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world welcomes a day of dramatic gestures on the korean peninsula but many voices also urged caution. this is. also coming up. trump over the differences on trade and iran's nuclear deal. at least three palestinians were killed in israeli fire during friday protests along the israeli gaza border. and one of the biggest pop of its time reunites after thirty five years. media says friday's. summit with south korea of paves the way for

a new era of peace and prosperity but u.s. president donald trump is vowing to maintain maximum pressure on pyongyang until it gives up its nuclear weapons white house correspondent kelly holcomb reports with the historic summit of the leaders of north and south korea now over u.s. president donald trump says he hopes he can build on that success with his own meeting in late may or early june with kim jong un i think the responsibility has fallen on the shoulders of the president of the united states and i think we have i think i have a responsibility to see if i can do it that goal complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula the korean summit ended with few measurable steps to meet that goal the trumpet ministration maintains a meeting with the u.s. and north korean leaders will not occur unless concrete moves towards denuclearization are clearly demonstrated little rocket man trust tone has

dramatically shifted from the name calling of last year a truck promise further missile testing from north korea would be met with fire fury and frankly power just this week trump referred to kim as very open. and i think very honorable from everything we're seeing the shift is evidence of the ongoing high level talks north korean and u.s. officials have been engaged in still trump wouldn't confirm or deny he's spoken directly with the north korean leader and i want to comment on that point on that we have a very good working relationship it is known mike pump ale the new secretary of state met with kim over the easter weekend some human rights activists are skeptical a trump kim meeting will ultimately be successful i know the diplomatic track record of the chemo regime it is not good this is a regime that has breached and violated each and every international agreement it's

had the logistics for the upcoming meeting are still being worked out according to the president it is now down to a choice between two countries for their historic meeting kimberly help at al-jazeera at the white house germany's chancellor angela merkel has visited washington for a brief meeting with the u.s. president she hopes to persuade donald trump not to impose new u.s. tariffs on european steel and early minium exports but top of buckles agenda was the preservation of the iran nuclear deal which president trump has threatened to abandon the iranian regime fuels violence bloodshed and chaos all across the middle east we must ensure that this murderous regime does not even get close to a nuclear weapon and that iran ends its proliferation of dangerous missiles and its support. for terrorism no matter where you go in the middle east wherever there's

a problem around is right there. you know we're of the opinion that the nuclear deal with iran is a first step which has helped to slow down its activities and allow them to be better monitored but we also think from the german perspective that it's not enough to achieve a reliable outcome so more has to be done in the ballistic missile program is a major cause of concern the fact that iran is exerting influence in syria and lebanon is also of great concern for us and we need to curb this influence. the republican led house intelligence committee says there's no evidence donald trump's presidential campaign colluded with russia a report released by the committee does criticize trump's eldest son for poor judgment over his e-mails about a meeting with a russian lawyer president trump says the report clears his campaign and that allegations against it were based on lies democrats however challenging the findings the report is separate from the special counsel's investigation into the trunk campaign's russia ties to. the new u.s.

secretary of state like pompei or has been meeting nato counterparts in brussels just hours after being sworn in nato secretary general stalking burke says the trip was a testament to the importance of the alliance and commitment of the united states the coming hours players set to begin a tour of the middle east making stops in saudi arabia jordan and israel. singapore's prime minister has warned southeast asian nations that a trade dispute between the u.s. and china is putting regional economic growth at risk prime minister lee hsien long was opening the ten nation assy and summit in singapore he told delegates that many countries have turned against free trade and the bloc must work to counter protectionism. vote on our top story friday summit between the two koreas robert kelly is a professor of political science and diplomacy at pusan national university joins us now live from seoul good to have you with us again robert lot of optimism thank

you surrounding this this this summit on the on friday do you share that optimism. it's a good start it's certainly not where we were six months ago when we're talking about nuclear war the rhetoric has improved dramatically the tone is a real improvement that's good to see i think the real question going forward is will the north koreans actually do what they said they would do yesterday this is where these kinds of summits and declarations have collapsed in the past you know sort of good principles and unseated but then no follow through and that's ultimately where north korea has to move there's got to be some concessions from north korea or we're going to be back where we were a year ago talking about missile defense and sanctions and stuff like that the remarkable pictures yesterday the the two leaders kim jong un appearing right particularly relaxed what has brought the north to this point. i think the north koreans now have the ability to strike the united states with a nuclear weapon and that gives them a position of strength from which they can bargain and negotiate the north koreans

are meeting with or plan to meet with not just the south koreans but the americans the russians the japanese the chinese even met the i.o.c. a couple weeks ago i think what this signals is that north koreans now feel comfortable negotiating because they have the nuclear deterrent shield of a nuclear weapon on a missile and so now they're shopping around for lack of a good word they're trying to sort of cash out all this effort and see what they can get for it or and so what happens between now and when. meets donald trump if he meets donald trump i mean how far does does the u.s. go as a peacemaker. yes i think what what's what's different about this one coming up with with donald trump and kim is that you know the united states has done this with north korea a couple times before and dahlan trump is not a particularly patient man right the rhetoric last year was really belligerent as well i think the north koreans are going to need to move pretty quickly on some kind of meaningful concession to donald trump or trump as he said himself the other day he might just walk out of the room if the north koreans i mean the whole thing

will be wrapped up in one summit it's going take a while to sort of hammer out all the details on denuclearization or whatever might be but i think the north koreans are going to have to send a signal to the americans that they are in fact taking this seriously if it just looks like a lot of happening i'm just happy atmospherics like yesterday was the administration you know they will just walk away from this is my it's my sense so you know if that this goes badly and things go really really badly we could be back to talking about airstrikes and stuff like that and so if the north koreans really want this to work they need to what they need to give us something need to start talking about major real concessions which they have not yet done and what about regional powers japan in particular if things. you're striking a pessimistic but if things do go well could you foresee our you know the u.s. withdrawing its troops from from south korea and how would japan react to that. yes japan sort of in a funny position on the japanese are not quite directly relevant to the two for

inter korean bargaining but if there's a final deal of some kind there is a sort of large expectation that japan will step up and provide financing and funding for north korean reconstruction if the two koreas expect that they expect japanese age in north korea as japan aid in south korea forty years ago and then the japanese have to be a part of it had they have to be brought in in some way because the cancer asked them to pay for something which they're going to have a voice in. the next steps though i think are you know are we going to have denuclearization before peace treaty you know a peace treaty is what were unlocked that japanese funding but it's very hard to foresee a peace treaty without some kind of moving on nuclear weapons a japanese are very concerned about nuclear weapons themselves right there even closer to north korea than the united states and so a lot of this hinges on north korea's movement on the nuclear program and again we just don't know what they're going to offer us they haven't really studied yet always good many thanks indeed professor robert kelly there in seoul thank you the israeli army has struck six hamas targets in the gaza strip an obvious statement

says that it was in response to what it calls a mass infiltration attempt earlier on friday four palestinians were killed as they marched right up to israel's border fence the closest they've come in five weeks of protests stephanie decker reports from recent gaza. it happened all of a sudden surge towards the border fence running in a different direction from where the protests have been focused all day israeli soldiers had to reposition themselves and the army issued a statement saying there was an attempt to infiltrate the border they acted within the rules of engagement to through or to the soldiers opened fire. it went on for quite some time yet. ambulances raced to pick up the wounded. the guys suddenly ran in this direction to the fence they threw stones at the soldiers then the israelis opened heavy fire

there are many injuries there really is a feeling here that people have lost their fear israel has said it will shoot the ball they get right up to the border fence the people here will tell you they have absolutely nothing left to lose. earlier in the day a small victory for these young boys israeli forces had warned the protesters over a speakerphone in arabic to move back from the fence. when they didn't. to deal with the tear gas homemade gas masks and now being sold it could demo on how to use them these young men part of a generation who grew up under the blockade there are no jobs no opportunities they are stuck here as a business and we get power from a peaceful protest they get their power from rifles and but it's potations welcome from their rifles with our best chests we have rights and we need our freedom. these three seem to discuss tactics maybe hoping for a brief moment of pride against one of the best equipped armies in the world now

there was no obvious. like this in. the us for the youth they are the first situation. to voice what they want is change to be given their rights and their freedom and you can see despite the dangers of getting not put to the front no one is stopping . this friday has been described by many here as the most dramatic yet because the protesters came right up to israel's fence israel's intelligence agency and the army have borne the israeli government that gaza could explode if the current restrictions continue they may be right people here say they've lost their fear that life in gaza has become unbearable that they have nothing left to lose

stephanie decker on jazeera east gaza we're going to weather update next hill i'll see about that a u.n. delegation heads to camps in bangladesh to get a firsthand view of the deepening refugee crisis. and below the pred line we'll take a look at why so many people in argentina are struggling to make ends meet. hello western iran is about to get wet to the restaurant probably not but west neurons joining in with this expanding area of low pressure massive cloud so we want to right producing stormy conditions flash floods in jordan in southern israel the west west bank in particular but the rain i think in the next day or so he's going to be a bit further south more especially east through iraq northern syria egypt as far

as armenia eventually the sun will return and things will quieting down it looks quite nice on sunday for most part except in the extreme east again of iraq and northern syria one of the consequences of this has been haboobs recently we might well see something on saturday there's not obvious from here i suspect some are nice and saudi could be particularly dusty quietening things down i suspect by the time we get to sunday showers if any and most likely to be found in the far south west of saudi or in yemen sun is included in that forecast to hit southern africa the pictures gone largely dry shouters possible in the eastern cape of course in the towel i wouldn't hold your breath it looks dry in cape town eighteen degrees as for warm sunshine was pretty abundant really all the way north actually a long way through tanzania as well where the rains are pretty rare the moment.

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there's complete denuclearization on the peninsula his comments follow the historic declaration of peace between kim jong un and blue jay it's friday. germany's chancellor angela merkel has visited washington for talks with president trump the top of her agenda was preserving the iran nuclear deal which president trump is threatening to abandon. the israeli army has struck six of us naval targets in the gaza strip it says it was in response to a so-called mass infiltration attempt four palestinians were killed as demonstrators marched right up to israel's border fence friday. a u.n. security council delegation is due to visit russia hinge a refugee camps in bangladesh the team will then travel to mere mas rakhine state from where an estimated seven hundred thousand people fled a military crackdown to syria's strength of reports now from the good of the long camp in cox is bizarre. shamsul arlen has brought his five year old daughter to

this field clinic in the coupon the refugee camp in bangladesh. norah's face is swollen and she's in pain. shamsul and his family have lived in the camp for a year and a half since fleeing violence by the myanmar military against the regime and reclaim state. and since august last year around seven hundred thousand really just fled the latest myanmar military crackdown the u.n. human rights chief calls it textbook ethnic cleansing. the military surrounded their house and started shooting from all sides the ever terrified soviet around for our lives my daughter was shot but he had to keep running and leave her behind because the shooting was so heavy. the u.n. and aid agencies say around a billion dollars is needed for the hinge are living in what is becoming the largest refugee camp in the world i.o.m. alone is already treating eighty fazing people a month you know they say needs are only going to increase as one scene approaches

we have to have preventive medicine we have to deal with daily real dangers of water borne disease the funding has to be in place now to help protect people otherwise we will see you know protection of preventable loss of life and that's a very frightening prospect the mainly muslim or hindu had their citizenship taken away by what was then the permits government thirty five years ago rights groups say the rangers have suffered decades of violence and persecution they say the myanmar military and mainly buddhist mobs killed thousands of men women and children committed gang rape and destroyed hundreds of range of villages in recent months but the myanmar government denies the claim it says it was responding to what it calls terrorist attacks by rick injure rebel group. the u.n. security council delegation is due to visit the refugee camps in bangladesh before heading to me and more for what is expected to be a tightly controlled two day trip. the inability of the united nations security

council to take strong action against myanmar is largely because of china's veto power china has big business interests inside myanmar and especially in rakhine state myanmar so far has banned any independent investigation into alleged atrocities and it seems highly unlikely that this visit by a united nations security council delegation here will lead directly to me being called to account but pressure is growing on me and. the u.s. state department is leading an investigation into claims of extrajudicial killings rape and also by the myanmar military a repatriation plan by bangladesh b.m.r. allowing refugees to voluntarily return has so far failed to get off the ground. says he will never return to me and moralists the government guarantees his family citizenship security and the same rights as other citizens of the country he and

his family from. al-jazeera could to prolong refugee camp on the dish archaeologists in peru have uncovered a mass grave which could be evidence of the largest child sacrifice ritual in the world that remains of all than one hundred children ranging from the ages around six to fifteen were found in the northwest of the country reports. this child's skeleton is part of what archaeologists ahead in the biggest site of child sacrificing discovered so far the victims appear to be in part of a ritual sacrifice that took place nearly five hundred fifty years ago the remains of more than one hundred forty children were found alongside two hundred young llamas all of that. all the sacrifices that we have found with children aged between six and nine years of age and that from ten to twelve or fifteen years of age all have been found with their sternum cut with the aim of possibly opening the rib cage and extracting the heart that was the way that the team of

a society that developed between the tenth and fifteenth centuries about era sacrifice these children this mass grave has been on the excavation since two thousand and eleven investigations are carried out by an international team led by national geographic's peruvian explorers. the sacrifice must have been a societal response by the chief moose to counteract the negative effects of nature of climate that affected its political economic and maybe its ideology system the chim a civilization was known to worship the moon scientists say they were now focused on investigating the victims' lives. algis their. own manias acting prime minister is refusing to hold talks with a leading opposition figures and to government protests continue couldn't cut a petty and called off the talks with nicole accusing him of trying to dictate the agenda media's parliament meets next week to elect a prime minister. resigned on monday following weeks of anti-government rallies and

was a serious problem for us to walk up. the stage with today for talks between . the opposition leader and. the prime minister the acting prime minister this is the second toy that mr pasha the self-styled people's choice the prime minister has invited me to talk with the. the second time is to cut it has said he is not going to sit down with mr passion because he said he was merely being dictated to these were not going to be real negotiations and so we had this situation where supposedly i was sitting at a table for two with international media surrounding him and no talks going ahead a sign that the administration is still in charge here after mr assad stepped down earlier this week is pushing back and is not willing to relinquish

power we expect this vote to go ahead on tuesday this depression and saying that if he doesn't get elected in that parliamentary session he and his supporters will boycott the elections on the day on tuesday when this vote is due to go ahead he wants again the opposition movement supporters many many armenians we have seen in large numbers on the streets of the capital and in different cities around the country in recent weeks to show their support for him that he has the support of the armenian people and where expecting a very interesting day on tuesday next week in the meantime he'll be visiting the region again trying to keep up the momentum but mr the acting prime minister showing that he is in no mood at the moment to simply hand over the reins of power

to this opposition movement in china nine school children have been stabbed to death in the north of the country the children aged between twelve and fifteen were attacked as they made their way home after school and shanachie provinces measure county several other children were injured a suspect is in police custody. people in argentina are struggling with the rising cost of consumer goods with some of the poorest families especially at risk inflation has fallen to less than half its peak of forty seven percent in twenty sixteen but it's still the second highest in latin america after venezuela three isabeau reports. money in the us lives in one of the poorest areas of one aside if. you know a place that when it rains it is isolated from the other parts of the province because of buses won't dare to go in. but these days she has another reason to worry if. we paid for this piece of beef eighty and it just goes

up and up and we are trying to catch up but my husband's salary doesn't go up in the same way and that's the problem. marty lives in this house with her husband and two children inflation is a major issue in argentina especially in places like this one because it affects people's lives in every way this family for example says the food that you can see in this refrigerator from tomatoes eggs among other things they see the prices rise every month and that is physical for them to make ends meet. since taking office over two years ago president has been struggling to cut a double digit inflation rate inherited from the previous administration. but it hasn't been easy the government has also lifted the subsidies on utility bills that allow d'argent times to be cheaper electricity gas and water but that has also had

an impact on prices. that's why this week bakers gave away over five thousand kilos of bread because they say customers cannot afford the rising bread prices anymore. the rise in the prices affect us because it has caused a rise in the costs of making bread but we cannot continue to pass the rising cost to the people because they cannot afford it if things go on like this then i will have to shut down. mackie's popularity has suffered in recent months because of some of the m. popular economic measures he has taken in the last year. the president says he's convinced he's doing the right thing for argentina. it is a law that nobody pays for the subsidies of gas and electricity we all pay for it with inflation and debt to pay for energy we have to end. a debt that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay the other alternative was to implement shock austerity measures but we are choosing to be gradually no reforms so that no

argentine is left behind. with a changing government argentina has become the darling of emerging markets but high inflation rates continue to be a challenge especially for people like marilyn who have to struggle to get by. want to cite us. finally if you're a fan of the swedish pop. you'll be thanking them for the music all over again the band regatta record its first new material in more than thirty five years the four members have been back in the studio for the first time since nine hundred eighty two producing two new songs. it was nine hundred seventy four when a swedish band performed at the vision song contest. three minutes later. winning the contest and soon becoming sweden's biggest export

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it is good to have you with us adrian for again here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump is about to maintain maximum pressure on north korea until complete nuclear ization on the peninsula his comments follow a historic declaration of peace between kim jong. il friday i think the responsibility has fallen on the shoulders of the president of the united states and i think we have i think i have a responsibility to see if i can do it and if i can't do it it will be a very tough time for a lot of countries and a lot of people it's certainly something that i hope i can do for the world this is beyond the united states this is a world problem and it's something that i hope i'm able to do for the world. germany's chancellor angela merkel has visited washington for talks with president

trump of the top of her agenda was preserving the iran nuclear deal which trump has threatened to abandon. the republican led house intelligence committee says there's no evidence that donald trump's presidential campaign colluded with russia but its report does criticize trump's eldest son for poor judgment over his e-mails about a meeting with a russian lawyer president trump says the report clears his campaign and that allegations against it were based on lies democrats however challenging the findings singapore's prime minister has warned southeast asian nations that a trade dispute between the u.s. and china is putting regional economic growth at risk prime minister lee hsien long was opening the ten nation assy and summit in singapore he told delegates that many countries have turned against free trade and the bloc must work to counter protectionism the israeli army has struck six highest naval targets in the gaza strip it says it was in response to what it's called a massive infiltration attempt on friday when four palestinians were killed as

demonstrators marched right up to israel's border fence more than forty people have been killed now since the end of march during rallies held in the run up to the seventieth anniversary of the mass expulsion of palestinians. armenia's acting prime minister is refusing to hold talks with a leading opposition figure as antigovernment protests continue corrent petty and called off the talks with nickel pushing me and accusing him of trying to dictate the agenda. and those the headlines will have more usefully on al-jazeera after a.j. selects the next. big stories generate thousands of headlines with different angles from different perspectives separate the spin from the facts that's why i own a gun. with the listening post on al-jazeera.