he's going for the hat trick kim. now donald trump wants to meet iran's leader just how realistic is this one. i'm sam is a dan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up setting up for more syria talks against the backdrop of bashar asad going hard against. calling in the international help the battle against a wave of wildfires in the u.s. that showing no sign of life. i was born to own that great things have already been done. and adventurous ambition how travel is going to every

country in the world without ever boarding a plane. there's been another shift in tone and rhetoric from the u.s. president this time on iran donald trump now says he's willing to meet a rainy and present house on rouhani at any time and without preconditions for the two men have been locked in an escalating war of words since trump withdrew the u.s. from the landmark two thousand and fifty nuclear deal alan fischer has the story. the u.s. president's surprise offer came during a news conference at the white house with italy's prime minister no preconditions no they want to meet only any time they want. any time they were in the u.s. violated the deal is signed with iran and its international partners when president trump announced in may the u.s. was pulling out even though there was no indication iran was in breach this was

a horrible one sided deal that should have never ever been made he don't get for months it was a terrible deal and vote to scrap it when he became president his offer to talk with iran's president well threw up many more questions and moakley conditions means that he's ready to sign on the dotted line so to speak with the iranians so will that be acceptable to the region to the powers in the region to the g.c.c. specifically saudi arabia and the us. i doubt that we've been here before they will be met with fire and fury donald trump very north korea and its leader before agreeing to a meeting and earlier this month he met russian president vladimir putin in all sinking at a top level summit it'll be interesting to watch the reaction to donald trump's offer when barack obama was in the white house and said he'd be willing to meet the iranian president he was heavily criticized by republicans democrats and by many right wing commentators who know largely support donald trump. one additional

problem might be who would broker a summit with iran south korea pave the way for the meeting with kim jong il in france might be an option president emanuel mccraw had arjun donald trump not to walk away from the iran deal during a state visit to washington is links with tehran and that might open up the necessary diplomatic channels that are voices senior people in this white house have been very critical of the iranian government and called for its removal but this is donald trump's white house if you want something to happen then it could and soon alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house. the u.s. secretary of state has already walked back some of trump's comments might pompei or says he's on board with meeting iran's president but he listed several requirements before it could go ahead president wants to meet with folks to solve problems of the iranians demonstrate a commitment to make fundamental changes in how they treat their own people reduce their malign behavior can agree that it's worthwhile to enter

a nuclear agreement that actually prevents proliferation and the president said he's prepared to sit down and have a conversation with them but joining us now is mohamed merah and the the head of the north american studies at the university of tehran good to have you with us so there you have it bit of a walk back from mike pompei o seems like he's saying there are preconditions donald trump was clear in saying there's absolutely no preconditions how do you think iran's president is going to take this you think he's going to accept an invitation for talks. no i don't think he is going to accept any negotiations until the united states returns to the j c p o a the nuclear agreement and implement it because the iranians are saying that the united states is has already violated an international commitment and its aggressive behavior is not going to be rewarded by teheran because if the trunk feels that he is six has

succeeded in gaining any concessions from iran which has abided by the nuclear agreement in full then he is only going to use this as a tool at his disposal in future remember this is the same tramp who threatened canada because of a statement made by the can't canadian prime minister a neighboring country to the united states a country that has probably the closest relationship with the united states compared to any other country when trump behaves like that then there's no reason for iran to peace him and there is no reason for iran to believe anything that he says especially when we have such mixed signals coming from the white house when it comes so soon after trump made that all caps. threats against iran how do you think rein in zero in the fish are going to see or interpret what prompted him now to do this one eighty well that's difficult to say because that trump is

is very unpredictable person and that's one reason why the iranians can not negotiate with the united states what is there to negotiate the united states wants iran to give up its missile defense capability well if the iranians know the only one of the reasons why the united states doesn't attack iran what is your current have a very powerful who put their opinion professor i suppose what the u.s. and what we've heard mark pompei o said what there is to negotiate is iran's regional behavior how it treats its people and so on and so forth. well i think we should then how the united states treats its own people and how trump has divided his own country the united states is in no position to talk about how you run treats its own people the united states has its own problems and the united states allies in the region are dictatorships which intimidate. they intimidate they intimidate they they are creating starvation in yemen the united states has korea

had a they had a dirty war in syria which they haven't ended they've occupied huge parts of the country in violation of international law the united states is in no position sorry to say that the iranian lying in. yes the united states is its presence in syria is illegal in accordance with international law american troops are in the country in violation of international law they have no right to be there just like the united states invaded iraq just like the united states destroyed talking about how they should have international law i guess the opponents of the assad regime will say that the assad regime is in violation of international law just briefly on whether we might see great a back channel in gauging the talk between the u.s. and iran even if things are not going to go forward in a sort of open meeting and dialogue. well i think that first of all the issue of syria is important because the united states they carried out

a dirty war in the country and that they have they are more responsible so i want to slap you all right we are going on here immediately to the point of whether there might be any back channel softening of dialogue between the two countries. my understanding that at this stage there are no back channel there is no back channel dialogue going on between the two countries and the iranians do not want to give the wrong message to the united states that they can violate their agreement they can violate their commitments they can intimidate other countries to get further concessions the even pompei himself earlier admitted when he wanted to take it to become secretary of state he said in congress at the senate foreign relations committee that iran even before the nuclear deal was not seeking a nuclear weapon and this is huge so the united states knows that iran is not seeking a nuclear weapon or iran signed on to the j c p o n gave significant concessions and now the united states wants to intimidate iran to give more that's just not

doable all right thank you so much for analysis mohammad marandi there. at least eleven people have been killed in a bus crash on a bus in afghanistan rather a roadside bomb exploded in western far province thirty one people were injured at least eleven people have been killed when a van exploded at a checkpoint in the southern philippines both soldiers and civilians are among the casualties in lumberton city on bass in an island that's just across the aisle from mindanao island where there's been decades of conflict between government forces and muslim separatists troops who are trying to search the vehicle when it detonated life now to general allen dog and she's live for us from the philippine capital manila so officials saying the valve may have been intended for a bigger operation what do we know about that jamila. well that's exactly what they're saying because intelligence reports over the last few days indicate of a big threat in limited city in brazil and this happened at about five am from the

hinterlands a van with a single passenger stopped at a checkpoint connected to the military detachment upon injuring inspection according to the military that's when the bomb exploded inside so there are reports that this is possibly a suicide bomber nothing confirms that at all as you know in the philippines have never had really a history of suicide bombing here but of course the philippine military says they are already calling this basically a terror attack they have already pointed out to one of the leaders of the abu sayyaf group. they say he is behind this attack as you know over the last few years has been relative peace here in basilan since the other leader of the abu sayyaf is the lone happy lone move tomorrow we who and he was actually the one that we launched the war there in morocco we last year. thanks so much syrian state television says government forces are attacking us along two fronts in the region close to the border with jordan despite us all threatening to kill civilians on

wednesday also fighters killed dozens of people and abducted eighteen more in attacks in sawyer province the armed group only has a few pockets of territory left in the southwest russia iran and turkey are brokering the latest round of talks to end syria's war representatives from syria's government and opposition as well as the un special envoy are expected to attend the meeting in sochi what are the. it's a time of the year with the beaches of sochi filled with only day makers many seemingly oblivious that not too far away diplomatic efforts are underway to solve the bloodiest conflict in the twenty first century. this is the tenth round of the talks sponsored by russia iran and turkey u.n. special envoys to fund the mistura is also here much has changed underground in syria since the last round in mid may the government has made thirty three tauriel

gains recently taking control of the border areas with jordan and israel and the escalation zones in their eyes and the homes region heading up the syrian delegation un ambassador bashar is jaafari looks like a guest of honor unlike his usual stomping grounds this is friendly territory talks of removing president assad or of a transitional government are not under table here these talks are not only about syria but about solving the conflict while protecting the interests of the many different parties involved in this complicated. the battle for the northern province of idlib is looming it's where much of the armed opposition absent here in sochi has been retreating to this is a great concern for turkey which is likely to seek assurances that the fragile cease fire will continue to be respected by the regime and then there's russia it wants to discuss humanitarian issues such as the resettlement of millions of

refugees. there are more elements of sapelo t.m.p. poor eager to return home large numbers a living in neighboring countries but one million in jordan more than a million in lebanon three and a half million in turkey not to mention those in europe it's also in the interest of europe to help their resettlement by creating the conditions for that we understand the process is supposed to be on a volunteer basis but we must not prevent them from returning or part of a message russia is keen to put out the war in syria is coming to an end i think that depends who you are i mean our side for example has also said he is nearing a victory if you are an opposition. great for example if you're a militant groups like islamic states or. hasn't partaken in peace talks or doesn't necessarily need to agree on any post conflict scenario then i think going to see some conflicts down the line even in the event that there is a formal transition between the political parties and that are involved in the

peace talks behind closed doors delegates are also focusing on finding common ground for constitutional reforms one of the many issues that have been elusive so far where do doing the so-called stand that talks or do un sponsored ones in geneva but at that hamid al jazeera sochi australia is expected to send one hundred eighty five fighters to the u.s. to help tackle wildfires in northern california at least six people have died and seven remain unaccounted for the fires have destroyed more than eight hundred homes and displaced thousands of families. are reports from reading and entire neighborhood turned to ash and debris people no longer coming and going nobody checking their mailbox kids no longer playing in the front yard for the first time since a deadly fire ripped through syria the people of the city of reading gathered for

a community meeting the question they all were asking what next eighty two year old joseph breezy back to read his house last week and hasn't been home since my home is still standing i'm in a motel i'm safe. and that's what counts in shasta county where reading is located the fire destroyed over five hundred homes and wiped out entire communities it's still not contained the county going to come back oh yeah eventually mother nature will take care of things things will be grow people will adjust but it's it's a hard lesson when this blaze ripped through this neighborhood this home was spared but their neighbors not so much the fire totally engulfed this house all that's left are the charred remains but this is not a story about buildings that are lost it's about human suffering the people that

once lived here and now have nothing else like for this woman angel her home where she lived with her family for fifteen years burning down when you lose you see that your house is gone it's like ok my life my my my kids they are they grew you know grew up there the only thing keeping her going hugs of support from strangers we had so many people come to our. church try to support us and love us and we love them back and there's no appreciation that you can give people that say hey we got trucks we. will bring a gang of people up and we'll help you whatever you need to do in a city chart where lingering smoke from fires still blocks the sunset but not the hope of people to one day rebuild gabriel's on doe. redding california.

still ahead on al jazeera winning resoundingly them bob ways opposition leader is confident as the vote count roland. hello the heat heat wave in fact took a step backwards from the northwest of europe as this cloud came through representing still the same system a cold front if you like but that's recovering the temps going to rise elsewhere as well we've already got a forecast attorney for another twenty nine in paris did much at all and even in sweden we got twenty and stockholm we've got some decent rain here is helps not box of foreigners but the next heat wave is coming from somewhere else have a look at the full cross madrid thirty six degrees on tuesday i'll take you a day ahead thirty nine degrees it will be well into the forty's in the southwest

of spain and portugal madi even hit record levels as for the next heat wave is developing there is just about reflected across the shortstop it right back twenty five years up to twenty eight in the forecast center wednesday otherwise north africa is much is expected to be the showers just to the south south of the sahara are showing up now in chad fairly regularly we've had some in khartoum but these dark green blob suggest decent convection big thunderstorms less surprisingly you'll find them also in nigeria and further west directorial africa towards west africa and as far north as you can go more or less for four to reach mauritania. corrupt officials have been ousted. and the activists of the chinese villager who can take center stage in on precedented local elections. in the last of

a remarkable series filmed over five years al-jazeera documents from back of a new village committing. rebels to politician part one a boot camp china's democracy experiment on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera time to recap the headlines now u.s. president dog trump has surprised everyone by saying he'd be willing to meet to iran's president hassan rouhani at any time without preconditions the two men have been locked in a war of words and stomp withdrew the u.s. from the two thousand and fifty nuclear deal at least eleven people have been

killed when a van exploded at the checkpoint in lima town city in the southern philippines that's across mindanao island where there's been decades of conflict between government forces and separatists russia iran and turkey are brokering the latest round of talks in the russian city of sochi two and syria's war while syrian government troops continue their offensive against deisel in the other basin region close to the border with jordan. and bob boys main opposition leader says he's ready to form the next government else and chamisa says his movement for democratic change is done exceedingly well and results from more than ten thousand polling booths but his main rival president i'm assuming god was also making positive noises what's being described as a tight race out of the toss the reports from how. counting has started in what some are calling zimbabwe's historic election is the first photo with god be on the ballot in nearly four decades. the man who is now in charge president in

a similar promise of the general elections period will be peaceful. or doing today is feasible i will no doubt the end of. the main opposition leader nelson chamisa says he's confident of winning by more than sixty percent if the polls are free and flee their people have spoken the people are speaking and it's clear that the vote is a vote for victory one for freedom and one for democracy and one for a new zimbabwe robert mugabe voted in an opposition stronghold in harare the day before the election he says he would not. or the rulings on the party because they forced him to reside in of him by. the european union election observer mission says the elections were in some cases very smooth but in others totally disorganized i think something consistencies rich very mean.

after able to make your judgment a final judgment that this was the battle of the legend all over all zimbabwe election officials say most polling stations open on time and that there were a few issues but things went relatively smoothly some people complained they didn't get to vote. you know they didn't many to put their name on the bill found the vote counting is done manually. election officials say final results will be announced in five days if no candidate wins more than half the votes there will be a runoff september. emotions are high some opposition supporters fear the vote is or has been tampered with and the ruling party will try and manipulate the vote of officials in nigeria allegations some analysts are already saying the election results will likely be contested hadn't us al jazeera.

malcolm webb joins us now from zimbabwe second largest city of fullaway i so malcolm both candidates saying they think they're doing really well what does a vote counts so far. is still on the way polling station staff of being counting ballots throughout the night and then the results are displayed on posters outside the polling station that's what's being done here there's a polling station here at the city hall in boulder wire and then later on these results for the presidential election will be forwarded to tallying centers provincial tilings centers across the country in the one for this province is also in this building so they'll be counted and then in a few days from now we'll get the presidential results turn out been from the places it's been reported a between seventy and eighty percent eighty percent that would be the highest turnout since the independent election here in zimbabwe in one nine hundred eighty

s. i mean while opposition candidate nelson chamisa says that they've got the results from ten thousand polling stations and that they have a safe lead president and goggles also said that he's going to win that he hasn't given any numbers yet he says it's going to wait for the results in accordance with the constitution but the last opinion poll here which was run last week had the two candidates almost neck and neck president gaga had three percentage point lead but nelson chamisa had been gaining over the previous opinion polls but a fifth of voters in that poll said they were either on the side or on willing to say who they were going to vote for but these votes will be counted entirely in the days ahead and in just four days from now we expect to get the results will be announced at this presidential election but if no candidate gets more than fifty percent of the vote it will go to a runoff which would be expected for september. malcolm webb thanks so much. now the u.s. president has suspended wonder's right to ship clothing judy free to the united

states washington threaten the move in may after wonder raise tariffs on imports of secondhand clothes and shoes who want to impose the levies to protect its garment industry kenya backed away from raising tariffs after u.s. threats u.s. satellites have reportedly detected renewed activity at one of north korea's main ballistic missile production sites u.s. intelligence officials told the washington post the north appeared to be building new intercontinental ballistic missiles at the sun i'm dong facility that's the same side where the first missile capable of reaching the u.s. was produced the trumpet ministration isn't commenting on the reports meanwhile military level talks are being held between north and south korea the two sides are meeting in the truce village of panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone they're expected to discuss this arming the border and withdrawing troops from the area of

a pope has been criticized for is delaying the accepting the resignation of a strangely an archbishop he was accused of child abuse and late archbishop philip wilson was sentenced to twelve months in jail in early july he had failed to report the abuse of two altar boys by a paedophile priest in the one nine hundred seventy s. the pope accepted his resignation on monday ten days after wilson submitted it. i think francis having come from argentina has been slow to pick up the guy name particularly in terms of the developments in countries like the united states and australia i think there have been developments there i think it's very welcome whether we can read anything into him taking ten days to accept this resignation i don't know enough about the internal vatican workings but i think definitely had the cardinal mccarrick on his desk there from the united states and now this i would hope that this is

a sign of ongoing improvement or you can pretty much fly anywhere in the world within a day but one man's taking his travel to the extreme not going anywhere near an airport they hauled in caught up with him. by car bus train and container ship. peterson from denmark he goes by the name thor and has one of the best passports in the world his goal visit every country without getting on a plane but i was born too late that all the great things have already been done which is not quite true but it does feel like that sometimes so to hear that no one's going to have a country or world without flying sort of felt like i could take that challenge upon myself and do it not knowing exactly how hard it was going to be. the passport and x. rinks the danish passport third in the world only behind singapore and germany if gore were from afghanistan or iraq or pakistan his journey would be nearly impossible after four years on the road he has one hundred fifty two countries down

fifty one to go now it looks like i'll be completing twenty twenty which means it's turned out to be a six year project just to put things in context if you spend a month in every country in the world then it's not four years of your life then it's sixteen years of your life so you have to be really careful with time in each country when you're working on such a large scale navigating around wars political disputes and visa regulations can be a headache. on his last leg thor traveled from the u.a.e. to oman then into yemen and then back into oman he then got on a container ship and sailed into the gulf to qatar there would have been a much easier way for thor to get to qatar by land the only problem is of course there's only one land border here at abousamra and saudi arabia closed it in june twenty seventh teen when the blockade of qatar began and now the next step is how am i going to get away. thor's next hurdle is getting into saudi arabia to make

that happen he has to board another container ship he's hoping to get off at a port in the u.a.e. but if not he will have to sail to india and then head back towards bombing that is if he can get a visa it's a political and logistical nightmare but he says being an explorer and meeting people is what makes the journey worth it it's really a mindset in relation to how we're going to meet people around the world and the other side of the border on the other side of the planet different skin color a different ideology how are we going to approach those people and i truly do believe that a stranger is a friend you've never met before but it's really up to you instead of souvenirs thora collects selfies now he has one from qatar to add to his list with only fifty one more countries to go. al-jazeera doha. the u.k.'s new foreign minister jeremy hunt is in beijing as britain seeks a post bragg's it free trade deal with china but talks with

a top chinese diplomat didn't go smoothly tripped up on his wife's nationality. took over this month following the resignation of boris johnson. has take you through the headlines here on al-jazeera now the u.s. president doll trump has surprised everyone by saying he's willing to meet iranian president hassan rouhani at any time and with out preconditions the two men have been locked in a war of words and strength withdrew from the u.s. the u.s. rather from the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal the u.s. secretary of state says he's on board with a meeting with the iranian president but listed the requirements before it could go ahead president wants to meet with folks to solve problems of the iranians demonstrate a commitment to make fundamental changes in how they treat their own people reduce

their malign behavior can agree that it's worthwhile to enter a nuclear agreement that actually prevents proliferation and the president said he's prepared to sit down and have a conversation with them at least eleven people have been killed when a van exploded at a checkpoint in lambing town city in the southern philippines that's across the mindanao island where there's been decades of conflict between government forces and muslim separatists troops who are trying to search the vehicle when it detonated russia iran and turkey are brokering the latest round of talks in the russian city of sochi to when syria's war meanwhile syrian government troops continue their offensive against deisel in the army base in region close to the border with jordan. at least eleven people have been killed on a bus in afghanistan a roadside bomb exploded in western fata province thirty one people were injured so

in bob ways main opposition leader says he's ready to form the next government nelson chamisa says his movement for democratic change is done exceedingly well in results from more than ten thousand polling booths but his main rival president emerson is also making positive noises. australia is expected to send one hundred eighty five fighters to the u.s. to help tackle wildfires in northern california at least six people have died and seven remain unaccounted for firefighters say they've managed to can tell you almost twenty percent of the largest blaze the fires of this troy more than eight hundred homes and displaced thousands it's inside story we're awaiting when this idea popped into your mind when they're on line it's undoubtedly chief called. over to an inequality in our society today or if you join a sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is

a dialogue what does it feel like to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to be the speakers for change joining the colobus the conversation on our. indians no more four million people have been left off the list of citizens in the northern state of a son norrin from ots government argues they could not produce valid documents so they become stateless and will this create further division this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. four million people in northern india effectively lost their citizenship after their names were left out of a national database of registered citizens the list.