stake summit with the north korean leader kim jong un could be back on a day after he called it off mr trump says he's having a very productive dialogue to revive the discussions south korea has welcomed the move as a white house correspondent can really help it as he delivered the commencement address at the u.s. naval academy president trump did not directly mention his canceled summit with north korea's leader but said the u.s. is prepared for whatever happens next the best way to prevent war. is to be fully prepared for war earlier while speaking to reporters outside the white house trump expressed optimism about meeting with kim jong un even suggesting the june twelfth summit he cancelled a date earlier could be back on so we'll see what happens a good it would be that while we're talking to them now they very much want to do it we'd like to do it we're going to see what happens white house officials say given the lack of preparation the prospect of a june twelfth summit is almost impossible they say their goal now is making sure

if and when a meeting does occur that it's productive still on friday trying tweeted he believes his political opponents are attempting to thwart his efforts writing democrats are so obviously rooting against us in our negotiations with north korea indeed with us elections now months away that could shift control of congress from republicans to democrats the president's opponents are calling his adverts to negotiate with the north korean leader amateurish noting that the art of diplomacy is often much more difficult than the art of the deal on thursday the top democrat in the house of representatives chided trump over his council summit with kim jong un and he got this letter from the president saying ok never mind he must be having a giggle fit right there now and north korea despite domestic criticisms the white house says trump's focus on diplomacy and the goal of north korea's denuclearize

ation he continues to coordinate with his secretary of state mike pump a o. and his consulting with his national security advisor john bolton a man many blame for ultimately the railing the june summit kimberly how could al-jazeera washington to brazil now where the president has ordered the military to intervene in the nationwide truck drivers blockade the government and the truck drivers union had reached an agreement to suspend a strike that's paralyzed big parts of the country but not all drivers a respecting the new deal. has the story. the strike began last monday with truck driving a few years calling for lower fuel prices brazil is heavily reliant on its cargo being transported by road and after striking drivers are active roadblocks the country was very soon suffering fuel and food shortages especially in the major cities yesterday us forces fed that ice i called the federal security forces to

clear the roads and i'm asking the governors to do the same we will not allow people to go without basic products we will not allow consumers to go without products we will not allow hospitals to go without supplies to save lives. long lines formed outside gas stations where some kinds of fuel ran out while supermarkets reported shortages especially of perishable goods production at many auto factories was car allies to level one million tons of grain could not be shipped out of the ports public transport services were cut in some cities have a problem with this is worrying everyone there's no fruit or vegetables at the markets and there's almost nothing it's an absolute shame the markets don't have anything after a full day of negotiations the government to most of the unions reached agreements to suspend the strike the fifteen days the government has offered to lower the price of diesel by ten percent but that will leave it with

a bill this year with the economy fragile of more than one and a quarter billion dollars truck drivers say their income has been hit by higher fuel prices caused by rising world all prices and the weakening of brazil's currency the reality there are more votes for most of the drivers who want to brasilia never even asked about our demands but they want to reach a kind of an agreement but according to the information we have that are present just look for a meeting when they saw the proposal the government's offer has still to be approved by congress which will debate the issue next week many suppliers say it will take several days to return to normal by which time the tentative truce will be running out and brazil unless a long term settlement can be reached will have to face a similar crisis all over again. when osiris thousands of people have rallied in argentina's capital over the government's decision to seek a from the international monetary fund. that

angry with president sumac crizal sterile policies and attempts to finance his government with i.m.f. credits many protesters blame the fund for policies leading to the country's economic collapse in two thousand and one. still to come here on al-jazeera the hollywood producer harvey weinstein is charged with rape and sexual assault. and in the philippines will speak to people still living in evacuation centers one year off the siege of a southern city. binny's pink skies by the time my heart. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. we've got some rather disturbed weather coming in across parts of the middle east over the next couple of days i would have heard about tropical cycle was that in a moment plenty of showers around the black sea towards the caspian sea further

south it's down to try and it is generally hot be getting up to forty one celsius in baghdad or thirty therefore to run twenty six in kabul you might catch one or two showers and couple some a temperature for twenty six twenty seven degrees here over the next few days here it should stay dry fine and sunny baghdad picks up on the heat forty three degrees by the time we do come to sunday off enough in karate around thirty five celsius let's take a look at our sights lying there this is keeping major cause because very close to salon now making landfall pushing further north which is rico on through the next twenty four to thirty six hours easing lot of on the border with yemen pushing up towards southern parts of saudi arabia now the winds will fall out pretty quickly the rain will not in some parts could see maybe two hundred maybe three hundred millimeters of rain over the next couple of days flash flooding is inevitable and we are going to see major problems coming in here that wessel weather will not just way further north as for sunday brought us guys come in behind with still want to

shallow. the way that sponsored by qatar and nice. getting to the heart of the matter if not stuff i can see the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have told. would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification of look like there are to people think the peace for unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea hear their story and talk to al-jazeera.

welcome back ok let's just go through the top stories for you so far today exit polls are suggesting a majority of voted to change islands strict abortion as they projected a landslide win for the yes campaign with sixty eight percent in favor of repealing what's called the eighth amendment official results are expected on saturday afternoon. south korea has welcomed a statement from the u.s. president on trump in which he suggested that his high stakes summits with the north korean leader could be back on a day after he called it off trump's welcomed a statement from north korea saying it remained open to talks. brazil's president has ordered the military to clear the highways of truck drivers who are protesting about the increased price of diesel their union reached an agreement with the government to suspend the strike for some drivers are refusing to back down. avi weinstein's first appearance in court has been welcomed by women who've accused him of sexual misconduct the hollywood movie mogul has been charged with the rape and

the sexual abuse of two women a move being hailed as a landmark victory for the me two movements weinstein's korea imploded last year following allegations by more than one hundred women particle a now from washington . feared no more. harvey weinstein a once powerful producer will be prosecuted for rape and other sex offenses in iraq and there were words harm to be held right here there were hopes that he would fall yet they handcuffed the police made no attempt to shield him from the aggressive press dozens of women went public with similar stories on weinstein coercing them for sex targeting those who refused paying to have former spies harassed the ones who complained his alleged serial depravity hidden by the powerful spawned the me too movement which his lawyer seemed to mock outside of court the charges will not be believed by twelve people assuming we get twelve fair

people who are not consumed by the movement that seems to have overtaken this case his lawyer says he will attack the credibility of his accusers there could be a lot of them prosecutors say there could be many more charges in the days to come weinstein stayed silent but still sent a message bringing to court a book about a once discredited hollywood director whose work is still acclaimed what happens in this new york courtroom will help determine if history will remember weinstein as a producer or a predator whose crimes created a new feminist movement that sent the message to the world me too but time's up political hain al-jazeera washington. police in the u.s. state of nebraska made a startling discovery when they checked the back of a delivery truck on a routine traffic stop inside a secret compartment was more of an illegal drug than they or any nebraska police officer of a fine before a crime lab later confirmed it was fentanyl that's

a drug that's killing thousands of addicts across the u.s. john hendren takes up the story. it is one of the biggest seizures of an opioid drug in u.s. history in the hidden compartment of a truck nebraska state police found fifty three and a half kilograms of fentanyl worth twenty million dollars on american streets according to the u.s. drug enforcement agency that is potentially enough to kill twenty six million people you take that much fat all off the street you are saving lives and that's what our nebraska state troopers are doing driver felipe gin iommi naya and passenger nelson union were arrested for drug possession with intent to distribute knowing when you're made of the opioid epidemic in the u.s. has left police and medical services struggling to cope with the sheer number of overdoses and deaths it's a time bomb it's a prescription for disaster it totally has the potential to kill them if they're not expecting that the u.s. centers for disease control found that most of the drug overdoses in the u.s.

are due to fenton a drug thirty to fifty times as powerful as heroin i have never seen anything like that from my almost forty years of working and i believe that that overdose rate will increase i think once a drugs like this are in our marketplace if we don't find a way to interrupt that cycle more and more people will use it opioids kill one hundred fifteen americans every day this police video shows a man near death in skokie illinois revived by the drug nor can which many police in the country now carry a few songs signs grains of fencing all are enough to kill most people when they do overdose the lucky ones end up at places like stroger hospital in chicago but many don't make it at all in terms of the sheer volume it's really the biggest we've had that the rate of rise of fatalities in cook county has just stepped up up on the twenty fifteen we had about six hundred sixty five fatalities the next year we had

eleven hundred and for the past year we're collecting the statistics on. and it looks like it'll be at least at that level maybe a bit higher u.s. police say the strength of their recovering from black market drug dealers is more powerful than ever meaning its victims could in time be counted in the millions john hendren al-jazeera chicago health workers in the democratic republic of congo have set up an ebola awareness group to explain to communities how the disease is spread and that's after two infected people escaped from an isolation ward in a hospital in the city of mumbai in dhaka this week one went to a church for prayers with the other going to be with their family both of them died just hours later rafi as they may have infected other people the world health organization has confirmed at least twenty seven people have died from a bullet in the country from this latest outbreak. the u.s. house of representatives has approved

a measure requiring the pentagon to investigate whether u.s. troops tortured detainees in yemen hundreds of men have reportedly gone missing in the south of the country after they were allegedly picked up during a search for al qaeda fighters american officials say that u.s. forces have been involved in interrogations of detainees in yemen but they deny any participation in or knowledge of human rights abuses. israel supreme court has rejected the challenge by human rights groups to prevent soldiers from firing on protesters in gaza palestinians gathered along the gaza israel border again on friday to protest against the israeli blockade but this time soldiers fired tear gas in response one hundred thirteen palestinians have been killed by israeli forces since protests began at the end of march and smith has more. it's been a pretty quiet friday one of the quietest fridays in gaza have been for weeks and then within just the space of an hour really hundreds and hundreds of people were

bussed in here bussed in by hamas by islamic jihad another political groups in gaza and bussed in to protest again at the border now we know that we've been told one of the tactics following. recent protests has been slightly different the tactic has been not to go right up to the little try and breach it but to still protest is still trying to keep the israeli forces on their toes that's the tactic we've been told they're trying to deploy here the protest organizers and that certainly seems was what has happened here because really it was there was nobody here about an hour ago and then they all came they protested there's been tear gas and there have been a number of people injured by live fire on by tear gas that the israelis have been throwing over at least twenty people injured and they've been taken away to hospital for treatment but this as i say seems to be this new approach keeping the israeli military on its toes it was quiet all day and then suddenly this quick

sharp shock of a large protest group arriving seemingly out of thin air. thousands of people in the southern philippines are still living in evacuation camps a year after they were forced to leave their homes in the city of murali a five month long battle between i saw linked fighters and government forces destroyed large parts of the city jamila and gun met two women whose lives have been changed forever for what happened. says there were times when she just wanted to end her life for all her children have been missing for a year. not a dream of them every night a dream that their bodies are writing.