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this is a special night for the really really great people donald trump welcomes the americans released by north korea and then tweets he'll meet with kim jong il and in singapore. hello i'm. also coming up israel hits iran's bases in syria kucing iranian forces firing rockets on the occupied heights. it is sworn in as malaysia's prime minister as his supporters celebrate on the streets of kuala lumpur. and at least forty nine people are dead and many more missing after a bust in central kenya. he

was president donald trump has confirmed a date and a venue for an a for historic summit with north korea's leader as is customary the president announced this on twitter saying the highly anticipated meeting between kim jong un and myself will take place in singapore on june twelfth we will both try to make it a very special moment for world peace. this comes after president trump welcome back three americans to the united states who were released from jail in north korea the prisoners landed back on u.s. soil at an army base outside washington on thursday they were freed after u.s. secretary of state might travel to north korea reportedly excepted the u.s. proposal to grant amnesty to the detainees live now to heidi joe castro who's in washington and so we finally have a date and a location for this historic summit between president trump and kim. that's why

marry him the date is june twelfth and the place is single poor now this location was widely expected in the us as trump was debating between singapore and the d.m.z. he was out the d.m.z. in days earlier singapore is seen as neutral ground for both countries it hosts a u.s. military base as well as a north korean embassy and it is a country experienced in holes in hosting these high stakes diplomatic talks at the last minute we saw that in two thousand and fifteen when it successfully hosted a summit between the leaders of china and taiwan now singapore is about five thousand kilometers from pyongyang so this would be the the furthest that north korea's leader kim jong un has traveled from home and we know that north korea has made a number of concessions leading to this point they include promises of stopping testing of its ballistic missiles and nuclear programs it did not object to u.s. military exercises near its border and the final offer to go that it removed as

early as yesterday was the release of those three american prisoners who are now home in the united states now earlier today the vice president mike pence speaking to u.s. media said that the u.s. has not made any concessions in exchange he also said that trump was going toward this summit with the attitude of finding out exactly what north korea will want he may not find out until he gets there and the hasty acceptance and preparations for the summit which we have seen come about in just the last couple of months has brought great concerns a number to many people in the ministration the fact that the u.s. state department has been gutted has no ambassador to south korea has been seen as troubling signs for many however trump as always professed this morning on twitter as you mention that he is optimistic and in his words he will both try to make it

a very special moment for world peace but we'll see miriam we will thank you from washington heidi jo castro. israel says it has destroyed nearly all of iran's military infrastructure in syria in a wave of overnight strikes off to what it said were iranian attacks on israeli positions in the occupied golan to iran has yet to respond officially but senior iranian if politicians have denied that iran was behind any attacks dozens of targets were hit across southwestern syria according to a map posted by these ready defense force on social media israel said that iran could force of five twenty rockets from syria at israeli frontline positions in the north of the golan heights the golan is a mountainous part of syria that was seized by israel in the one nine hundred sixty seven war and a move that has not been internationally recognized harry forsett has mall. cockpit

video from israeli warplanes is they carried out the largest and most prolonged air strike in syria since the start of its civil war israel says it hit dozens of iranian military targets as well as five syrian anti-aircraft installations israel says it was a response after iranian forces launched twenty rockets at israeli targets in the occupied golan heights we have made it very clear that we are here to defend ourselves those who started this round of violence were the ring ins who attacked israel we responded accordingly and we are now waiting to see how the iranians will respond israeli forces in the occupied golan heights were on alert for any further response at the same time local residents were told to go about their business as normal schools were open no restrictions placed on large gatherings israel says of the twenty rockets that were fired towards the occupied golan heights from syrian territory they all either fell in syrian territory or they were intercepted what

followed was a massive and prolonged response from the israeli armed forces a real escalation in the kind of force that israel has so far been prepared to use within syria it's a message to deter any further such action and it's also making the most of an opportunity to do as much damage to rein in forces as possible israel's government has long warned of a growing threat from iranian bases and missiles inside syria it seems to have decided to act sooner rather than later and. we have of course hit all the infrastructure not all but almost all of the iranian infrastructure in syria they must remember the saying if it rains here it will pour over there and i hope that we finish this chapter and that everyone got the message. syrian state media said syrian air defenses it inserted most of the incoming rockets over the capital damascus but also confirmed that a radar station and a weapons storage site was struck. with iranian state television said syria had

given a quote crushing response to. israeli attacks the strikes were carried out hours after israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was in moscow saying he'd come away confident that russia would not prevent what he called israel's freedom of action a day later a different tone from the russian foreign minister. that we see this is a very alarming development we believe that all issues must be resolved through dialogue during our multiple contacts with the leadership of both iran and israel including during yesterday's meeting between putin and netanyahu we underline the necessity of avoiding any actions that might be seen as mutually provocative. for now this latest flurry of cross border violence has subsided but all sides are aware that a new bar has been set for its intensity and that it could all too easily rise again. well aaron joins us live now from the occupied golan heights the security cabinet meeting what is the latest you're hearing about this harry. well yes these

meetings can drag on for a long time we understand that it was due to get underway at least a little over an hour ago in jerusalem benjamin netanyahu having come back from moscow with what he thought was a fairly clear signal that russia would not interfere in what israel sees as its freedom of action within syria in order to defend its own interests so that will be presumably one of the key points of discussion exactly what israel is capable of doing how far israel can push this because there are very important calculations that must have gone in to this decision they had been trailing the idea of such an iranian strike against an israeli military target for some days publicly unusually in the media and then when it did come they said that was when they launched what seemed to be a pretty well marshalled round of extremely extensive strikes the calculation will be that it's enough perhaps more than enough to to dissuade iran from carrying out

such an attack again and also that it was an opportunity to do as much damage as it could to iranian interests within syria at a time before as far as israel is concerned the the critical mass of iranian weaponry had gathered there the question really is whether this is a position that holds going forward whether this is as the government says the end of this particular military chapter or whether it opens up a much more direct much more fluid situation in terms of israel and its face off against iran here on its northern borders all right thanks very much from the golan heights harry forsett with the latest let's head to teheran now and saying bus driver he has standing by and saying i don't have been any immediate statements from the iranian government about these israeli strikes in syria but have you been hearing anything in the past hour. well it

has to be said as far as leaders here into her own are concerned who shot first is still very very much an open question and after such strong allegations that after such a seemingly large attack has taken place that israel has blamed iran for do you think you that we would be hearing from the presidency the foreign ministry the supreme leader himself or any of the military establishment but we haven't heard from any of the senior leadership who we have heard from are members of iran's parliament still a very important and influential body in iran specifically members of the parliamentary commission on foreign policy and national security one m.p. speaking to the media flatly denying that iran had anything to do with the cross border strikes between syria and israel from yesterday saying that it was syria that was responding to repeated attacks by israel who they labeled as an aggressor against syria of violating the syrian border another m.p. who spoke told a zero had

a warning for israel saying that the days of hidden run tactics are over the supreme leader said this in a recent speech as well and he warned that these actions of by israel may result in the eventual liberation of the golan heights so very strong words coming from senior members of parliament here in iran at a time when the escalation in syria where iran is very heavily committed is made even more dangerous iran has its back up against the wall with the devolution of the nuclear deal earlier this week all right thanks very much with the latest from tehran same best writing that i'm now joined by al-jazeera senior political analyst . and. israel and iran have been on a collision course in syria what is the timing of these suggest about the way that . well as. chancellor merkel said we are definitely now on the brink between peace and war in the middle east and certainly this of course

has happened before president trumps the quotation about withdrawing from the nuclear deal in fact these radio attacks on iranian positions in syria last night are the third in a series is not the first time. what's a bit awkward about this whole thing is the wording of what is happening the description of what's happening so for example israel says we are retaliating against iranian attacks when in fact this is the third time israel attacks iran young targets russia says there has to be a dialogue between israel and iran about stuff like the force and violence when the same time russia is involve itself in military actions in syria for the third year in order to impose a military solution on the country but has been through says america is afraid would aid for its own cities from iran's nuclear deal while the united states is

basically threatening iran with force if it goes back to enriching around him so really it's going out of control but there's no possibility of getting a grip on the wording and the description of the situation because each one of the parties claims to be a victim of a situation whereby they themselves play an escalation role and there doesn't seem to be anyone mediating objectively between them and the interesting thing is that the latest this latest outbreak of violence comes after prime minister netanyahu was in russia meeting with president putin he seemed to be is very much aware of what israelis are doing it's absolutely and you know apparently according to netanyahu was told something and as we heard from james bays the next day the foreign minister lavrov are saying something else but. look it's clear to many that it's not going to be the united states nor apparently europe that has

a leverage to mediate between israel and iran or at least try to calm the situation as it were between israel and first because israel is intent on not taken the dialogue path because they want to take on iran because they don't accept iran's press. to syria they've already said many many times that this is sort of line to it's only the russians today that on able to really mediate if you will between iran and israel to trying to calm the situation but certainly doesn't seem like the iranians want to take the russians want to take the role seriously because they talk about regret they talk about bush is that the two parties calm the situation but in fact russia has control over the airspace of syria is not stepping in in order to calm the saul's in that region ok thank you milan. and with al-jazeera still ahead on the program the official apology to the man illegally kidnapped by

british spies it is said to be tortured by market down fees in libyan security services. and when the love of a comes arians the medics who met and fell for each other as they helped injured protesters on the gaza israel border. how i was there were some rather lively spring showers seem to get parts of china central i was in particular say the heaviest of the downpour southerly winds will bring a few on shore showers into the fosse out hong kong at around thirty degrees celsius on friday picking up to around thirty one by sas time the show is that the states do gather together a little convergence line you can see the winds coming in from the north meeting up with those subtle is what we do get that the i was forced to call condense it rises and we get these big thunderhead so some very heavy downpours the possibility of

some localized flooding from these then as we go on through the weekend meanwhile we have seen some very alive the showers into northern india this is indian administered kashmir and you say the high oil has caused some crop damage ripping these on rocks and fruit. from the trees the big house is now in the process of easing away but it has so many coals the fair degree of chaos brought the scars to come back in behind by heavy showers will continue across bangladesh farm of these to be investors and lobby shows to get to the south of india also into supplying forty three cells just for not cool still very very hot here stays hot across a good policy of central and northern india actually new delhi at forty two degrees washing off in karate with a high of thirty fall. with the most billion people in the world production is under increasing strain to keep

pace with the growing global population. sirrahs environmental solutions program discovers new ways of feeding the world sustainably. eighty thousand just from this bit of liquid that's unbelievable. see there's the vegetable of the scene right there. on al jazeera. welcome back a quick look at the top stories now it's been confirmed the historic summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korea's kim jong un will take place in singapore on june the twelfth. those details right now is just after trouble welcome back

three u.s. citizens who were freed by pyongyang on wednesday as a goodwill gesture ahead of the talks. and israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is defending its other night strikes on syria. which destroyed nearly all of iran's military infrastructure that saying iran crossed a red line iran has yet to respond officially. i had to mohammed has been sworn in as malaysia's prime minister following his unexpected election when the ninety two year old was sworn in as the country's seven by king sultan mohammed the fifth on state mattera govern malaysia in the eighty's and ninety's when makes him the oldest elected leader in the world you replace as who was tainted by a corruption scandal as go to wayne hey who's in kuala lumpur and way to describe for us the the mood the atmosphere of that. yes what

has just gone big nights in call of the war and as you can see there is still many people out and about hoping to catch a glimpse of the new prime minister of malaysia in my head g m ahmed who is just being here at this hotel giving and media conference a couple of hours after he was sworn in as prime minister that swearing in ceremony happening at the palace here in kuala lumpur just before ten o'clock in the evening local time and they seem to be a few delays throughout the day to that ceremony taking place the expectation was that it would happen sometime in the morning thursday morning the morning after the election because that is what we've seen happen before but i just say they seem to be a few delays no explanation as to why that might have been the case but it probably would have caused a few new among these supporters worried about any last minute tricks from the outgoing government from the outgoing prime minister and his coalition that's been

in power for more than sixty years but it wasn't to be it was a smooth transition we understand there are reports that resigned has spoken to my head. and he has congratulated him on becoming prime minister and said that he will ensure that this will be a smooth handover of power. and any indications as to what my attempt to hama does next he faces a number of challenges. yes he certainly does it's not going to be easy bringing this coalition together it's a fairly disparate collection of four parties with many different views on many different issues so that's not going to be easy from one point of view he has already formed most of the senior members of these governments are no doubt in the next day possibly already on friday he will get down to business and start getting sorted what sort of policies they're going to implement first that we much interest to about what happens with and what you've written this is the former deputy prime

minister who's in jail on sodomy charges charges which he says are politically motivated in the past has said that he will hand over power to them within the next two years so i would become the prime minister once a royal pardon is granted and he's released from prison he was asked about that in the media conference a short while ago and you know he was just feely jovial during that media conference and didn't really commit to any time frame for that possible handover but he just said look that the party the coalition may need my experience with a fairly riah grin so he certainly enjoying the moment all right thank you wayne hay with all the latest from kuala lumpur. rescue as in kenya are searching for survivors after a dam disaster that killed at least forty nine people with several more still missing the dam in the rift valley around one hundred fifty kilometers north of the capital nairobi bust its banks on wednesday evening washing away almost an entire

village dam is one of seven in the area owned by a commercial farm and residents a concern more of them may be unsafe flash floods in kenya have already killed at least one hundred people since launch andrew simmons has more from caressa county in eastern kenya. the number of dead still appears to be rising and that's because no one is sure of how many people are missing rescues have been going on. very dramatic ones a lot of brave people the kenya red cross trying to get people out of the mud in the flood waters and the daybreak of destroyed buildings on a farm known as the patel damn it was a very large the size of a small holding really three acres as quoted by dr journal more angry from the crew can see health department as the minister the minister of the county and he says this is a disaster he fears that there could be further birth in the area because there are

more dams nearby it is a really tragic situation and there are about thirty people in hospital with severe injuries some of them including some children and a pregnant woman and two newborns the british prime minister has apologized to a man who was illegally kidnapped by british spies and sent to be tortured by moammar gadhafi is libyan security services. who are suspected of having links to al qaeda in the early two thousand and was a victim of rendition as part of the u.s. war on terror which was backed by the u.k. as lawyers that had to fight for years before the british authorities finally accepted his story aren't seeing reports. if revenge is a dish best served cold then the fourteen years it took. and his wife fatima bhutto to get their apology will have been worth it's coming out of the state. the attorney general in the british parliament

a place which so often hears lectures about how other countries should have be the rule of law the government finally admitted what had always said that it's had illegally kidnapped him and handed him over to the gadhafi government in libya to be tortured on behalf of her majesty's government i apologize reservedly we are profoundly sorry for the ordeal which you both suffered and our role in it. in two thousand and four the british prime minister tony blair was eager to win over gadaffi is part of the american war on terror. and his wife were taken from thailand by officials from the british intelligence service m i six it was suspicions they were linked to al qaeda through the libyan islamic fighting group which was rebelling against gadhafi but ten years on in the same british government was helping bring gadhafi down and in the rubble of tripoli the files emerged detailing the relationship between m i six the american cia and libyan intelligence

. it took a full six years for the u.k. authorities to accept his arguments he had asked for nothing except an apology. and for whom we do funny today the british government has acknowledged and apologized for the suffering of my wife and myself years ago i thank them for this brave step the british government has learned a lesson from this and i hope other governments around the world will learn it as well. and outside the u.k. parliament. held up the letter from the british prime minister offering the total apology for what they'd done the u.k. lost its way when i got mixed up in the rendition of an innocent pregnant woman and an end to get off it just didn't but today i think it stood on the right side of history by recognising its mistakes and by apologizing. and so where does this leave the reputation of m i six it's worth bearing in mind that spies do what their

political masters tell them to and in the years after the september the eleventh attacks in new york the americans were doing rendition a loss and presume of the british no that they should sue but times change and so do political considerations and this is the people made can come back to haunt them . the torture cells was held in a goal the political architects of u.k. foreign policy then including former prime minister tony blair can now rest as easy as the m i six agents and the law is drawn into the scandal but had it not been for the persistence of human rights lawyers this day would never have come lawrence leo jazeera london an australian scientist who travelled to switzerland to end his life on his own terms has died one hundred four year old david goodall did not suffer from a terminal illness but felt the quality of his life had deteriorated the boston assen ecologist said he hoped his experience would encourage politicians to consider allowing australians to make their own decisions about death good or wanted no

funeral and requested that his body be donated to medicine. now after weeks of deadly protests and clashes along the gaza strip border with israel a positive story has emerged to volunteer medics have fallen in love after meeting amid the chaos stephanie decker reports from gaza. there is an unexpected love story. of a both volunteer medics treating the injured during the weekly protests along israel's fence with gaza they'd never met before. the first time she impressed me is when she went directly to the border. to secure one of the injured at the fence . that moment was captured on video a deal signals to the israeli soldiers that she is a medic coming to help collect an injured protestor. i raised my hands to show the soldiers that we are medics and to stop shooting it was the first time

i met my that was a really beautiful day for me and we worked together to create the injured i felt something strange in my stomach. and a producer suffered tells her. that strange thing is called love my dear. ideal is one of six sisters and three brothers her parents are happy about the engagement but even that is a challenge in gaza these days when an immigrant i never expected him to ask me to marry him because our families faces really tough financial conditions but i feel god is compensating. my life has been really hard i don't want anything from life except this. they got engaged in the medical tent where they met in kind eunice it's one of the five protest points along israel's fence and they often pass by here during the week if you young boys and men remain and sometimes their injuries

israel's fence is only a few hundred meters away. so what now for this young couple. now we are focusing on the great march of return but you know with a comic situation here it's terrible there is no work i need to make enough money for our wedding which could take me one or two years i say this even in the front of it father are going pied my situation. they don't get paid for their volunteer work and it comes with real risk is really snipers of short emergency medics as well as unarmed protesters and journalists the protests are expected to culminate on may the fifteenth during what palestinians call the nakba or catastrophe it's the seventieth anniversary of the creation of the state of israel ideally mild will be there to help treat the injured and they fear there could be many stephanie decker on jazeera and eunice gaza. lovely story well as much more in our website is the address al jazeera dot com.

here's a quick recap of the top stories u.s. president donald trump has confirmed a date and venue for a historic summit with north korea's leader as is customary the president made this announcement on twitter saying the highly anticipated meeting will take place in singapore on june twelfth he also wrote that he hoped they would both try to make it a very special moment for world peace those details were announced just after trying welcome back three u.s. citizens who were freed by pyongyang on wednesday as a gesture of goodwill ahead of the talks castro has this update from washington now this location was widely expected in the u.s. as trump was debating between singapore and the d.m.z. he ruled out the d.m.z. in days earlier singapore is seen as neutral ground for both countries it hosts a u.s. military base as well as the north korean embassy and it is a country experienced in holes in hosting these high stakes diplomatic talks at the

last minute we saw that in two thousand and fifteen when it successfully hosted a summit between the leaders of china and taiwan israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is defending overnight strikes in syria which the israelis say destroyed nearly all of iran's military infrastructure there saying iran crossed a red line israeli army says it dozens of targets across southwestern syria to holland has yet to respond officially but senior iranian politicians have denied iran was behind any attacks. mohammed has been sworn in as malaysia's prime minister following his unexpected election victory the ninety two year old was sworn in as the seventh leader by king sultan mohammed the fifth on thursday military govern malaysia in the eighty's and ninety's when makes him the oldest elected leader in the world he replaces who was tainted by corruption scandal. rescuers in kenya searching for survivors of a dam disaster that killed at least forty nine people with several more still

missing a dam in the rift valley around one hundred fifty kilometers north of the capital nairobi bust its banks on wednesday evening washing away almost an entire village the dam is one of seven in the area owned by a commercial farm and residents are worried about more of them possibly being unsafe update with the top stories of the more news in twenty five minutes time do join me then but it starts now.