to get into the widespread use of performance enhancing drugs in the final episode of sports don't bring the m. bliss chase. handshakes smiles and apparently home visits donald trump and kim jong un accepted mutual invitations to each other's countries. and this is al jazeera live from coming up the mega merger telecoms giant a t.n.t. gets a green light to buy media for time warner. and what's in a name greece and macedonia settle a decades old dispute. suspense is high as world football's governing body decides

who will host the twenty twenty six world cup it's a toss up between morocco and north america. we begin with some breaking news we are getting reports that gunfire has been heard in the yemeni port city of her day the saudi owned television channel says the battle has begun to take the city from who the rebels the united arab emirates which is part of the saudi led coalition fighting there had given the rebels until choose day to leave u.n. envoy to yemen had been negotiating to try to prevent fighting data is the main port for a deliveries for millions of yemenis suffering from food and medical shortages we'll be keeping an eye on that story and bringing you updates. the meeting between donald trump and kim jong un may have been hailed as historic but after the handshakes and smiles many questions remain about the details of the deal the

former adversaries met for the first time on cheers day in singapore they signed an agreement which has been scrutinized for what it did and didn't say complaints to destroy its nuclear arms but with no specifics or timelines and trump blindsided many with a promise to stop joint military exercises with south korea the leaders also accepted invitations to visit each other's countries diplomatic editor james bays joins us live from singapore it's a really warming relationship on the cards here james. yes absolutely and i think both of these leaders know that the most important thing in many ways for them is how it plays back home i think many are questioning the details here but president trump most most of the american people don't look at the details they look at the photos or they look at the images and certainly with regard to the images it is historic on the other side for the north koreans kim i

think wanted recognition and he has recognition so both sides get a win just because the meeting took place but where do we go from here let me bring in my guest from the international crisis group that's a conflict prevention group that comes up with policy proposals michael is. you've been looking at all the details of this we've had the summit there now has to be a process tell us how in your view this process should play out so we're in a great place really if you compare it to a few months ago when we were talking about fire and fury now we have a freeze in north korea's nuclear testing and missile testing the challenge now going to build on from this is whether the negotiators can turn this temporary freeze into a deep freeze put north korea's nuclear and missile programs on ice in return for security guarantees from the united states and we be. leave the to do that they need to go action for action step by step there's such a lack of trust between the two there their national security interests are

conflicting so what they need is to go step by step first keep the current pause and president trumps talk about possible reductions in exercises for example to help with that so first we want to keep with the current pause no more testing of either nuclear weapons or missiles by north korea and some discussions on security guarantees from the us you heard secretary of state on monday before president of the meeting said the key was v. verification that's the difficulty isn't it because north korea is such an isolated country they don't want inspectors poking around in their military sites that's right they don't of course and they want to keep their nuclear deterrent but if they want to get relief from sanctions if they want the political recognition if they want a new relationship with the united states and diplomatic recognition and if they want to develop their economy and get relief from sanctions for any of those things to happen they have got to be willing to take steps towards nuclearize ation and so the next step has to be verification monitoring a commitment on their part

a declaration of what they've got in terms of their nuclear weapons their production capacity and letting in inspectors to verify that with these inspectors going to be because north korea is not i don't want the cia going everywhere in that country right now that's those are the kind of difficult negotiations that they've probably already been discussing before the summit and haven't reached necessarily confirm details on but there are a few possibilities you could have u.n. inspectors from the international atomic energy agency plenty of independent experts there you could have obviously the united states would like to see its own experts go in so they may have to negotiate and compromise perhaps that's where other countries in the region china or south korea for example or others could for together combined teams that might be more reassuring to north korea we also want them to commit on the north korean side to the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. get them putting down some declarations in. writing that they will not test nuclear weapons anymore and china will certainly support just a few points of clarification first at the end of your proposal north korea would

still have nuclear capability is that right and we'd have to live with it and second how long would this take so let's be clear denuclearization is going to have to be a very long term goal even president trump is acknowledging that now first of all it's just technically not possible to do it very quickly what we're recommending is a kind of deep freeze weigh station on the way to nuclearize ation that will get us closer to that and deescalate the current tensions so completely free fall eventually in the next year or two let's say and that is realistic to do this but on a timeline that meets president trumps current terms a deep freeze of all of their production capacity for both missiles and nuclear weapons as well as us and to production of plutonium and fissile materials and that is feasible within a two year timeline thank you very much for joining us and giving us a detailed analysis of where things could go the international crisis group a written a very detailed report of the way forward i wonder if they'll be anyone in the

white house who will read it tense thank you. now the south korean president hopes the summit will in a new era for the two koreas and the u.s. marine j.n. acted as a mediator in the run up to the meeting on tuesday when the have it about building upon the agreement reached today we will take a new path going forward leaving dark days of war and conflict behind we will write a new chapter of peace and cooperation we will be there together with north korea along the way. other news now the iraqi shia cleric. has formed a coalition with a pro iranian bloc led by heidi. to form the biggest political group in parliament sutta has always opposed to iran's influence in iraq the two men met after such as party won the most seats in last month's election his party came in second the two groups still don't have enough seats to form a government. u.s.

federal judges approved a merger to create one of the world's largest media companies the eighty five billion dollars deal between eighteen and t. and time warner was announced in twenty sixteen the justice department tried to stop it but the judge said the government failed to prove the agreement would harm competition financial analyst tara jackson isn't convinced this will be a good deal for consumers your stock holder is probably a great thing eighteen c. and time warner this is a big deal for them and it's very exciting and it's going to be a lot of people out of money but when you're a consumer at the in a day you have to make sure it doesn't cost you in the end and because we're may have less competition in the future because other conglomerates may want to do the same thing that may potentially mean higher prices and cost for cable in the future for consumers when we know that comcast is already trying to do some mergers out there any provider that's out there could purchase their supplier so it's not like

they're purchasing their competition it's actually a vertical integration so they could purchase all of their suppliers and so right now we have eight c.n.c. that's purchasing a lot of the news content our content providers now some people say it's not going to have an effect on content we'll see about that it may not cost consumers dollars in the short run but it may cost consumers of information the british government has reached a compromise that would allow parliament to have some say in the final deal to leave the european union that's being seen as a defeat for hard line breaks a tears who also want to leave the customs union but it doesn't resolve the lack of clarity over what breaks it will actually look like reports. she spoke about all 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 breakfast 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 career 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 standard which is stand up for england stand for the table.

push around and. they just don't let the newt do it didn't the thought and what is it you think i don't see. 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 are 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 a company is a failed bret'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 yet in those newspapers which supports them they describes 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 in westminster . got more for you on the breaking news that we monitoring out of yemen a saudi owned television channel says a military operation has begun to take the port city of data from joining us on the line from santa is how he's editor in chief of yemen post good to have you with us can you confirm that this is happening.

the clearing now. from both sides from the allies and the footage was. wrong. because the lawn saw six thousand horsemen. with a lot smoother won't be can be said. for the political to leave the country are starting right now. because of the gratitude of the number of troops a bit of control all the beer. of the war the war how you don't need to keep troops. there now. so this is because if he's on a pretty integrated in the city on that i know that the us gave them until tuesday

to leave do you know if there have been any departures or efficiencies i've been preparing for this battle. with the battle for the last year. we've talked to a couple of top commanders who cannot know the last two days. that we have there and the pa they have. can let me ask you quickly about the humanitarian situation with the potential for even more atrocities being committed there considering how important this port is how aid goes through this port to those who need it the most. is the will to order now the poor old. common knowledge or not i

don't know if you come into the building. now i am just a clue to sixty people who are only a little google and plugged into the report twenty million are now on the ground there are situations where you are. all i think it could be an immediate humanitarian crises in the future especially include what. a poor me you'd be until i live in the city. and the truth of the. bible and a plan that. it's not so good. i guess. thank you for talking us through this news that we. along with the which is part of it is taking on. in the port city of. sled on

al-jazeera. we feel bad because the government. and abortion has come under scrutiny and argentina where catholic church has long dominated the debate. hello the slow wandering shops in the midwest down to the southeast these dots easy here do bring occasional flooding in iowa for example and you can guess why but they look pretty big down there and they're in an area that's actually quite warm thirty degrees typically holds a lot of water but behind it things are slightly cooler chicago's twenty four sees

it slow drop in temperature not much admittedly but the showers are dotted around the not concentrated now and i think the northeast in particular see dry weather coming in one sign of hope here more or less in southern colorado that's a shower directly over where fire for one six is currently but it's a wild father's but in dry weather and fanned by the wind so but a shower and quite helpful off the coast of mexico has an active hurrican that's been bringing rain already inland in mexico south of that and we've got typical for this time the showers big showers they look at the drifting away from panama and costa rica but the focus will still happen there that also there you'll notice in cuba and jamaica and probably still in florida in the bahamas it's the time of the year actually when you see fairly regular daily shaz even in the lesser around tilly's but there are more especially as you can see to the west.

he's everywhere and it's choking our planet very toxic and very dangerous and we could spend years meaning if i go along but breakthroughs are being made showing that it is possible to change our relationship with the night substance issue running i think they can be picked up on the beach to. move on plastic waste. on al-jazeera how do you. begin to look at the top stories on al-jazeera gunfire has reportedly been heard in

the yemeni port city of data a saudi owned television channel says a military operation has begun to retake it from hooty rebels data is the main entry point for aid for millions of people suffering from food and medical shortages. 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 choose day they signed an agreement aimed at denuclearizing the korean peninsula it was vague on specifics. u.s. federal judges approved the merger of eighteen t. and time warner to create one of the world's largest media companies the judge said the government failed to prove the eighty five billion dollars deal would reduce competition. macedonia has agreed to change its name to resolve a decades old dispute with greece its new name is the republic of northern macedonia issue has been

a stumbling block to the country's bid to join the european union and nato john 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 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 greek civilization of macedonia cannot claim any connection is to eat in the future . somewhere you ask will focus on more stuff 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 love 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 savannah 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 priest would 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 several close friends the former vice president of democratic republic of congo is expected to be released from prison judges at the international criminal court ordered pair bamberger's conditional release after he was acquitted of war crimes bamber 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 bamba could not be held criminally responsible for their crimes had been sent to central african republic to put on a could tempt bama still face a separate charges for bribing witnesses during his trial in twenty seventeen. more

than four thousand people remain homeless in guatemala after last week's eruption of mt most of the victims are living in temporary shelters the government says it will provide housing but there may be a long wait but in the sanchez reports from a screen. i happy to be alive the survivors have got the worst volcanic eruption in decades maybe 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 bob 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. we feel bad because the government is not giving us any answers about our future. homes farms and now the molds 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 his 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 that would get. one c. four no private donors and volunteers are helping to fill the gap in the survivors are looking to the government to secure their future. with an essential just. what the. politicians and argentina's lower house of congress will vote on wednesday on whether to legalize abortions yes votes could send a strong signal in a region where the catholic church has long dominated the debate that is about reports from one of service. it's been a green wing that has taken over argentina with one demand to decriminalize abortion. an artist who says she had an abortion in

a country where you can spend up to four years in prison if found guilty of terminating a pregnancy you need that only money while women terminate pregnancies anyway it doesn't matter if it's legal or not our grandmothers did this great grandmothers up till the present day and so the problem is that if the state doesn't take responsibility we're going to continue having young women who are dead you know i didn't tina it assessed he made around half a million abortions are carried out every year hundreds of women many of them poor have died because of it. in two thousand and fourteen around fifty thousand women according to the health ministry had to be treated in a hospital because of botched abortions i wanted to be legal because i understand that the people who are most affected the most vulnerable are the poorest women the ones with the least amount of resources because this is more than just about economic resources this is also about access to information on wednesday

argentina's congress will vote for the first time whether to legalize abortion the catholic church and pope francis argentinian have stepped up efforts to influence the vote it seems. there is a belief of the power of the church have to take votes away in every province to mobilize catholic schools in the streets to excommunicate them. and that's why activists will support abortion rights have taken to the streets sent to ride president says he is in favor of the debate and he would not veto a measure even though he personally does not support abortions in the world this public debate has increased the social visibility of this problem this makes it easier for us in the health ministry and regional offices to speak seriously about sexual education in schools educate about contraception family planning so we can definitely prevent abortion which is not a solution for anyone for anything thousands of people who are for and against the

abortion bill i would expect it to demonstrate on wednesday it is a vote that has divided the country and even though its outcome is expected to be close it has forced argentina to debate on an issue that has not been talked about for far too long. adesina. the football world cup begins on thursday and on the eve of the tournaments kick off a four will decide who will host the event in twenty twenty six the vote is between a rock and a joint bid from the united states canada and mexico do well in. has more from moscow. thirty two nations ready for the russia world cup but before that there is going to be some big action going on around favor with the twenty twenty six now the last time face of made a decision on world cups it was arguably the most controversial decision in the history they would have to world cups that would seriously which they base 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 say 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 johnny in 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 overcoming of course it would only be the second time that an african nation has hosted the world cup. yes i did twenty twenty six would. be considered favorites. this is in these other top stories gunfire has reportedly been heard in the yemeni port city of her data saudi owned television channel says a military operation has begun to retake it from heathy rebels the united arab emirates which is part of the saudi led coalition had given the keys until choose day to leave the data is the main entry point for food and medical aid for millions of yemenis. 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 day they signed an agreement aimed at denuclearizing the korean peninsula. u.s. federal judge has approved the merger of eighteen and t. and time warner to create one of the world's largest media companies the judge said the government failed to prove the eighty five billion dollars deal would harm competition and raise prices for consumers 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 resign may had argued that this would weaken a negotiating hand with. macedonia has agreed to change its name to resolve a decades old dispute with greece its new name is the republic of northern macedonia issue has been a stumbling block for the country's bid to join the european union and nato. the

former vice president of democratic republic of congo's expected to be released from prison judges at the international criminal court ordered john peer bemba's conditional release after he was acquitted of war crimes he'd been serving an eighteen year sentence after i was found guilty of atrocities committed by his troops but on friday and his pills called said ben but could not be held criminally responsible for their crimes the rockies share cleric titles such as formed a coalition with the pro iranian bloc that amir to form the biggest political group in parliament two men met after saddam's party won the most seats in last month's election and party came in second. those are the headlines earthrise is coming up next big stories generate thousands of headlines with different angles from different perspectives separate the spin from the facts that's why i'm

guy. with the listening post on al jazeera. cheap and fast a tile plastic is used for everything furniture tools storage containers clothing even tea bags and glitter on birthday cards it's hard to imagine modern life without it. so much has been created that scientists are calculate the total amount ever made at eight point three billion tons. and most of these items are used for only short periods of time or even just once before being discarded to later land and see. if nothing is done we are heading towards

a planet so full of plastic that the health of plants animals and humans alike will be threatened. and yet fossil fuel come.