some groups. think the problem. is the name under which a reporter has a regular music is really going to trip for a very young age it may come from jamaica but i feel that. it talks about just. talks to walk alone when there's a heartbreak in music i think. that's deep you rather than. especially for a good thing this is kind of all the right wing assault on our freedom to ask questions and generally all freedom of expression and people you know are being taught it's like students teachers activists there goes right to me but it's limited to the number of people on the street see the protest has reached our doorstep so in which. attempts to contradict something it's.

two days after historic summit with the sound board that north korea will dismantle them nuclear test site. and i'm very this is out there life and also coming out. america's new secretary of state might pump a zero start his middle east tour with a bronze nuclear deal high on the agenda. a so-called million man march in yemen following a saudi led airstrike that killed two rebel leaders. and a roast without the host the u.s. president abandons the white house correspondents dinner for a second year. korea has announced that it will dismantle its nuclear test site next month and will invite foreign experts to. oversee the closure of south korean president and

welcome the move saying it shows chung it's sincere about denuclearization on the peninsula for more let's go live now to kathy novak who is in seoul so kathy what else do we do we know about this huge announcement. well this is coming right now from the south korean presidential blue house the office of president mungy in that has been briefing journalists following that historic meeting between president monday and the north korean leader kim jong un on friday and in that briefing we are told that kim jong un told monday in that he intends to close the north korean nuclear test facility and invite experts from the u.s. and south korea as well as journalists to inspect it he seemed to refer to the speculation that some experts had been saying that perhaps after six nuclear tests the most recent one being the most powerful in north korea said it was

a hydrogen bomb that perhaps the nuclear test facility had been compromised that north korea would not be able to conduct any more nuclear tests anyway but apparently what kim jong un said was that there are two more tunnels that the international community was unaware of and that's something that they would see if they came next month as invited to inspect the nuclear test facility of course the two leaders signed a declaration on friday and there was a reference there to a common goal of a nuclear free korean peninsula through complete denuclearization but it had been pointed out that there were no more specifics around that ahead of the summit last weekend north korea said it would stop nuclear and missile tests and shut down a nuclear test facility but there were no extra concessions made in the declaration at least on friday well now this seems to be a new concession according to south korea coming from the north and to your point yes the devil is in the details and enforcement so there's a long way to see what this actually means but this is happening ahead of the

summit that is supposed to be coming at the meeting between north korea and the u.s. so how does this play into that as the u.s. is the u.s. in the role of trying to decide what the enforcement is going to be or kind of pick up the ball from here. that would be the expectation and yes after we saw all the smiling faces the handshakes and even the hugs between the korean leaders it seemed to set the scene for the meeting between donald trump and kim jong un that is expected by late may or early june and it's been pointed out that you know donald trump may want that kind of personal relationship with any world leader that he is meeting and that seems to bode well at least the atmospherics and the optics around the meeting between the two korean leaders leading up to the expected meeting with donald trump and in fact trump has been briefed by moon following the injury and the summit they talked about more complete

steps towards denuclearization the possibility of those being discussed between trump and kim and interestingly we're also told that kim jong un apparently said to moon j.n. that if americans were to meet me they would see i'm not the kind of person that would shoot a missile towards the united states of course he's the leader of a country that has repeatedly threatened to attack the united states and said that he has the capability to launch a intercontinental ballistic missile armed with a nuclear weapons to wards the mainland u.s. well now he seems to be saying well i'm just not that kind of person he would see if you met me that would not happen and repeating that if north korea did not feel threatened by the u.s. if they had some kind of nonaggression agreement that he would not need to essentially make those threats or sell ok kathy novak live for us in seoul cathy thank you. leaders of the association of southeast asian nations have welcomed the historic enter korean summit is a positive step towards peace and stability in the region the bloc also vowed to

work more closely with china and india to counter the pressure of protectionism and ensure continued growth speaking at a regional summit singapore's prime minister urged the leaders of the ten country bloc to do more to promote free trade and warned of the growing threat of cyber attacks newly appointed u.s. secretary of state might pompei o has arrived in saudi arabia as part of a three day trip to the region talks with the saudi foreign minister there before having dinner with the crown prince mohammed bin solomon are expected to discuss the iran nuclear deal following donald trump's threats to pull the united states out of that agreement next month i was sworn in on thursday after his predecessor rex tillerson left office last month her since lummi has more from washington d.c. the state department says a strong u.s. saudi partnership is crucial to peace and prosperity in the middle east so perhaps not surprising that might pompei i would make a visit to saudi arabia part of his first official trip as secretary of state he

also has the fast approaching deadline of may twelfth when president trump must decide whether or not to reimpose sanctions on iran a move that many feel will be the end of the iran nuclear deal my comp aoe is much closer to president on this issue than his predecessor rex tillerson was tillerson was sympathetic to the european point of view which is the deal should be strengthened and not abandoned he lost his job essentially over that mike pompei a will also no doubt be talking about the situation in syria during this visit president trump has called on gulf countries to do more to stabilize the situation there in terms of troops and funding from saudi arabia might pompei o heads to israel and then to jordan. my palm has visit to saudi arabia comes as iran backed with the rebels in yemen fired a new round of missiles into the kingdom this follows

a saudi like coalition air strike that killed two rebel leaders and yemen's capital last week a high ranking rebel commander was killed in a strike thousands gathered in sana'a to honor him to regain the reports. he supposes descend on the center of center there protesting against the death of the most senior who the official to be killed by the saudi led coalition in yemen's three year war salah died in an airstrike on the coastal hey day to provence last week. yeah you will get revenge for the death of the president of the republic. and i have message for the saudi aggressors you bring invaders here from all over the world we will kill them and we will burn them to the leaders and dozens of fighters were killed in another saudi led coalition air strike on saturday saudi state television says the strike targeted a high level meeting at the these interior ministry insana after three years of fighting and no end to the war in sight analysts say the saudi led coalition is

trying something new the saudis are stepping up their game. targeting higher higher level officials and the hope is as well are also there also it's a stepping up their game firing more and more ballistic missiles into saudi territory i think the message is clear that they still believe both parties still believe that they're the only solution is a military solution but it's a risky strategy the fighters say their mood determined than ever to continue their fight for control of yemen. you know this protest was made for president saleh osama and we tell him that we will keep going on your path and we will not drift away his death strengthened us and provided us with resistance god willing we will not drift away. it's a conflict that's already killed thousands of people and caused the united nations says is the world's one humanitarian crisis now there are signs of an escalation

from both sides saudi arabia says it intercepted fool the missiles fired from yemen targeting the city of jews then victoria gates and be al jazeera. as president donald trump has avoided attending the annual white house correspondents' dinner for the second year running and studies attending a campaign rally in michigan last year truck became the first president in thirty six years to skip the event the college scholarship fund raiser celebrates the relationship between the media and the white house press secretary had to be sanders to trump's place at estabrook is in washington d.c. . the president sent a message to the press from michigan he said when he began his speech this evening that he'd much rather be in michigan than in washington attending this correspondents' dinner and you know the message is that he sees the press is an adversary of three months ago who said that the press was an enemy of the american people which is a rather sad statement to make these actually missing an opportunity by not being

at this correspondents dinner presidents of news of this dinner in the past to you know hope fun at the media but also to poke fun at themselves in the way of the humanizing them to help them connect with the media and it also helps them connect with the public as well so in many ways that this is this is a missed opportunity but again the president has set this very adversarial relationship with the presidency took office and it continues peter mathews is professor of political science at cypress college in the u.s. state of california and he says trump's refusal to continue the presidential tradition of attending the dinner is a missed opportunity to appeal to a wider support base and he's doing it intentionally to snub the press because he doesn't really believe that they're very accurate or get your fair to him and yet the press is so important democracy it's the call the fourth the state it's the freedom of speech that's in the it's actually in the constitution from the president their own theme of the speech because that way in

a democracy when you get information out there and people can rationally choose which is the best path to go that's when you have real freedom of choice but without it when the press is threatened or muzzled in the case of president trump he's always put it down that to create a chilling effect on freedom of speech is very dangerous for the marcos' and the press is so important because they report on the media on the ice or on the politicians and they really are called the opinion makers it's very important that he has a good relationship with them but he doesn't care about it nice to try to hold on to his thirty three percent three percent base of support that he has as hard core base. rebel fighters in northern mali have killed at least forty people belonging to the ethnic toward community the attack took place in the minako region on the border with and share regional governor says the gunman targeted mostly young men in the remote desert villages of. khan on friday and saturday molly's been struggling with lawlessness in the north sense to rival groups to our brothers and al-qaeda linked fighters sought to take control of their

six years ago talk rebels declared independence in april two thousand and twelve just a month after the president was pushed out in a coup three months later they lost ground to a group with links to al-qaeda and impose sharia law and publicly destroyed many muslim shrines in early two thousand and thirteen france stepped in helping william forces take back the region and two years later all these government are agreed to a peace deal despite a large french military and un peacekeeping presence france says eisel is the greater us it's in the greater so horrid has been using northern mali as a haven ne a kuwaiti is the executive director of the african immigrant caucus he thinks these latest attacks are an attempt to prove to provoke rather the target into a larger conflict. the two iranians have hired. conflicts and disagreements with whichever government has been embalmed uncle ever scenes

independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty because their asses separate ethnic groups have always argued that they want to separate want their own country now that is very hard for them ali has to accept and reality for all of africa to us because it is based on walther and ethnicity and there are only five percent of the mali and population and they will be landlocked and so they have always argued it did for this as you mentioned as few years back the inside and the most recent. peace deal with the government was so five p. as to be holding why will the terrorist target them it will seem that. they are trying to get to our is to once again pick up pick up the gun and the stab in the eyes the government of mali i think may be the reason why

they are trying to target the two errands and get them fighting again. still ahead on al jazeera thousands in northern me and maher flee some of the worst fighting in decades between government forces and rebels and held a series by the size farah turned political i doubt what's driving readers to protest. how we've got some quasi weather coming into the u.s. over the next couple of days it seems a really lively weather up into the northeastern corner of this weather system now in the process of pulling out so the way still some bits and pieces of cloud and right around it has to be said for the next day or so far north of new england it's a mine for example could see a little bit of wet weather histamine chance of some snow just around the canadian

border. for ottawa but you can see for the most part it doesn't get too bad fifteen celsius in the same little bit some places a cloud into the into the plains which was the pacific northwest western parts of canada. some snow away by the rockies for good measure you go on into monday that snow if anything does become a little more expansive say the the u.s. rockies will see some of that wintry mix but is going to be the central parts of canada will we see more of the white stuff out over towards new england say for the southeast generally dry but some of the heavy downpours a possibility across the northern plains just moving through the prairie's that is seeing some heavy downpours recently across cuba see some very heavy rain to panama in between that's too bad a lot of try and find weather might catch into jamaica maybe also into his back on the hour but it does look like a fine and fry for a good part of the lesser antilles.

on counting the cost why iran's nuclear deal and all the powerful factors are at play in a new game of oil it could mean steeper prices at the pump. and into korean summit but what would a saw in relations mean for their economy. counting the cost. i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as it always does with his job. and watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you this hour north korea has announced that it will dismantle its nuclear test site next month and also

invite foreign experts to oversee its closure south korean president mungy and welcome the move saying it shows pyongyang is sincere about the nuclearization on the insula the north also plans to match time zones with south korea. newly appointed u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o is in saudi arabia as part of a three day visit to the middle east he's been holding talks with the saudi foreign minister there and meeting in crown prince mohammad and salma iran nuclear deal is expected to top the agenda. at least forty ethnic horrocks have been killed in two separate attacks on mollie's northern the naca region officials believe the violence is intended to stoke the ongoing conflict between target and herders. to bangladesh now where united nations security council delegation is meeting with three hundred refugees a fifteen member panel is headed to cox's bazaar where hundreds of thousands of refugees are living after first hand. cessation of the crisis the team will then

travel to me in march to visit violence scarred rakhine state let's go live now to cox's bazaar bangladesh where our charles stratford is for us live so charles what do we expect to happen today and tell us more about where you are. well you come to us at exactly the right time it seems that this u.n. security council delegation has just arrived we're at the cone of power a refugee camp that's in no man's land the myanmar border fence is about one hundred yards to my right now the delegation is here so they say to see the conditions on the ground here from here they will be going to be could supply along refugee camp an extension of that refute you can to speak to some of the ranger refugees there and talk about what they have witnessed what they have suffered in recent months and what they experienced as they played me on my on how the

conditions in these camps are bad already and they could get a lot worse in the next couple of months we are weeks away from the sly close season starting the u.n. and aid agencies saying that they need around a billion dollars this year to deal with this crisis and that's why close season could make things even worse there around two hundred thousand refugees that are considered to be in particularly vulnerable places in the refugee camps they're being moved to another area of land that the bangladesh government has allocated there are of course huge health problems already in dealing with communicable diseases such as diptheria and measles we've had outbreaks of those in the last few months so this u.n. security council delegation are here very much to try and gauge and see for themselves just how appalling the conditions are here for not only the seven hundred thousand refugees or so that have

a rise in recent months but add to that around two hundred thousand that have been here as a result of previous crackdowns by the myanmar military that are out the fact that the un security council delegation is there is actually on the ground does that mean that there is a possibility that at some point me and mark may be called to account helped elect account for what is happening or are the international community closer to that happening. well we know how difficult that has been we know how hamstrung the united nations security council has been respect to really issuing strong statements and resolutions because there are fears with respect to china's veto and we know that myanmar has made it almost impossible for any impossible for any independent investigation it is banned in independent investigations from going to recover in state but it's fair to say the pressure is mounting on me and ma there is a u.s.

state department led investigation ongoing we understand at least a thousand people inside these refugee camps have been interviewed by that investigation focusing on sexual violence arson and mass murder and being asked. we understand a specific as you know what kind of uniforms were these men using who attacked your village what kind of weapons were they using the e.u. we understand as well has so it says stablished a legal framework to try targeted sanctions against certain individuals involved in human rights allegations inside myanmar the u.s. has already started talk of the sanctions against thirteen individuals including one general involved in these alleged atrocities but as i say it is very difficult certainly for the international community at this stage to act in with one voice when you have a country like china only united nations security council with veto power very big

business interests in rakhine state so i think it's fair to say that we are quite a long way off still for myanmar being called to account for these alleged atrocities ok strafford i present concepts that are actually thanks charles. the u.n. says more than ten thousand people have fled northern me and maher where there has been stepped up fighting between government forces and catch and rebel fighters aid agencies say they fear for people trapped in the jungle without access to food or medicine ariana han has more. these are fighters for the kitchen and dependents army filmed just last month patrolling the enclave in the remote northernmost region of me and and just within sight of government forces. until as long as the burn me is keep coming at us we have to keep fighting just as the two weeks later these fighters were being bombarded me in mass military reportedly

pounding rebel positions with these strikes and artillery in response to catch and threats to retake the last territory of. kitchen rebels say they've been defending the right of the mainly christian minority to control the resource rich region for more than fifty years they accuse me and must soldiers of decades of atrocities and employing technics similar to those allegedly used by government forces against revenge and rakhine state burning down houses shooting people and raping women the government of me and my denies the accusations me and it's not diversity is at the heart of conflict right across the country when me and madge gained full independence from british rule in one thousand nine hundred forty eight powell was unexpectedly handed to the majority berman's a deal that excluded numerous it's not minorities including the kitchen the country has been at civil war ever since age of the hundred thirty it's knit groups and me

and my have the kitchen is one of the most powerful a seventeen years cease fire deal with the kitchen fell apart in two thousand and eleven and fighting resumed the decades long un reste has displaced mr mason hundred twenty thousand kitchen. she thing now they don't fire at the front line they fire at random anywhere so we don't know where they're going to drop her so scared we don't know if it will happen when we're asleep that's why we're so scared we can't sleep at night. some groups have signed peace deals with the gov. and others including the kitchen have not they say they don't trust the process or the government and have joined an alliance of rebel groups in the north now they're engaged in some of the worst fighting in decades but it's difficult to assess media access is strictly limited and data agencies are calling on the government to allow them access media on the home and al-jazeera arches foreign minister has accused

the us are trying to divide syria into parts made the comments in moscow while meeting as turkish and iranian counterparts to discuss the war in syria the meeting prepares the groundwork for the ninth round of astonished talks to be held next month the three countries believe it's the only way of ending the violence in the seven year syrian war or a challenge as more from moscow. this meeting was a way for russia turkey and iran co-sponsors of the standard talks to set the scene for the next round of those negotiations which are in a couple of week's time a the fourteenth and fifteenth the three countries here although they have been pushing these negotiations into their ninth rounds now. do have disagreements they have disagreements over the future of president bashar al assad's turkey has always thought that he shouldn't be part of syria's future and turkey also disagrees with russia on iran over the recent u.s. u.k.

and french airstrikes which were a response to what those three countries said was a chemical weapons attack in duma now turkey supports that view and thinks that the russian perspective that this has set back the political process in syria is not necessarily true. but the turks do have criticisms of the united states saying that they should give up their ongoing support for the kurds when we do get to the next round of a stand of sorts in a couple weeks we're likely to see. a similar situation to previous times which is that the opposition you are reluctant to come now the route the opposition has always felt the. talks were essentially a sideshow a distraction from what should be taking place which is the resumption of negotiations in geneva the official u.n.

sponsored talks and the opposition has long felt that water star is essentially doing is just hollowing out geneva stripping it of all the main political platforms political points and essentially giving cover for russia and the syrian government forces on the ground to continue pushing home their military advantage. the talks come at least after after at least eighteen people have reportedly been killed in syria's largest palestinian refugee camp over the past twenty four hours. the syrian government is trying to retake several neighborhoods in southern damascus from eisel fighters activists believe half of the yarmouk refugee camp in the area has been destroyed in a week of violence the u.n. says about thirty five hundred people have fled the camp. argentina's annual bonus on his book fair has kicked off on a political note organizers say there's been

a drop in book sales due to the struggling economy and high inflation stories about who has won what they're doing to keep people reading. they want to cite his book fair began with a protest against the government of president marketing. students protested against education reform and the president of the book foundation used his initial remarks to draw attention to a drop in book sales in the country with government. we are demanding a decrease in taxes that takes our competitiveness in the region we are sorry to say that the government is not buying the books it usually does imports of increased exports remain the same they want to cite his book fair he's one of the most important in the spanish speaking world the place where authors and publishers reach out to the public. says he tries to be here every year even bought a version of one of them it is important to be here and gain new clients our challenges to edit new titles to get people interested it is

a sacrifice because it's not cheap but worth it because we make connections with people from all around the world the theory lasts for about three weeks and authors from all over the world are expected to show up among them two nobel prize winners about a million people are expected to visit this book fair this year but argentina's economy continues to struggle with time for nation among other problems some that's why the organizers are giving all sorts of incentives so that people continue to buy books there are events for children as well so she comes with her family every year. this is the most important event of the year for us we come during the week because it think it is cheaper and we wait for the fed to buy the school books because we get much better prices here a major cultural event. that organizers hope won't be tarnished by the political differences that exist in argentina i will i just want to.

take out the headlines for you on al-jazeera south korea says pyongyang has announced that it will dismantle its nuclear test site next month and will invite four next ports to oversee its closure south korean president and welcome the move saying it shows. sincere about denuclearization on the peninsula or it also plans to match time zones with south korea nearly appointed u.s. secretary of state mike pompei i was in saudi arabia as part of a three day visit to the middle east he's been holding talks with the saudi foreign minister adeleke pair and meeting the crown prince mohammed bin solomon they were a nuclear deal is expected to top the agenda. and yemen a million man march in the capital sana has been held to honor a high ranking rebel leader killed in an airstrike by the saudi like coalition last

week funeral comes hours after saudi arabia says it has killed two rebel leaders in an air strike. u.s. president donald trump has avoided attending the annual white house correspondents' dinner for the second year running faster child became the first president in thirty six years to skip the event a college scholarship fund raiser celebrates the relationship between the media and white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders says taking trump's place instead attended a campaign rally in michigan turned out for the event in the east in an eastern rural county trump told the crowd he thinks he'll meet kim jong north korea's kim jong un very soon. i think we'll have a meeting over the next three or four weeks are going to be a very important meeting the d. nuclearization of the korean peninsula thank you thank you thank you thank you but we'll see how it go and again whatever happens happens look i may go when. i leave i'm not going to be

john kerry who makes that horrible. thank you. trump and his south in the south korean president moon j.n. have agreed to a summit between the u.s. and north korea they say it needs to happen soon the leader spoke on the phone late saturday with trump praising moon and kim jong un for reaffirming the goal of complete nuclearization on the peninsula as are the headlines counting the cost is next keep it here on al-jazeera. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs that matter to you. al-jazeera.