in museums taking part in the project 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 forever. is determined not to happen without intervention. i would say vast now it's a race against time to try and frame the she's like a crisis that's in the majesty plan.

by security ahead of the first summits in more than a decade we'll see north and south korean leaders meeting face to face. while going to w. watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up swift action in armenia the parliament announces it could elect a new prime minister next week plus. we should not abandon it without having some seeing substantial and more substantial instead. the french president takes his case to the u.s. congress urging america to stay in the iran nuclear deal. and what's being done to try to breathe new life into suburbs crammed with social housing in france.

security is being tightened at the border between north and south korea a day before their leaders hold their first direct talks in more than a decade helicopters and police dogs are being used to secure the area where north korean leader kim jong un and the south korean leader monday in will sit down at the border true spillage that's planned job a big range of issues are expected to be discussed including pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs. diplomatic go to james bays has more from across the border in south korea from. the final rehearsal took place this afternoon body doubles playing the role of supreme leader kim and president moon both sides very keen but the choreography is just right because of the camera angles and the images but also because of the imp. the question of security this is quite a remarkable event when you think what has happened on the korean peninsula in

recent months the fact that tensions have been so high here last year particularly during the summer last year and really a remarkable turnaround of events bringing us to this first of two possible high level summits what changed what allowed room for diplomacy i've been gauging that at the u.n. in new york in european capitals and here on the korean peninsula i filed this report from the north korean capital. when you walk around pyongyang everywhere you seem to go you hear military music blaring from shops and loudspeakers last summer the drums of war beating particularly heavily it was arguably the tensest time on the korean peninsula in decades and september north korean foreign minister real young ho headed from his ministry here to new york to give his speech at the annual meeting of world leaders at the u.n.

ahead of him in the speaking order the new president of the us the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. al jazeera has learnt that hours after that speech foreign minister re sought a brief meeting with the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists at the end of the meeting the north korean invited a senior united nations official to pyongyang a trip the un had been trying to arrange for over a year at the beginning of december jeffrey feltman then the un's head of political affairs made a visit to pyongyang in meetings with north korean officials feltman suggested that kim jong un use his new year's speech to strike a more conciliatory tone he suggested too that the winter olympics which are about

to be staged in south korea would be a useful occasion to improve relations it's not clear whether the north koreans listened to his advice but they did the things he suggested the leaders sister kim yo chung's visit to the olympics change the atmosphere between the north and south starting a diplomatic dialogue there was another important back channel to sweden's foreign minister margot will strum authorized expanded conversations with the north koreans at one point had been planned for foreign minister to meet the then u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson in stockholm that plan changed when president trump surprised his own officials saying he wanted a face to face meeting with kim jong un and then secret dispatched his cia director mike pompei oh to pyongyang to begin the negotiations i've been speaking to diplomats at the u.n. in new york and here on the korean peninsula strategic discussions here in north korea are made at the highest level and done in secret but everyone i've spoken to

believes that the bellicose speech by donald trump at the u.n. general assembly was what kickstarted the current diplomatic efforts. al-jazeera pyongyang. armenia could have a new prime minister by next week its parliament is expected to hold a special session on tuesday to debate and possibly elect a new leader now that follows the protests in the capital here about demonstrators have been blocking some streets the opposition wants its leader nicole passion on to become the head of a new government rather interesting walker joins us live now from robin over to you . hi there well i'm standing right now by the opera house in the center of town next to freedom square appropriate for the opposition movement that has been so active on the streets of you about over the last few weeks and it's had this extraordinary momentum with the resignation of the

prime minister says i can see an end now the news that next week the parliament is going to appoint a new prime minister and that is very significant news now what the reason i say that is because the opposition wants a new prime minister post probably their own leader who would be head of an administration that would move armenia forward towards elections and oversee elections that would be free and fair that i'm going to introduce you to david pro-choice ian who is. a student leader he's part of the student union a very. significant in the activist movement here david can only ask you. how important a role the students have played in this movement and how you interpret seeing the in the announcement is going to be an appointment of an new prime minister next week. fortune during these protests during one of the most important days

when there was a collision with various police or mistreat sons were mostly front of the collation many students were injured they were taken to hospital and does irritated a lot of students that is why students get hurt in order to protect. to rise of the fence and also to fight for the victory of the. substance interventions to injure presentation was very important it is also connected to a defected touring to protest which had to reach it taken place before deserve a person just protests organized by civil society today are involved in that process and their civil cautiousness was barely ok developed so now we used to try to use that when you think about the elections that are coming up you know elections i think these are legitimate elections the reason to get there is nation of the president prime minister also mysteries of nation of the power party republican party because we have a try to turn the regime and get

a regime and his agent was mostly concentrated on that one person or that one party there is ignition of that. person also. means to teach party must understand that they must take away they must go side and we must have new elections on the state new elections for prime minister. and you're encouraged basically by that listen i'm going i'm telling you i have to head back to the studio so david thank you very much for talking to us i think needs to be pointed out how integral the students were in organizing and and they played a significant role and so far you continue to do so and what we're talking about here is what they want isn't just a change in a political party system but they want root and branch reform for the british students and for the education system in armenia which is also kind of really suffered for many years from from corruption within those institutions so really

this is this is more than just about changes in armenia it's a governmental system but really really roots and brought reform back to you. province thank you. the french president has used a speech to the u.s. congress to. washington to reject nationalism and to preserve the iranian nuclear deal however later emanuel macron did say he wasn't confident donald trump would stay within the iran nuclear deal micron has proposed a new agreement should be negotiated with tehran but that expands on the existing deal as a white house correspondent can really help get. the president of the freds republic . before a joint session of the u.s. congress french president emanuel met argued the united states should remain part of the iran nuclear agreement it is true to see that this agreement. may know the address all concerns and very important concerns this is true but we

should not abandon its without having some seen substantial and more substantial than said. a day earlier in meetings that the white house might cross suggested the current deal to limit iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief should be the cornerstone of a new supplemental agreement. it would address trumps concerns beyond twenty twenty five including limiting iran's influence in the middle east and halting ballistic missile testing we can change and we can be flexible you know in life you have to be flexible so despite criticizing the existing iran agreement repeatedly for years trump is now signaling he's open to recertify iran's compliance under the terms of the deal but only if his criticisms are addressed with the deadline for donald trump to make his decision just weeks away european leaders are conducting a high level lobbying effort on friday german chancellor angela merkel will be the

next to visit the white house she'll work to persuade try to remain in the two thousand and fifteen iran deal but iran says a u.s. withdrawal will kill it tehran has threatened to respond by pulling out of another agreement the nuclear nonproliferation agreement on weapons. and wednesday iran's president question trucks ability to even comprehend the terms of any agreement show me the car should be a bad deal i speak you don't have any background in politics you don't have any background in law you don't have any background on international treaties how can a tradesmen a merchant someone who builds towers for a living make judgments about international affairs and well he's currently signaling he's open to the u.s. for maining in the deal negotiated with iran and five other world powers given his impulsive nature there's still time for trump to change his mind and follow through

with threats to leave the iran deal kimberly health at al-jazeera at the white house. hold on still to come for you here on this half hour of well news including these two we gain exclusive access to a prison where the afghan government is holding eisel fighters. and it may look like child's play but these children home home like this invaluable lessons on how to work with robots. and it was very warm in tokyo past weekend cold fronts going through more than once and some vast amounts of rain but the sun is now returning and it's the spring sun so despite this trailing cold front the temps will start to return twenty four in tokyo to eleven in sapporo but with the skies largely clear and sprouting the clouds to cover of the sea of japan elsewhere the korean peninsula up into the

twenty's more or less tie in with beijing she's seen temperatures all over the place in the last week or so but this is not a settled quarter resolute warm spell of weather which extends through northern china actually to some degree central chart of the northerly breeze and particular cold one shanghai maintains twenty eight but in same as hong kong there we got the cloud building particularly in the west as the ground starts to rise and meanwhile be a focus as will those vietnam of heavy rains less so charming on the edges but the windies curling in the rain will come back take my word for it now that's china and we see in japan let's go further south to the area where we're talking basically daily showers they've been showing themselves up pretty well so widespread i think through indonesia and malaysia recently was an obvious line of green here that takes you up through the gulf of thailand and thailand itself looks pretty wet.

within the borders of chernobyl exclusion zone a toxic nuclear wasteland touching any of that station for a bit he grows to the right insisted. defiantly surviving on the homeland they banded together in a land contaminated vials past cultivated by an unshakable sense of belonging to witness the bush because of chernobyl on al-jazeera. ok there we are here we go let's recap your top stories for you so fast purity is

being tightened at the border that separates the two koreas one day before leaders from the two sides hold their first summit in more than a decade north korea's kim jong un the south korean leader manji will sit at the board of truce village at panmunjom. the armenian parliament will hold a special session on tuesday to debate and possibly elect a new prime minister the move follows protest in the capital you're about the opposition wants its leader nicole machine young to become the head of a new government. the french president has used a speech to the u.s. congress to urge washington to reject nationalism isolationism and to preserve the iran nuclear deal but just hours later emanuel said he's not confident president trump will stay in the agreement. the french government is launching a plan to revive poor suburban areas before mr mccraw previous presidents devise proposals to little effect and attach a buckler looks at what's being done in every area in normandy. like many towns in

france ever has a charming historical center but on the outskirts the districts crammed with social housing unemployment is high here and people's hopes for the future are low a local meanies some local officials wants to improve things but it is not easy to get the government in beth northwestern happen will every change here it's always the thing there's no jobs regional council address at is there he is trying to bring change he has a vision of areas like this prospering. over there we are building houses that people can by. successive governments have tried and failed to address the problems in the suburbs presidency man or mac cause. government is proposing a new action plan it's consulted local officials like greece at a salary to find out how best to invest in jobs transport and education he says

what's needed is a whole new approach new problem from nuclear america we have to stop putting on is a ball is a ball and keeping all the ethnic communities together putting everyone in towers we need to explode yes we have sinking we need to scatter social towns would disagree as need to be liked and it was a part of friends some say one answer is to stop seeing people in the suburbs as a problem but rather as a solution. this company trains people in laying fiber optic cables in the boston say there's a huge advantage to being in this area because there are plenty of young people who need work and want. to just want to point many people who have been marginalized in life are lacking in self-confidence so we tell them look this is a cure it could be a solution you're capable you can learn most of these trainees are unemployed but nearly all are expected to find work after the course. heard about this from someone who'd done this training before he told me it was great he advised me to

take it up because it be easy to find a job afterwards to what extent the government's new plan will change the suburbs and improve their image is unclear what people want here is to be reconnected to a society that they feel has long forgotten them it's ash butler al-jazeera if. a french billionaire has been placed under formal investigation on suspicion of bribing african officials for lucrative contracts even simple law is accused of providing discounted p.r. advice to presidential candidates in guinea and target in return for port operational licenses his company denies any irregularities. at least three thousand civilians have either been killed or injured by improvised explosive devices in somalia. in the past three years last year was by far the worst largely because of a powerful bomb attack in mogadishu killed more than five hundred six months on things are slowly returning to normal mohammed atta reports now from the capital.

going to shoes kilometer five junction is one big construction site the huge craters left by the massive truck bomb last october has been felt on the road paved again such as the resilience of the people of somalia. some of the least were wise in their construction of his family's hotel that was completely destroyed to death at the no hour we have no option but to rebuild not doing so would mean we have surrendered and given up in life. the truck bomb exploded at the busy market during rush hour it was powerful enough to damage buildings hundreds of letters an explosion killed more than five hundred people and injured hundreds from the wost single attack a somali history was blamed on al shabaab fighters who are waging war for years. there's an awful lot of normality here but the staff are still very low the consequences yet to be fully and the six months on doesn't suffer from missing and

for their relatives they're still not. up to life here ali has just returned from turkey where he was taken for specialized treatment for bodyguards he was selling cigarettes and candy on the roadside when the bomb went off his wife and two of his children died where larry. i am not fully recovered as you can see but i'm through is to come back to work my children need to eat and then they have a psychological effect on long suffering citizens who've never seen anything like the kind of you know many say they're more scared since then venturing out only wanted some really less general haig as will smith i will never forget what happened here it's gives me every day every time i see each other. just in any way i light from the past same in and choose to walk away. once normal course africa and beyond was a tranquil under literally prosperous city successive waves of violence in the past

three decades have repeatedly refused much of mogadishu to rubble the capital has been rebuilt destroyed again and again risen from the ashes. out cycle continues from now mohammed and all just for the dishes so money. the united states says it stands behind the people of afghanistan after the taliban announced the beginning of its annual spring offensive meanwhile al jazeera has gained exclusive access to a prison where i saw fighters detained by the afghan government are being held hundreds of them have traveled to afghanistan in the past two years as the armed groups lost territory in syria and iraq has barbara and go part. these men have been recently detained the sum of up to four thousand asshole fighters thought to be waging a war against the afghan government mr of them foreigners. they asked me to join a training center nanga har that's where i met people from pakistan iran a spec

a stand and balochistan there were four brigades in the center this man says he was tricked into joining the armed group you know i was in russia then i traveled to iran and then to afghanistan when i arrived i realized that being called my goal was to study sharia. since i saw entered afghanistan two years ago it's been behind a number of attacks. in december claimed responsibility for an attack on a shia cultural center that killed forty one people in kabul. a month later i saw fighters stormed the offices of save the children in mangere whole province capital jalalabad two people were killed. when a suicide bomber blew himself up close to kabul university killing twenty nine people and injuring dozens more in march this road leads to niagara harbor where the fiercest battles between i saw fighters and government soldiers have taken place the us government dropped the so-called mother of all bombs in the province

last year in an effort to annihilate the group. a year on fear of the passion tribes who live here adjoining eisel they remain war weary after decades caught up in the taliban's rebellion barbara and al-jazeera. turkish journalists working for an opposition newspaper have been convicted of helping so-called terrorist organizations of courtney is standalone has handed out multiple sentences to fourteen staff employees in a trial seen as a test case for press freedom in the country they remain free pending an appeal three others were cleared the turkish government has been accused of serious violations of media freedom including locking up dissenting journalists a palestinian reporter asked where abu hussein will be laid to rest in gaza he died on weapons day from injuries he sustained while covering the protests on the gaza border with israel two weeks ago abu hussein was shocked when israeli forces used live fire against unarmed palestinians of these thirty six palestinians have been

killed in the past month that border area. thousands of yemenis the protested to condemn a saudi led airstrike that killed a senior who feel leader last week he was salah al some art he had been the political head of the who's the administration since twenty sixteen rebels say he was killed with six companions the conflict overall has killed thousands of people in the last three years and course toward the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis. the international donors have raised four point four billion dollars in emergency aid for syria just half of the un's target for this year the u.s. didn't submit a pledge at the fund raising conference in brussels saying it's reviewing its support for the country meanwhile the e.u. is accusing russia iran and turkey of escalating the conflict its foreign policy chief. says the countries have a quote special responsibility to establish a ceasefire. jurors of the sexual assault retrial of the u.s.

actor bill cosby have finished their first day of deliberations without a verdict the case went to court again after they failed to reach a decision last year prosecutors accuse cosby of sexually abusing a former basketball player at his mansion in two thousand and four his lawyers say she fabricated the case to get money from their client. it is day one of the philippines president roderigo to texas order to close a popular holiday destination for the next six months he says tourists have turned into a cesspool the beach the trunks about two million tourists a year with a billion dollars in revenue it's now declared off limits to tourists while the government looks at sea which will lead to problems critics say it's an overreaction affecting people who depend on the island for their child's stephen root is a philippines policy analyst who works for the social weather stations sun n.-g. o. group in manila he says everybody's known about the island's environmental problems

for some time but the sudden cut off was unexpected and aside from the direct impact on the people who are actually there working there are thousands of workers there there is a knock on effect to the rest of the tourism since about twenty percent of all tourists go there so the jobs will be lost elsewhere in the country while there is this downturn there could easily be a longer term effect tour operators around the world find that the bins are not a reliable place to send people and start looking elsewhere twenty years ago then it's tourism secretary warned about contamination on the waters off and nothing was done and so for twenty years very little has been done and it is indeed a problem there are many violations that have been on the grass for quite some time and the sudden drastic cut off affects everybody whether or not they have been

complying with environmental standards body the overreaction shutting down the entire ireland to solve the problem seems to be a a sudden way out wide but i wouldn't expect that. technology is taking over more and more of the global workplace now the world economic forum says automation will replace one fifth of all jobs within the next twenty years however in hong kong children are preparing for the future by learning how to work with robots as difficult problem explains. why are these children are preparing for what's being called the fourth industrial revolution they're learning how to embrace a future red van strobe arctics an artificial intelligence or ai will be part of everyday life i did the chip and then my sister did the computer. plugged into the other robot system to make it work it may look like fun and games

but under the guidance of professionals and experts in engineering and technology in this robotics class they're learning how to make machines think for themselves. this experimental learning lab was conceived by the tech entrepreneur and c.e.o. of outplays a company specializing in digital media games apps and innovation all the stuff at present already a machine can do much better and there's no way you can compete with that what we really need to prepare the next generation is skills not a machine cannot do that well that's how we because that's how we stay relevant in competitive in the future but right now schools don't do that the world economic forum reports a fifth of the global workforce may lose their jobs to automation in the next two decades the hong kong government recognizes the city needs to keep up with the developments in technology this year the government is investing around six and a half billion dollars and finds an innovation both of those funds will be going to

research and development industries and science in tech parks like this one many people want to know why that push for innovation isn't extending into the classrooms so we the generation that will be most affected by changes in technology my understanding of the groups. on to the auspices of the chief executive tinkering with the curriculum looking at how chinese history might be in so that into the curriculum they're looking at how pet you want to get education might be have been a part of this but for now it's up to private initiatives to help children keep up with the changes in technology. and do the same thing. can you. tell me. if she had your advice in the competition. but that's won't be the case for the majority of hong kong's children experts say unless there are radical changes in the formal schooling system the next generation is likely to lose in the competition against machines

they go pollin are jazeera hong kong. headlining stories here on al-jazeera english for you security is being tightened at the border that separates the two koreas a day before leaders from the two sides hold their first summit in more than ten years north korea's kim jong un and the south korean president will sit down at the border true spillage of pan one job. the armenian parliament is to hold a special session on tuesday to debate and possibly elect a new prime minister the move follows protests in the capital yet the opposition wants its leader nicole push to become the head of a new government robin firstly a walkout has more now from europa. yet to date on the streets again i must protest. recalled how i see the. protesters so support is they

would marry armenians of every walk of life gathering in different parts of the city and connecting and then forming a you know again once again a substantial crowd that they will have been avoided by this means that things are taking. things are happening quickly. it's. hard when it's going to be well who's that going to be. everybody has. already told us that. the french president has used a speech to the u.s. congress to urge washington to reject nationalism isolationism and to preserve the iran nuclear deal but just hours later emanuel macro said he's not confident president trump will stay within the agreement. palestinian journalist ahmed abu hussein will be laid to rest in gaza he died on wednesday from injuries sustained while covering the protests at gaza's border with israel two weeks ago abu hussein was shocked when israeli forces used live fire against unarmed palestinians. today

is day one of the philippines president has order to close a popular holiday destination for six months he says tourists have turned the beach into a cesspool now the beach does attract about two million tourists every year that's worth a billion dollars in revenue it's now declared off limits for tourists while the government looks at sewage related problems you are right up to date with all the top stories up next james here with inside story i will see very soon. to scramble to salvage the iran nuclear deal french president.