every. colombia's military killed eleven dissidents of the former rebel group. as the. next month's presidential runoff. welcome to al-jazeera headquarters and. also ahead south korea's president. considers joining kim jong un and donald trump as preparations continue for a high stakes summit as president names that interim prime minister has promised. to resolve the political turmoil. and

chaos and across brazil as a truck driver strike enters its second week just thought the government some of their demands. eleven dissidents members of the former rebel group in the country south the defense minister says they've been threatening politicians entrepreneurs and civilians in the region the operation comes a day after the first round of colombia's presidential election the government has been one of the main issues. this demonstrates our renewed ability to dismantle this residual group that has brought so much paid to this area of colombia we are continuing operations in the area. all colombians will be voting in a presidential runoff in three weeks the choice is between a critic of the government's historic paste and what fox and a former leftist who supports the agreement

a latin america editor lucien human reports from. york in his human is and his wife struggle to make a living selling orange juice there among the millions of colombians who voted for . the first left wing presidential candidate with a serious chance of winning. i voted for pedro because i'm tired of the old political class that doesn't care about the poor it's time that the working class gets a chance at a decent life. the former mayor of the capital bubble who was once an m nineteen urban guerilla has tapped into massive discontent with the political establishment he is seen as a champion of the poor and the marginalized but high macassar warns that pedro who is close to venezuela's hugo chavez is a wolf in sheep's clothing i don't think you're going to get them he must be clear petro is a populist disguising as a leftist populism can also be disguised as a center or right wing but in the end it's a strategy to get power and to not let it go. on the opposite extreme of the

ideological divide is evander seen as a younger version of his mentor conservative former president. he represents the status quo and those opposed to historic peace deal signed with park rebels the most. inexperienced but charismatic at this rally he comforted a woman whose missing mother was kidnapped by far ten years ago promising to see that justice is done. the the showdown between the two candidates will undoubtedly impact a still fragile peace agreement that ended more than fifty years of armed conflict with the fark better and ok i have less than three weeks to win over colombians who voted for other more moderate candidates in the first round but many people tell us that they would rather cast a blank ballot rather than vote for a president they don't want. and that gives dougie who won the most votes a decided advantage through is wasting no time trying to assure colombians he won't

take from the rich to give to the poor rather that he will make the poor rich or at least middle class if he can defeat the fear factor he might stand a chance to see in human. well but out of. every such of armed conflict and peace process at the catholic university of columbia and his dispassionate the government's claims about the operation against fox dissidents certainly there is a clear message from the government great the day after the first round of elections to deliver such a lethal blow against a group which has not been clearly identified as a renegade certain and they have been identified as being. doing. extortion threats but it's not very clear. what

their identity yes' they maybe are but it's not clear in that sense was a leaf will blow you don't know if that was a military operation or a land. ration but that certainly puts a high. bar for sure whether it be. or acting in the territory doing things so it such as it storing business and government. let's move on to other news now u.s. president says he'll meet japan's prime minister shinzo if his summit with kim jong un goes ahead with trump spoke to a on the following after which the two leaders agreed that they want the complete and permanent dismantlement of north korea's nuclear program as the latest move in a flurry of diplomatic maneuvers surrounding the possible trumka meeting in singapore next month an american delegation led by veteran diplomat son kim a former nuclear negotiator with pyongyang is holding talks with north korean

officials to prepare for the summit meanwhile south korea says its president could also have a seat at the table it comes after moon surprise meeting with kim at the demilitarized zone on saturday let's get more on this now we're joined by our correspondent andrew thomas who is live for us in the south korean capital seoul suppressions well on the way the summit is going to happen ender. well it certainly feels that in some ways and there are two things going on here those what's happening in singapore now we have a u.s. team and the north korean team both there to sort out logistics protocol security arrangements those sort of practicalities i can't see the big any take ups there so that's going full steam ahead simle taney as to that though is what you referred to the talks going on just on the north korean side of the demilitarized zone just about an hour away from seoul and we saw the u.s. delegation leave about two hours ago from the seoul hotel to take part in more talks they've already going on for two days there as you say by song kim

a very experienced diplomat who used to be the ambassador here he knows the nuclear issue backwards from the u.s. perspective he'll be meeting with north korea's vice foreign minister chase on he again she knows this issue backwards she's a fluent english speaker they will be nothing out the issues to be discussed on the agenda and that is where the sticking point might come because for all the action in terms of preparation unless they do the groundwork they really get to grips with what is meant by denuclearization and finding some common ground when it comes to the definition of that that both the united states going to agree on and north korea can agree on unless they reach that point then i'm not sure that donald trump will be prepared to meet kim jong il and all the other way around because the nuclear as a should means different things to different people but in americans it means unilateral denuclearization by north korea then giving up their weapons full stop from the north korean point of view well they might be talking about something much longer term maybe giving up some missiles but not all the definitions are very very

far apart unless that ground work can be done where the two countries can agree at least as a starting point some middle ground then it's still possible the summit won't yet take place and there isn't long to do about two weeks it's not a lot of time given the complexities of the issues yeah absolutely adjure the americans do seem to agree with seems to agree rather with the japanese promise to pay on one. denuclearization means that they want the complete and permanent disarmament of north korea's nuclear program as we mentioned they spoke on the phone on monday reports that they'll meet in person to discuss all of this before that june twelfth summit what are you hearing about this. well we think the probably meet at the g. seven summit that's happening in cuba back in canada on june the eighth it's possible she's well they might go via washington or on the way back via washington but either way they should meet at the g. seven itself and it's quite possible as well that shinzo are they might go across to singapore to try and get into donald trump say just before they go into their

summit kim jong un and donald trump you can absolutely understand why shinzo are they would want to make sure that his voice is heard donald trump say because donald trump if this summit happens will want it to be seen as a success almost at any cost he will want to walk out and sell for a commitment a big deal from kim jong un but what he thinks is a great deal and it might be from the united states point of view perhaps a total instant giving up of weapons that could ever reach the u.s. mainland well that would not satisfy shinzo so remember japan is far more vulnerable to north korea than the united states mainland is it doesn't take long range missiles to get to japan so shinzo all day will be very keen that donald trump doesn't give up too much in order to achieve some sort of victory in his eyes from his talks with kim jong il at the same time president moon of south korea who in many ways has brought kim jong un and donald trump together he's been integral to this whole process and recently a saturday meeting kim jong il in person hugging him looking like him on the

surface anyway kim jong un's best diplomatic friend while at the same time having donald trump say he wants to get involved as well it's very likely he'll travel to singapore he probably won't be in the bilateral meeting between kim jong un and donald trump at the beginning but it's quite possible he might meet in the minutes or hours afterwards also in singapore so all these leaders from asian countries and of course singapore and thing of course prime minister as well they are after all she will probably to meet in his country he'll also want to talk about kim jong un and will trump for a summit so all these leaders all focused on june the twelfth in singapore if it still is if it happens and thank you very much for that for now that's added thomas for the latest from self-acting. to italy now where the president has appointed and interim prime minister to head a technocrat government. a former i.m.f. official has been tasked with the job as appointment comes after the president's veto to efforts by two populist parties to form

a coalition government has more. political convulsions in italy meet the new prime minister designate not a political figure but a former international monetary fund official. i must underline that the government will maintain a neutrality a total neutrality with respect to the electoral debate. must now come up with a workable list of ministers but he's unlikely to survive a confidence vote in a parliament stacked against him so the new government will likely become a lame duck interim government until fresh elections in the autumn on the weekend president sergio rejected the euro skeptic finance minister proposed by the five star movement northern league coalition dashing their hopes of becoming europe's first far right populist government. last night was the darkest hour in italy's democracy president chose to ignore his constitutional prerogatives and prevent

from power political force the five star movement which received eleven million votes they've been calls for mass protests and the president's impeachment as head of state the latter seems constitutionally unlikely but it's a nasty turn that sets the scene for a potentially ugly standoff we are going to see throughout the next three months is the overarching the people versus the. establishment that with the head of state for the first time becoming the main target of the entire campaign there's also the economy to worry about italy's cost of borrowing is rising with the political uncertainty if the country's sky high debt were to become unserviceable then real crisis would arrive in the euro zone's third largest economy add to that a debate that will only grow louder perhaps angrier now about italy's membership of

the eurozone as the nationalist northern league and ante a stab. five star movement vie for an even bigger slice of the next electoral pint carlow culture really did his best to calm the waters. in the past few days tensions have increased on the financial markets you know that the spread has increased but italian economy is still growing and the budget remains under control i can assure you that a government. will guarantee a prudent. public accounts. in italy political instability is a fact of life so they'll be little surprise about these twists and turns but no less anxiety over the outcome. well our in scotland half is a professor of economics at boston university and he says he needs a decisive government after a long spell of uncertainty. italy has gone with demagogues in the

past. go back to recently where scone first corny people that out you know clear out positive direction going to trying to energize the masses with no clear again new direction so it raises the concern about italy. policy that made some progress in recent years it's been very slow growth has been very slow i'm one that has come down from about fourteen percent drop in twenty fourteen down to about one percent today but many people who are especially young people are still unemployed so i understand the frustration but the way forward is not. to bring yourself from the rest of the of your trading partners to our current vice isolate yourself it's not to eliminate the your move away from the euro stable currency and restart that you lira and then that with placing which is really the result and and to follow the government debt so you

need to have it's one thing to change governments and it's another thing that. drives governments that actually know have some idea what they want to do. and a political crisis has also grip spain prime minister money on the whole is set to face a no confidence vote after his ruling people's party was linked to a corruption scandal a parliament will vote on friday to decide whether socialist leader pedro sanchez should take over the hall has been under increasing pressure after a court has party profited from an illegal scheme twenty nine people have been sentenced in the case including the party's former treasurer. a new human rights watch report says israel's leading back to help and support maintain and expand on lawful settlements in the occupied west bank it says that israel's seven big bags have loaned three million dollars to construction projects building illegal settlements they also give financial assistance to regional and local authorities

to provide basic services like sanitation and schools as in these illegal settlements get loans on easy terms from the banks palestinian west bank residents of forbidden by military order to enter settlements except as laborers bearing special permits. still ahead on the bulletin cricket board scar into a tizzy after an al-jazeera is reported on suspected match fixing and a national cricket and the world's largest freshwater pearl known as the sleeping lion goes on sale. hello there we've seen some major flooding in merrylands so from this area of cloud here in the east and from back we saw a line of thunderstorms develop that gave relentless rain to this city and you can

see exactly what happened there flash flooding and it's the same place that for some similar flash flooding less than two years ago now this system we can see plenty of cloud across this whole eastern corner of the us at the moment. and within that we're also seeing off a named storm of the season as well that one is working its way north woods it's here on tuesday and gradually working its way across nashville there as we head through wednesday so a very heavy downpour still to come and so the east from that we're also still going to have plenty of moisture him plenty more in the way of heavy rain in fact that way whether it spreads further south to you can see plenty of cloud chasing that storm system and then wrapping itself around the center of it plenty more wet weather still to come we've already got flooding in cuba more heavy rain for choose day gradually though a wednesday it will begin to break up but still don't underestimate some of the show is that likely to be very very heavy if we had down towards south america plenty of sunshine for many of us here more in the way of cloud for us every possible argentina and that cloud is thick enough to give us

a few outbreaks of rain in santiago a temperature of twelve. million in. each one i still. want. you to be. on. it is going to be. with. you might be. i was received up.

good to have you with us on these are our top stories colombia's government says eleven dissidents of the former fox have been killed in fighting with the army in southern colombia the violence comes a day after of the presidential poll in which two thousand and sixteen the fog was a major election issue. donald trump says he'll make japanese on the day as preparations continue for his possible summit with the north korean leader kim jong il and. say they want the permanent dismantlement of its nuclear program and president has appointed a former i.m.f. official. as minister to head

a technocrat administration but the country's political crisis continues it comes after president vetoed plans of two. to form a coalition government. now brazil's government says it's reached an agreement with the main truck drivers union to end an eight day strike or fuel and some third actions are in short supply as many drivers continue to protest daniel schwann of reports from sao paulo. in brazil yet they're saying they've reached agreement on the protest is over but brasilia is a long way from here a most of the rest of brazil was. a nice truck drivers tens of thousands of them either haven't received the message or don't plan to heed it. we are not only here for the truck drivers but for all brazilians who are suffering with the rises in electricity water gas everything brazilians have to work just to survive we are not members of any political party we are the people who are suffering the most yet the

same the rise in the price of diesel makes it hard for them to earn a living and tempers afraid and this used to be a strike now it's more than a strike brazil is realize that we can't keep going with these politicians who over the years we've seen involved in corruption bribery and scandals. the government has offered a ten percent reduction but can hardly afford the more than one of the costs a billion dollars it will have to pay the state or company petrobras in compensation was taken many here by surprise is just how quickly a country as well developed as brazil with the seventh largest economy in the world can be brought to its knees with the economy fragile a weak government can only offer temporary partial solutions with everybody here now very well aware of how reliant we all are on a constant flow of fuel. protesting drivers have been blocking roads across brazil

it means many gas stations have run out of fuel while those still have supplies attract lines of desperate motorists that can stretch to several kilometers is. not the economic recovery many acts but second is happening i phone numbers in illinois . brazil's economy is not weak was weak as the political movement in this country we've had a former president arrested and now have a weak president in office he has no leadership or charisma and the increase in oil and gas prices has just added to the problems that is always. even if all of brazil's truck drivers return to work immediately it would still take several days for the country to return to normal but with presidential elections due in october it will be a normality fruitless tension and the threat of more strikes and protests and this one there are just. there's been more protests against president daniel ortega in the data science began as a group of students trying to take over

a university in the capital managua government supporters tried to stop them anti-government demonstrations also broke out in the city of messiah. now twelve soldiers from saudi arabia have been killed in yemen this brings the total number of casualties to over a thousand according to its media the saudi led coalition forces are now approaching the rebel held city of whole day there they're now about twenty kilometers away the coalition is trying to retake the city from the rebels but the u.n. is warning that any operation to seize the day there would put at risk humanitarian shipments to yemen. russian billionaire and chelsea football club owner. abramovich has been given israeli citizenship after his brush invested visa wasn't renewed local media and as rail say he arrived there on monday and had launched his application at the country's embassy in moscow israel grants automatic citizenship to anyone of jewish descent but it is reviewing long term visas and wealthy

russians after the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter and learned. sri lanka's cricket authorities have called for a criminal inquiry into suspected match fixing following an investigation by al-jazeera a player and an official have been suspended as cricket world governing body the i think c investigates the case david harrison has more. so really demanders a sri lankan player and indeed assistant manager of all international stadium were suspended hours after our disease investigation into cricket corruption was broadcast. all. you know to show the world that be on top of it and that we are not encouraging and these type of things we will not tolerate when in the past or in the future. indy could describe on camera how we docked at the goal cricket pitch to fix the results of two international test matches sri lanka against india last year and another game

against australia in two thousand and sixteen the australia much race especially at the time and raises important questions about england's planned game goal stadium in november the groundsman told al-jazeera that he could fix the result of the match he said he wanted a four day weekend about. something and deacon maintains he is innocent and the player to are in demand has declined to comment on the allegations meanwhile cricket boards in australia and england on investigating wider claims made in a film by an indian gambling syndicate that it could be bribed international players to fix scoring almost sixty to seventy percent that is. because we can say it's a fix fix and just international games or which allegations to fix international . you're doing was. to have players in every national team yes

both the astray and england teams deny any wrongdoing england test captain joe root said i'm aware that there was a documentary and it's outrageous that our players have been accused all the players have the full backing of the e.c.b. the international cricket council is now facing a major investigation into corruption in cricket in three different countries david harrison al-jazeera. a former chief justice of pakistan's supreme court has been named interim prime minister. support and ends weeks of political wrangling the ruling pm and party and ago shared with the opposition on choosing a mutually acceptable forgot to leave the country will take over after the parliament's to man's this week he'll stay in office to the elections are held in july to choose a new leader subtropical storm alberto has weakened hours after the u.s. state of florida strong winds battered beaches keeping holiday makers away

forecasters have warned residents to expect heavy rain and flash flooding as the storm bows in there and the national hurricane center in miami says tornadoes could develop as alberto blows through the stage to georgia south carolina and alabama well earlier alberto forced thousands of people in cuba to leave their homes after severe flooding at least one hundred homes were destroyed central province and provinces have been the worst hit the heavy downpours shut down many highways and affected rail services now the world's largest known freshwater pearl dubbed the sleeping lion is up for sale the three hundred year old nash natural wonder has been owned by some of the most influential leaders of the last three centuries it will be auctioned in the hague on tuesday shall about its reports. inside the star chart studio lies a three hundred year old sleeping lion for decades it sat caged off limits to the

world until now meet the sleeping lion the world's largest freshwater poll has a history as rich as its price tag named after shape the five hundred seventy eight carat jim is valued as high as six hundred thousand dollars it's up for auction in the hague on thursday. because i need a new car or something like that but the book the reason there isn't. a private collection there's an important piece of nurture that we. use to show it's a rarity has increased as the perl industry commercialized the last century seeing the emergence of mass produced cultured pearls you know most pearls you see today are all cultures so in their way created by human intervention this brutal is

really formed by a mollusc somewhere in the river or lake living there. this sleeping lion has changed hands over continents and class from merchants to russian in european royalty it was pulled from chinese waters in the early seventeen hundreds of dutch merchants took it to present day jakarta and then on to india where it was purchased to fifty thousand florins modern day equivalent to four hundred thousand dollars the pole was shipped to amsterdam and sold in seven hundred seventy nine the buyer the empress of russia catherine the great a jeweler working for the king of italy then purchased it returning it to europe in eight hundred sixty five one of the earliest accounts. that we could find was actually present in the city archives of it and. it was a print of this brawl saying that it was called the sleeping lion for all waiting five hundred seventy eight carrots and come first day it may bring history into the

hands of anyone with at least half a million dollars dallas' out has zero. get out of the problem and the headlines on al-jazeera columbia's government says eleven dissidents of the former fark rebel group have been killed in fighting with the army in the south the defense minister says they have been threatening politicians entrepreneurs and civilians and the car cath every june the violence comes a day after a round one of the presidential poll in which a two thousand and sixteen did what the fuck was a major election issue donald trump says he'll make japanese politicians arbaaz preparations continue for his possible summit while the north korean leader kim jong on trumpet our base say they want the permanent dismantlement of north korea's nuclear program andrew thomas has the latest from salt. the nuclear arms ocean

means different things to different people for the americans it means you have to be in you close asian boy north korea then giving up their weapons full stop from the north korean point of view well they might be talking about something much longer term maybe giving up some missiles but not all the definitions are very very far apart unless that ground work can be done where the two countries can agree at least as a starting point some middle ground then it's still possible the summit won't yet take place as early as president has appointed former i.m.f. official carter valley as interim prime minister to head a technocrat administration but the country's political crisis continues it comes after president says you're much of ela vetoed plans of two populist parties to form a coalition government is what the new leader has been saying. almost underline that the government will maintain a neutrality a total neutrality with respect to the electoral debate i will not be a candidate for the next elections and

a similar commitment from the members of the government and a political crisis has also got spain of prime minister money on the whole has set to face a no confidence vote after his ruling people's party was linked to a corruption scandal the parliament will vote on friday to decide whether socialist leader pedro sanchez should take over the high has been under increasing pressure after a court ruled that his party profited from an illegal scheme twenty nine people have been sentenced in the case including the party's former treasurer. those are the headlines on al-jazeera i'll have another full news bulletin for you in just under thirty minutes coming up next as a witness thank you very much for watching. getting to the heart of the matter if more stuff i can do the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification of look like there are two people think the peace for unification is the only option for

prosperity of south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera. she laughed at least four way but skewed view would be peace the shock of. the ski school no song. wait only clip oh please it's a bucketful good no heaven ness on this one the pope or the more people less i go to not going to feel bad to move on believe that people just don't have the i owe my kids i do for them but a lot of the guest more costly than the problem with the beyond this get i differ developed on the above place six people been yours truly knew the last week but the fuss of the moment is suddenly more palimony i'm still.