who five weeks ago was released after spending thirty two years in prison. in one thousand nine hundred one he was found guilty of the brutal double murder of diana becker whose body was found at her mobile home and her boyfriend joe hudson whose body was discovered seven miles away and here again the f.b.i.'s crime lab where testimony was used as the main evidence to convict him. in this case d.n.a. was finally tested of a hair that was alleged to jon hoping to found in the bed of the murder victim diana bakker that was the key evidence of the prosecution brought up there was a ninety nine point nine eight percent likelihood that the hairs found at the scene were hits now we know it's a zero percent chance likelihood because the d.n.a. testing shows that these were not is here's. the judge found in his order that's without the hair evidence being heard by the jury there's a substantial likelihood the jury would record it and.

i'm going to visit john huffington where he's been living since he got out of prison. and you know i don't think it's a yes. or no. this is a transition well you know me better than your five weeks i came straight from prison i was eighteen when i when i came out was fifty. that would been thirty two years in that two month cookout and. currently have a double room but. almost as hard for me to nick their form of ok i got hold of my attorney michael offer who tends to work late and he was very excited on the phone and when you say. he does how did my name is like john oh

yeah and he's like well we've got these. like it's not your hair and it was like ok you know churches came out. this is my room it is home for now i don't. spend a lot of time here like tree new blue sky above my fresh air in my face but you know again this is not a six by nine cell that i'm sure with another man this is you know one hundred ten percent but since it's only been five weeks when you put your head down do you think of yourself still being imprisoned well one thing i used to do is like when i was in a cell that i didn't want to be in play and then she moved to where i wanted to be you know always name of that but i would never pull back like that sleep right on

top of it and there was that in my file we share the subconscious i guess i just i don't feel that spread back so i have made myself i'm not that comfortable yet so i just sit on top. i guess it's just not really it. is out on bond after a judge vacated his sentence but could soon find himself back in prison because of other evidence in this case. essentially we are in pretrial now because the state has announced its intention to attempt to retry john huffington for these crimes for which he's already served thirty two years. it's incredible that this cannot reach finale after thirty two years and after the way that false evidence was presented to the jury in this case it's just one is you just don't believe it's happened you know you don't believe it happened you don't believe it's still

happening and you know it's just you truly believe that this is going to fix this is a mistake and it's going to come it's going to come around it's going to get fixed . do you think to mr guilty you know that's the thing about the criminal justice system is that unfortunately trials are often not about seeking the truth but rather who presents the best narrative so far we've only heard one side of these stories we still need to hear from the families of the victims that huffington and manning were convicted of murdering. willie manning's execution was stayed after the f.b.i. emitted that the hair and ballistics testimony used to convict him for the double murder of tiffany miller and john stack was scientifically invalid. manning still sits on death row is one of thousands of cases reopened since former f.b.i. agent fred whitehurst blew the whistle on the f.b.i. crime lab procedures they should be honest and they're trying to tell you look at

this without any bias and then they tell you what they think you can find you had better make sure that this thing came out of particularly the f.b.i. so human enterprise what you mean by that human enterprise and human enterprise fails. the problem that the bureau has got is if they fail. and you find out about it. the world finds out about it it's a big big deal because they hold themselves out above that we're not human we're almost god like. because the system is a human enterprise and everyone involved has their own claim to the truth we have somebody who has. for two decades claimed his innocence and to be balanced and fair i want to hear the other side so we've come to madison this is simply to meet pam cole she's the mother of tiffany miller tiffany was one of the victims that manning is accused of murdering. your girl and you're going to meet you thank you so much

for doing this to sell her yeah she's a little tricky thing she was she was like a low plastic no this was the first bomb if you like to. share. one of the last times i remember talking to her was my birthday she worked in star all at the time and they would let her off that for her to come home so i got really really nice and i can member . seemed to me. then i didn't say it back to her because i was some oh that was. true. but you know this is that everything that i remember being so you know you. are

ok. did you see this man face they say so. i came up as the world is long oh wonderful child. to be green. would you like to make just by going on camera i don't want to go on you know you just don't think these things are going to happen i mean you go about these kinds of things happen to other people exactly or either they're in a situation where it's like drug day leno or or out when they're not supposed to be your whatever that's that's who this happens to but it didn't it came in my home. and and everything completely changed it's twenty one years later what do you understand happened she was in her last year of it. and they were in

the middle of finals. when he drove manning it broken into a boy's car. he had stolen the leather jacket he had stolen huggy that goes round the drain we think tiffany and john mark down to sigma ca. and count him ranking in the boy's car and took him back to one point at that moment. he got john to drive to the sentimental and he stand in the passenger side of. the shotgun in the back of behavior. and then he took taking his car and ran over john. who drove tiffany out in the woods. john or even mild in the shelter in the henri. the sheriff's department and their buddy first got there they didn't know dave knew it was a mob and they followed drag marks and that's how they found tiffany.

when i was told that she had been. my first impression was to change places whether . for many years i'm still there no met paul works and think ok we're going to mess with. an interview like what we just did with the mother of tiffany. it's just devastating because you see how deeply they believe in the original trial they want anality they don't understand why the case is being called into question and you can understand their feelings. i wanted to hear firsthand what the atmosphere in starkville was like after the murders so i went to talk to a journalist at the clarion ledger jerry mitchell covered the murders and the trial . here is. a film that. pamela.

a member of covering all this stuff and those huge headlines. we have this horrible crime there anyone arrested yet and you know who did it who did it then less than a month later another brutal double murder took place at a housing project just a few miles across town. and then also you have these two elderly african-american women who were killed. and it's also horrific to have their throats flip. so this is just awfulness this kind of go around solution very much huge pressure on the on the police to arrest and find somebody guilty of this whoever was the wrong one to get them. elect up in the air wondering if the killer of his son elisa and and it being students our age that's what's really scary because the could have happened to any of us. with starkville on edge after the two double

murders local authorities were trying hard to solve these crimes we have been trying to get an interview with the sheriff and the district attorney to hear their perspective on the case so far they've declined to be interviewed. in the frustrations of doing these kinds of cases a lot of people when they feel the heat don't want to talk. so from the records this is what we know about the investigation the fear. he was that the car burglar was also the murderer so the investigation first centered on tracking down the stolen items from the car of john sticklers friend. weeks after the crime one of the items was found the sigma chi fraternity hug which was used to hold a beer can firefighters walked out of the woods with one in his hand and said in this. paper couple weeks ago that he was looking for. on the sheriff's suspect list was willie jerome manning he was known to have broken into cars on the m s u campus

the huggy was found about five miles from manning's home manning was already in custody for unrelated crimes. as the investigation continued manning cellmate told police that manning confessed to him about the burglary and the murders. took five and a half months but tonight there is an arrest in the murders of two mississippi. twenty four year old really jerome morning also known as fly is charged with two counts capital murder in the december sayings of pamela tiffany miller from madison and john stack of natchez manning's ex-girlfriend provided another set of clues she had a leather jacket given to her by willie manning similar to the one stolen from the car she also said she had seen manning shooting a tree with a pistol in his back yard. bullet fragments found near the tree provided forensic evidence that could be compared to the bullets found in the bodies. with his accumulation of evidence the authorities are confident they have the culprit in

custody and charged willie manning with the murder of the m.s. you students. but it was just the beginning a year after his arrest manny was also charged with the murder of two elderly african-american women police found a witness who claimed that he saw manning entering the victim's apartment the night that they were killed. i went to visit harris the former girlfriend of kevin lucius the man who testified as the key witness against manning. when the two young ladies were killed the murders took place and brew for a garden and it's like five minutes away from me my baby day it was in my life. the police got in touch with kevin in st louis missouri he was being charged on a double murder. and they went up there and spoke with kevin and say they can get him off the murder charges up there if he cooperated with a murder trial that was going on down here. for the way he came by

and say that they was gone charge me kevin with the murders and we didn't cooperate . and so i told him i didn't know anything and they told me that they knew i had a newborn baby and it was real intimidating and thinking that my i was gone lose my child and they will make me feel like i won't be in jail for alone time they wanted me to write out a statement stating their i was living in a garden and they had me kevin and my daughter was looking at the window. and there we witnessed the flash. open to get into the door and one at would bloody clothes on. and. it was in turn. and witness net and witness net and valuable and in fact locution kevin didn't move into the brookfield garden apartment until a month after the murders took place and the police records confirm this. but i

know for fact that he did not kill those two ladies because we were paid to last and he did. the trial hinged on kevin's testimony manning was convicted and sentenced to death. but i'd be apologized to him for what i hear when i hear it what. to do all these years and the apologetic for that well sorry but that was a it's a ten that was and i was scared that didn't know what else to do and i didn't want to go to jail and they hate me a baby. years later both kevin lucius and the kesha harris recanted their testimony. well manning's execution is on hold as the court decides whether or not to grant him d.n.a. testing. john huffington is on the outside with an uncertain future is currently

working a project server a transitional job training and counseling program for former inmates so now. you've got a player that actually you know you just relax and you know the sort of says i find myself in right now still stressful and i'm out but i'm not out i'm out on bail i'm still facing you know a whole new trial or due process is always prosecutor you know he's not letting letting this go so you know one foot on a banana peel on the sets you know i can't i can't make long term plans i can't engage in a career i can't engage in a relationship because it's not. you know future driven it's day to day trip. in this. each one they still. want to be seen.

to be. with the children. sometimes feel that we're really looking into the hearts and the souls of those directly involved in advance taking place we very good at telling all sides of the story from the political elite to those people who think that you really get to know what's happening on the ground that's very important for me as a generation as i can often feel that my continent is misrepresented and we've changed that your story is important to us it doesn't matter where you come from. still killed ten men from many members. of. the war.

some. people in power i mean it's the women heading an eighteen man militia. and dispensing justice with an unforgiving hand. and eye for an eye. in iraq on al-jazeera. london with the top stories here on al-jazeera the leaders of the u.s. and north korea have arrived in singapore for tuesday's historic summit donald trump and kim jong un all last thing in separate hotels not far from each other trump hopes to win a deal with the north to give up their nuclear weapons but concedes it may take more than one meeting company health it is in singapore. with the arrival of these

two leaders in place the work begins in preparation for that meeting that will take place on tuesday there have been teams here on the ground working feverish lee not just to get the logistics in place but also to set the right tone for the table the u.s. president we had him while he was on air force one that he believed that this was a one time opportunity he believes the north korean leader will not wait nuclear peace was also at the top of the agenda of the summit of the shanghai cooperation organization and china iranian president hassan rouhani used the meeting to criticize the u.s. for withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal saying is unilateral policies are a threat to all twenty fifteen agreement between iran and the world powers lifted international sanctions on tech round in return for restrictions on its nuclear activities russia's president vladimir putin told the summit he wants consistent

and unconditional implementation of the deal white house has stepped up its verbal attacks on justin trudeau with a top of visor saying the canadian prime minister trying to stab donald trump in the back of the g. seven summit trudeau avoided questions from waiting media in quebec but during the summit he told reporters that the u.s. president's decision to invoke national security as a reason for his steel trade tariffs was kind of insulting. at least seventeen people have been killed in syrian government as strikes on a village in rebel held province a village the northern province is meant to be one of the so-called deescalation. another flow of mud and ash from the four a go volcano in guatemala has forced emergency teams to abandon their search for survivors they say little hope of finding anyone else alive after last sunday's eruption killed at least one hundred

ten people. top stories the system continues now aaron al-jazeera.

john huffington is on the outside with an uncertain future. you know we all make choices i did good in school and i was younger we are we are through sophomore year of high school. both my parents the very words came my father's ph d. my mother had a master's both teacher taught at different points in their careers so education was like really paramount. stepped away from all there and took a left turn and got into the party scene and put myself in the wrong choice of place that. i was doing drugs and it was in the eighty's and cocaine was coming in at that point it was

a new thing you know is the big thing there's a lure to money. you know the their reputation or prestigious comes with that and jeff myself longball two situation i now find myself you know still there. this is a pretty clear kind of d.n.a. evidence just kind of sounds him in this case. d.n.a. was finally tested of a hair that was alleged to a boy on the john huffington found in the bed the murder victim diana bakker but. that was not the only piece of evidence and there is other evidence to suggest that he might have done the crime and so to be interesting to see what the family has to say we're heading over to go talk to bill watson the brother of diana becker. a lot of things oh yes there were later chairperson chased me to thank you for

having this is july fourth one nine hundred sixty nine. diana was the tongue trolling group called the skipper s. and sheila to legal forms she was one heck of a baton twirler. she did this for many many years she actually love that activity. diana was a very kind person. here's just a natural warmth and love that's dinah there and myself. she end up getting married very very young because she got pregnant she was sixteen ok and that marriage. had failed as many as young marriages do she was on her own for a while raising her son danny. and chris and she met joe hudson joe was a disc jockey. and they actually cohabitate it up until the time of her death. must have been obviously devastating i can't imagine what how did you get the news

and. i guess it was may twenty fifth one thousand nine hundred in the phone rang as my my mother on the phone obviously upset and she just says me time is dead i was like what she was dying is dead it on in that state of shock at the time in a course the first thing i was like what happened and she said she was murdered of course our bus ran of the house and my mother was there i control the sobbing. and i just sat with her for about an hour two hours probably is holding her own. and. in the summertime they'd go down to this camp the campground police said they'd interviewed a couple that had been with joe and diana the night before they're supposed to have breakfast with and the next morning and that's when their friends. entered the

trailer. and sold diana and danny was in the trailer he was screaming out my mom's all covered with blood and she won't wake up. to stab thirty times your throat was slit back to the back bone again that's salling mark so he tried to sell her head off this you know her skull was crushed with a heavy vodka bottle filled with coins. johansson was killed almost execution style. he was shot and then you had one shot to the forehead. the murders were associated with they said well these are two drug dealers. i'm like whoa diana was involved trogs or least we didn't know it all but then come to find out that diana was so ship joe was you know i guess toys and cocaine dealing. and then a news story coming in a little bit. they had a couple suspects. do you know canaris was

a known drug dealer john huffington eighteen times. canaris surrendered to police and agreed to cooperate in exchange for a reduced sentence he was released in two thousand and eight after spending twenty seven years in prison. often was arrested within forty eight hours but always maintained his innocence claiming he was home alone sleeping when the murders took place any comments on the charges against him the evidence against huffington seemed overwhelming a hair found on diana becker's body was matched to him by the f.b.i. crime lab huffington fingerprint was also found on the box the bottle used to kill diana backer canaris testified that he watched huffington kill both diana becker and johansson. huffington was found guilty of both murders in november of one thousand nine hundred one and ultimately sentenced to two life terms it was vicious it was almost like. she was hated tell me why you think john huffington is

guilty there's two pieces of physical evidence that placed john huffington at the scene of the crime one was a hair evidence that was later found to be inaccurate through d.n.a. testing the second was his thumb print on a vodka bottle which was one of the murder weapons it was his thumb was in a position on that bottle that was consistent with a bludgeoning so as far as we're concerned yes ok i grant you the hair evidence. was inaccurate. but then you have other evidence that placed in there ok let's concede that it's a bad hair or put it aside we got the bottle and the vodka bottle has huffington fingerprint on it but it has a lot of other people's prints on it also and that bottle was in the trailer for anyone to touch. the justice system it's in the hands of human beings and both sides that we've met

so far are personable and believable and it just kind of a pet in my eyes is. how the. justice system run by human beings can run off the rails. an example of this is the disastrous work of one agent in the f.b.i. crime lab exposed by fred whitehurst michael moore who's an agent in the laboratory i. should say when you look at him you said this is the kind of guy i want to be like. to examine or such from the lab in florida came to me consider you've got to stop this guy michael malone stop him from doing what. over inferring the here data . we've tracked all along the case about eight hundred thirty six i mean he testified false false or misleading. after fred whitehurst was forced to leave the f.b.i. he started the forensic justice project with david cole the pinto. that's in there

this is documents that were referred by the justice department to the f.b.i. . i love this stuff. through this organization they filed freedom of information act requests to investigate all of the cases touched by michael malone that's that's what we want to know who moan might have hurt so friends of justice project general counsel david cope and joe. but all these foia requests getting any information all of that in. cases that michael malone might have been involved and we got them this is the huff and yes that's right ok so then he got assigned to someone at some point mr malone comes into the picture so this is malone testified and when he testified get down here just a little bit and look at this michael malone analyze the evidence and john huffington is double murder case there were two hairs found at the scene under the

bed sheet one on the bed sheet itself and one on the garter belt of the victim. that was the key evidence of the prosecution brought up that's what put him at the time and place of these murders. in one thousand nine hundred nine an internal report found problems with what michael malone a down in the huffington case. with their analysis we're told is real microscope you don't know how many characters you can have to match you can choose how many match and it's depending upon the person that's doing the analysis not upon fact not upon data not upon a standard. we knew that there were problems with this technique there are many documented cases where analysts including michael malone but not limited to michael malone have matched things like carpet fibers to head hair he did not testify consistently with his notes he'd excluded hairs without explaining why he was excluding hairs could match chairs without explaining why he mash errors he hadn't

taken hair samples from all of the people who might have been in contact the body. this internal f.b.i. report was completely unknown to us until an investigative reporter from the washington post contacted us about that report in november two thousand and eleven . a series of articles in the washington post revealed that flawed forensic work by f.b.i. experts may have led to the conviction of innocent people and the u.s. department of justice knew about these flood practices for a long time. those reports that we generated from that were now. may be may be readily available not not just to the public but just to the tourney's in the in the cases that were involved and if it wasn't for the washington post we were known today. they looked at several cases in particular the age of michael malone was involved they were just looking for background because he had been involved in my case and we did know that the f.b.i.

files you know that was just you know you know. it's a matter. you want to tell you right here ok and it was. twelve years ago in my case it could fix to. fifty one that's another twelve years of lost . him and get it back. michael malone. was determined to have like twenty seven times under oath at that time every wheel on that car should come to a screeching halt in every case mr mone had ever worked should have been reviewed and he should of work no more cases if they found out there was a problem which they did. they were unable to test the hairs and this fully how

is it that the hairs were eventually tested yes it was only when the f.b.i. got involved again that they were able to actually test the hairs so the f.b.i. lab itself was the lab that eventually determined the john huffington could not be matched her d.n.a. to these hairs. they were able to interpret the shoddy work of their own analyst we reached out to the f.b.i. for an interview but they refused our request in a written response they stated there is no reason to believe the f.b.i. laboratory employed flawed forensic techniques microscopic hair analysis is still conducted at the f.b.i. lab surprisingly the f.b.i. has offered to pay for d.n.a. testing in the manning case but the state of mississippi has refused if we are able to test those hair fragments we could possibly determined who the real perpetrator is or definitely exclude willie manning as being the source of the hair that was found in the car his mistress and his mr huffington and that's for us to

decide. when we the truth before. i make comments on the charges against somebody can take you sir away from whatever your family. something you never did that you were never supposed to and put you in a cage and in a death chamber it's not a job. for individuals who challenge the system as fred whitehurst did there seems to be a heavy price to pay one of the costs of ensuring a level playing field in the criminal justice system f.b.i. director louis freeh is cleared of any blame and gets credit for starting to make reforms but today's report recommends against putting frederick whitehurst back in the crime lab where i came. very significant problems that the f.b.i. and this is their response to me you know.

if you don't go along with the crowd it gets harder and harder harder and. then you find yourself marginalized put off in a corner sent for. fitness for duty evaluation. sitting in a room with a psychiatry's who ask you a bunch of silly questions for nine hours. is it worth it. is mr housing to them worth it. my personal position is every american citizen and every human being is worth. but there's a big price to pay you take that position. the potential reach of this systemic problem is astounding it wasn't just a couple of analysts it was a significant number of people in the lab analysts and the lab managers in the lab who were just allowing bad and misleading work to come out of the well. there was simply not very many. experience scientists in key lab

positions. the. two thousand ton pink elephant in the courtroom is that the f.b.i. trained every year examiner you know a stage in crime labs. there are hundreds of thousands of hair cases where people came in through a microscope for a week or two weeks at the most went home and started rendering opinions about whether he or mr enough. the f.b.i. can't force the states to look at those cases. and the states are not going to do it the notion that when presented with a clear and unequivocal and undeniable evidence. that you convicted the wrong person that people won't step away from that and do their very best as quickly as possible to acknowledge that there was a mistake made and to try to remediate the problem and make amends to the defendant i find that extraordinarily disappointing in the case of william

a request to analyze d.n.a. has been made but the prosecution. fighting this motion. i never understood why the state was opposing testing in this case the law is clear that you know we should be able to do this. you know if you had a boil it down in a nutshell you know like what do you want people to know about your case we should take a closer look at the system as to how my case looks right now a lot like i don't believe that there's any part of this and you know but this is not as advertised this system is broken you have a are many many many more will be manning that there who came before me and it's now the system stays the same they'll be meeting will come in behind me you know what is your hope for the future and you think this is going to work itself out and one day i thought it would be a lot more hectic bout it be back in like my p ninety seven or so but when when

when you you have an event people and you have innocent people for real and those who are for real can never lose hope given that you have been ten years second somewhat of lebanon on this home. grown you take it. you take care man it's. the tenet yeah the just you got such a good attitude and say. you know. made in the u.s. with that will diminish then kerry. we don't want to be going through this we want to test. we want teen can save our life over something else other than the end even though it's frustrating even though it's doesn't give you a finale yet is there a place in this justice system where even if somebody is guilty they should have some benefit of looking into that issue. do you understand that they have found

innocent people. how they would go that when they have got. a d.n.a. but in this particular case everything was as clear as male they're going over something that was proven in court twenty one years ago. on a whim breathe another breath of our air on a one to fady my know the mailed out of want to put a roof over his eight. and it won't be a final tomato he's they hadn't got. the you know we had a long talk with the mother of tiffany and it's heartbreaking because they're so convinced because they believe in their official they believe in what they've been told how they feel about that right well i understand that. some

people might think that this is just a last you know eleventh hour effort to defer postpone an execution and you know if it works out where it does not help mr manning then at least you know we have the science society now that we've taken every reasonable step to ensure that a catastrophic outcome did not come about if the d.n.a. in willy manning's case is allowed to be tested as it was in john huffington skase and manning is found not guilty horrible outcome will have been averted. it's a crapshoot to bill watson the results of huffington the d.n.a. testing has led him to question the fairness of the system for the system to work for you guys you know what has to happen this case for faith in the system can ever be restored. they have to overturn this judge's decision. to be placed once again in jail. without possibility of parole.

he needs to die in jail. work elected. to do anything. really fond of this tree. mazie we see a tree. type of terrain. there it is a beautiful tree. justice should be more travails justice and truth this was supposed to be about this should never be a rush to judgment should be politically expedient it should be easy to put somebody on death row it should be easy to take somebody's life finish and be easy just lock somebody up and throw away the key. there are a lot of good people and i think most american people. but what's come to manage

that and to protect. you so much energy spent on protecting the f.b.i.'s image. the real victims of this other nation. a nation of people who believed in this justice system and find that it is fareed. we need systems that we trust. but we don't need to trust them blindly. not simply the people incarcerated not simply the families it's the communities. it's the nation.

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a one time shot at peace all came told singapore's prime minister and the entire world is watching from singapore our diplomatic editor james basis of this report a moment of history the leader of north korea first then the u.s. president several hours later arriving in the same city. this on off summit is now effectively underway the face to face meeting aimed at diverting a nuclear crisis taking place on choose day kim jong un borrowed a plane from china to bring him here he's probably the least well traveled leader on earth in charge of his isolated nation for six years he had met no other foreign leader until this year he came to singapore with his own body guard unit and brought his own armored limousine on a cargo plane again supplied by china remarkably it's only nine months since

president trump told the u.n. general assembly he was prepared to annihilate pyongyang diplomacy did finally kick in with north korea sending a delegation to south korea's winter olympics in february. a historic summit at the demilitarized zone between the two koreas was followed by a secret trip by then cia director mike pompei oh the first of two visits he made to pyongyang they pave the way for this summit in singapore trump briefly canceled this summit last month and he's repeatedly threatened to walk away if he doesn't believe the negotiations is serious a tough line but at the same time trump has been sending mixed messages to kim before he flew to singapore he was asked what he wanted to achieve at this historic summit but i had a minimum i do believe at least we'll have met each other we will have. seen each other hopefully we will have like each other and we'll start the process i would

say that would be the minimal no do then for the north korean leader to commit to completely give up his nuclear capability but experts say that kim is also well aware that trump is unpredictable and that he's coming from another summit the g seven where he fell out with his closest allies a meeting where the optics are positive meaning trum gets a handshake with someone and it both before agreeing to some kind of nuclear the need nuclear deal would go a long way to mescaline for president from as much as it would for the. north korean state community so in in all likelihood i think the north koreans are. upbeat but they are careful with the same time as kim had a brief courtesy meeting with singapore's prime minister news emerged that he was planning to leave the city just five hours after his meeting with trump that suggests there will not be lengthy substantive talks but we shouldn't discount the

idea that the north korean side may perhaps of those proposed timings as a negotiation tactic james ways al-jazeera singapore or representatives from both sides are carrying out last minute preparations and meetings to ensure tuesday summit goes smoothly and there's a guarantee of success can they help this update also from singapore. the u.s. president touching down here at the pilot bar air force base here in singapore just hours after kim jong il in the north korean leader also arriving now with the arrival of these two leaders in place the work begins in preparation for that meeting that will take place on tuesday there have been teams here on the ground working fee virtually not just to get the logistics in place but also to set the right tone for the table the u.s. president we did while he was on air force one that he believed that this was

a one time opportunity he believes the north korean leader will not waste also saying that he believes that kim jong un is ready to work towards peace and prosperity for his nation certainly this is something that the u.s. is offering as leverage towards achieving the goal of denuclearize nation something that has been very hard to define between the two sides but that gap closing but what will be difficult is the measurable steps so as a result there is going to be a lot of pressure on these two leaders to prove that this is more than just a photo opportunity but something that can be achievable starting with what the u.s. president calls a dialogue. with scott snyder is a senior fellow for korean studies at the council on foreign relations and joins me now live from washington d.c. thanks very much for coming on to algis or on just to talk to you first of all about president donald trump approach to this whole summit is total having not done very much preparation he's talked about almost treating it like

a business deal how do you think that's going to go down well with the north koreans. well in some ways i think that the north koreans might prefer that approach to a very technically oriented detail focused process that would be designed to get into the nitty gritty of denuclearization it gives the north koreans more space to try to frame the issues in terms of principles and ambiguities that then could leave room to get off the hook later on. came a set to the singapore promised on arrival that the hold well he's watching is not really what's going on here this is what he wanted to be seen as almost a wealth power sitting at the new korea table without actually giving anything away as yet well it's absolutely true that president trump is

participating in the normalization of kim jong un as a world leader he in the course of having this summit he's just facilitated another relationship between kim jong un and the leader of singapore. and so i do think that we are seeing that as a consequence of this process the united states has in fact gone a long way toward meeting many north korean longstanding demands about moving in the direction of changing the relationship from one of hostility to one of normalcy and the big question i think is how will north korea reciprocate those steps. don't something selfless sort of calm down expectations as to this summit what you think the best that we can hope for at the end of it is. well i do think that we are probably going to see some kind of declaration that can be regarded as historic it's necessary for both countries to identify

a common set of interests that can enable them to start a process that will allow us to work together in terms of addressing these issues and i think that just the fact that this is the first time that these individuals have met and that they are going to be moving in the direction of some kind of joint project presumably involving peace and in. is important development and as far as the domestic would inside donald trump on the plane or from canada where he left the trade of very unhappy g seven leaders behind how important for him domestically is he does terribly well at this summit well he's already got a positive response from his base in terms of the idea of reaching out to kim jong un. it is a little bit strange that we have an american president who seems to have more difficulty get along getting along with our allies and yet he's trying to make

friends with our enemies and so that is kind of logical inconsistency that. i think we'll have to wait and see how that works out absolutely thanks very much for talking to us on the is there thank you. asked trump and came prepared to talk about did nuclear disarmament in north korea countries meeting in china are trying to salvage the iran dail on iranian enrichment donald trump withdrew from the agreement with world leaders last month a shanghai cooperation organization summits iran russia and kazakstan have vowed to to uphold the deal flow and slowing reports. a pledge of support for iran's nuclear deal russia iran kazakstan promising to fully imagine that the three year old agreement is despite the u.s. pulling out. of course our country cannot be but worried about iran nuclear program

u.s. withdrawal from the comprehensive plan of action can further destabilize the situation . russia is in favor of consistent and unconditional implementation of the deal. i. put in spoke at the shanghai cooperation organization or s.c.l. summit held in the eastern city of qingdao russia is one of the eight s. and you know members together these countries represent forty percent of the world's population and twenty percent of global g.d.p. should badger and well how germany and a power politics still disease in the world the growing call for a more just and equitable international order must be heeded democracy in international relations is an unstoppable trend of the times the aesir was formed seventeen years ago may lead to strengthen security cooperation but trade issues

have become important to some s.c.l. members i involved in building infrastructure for china's belton road project dubbed as the new silk road to boost twenty first century economies in the coming few years. as your most likely will pick up more security considerations or chill political considerations and the corporation among as you members involving the observer states in security or even for example moving into quasar military cooperation will not be impossible therefore as c.e.o. is expanding its vision is moving forward to deal better with the new challenges in the world and as the u.s. is apparently becoming increasingly isolated from its allies because of troubles policies and tariffs and his readiness to withdraw from trade climate educative. the unity presented at.