well moving into. call britain we will not be impossible therefore as c.e.o. is expanding its mission is moving forward to do you 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 and. the unity presented at the s e o is in stark contrast to the g seven summits in canada where dog trump refused to endorse the final communique some analysts say the unified message from china also presents a challenge to the west in that world order florence al-jazeera beijing one of the leaders of hong kong's independence movement has been sentenced to six years in jail twenty seven leon was convicted of rioting in a two thousand and sixteen overnight protests that turned violent to other demonstrators were also jail for taking part in the protest about one hundred

thirty people mostly police were injured in a so-called fishbowl revolution when democracy activists staged a demonstration against what they saw as more mainland chinese control in hong kong . the un is calling for a full investigation into syrian regime airstrikes on the town of sardonic which killed nineteen people including children over the past three days heavy bombardment killed more than sixty people an adlib province it is considered a de escalation zone under the astonished agreement and secretary general reminded guarantors of the agreement to uphold their commitment more than two point three million people live in and live most of them are displaced from other areas during the conflict. so head on al-jazeera a warehouse in baghdad storing ballot boxes in there waiting machines catches fire venom or controversy about iraq's disputed election plus. i'm marching to celebrate a major milestone for the following one hundred here

a sense one member given the pope's u.k. . i would started raining heavily in the philippines which is maybe not a big surprise and the evidence is there from the satellite picture that the strength of the science doesn't reveal very much where it's whitish topped he would suggest shar was that's probably not true around singapore we've had once you light ones and they may be in the full confidence not like homes and treasured even a surprise that it looks as though java bali for example could see a couple of showers but the philippines that has been the concentration and of course the monsoon trough running through thailand i'm in will produce quite a lot of heavy rain which is right for this time of the year other side of the equation of course we're thinking about winter it's been a quiet couple of days but i think the cloud that's now coming in through south

australia into victoria and a.c.t may well be cold enough at least to give some snow on the top of the straight out of victoria alps but this basically we talk about the rain from melbourne at fifteen degrees british weather similarly adelaide bit better in paris or a bit sunnier i should say in person for most of the constant is enjoying the sunshine to be honest if you embrace been really quite pleasant now new zealand has been a bit of a different story is been windy and wet particularly in the warsaw and for a few days and it's not looking hugely better on tuesday but it's a nice city breeze so if you in the west you're fine. she said. in this case. each one a story. wants to be seen. to be. demonstrably. it is. when.

we look human being. on. the top stories this hour it's less than twenty four hours until the historic summit in singapore between the u.s. and north korean leaders will be watching to see if donald trump can broker a deal with kim jong un to denuclearize the korean peninsula delegations from both sides are making final preparations before the meeting. with. the e.u. that is still responding to us tariffs on steel and aluminum merkel says she was

disappointed that the u.s. president withdrew from the g. seven summit communiqué. the un is calling for a full investigation of syrian air strikes on the town of which killed nineteen people including children over the past three days heavy bombardment killed more than sixty people in the province and lives considered a deescalation zone under the astonished cream and. more than six hundred migrants were stuck on a rescue ship waiting for crews from malta or italy to take them in italy as threaten to close its ports to rescue ships at malta doesn't accept the migrants to has. rushed off the request saying it had nothing to do with the operation off the libyan coast to save them the migrants are picked up by the italian navy and a european humanitarian rescue boat leonard doyle said director of media and communication at the international organization for migration says the e.u. has a greater role to play in helping the migrants the legalities of this are difficult

to unpack because it involves people are vessels crossing into different areas of responsibility and it also involves you know a very large country and in fact a very very small country so i think the put the important thing really is the danger that people are in the there are seven pregnant women aboard one of these ships three young children and food will last for a maximum of two days and more broadly it's the issue of you know moral responsibility at the end of the day of european union has to step it up and and help if there's a local difficulty m.d. there is a big difficulty both countries need to see some more solidarity from european union right along the mediterranean there are migrants coming across in an irregular way those say without proper legal documentation among them are occasionally refugees but most of them are at least right now are economic migrants and the numbers are probably set to increase given population change given

unemployment and given instability even climate change in in the middle east and in africa so it's a problem that the europeans have yet to really grapple with properly in a way that satisfies the humanitarian aspect of it but at the same time ensures that they have a managed migration process because we don't want to see nobody wants to see this on a mass scale and indeed people are voting problematically they're voting very very kind of in a very volatile way so that's not good either. the united nations is trying to negotiate a cease fire to avert an attack by saudi amrani coalition forces on yemen's main for it fighting between coalition troops and iran back to the rebels intensified data over the weekend warning that an attack on the city could cost up to a quarter of a million lives many of them children. reports. as the u.n. lobbies to stop a saudi led coalition assault on the who the rebel held port city of how data

regional rivalries do not matter for tens of thousands like the op to family their father ahmed is only worried about how to keep his six kids alive ahmed hasn't let them go to school since the worst outbreaks of defeat in color were recorded in the world hit his city the u.n. says hold data has the largest number of sick people in yemen with more than seventy percent of its population specially children at risk of malnutrition and i want to in case any of my children get sick they would have to stay here at home so i managed to borrow some money because i have almost nothing and the situation is difficult and life is not proper home for the of the family is a shanty made from sheets of corrugated iron and straw covered with plastic tarps and worn out blankets this situation in the port city has gone from bad to worse since the start of power struggle between the saudi backed and internationally recognized government and the iran backed with the rebels. the who these took the

capital of sanaa in two thousand and fourteen pushing the government into exile a year later they took the strategically important port city of what data which has been the only source of relief supplies for millions. while the warring sides spent billions of dollars trying to take control of one of the region's poorest countries families like the up does struggle to find a few dollars a day for food the monastery and i make a living by writing a range of motion cycle there's no patrol now every day we need two dollars to be able to have food and water nearly nine million people are on the brink of starvation twenty two million out of the twenty eight million yemeni population are now in serious need of aid millions have been internally displaced and more than ten thousand people have already been killed. now ahmed worries what an all out attack on his city will mean yemeni government forces announced they were moving in

on the last year but they backed off after significant international pressure the u.s. has once again lobbying the warring sides to negotiate a cease fire it warns any tack on the port would have a catastrophic impact. al-jazeera. iraq's prime minister says a fire at a warehouse storing ballot boxes from last month's election is a plot against democracy the boxes are being used and a manual recount of after widespread allegations of fraud the government says none of the ballots were destroyed but there are calls for the selection to be a very broad. has more from the iraqi capital. thick black smoke over the recent for districts in eastern baghdad iraq's ministry of interior say the fire started in a building used to store ballot boxes and electronic voting machines from the disputed parliamentary election a month ago iraq's parliament voted last week for

a countrywide to manual recount of ballots allegations of voting fraud one in peace at the fire was started deliberately and cooled on the government to better protect buildings where ballot boxes are being stalled and i feel imagine this a three way houses there are important but it's boxes in that firefighters are inside trying to put out the fire earlier in the day and nine judges were appointed to oversee the manual recount of votes nationwide the process is expected to take at least a couple of weeks. the government sacked senior members of the election commission which oversaw the vote counting prime minister he has banned them from leaving the country and warned that anyone suspected of being involved in election fooled could face criminal challenges iraq's first election since the defeat of i still was praised for the lack of violence in the run up to and during polling day on may the twelfth but since then much has changed allegations of fraud leading to

parliament's vote for a countrywide manual recounts of the transparency of this election into doubt a fire at a building containing potential proof of how people vote will only make accusations of voter rigging even louder. baghdad. protesters of ramallah are demanding the palestinian authority lift sanctions against gaza saying they are hurting both israelis and palestinians want palestinian president mahmoud abbas to and salary cuts for officials demonstrators are also demanding reconciliation between the west bank and gaza strip causes suffering from a shortage of basic goods and electricity after israel cut its power supply by almost half. the protesters have rallied in romania's capital supporting investigations into corruption at least twenty eight mayor senators and hundreds of public servants have been prosecuted in the past year the demonstrators are responding to

a much larger rally on saturday against the investigations the ruling social democratic party claims that prosecutors have too much power and accuses them of unjustly targeting government figures. only two hundred thousand people formed a human chain across spain's basque region demanding the right to decide on whether they wish to become independent spain is already dealing with a separate failed secession attempt not to work from catalonia however this time protesters are hoping the new central government will be more sympathetic to their demands. reports. it sounds a little sweet to be a protest song you do these are cool to be green. this demonstration in the basque region marks the start of a new beat with great to so maybe even to break away from spain together. we've been calling for our rights for years and to be another chance to see that

there's a significant percentage of citizens who want to and the site. last month the separatists organization announced it was disbanding that gives peaceful campaign is the chance to draw a line between themselves now violent uprising which last decades these are the last links in a human chain that stretches from here more than two hundred kilometers or one hundred twenty miles away right up to the border with france. it wound along the highways and byways through one of the richest corners of spain the ne basque region already has wide ranging devolved powers over health education and even taxation but some like quantrill of course who came with his grandson dream of having their own country when. there are steps to be taken first self-government and so fraught and then independent i'm not sure what that will look like but it

needs to recognize people's rights some days event comes amid turbulent times the dispute over catalonia as attempt to declare independence from the rest of spain is far from over and earlier this month the central government in madrid was toppled by a corruption scandal the incoming socialist administration has known with giora no room to maneuver on key issues such as greater self rule for space various regions but but but organizers except it may be along the campaign which is. different factors mean we're closing one chapter and beginning another we must base this new chapter on democratic values and the will of the people it's hard to see how government leaders in madrid would ever accept moves to carve up spain into independent states. but ask these basque demonstrators join together they chant the power in the future is in their hands.

victorious spain. british women gained the right to vote one hundred years ago and in london thousands marched to remember those who helped make that possible and reports. a river of green one thousand voyage. the first letters of those colors used by the suffragette movement g w v signifying give women the vote one hundred years ago some british women finally got it and these women are remembering their struggle with a unique march in the u.k. so national capitals edinburgh cardiff belfast and here in london community groups have been working with professional artists to create some are you catching bonus we commissioned a hundred artists each to work with the quarry that could be women in prison kids and schools. muslim women's federation south bank sisters lots of different people you see behind me clean break here prison survivors of domestic violence so lots

and lots of different organizations that we can rate a particular artist to go into bacary to work with them to make a banner in a series of workshops they also explored the history of the suffragettes as well as the later fight for things like access to birth control some of these women were extremely radical women who were prepared to act deeds not words and make decisions that perhaps nowadays might like pretty long. many of the themes are obvious. others less so and had a great time to take workshops making the food coming up with the parents the teacher coming up with the. idea well kids except that it won't affect me defies description we're hoping because i think if if things don't become surprise we call it controls the more she's also saw homemade efforts and some definitely too young

to vote they belong to a pair of women together doing something together and by. and it's right to do something with my daughter but every day. the women know it's you who have come from all over england in the bombings they've made highlights a whole range of issues but what they're all doing is looking back to the achievements of the stuff or just looking forward to a more equal future. and they're hoping the younger generations will be as bold as those who came before the. zero. let's recap the headlines for you now on al-jazeera it's less than twenty four hours until the historic summit in singapore between the u.s. and north korean leaders the world will be watching to see if donald trump can broker a deal with kim jong un to denuclearize the korean peninsula delegation from both

sides are making final preparations before the meeting the german chancellor says the e.u. will respond in kind to us tariffs on european steel and aluminum. she was disappointed after the u.s. president withdrew from the g. seven summit communiqué one of the leaders of hong kong's and dependents movement has been sentenced to six years in jail twenty seven year old was convicted of rioting in two thousand and sixteen overnight protests that turned violent to other demonstrators who are also sentenced to jail for taking part in the protest about one hundred thirty people mostly police for entered in the so-called fishbowl revolution. more than six hundred migrants were stuck on a rescue ship waiting for crews from malta or italy to take them in at least threaten to close its ports to rescue ships of malta doesn't accept the migrants brushed off the request saying it had nothing to do with the operation off the libyan coast to save them. the u.n.

is calling for a full investigation into syrian regime air strikes on the town of sirte donna which killed nineteen people including children over the past three days heavy bombardment killed more than sixty people and it looked province that live is considered deescalation zone under the astonishment more than two point three million people live and live most of them displaced from other areas during the conflict protesters in ramallah are demanding the palestinian authority lift the sanctions against gaza saying they hurt both israelis and palestinians go on palestinian president mahmoud abbas to in salary cuts for officials demonstrators are also demanding reconciliation between the west bank and gaza strip gaza suffering from a shortage of basic goods and electricity after israel cut its power supply by almost half thousands of protesters have rallied in romania's capital supporting investigations into corruption the demonstrators are responding to a much larger rally on saturday against those investigations. those are the

headlines to keep it here on al-jazeera much more news throughout the day and witness this next. in a first meeting between a sitting u.s. president and since the birth of north korea supreme leader kim jong the bone comes face to face with president donald trump and the world watches high stakes diplomacy through a hood a global we cleared crisis al-jazeera will bring you live coverage of this historic moment for the korean peninsula and for international diplomacy the singapore summit all knowledge is it.

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kim jong il and let's let's not as i said on saturday this is truly a mission of peace. this afternoon the president called prime minister abbott of japan and president moon of south korea. earlier today. our ambassador son kim led a delegation to meet with vice foreign minister chase on the way and his north korean or excuse me in her now north korean delegation the talks continue this afternoon even as we sit here now they are in fact moving quite rapidly and we anticipate they will come to their logical conclusion even more quickly than we had and to support it. before discussing the summit i want to dress a report in the new york times that suggested that the u.s. team lacks the technical expertise on dismantling north korea's weapons program as part of these talks i want to address that report directly. for over three months an interagency working group of over one hundred experts across government multiple

times per week to address technical know just tickle issues associated with dismantling north korea's weapons programs they include experts from the military charged with this man only nuclear weapons the department of energy including ph d.'s and experts from dia we labs and officials from the intelligence community covering north korea. the same experts also cover north korea's nuclear chemical biological and missile programs these experts include dozens of ph d.'s who have expertise in nuclear weapons to fuel cycle missiles chemical and biological weapons they have advanced degrees nuclear engineering physics chemistry aerospace by all a-g. and other relevant fields. on the ground in singapore we have a team that includes the president's senior most expert in weapons of mass destruction who can cover any technical needs that the meetings may present and he suggested that the unit's united states lacks the texas technical expertise across

government or lax on the ground here in singapore is mistaken north korea has previously confirmed to us its willingness to denuclearize and we're eaglet eager to see if those words prove sincere the fact that our two leaders are sitting down face to face is a sign of the enormous potential to accomplish something that will immensely benefit both of our peoples and the entire world. president believe that kim jong un has and i'm president opportunity to change the trajectory of our relationship and bring peace and prosperity to his country we are hopeful the summit will have set the conditions for future productive talks in light of how many flimsy agreements the united states has made in previous years this president will share ensure that no potential agreement will fail to adequately address the north korean threat the ultimate objective we seek from diplomacy with north korea has not changed the complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the korean

peninsula is the only outcome that the united states will accept sanctions will remain until north korea completely in verifiably eliminates its weapons of mass destruction programs if diplomacy does not move in the right direction and we're hopeful that it will continue to do so those measures will increase. president trump recognizes chairman kim's desire for security and is prepared to ensure that a north korea free of weapons of mass destruction is also a secure north korea the president also expressed his openness to expanding access to foreign investment and other economic opportunities for north korea if they take the right steps. all the preparations for the summit have come together very nicely the president met this afternoon with minister lee of singapore it was an important opportunity to thank the prime minister singapore for his partnership in helping make this summit

a reality singapore is home to over four thousand american companies and has is a longstanding commercial partner and we thank them for their help in making this summit what it is. the president also had a chance to visit with our embassy team here in singapore and thanked them for their tireless work to make this summit a success. for example at tomorrow's summit there will be some five thousand members of the media from all over the world that will be covering this story event president trump is going into this meeting with confidence a positive attitude and eagerness for real progress he has made it clear that it came genuine denuclearize is there is a brighter future for north korea tomorrow we will get our clearest indication today of whether chairman kim jong un truly shares this vision i'm happy to take a couple questions.

ever. been. very. very. sorry to hear. that. there's no shift in the policy it is the case that we are prepared to make security assurances necessary for the north koreans to engage in that denuclearization that is we're prepared to take actions that will provide them. sufficient certainty that they can be comfortable that denuclearization isn't something that ends badly for them indeed just the opposite that it leads to a brighter better future for the north korean people. following up on that

point mr secretary under the umbrella of security assurances would that include removing u.s. forces now in south korea is that something you're prepared to discuss with the north koreans directly i'm not going to get into any of the details of the discussions that we've had today. well i can only say this. we are prepared to take what will be security assurances that are different unique than have been provided that america's been willing to provide previously we think this is both necessary and appropriate to assume that you know. you shouldn't assume from the fact that i don't give any detail here today that some question you posited has any merit. yeah you just i don't i you should just if you hypothesize something that's in it and i refuse to tell you what's in it you should assume that i'm simply refusing to tell you what's in it and not drawing any conclusions from the negative inference that i think you're suggesting you should you should aware that there's going to be a lot of work left to do there's

a lot of detail that's got to be provided we are not going to conduct these negotiations in the open with the media we're going to conduct them between the two parties so that we have an opportunity to have a real success here. very . good. all right. off are. there. or were. they.

so i think the first part of the question is the same question major garrett asked and has a substantive question about what one side or the other may be prepared to do and i'm simply not going to speak to that with respect to the second question. the context for these discussions is radically different than ever before the backdrop against which these negotiations are taking president trump has said in a way that is fundamentally different than before presidents made very clear until such time as we get the outcome that we're demanding economic relief is not going to be provided that's different there was always this hypothesis that somewhere along the way the americans would take their foot off and allow those economic opportunities for the north and thereby reduce the capacity to actually achieve the deal we're not going to do that so these discussions that will take place tomorrow between chairman kim president trump. we'll set

a framework for the hard work that will follow and we'll see a far we get but i'm very optimistic that we will have a successful outcome from tomorrow's meeting between these two leaders it's the case in each of those two countries there are only two people that can make decisions of this magnitude in those two people are going to be sitting in a room together tomorrow. the secretary. depressant and says he'll know within a minute whether khamis serious based on his feel these are obviously incredibly complex nuclear issues that have tens of millions of civilians in the crosshairs is it wise for the president to be going on who's got and how do you establish any specific criteria for the conditions that lead him to walk out tomorrow president fully prepared for the meeting tomorrow i've personally had the opportunity to make sure that he's had a chance to hear lots of different voices all of the attendant opportunities and risks and that we have we have put put these two leaders in the right place as i

said in answer the previous question print president trump has truly laid out a process here that is fundamentally different than the ones that we've gone through before and i expect that the process from tomorrow forward will also be fundamentally different with a resolved america working to try and provide the benefits both countries that's different than what we've done before. here sir like. oh. yeah yeah that's. what i. said let.

the. day. that. he that he. tell you said. and first i think the hypothesis is ludicrous. the united states has been fooled before there's no doubt about it many presidents previously have signed off on pieces of paper only to find that the north koreans either didn't promise what we thought they had or actually reneged on their promises promises the v. matters. the matters we are going to ensure that we set up a system sufficiently robust that were able to verify these outcomes and it's only once the v. happens that will proceed apace right that's that's what's been missed before.

you know go back to reagan trust but verify. at the end of the day both countries are going to have to come to have sufficient trust in each other and to do the verification that each country needs that we've provided the things that are called for that we commit to in the various documents that we sign both tomorrow if we sign a document and if we sign subsequent documents but will each have to ensure that we do the things we take the actions necessary to follow through on those commitments and when we do we'll have a verified deal and if we can get that far we will have had a historic change here in southeast asia north asia and all around the world. that's. what. secretary morning. more on her. lap. when are going there are.

three ok you know. what i came here today here in singapore to talk about north korea but i'm happy to talk about work with our european partners as well we wouldn't be in this place we wouldn't have this is stark opportunity without the diplomatic work that's been done by our european partners alongside of us present trumpets led an enormous coalition including those very same european partners those g seven partners to which you refer who have helped us get to this point i have every expectation that they will continue to do that. there are always irritants in relationships i am very confident the relationships between our countries. the united states and those g seven countries will continue to be a move forward on a strong basis a and i'm concerned about our capacity to continue to do what we need to do to get the outcome we're looking for north korea as a result of what you described having taken place in canada.

that was a u.s. secretary of state mike i'm pale speaking in a singapore making a statement and briefing reporters ahead of the much anticipated meeting between us president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong on my pump explaining that the sort of preparations that have been underway ahead of this big meeting he went into great detail about how well the u.s. was prepared and he said the ultimate objective has not changed for the u.s. and that is a complete and verifiable denuclearization of the korean peninsula let's bring in our diplomatic editor james bays who's in singapore for us so james lots of meetings taking place ahead of the big meeting between kim and compare there again going to great lengths to explain that the u.s. team is well prepared because a meeting of this kind usually happens months and takes months if not years to take place. yes saying they have all the resources here they've done all the

preparations and that the president himself is very well prepared as he says he was optimistic about the summit that is going to take place here on tuesday suggesting that the sort of deal though they'll do is a deal that will be different from the deals that have been done in the past he said we shouldn't draw anything into the questions he was not prepared to almost specifics i'm afraid i am going to do that though because he was specifically asked whether the troops the u.s. troops that are based in south korea could be part of the deal pulling those troops out to satisfy the north koreans to give them a security guarantee. and he said he just wasn't going to want sir that question which i think is very significant in his cell in itself and said simply that there will be new things in terms of security guarantees that we've not heard about in the past he said for the north koreans and their obligations if they do get

a deal then the new thing is that there had to be proper verification he refers to that this thing seemed a complete verifiable irreversible nuclear and he could do clear as asian and he said previous agreements and and understanding between north korea and the international community and north korea and the united states had failed on the v o c with the verification to make sure the north koreans were doing what they said they were going to do and he said there needed to be measures to make sure that north korea does what it says it's going to do and meets its commitments going forward interesting also that he said james said the ultimate objective had not change and that was the complete and verifiable denuclearization of the korean peninsula and that sanctions would remain if that didn't happen. yes he said sanctions would remain until that happens so suggesting i think that

there's not let me sort of phased removal of the sanctions until they are happy that north korea house completely complied you would think that would be a problem for the north korean side but he says the prepared three meetings that have been going on they had two hours in the morning they have them in their meeting quite a few hours the softer noon we understand that meeting still underway but that meeting i want to seems for something like this they go through a checklist of all the items that they need to discuss he said that meeting was going faster than they had originally planned but he also made the point that those officials to meet he could meet he's had two meetings with the north koreans first the cia director that's. to visit pyongyang second another visit to pyongyang since he became secretary of state he said all this work to be done but in the end there are only two men that can make the deal and there were two men who will meet him there whose story meeting on tuesday to

a man who are unpredictable both of them nobody knows what to expect really but regardless of what the outcome of the summit is both sides are going to spin this as a success as something historic aren't they. well i think that is probably the most likely outcome but as you say they are unpredictable they could be an eleventh hour problem one of these leaders could and one has already said he will if he's not happy walk out and that's president trump so i really don't think we can we can be entirely sure of the outcome of this but certainly one outcome given what president trump said when he was in cannes or canada which is all they really wanted to achieve a minimum for this first meeting was really to get to know him and to see that he was a man that was someone who could do business with if that's all that they're going to want to achieve in this meeting then that seems a relatively low bar that both can declare an initial victory

a historic meeting and then move on to a much harder process of going through all the details a process that many experts believe could take years james one last question before we let you go secretary powell was asked about canada and what happened at the g. seven met how much is what happened there and president trying to me and refusing to sign the final communique moving over the summit in singapore is there concern that he might do something similar but. well i mean i think it's interesting that that has come immediately before this there are two ways of looking at it one president trump has had a very bad summit that went very badly in canada maybe he now has to get something that is a little bit more successful and that maybe means that it's advantageous for the north korean side the other way of looking at this is he's just proven in canada that he's prepared to walk away and maybe that is going to send

a message to the north korean side so you can look at it either way thank you for that james james frey's a diplomatic editor life or say in singapore i'll be speaking to him throughout the day and the next. hours here on al-jazeera so the wait is almost over for tuesday's historic summit between donald trump and kim jong un in singapore in less than twenty four hours the two leaders will meet face to face for the very first time the u.s. president has tweeted that there is excitement in the air and state media in north korea is showing people they are a different side of came as he needs leaders on the world stage a.j. and brown has more from singapore. but in the final hours before the singapore summit president trump was on the move his motorcade heading to the official office of singapore's prime minister lee hsien loong. but the president was not in a talkative mood the prime minister is the host for tuesday's unprecedented meeting

and so also has a lot at stake north korea's leader kim jong un who met the premier on sunday says he knows the whole world is watching him and so too are his people. the country strictly managed media was quick to release pictures of kim's arrival reporting that is isolated country would discuss a stablish ing a new relationship with the united states that significant in some parts of singapore the security is high profile. but appeared to be absent in one of the places where it would have mattered u.s. and north korean officials were just told by the media as they left the hotel where they've been finalizing details for tuesday. trump wants to persuade the north korean leader to disarm a deal that eluded his predecessors. but that's a process that will eventually have to involve others says the leader of the

campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. here this could be a historic meeting a beginning of a process towards nuclear disarmament and so it's definitely. has a huge possibility i think that's why it's all important that we don't just leave it up to these two men watching from afar and wishing they were here the leaders of three other countries with important stakes in this summit south korea's president . japan's prime minister shinzo are they and president xi jinping of china china of course the north's closest ally and whatever happens here shooting pain will be hoping it remains that way orderly tightly controlled singapore is playing host to the world's two most unpredictable leaders and that may mean that the only certainty here is the unexpected adrian brown al jazeera singapore. major and mention there china japan and south korea are on the sidelines of the

summit donald trump took time from his schedule to phone the leaders of japan and south korea earlier the south korean president when jane expressed hope that the summit will be a success you want her. took there were i hope that a major agreement on ending hostile relations between the u.s. and north korea and the denuclearization of the korean peninsula is reached through this time summit in germany we got to this point thanks to president trump and chairman kim was bold decisions president trump shoulders strong determinations to resolve the issues of the north korean nuclear weapons and peace on the korean peninsula chairman kim expressed his willingness for the success of the summit and denuclearization through bold preemptive measures such as the dismantlement of their nuclear tests later so where does this all leave china and north korea's longtime ally joining us now via skype is willing a china analyst said the chinese university of hong kong thank you very much for being with us on al-jazeera so the north koreans have raised the possibility of a new relationship with the u.s.

how does china feel about that. well the chancellor should buy the question and she has to be very anxious the past few months about being left out being a cylon in this very important discussion so that's why. there was this two meetings between a team and a past machine ping within forty days. well in this well known that there is no love lost between team and she being because i assume the scheme became either into one one day work krotz which north koreans believe the chinese are throwing this up or behind the order of the lucky to be the future leader so that's why initially kim jong il got rid of all of the pro chinese supporters within his in the circles moreover even though china has been dockery is closest ally since the early fifty's. the young has talking very happy about

the pressure put on the p r k by beijing interesting that you say there's no love lost between came and cheating paying the chinese leaders some experts have suggested that came by establishing ties with the us even embracing america is perhaps trying to counterbalance china's influence as you say and not be as reliant on china is that a possibility today when you look at the bigger picture the chinese at all concerned about this or approaching. well definitely we need to remember that for. the possible west african the full diplomatic ties with the u.s. is something he needs to achieve two hundred weans his people about the kim dynasty has seized egypt it may seem at least in the up to the foreseeable future and moreover if large scale in westminster from the us and the un the west in general

coming into the country then this would also buy some time for the kim dynasty alaska we also need to remember that. beijing was suddenly a play a big role in this diplomatic game because. as tote came several times that china is supportive of his incremental so-called progressive approach to dismantling the weapons were systematic and in monts often immediate and irreversible dismantling of weapons so traditional crime team has to rely on support from the chinese as well all right so let me ask you then for china as far as the chinese ah concerned what would be the best scenario the best outcome if you will for this summit. the chinese have been pushing from behind the scenes stacked what have been discussed inching up for tomorrow. in the show we shall

have to be confirmed by eight four way meeting amongst the tool careers in the u.s. and china and that therefore the chinese support will be substantially in auction for the eventual result. from both. north korea i think they mentioned in the meeting between preston moon and the supreme leader. there's a possibility dr only three countries that meet the two koreas and the u.s. will be in war. thank you very much for speaking to us we need china analyst joining us there from hong kong thank you for your time we appreciate it. plenty more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including frustration in iraq people living in destroyed cities speedball rebuilding to be gained. by. a lack of trust so a song for freedom another region in spain has its eyes on

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