well you know. some of it i like. the 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 detail. you know i maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up britain's government manages to fend off what for them would have been a hugely damaging vote on breaks it. italy's anti establishment leader this is a victory hundreds of migrants spend another day in cramped conditions on board a rescue ship. doctor

a long running dispute police says macedonia has finally agreed to a new name. it's an image that the world force impossible just a few months ago u.s. president donald trump a 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 they simply is none adrian brown begins our coverage from single. the world was sure quite what to expect from this summit it is a return to. the e.u. maybe let's go where it was just. the good news they seem to get on well but as

expected u.s. president donald trump and the north korean leader kim jong un's signed a deal vague on detail 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 complete de nuclearization who 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 and why aren't. you of that particular planet there speaking through an interpreter kim said the way here had not been easy. the old practices and prejudices worked against this but we are here 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 official if the two sides stick to what they've agreed here they'll 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 doll 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 a dream brown al-jazeera singapore. let's look in more detail at the four point declaration the two sides agree to the first two points of pretty general the u.s. and north korea commit to establishing new relations for peace and prosperity and they are joint effort to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the korean peninsula the last point commits both sides to recovering the remains of prisoners of war and those missing in action from the korean war but the key is point three reaffirming north korea's commitment to work towards a completely new carries ation of the korean peninsula complete is one of the three words of the secretary of state might said were essential to the united states but the other two verifiable and irreversible a not mentioned and no timeframe is given but the big surprise out of this summit

was trump's announcement that the u.s. would be stopping its joint military drills with south korea a comment that appears to of course sold off god i want to get our soldiers in and want to bring our soldiers because 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 the the future negotiation is not going along like it should but we'll be saving a tremendous amount of money plus i think it's very provocative. there is patty call him brings us more now from washington. there is something else unprecedented about that summit meeting where the words the u.s. president used to describe a military exercise that happened twice

a year between u.s. forces and south korean forces he called them provocative he called them war games those are the words that north korea has used in the past to complain about those really large scale exercises this is the first time a u.s. president has not only used those words but has agreed to suspend those operations now this seems to come as a surprise to some of the south south korean allies and even some of the top couple of defense before the summit not a lot of people thought that was actually on the table and we are hearing some complaints mainly from democrats in washington saying that the president gave up military exercises but got nothing in return that is a charge that the white house denies. the british government has conceded the parliament will have some say in a deal to leave the european union being seen as a defeat. you want to leave the european customs union but it doesn't resolve the

lack of clarity over what will actually look like there aren't fully reports. and he spoke above all about courage it's tortuously slow it is painful to watch so many times the british government has said it wants to do one thing over bricks it's only to be overturned and so again prime minister to resign may have not wanted parliament to have any say in what deal she negotiates with the european union but enough of her own m.p.'s threatened to rebel to force yet another climb down one minister even resigned so he could speak more freely. i urge my parliamentary colleagues to follow my lead and vote to give our greatest this house of commons our constituents and our country the powers it needs to leave our children a legacy of which we can all be proud to korea so what to make of the government's continuing inability to make sense of brecht's it on behalf of people

in places like sunderland in northeastern england who voted for it see it runs a small business selling machine parts to begin destry he wants out of the european union completely and he can't understand why the government seems incapable of doing it's pretty standard push to stand up for england stand up for the. push around and. they just don't let the new do it to the frightened what is it you think. all the see all the right things and then when it comes to doing it. the doing of it. and those businessmen who would back the conservative rebels like the boss of this factory just as frustrated they rely on an economic relationship with the european union and yet the government can give them no assurances that that will carry on i'm a strong supporter of the u.k. in general however i think the only norm is the thing that we're frightened of more

sed and i don't think the government's doing the best it could to give us the information communication on the next steps in what's likely to happen on an exit from the entire economy of some zealand relies on the giants nisson on its feet a company is a failed brecht's it could easily lead to this factory relocating to consonant well europe yet neither nissen nor anyone else knows what shape bricks it will take and back in london all is discord perhaps the best indication of the divide in society over what's happening in parliament moments is on the front page of some of the newspapers in the brics it supporting press the conservative rebels who want parliament to be given the final say on a votes or describes as betrayers and traces and yes in those newspapers which supports them they described as heroes it's hard to escape the conclusion that this continues to be a country politically speaking at war with itself lawrence lee al-jazeera in westminster. french president has called italy cynical and irresponsible for

refusing to allow a ship carrying six hundred twenty nine refugees to dock preparations are now being made for the ship to head to spain which has offered to take them in the refugees were rescued from the sea off libya at the weekend but they found themselves stranded when both. refused to give their rescue boat permission to dock a journey to the spanish porter valencia will take three to four days it will be accompanied by two italian coast guard boats which have taken on board some of the refugees to ease the crowding jonah hall reports from russia. for four days they've been aboard the m.s. aquarius relief at being rescued short lived now uncomfortable in the searing mediterranean heat and yet really. very late. the rescue ship denied port access in italy overcrowded and with supplies running low has been directed to valencia in spain two italian naval vessels will take on four hundred

of the six hundred twenty nine migrants and refugees that's what the italian government now sees as the extent of its cooperation with n.g.o.s rescues are seen . for far right leader and new interior minister. it is an election promise made good italy has said will no longer be europe's refugee camp. i'm happy to be able to give the italian people the first piece of what they asked for. is italy's new strongman leading the charge with his anti establishment coalition partners the five star movement and basking in high approval ratings for it. what is astonishing in this despite being judges populists this poll this is also very popular in italy there isn't a tremendous amount of people in this state are saying yes we have to close the borders yes we have to control the access of immigrants yes we have to send them

back home the timing isn't coincidental there's an e.u. meeting at the end of june that will consider changing the rule that asylum must be claimed in the country of first entry it's that rule that is put italy on the frontline of europe's migration crisis italy's treatment of those aboard the aquarius is notice that the rules are. changing each state has the right to manage his boundaries. but this should not put into doubt the. human rights our deepest concern is that if the rescue. be weakened by different policies by different arrangements this risk this journey might become even more risky. men women and children will continue to make the crossing to north

africa to southern europe at the hands of unscrupulous people smugglers they probably won't be told but it just got much harder and more dangerous. jonah how al-jazeera wrote. you say with us still ahead we're going to be live in los angeles where video game gathering for one of the biggest entertainment expos in the world . and america's civil liberties union mobilized its supporters and its campaign against president trump's agenda i've gotten all just so much. hello it has rained heavily in switzerland flooding as a result of the response from clouds this from the masses disappeared quite quickly eastwards into poland and beyond but that doesn't mean it's the end of the line

because looking upstream the potential for more rain exists i think during bruce wednesday and thursday switzerland austria slovenia northern italy and possibly sardinia will be caught by yet more fairly heavy showers will spells of rain and of course this is all moving into what is currently hot dry territory so this heat it's a boost and i think you'll find some pretty big showers in hungary but on the gets to wednesday now following on behind is much drier weather and temporary rather cooler seventeen in paris twenty one in london is warmer in dread most especially escape so that the showers and beyond those proper few showers around cypress and the levant is fine the onshore breeze in north africa keeping temperatures typically in the middle twenty's maybe higher than that in benghazi even the tropical showers actually the moment are quite well spread out there out there and tropical after from you see if your house through south sudan through nigeria and beyond being a focus they are creeping up the western side of africa actually quite well spaced

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come back a quick look at our top story this hour u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un have hailed their summit in singapore a great success but the agreement they signed only gave a pledges of denuclearization. told a news conference the u.s. will end its military drills with south korea but seoul seems surprised by this releasing a statement saying it needs to find out the precise meaning of trance announcement . and the u.k. government has been forced to make concessions to see off a potentially damaging rebellion over whether parliament will get a meaningful vote on the final breck's it deal. although no trans charm offensive example came with another bob america's neighbor and close ally at the news conference following sun that trump again attacked canadian prime minister justin trudeau insisting no one can take advantage of the united states on trade alan fischer has long. as he was making friends with this enemy in singapore u.s.

president donald trump also talked about making enemies of his friends the fallout from the g. seven summit in canada has followed him here but the president insists his goal is fear or treat the united states because of bad management because of presidents that didn't care about trade or didn't understand it or whatever reason for many years with china being obviously the most successful at it but the european union the second one hundred fifty one billion with the us they were represented at the meeting and we're being taken advantage of on tray one economics expert says any trade dispute creates problems for everyone the damages are not the case and i said at the beginning trade is something that benefit over all. times and and it has been benefiting all around the world so far the president also talked about that viral photo the one where other g seven leaders seem to be

confronting him over his position on key issues german chancellor angela merkel and french president manual mccrone have been highly critical of the president in recent days but he says they were simply waiting for a document and it was all very friendly and he confirmed he pulled the support for the final g seven document because of a news conference held by canadian prime minister justin trudeau i have a good relationship with justin trudeau i really did other than he had a news conference that he had because he assumed i was in or near a planet i wasn't watching he learned that's going to cost a lot of money for the people of canada he learned you can't do that you can't do the speaking before his weekly. cabinet meeting the canadian prime minister brushed off this latest verbal sparring with his closest neighbors and his comments as i said in the say focused on defending jobs for canadians and support including interests very alarming. flies but from singapore clearly a huge international success we have a vested the worries of

a limited nuclear war in korea but no he faces fight to get a trade war on his own border alan fischer al-jazeera washington. or fans of video games will be paying close attention to what happens in los angeles for the next few days all the top games companies are showing off any products at the electronic entertainment expo or a three for show and our very own rob reynolds is there as well and what new games even trying out. i haven't had much chance to try too many out but this is kind of a. quite a contrast from the games of statecraft that alan was just speaking about here we have the games that everybody is playing let's give you a little flavor of what it looks like here at the los angeles convention center where tens of thousands of people both involved in the game industry journalists and ordinary players are. gathered to check out some of their favorite games you can see over there in the distance to the booth for four night that is

a game that if you have a child between the ages of ten and eighteen you're probably aware of it's become a total of sashing for so many people really of all ages among the other things on the agenda here that people are talking about are mobile platforms for games now more than half of all games are being played on smartphones and also the enormous potential of china as a marketplace for gaming and here to join us to talk to us about some of those things james batchelor of the game industry dot com james thanks very much for speaking with us here today so what is the trends that you see this year will be things i see is used on the cd it's kind of an ongoing trend of games going towards being online long that's like seven stings like full night you know that's a massive booth for again this already alan people are already playing and will be playing for years like things like fools will rise and fall which is the latest

marks of price and that's now all online some toughness both you know for on a skull and bones primus exceeds these are games are being played over a longer period of time not just coming out a launch and then two weeks later everyone's done with them i've noticed some. efforts here to interest young girls and women in gaming which has been seen as a male dominated pursuit is that is that working. yeah there's certainly like a much louder and more vocal female audience now for games like the type of games that people issue not only appeal to men really really done there is a much much wider audience for gaming than people think more than half game is in the world of female and that's not just in time so you have incomes of people who buy candy cross-ties people who play assassin's creed called the g.t. destiny for all of these games have big female audiences and the compass is starting to about a lot better and we hear that now about fifty percent or more of games are being

played on mobile devices like smart phones yeah i mean with this ubiquitous device like everyone has one there for about yeah that's that's why the biggest audience is a lot of the publicist on the bring the biggest brands over there obviously a fortnight is on mobile with us to have brought the elder scrolls in full out some i want the interesting thing is a lot of people are trying to bring the same type of console experience a p.c. experience to move also full night the game i was exactly the same as you play on from home p.c. elder scrolls blades were sent out on the weekend that's the same game on mobile p.c. console v r and they can all connect and play together choose shows for the people who are who are thank you very much for speaking to us for all the people who can't make it here think through the year your help on that so and for all of those avid gamers who can't be here at the l.a. convention center we'll be bringing you more reports about what's hot and what's not in the gaming industry in our marriage back thank you so much rob looking forward to it thanks very much rob reynolds their game was exposed in los angeles.

now the former colonies vice president will be released from prison after his war crimes conviction was overturned by the international criminal court on friday been sentenced to eighteen years in prison after judges found him guilty of the atrocities committed by his trips they've 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. dubai's real estate market has been described as a haven for money laundering money laundering by war profit is tariff announces and drug traffickers sanctioned by the u.s. the report by the washington based center for advanced defense studies has identified around one hundred million dollars in 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. now greece in macedonia have reached an agreement to resolve a decades old dispute i mean the name of the small balkan nation the dispute

between the two neighbors had been an obstacle to macedonia joining nato and the e.u. and led to protests in both greece and macedonia in weeks and weeks john psaropoulos has more from athens. the two prime ministers have announced that the country's new name will be macedonia northern macedonia the country of the former yugoslavia had insisted that the word macedonia should be a part of its name and the greeks had insisted that that should then be qualified so as not to be confused with the greek region of macedonia in the north of the country there will there also other stipulations the people of savannah macedonia have to reject any claim to being the descendants of alexander the great and the ancient macedonians heritage which greece sees as a vital component of its own sense of nationhood instead their language the

macedonian language will be clearly described as belonging to the slavic family of languages we are told by the foreign minister here in athens and their nationality on their passports will be macedonian from macedonia even though these aspects of the agreement were part of the original brief the original brief was simply to find a name for the country the greeks felt that identity issues were vital in their process of making this agreement acceptable to the greek population at large and that'll be what is hardest for the people in scope to accept because world war two they've been told that they are ethnic macedonians and descendants of the ancient macedonians. the u.n. envoy to yemen martin griffiths says he's been engaged in intense negotiations with the fighters saudi arabia and the united arab emirates to avoid a military confrontation in the port of data the saudi emirates you coalition forces are about ten kilometers south of the city which has been held by iran back

to the rebels for three years the port is a vital lifeline through which most of the yemeni populations food and medicine enters the u.n. estimate six hundred thousand people live in the area and in a worst case scenario a battle could cost up to two hundred fifty thousand lives more than two hundred broadway workers have stormed the offices of the french state owned train operator s.n.c.f. this marks the twenty eighth strike day of french railway workers over reforms which will see the end of jobs for life protection automatic annual pay rises and early retirement rights for new employees to the company president matt brown says the reforms are not about preparing the company for privatization. the american civil liberties union is meeting in washington to mobilize it support as to fight president trump's agenda this is seen as a departure for the organization traditionally it's concentrated on fighting legal battles and court rights but now it feels that the threats to the constitution

a so great it needs to develop a new militancy jabatan see reports. the almost one hundred year old american civil liberties union or a.c.l.u. is joining what's known as the resistance grassroots activism against donald trump since election scores of groups have been formed into that resistance the goal is to the republican party through direct action on the ballot box we're throwing down about the issues we care deeply about it's not simply to litigate them and find and court and a lot of justice or a judge decide it's also to employ people to fight for them in every other possible arena that we can money is pouring in for the a.c.l.u. is campaigns to protect migrants' rights and preventing republicans from acting vote suppression policies the a.c.l.u. gathered pounds in washington this week to receive what's called resistance training and hear from progressive leaders such as senator elizabeth warren. but warns presence at the a.c.l.u.

conference illustrates the contradictions of the resistance against corporate political donations that lead to corruption inequality and help to make trump attractive devices security establishment in the first place but the a.c.l.u. is a staunch defender of money in politics arguing that it's constitutionally protected free speech as a political organization a partisan organization it's a reminder that the resistance is in fact a diverse set of groups with different interests from the progressive left to wall street billionaires and there's a fear that some groups presenting themselves as the resistance are just the establishment trying to reclaim their power from trump jeff weaver was bernie sanders campaign manager during the. sixteen presidential campaign all there was clearly a real failure on the part of many part of the democratic establishment and elements that support the democratic establishment in opposing strong i mean he's in the white house you know you really should look at you know not only are they resisting trump and his outrageous agenda but are they offering the type of alternative which

is going to make this country better in the post trump usa it's important to scrutinize who is claiming to be part of the resistance and what precisely they represent she ever turns the outer zero washington. a much more in everything we're covering right here the address. just a quick look at the top stories now the u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un have held an historic meeting in singapore which both sides have held as a great success the leaders signed an agreement pledging to denuclearize the korean peninsula but there were few details on exactly how that will happen those take a long time do you know pull off completely nuclearization you takes a long time scientifically you have to wait certain periods of time when 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 crucial i believe it's going to reserve we will do what is fair says it can mechanically and physically be done. meanwhile south korean president in says he hopes the summit will usher in a new era among the two koreas and the united states moon news champ in the meeting and often acted as a mediator is dying to write a new history with pyongyang. and other headlines the u.k. government has been forced to make concessions to fend off a potentially damaging rebellion of a bracks it plans conservative m.p.'s had threatened to vote against the government over whether parliament will get a meaningful vote on the final bracks it deal but they will want to over after the government agreed to strengthen m.p.'s influence on the process. french president emmanuel macron has called italy cynical and irresponsible for refusing to allow a ship carrying six hundred twenty nine refugees to dock. very thick here for this

very late point ok the ship is now heading to the spanish forces valencia it will be accompanied by two italian coast guard boats which have taken on board some of the refugees. greece and macedonia have reached an agreement to resolve a decades old dispute over the name of the small nation the dispute between the two neighbors had been an obstacle to macedonia joining nato and the e.u. and led to protests in both greece and macedonia the proposed name is the republic of northern macedonia. and at least two refugees have died in major downpours in southern bangladesh where nearly a million living in camps the monsoon rains have triggered landslides which have damaged or destroyed some of the settlements coming up next it's the strain.

this singapore summit is in the books but what exactly did u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un manage to achieve i'm fairly ok i really could be today we look at what they're highly anticipated meeting means for diplomacy as well as what it means for koreans living on the peninsula and in the diaspora right now you're in the stream also live and you choose to leave your questions in the chat and we will do our best to get them into today's show. jan. and you are on the street. president donald trump on north korean leader kim jong un haven't always had.