nation he's reached out to beijing and seoul and sort of got them on his side and so i think it'll be very hard to get china to cooperate at least on the economic portion of the maximum pressure campaign much of course depends on what goes on around the negotiating table trump prides himself on the art of the deal but kim is the one who intimately knows the secrets of his country and its nuclear program the world will be watching the diplomacy here in singapore in the coming hours and days it could determine the future of the korean peninsula james space al-jazeera singapore where the d.p. r. k. as it's officially called is regarded as one of the most repressive nations in the world the united nations estimates around one hundred thousand political prisoners detained in camps while dozens of foreigners are prevented from leaving when he reports now from seoul. in south korea there are many emotions about the changing relationship with north korea among small vocal nationalist groups there is

suspicion about pyongyang's motives that concerned even paranoid that south korea is about to be engulfed by communism away from the loud rallies there are those for whom the cross border and gauge went off as a glimmer of hope in what is often seemed a hopeless situation. it's hard to expect too much but we need to see how it goes with putting all if it's together in the hope that no issues will be discussed in this summit with north korea those issues are abductions and other human rights abuses that victims and their families believe need to be on the agenda in singapore one inch holes father when one was on a plane in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine when it was hijacked by a north korean agent most of the passengers were eventually allowed to return to the south but when one who's now eighty one wasn't among them as well as abductions there are countless other human rights abuses that continue to take place in north korea including torture and public executions the united nations says the acts may

amount to crimes against humanity words you're probably worried he used when donald trump meets kim jong il and some experts believe raising human rights in the first meeting may be too sensitive japan's government disagrees and has been pushing for the issue of abductions to be discussed north korea admitted kidnapping thirteen japanese in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's to train is spies some have been returned but japan's government suspects there may be hundreds still in north korea there are other nationalities too like this woman seen in the background of a photo taken on a north korean beach family members believe it's a no chip pan joy a thai woman who disappeared from macau in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight. i have a lot of hope that south korea japan and the u.s. will push the north korean abduction issue and i will be able to meet soon at this stage the new diplomatic face of north korea is largely viewed as positive but for

many it will mean nothing if the people they've been waiting decades to see aren't allowed to come home when hey al-jazeera solve. still to come here on the al-jazeera news hour the taliban agrees to a three day cease fire following a similar announcement by the afghan government. is prepared to meet jordan's king to try and find a breakthrough in the country's political crisis. and the golden state warriors a crowned n.b.a. champions for the second straight season will have all the action coming up in sport. now the taliban in afghanistan has announced a three day ceasefire to mark the end of ramadan it's the first such true since the group was toppled by the united states led invasion back in two thousand and one taliban fighters say they will stop all offensive operations during the muslim faith a holiday later this month except against foreign forces if follows

a similar announcement by the afghan government the government of afghanistan. has taken in retake all the steps to make sure that. there is no bloodshed in afghanistan and even if these steps are smaller steps we will come those we will come down on. and we hope that the a will be. committed to implement their announcement on the ceasefire but just hours before that truce announcement taliban fighters killed at least seventeen police officers in an early morning raid one hundred fifty five just on the military checkpoints in herat province eight of them were killed by afghan army soldiers well it's been my summit who's a former afghan ambassador to france and canada and currently a senior advisor to the chief executive of the country joins us from washington d.c. a welcome to the program first of all what do you make of this and could it lead to more lasting sation. well it's

a positive step is a rare step. in many years for many years we have not heard of taliban decision on cease fire many requests have been made now they're obviously there's a lot of hope that this may be a building block that this could be sustained in that this could expand and basically lead towards a peace process and some kind of dialogue but there are a lot of questions first of all this is a very short term ceasefire for over three days and whether the taliban leadership overall in unison has approved this whether there would be some who will probably dissent and not follow these rules it will remain to be seen and also whether they will be spoilers people from belonging to other groups may be islamic state that is that claims to be in afghanistan and whose origins are a bit dubious but in any case it's a positive step it needs to be evaluated and seen in

a greater context of whether it's going to help dialogue down the road or not so much your sense why now for the taliban do you think. i think there are many factors at play right now first of all the fighting has been extremely heavy the death toll on all sides especially among civilians as been very heavy as your news commentary said even in the past twenty four hours the latest numbers show that more than sixty afghan security forces have been killed and nobody knows how many taliban have been killed in the fighting that goes on in many parts of the country and at the same time there is this call by the afghan government by the international community for peace for reconciliation for some sort of overtures. leading to a proper process i think that the taliban are under some pressure i think that they realize that their space for maneuvering is somewhat limited to just fighting and

that if that continues they will be eventually blamed for being the main actor and aggressor in this case and all the killing the killings that are taking place will be blamed on the taliban f. they do not show some sign of accommodation what about the position of international forces what will it mean for u.s. troops in afghanistan. well there is sort of a tricky position right now because on one hand the taliban have announced that they will continue fighting non afghans over the next few days especially those three ied gay's when the cease fire is supposed to go in effect on the other hand the international forces have announced that they are supporting the cease fire announcement made the temporary cease fire and asked what made by president afghanistan just a couple of days ago at the same time they said that they will not be attacking the taliban but they would be going after other international terrorist organizations

so it remains to be seen as to how over the next week to ten days fighting is going to shape or not shape. and whether the foreign forces are going to be engaged or forced to engage others and who is going to do that so it's a very murky situation i think that it's not a black and white situation in afghanistan there are too many different players and so many different groups on the ground and so much blood. that has in the past been shed that for afghans hopefully it's just a few days of relief from fighting and from killing and being killed so they just create your perspective on this very much things feel time thank you. russia's president vladimir putin is in china where he's been feted by the chinese

leader xi jinping emphasizing their friendly personal relations the two leaders went to an ice hockey match in china's northern port city of. china is russia's leading trading partner and by its russian made weapons on a rival putin was given the medal by xi jinping called the russian leader his best friend. three years of war in yemen has displaced hundreds of thousands of people who now live under harsh conditions in remote areas aid agencies say most of yemen's twenty nine million population is in need of humanitarian assistance. as more. some of the millions of victims of the war in yemen refugees living in makeshift camps in her data the province is under control and so is her data poort the main and trip point for food and aid shipments. but government troops and their allies are on the offensive to capture the area forces

led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are within twenty kilometers of the red sea poor and. most of these families fled their homes and villages during the last three years of fighting they say they aren't able to return and can't live in such poor conditions any longer than we have nothing no blankets no food no flowers no cooking oil officials come and take our names but never show up again the strategically positioned coastal province is crucial for yemen's feuding factions as the conflicts continue yemenis are losing hope of returning home. from time to time kind people from the area activists hoot but aid agencies and charities have forgotten us. the health of the yemenis has drastically deteriorated childminder tradition cholera and other in this why in

her day. i guess we are all sick here i have a kidney problem one of my brothers is diabetic and the other has to park a loss'. as well as disease and hunger strikes have killed many civilians coalition commanders dismissed allegations civilians are being targeted and insists they're aiming for who thier bubbles hideouts. a yemeni journalist has died two days after being released from detention by who three rebels and who can was abducted a year ago and his family say he was tortured the association of yemeni journalist is calling for international freedom of press organizations to condemn the crime. saudi arabian state security has arrested a second women's rights activist in the space of three days while i was around me was arrested for posting on social media supporting you know of gerry who was

detained on wednesday the arrests come in the week where saudi arabia issued its first driving licenses to women as part of a series of modernization reforms well the leaders of saudi arabia kuwait and the u.a.e. will meet jordan's king on sunday in mecca to discuss resolving his country's economic crisis jordan has seen some of the biggest protests in is with people angry over a proposed income tax law the government has agreed to shelve the hike but still faces a tricky task of balancing popular demands with the need to manage the debt load kuttab is a journalist and founder of the news website i'm on net and he says part of the problem is that gulf countries don't want to contribute directly to jordan's budget but invest in projects instead. well jordan has had their financial aid from many of the gulf countries including saudi arabia and qatar and other countries and most of that has dried up or has gone on on to specific programs not helping the

basic budget of the country there is different schools of thought on this issue there is one that says that the gulf countries wanted to support jordan programmatically rather than just a cash a in fusion and they wanted to support programs like building schools and highways rather than just giving them money and there are sound people who think that there is some kind of a political connection to the stopping of the direct support but i'm not sure what the reason is but the really the fact is that jordan is suffering because of this absence of financial aid in jordan has a lot of responsibilities towards palestine towards the mosque it trains and pay the salaries of the hundreds of guards at the lock some oscon that is seen as representing not only jordan but they slam a quarrel than they are trying to protect the third holiest mosque in islam so they feel that arab countries certainly have

a responsibility towards jordan to keep it afloat so tell me or an al-jazeera we meet these survivors who guatemala's for a volcano who say they're lucky to be alive. all told the ramadan tradition that suddenly at risk in jerusalem's old city. and his friends get football fever over the world cup we'll take a look at how the sport is growing in some unexpected corners of the globe is coming peaceful. more the hot sunshine across much of the middle east but we have got some showers that's still lingering around turkey pushing up towards the black sea the caspian sea you see how they are just drifting from west to way so see a little bit of wet weather into armenia georgia round into southern parts of the

russia as well a few shows to just around afghanistan took many stan was because stan him betray and there's the hot sunshine we're getting up to forty one celsius in kuwait city and also into baghdad northern iraq could see some showers here over the next few days a lot of the ones that that could lead to some localized flooding and nice fresh breeze there across eastern side of the med glorious conditions in beirut about twenty eight celsius similar values to into where jerusalem. further south well some real heat in places go back keim schimmel wind it does stay dusty and windy just around that eastern side of the arabian peninsula here in qatar temperatures getting up to forty seven celsius on sunday little cooler less harshly we say forty five degrees for monday hopefully the winds easing back a touch but still looking very breezy meanwhile a little bit of useful rain hopefully making its way into cape town over the next day or so the southern cape the western cape seeing more in the way of cloud that will drift its way from west to east as we go through the weekend.

more than forty thousand africans are facing deportation from israel is awarded more than ninety percent of. the if it if so why is that is on the feel point one percent of the if it is two of those in danger of being thrown out of the country in which they sought refuge talks out jazeera at this time. uncovering full the forensic analysis by the f.b.i. more than twenty years ago reports being written without the knowledge or authorization equipments dirty testimony has been given that's way beyond people's expertise the state has announced its intention to attempt to retry john after trees crimes for which he's already served thirty church their evidence was the only physical evidence that put really manning in that car this ystem with juvenile

and jack on al-jazeera. again i would remind of the top stories here on al-jazeera and u.s. president donald trump attended his g. seven summit in canada with the call for a tariff free well he said talks with leaders have been extremely productive and that the united states must be treated. to singapore for highly anticipated meeting with control and it will be the first time a serving u.s. president to the north korean leader have ever come face to face. and the afghan

taliban has announced a three day ceasefire to mark the end of ramadan the first such truce since the group was toppled by the u.s. led invasion back in two thousand and one. refugees in one of the world's largest camps have been beamed around the world in a rare web streaming event to tell their stories the camp in kenya houses about one hundred eighty five thousand people from south sudan somalia ethiopia as well as other countries the ten x. organization arranges lectures around the world to try and change perceptions which i'm jim was in cooma for the event. it's been an extraordinary day here at the cooma refugee camp here in north western kenya this is a refugee camp that houses around one hundred eighty five thousand refugees in this ted x. cacouna camp talk today this is something that's really been inspiring for a lot of the residents here the organizers are hoping with this event to showcase the positive impact that refugees have had had made not just in this camp not just

in this country but all around the world now earlier i spoke with melissa fleming she's the chief u.n.h.c.r. spokesperson also one of the co-hosts of this event and i asked her how an event like this was going to help try to reshape the narrative around refugees and how refugees are perceived around the world most europeans or americans are astray and think that all the refugees are coming their way frankly most of them are in countries like kenya eighty five percent and yet they're invisible and we were hoping with this event today i can't we could really illuminate the camp but not only that the extraordinary refugees and the talents and the ideas they have by putting them on as powerful a stage as the ted stage many of the speakers here today are refugees among them actors singers musicians poets there was one young woman in particular the twenty two year old refugee from south sudan her name is mary mark here and she spoke with me and told me that she came back to this camp after she had left off so that she

could teach children here and why that was so important to her. i look at the population in the. especially that population of the most of them a whole class. and seeing me as their teacher who is almost their peer when it actually encouraged them to to move on to push on to see that life is not about the company life is something more ahead and that's what i want them to believe it and every time i'm in my class teaching them biology our business. i'm not just teaching business. i'm teaching business the set of statistics that will help them everybody i've spoken with here today has told me they believe an event like this is extremely important not just because it counteracts negative stereotypes about refugees but also because you inspired so many refugees around the world. suffering

a bottleneck of migrants europe and north african countries clamp down on people leaving the continent for the mediterranean nine thousand people of the rived in the country since november from other parts of africa and almost a quarter of those are children we spoke to sarah crow unicef spokeswoman on migration has just returned from asia migration is hardly going away it's really just out of sight and out of mind effectively and that's a huge problem for children in particular because as you say they have the most exposed and most at risk from exploitation and trafficking and not to mention the scorching heat to me when i was there it was forty eight degrees and children family in nursing nursing mothers newborn baby i met as well literally in the desert in scorching heat and without shelter without protection and these are has gone from a think to being the capital of migration in africa being the host of so many who

are stranded and it's certainly not going away it's been there since the beginning of the run and they need. more guatemalans have been ordered to leave their homes to escape an eruption of mt forager the volcano has been spewing a toxic cloud of ash and lava for the past five days at least one hundred nine people have died in two hundred missing but little hope that they will be found alive david musser has been speaking to survivors. as painful as his burns might be garner knows how lucky he is to be alive he his wife and father in law were at home in the moment brought a mollusc volcano erupted that even his wife managed to escape but the memories of that day will haunt them forever. was forming inside our house when we went running out my father in law was swept away the ash was boiling mud mixed with

people were running and the hardish came down on top of them killing them people were trapped inside their houses and couldn't escape they were cooked inside. six children with severe burns were airlifted to the united states where pediatric burn center offer state of the art treatment not available in guatemala. and now one of all us national disaster agency is coming under fire for possible negligence public prosecutors have ordered an investigation into whether evacuation procedures were properly followed is a little bit of the official say they warned the public after sensors picked up an increase in volcanic activity hours before the eruption there should be i mean to the mayor of all of the communities received warnings and obviously we don't have the authority to order an evacuation we make recommendations and it's the residents who decide whether to evacuate or not. but residents who escaped

the gases and volcanic mud said that only those close to the highway heard the warning going on the wheel will result be if we would have received a warning we would have left our house earlier and many people's lives would have been saved i don't know about the others but they didn't warn us we didn't know about the eruption until the lava was coming down. or up that again on friday expelling large quantities of pirate classic material on ash nearby homes were evacuated authorities hoping to avoid another disaster. david mercer al-jazeera the screen what i'm on or not to join marianna such as a reporter for the latest american or is nearly a week since the volcano erupted there are still communities that rescuers haven't yet reached what is the. that's right nick and the experts were telling me that there are several problems to get to some of these communities

one for instance was. for the first time now they didn't even know this community existed at that has been affected. at the skirts of the of the volcano that is behind me also the other reasons are that some of the communities that have been affected are blocked by a river that has. grown and the rest of us can't get there because if they want to come back apparently the river is higher they could be trapped in that area and the volcano is still very active and so there are safety concerns for rescuers also in that two most affected areas in the. community and rodeo. the rescue operations there to find anyone alive house been concluded the experts from the volcanic and facebook institute here in what they might have the spokesperson there told me that there is

absolutely no chance that they could find anyone else alive so they want to keep the rescuers from going into those communities because the law by the hot ashes are still a still very hot in some areas he was explaining that they could beat. and to grade and also. they are covering the village at about five meters high so there are holes they can get into so it's really a dangerous situation not only for them but for people who have been wanting to go back to see if they could find their loved ones if they could find and recover any of their of. their belongings who remember these are very poor people that they have lost everything so so that's the reason why it's very difficult to get to many of these communities still we're still hearing more from the volcano and seeing more from the volcano for the dangerous as it was a bridge. the volcano as i was saying this still

very active spokesperson from the volcanic and say snake institute told me jobs although the activity of the volcano is going down event hundred seventy four when this volcano that little keno erupted it took about two weeks to calm down this is the word that used now the explosions here has been massive and have been much stronger than in one hundred seventy four so he believes that it will take a longer time and in the meantime what happens is that the volcano has fissures and through those fissures there are hot gases called the para classic flows that are incredibly dangerous those hot gases are. but from time to time there were two explosions big ones on friday so they expect this to continue but. they

will be going down. and then of course the other thing very because they are the experts think that there's going to be heavy rains saturday and sunday there can't be. coming down from the volcano so that's another very important concern for the rescuers here. going dangers and threats. very much indeed two more people are being killed in violent protests in nicaragua demonstrators have set up barricades and have clashed with the police demanding president daniel ortega resign both young men were killed by gunshot wounds as students accuse the government of setting paramilitaries on to these protestors brings the total death toll to one hundred thirty seven as efforts by the catholic church to mediate in the crisis have. supporters of the far right activist tony robinson have marched through london calling for him to be released from jail and

his real name is steven yaks the london serving thirteen months for contempt of court after admitting broadcasting information that could prejudice an ongoing trial his critics have accused him of encouraging islamophobia is not involved in the reports. with a crowd of several thousand supporters of the man known as tommy robinson former founder of the english defense league made their way from safaga square in the heart of london to ten downing street the official residence and offices of prime minister to resign may the calling for tommy robinson's release from prison and there was a petition of more than half a million people supporting that some of the speakers at ten downing street highlighted what they say is an infringement of sprit speech the dutch far right politician can't build it's got a warm reception from tommy robinson's supporters as he said robinson was prepared to talk about issues others won't highlight in the past tommy robinson has really done a lot of campaigning on paedophile gangs involving muslim men in certain parts of

britain but the fact of the case last month at leeds crown court where he was like streaming and was found to have been in contempt of court something he'd been given a three month suspended sentence for before with a warning he'd be jailed if he really offended well he admitted doing so so now he's in jail his supporters say that he's being silenced but he has many critics in holding including the anti racist groups who got protested here in smaller numbers on saturday say that in fact he is very one sided and doesn't highlight similar issues among people convicted of similar crimes on the far right and more more than that his supporters they say are using the the current conviction to try to increase divisions between communities here in britain. and they shouldn't muslim practice during the month of ramadan is under threat in jerusalem the practice involves men banging drums on the streets during the nights reminding muslims to

eat before the fast but now jewish settlers have complained they make too much noise and police are threatening to fine those who take part but as smith reports from occupied east jerusalem. it's a wake up alarm that dates back centuries. just before dawn during ramadan across the middle east men known as most a hierarchy call people to pray and eat before the fasting begins. but here in the muslim quarter of jerusalem's old city for the first time police have been detaining and finding the most a hierarchy for disturbing the sleep of the jewish settlers living here. to learn. from some of the police are always harassing us i've been detained four times accused of making noises that disturbs the settlers the settlers get annoyed by

everything we do even the decorations we make for ramadan annoys them. the old city is split into the muslim jewish christian and armenian porters but for the past fifty years jewish settlers have also been moving into the muslim quarter now appear is where while settler families live and the guys stop the music as they go past the house but that's not been enough to stop the settlers complaining to the police. over that of. the settlers complained again tonight there are jewish homes here this woman says this is going to go on all month. jerusalem police told al-jazeera in a statement that they are constantly trying to maintain the delicate balance between allowing in ensuring the freedom of religion and worship and maintaining public order and quality of life for local residents the police see offenses of noise and disturbing the peace is one of the most serious offenses that cause harm to the public and the quality of life for our local residents the police presence

is provided for settlers who choose to live in the heart of the muslim quarter. with fines running into the hundreds of dollars mohammed's wish to continue this ramadan tradition has suddenly become very expensive. bernat smith al-jazeera in occupied east jerusalem coming up next season longer than anybody else why one man has dedicated his life to australia's most iconic building. and his book south america's most successful female tennis player played through. june one nine hundred sixty seven six days they redrew the map of the middle east this record is big. and it was one of the greatest tragedy in the history of islam al-jazeera explores the events leading to the rule and its call.