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north korea's leader promises to close his country's nuclear test side of the pledge though falls short of what the world wants. a launch has of sake of this is a live from doha also coming up a new u.s. secretary of state looks for gulf unity to confront iran as he begins his middle east for. refugees demand guarantees for safe return to me and monitoring the u.n. visit to their camps in bangladesh plus. add a lot of jokes about the cabinet members but i had to scrap all of those because everyone has been fired. donald trump skips a comedy roast in washington opting instead to rally supporters eight hundred kilometers away.

hello north korea's leader has promised to shut down his country's nuclear test site as soon as next month the south korean say kim jong un made the pledge when he met president moon j in on friday but there's no word on north korea's missile program or whether the regime will bow to demands to get rid of its nuclear weapons the test site that kim says he'll shut down is here south korea says north korea is happy to complete the process in full view of the world with outside journalists and experts in attendance kathy novak has more from seoul. south korea's presidential blue house has given a briefing on the historic meeting between me and the north korean leader kim jong un on friday we're told that kim jong un told monday injuring that meeting that north korea intends to shutdown in nuclear test facility and invite u.s.

and south korean experts and journalists to inspect it last weekend ahead of the summit north korea announced that it would stop nuclear and missile tests and shut down and nuclear test facility in the declaration that was signed between lindsay and kim jong il and there was a broad reference to completely denuclearization of the korean peninsula but no specific reference to steps that north korea would take in order to dismantle its nuclear program now this appears to be a new concession from north korea and head of the meeting that is expected between the u.s. president donald trump and kim jong un in addition north korea says it will also be changing its time zone back in twenty fifteen it changed its time by half an hour because it said that its original time was imposed by japanese imperialists cheering the time of japanese occupation well now it says it will put it back to match seoul time and no longer be a half hour different and you appointed u.s.

secretary of state mike pompei o is in saudi arabia as part of a three day trip to the region he's held talks with the saudi foreign minister had before having dinner with crown prince mohammed bin said a man future of the iran nuclear deal is high on the agenda and the new york times is reporting the pompei o told saudi leaders the gulf diplomatic crisis needs to end saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind and egypt imposed an economic embargo on qatar almost a year ago because the salumi has more from washington. 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 mike pompei a 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 mike pump aoe is

much closer to president trump 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 micron pale will also no doubt be talking about the situation in syria during this visit president tran has called on gulf countries to do more to stabilize the situation there in terms of troops and funding from saudi arabia pompei zero heads to israel and then to jordan on fighters in northern mali have killed at least forty people belonging to the ethnic community the attack took place on friday and saturday in the monaca region on the border with media regional gov us gov says al qaeda linked gunmen targeted mostly young men in the remote desert villages of our costs and. has been ongoing violence in northern parts of mali between two rival groups rebels

and al-qaeda linked fighters have been fighting for six years both seeking to control the region tora gravels known as the movement for the liberation of us our declared independence in april two thousand and twelve that was just after president obama due to mani toward a was pushed out in a coup three months later they lost ground to the al qaeda linked group called on saddam being impose sharia law and publicly destroyed many muslim shrines. in early twenty thirteen france stepped in and helped mali and forces take back the region two years later mali's government settled on a peace deal with the twa rag rebels but violence continues despite the presence of french troops and un peacekeepers france says northern mali has now become a haven for eisel fighters while quite quite a is the executive director of the african immigrant caucus he says these latest attacks are an attempt to provoke the twa race into

a larger conflict the two ahrens have hired. conflicts and disagreements with whichever government has been embalmed 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 is to accept and reality for all of our focus to us because it is based on welfare and ethnicity and there are only five percent of the mali in population and they will be landlocked and so they have always argued it did for this as you mentioned a few years back the inside the most recent. peace deal with the government. has to be holding why will the terrorists target them it will see in that. they are trying to get to arias to once again pick up pick up the gun and belies the

government of mali i think may be the reason why they are trying to target the two aaronson get them fighting again. a delegation from the united nations security council has arrived in bangladesh to meet some of the seven hundred thousand refugees who fled neighboring me and mine the un team is to visit camps in the coastal town of cox's bazar members will speak to refugees including those who say they were raped and tortured by the me and mom military also travel to refind state in myanmar where much of the violence occurred the un has described the military crackdown against reinjure as ethnic cleansing char strafford has more from one of the camps in cox is bizarre. 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 he could supply a long refugee camp an extension of that refugee camp 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 and mine are the conditions in these camps are bad already and they could get a lot worse in the next couple of months we now have strong 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 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 of thousands of people have also us led me on mass northernmost state where there's been more fighting between government forces and catchin rebels aid agencies say they fear for civilians trapped in the area without access to food on medicine as many on a hunger force the surge in violence is part of the conflict in catchin state it goes back almost sixty years. these are fighters for the kitchen and dependents filmed just last month patrolling the enclave in the remote northernmost region of me and and just within sight of government forces. and i am one too as long as the burmese 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 last territory. kitchen rebels say they have 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. if not diversity is at the heart of conflict right across the country when me and my again full independence from british rule in nine hundred forty eight powell was unexpectedly handed to the majority berman's a deal that excluded numerous if not minorities including the kitchen the country

has been at civil war ever since age of the hundred thirty it's nick groups and me and my have the kitchen is one of the most powerful clue. a seventeen year deal with the kitchen fell apart in two thousand and eleven and fighting and the decades long un reste has displaced needs to make one hundred twenty thousand kitchen. she doing now they don't fire at the front line the 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 government 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 in the hall and al-jazeera all right i want to check is next and then when we come back as central american migrants and refugees look for asylum in the u.s. we hear stories from those who've already made the journey. and the big announcement from armenia's ruling party as it tries to end anti-government protests. however because some rather unsettled and cool weather making its way into western parts of europe now it's the cloud still in from the atlantic is going to have it grim over the next few days actually temperatures really struggling areas of low pressure just piling in a very nasty storm this one actually which will run its way across the north of

france affecting southern parts of england look at that for temperature seven degrees celsius in london this is twenty degrees down what we had just over a week ago fourteen celsius in the cloud and rain across a good part of france heavy downpours into southern france and also around the pyrenees central areas on the other hand fine dry some gorgeous sunshine coming through and we're going to see the system make its way a further inland pushing east woods there a bit of snow over the the alps and the pair nice for a time even worse in london on monday six degrees celsius wet and windy it really will not feel anything like spring central air is still fine and dry twenty five celsius there in vienna and some lovely sunshine across the mediterranean front to try to across much of north africa there's some heat in place for cairo thirty five celsius could even touch thirty eight as we go on into monday there is that dry weather across northern most pos but always a chance of the yard showers across northern parts.

he has no passport yet he's politically active in two thousand trees. on the power of peaceful transition when. you know a part of the world some people think you are stupid and crazy if you do that mikhail saakashvili former president of georgia and governor of the odessa region in ukraine. zero. and again you're watching a reminder of our top stories north korea's leader has promised to shut down his

country's nuclear test site in may south korea says kim jong un made the pledge on friday in the summit with president. the new u.s. secretary of state michael peo is in saudi arabia as part of a three day trip to the region he said talks with several saudi leaders on payroll also reportedly push for an end to the economic embargoed against qatar. delegation from the u.n. security council has arrived in bangladesh to meet some of the seven hundred thousand refugees who fled from neighboring myanmar the team will discuss conditions there before visiting me and mas violence ravaged behind state. a group of five hundred refugees and migrants are about to reach the u.s. border after a month on the road they say they are scaping excuse me they say they're escaping from violence and persecution in central america u.s. president donald trump wants them turned away probably analysts reports from san

diego. him full of migrant rights supporters marched through downtown san diego near the end of a two hundred twenty five kilometer journey on foot from los angeles to showing solidarity for a group of hundreds of migrants from central america traveling to lure the us mexico border while the trumpet ministration is going to meet refugees at the border with guns and walls we're going to meet them with open arms and open hearts once the migrants reach the border they will ask for protected refugee status in the u.s. says an attorney accompanying them on their journey even have to show that you will suffer persecution in your country of origin based on your race religion nationality political opinion or because you are a member of our particular social group. because the central american migrants are fleeing rampant violence and not persecution as north traditionally defines our

well they may find it difficult to obtain a siloed central american countries have some of the highest murder and violent crime rates in the world we spoke to raina came from el salvador last year she asked us to disguise your identity for fear of reprisals against family members back home she fled after criminal gangs attacked her family and my son in law and left his dead body on my doorstep. they shot him fifteen times he was young only twenty three years old than our entire family all of us were targeted once rayna reached the us she requested asylum then spent the next nine months in detention rayna is waiting for a hearing to decide whether she will get asylum she has no doubt about the fate that awaits her family if they're sent back. at that and i'm certain he would be

going to our deaths u.s. president donald trump harshly denounces groups of central americans traveling to the u.s. calling them dangerous and the border patrol has begun subjecting migrants to harsher treatment like separating children from parents in detention reyna as a message for trump. and singer precedent that all i would tell president trump to have mercy on us and to give us an opportunity to live for migrants like her asylum is a matter of life or death robert oulds al jazeera san diego armenia's ruling party says it will not put forward a candidate for prime minister as it tries to end a political crisis that politicians will meet on tuesday to vote on a replacement for surgeon who resigned as demonstrations continue to get him robin forest near walker reports now from finance or. this convoy has all the euphoria

of a victory parade one that stretches for kilometers. while the capital takes some rest the opposition movement is travelling to the regions to show the republican party that the whole country is now behind one bad week. on tuesday there will be a crucial vote in parliament to decide on a new prime minister and the crowds know who they want for the job because. they. began this movement with a two week walk across all media in april the cold medians to join him and reject the country's unpopular leader said. the former journalist but long be a critic and served jail time for his activism. but while his faction is only

a minority and pollard's the simple message has attracted thousands frustrated by the political elite and inspired by his revolutionary line which. i do not want our only people who have fallen. to the protests of the season on the spot is somehow different you can feel the excitement i can see the ads you see placed the hopes and expectations on the face you know these people you want the best things are being on the manse i don't know he's here we just didn't want to give each other he gives the power to us to the people not just to one person or to people but to everyone that's why we love him so so it is changing all this. mean then dignitary. heard the news. saw the car update system it's changing. this was the moment mr. announce to the crowds that

the republican party he looked to be fielding a candidate on tuesday i would now how it does seem to be with the people of robin first you will come out zero balance and i a former president joyce banda has returned to malawi after four years of self-imposed exile despite the risk of a rest over corruption allegations banda fled malawi in twenty fourteen after losing power in the cash gate scandal when tens of millions of dollars were stolen from the state hundreds of supporters were at the airport in blantyre to welcome him home when she arrived from johannesburg. totally surprised but to me no putin and i want to wrigley to that you came. all the australian government has announced almost four hundred million dollars to help save the great barrier reef large parts

of the reef have been dying off because of climate change and coastal pollution the new money will go towards improving water quality and killing destructive starfish conservation groups say the government is ignoring the biggest threat to global warming. we were at the range faces a number of challenges we've had significant bleaching events in twenty sixteen and twenty seven. the world in the great barrier reef is no different deal with. the crown of thorns starfish and australia's recycling efforts are under threat after announcement by china previously china imported hard the world's recycled plastic and paper but no more as andrew thomas reports now that leaves places like australia would know where to send much of its recycled waste. after they put out their bins of recyclable rubbish most australians think no more

about it but this is just the start of a process which is facing a crisis. in australia trucks bring the mixed plastics paper glass and metal to a facility like this one to be separated until recently about all the plastic and paper was then shipped to chile chinese companies were importing and processing nearly half the world's plastics and paper recycling but in january china's government in effect banned the import of recyclable waste. bottles that were up to ten percent contaminated meaning up to a tenth of a bale of one type of recyclable plastic could in fact be non-recyclable material australian centers like this one had to do only a rough city of the initial material the fact that it's made up of different thought. is contaminated the bottle of water it's made out of a material on the cap of mind out of a different material. which is made out of a different material again

a cap. would be regarded as contaminated. china now says only five percent of the chimp will to compete so-called contamination there isn't a plant in australia that can produce the bundle that can pass that. even the operators of this new one in townsville can't promise less than eight percent contamination the business model is broken the supply is a constant the demands being walked out. and yet there is a real challenge to find a market for those recyclables in both the short term and the longer term. some of the oversupply is being taken by australian processes playing under half what they were for plastics and now taking away the bundles of paper for free but they can't take it away no one is admitting to stockpiling big mountains of plastic in paper or a fire risk creating them breaks laws but the excess has to go somewhere about ten percent of everything that comes into this is just but can't be recycled and it's

found out put in by and that will the landfill the concern now is that a lot more may end up in landfill those are ninety percent plastic that words have gone to china. those in the industry say long term this could be an opportunity for a more sophisticated process. within australia but in the short term they need in effect a subsidy from government that means higher taxes to keep the big elections going andrew thomas city of china has unveiled the world's biggest movie studio which its billionaire founder will rival hollywood the a billion dollar complex which includes a theme park covers an area equivalent to more than two hundred football pitches the owners dalí and wonder group are aiming to host at least five hollywood projects in the first year of full operation ishi son is a film director and executive director filming east festival he says the main aim

of the complex is to boost china's domestic market. as a filmmaker myself worked in both the u.k. and china i see one doubt what they are doing it's like to show they have the resolve this potential and then bishes to flex it it. still must stick filmmaking as well as international side so there will really poost the chinese food industry and also turn qingdao the very lovely and. this city i still hope for the international film make to me in chinese film market is huge it's lots of potential lots of opportunities so to be honest i do feel very positive about that and those so the policy is the ferns censorship is different

however for the new talents is a completely new wall so you feel that energy is you know so the new generation of filmmakers from china they've been studying in different places in in the world in western countries so i think in their generation i mean even younger than me it's a time for dom to try to marry the western and eastern culture in the filmmaking. of for the second year in a row u.s. president donald trump has skipped an annual gathering of celebrities political leaders and journalists in washington he chose instead to attend a campaign style rally in the state of michigan is dying as the. you may have heard i was invited to another event tonight the white house correspondents dinner it was what i'd much rather be in washington michigan that are watching.

president donald trump do cheers from supporters at this michigan rally as he took swipes at everyone from the press to former u.s. presidents flew to michigan snow big hundreds of journalists and celebrities who turned out for the annual white house correspondents' dinner in washington last year he was the first president in nearly four decades to boycott the gala where comedians and correspondents traded barbs with the commander in chief as the press gathered for dinner and jokes about the president germany only president still watches who wants to be a millionaire and things me. although i'm not sure you'd get very far and you get to like the third question and be like i have to phone the fox and friends. trump stood before an audience of roughly ten thousand toting the success of his get tough approach with north korea interrupted by chance of

a nobel nobel from the audience i think will have a meeting over the next three or four weeks are going to be a very important meeting the nuclearization of the korean peninsula the work you will be trumps nearly ninety minute speech was a chance for him to connect with his base mostly white middle class voters who continue to support his policies but it was also a missed opportunity to connect with the press and possibly show a sense of humor china doesn't ideas guy he's got loads of ideas you gotta love him for that he wants to give teachers dances and i support that because then they can sell them for things they need like supply. less. mostly. the president did send a surrogate his press secretary sarah huckabee sanders stood in for trump and for her she said it was an opportunity to interact with the press in

a less contentious setting diane estabrook al jazeera washington. this is al jazeera let's get around to pull the top stories north korea's leader has promised to shut down his country's nuclear test site in may the south koreans say kim jong un made the pledge when he met president jay in on friday and there's no word about north korea's missile program or whether the regime will bow to demands to get rid of its nuclear weapons the test site that kim says he'll shut down is here south korea says north korea is happy to complete the process in full view of the world with outside journalists and experts in attendance the new u.s. secretary of state my pompei is in saudi arabia as part of a three day trip to the region he's held talks with several saudi leaders will also

reportedly push for an end to the economic embargo against qatar. armed fighters in northern mali have killed at least forty people belonging to the ethnic community the attack took place on friday and saturday in the main narco region on the border with media the regional governor says al qaeda linked gunmen targeted mostly young men in the desert villages of. and. a delegation from the united nations security council has arrived in bangladesh to meet some of the seven hundred thousand or hindu refugees who fled neighboring myanmar the u.n. team is visiting camps in the coastal town of cox's bazar they'll talk to re-injure refugees including those who say they were raped and tortured by the media and more military they also travel to refind state in myanmar where much of the violence happened the u.n. has called the military crackdown against the regime ethnic cleansing.

the australian government has announced almost four hundred million dollars to help save the great barrier reef large parts of the reef been dying off due to climate change and coastal pollution the new money will go towards improving water quality and killing destructive starfish conservation groups say the government is ignoring the biggest threat to global warming those are the headlines we're back in half an hour right now it's inside story. on counting the cost why iran's nuclear deal and other powerful factors are at play in a new game of the world it could mean steeper prices at the pump. and into korean summit what would a saw in relations mean for their economies. counting the cost. in the line of fire of israeli snipers palestinian journal.