on leadership from the u.s. now whether or not the s.c. or other similar groupings are ready to step up to fill the void really remains to be seen but what we are seeing is china increasingly ready to step up and play a larger role in the international arena even to the extent of forging alliances with old rivals such as india which only recently it had a military standoff with and this is a way perhaps for china to chip away at the dominance of the u.s. and its other allies in the international world order was talked about chipping away at dominance so we've got those talks going on in singapore between the u.s. and north korea sort of outcome is china wants to see engineers from its well china has a rather complicated relationship with north korea you know they have been allies for a very long time and china does spend considerable effort and money in backing north korea north korea is also seen as

a rogue state which occasionally china has influence or well over and that's a very important job political tool for china but now you've got these upcoming talks in singapore there is speculation that this could lay the groundwork for peace negotiations that will formally end the korean war now it's not really known what sort of role china will play in the peace process the u.s. and south korea have not mentioned china's involvement in any potential peace negotiations or at least lawrence louis there. still ahead an al-jazeera public anger in jordan as the cost of living continues to rise. i'm andrew thomas in southeastern australia where there's an out right in the state government aid is using taxpayers' money to prop up the chamber industry by sight looking around here destroyed not just forests but the wildlife that relies on.

how we've still got some rather disturbed weather in the middle east not too much to speak of of the truth in that in this course northern parts of the region at that you can see a little bit of cloud spilling out. of so that's the black sea towards the caspian sea bass bases of cloud and right into that far eastern side of afghanistan is pushing i would suppose the high ground will chain of storms that pushing up into turkmenistan into the. dry skies come back in behind a few of them parts of iran as we go on through sunday monday same weekend some big a lot of the showers here could lead to some localized flooding society one to watch out for elsewhere is generally fine and dry as i thought it was i really hot and dry forty two for baghdad that's hot enough twenty eight a pleasant twenty eight therefore by river that also

a breeze just feeding in from the mediterranean sea pleasant across the web and potentially hot sunshine boiling hot here in tampa just getting up to forty seven celsius on sunday on places the easy back a touch as we go on through monday no higher than around forty five celsius hopefully the wind is easing off a little so that just picking back about the little bit so we'll see they lifted just the sand not so much of a problem south africa generally fine and dry little bit of cloud easing its way to the eastern cape. struggling with the effects of climate change sierra leone's dry season is on forgiving but compounded by corruption and its wet season mudslides that are claiming most lives i don't remember even the wall when if i think one thousand wound up who died in two minutes people in power investigates the effects of deforestation and illegal building and asks what the future holds if those in

authority fail to act the mountain will fall on al-jazeera. you're watching our dessert time to recap our headlines now donald trump has asked us representatives not to endorse the joint communique on trade by g seven leaders in canada all members had signed the deal but the u.s. president changed his mind following comments by canada's prime minister. don trump has left those talks and is on his way to singapore ahead of tuesday's landmark summit with north korea's leader kim jong un the u.s. president says the meeting will be

a one time shot for kim to end his nuclear program and achieve what he calls peace and prosperity. leaders from saudi arabia the united arab emirates and say they'll look at how they can help jordan out of its economic struggles take part in a meeting on sunday in the sacred city of mecca the european union's top foreign policy official travel to jordan on saturday to meet king abdullah the second for their income more green and the king discussed the strategic partnership. cash strapped jordan is struggling to get on top of its debts after taking a seven hundred twenty three million dollar loan from the international monetary fund in two thousand and sixteen it relies heavily on foreign aid saudi arabia along with gulf cooperation council members have not yet renewed the three point six billion dollars distance program to jordan program expired last year as well

as those analysts say saudi and amorality investors have stopped financing projects in jordan the government blames its fire was on instability in the region chiefly the war in neighboring syria stifled trade and pushed up prices the burden of hosting six hundred fifty thousand syrian refugees jordan has complained about not getting enough international support those could be is the founder of the news website arm and that he thinks part of the gulf funding issue may be that countries no longer want to contribute directly to jordan's budget. 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 to 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 infusion and they wanted to support programs like building schools and highways rather than just giving their money and there are some 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 responsibility towards palestine towards the mosque it trains in and pay the salaries of hundreds of guards at the luxor mosque and 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 saudi arabian state security has arrested a second women's rights activist in the space of three days. he was arrested for

posting on social media her support for nor for jirga our who was detained on wednesday the arrests come in the same week saudi arabia issued its first driving licenses to women as part of a series of modernization reforms there have been rallies in the democratic republic of congo in support of exile the opposition leader morsi khartoum be cut to be as the former governor of the country's katanga province is seen as the main rival in the upcoming election against president joseph kabila. but as fintan modern reports many questions remain over the future votes. thousands gathered to hear the man they believe is the democratic republic of congo's best hope for change but moyes could tumbi hasn't set foot in the country for more than two years in this video message sent from exile he promised to unite the opposition and bring an end to the rule of longtime leader joseph dabo the

movies that i believe don't have all this was a demonstration to everyone showing that moyes is alive and he's preoccupied with the situation of all congolese and also to say that we have a project which can probably resolve all these problems we want to transform the congo and restore was quite nice but also we want to unify the congolese people the support today about people is showing that we will overcome. the fled the d r c in two thousand and sixteen when prosecutors accused him of hiring foreign mercenaries one month later he was sentenced to three years in prison for real estate fraud he denies all the charges against him as promising to return for a presidential run. president joseph kabila has ruled that the r.c. for seventeen years his term in office officially ended in december twenty sixth but elections have been repeatedly delayed was a drop for the war protesters are accusing him of trying to hang on to power the constitution bars him from seeking

a third term but could be still hasn't confirmed that he won't run again elections are now separate december but whoever emerges as leader will have major challenges to deal with more than a million people have been forced from their homes in eastern province as the military battles armed groups. the chaos has left nearly eight million people on the verge of starvation. the opposition are optimistic but there's still a great deal of uncertainty. be caressed to be returned it's also still unknown it could be you who will seek to hold on to power the election will be delayed once again. al-jazeera. it's almost impossible to find any survivors following a volcanic eruption there a week ago around two hundred people are still unaccounted for their relatives have been trying to find them off the rescue team suspended their operations at least one hundred nine people have been confirmed dead in the mount for eruption.

insights. governmental agencies and catholic groups have been coming here to the town of this is a center for relief supplies there are about twenty shelters around. kaino here in two of them we visited one of them with a lot of women and children there they have they are receiving blankets and food and clothes and water and so on but also very importantly many of these victims of the tragedy nearly one week ago are receiving psychological help inevitably when one person starts talking about what they live they start crying they are traumatized by these terrible events here in what they now there have been two explosions on friday two explosions that experts say are normal however the

volcano continues its activity and it will take at least two and twenty half weeks for the mckinney to come down as the experts say in the meantime it is very dangerous still to go back to the villages that were that suffered the most and also experts are saying that the heavy rains could also cause mudslides. posing a risk to the communities around the volcano. two more people have been killed in antigovernment protests in nicaragua both young men died from gunshot wounds rights groups accuse the government of using paramilitaries against the demonstrators at least one hundred thirty seven have been killed in violence its april pope francis has called an oil company bosses to help the world convert to clean energy he's warning climate change risks destroying humanity the leader of the roman catholic church is read hosting leaders from some of the largest energy companies at the

vatican chief executives to collate a long term global strategy. environmentalist in australia say they're appalled that taxpayers' money is being spent to bail out the logging industry say decimates forests that are home to critically endangered wildlife under thomas reports from the central highlands of victoria state the aftermath of log looks brutal in fact burning long ground helps regeneration those in the industry say they're committed to responsible logging we have a regime that i'm still balance the needs of conservation and the industry and regional economies and communities but conservationists say the industry and the government that in part owns it has got the balance wrong propping up a declining industry prioritizing jobs over trees when the owners of this mill said

cuts to its would supply would force it out of business the state government paid tens of millions of dollars to keep it going you can look at it as bailing out or you can look at investing in a strong industry and a community that's had a rich heritage in supplying the till but to me that that has built our towns. it's a heritage though that's been at the cost of forests and the creatures that rely on them in the two hundred years since european colonization most of southeastern australia as old as trees have been lost in victoria central highlands only about one percent of the mountain ash trees are more than a century old that matters because the oldest trees and the stumps of big dead ones developed hollow areas that animals like the now critically endangered leadbeater possums live in conservationists with night vision equipment look for them in areas about to be logged every sighting of their biggest possum that we get there's

a two hundred made a protection buffer against logging all the oldest trees and big dead ones are supposed to be off limits to this is an example of what's called a dead hollow bearing tree that has been protected all the younger living trees that would have stood all around it have been felled but it's been left alone environmentalist don't think anything like enough trees have been in this entire log area it's the only one that's been left standing there are completely burnt out stumps of similar trees nearby but researches say exclusion zones around individual animals and preserving just the very oldest trees does not go far enough they want large scale protection of middle age seventy or eighty year old trees too that is their next old growth forest i've got another fifty years before they'll start becoming a whole logically mature we need some of those trees to be very or

growth forest that would mean excluding much bigger areas from logging economically and politically that could hurt andrew thomas al-jazeera in australia as victoria's central highlands. turkey's biggest city is alive with the sound of views it the forty six istanbul music festival is playing host to more than five hundred classical artists so the fords. as well as some of the world's most renowned classical musicians young talent is taking to the stage all over stumble. including twenty two year old. but talent she says needs to be polished with practice. fingers paid the price and as is often with artists rewards have little to do with money. and that art is expensive no one produces hops in turkey my instruments cost twenty thousand euros

at least these are all beyond my parents' budget i am dependent on funds. it is much the same story with her fellow musicians the molester member the instrument i buy its case its bow all a very expensive for us considering the euro is very high in turkey is a sin all mark being a musician is all about what's in your heart in a way but besides education you must have financial support. classical music is not as popular in turkey as many other countries private institutions and companies tend to fund artists and events through what are called social responsibility budgets. this festival lasers with sponsors to support young talent while ensuring their educational needs are met. pyrrhic the some not doing arts and music together pushes us to think collectively

about the world's problems and act together i believe music has an indirect peace the soul of some concert tickets will help fourteen girls who are studying music approach with young female musicians friend i will play the maintenance of my cello . and i will buy new hair from my balls so it's a mazing help for me these young stars are already known outside turkey but that's home it is difficult for classical musicians to make a name for themselves and the government doesn't have an incentive or scholarship for special art students. but most of these girls agree they're promoting their country with their talents and a government should recognise that and provide more help seen aamco solo al-jazeera stumble.

home let's take you through some of the headlines here on al-jazeera now donald trump asks u.s. representatives not to endorse the joint communique on trade put out by g seven leaders in canada all members had signed the deal but the u.s. friends didn't change his mind following comments why can't others from minister talk to us with its record justin trudeau weak and dishonest dismissed his critics saying he said nothing he hasn't said before this is what justin trudeau initially said about the trade route particularly did not take lightly the fact that it's based on a national security reason that for canadians who either themselves or whose parents are community members have stood shoulder to shoulder with american soldiers and far off lands and conflicts. from the first world war

on words. that it's kind of insulting i have made it very clear to the president that it is not something we relish doing but it is something that we absolutely will do because canadians were polite were reasonable but we also will not be pushed around. the u.s. president is now on his way to singapore where his landmark summit with north korea's kim jong un will take place his administration is hoping the talks will begin a process that eventually leads to kim ending his nuclear program donald trump has described it as a one time shot at peace leaders from saudi arabia the united arab emirates and say they'll look at how they can help jordan out of its economic struggles they'll take part in the meeting on sunday in the sacred city of mecca the european union's top foreign policy official traveled to jordan on saturday to meet king abdullah the second for that week of more greeny and the king discussed a strategic partnership its people in power next stay with us here on

al-jazeera. june nineteenth sixty seven the sixties there redrew the map of the middle east this movement could as it. ended war for the greatest tragedy in the history of his lead al-jazeera expose the events leading to the rule and its consequences which is still felt today we tried everything we went to the united nations we tried to make contacts through different countries and it was clear that all this was just north of the war in june on al-jazeera. you know just twenty seventeen a devastating landslide in sierra leone killed over a thousand people a terrible blow to a country that still bears the scars of the civil war and to be a potent force initially three grains pulled on by climate change will fall to the

coals but then other stories emerged of corruption greed and environment degradation we've been too wasp-y. stalk warnings of catastrophe orignal. the past decade has seen a rise in the number of catastrophic weather events around the world. be it freak storms or drives or unprecedented rainfall extreme weather is becoming the new

normal a no where are the effects felt more keenly than in developing nations. from bangladesh to peru and sierra leone to the dior sea record breaking rains have triggered devastating floods and lethal landslides. among them the landslide that struck sierra leone in august two thousand and seventeen it was one of the deadliest with over a thousand people killed or missing. but was this disaster all it seems one more portent of the havoc that climate change will be sending our way. or was it compounded by other more prosaic human failings. we've been to investigate the root causes of the serio landslide. to ask what can be learned and what the future holds for this and other countries if those in power fail to act.

in a. full civil actions but still the sky. sports icon puts. more dollars. on the morning. of aug fourteenth two thousand and seventeen after days of heavy rain the side of the sugarloaf mountain in region to sierra leone collapsed the avalanche of mud water and rock that followed destroyed three hundred homes and killed over a thousand. more delhi. is the maids.

i don't remember even the war when for a single day one thousand wound up people died in two minutes there was a big found. like a plane coming down you know that goes on with. easy to sort thing and when i live in the the ground by brits. what i am if i'm in it live again if someone made me feel bad if no one's. six weeks later the rains have come to an end and people are resuming their lives. but not everyone thinks heavy rainfall alone calls the disaster. not far from the site of the landslide in the hills around regent stunts the taku gamma chimpanzee sanctuary. for over twenty years tucker gamma has been a haven for chimps orphaned by habitat destruction and the illegal to trade. but

for the past decade the centuries finder. has been fighting a different one that has implications for people as well as wildlife. looking good. for them they come here and we have to. be having them back mentally and physically and will form them into a felony and. enclosure so they have given a second chance at life and their slaves. yes. on the border of the western area national park it's a seventy square mile stretch of mountainous rainforest adjoining the capital founded more than

a century ago the park is home to ninety percent of sierra leone's biodiversity including while chimpanzees and numerous endangered species. it is this forest and its wildlife that bow and his team of forest rangers have been fighting to protect fetus line here there was a caterpillar that was trying to come in all the way and we went to stop it at that point or people but then it's like going to miss fire fighting. we move then after one two month the attempt again this is how the his looked historically and that is how they should be preserved for many reasons and we don't. help protect this forest is going to come down one day and that's what happened that we have been warning about this landslide all potential for something like big discussed like that for the last say ten fifteen years. for the collapse of the sugarloaf was

triggered by rampant deforestation and illegal building. for over a decade he warned the government of the damage being done to the hills around free time he took his message to local radio and television and even planted trees in the area. in the last three times a documentary produced a decade ago appeared alongside local architects and urban planners calling on the government to control unplanned building and environmental damage around the city. with the war situation we had everything stopped for many many years so i think it's suddenly that is this just everyone wants to bill deeply want to come back to say that you and those left. that is a huge. demand for land are going to ends up building code as little bits of me ignore their good nobody as regards to the some of the wrongs we obviously slide down the mountain get my beloved slaves it's an environmental disaster. we'll

in a few years we'll see how that cost us. the warnings were dire but no one listened. patrolling the bindery of the national park today takes power and his team to the site of the landslide where one of their guard posts one stood. a year before the disaster it was burnt down by angry locals determined to build houses in the area. this thick and over the years but make you feel say that when in a period you come where look at it what i see is not the top i'm imagining what is under. so many people perished here we're actually standing on top of a was a basically we got hit with literally missile to be released like all of the of the people the problem was not cost here the problem was caused by the ground that you can see this landscape a lot of rock when you have this rock you have little soil in there and it's the

trees that's where the roots are spreading into these areas around the rocks and that is holding everything together and once you cut the tree basically the root system dyce that means there is nothing holding these rocks again soil is already lose it's becoming like dust and once you have the heavy downpours and it's all based basically taking it away then the rocks are being exposed. we're playing games with people slightest if you ask me really it's going to hurt again it will hurt the. architects millions scarboro and quinn jay alan returned to free time at the end of syrian civil war and find a city where the ruble could be in front of the window. like they warned of the dangers the city faced. truly remarkable what has happened. just

post more post-war. software to open it up totally unplanned. three hundred homes were destroyed in the region landslide. but the collapse of the hillside didn't just destroy the houses beneath us. he created a mudslide an avalanche of water earth and stone that swept down hill towards the sea. the houses that stood in its way were built in floodplains were close to water courses areas normally classed as high risk and i got to know it when i was with a zero zero zero zero. oh god now maybe you did it you walk around it all while being get away. with the family. look in shock there has been built into the side of the hill his left exposed rain

coming in will cause that slope to fail if you have houses like this it would all of them would just be going collaterally despite the disaster when in manila find the area around the landslide a hive of building activity. with laborers rushing to meet the demand for new houses this is that selling these broken aggregates to whosoever will. only please don't. think of the story from the river bed here you can see that bridge is being eroded and this obviously they are taking stones from out there that is going to collapse eventually through ignorance we were wrecking the landscape. look the height. none of this should drive been built in this vicinity

a cult is a mishmash of houses placed on the hill it will be interesting to find out if any of this houses here sharks have. a building permits but those we spoke to around the landslide site did have paperwork including conveyances site surveys and building permits all stamped and signed by the ministry of lands. it's very painful. having this in my heart to see that we do have people in so who know what to do who would advise governments on how to proceed but if if if that is ignored then what's. the reason a silver bullets that would have prevented the region's landslide. not everyone thinks of forest cover or damage to the landscape played such a critical role.