handshakes smiles and now apparently home visits donald trump and kim jong un accept mutual invitations to each other's countries. alliance has him sleep here this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the mega merger telecoms giant eighteen gets the green light to buy media firm time warner. plus resignations threats of a rebellion and concessions as the u.k. parliament debates a key bragg's it bill. and what's in a name greece and macedonia settle

a decades old dispute. a warming us north korea relationship has taken another unexpected turn kim jong un and donald trump have apparently accepted invitations to visit each other's countries that's according to a report from the north korean state news agency the long time adversaries met for the first time in singapore on tuesday there's no timeline for the visits simply that they would happen at a convenient time when he is live for us in seoul with more on this so wayne there seems to be a few differences though in what the two sides are saying that they agree to here. yes certainly a very lengthy article a very lengthy summary released by the korean central news agency on the day after that that summit took place between donald trump and kim jong un and yes there are

some fairly interesting differences some of which you probably can put down to translation differences but one of the top lines coming out of this statement is that the u.s. president shared their view that step by step and similar actions are important to achieve peace and denuclearization so clearly that is a reference to the north koreans beginning the process of starting to dismantle its nuclear weapons program and systems in exchange for more concessions from the united states maybe in the form of sanctions relief although it doesn't go that far but that is certainly not been the position of the united states before the summit their position was that they needed to see a complete dismantlement of the united of the north korean nuclear weapons program it needed to be verifiable of course that was something that the u.s. had stressed many times so clearly that is something different that we're seeing

now from pyongyang and also has them related to the quite surprising statement from donald trump in that media conference after the summer when he said that he was ending joint military exercises between the united states and south korea because they were provocative he said and also very expensive for the u.s. well the north koreans are saying something slightly different they are saying that donald trump agreed to suspend those military exercises while dialogue takes place between pyongyang and washington so that is something slightly different donald trump clearly according to that media conference has taken things a big step further by saying that those joint millett military exercises will be ended. and wayne how is the sat a south korea reacted to trump's an announcement that they would end those military exercises were clearly they were taken by surprise immediately after that media conference we understand there was

a phone call from donald trump to the south korean president perhaps to explain to him what had happened during the previous few hours during that summer during the meeting with the north korean leader but maybe to explain what he meant by the decision by donald trump to end those joint military exercises there were statements are after that that came out from other government departments here in south korea saying that they needed to interpret the words from donald trump interpret the meaning of them before they could make a definitive statement about what it means going forward and similarly there was a statement released by the us military forces based in south korea presumably that had also come from head office from the pentagon in the united states as saying that they had received no word no order regarding the suspension all the halting of joint military exercises with south korea when

a life for us there in salt thanks wayne now was billed as an historic summit but beyond the handshakes and smiles the question is now who came out on top adrian brown reports. no one was sure quite what to expect from this summit releasing very talented. they let this go very well with 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 details it says the united states and north korea will work towards 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 probable times. to 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 all that. bad there speaking through an. interpreter kim said the way here had not been easy but. 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 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 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 a u.s. federal judge has approved the merger two of the world's biggest media companies the ruling an ass communications giant eight hundred eighty to take over time warner in an eighty five billion dollars deal the judge said the government had failed to approve the deal would harm competition or adversely affect consumers

john hendren has more now from washington. a u.s. judges ruled that. time warner can merge despite the objections of the u.s. department of justice that is an eighty five billion dollar merger one of the largest in recent history it is rare that the department of justice opposes a merger on antitrust grounds and rarer still that they lose a case like that this is a case in which president donald trump made his opinion clear he said this merger will not go through in my administration he particularly objected to the fact that time warner owns c.n.n. and there was even talk that c.n.n. would have to be spun off an order for the merger to go through this was the vertical integration of two companies in other words they didn't do the same thing one of them distributed content the other one provided that content and the d.o.j. is more likely to disapprove when two companies do the same thing but this was

a response to amazon and netflix who were content distributors who then became content providers and in time warner said they had to do this in order to compete the judge agreed and the federal government can now appeal that decision but the judge said you should not ask for us to block the merger until that happens that's because it would do undue harm to those companies if this doesn't happen by june twenty first then either side can walk away under the agreement and he would have to pay a five hundred million dollars fine. other british government has conceded the parliament will have some say in the final deal to leave the european union this is seen as a defeat for hard line breaks it tears who also want to leave the e.u. customs union but it doesn't resolve the lack of clarity over what regs it will actually look like largely reports. he spoke about courage it's tortuously slow

and it's 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 urged my parliamentary colleagues to follow my lead and vote to give our greatest situation 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 crack 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 its pretty stern no or push to stand up for england stand up for the table. push around and they just don't do a lot. the new. design the frightened letters it is ink. all the see all the right things and then when it comes to doing it. the work. of 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 most and i don't think the government's doing the best it could to give us the information and 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 the company is a failed brecht's it could easily lead to this factory relocating to thomson until europe get 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 the moment 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 largely al-jazeera the westminster all right we're going to take a break now but when we come back on al-jazeera. we feel bad because the government is not giving us any answers about our future survivors of guatemala volcanic

eruption oscar when they can start to rebuild their lives plus. i mean you would think they must all they are going to feel that my hands are. tied down here but i was going to get that twenty five twenty six world cup thing lights back on for. see and it's. the same in the street. though whether sponsored by cattle i always how the rain is gathering once again for southern china including hong kong there has been heavy but he's been just not falling recently was coming back its season it should be doing that it's concentrating i think on the southeastern corner there's a lot of takes of the high ground and to the borders looks as if you're in chengdu honner shanghai where you might expect right this time the year it's nice and fine and dry said humid but about the thirty degree mark is clearly a lot of

a lot of action further south of taiwan and over the philippines of thousands of very heavy rain recently overdue song it could be repeated showery feel like we have a further south than that and there's a hint here where more than a hint is evidence of significant showers and slow way sea which could be in the repeated forecasts are something born here and even catching parts of java and southern sumatra with a shot to the north of that k.l. for example mostly it's a cloudy picture though because a lot of the more shows coming out in the monsoon trough which doesn't just affect john it also affects india and bangladesh a looks as though the concentration is going to stay in the east this is a bangladesh total the last two days three hundred seventy three millimeters so already coast landslides of course and that's the concentration i'm afraid of the next couple days was some rain in the west and gas. the weather sponsored by cattle always. june nineteenth sixty seven six days they redrew the map of the middle east

isn't my record as victoria the israeli army ended war one of the greatest tragedy in the history of islam al-jazeera explores the events leading to the war and its consequences which is still felt today we tried everything we went to the united nations and tried. the two issues contact through different countries and it's clear that all this was to do with the war in june on al-jazeera. again you're watching others here are a matter of our top stories this hour the leaders of north korea and the u.s. have accepted invitations to visit each other's countries that's according to the north korean state news agency kim jong un and donald trump met for the first time

in singapore on tuesday and signed an agreement aimed at denuclearizing the korean peninsula though it was vague on specifics. the u.s. federal judge has approved the merger of a t.n.t. and time warner it allows the communications giant to buy the media company in an eighty five billion dollars deal judge said the government had failed to prove it would harm competition. the british government has reached a compromise that would allow parliament to have some say in the final deal to leave the european union prime minister to raise in may had argued this would weaken her negotiating hand with the e.u. . now the iraqi shia cleric more trouble assad has formed a coalition with a pro iranian bloc led by head head to form the biggest political group in the iraqi parliament the two men met after saddam's party won the most seats in last month's election and amir's party came in second southerner was always opposed to

iran's influence in iraq but the two groups still don't have the majority to form a government. the u.n. envoy to yemen is negotiating with major warring sides to prevent fighting in the main port city for a delivery's forces led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are ten kilometers from the day that which is held by her the rebels u.a.e. gave the hoodies until tuesday to withdraw before a military assault with a day has been a vital lifeline for millions of yemeni suffering from food and medical shortages a french president emanuel has called italy cynical and irresponsible for refusing to allow a ship carrying six hundred twenty nine refugees to dock the ship will now 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 italy and malta refused to give their rescue boat permission to dock the journey to the spanish

port of the lengthier world now take three to four days the ship will be accompanied by two italian coast guard boats john now reports from rome. for four days they've been aboard the immerse aquarius relief at being rescued short lived now uncomfortable in the searing mediterranean heat and the air really for this very place. the rescue ship denied access in italy overcrowded and with supplies running low has been directed to violence here 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 me good italy has said will no longer europe's refugee camp. i'm happy to be able to give the italian people the first

piece of what they asked for. salvini 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 judged as 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 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 front line of europe's migration crisis italy's treatment of those aboard the aquarius is notice to the rules that see so changing each state has the right to manage his

boundaries. but these should not put into doubt the. human rights our deepest concern is that if the rescue will 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 journey how al-jazeera wrote . more than four thousand people remain homeless in guatemala after last week's eruption of mt for a go most of the victims are living in temporary shelters the government says it will provide housing but there may be

a long wait they are sanchez reports from esk into. happy to be alive the survivors have got to my last worst volcanic eruption in decades may be homeless but they're together and receiving care more than five hundred people in this school in the city of a screen one of twenty one shelters around monk where. you see a woman says she thanks god for having saved all her family but now she begins to think about their future without a home to go back to and the f.b.i. said to me that i think it's the president's juji to help us we're not sure that will happen because we haven't seen much going on for example there hasn't been an official to check to say how many people here. her daughter say that says a member of got the malice disaster agency helped all her family get together in this shelter but though she feels they're on their own. but we feel bad because the

government is not giving us any answers about our future. homes farms and now they were destroyed here the government is promising thirty four million dollars to rebuild it will be employing see if the government has a plan an apologist to provide four hundred new homes. the mayor of the screen glasses that they are working nonstop to accommodate more homeless people the mayor says this shelter will be ready in three days it will be two large tents each one will house three hundred people but it is unclear when and where the victims will have a home. officials say they have plans to provide proper housing for the victims but critics say the government is inefficient they don't trust the government to take care of the victims in the long run and they want the president to resign. after the tragic mudslide two years ago the government still hasn't given any homes to

those who lost and it doesn't look as if they were getting on. for male private donors and volunteers are helping to fill the gap in aid the survivors are looking to government to secure their futures. with in a sense is all just is queen demanded. of the former vice president of the democratic republic of congo is expected to be released from prison judges of the international criminal court ordered pierre bemba's conditional release after he was acquitted of war crimes member was serving an eighteen year sentence after he was found guilty of atrocities committed by his troops but on friday an appeals court judge said bemba could not be held criminally responsible for their crimes they've been sent to the central african republic to put down a coup after put down a coup attempt bemba still faces separate charges for bribing witnesses during his trial and the country's current president joseph kabila will not seek

a third term in december's election that's according to the prime minister congolese presidents are allowed to serve only two terms could be the second and final term was meant to end in two thousand and sixteen but he's postponed elections twice due to fighting in the country the opposition says the delays were arranged by kabila to keep himself in office macedonia has agreed to change its name to resolve a decades old dispute with greece its new name is the republic of northern macedonia the issue's been a stumbling block to the country's bid to join the european union and nato johnson reports from athens. the agreement between prime ministers and alexis tsipras is the fruit of six months of negotiation that ends a twenty seven year standoff between the countries both men heralded the deal as a new era for the whole of south eastern europe renamed savannah macedonia the republic of northern macedonia he says neighbor takes a step closer to e.u.

and nato membership see for me up at the league summit yet any agreement that we reached and all the neighbors have nothing to do with the ancient greeks given a zation of macedonia and cannot claim any connection is to eat in the future. somewhere you ask will folks i call on all citizens to seize the future twenty five years of being stuck is enough many generations have been lost macedonia must go forward and be equal with the west to compete with them and to have the same quality of life. the heart of the dispute is a question of identity slav macedonians have lain claim to ancient macedonian heritage since world war two the greeks see that as a vital component of their own sense of nationhood and cultural heritage so the agreement makes it clear that savannah macedonia is a slug nation not a forgotten tribe of the ancient greeks the macedonian language will be described as slavic and passports will state nationality as macedonian from savannah

macedonia both governments say they've defended their red lines but the hard work now begins at convincing their peoples to accept the compromises greece will no longer hold a monopoly on the word macedonia and greece's northern neighbors cannot claim to be the descendants of alexander if all goes according to plan greece will recommend that the european union open accession talks with savella macedonia at a meeting of foreign ministers in two weeks time it will do the same at a nato summit next month the pressure will then be on the government to approve the agreement in a referendum and toss constitutional amendments in parliament the response then ratify the agreement by the end of the year and savannah macedonia could theoretically hope to join the e.u. and nato next year jump start off a loss al-jazeera africans are the football world cup begins on thursday and hosts russia go into the tournament as the lowest ranked of the thirty two teams they

have progressed out of the group stage since their since one thousand nine hundred six and their best hope for victory comes in the tournament opening mashed against saudi arabia. well neither of the twins kick off the field will decide who will host the twenty twenty six event the vote is between the rocco and a combined bid for the united states canada and mexico. has more from moscow. thirty two nations ready for the russia world cup but before but there is going to be some big action going on around favor with the twenty twenty six now the last time feature made a decision on world cups it was arguably the most controversial decision in the history they wouldn't turn to world cup so tightly which they embrace it was a mistake and i went to russia here we are and then of course the qatar twenty twentieth's oh no this one has the potential to be controversial because you're

dealing with the united states paid with the add on's of canada and mexico that are the favorites i'm needs that big so when it can't fight so explicitly but it does for financial reasons that bade will make a lot of money for fay for there's no doubt that's where the experts would say it's mostly single but also for political reasons because if the usa win that bodes well then the u.s. attorney general the f.b.i. will be a further away from fee for germany and france or the president definitely wants the usa to win but morocco has come up with a strong posable bait i had a bit of problems with the evaluation where i scored two point seven out of five if i that was nearly low enough to knock them out of this two holes rice but as it gets to wednesday's vote where we're in a position that i could win if i did it would cause some very interesting problems

for for a few years but it would also be an incredible achievement for a walk home and of course it would only be the second time that an african nation has hosted the world cup. yes i did twenty twenty six where mexico and canada must be considered favorites. this is al jazeera let's get around on now the top stories the leaders of north korea and the u.s. have accepted invitations to visit each other's countries that's according to the north korean state news agency kim jong un and donald trump met for the first time in singapore and choose that they signed a deal aimed at denuclearizing the korean peninsula though it was vague on specifics a u.s. federal judge has approved the merger of eighty n.t. and time warner it allows the communications giant to buy the media company in an eighty five billion dollars deal the judge said the government had failed to prove

it would harm competition the british government has reached a compromise that would allow parliament to have some say in the final deal to leave the european union prime minister to resume had argued this would weaken her negotiating hand with the e.u. the iraqi shia cleric mortada sub that has formed a coalition with a pro iranian bloc led by head the l a mirror to form the biggest political group in parliament two men met after saddam's party won the most seats in last month's election amir's party came in second solid has always opposed iran's influence in iraq but the two groups still don't have the majority to form a government the u.n. envoy to yemen is negotiating with the major warring sides to prevent fighting in the main port city for a deliveries forces led by saudi arabia the united arab emirates are ten kilometers from the data which is held by hooty rebels the u.a.e. gave the hoodies and to choose day to withdraw before a military assault the data has been

a vital lifeline for millions of yemeni suffering from food and medical shortages. a former vice president of the democratic republic of congo is expected to be released from prison judges at the international criminal court ordered john pierre bemba's conditional release after he was acquitted of war crimes he'd been serving an eighteen year sentence after he was found guilty of atrocities committed by his troops but on friday an appeals court judge said bamber could not be held criminally responsible for their crimes they've been sent to the central african republic to put down a coup attempt bender still faces separate charges for bribing witnesses during his trial those are the headlines you're up today we're back in half an hour right now it's inside story.

confident done all translators kim jung un is serious about abandoning his program but after the historic summit in singapore what will the north korean leader get in return and is this the beginning of a new era 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 after months of speculation of the summit was even going to happen the two men met on singapore's sentosa island they held

a fourteen minute meeting followed by a signing of a joint statement in which they agreed to the denuclearization of the korean peninsula.