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john and pledges a new history with south korea as he becomes the first north korean leader to set foot across the border since nine hundred fifty three. and this is al-jazeera line from london also coming up. we have a really great relationship that we actually have had a great relationship right from the beginning but some people didn't understand that president donald trump posts and germany's angela merkel at the white house playing down rumors of a rift. three dead as more palestinians are shot during protests in the gaza border despite the un and israel to stop using excessive force. and campaigners celebrates as the e.u. approves a near total ban on pesticides that. townhome fulton bain's. north

and south korea are vowing to work towards a complete denuclearize sation of the peninsula after historic face to face talks between kim jong il and. it was a day of symbolic moments beginning with came crossing the border into the south the first north korean leader to do so since war broke out on the peninsula in one nine hundred fifty then in apparently unscripted moment came and moon crossing back into the north together the pair celebrated and embraced as they released a joint statement announcing what moon called a new age of peace on the korean peninsula and the afternoon they shared a long private conversation on an historic border bridge which connects the two countries and then helped plant a pine tree on the border symbolizing peace prosperity using saw oil from both the

north and the south our diplomatic editor james bass has more from pat you on the south side of the border. technically they are still at war but this was carefully choreographed to create a new atmosphere of peace north korean leader kim jong il entered from the north side of the demarcation line the south korean president in the concrete block that marks the start of his country's territory. a historic handshake. and then something in all the years since the korean war the kims father and grandfather never did north korean leader crossing into south korea . but. it was followed by a reciprocal gesture mungiu even very briefly crossing the line into the north.

both leaders seemed relaxed and was smiling but of course they hope this summit is only the start of a process and that's likely to be complicated and will involve difficult negotiations. among the months ahead on the dame's this meeting i hope that there is new history written with regards to p. for prosperity and i will approach this with the feeling of a brand new start. when the supreme leader across the demarcation line on the systolic moment there was an immense expectation on us all over the world and i hope this discussion is productive over lunch the north korean leader and his fast moving security detail headed back to the north side so he could confer with other members of his delegation then a few hours later a symbolic moment of tree planting using the earth from the mountains in the north

and the south and water from the two biggest rivers on both sides another image filled with symbolism as the two crossed a footbridge together then in a move highly unusual in international diplomacy they stopped the two leaders sitting face to face alone with not even no takers for overhaul for now an awning out the final issues of the declaration it was signed and they made these statements. chuck human touch on it's very significant that north korea to come measure of freezing its nuclear activities fast it will be a valuable beginning for the contemplate denuclearize ation of the korean peninsula came jong un and i declare that there will be no more war on the korean peninsula and a new age of peace has begun and a good i use only i you know i feel that we are part of one family and both countries if you have a new policy of cooperation after years. disputes we are here today to say that

nothing will make us different again and i will say this north koreans and the south koreans are now sharing one spot on the map and they represent one country in one way or another and we hope to achieve the ambitions and hopes of both countries the fact that this summit took place in itself is historic but if some of the things in this declaration actually happen they too will be landmark developments a formal end to the korean war a peace treaty between north korea and south korea and the return visit by president moon to pyongyang in the fall. one part of the agreement though will face particular scrutiny and that's the pledge of denuclearization of the korean peninsula the language used in the declaration gives no concrete details and no timeline the wives of the korean leaders joined the delegations through a formal banquet to end a long day of diplomacy but this is only the start of

a lengthy and very difficult process james pays out zero power shoe in south korea while the us president has welcomed the developments at a white house press conference together with the german chancellor angela merkel helen chung said he was optimistic about his upcoming meeting when king john. and i want to congratulate the republic of korea and its historic summit with north korea we're encouraged by president moon and kim jong un's expressed goal of complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula i will be meeting with kim jong un in the coming weeks we look forward to that and hopefully it will be productive . well we have correspondents monitoring events at the white house and in the south korean city of jus overlooking the border with the north let's start with our white house correspondent kimberly halkett and president charles was asked by reporter

kimberly if he'd spoken directly to kim jong un but he wasn't. confirming or denying it. right i think that's really significant we can all speculate on what the correct answer is there donald trump certainly likes to keep us guessing but it certainly does appear that there have been civic stream lee high level talks that are going back and forth we know that the president's top diplomat but at the time his top cia director top spy mike pompei it was there over the easter weekend probably not only for intelligence gathering but of course laying the ground work for the upcoming discussions with donald trump and kim jong un making news in that press conference where i think you can see some of the reporters behind me still spilling out of the east room there is the fact that it's now been narrowed down to two different possible countries where these talks could take place so curious there and certainly many looking for some more answers but the president not offering a lot of elaboration on that but significant that the president seems to recognize

as we've had these historic pictures coming out of the demilitarized zone in the last twenty four hours that there is a tremendous opportunity at had and perhaps feeling the gravity of the situation in terms of his role moving forward because the hard work certainly still to come with regard to the u.s. demand that there be measurable steps toward denuclearization of the korean peninsula the president saying i think i have a responsibility there world he has a responsibility to the world and he hopes to be able to do something significant for the world so certainly that is the headline coming out of this joint press conference with the german chancellor angela merkel and he did one of the issues he's been we understand talking to the german chancellor about is iran on the nuclear deal that he was crying strength there wasn't an immutable use of english language stating iran would not be doing nuclear weapons. right

in fact he said they will be doing nuclear weapons you can bank on it some of the vernacular of donald trump in there that is so characteristic of the way he talks foreign policy but certainly there is no question that donald trump is very firm in his position with regard to the j c p a way or the agreement negotiated by five world powers and iran in twenty fifteen to limit its nuclear program in exchange for a lifting of sanctions big deadline coming up soon and that is may twelfth when the president will have to once again recertify iran's compliance or if that isn't the case then those sanctions begin to snap back certainly the president has been leaving it open how he's going to decide on that we've had two european leaders here at the white house this week on tuesday the french president emmanuel mccraw and now the german chancellor angela merkel both trying to convince the president that the j.c. pos a is the best player moving forward in terms of those goals but it doesn't appear that they have been able to convince the president of their or sort of idea

that it can stay in place as a pillar of a supplemental agreement to address his under the other concerns he has that he feels that agreement does not address so certainly there was this two pronged approach and it doesn't appear from the comments coming from both leaders that that effort was successful in fact mike pump a again speaking from brussels suggesting it's very likely that the united states will pull out of that agreement good to talk to came to how could i lie from the white house well let's get more on the reaction in south korea to the moment of the day's events kathy novak joins us from the south korean city of country overlooking the border capping it seems to have gone even better than most people had hoped this incredible meeting but it with having on symbolism if short on specifics. certainly heavy on symbolism when you saw all the leaders holding hands as they crossed the border kim jong un stepping into the south and both of them briefly stepping back into the north there was hugging more hand-holding towards the end of

the day kim jong un making a speech at the their world banquet when he said he could look around the room and couldn't really tell who was from north and who was from a south korea that koreans are all basically part of one family and that kind of language really does resonate here in south korea many people watching on thinking this is not something certainly that they would have thought could have happened even just months ago when we saw regular missile tests from north korea its most powerful ever nuclear tests and threats of war being exchanged between the united states and north korea so i think as far as the broad south korean population is concerned they would say that they are in a much better more peaceful place now than they were a few months ago but as you say when it comes to the real substance particularly on the nuclear eyes ation that wasn't really there today what we saw in the declaration was a common goal for

a nuclear free korean peninsula through complete denuclearization and a reference to the fact that north korea has already unilaterally said that it will stop its nuclear and missile testing and sees activity at its nuclear test site but we heard donald trump in his news conference there saying that maximum pressure will continue until there is complete denuclearization and historically for the united states and for japan the international community that has meant complete verifiable denuclearization the dismantling of north korea's nuclear program we haven't seen specifics on that yet but this has set the scene for that meeting that is expected between donald trump and kim jong un catherine about life or is on the north south korean border. three palestinian protesters have been killed by israeli fire and another day of

demonstrations along the gaza israel border around forty palestinians have died in the week the protests which began at the end of march ahead of the seventieth anniversary of mass palestinian expulsion also known as a knock on the un's human rights chief has called on israel to stop using excessive force on palestinian protesters in gaza stephanie decker has more from the scene of the border protests. we've been witnessing quite extraordinary scenes here over the last couple of hours thousands of people running towards the border fence with israel that what you're looking at now this is the closest the protesters have ever come to that border fence when it comes to the last five weeks of friday protests what happened is you have this whole crowd of people run towards that the israeli forces because they're all standing just where we are at the moment they move to the right chase them down that way and then we heard a whole opening of live fire trying to push people bought from that border and then

we saw ambulances racing pastas at least ten we've seen a couple of people injured also we're being told it's very difficult to collect some of the injured from close to that border fence now israel has made it very clear they want people to stay away from this three hundred meter what they call a buffer zone they say that people will be shocked well people seem to have lost their fear here certainly those that we've been speaking to throughout the day say that this for them is a moment where they feel that the international community perhaps is listening to their voice at some point they say they will always tell you how desperate the situation here in gaza has become and they will say when you also will israel says how mass is behind. and there's a real threat to the border they will tell you no you know most people we've certainly seen families you yes they go to the border fence yes they throw stones yes they throw molotov cocktails look there you're dealing with one of the best

equipped armies in the world this is their way of resisting what they call the occupation resisting a blockade that gives them no freedom of movement joblessness here for example the new sixty percent unemployed there are no opportunities they live on four hours of electricity a day the list goes on and on and what you're seeing here is people have lost their fear and they will tell you they will continue to do this despite the dangers facing israeli life fire so to come here on al-jazeera on me as protest leader accused of trying to dictate the agenda ahead of a palm tree vote to pick a new prime minister. i. am thank you for the music our fans rejoices the swedish stars or veil wave recorded best first new songs in person for you. was.

i was about to want to get in central recent europe having taken a bit of a dip is this cold front came through for the west it's a different story that hook of. the center of low pressure for times to be stormy for those in france at least as it runs through the night but more especially as when he settled out his interests and much colder weather to the western side of fronts couple with fairly warm water as well the active skies means it's looking particularly wet first and sudden and sudden falls we take you day a forward not a reason london not that eight coldest you're part of you know the. france covering grain same is true for northern spain that is talking about late winter not spring it's nice and settled to the east and twenty seven in vienna twenty four england but the heat wave pushing up towards the baltic states not quite reaching stock and

bond it's time now that's where all the action is which means that what's been swinging around over a period dissipated by this time we've still got an active our frontal system lifting the dust into eastern libya and north in egypt should even if the temperatures a little bit through us one and beyond but we've reached the forty mark but temperature wise we're down in the twenty's from benghazi west which now g.-s. despite the sunshine is only eighteen. every dude is being animal. and measure. and it's not just i phones that i mean most of these days at the moment we are in a state of the universe. did something that was. i would rather take the risks of. the risks of digital dissidents at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back to remind you of the top stories here on al-jazeera south korean president has declared a new era of peace on the peninsula after hosting north korean counterpart kim drawing room for a day of meetings the ban have agreed to work towards full denuclearize ation u.s. president all jump as high old what he called a historic meeting between the leaders he said americans should be proud of the korean talks is also due to meet kim jong un in may or june. and three palestinian protesters have been killed by israeli fire and another day of demonstrations along the gaza israel border. china's president has hosted his indian counterparts

calling for greater cooperation between the two countries cheating paying held an informal summit with indian prime minister narendra modi at a time of tensions along their shared border india has also raised concerns about china's belt and road initiative that includes a major infrastructure project through pakistan administered kashmir which india says is illegal occupied. seven school children have been stabbed to death in northern china to check the children aged between twelve and fifteen were attacked as they made their way home after school in missy county. province several of the children were injured a suspect is now in police custody while than half of syria's largest palestinian refugee camp has reportedly been destroyed in fighting between government troops and i still find says government jets and artillery have continued to pound targets

around yarmouk in southern damascus in the last twenty four hours many of its one hundred sixty thousand residents have fled the fighting activists say damage to the camp has exceeded all expectations. the european union has voted for a permanent ban on pesticides that are harmful to beanie's campaigners call it a tremendous victory for the environment with pesticide company they are calling it a sad day for europe and its farms fruit and vegetable crops are pollinated by beans and other insects but moment farming techniques are being blamed for a steady decline in numbers baka reports. life as we know it might be in trouble the numbers are falling at a dramatic rate recent winters half the bee population in europe died. bees are vital pollinators for fruit and vegetable plants

a third of all crops are dependent on them. a growing number of scientists believe one of the main reasons for the decline is down to the industrial amounts of chemicals we're putting on crops to kill acids the most widely used to retype called me only cotton oids extensive studies have linked these chemicals with falling the numbers the press side is applied directly to the sea as the plant grows that pesticide goes through the plantation use and want to paste feeds on it it gets exposed to the pesticide but the problem is that baby feeds on that flower on for months and months and months and it's that low level exposure over an extended period of time is cause concern there are thousands of varieties of different bays two hundred fifty here in the u.k. but the rise of modern agriculture mean that at least three different types of bumble bee are now extinct a loss of natural habitat fewer wild flowers global warming and the use of insecticides or to blame life of bees is getting much harder the e.u.

introduced a partial ban on the used to me only carcinoid some flowering plants such as oil seed rape in two thousand and thirteen. the german pharmaceuticals giant is the biggest producer of. the company told is that extending the ban is totally bizarre piece do not hang around on non flowering crops and vegetables they do not hang around the wheat fields but sense rarely wins the day in european discussions remain even hungrier among six e.u. countries opposed to a ban citing concerns over falling crop yields and a possible increase in food prices. well the just also worried about what might replace me in a cotton oids new chemicals are introduced and they seem to do a great job and everyone's happy for a couple of decades and then it turns out that actually we're doing a lot of harm to the environment so we ban those and we replace them with something else and we keep doing them we don't seem to actually be learning from our mistakes

so what's the alternative how do we protect farmers and the environment how do we feed our growing populations but avoid killing more b. the debate is on the park or al jazeera oxfordshire are joining us now is nick around he's a campaigner at environmental organization friends of their famous for coming in to algis their i suppose you could say farmers nail bees one today why is it that these past signs are so harmful to the babies well i would actually say i think it's a win win for farmers and bees because bees are incredibly important. these pesticides there was commonly used pesticides in the world a moment a very potent insecticides and neurotoxin so they affect these nervous system so when bees are feeding on plants and they come into contact in the contaminated with these pesticides it affects it affects their brains it affects a nerve it affects their ability to forage to find food and it's causing mortality

of colonies and stopping them reproducing that's we've now found it's not just simply honeybees and that was the reason for the partial ban it was introduced a few years ago but now it's found that they're also affecting bumble bees and wild these as well and. we had a response there from bayer who is saying we don't worry about wheat fields of course we doesn't have flowers attractive retracted to b.s. but if you treat seeds wheat seeds to grow into wheat plans. less than twenty percent of that pesticide will stay in the plant the rest of it will be lost to the soil and water to be taken up by following crops wildflowers these will feed on those and they'll be contaminated in that way so it's absolutely untrue to suggest that in fact that is what the recent research is telling us that wheat using nearly cotton or it's on wheat is dangerous to be used so this damage has been happening for quite some time how long will it take to reverse if indeed

it's possible to reverse that kind of damage and for the bees to start populating to the strength again yes of course well these be the these pesticides hang around environment for a long time they take away they take a world to biodegrade the sooner we get rid of them the better and we must what we must do is make sure we don't replace them with with something equally as home for i think it's really important to to move forming and we you know we have opportunities no to move farming from a high pesticide culture to one that works more with nature and supports b.s. . and all this is they'll they'll support us in return why be so important well these are worth worth hundreds of millions of pounds to the u.k. economy they pollinate all flowers if you know otherwise we'd have to do it by hand . there are vital parts of you know or you know our farming infrastructure so that you know then of their valuable tool for farmers but they're doing it for free they're ground thank you very much new story yesterday. armenia's acting prime

minister cameron and cara pet chan has refused to hold talks with a leading opposition figure as anti-government protests continue kara percheron called off the talks with nicole passion and accusing him of trying to dictate the agenda i mean it's a problem and meets next week to elect a replacement for serge sykes young who resigned on monday following weeks of anti-government rallies. the spanish government is considering whether changes to the law needed after a court rejected charges of rape against five men instead convicted them on a lesser charge of sexual abuse thousands of protesters gathered outside the justice ministry in madrid and across spain on thursday after the five men were each sentenced to nine years in prison. romania's president is urging the prime minister to resign saying he wasn't consulted a part of plan to relocate the country's embassy in israel to jerusalem prime

minister. then chiller visited israel earlier this week he wants to follow america's lead by moving the embassy from tel aviv the president to has the final say on the relocation warned it could break international law. now fans of the swedish pop legends will be finding them for the music all over again as the band rec ords records its first new material in more than thirty five years the four members have been back in the studio for the first time since one thousand nine hundred two producing two new songs charlie engler has more. b. . it was nine hundred seventy four when a swedish band performed at the eurovision song contest was. three minutes later they were stars winning the contest and soon becoming sweden's biggest export pushing called make

a volvo into second place i geta beyond benny and a feat the first letter of the names made. the kitsch costumes dance music catchy disco songs dominated the music scene for more than a decade the truly european beat the soundtrack to a million camping holidays and operations for a brief moment the eighty's were married to the bees but soon divorced all in the public eye and they finally split in one nine hundred eighty two. despite an offer of a billion dollars to reunite they refused until now we all four felt that off to some thirty five years it could be fun to join forces again and go into the recording studio so we did it was like time had stood still and then we'd only been away on a short holiday and extremely joyful experience. wanting to be remembered in the

prime that two new songs we performed by computerized avatars better versions of these one seen at the avenues in stockholm they will be next year but fans will be able to hear the song i still have faith in you in a special t.v. broadcast in december i'll go with the props and say from the likes of which probably will be seen again in this digital age the reason is this musical mamma mia is being seen by a whole new generation some fifty four million people worldwide who will have to see whether these two new songs performed by digital avatars will make it on for the length of a great. run. abba's place in popular culture is secured with two films based on the songs created in recent years and as i said in their statement we may have come of age but the song is new and it feels good to al-jazeera. and if we get much more news and video

on our website al-jazeera dot com. is going to remind you of the top stories here on al-jazeera north and south korea are vowing to work towards a complete denuclearization of the peninsula after historic face to face talks between king and i in the momentous meeting so came across the border into the south becoming the first north korean leader today so since nine hundred fifty came and moon has promised to work towards establishing a permanent peace agreement the summit comes just months after increasingly aggressive and warlike rhetoric from north korea. you know you know you are you know i feel that we are part of one family and both countries if you have a new policy of cooperation after years of disputes we are here today to say that nothing will make us different again and i will say this north koreans and the

south koreans are now sharing one spot on the map and they represent one country in one way or another and we hope to achieve the ambitions and hopes of both countries . u.s. president. historic meeting between the korean leaders saying americans should feel proud to meet kim jong un in may or june he's also held talks with the german chancellor angela merkel at the white house with the iran nuclear deal featuring highly on the agenda the u.s. house threatened to withdraw from the landmark two thousand and fifteen dale. three palestinian protesters have been killed by israeli fire in another day of demonstrations along with gaza israel border around forty palestinians have died in the week and protests that began at the end of march the rallies are marking the seventieth anniversary of mass palestinian expulsion also known as the nakba seven school children have been stabbed to death in northern china the children

aged between twelve and fifteen were attacked as they made their way home off to school in missy county in shanxi province. of syria's largest palestinian refugee camp house reportedly been destroyed in fighting between government troops and i still find government jets on the tiller a have continued to pound targets around yarmouk and some in damascus in the last twenty four hours. as a headline stay with us rewind is next.