found i don't want to look like my daughter never returned from work i keep looking for her but i have no idea where her body is she used to be the main earner in the family i don't have a son to this day there is no justice. around eighty percent of the seventy five million garment workers world wide and women rights groups say they often have no chance of negotiation wages are abused exploited and food. to work in unsafe conditions. the tragedy in dhaka led to an agreement between some clothing brands and unions designed to better protect a bundle that she workers since then around two thousand factories have been inspected and nearly three million workers trained in fire safety with a monthly minimum wage of around sixty five dollars remains well below the world

bank's global poverty line of eighty five dollars a report by a u.s. based rights organization concludes that foul zones of garment factories in bangladesh remain a dangerous places to work at the n.y.u. stern center for business and human rights says one point two billion dollars is needed to make all garment factories in bangladesh safe it says popular brands and retailers and governments all have to do more to improve garment workers rights and safety in some well they the there are some progress but as a whole new can say this for this is not and that they do not believe that they are not organized that they do not need the now one love this this is next on this was a new one the government said that it is not what it does friendly rather than friendly for them. it seems fashion changes faster than human rights involved in

the garment industry so many of the women who make the clothes we wear remain vulnerable to exploitation working in factories that are far from city center shopping malls and far from safe stratford al-jazeera. french anti-corruption police have detained one of france's wealthiest men near paris then sent a lorry is being questioned over allegations of his company's work to influence to african elections in return for lucrative business deals he denies the accusations are banker for reports. billionaire vincent bill lawry attended the inauguration of a poor modernization project in tokyo four years ago take as president watched on asp laurie explained how his company was based in west african economies. it was the us. i am happy because this project has allowed many companies to come in and

also created many jobs during the last three years this project will also develop trade between togo and its neighbors which is synonymous with great wealth and employment the troubles whether the bill lawry group's contracts to operate this contain a port in limerick and another in guinness capital conakry or one fairly french investigators looking into allegations that the lorries have us advertising agency worked in the election campaigns of table is president for nasa in bay and guinea and president after condi in return for winning the licenses. all parties have denied that there was any wrongdoing in the awarding of the deals a statement from bill or his company which runs ports and railways across west africa says the bull or a group formally denies that its subsidiary at the time s.t.v. a freak is guilty of any irregularities bill lawry was the chairman of the french media graphy vandy until a week ago when he resigned and handed over to his son jani

a source close to bill or a says his departure asked for one to chairman isn't linked to the investigation police have forty eight hours to question him after that a judge must decide whether there's enough grounds to conduct a formal investigation barbara and to sarah. the leaders of north and south korea are due to hold their first direct meeting and more than a decade on friday expected to discuss bringing a formal end to the korean war many will take place on the southern side of the truce village panel and john at the no that takes us to the venue where the summit will take place first though our diplomatic editor james bass has an exclusive look at the demilitarized zone from the north it takes over two hours to drive from the north korean capital pyongyang through the countryside to the d.m.z. the demilitarized zone the road is bumpy but very quiet it's also in places extremely wide one pyongyang resident speculated to me this was so aircraft could

land with reinforcements in the event of conflict once we reached the d.m.z. security was tight we were not permitted to film in certain areas our guide was a north korean army captain he showed us the layout of this frontline zone this is not an international border the korean war officially never ended it was simply paused with an armistice or truce is it possible for you to show us where the meeting on the twenty seventh will be taking place between field-marshal kim and the president of south korea. to you it's the peace house on the southern side so this is the first time any of your leaders gone across to the south and saw on t.v. and that is that it will become a home yes. we continued on the route that the north korean leader will take for his historic meeting on friday past the building or the one nine hundred fifty

three armistice was negotiated and the hall where it was signed by the north koreans and by a u.s. general on behalf of his country and their allies fighting under the u.n. flag it's estimated that in just three years up to three million people were killed as a professional soldier how hard is it going to be with your field marshal sitting down with those that have been your enemy to monitor what are known to get lucky if dear sprit marshall is with us surely all the problems will be solved peacefully and that's what we firmly believe and we were taken on to a taller building and up some stairs where you could view the line that separates communist north korea from democratic south korea from the north we have this vantage point of the demarcation line the blue hearthstone there where in the past military officials from this country have met the other side and just over there

that building is where the historic summit is supposed to take place. this is also being suggested as a place where kim jong un could meet donald trump no venue for that planned meeting has yet been formally announced the leaders of countries whose forces have been facing off against each other for decades will soon be meeting face to face james bays al-jazeera on the north korean side of the de-militarized zone. we're often reminded that the two koreas remain technically at war an armistice not a peace treaty ended hostilities in one thousand nine hundred fifty three and it was signed here at the joint security area at panmunjom the two sides agreed then to establish the four kilometer buffer zone between north and south known as the demilitarized zone or d.m.z. it's still heavily guarded on both sides and has been the site of tensions over the years north korean soldiers killed two u.s.

army officers in one nine hundred seventy six landmines injured south korean soldiers and twenty fifteen and late last year a north korean defector what's shot by fellow north korean troops as he ran across the border not far from where i'm standing. this year as relations improved between the two koreas this village has once again been used as a venue for high level talks within the d.m.z. the military demarcation line marks the actual border between north and south in this room when i walk over to this side of the table i'm crossing into north korea so it was significant when earlier this year a delegation from the north stepped over the border for talks after two years in which there had been no official communication between the two countries and when north korean leader kim jong un meets south korea's president at the end of the month the meeting will be held in peace house on the southern side it will be the first time a north korean leader steps on south korean soil since the korean war. recap

the headlines right now on al-jazeera france as for president go shooting a new deal with iran that builds on the two thousand and fifteen agreement to curb its nuclear program president mandela micro made the pitch to the u.s. president on a trump was threatening to pull out of that deal and president trump and first lady milan you're currently hosting them across for the administration's first state dinner at the white house alan fischer as more from washington d.c. . he said he wasn't going to do during the campaign he said that he wouldn't hold a state dinner until the balance of payments of the united states wasn't in deficit anymore and he really killed barack obama for holding state dinners during the election campaign obviously he gets on very well with emanuel mccrone he's decided that he wants to own a home with the very first state dinner that is of a hailed of course donald trump has been the receiving end particularly in south

korea and also in france sales he was the guest of honor during the bus still the celebrations syrian government forces and their allies have intensified their operation in southern damascus the army wants to regain all the territory surrounding the capital eisel controls one of the pockets targeted by the army next to another area that's held by rebel factions. the man accused of killing ten people by driving a van into pedestrians and toronto has appeared in court alan assy and is charged with ten counts of murder and thirteen of attempted murder place are investigating social media those that may offer clues to his motive tens of thousands of people have marched to commemorate the mass killing of armenians during world war one the demonstrations come hours after the resignation of prime minister serge sarkozy and he stepped down following almost two weeks of mass protests the united nations is

calling for an investigation into the deaths of anti-government protesters in nicaragua human rights groups say at least twenty six people have been killed in a violent crackdown by police and the demonstrations which began last week three suicide bombers have attacked the pakistani city of quite a killing at least six police officers one bomber detonated his explosives. on the road towards the airport while two others attacked a paramilitary checkpoint on the outskirts of the city. those are the headlines news continues keep it here on al-jazeera and started story is next. all world leaders doing enough to stop the war in yemen.