far north atlantic when i want to use me it's the women who cross the road for love and state to change a community. is a really. a giant photo opportunity or history in the making donald trump and kim jong un sign a document on denuclearization but it's thin on the tail. alone barbara sarah this is al jazeera live from london also coming up britain's government manages to fend off what for them would have been a hugely damaging vote on breakfast for easily zante establishment leader this is a victory hundreds of migrants spend another day in cramped conditions on board a rescue ship and after a long running dispute greece says macedonia has finally agreed to

a do you name. it's an image that the world fought impossible just a few months ago u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un shaking hands and smiling but that's exactly what's happened in singapore the two leaders have met face to face and they've signed an agreement pledging to denuclearize the korean peninsula but the problem is the detail there simply is not brown begins our coverage from singapore. the world was sure quite what to expect from the summit release originality. even there it was just the good news they seemed to get on as expected. u.s.

president donald trump and the north korean leader kim jong un's signed a deal vague on details it says the united states and north korea will work towards a denuclearization but missing the words verified and irreversible at a news conference trump was pressed on that saying he now trusts the north korean leader it does take a long time to you know pull off a complete de nuclearization you takes a long time scientifically you have to wait certain periods of time and a lot of things happen but despite that once you start the process it means it's pretty much over can't use them that's the good news and that's going to start very very soon i believe it's going to start very soon we will do it as fast as it can mechanically and physically be done in the meantime sanctions will remain but trump said the regular exercises between the military's of south korea and the u.s. would end but again no specifics or mention of

a peace treaty either act one in this diplomatic drama that began almost five hours earlier with a handshake that may have changed the course of history. u.s. president donald trump said he'd know within a minute of meeting him if he'd get on with it so this was the moment he began sizing him up. the start perhaps of an improbable relationship in improbable times. two nuclear armed leaders one of whom a real estate developer and reality t.v. star the other an international pariah it's my honor. we will have. to plan their speaking through an interpreter kim said the way here had not been easy for. the old practices and prejudices worked against this but we are here and now. their day started at nine am local time in singapore. prime time viewing

in the united states. the two leaders were joined by their officials if the two sides stick to what they've agreed here will be many more meetings in the garden all seemed amicable as the two leaders strolled in talk together and there was something trump was keen for kim to see the inside of his official limousine known as the beast both leaders will feel they've got something out of this summit each gets the prestige of meeting the other kim gets to appear committed to denuclearize ation while trump may yet be credited as being the first u.s. president to bring peace to the korean peninsula the deal makes no mention either of north korea's harsh human rights history you know this is a fundamental freedom this is a principle of human existence and you know for donald trump to say that kim jong un is now a nice guy when he's got one hundred twenty thousand people in gulags in the mountains is just not on a few diplomatic encounters have been so eagerly anticipated the question now is

whether all this will prove to be a little more than just a series of photo opportunities adrian brown al jazeera singapore well the big surprise that come out of teams they somewhat was chance announcement that both the u.s. that the u.s. would be stopping its joint military drills with south korea it's understood his comments called her soul off guard but also the pentagon i want to get our soldiers there and want to bring our soldiers back on we have right now thirty two thousand soldiers in south korea and i'd like to be able to bring them back home but that's not part of the equation right now at some point i hope it will be but not right now we will be stopping the war games which will save us a tremendous amount of money unless and until we see that the future negotiation is not going along like it should. but will be saving a tremendous amount of money plus i think it's very provocative it's going to pass

eco hainan washington so calling them provocative war games already talking about how much money the u.s. is going to save by not having these joint military drills and apparently the pentagon didn't know you know i we're trying to get official coming right now from the korea command but this is something secretary of defense jim met as has insisted that the two are not linked this is extraordinary to have a u.s. president use the terms for these military exercises that we hear from the north koreans they are the ones they call these war games they call them provocative the u.s. has always insisted that there's nothing provocative about these exercise the pentagon has always said that the training will continue and that it's going to be separate from this nuclear issue so i think it is remarkable not just that he used those words but that as the commander in chief he is ordering the halt to these exercises and it appears right now that the leadership in south korea had no idea. to experts here in washington and they are very concerned that that along with everything that

happened in canada with the g seven that that is really going to call into question the credibility of the american government and that they'll start looking elsewhere for their own security so it's it may sound like inside baseball and a little bit of inside the washington beltway but it really is stunning to have the united states president call them provocative war games it just has never happened before. with the latest in washington d.c. patty thank you and for more on this we can speak to lisa collins who is fellow of the korea chair program at the center for strategic and international studies in washington madame thank you so much for joining us here now because there are lots of questions for you but let's just follow on from what i was talking to patty there about the fact that the president seems to have unilaterally sort of the cited in a news conference that he's going to cancel these military drills the joint ones with south korea what do you make of that statement and the fact that no one of the pentagon seem to know. well it's extraordinary in a lot of ways this is

a demand that the north koreans have made for decades that they made this demand during the six party talks during the one nine hundred ninety four agreed framework the fact that this was a concession that was given very easily up front in the negotiations process is very stunning to a lot of korea watchers i think i also believe that the fact that the president called them war games is quite surprising they are military exercises that are needed for preparedness of our military forces in the region to counter to help protect against the north korean threat and to deter them from doing further provocations in the future so the fact that the president used the north korean language to describe the military exercises that are lawful that are regular that happen every year i think is quite surprising to many people so i guess this proves that things of substance did come out of this meeting it was is it wasn't just symbolic it wasn't just a moment for the cameras. yes i mean i think in terms of the

optics of the summit it did look very nice the you have the president. shaking hands with the north korean there kim jong un he seemed very friendly towards kim they seem to have a personal connection in the very beginning they patted each other on the shoulder on the back and it seemed like president trump really wanted to establish a good connection with him front i think what rather is more concerning to people is the lack of substance as was mentioned in the joint statement that came out of the summit afterwards and the press conference that president trump held afterwards where he stated that there wouldn't be any joint military exercises with south korea as long as there were talks with north korea that were ongoing and then also he the fact that he didn't really raise very prominently the issue of human rights with north korea which is something that a lot of people would have liked to seen yes absolutely we will be discussing the human rights issue particularly in the news hour here on al-jazeera but just one final question to you obviously there have been previous agreements moralists

reached with north korea how does what happened to they differ do you see if at all . well unfortunately i don't think it differs in a lot of respects the four points that were contained in the joint statement that was released are points that have been put on the table issues that have been put on the table previously by the north koreans i think what was lacking was any sort of information or knowledge about how the process of denuclearization what happened if that all for example there was no discussion about verification about irreversibility of the north korean nuclear weapons program in order to do that the north koreans would have have to have given out something very concrete like a list of their nuclear weapons a list of nuclear weapons facilities that they have in the country ballistic missiles technology scientists experts that have been part of the programs development so all of that stuff all of those details i think were missing in

today's joint statement and hopefully going forward if there are continuing negotiations with north koreans and the united states officials there will be some more definitive hammering out of some of those missing logistics and details lisa colins for lou of the korea chair program at the center for strategic and international studies madam think you you think. it's going to the u.k. now the government has been forced to make concessions to see off a potentially damaging rebellion over breakfast plans tory m.p.'s have threatened to vote against the government over whether parliament will get a meaningful vote on the final deal but they were won over after the government agreed to strengthen m.p.'s influence on the process while lawrence leigh is outside parliament in central london for us the whole bracks said deal really has gotten very complicated very very quickly so just explain it clearly to us what's this all about. well i think from the government's point of view it depends what

you regard as success and failure it's sufficiently weak this government that it almost lost a vote today we should have very badly undermined the position of the prime minister the government was trying to stop parliament's having a what was called a meaningful vote over the deal that it wants to do with the european union but there was a sufficient amount of rebellion from members of parliament inside the ruling conservative party that they were forced to concede more that can see these in itself very significant because what is going to do is allow parliament to look very closely at whatever deal is done between the u.k. and european union by the time there's a big european summit in october and in the vendor then the parliament will to look at it and say do we like this or not if we don't like it then the government's got to come backs of parliaments and say ok we're ok to carry on acting on your behalf in our dealings with the european union even if parliament and says yes then they

have until february then to sort it out so it puts these timelines and date lines in which a lower parliament a very great deal more oversights about the sort of deal that's being done on its behalf and by extension on behalf of the british people i think the implications firstly are the chance of a very hard call where the u.k. simply falls out of the european union with no economic. that's greatly lessened it could mean that the government collapses in the autumn if it comes up with a deal with the european union the parliament says this is no good so you could have a new government only four months to go before the happens it could also mean that the public don't know what breaks it looks like until february only a month before there's supposed exit from the european if it happens at all and so it's really complex and what it shows you overwhelmingly is that the government which says it is about taking back control actually has less and less control over the process itself and still no clear direction of where we're going and of course the european union saying give us

a position tell us what she wants we can't do this by ourselves it's really really torturous and it's a difficult moment i think for british democracy his idea of a new country and a new beginning is proving very very very difficult yeah that was never very clear in the referendum but then again the people they did vote to leave the you know i mean it doesn't seem like many of them have actually changed their minds even now that they see how complicated it seems to be. well no and then there's a there's a great deal of anger particularly from from hard practices towards those members of parliament who said hang on parliament's got to be given a say are you sure you want to do this because you might lose your job if you. move to slovakia or somewhere then you know you might not like this quite so much and for those papers like for example the sun here which is a great cheerleader for breakfast and is undoubtedly influenced the opinions of

very many people it would call those m.p.'s who want parliamentary oversight traitors in betrayers and these have had threats and say we're not able to vote the way we won't see because we've had threats in the posts so there's a great deal of anger from politics as you say we want to get on with this but equally from people who want part of an oversight these same rebellious m.p.'s are heroes and. so and so you get this sense of a country that's really unhappy with itself almost politically at war with itself called quite figure out what sort of identity it wants to have that's it it's a very big problem for a country that has a c. so the allies levels of the european union claims to want to be able to tell other countries how to conduct its business the cold quite understands how it wants to behave itself. with the latest from westminster lawrence thank you. the buys the real estate market is being described as a haven for money laundering by war profiteers terror finance years and drug

traffickers sanctioned by the u.s. that's according to a report by the washington based center for advanced defense studies it has identified around one hundred million dollars of what it calls suspicious purchases of apartments and villas across the city the government run dubai media office said it could not comment on the report the former congo vice president will be released from prison after his war crimes conviction was overturned by the international criminal court on friday member had been sentenced to eighteen years in prison after judges found him guilty of the atrocities committed by his troops they'd been sent to the central african republic to put down a coup attempt an appeals court judge said could not be held criminally responsible for the crimes. so come on al-jazeera we'll have the latest on a proposed that new name for macedonia plus italy engages in a war of words with its european allies over its refusal to take in more than six

hundred refugees we're live in rome after the break. hello there is still from the storms wandering around the caucasus and around the mountains of northern iraq and the satellite picks them up and they're going to keep going is all i suspect of the next to say for the most part of course we're talking about a dry picture across the ground back towards the plains of iraq only on the coast level and through denser israel and through syria do you find kuta rather more pleasant i think you'll find twenty seven twenty eight in beirut occasional showers same is true of cyprus and sudden turkey bags temperatures coming up again forty three degrees that's about right for this time the year there's been a hot breeze blowing out of that crowd a strong showing through kuwait bahrain and qatar keeping attempts to surprisingly

high forty four still in the forecast that has been forty seven already this week it's cooler around the u.a.e. it's about where it should be on the western side of society and this cloud you see around psylocke and around the coast from our east seas know it's coming in going out again it's with the monsoon southern africa has been enjoying big open blue skies recently occasional schild bit of fog around the coast of the eastern cape but you don't see much on the satellite picture and you see very little in the full cost twenty five in durban not so woman johannesburg but you have got dawn to dusk sunshine.

hard. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong il and are calling their summit in singapore a great success the leaders signed an agreement with vague pledges of denuclearization tran told a news conference the u.s. will end the military drills with south korea seoul appears to be caught off guard releasing a statement saying it needs to find out the precise meaning of trump's announcement

and the u.k. government has been forced to make concessions to see off a potentially damaging rebellion over breaks it plans over whether parliament will get a meaningful vote on the final brics a deal. staying in europe the french president the man when mccrone has called me cynical and irresponsible for refusing to allow a ship carrying six hundred twenty nine refugees to dock. yeah i really think that's very late for you know. preparations are now being made for the ship to head to the spanish port of after the spanish prime minister said that they could dock their ship will be accompanied by two italian coast guard boats which have taken on board some of the refugees to ease crowding on the aquarius that sea original ship while they were rescued from the sea off libya at the weekend their boat found itself stranded when both italy and the malta that were the closest for its refused permission to dock now the journey to spain will takes three to four days and the

aid agencies on the ship say it's an unnecessary extension of the time at sea for people who are already exhausted well john holl is live in the row for us well first of all jonah tell us what is the latest happening with the ship right now. the latest we hear barbara is that the process of transferring some four hundred of those migrants and refugees from the aquarius on to two italian naval vessels that will accompany it to violence is underway two hundred fifty also was the last tweet we received from onboard the aquarius two hundred twenty people had been transferred they'll be readying themselves i think to set off on their voyage perhaps even tonight it's a three to four day voyage in what promises to be heavy seas with storm warnings out on the mediterranean promising big waves and that i think is in part the reason for these italian naval vessels a company where it was of course overcrowded anyway and running short of supplies

now it appears resigned themselves to the fact that they are going to have to go to valencia despite pleas even today from m.s.f. as well as mediterranean the other n.g.o.s rating the aquarius to the italian government to change its mind there's been no sign of that happening as i think the voyage to berlin to will go ahead amid. concern it has to be said for the health of a number of people on board some of them were rescued from drugs drowning had to be resuscitated over the weekend others suffering from toxic burns from contact with ship fuel in the water there are pregnant women and of course a large number of children as well. adjourn it's a heartbreaking situation but the war of words between european leaders has already started emmanuelle mccrone the french president calling italy cynical and irresponsible a lot of politicians in italy calling him hypocritical because france often sends a lot of refugees back to italy who because that was their first point of our

arrival in the e.u. i mean this does highlight that there is a situation that europe itself is just failed to address properly. oh yes i think this is yet another being driven into what used to be known as european solidarity i mean look at what viktor orban said the prime minister of hungary who has really led the charge on trying to end the europe's migration policy finally is what he said a great moment he called it he said it had been depressing for years to watch how italy had been unable to defend the sea borders of the european union and of course that's exactly how italy feels as well that it is been at the forefront of this migration crisis coming from north africa to southern europe it's done so without any help largely because of european rules that say that asylum must be short in the country of first entry they want to change that of course at the meeting at the end of june this is italy serving notice that it's not prepared to accept any

result but a change in those rules. home minister interior minister a very big fan of viktor orban so i think there were trading compliments there jonah hill in rome thank you. greece and macedonia have reached an agreement to resolve a decades old this field over the name of the small ball nation now the. this feud between the two neighbors had been an obstacle to macedonia joining nato and the e.u. and it led to protests in both greece and massive donya in recent weeks john psaropoulos is live in athens so after years of discord do we actually know what this new name is going to be. yes it was announced just moments ago the greek prime minister said the name of the country will be. macedonia northern macedonia it will be in the slavic language the native slavic language he also said that this name will now have to be assimilated by all one hundred forty countries that have already

recognized the former yugoslav macedonia as republic of macedonia and that this name will apply for all of its international relations but also for its internal official uses on travel documents and the like. the important thing for the greeks was for the northern neighbor to any claim to ancient greek heritage or language or territory and that mr c. but as the prime minister said we'll be embodied in the agreement but will also have to be embodied in constitutional changes to happen towards the end of this year now the timetable is as we understand the moment will be that in a couple of weeks time when the european union's foreign ministers meet in brussels at the general first council greece will support opening acts talks with the former yugoslav macedonia and that move is expected to be seconded by all the other members. at the nato summit on july eleventh and twelve greece will do the same

the former yugoslav macedonia also version of macedonia will then have two outstanding invitations to join those two bodies to do so it will have to first of all ratify this by lateral agreement in a referendum that has been the choice of desire of government in scope yo. rather than a parliamentary vote. with a yes vote if all goes well it will then have to go to parliament to secure those constitutional amendments only then will greece give the final go ahead for the accession of macedonia into the. some time next year we presume well ahead of elections scheduled in both countries for the autumn of twenty nine to. the latest from athens john thank you. now every year the world's leading technology companies the send on hanover to showcase their latest

innovations at the see that trade fair this year one of the top names themes rather is artificial intelligence and it's making an impact across a whole range of industries is the many cane now explains june in hanover and the tech fair is in time the chance for hundreds of thousands of people to browse the latest developments in technology up close and personal this might look like an expensive entertainment system but actually it's an innovative device in medical science designed by the phone who for company it work spinal commenting the reality the where a perceives through the glasses allowing surgeons to navigate through the skin more accurately the principle as four million over four skin cancer patients you want to know where the closest lymph node is and just have to remove for further examination using i c g u which is the first and die but it's injected closer to we make the lymph node visible and using i our infrared cameras we can see them

and the first process this information. the marriage of artificial intelligence with robotics is also a key element at this year's fair specifically where it concerns transport recent court decisions in germany have suggested diesel bans in city centers might soon be in force to combat pollution which is why ego has designed this prototypical vehicle for passengers which can be driven but can also learn from its environment to drive itself you know you can call it a mover with you ed with your smartphone to pick up at someplace and bring it to another place so you don't need any other cars let's say in the in the city but innovative use of ai is not specific to public transport systems with this concept car out he believes it's a blazing a trail for other manufacturers part of what it calls its fourth level of autonomous driving you can really completely lean lean back of the driver so it can

be lean assistance so it can carry on can driving can steering by itself and parking itself can also go for example kind of drop off zone where you stay in the carriage and say ok i'm leaving the car searching your parking area get cleaned buying stuff and go be back at five pm to pick me up so autonomous mobility is clearly a buzzword for the automotive industry at this year's c bit using the technology of today combined with the promise of what's coming down the road tomorrow and that in essence is what the c bit is all about don it came out zero hanover. more than two hundred railway workers have stormed the offices of the french state owned a train operator s.n.c.f. the workers are striking in protest against proposed government reforms which will see the end of jobs for life protection automatic annual pay rises and early

retirement rights when you were employees the french president and i know him across is the reforms are aimed at modernizing the labor force not preparing the company for privatization. and now the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong il and have held that historic meeting in singapore which both sides of hailed as a great success the leaders signed an agreement pledging to denuclearize the korean peninsula but there were few details of exactly how that will happen just those take a long time to you know pull off complete the nuclearization it takes a long time scientifically you have to wait certain periods of time a lot of things happen but despite that once you start the process it means it's

pretty much over good use of that's the good news and that's goes to a very i believe it's going to start very soon we will do it as fast as it can mechanically and physically be done. south korean president hu jia in says he hopes the summit will usher in a new era among the two koreas and the united states who is championed them easy and often acted as a mediator is vowing to write a new history with pyongyang the u.k. government has been forced to make concessions to fend off a potentially damaging rebellion over breakfast plans conservative m.p.'s had threatened to vote against the government over whether parliament will get a meaningful vote on the final grex deal but there were one over after the government agreed to strengthen m.p.'s influence on the process french president emmanuel mccrone has called bitterly cynical and the responsible for refusing to allow a ship carrying six hundred twenty nine refugees and migrants to dock separations are now being made and shipped ahead to the spanish port of violence here it will

be accompanied by two italian coast guard boats which have taken on board some of the refugees that were in on the aquarius. well at least two refugees have died in major downpours in southern bangladesh where nearly one million or hinge are living in camps the monsoon rains of triggered landslides which have damaged and destroyed some settlements greece and macedonia have reached an agreement to resolve a decades old dispute over the name of the small balkan nation that this feud between the two neighbors had been an obstacle to macedonia joining both nato and the e.u. and it led to protests in greece and the macedonia of the proposed name is the republic of norse macedonia and pretty good those are the headlines al-jazeera news hour coming up in half an hour.

confident donald trump says kim young serious about abandoning his program but. what will the north korean leader get in return is this the beginning. this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. donald trump has become the first u.s. president to meet and shake hands with a north korean leader months of speculation of the summit was even going to happen the two men met on singapore was set.