also says that was he is done with his treatment here in the united states he's going back home because he says that in a country where eighty percent of the people are under the age of thirty five it's his obligation to make certain that people have a better opportunity and a better life that they don't have to go into exile for things such as medical care or for political freedom destroyed also says that this is not about him but he's using his political and his public notoriety in order to bring attention to the human rights situation in uganda in the news ahead a black versus white issue in south africa will say while these workers have gone on strike and tough times tough measures the plight of the pacer in argentina is driving many to despair.

hello there we've got lots of violent thunderstorms around the black sea at the moment the satellite picture is showing the cloud here that's gradually drifting its way eastwards and it has given us a lot of thunder and lightning a lot of hail and some very heavy downpours as well and most of it has actually been over the sea thankfully but it's working its way eastwards and for the northern parts of turkey and up through parts of georgia it's going to be very very wet at times on friday to the south of all of that they're fine and dry and just pretty hot as you'd expect so forty one at least in baghdad the force in kuwait will be apart around forty six no major changes as we head through the day on saturday saw to the northeast marty that not quite as hot as elsewhere with a temperature of twenty six degrees now here in doha it's been pretty hot and humid over the last week or so and it's staying that way over the next few days at least so the winds that will still be coming in from the sea still picking up lots of moisture very very sticky for us the top temperature of around forty or forty one degrees there's a little bit more in the way of. lad around the southeast and paws of

a man that will just give us maybe the goats what a drizzle but i think mostly just making things a little bit grayer at times i would also see more cloud down towards parts of our men and yeven than some of the southern parts of africa lots of cloud hey working its way eastwards i'm cool with in cape town.

top stories for you this hour on al-jazeera the united nations security council has met after british prosecutors charged two russians with the attempted murder of a former spy the kremlin denies sending intelligence agents to poison surrogates cripple and his daughter six months ago. u.s. president is calling for the anonymous author who spoke to a newspaper about the inner workings of his administration to be revealed the article in the new york times claims senior members of donald trump's team are working to undermine his worst policies the newspaper says it's written by a senior white house official. and the gannon pop star turned off position and the wind has told journalists no amount of brutality or oppression will stop us speaking to reporters in washington he's accused ugandan security forces of torture

as he was charged with treason. in iraq the headquarters of the provincial government in the southern city of basra is on fire there have been growing public anger for weeks now one of the basics water and electricity and at least nine protesters have been killed in the past two days and dozens more injured the full story from rob matheson now. the burning of buzz was provincial council headquarters cell phone footage shows smoke and flames pouring from the windows of the fifth official building to be set alight in the last four days it's not known how this fire started but local sources say anti-government protesters have been close by. hours earlier their entrance of a key ports was blocked by iraqis demanding the attention of a government they say is failing them and there's not enough. there is no more trust in anyone neither in the leadership nor in any party. security forces have

responded with tear gas iraq's prime minister says he didn't order security forces to fire real bullets martin yeah he wants to create a rift among our security forces after all the sacrifices we made to get rid of terrorism he wants to take his from bad to worse to create rifts among our citizens in order to batter under threat many of. iraq's human rights commission reports more than one hundred wounded including security force members of. the protesters who were injured were peaceful they don't have rifles pistols or any guns they only have banners and signs this inquiry forces use excessive force. has been simmering for weeks in basra and other cities in southern iraq considered the shia muslim heartland of the country the region is oil rich and the port is vital for iraqi imports and exports despite the oil revenue iraqis complain they're forced to

live with the daily indignities of unclean water and no elektra's city government corruption and unemployment are also high in the list to protest his grievances. why are the police humiliating i mean i'm from basra asking for my rights. as protests continue around the clock the ministry of transportation is appealing to demonstrators not to target the port and other public facilities but government ministers say are not connected to their frustrations it seems the protesters have succeeded in forcing the government to listen to their grievances now they want action rob matheson al-jazeera the head of the armed forces in france says he's ready to order strikes on syria if chemical weapons are used the syrian government and its allies are widely expected to launch a major offensive to recapture italy in the last remaining rebel held province previous chemical attacks have been blamed on forces loyal to syria's president bashar al assad meanwhile the leaders of iran russia and turkey accusing meet on

friday with syria high on their agenda zain describing looks ahead to those talks in teheran. the world is not doing enough to help people displaced by war that was the message during a visit by the un high commissioner for refugees legal ground he was into ran to meet with foreign minister zarif and other senior leaders his trip just days before the presidents of iran russia and turkey hold three party talks into her on i have just been to syria so i reported back to. the government of the about my observations. first and foremost especially in my meeting with minister saadi we spoke about our concerns about it lip. it is clear that the risks of a military confrontation causing massive loss of life. this is is is very high and i told ministers that he thought that my appeal just like the u.n.

secretary general and others is let's minimize let's. get these to the parakeets this but then to minimize the loss of life or ground he said syrian refugees who wonder if it's safe to go home are watching how the conflict plays out in its final stages it could send a message of confidence he said or not. in the last few days the kremlin has labeled it live province a hotbed of terrorists that requires action. syrian government forces backed by russian air power have been moving into the area and armed groups fighting president bashar al assad are preparing for their last stand for damascus a decisive victory in adlib would book and a brutal civil war for to her on that would mean going from the expensive task of supporting an ally in large scale military operations to the more lucrative work of reconstruction. after a surprise visit to damascus earlier this week iran's foreign minister said rebuilding syria is an opportunity for iranian companies but preserving life is

still a priority. shadow it the conditions in india layup are sensitive where trying to deal with the situation there and expel terrorists with the least humanitarian costs we had talks in turkey today and in a way also held talks in syria with the high ranking officials. of the three countries due to meet into iran turkey is the only one hosting large numbers of syrian refugees ungar supports some of the on fighters in ad lib and is worried a military solution will mean more displaced civilians world leaders who fueled a civil war for years are already talking about returning refugees and reconstruction but the lives of people who lived in the cities these men need to be built are still at risk same but the old is here at different. talks aimed at ending the war in yemen to to stand on friday protesters in southern yemen of been on the march urging negotiators not to forget their plight the city of ties has

been under siege for years the talks in geneva between government leaders and who the rebels will be the first for two years david chase with more now from switzerland. the latest we have from the united nations is that they are working on this problem we have to wait and see what those negations will and then but the the hoochie rebel delegation still in sana'a the capital of the yemen and they say that the u.n. has not honored the preconditions asap for their trip here to geneva those preconditions of course are that they could take some wounded with them on the aircraft for treatment in the oh mom also that the people who've also been treated for their injuries in amman previously could be taken back by the same plane and taken back into sauna and also they wanted to make sure that the delegation that does come to geneva. also get a guarantee that they will be able to get back in to sign up at the end of these

consultations of course that was a problem in the last failed talks in kuwait the delegation couldn't get back into the amman into the hoochie held areas. north korea's leader has told south korean diplomats he has faith in donald trump and wants to get rid of nuclear weapons before trump's first term ends kim jong un also agreed to a third summit with south korea's president expected to be held later this month a major search and rescue operations underway for earthquake survivors in northern japan at least thirty people are feared dead and others are missing on the island of hokkaido early morning six point seven magnitude quake left cranks on the roads of the main city sample landslides are also being reported in some rural areas in the whole day i've heard reports such as people having cardiac arrest landslides collapsed buildings and large scale blackouts saving people's lives is an optimist

banerjee while the government deals with the disaster relief we will deal with this crisis south sudanese soldiers have been sentenced over the rape of five aid workers and the murder of a journalist in twenty sixteen a military court handed sentences ranging from four years to life for an attack on the terrain hotel in the capital juba the government will pay compensation to the victims in this case widely seen as a test of will by the government of president salva kiir to bring accountability to the military. as the deputy u.n. director for human rights watch has welcomed the verdict and called for more systematic change. we're all looking to president here and to see whether or not he is willing to address impunity and so while these sentences provide ever hope that something might happen that someone might be held accountable the mere fact that in south sudan we're not looking to just a neutral independent justice system to deliver verdicts and justice but rather to

an individual to the president to the executive to decide if he's willing to stand by those verdicts i think that shows a real gap here because we don't have that kind of judicial neutrality that you would need for a real process that could stand up to international scrutiny still this is a big day for the victims for people who suffered in that really terrible apparent magic attack it's just sad that only one incident out of so many harm investigate them fortunately far too many victims of actually south sudanese and then have suffered abuse of sexual and gender based violence the u.n. has commented on this extensively there's actually been a push here at the security council in new york to try to scrutinize individuals and make them eligible for sanctions for the mere act for the simple act of the responsible for sexual and gender based violence but no one has taken that up yet

and so there is a little bit of a gap here because we now have justice for the rape of aid workers but where is the justice for the rape of the thousands we can expect of south sudanese women who have suffered in the course of this years long war thousands of white workers are on strike in south africa or in protest of what they say is their company's racist policies the petrochemical company sasol has a new share scheme which benefits eighteen thousand black workers have ignored their twelve thousand white colleagues a reporter from a militia spoke to some of the striking world of work has been succumb to. well thousands of white workers here are insecure and say they're being discriminated against they say that their years of service is being ignored and they want the company to treat them equally in line with this new scheme that specifically benefits black workers people here say they are unhappy with how sasso is going about the scheme now we've also spoken to the cosatu trade federation here in south

africa say this type of chez scheme and dealing with black economic empowerment is a long time coming they've been pushing for this for years black economic empowerment was first implemented in two thousand and three and they say still not enough companies have implemented the relevant policies to ensure that there's a fair while distribution remember c. one percent of south africa's rather one percent of south africans hold sixty percent of the country's economy and and most of those people are white this is an issue that continues to bring about a lot of debate in south africa people here say their calls need to be here heard this isn't necessarily about race but they say about equality government leaders in argentina are set to make more spending cuts to try to stabilize the peso which has lost more than half its value this year the government's already announced plans to cut self almost enough by close income ministries but doctors and nurses have been out on the march to try to save at least the health services to resupply reports

from sars. doctors nurses and health workers gathered outside the health ministry when a site is to protest against the government's decision to reduce this ministry into a smaller department with a smaller budget. the government wants to dissolve the hope ministry and it's a risk which is not only a change in name but also a budget cut in the amount of workers and in the programs that depend on the ministry. a message for the government of haiti who is pushing austerity measures to reduce the fiscal deficit that has put argentina's economy on the line these people fear that the government measures will have a direct impact on public health which in argentina is a universal right they also say that budget battle between the right groeschel health programs like those treating people with hiv be at a regular basis. is proud of argentina's health care system he has

hiv and has always been able to receive free treatment for his disease every month he comes to this hospital to get free medication. they receive funny i'm being tested negative and they treat me in this hospital and it's for free we don't want anyone to change that we've already started gathering signatures so they don't close this hospital and we don't lose access to the medicine we get. the health ministry plays a crucial role in a country with large levels of inequality and high poverty rates forty medical associations have requested a governmental reverse its decision saying that vaccination plans and the treatment of chronic diseases shouldn't be affected by the ongoing economic crisis by looking at what the in the health center in argentina has problems even as a ministry what worries us is that these messages of us territory that argentina's showing do not have a human rights agenda any public policy needs to have human rights at its core the

in spite of the problems argentina has long prided itself of being able to provide free and universal health care that's why people here claim that health costs are the one issue the government of. shouldn't dare touch. so we're running through the headlines now on al-jazeera the united nations security council has met to discuss the nerve agent attack against a former russian spy and his daughter six months ago britain called for the meeting after charging two russians with the attempted murder of. his daughter yulia in salzburg the russian government continues to deny any involvement they were in a parallel universe where the normal rules of international affairs in.

this is a direct challenge back in president to the rules based international system which has kept all of this safe including russia since one thousand nine hundred forty find in the face of such behavior the international community needs to continue to defend the laws norms and institutions that safeguard our citizens against chemical weapons and safeguard them against the threat of hostile foreign interference this is why the british prime minister yesterday set out the importance of using transparent multilateral mechanisms to identify and hold malign actors to account the student has not been good luck months in london means distorting for just one purpose to unleash a disgusting until the russian he steria and to involve other countries in this hysteria the number of inconsistencies and under assault issues in connection with the new british so-called golden globes evidence out of the charts more would go

with these words it is because i believe this new episode is just as invented and produced out of thin air as the previous episode a couple of other stories for the president of the united states is calling for the anonymous author who spoke to a newspaper about the inner workings of his administration to be revealed the article in the new york times claims the senior members of donald trump's team are working to undermine his worst policies the newspaper says it is written by a senior white house official. then the ugandan pop star turned opposition m.p. bobby wine has told journalists no amount of brutality or oppression will stop us he was speaking to reporters in washington d.c. you tuesday ugandan security forces torturing him wine was detained three weeks ago along with thirty two other activists he is charged with treason and accused of throwing stones at a convoy of cars that was carrying the president yoweri museveni and that's a look at your headlines here on al-jazeera inside story starts right now.

will there be a nuclear free north korea kim jong un says his faith in the u.s. president will maintain unshaken donald trump responds well we'll get it done together can the denuclearization deadlock be broken this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. a nuclear free korean peninsula before donald

trump's first term as in twenty twenty one that's the latest messages just south korean diplomats from north korea's leader kim jong un's also hinting at an official and to the korean war and agreeing to a third summit with south korea's president later this month rob mcbride has more from seoul. news that this into korean summit will take place had been expected nonetheless confirmation of it has come as something of a relief given the state of stored relations between pyongyang and washington south korea's security chief. has been briefing the blue house the presidential office here in seoul and also the media the event will take place in pyongyang between the eighteenth and the twentieth of september as also reported that north korea remains very much committed to the whole process for the denuclearization on the long term

peace of the korean peninsula state run television in north korea has been showing the meeting between kim jong un and the south korean delegation it has all been smiles and handshakes it is also being confirmed that the south korean delegation has been given a personal message from kim jong un to convey to the americans and to president donald trump presumably this is a message of goodwill expressing that north korea is still very much wanting to continue the dialogue of peace can continue the dialogue with washington but chong did also expressed the view that kim jong un is feeling a sense of frustration that according to kim it has been north korea that has made a lot of the concessions such as the dismantling of some of its nuclear testing sites and that the international community and for that you can read the united states has not reciprocated in kind.

so what's a blocking progress in the denuclearization discussions since kim and trump's summit in june one sticking point is the north demand for a peace treaty to formally and the korean war the u.s. thinks declaring an end to the war could weaken the north resolved. to give up its nuclear weapons the americans say they've already made concessions such as putting in joint military exercises with south korea or hold the north wants sanctions is and donald trump blamed insufficient progress in denuclearization for calling our secretary of state mike bumpy years visit last month let's bring in our panel joining us on skype from vienna laura rockwood executive director of the vienna center for this armament and nonproliferation from her son in south

korea robots kelly professor of political science and diplomacy at percent national university and from saw via skype is c. one crew publisher of the korea exposes. laura do you think that the north korea south korea summit which is going to be held by the end of this month will help settle the nuclear impasse i think it will contribute to a possible settlement of the impasse i think there are some conversations that need to go on between the two koreas about their expectations of the peninsula going forward it's so critically the bilateral relationship between the two koreas is very important i think this idea of peace agreement arlan ensler is lowered to and wouldn't be that difficult to achieve but one would

expect that given that this is something that the north koreans are interestingly and that the u.s. would want a quid pro quo thwart rubber this is going to be the third summit between north and south korea leaders. is that it shows this one would produce some sense of breakthrough or do you think it's just going to be part of the confidence building measure the has been going on for quite some time will certainly be a part of the confidence building measures right mean the more often the two koreas meet the more it creates the sense of joint movement on both sides that's one of the reasons why the south korean leadership i think is pursuing these things i do think there is a possibility of a breakthrough but it's i think it's a small one. basically the americans are not satisfied that the north koreans have given up much in the last eight months the north koreans think they've given up a lot and that's basically the impasse the north koreans want a peace treaty the americans think that's a large concession and north korea has not earned it and i think probably the best

thing that could come from the next into a korean summit is that you can get some kind of major concession from the north koreans to convince hawks and seoul and to convince the united states that north koreans are really serious the north koreans are prepared to make a genuine strategic concession. see when this is the first time though that team don't go and says that there's going to be a time line of that his is somehow confident denuclearization would happen before the end of twenty twenty one that statement on its own could be could be seen as something quite significant. well certainly if you're to talk to the south korean government here they would tell you that this is a very significant statement in fact the presidential spokesperson even made a point of having a second meeting this afternoon to emphasize the fact that kim jong un is actually proposing a very specific timeline and this is something that we have not seen before it also

goes to underscore the kind of importance that is being placed on the role of mr donald trump. despite all of the political problems that he's having domestically there seems to be suggest and i'm afraid that's not really think that any kind of agreement can be beached if they want to deal with the traditional republican establishment or even democrats for that matter the fact that mr trump is something of an anomaly is precisely what contributes to any possible progress in this new flouride season process norah what does it take to break the impasse what do you think should be the next step. i think there need to be some discussions about what is not denuclearization i think president trump is operating under the misapprehension that deal clear is ation need definitively that the north koreans will give up their nuclear weapons are i think that's a long time to look for me and i think you need overly optimistic. so i think it's

going to take some considerable discussion about what we need by denuclearization of the north korean speak about denuclearization of the entire peninsula i think president trump is look the recession needs no one nuclear weapons in north korea and i think there need to be east war wants conversations between the two parties and a greater specificity and agreement on what they need by these terms. what we're stuck into this dilemma about how to move forward from a north korean perspective what should confer is the security guarantees they appear the peace declaration and u.s. troops putting our from south korea and the the that does not seem to be a top priority for the americans or how to move out of this don't limit. you know

like i said i actually think it's quite difficult to move out of that i think the stalemate is actually rooted in all very long strategic and political division between the north koreans and the united states i actually don't think that this peace movement this year is likely to result in a breakthrough if anything it will probably the best you can probably do is actually fall back to sort of a small step process where united states and north korea make a series of small deals building towards a substantial one that's probably the best case scenario the worst case scenario is that we fall back into basically detente in the container can the terms of containment of north korea like we've done for the last seventy years is the issues between the u.s. and north korea are gigantic it's hard to solve them in such a rapid period of time donald trump is grossly unqualified to do this he doesn't understand the issues he doesn't prepare he came to singapore on ready to really do this in a serious way i do think the north koreans are pretty serious but the americans are a weak counter party right now because the white house is so disorganized. it's possible that one gene can get something that can can so that will buy off hawks in

seoul and in washington d.c. but it's got to be something substantial the north koreans need to give up a warhead and you can show us something about missiles and you to give us some facilities list there's a lot of things the north koreans can do but the north koreans just haven't earned it yet this summer i mean giving some m.i.a. returns back and hammer unions these are minor gestures these are not the kind of strategic issues that my campaign wants to negotiate about ok see it will do you think will it was a failure to go to the summit in singapore without setting out the framework of a genuine clear. political process that's lost with a and with z. . well this is not certainly what we have heard from foreign media about to singapore summit i think there's a lot of criticism about the fact that there doesn't seem to be any cheap when it is a lot of this is a story meeting between him and trump if you want to look at the south korean side however they would disagree they would say that what was really needed it was one

time was a very strong gesture of goodwill between these two countries that have been historically was with each other and that precisely is what is going to contribute toward peace but obviously what we're having problem with now is determining the specifics of how to move forward how will support really the need arise and what kind of concessions with united states for in return we have seen we might bump a zero zero zero visit to killing our last time down with korea is not interested in giving all their arms without having any specific guarantees in place and that's really been doing a source of in this discussion we're being for it and this offering government recognizes that the next step is really to make sure that north korea at least has some concrete gesturing place namely offering a list of nuclear facilities that that be opened up for interim inspection by the

international community and then in between aren't americans also nice little for something in return as well which is basically the declaration to end the korean war and not actually a peace treaty that is premature to say at this point but isn't this tricky laura i mean if you look at every direction it will bring you back to square one tom says that he wants a complete denuclearized that is very verifiable and irreversible but then the question again how can you implement that. you have to first agree on what are the necessary elements so denuclearization will be read to our horror turion weapons testing lyrically who are touring on missile testing including satellite launching willing agree to dismantlement of their enrichment and reprocessing facilities or at

a minimal to commit not to continue to operate those facilities there are so many issues that need to be result now talking about them is a lot better than where we were a year ago but make no mistake if they're not easy steps it isn't baby step it's. this complete verifiable irreversible dismantlement you want to hear the north koreans using. and so i think that's really where i will part of it and that's the unfortunate thing about the the whole so-called destruction of the test site and the missile test sites you need to have external bodies verify that you have a year or whatever they decide but you need some external verification not just assertion on the part of the north koreans. the they claim to have done robert but then again the north koreans would say that they have done their own and of the.

of the deal like dismantling the society freezing the missile engine facility of a very for the americans to reciprocate. yeah that's right and the united states can reciprocate with some smallish gestures also sanctions relief aid allowing south korean projects in north korea to go forward those are all small things that the north koreans have earned if you will through these various actions but as was said before by your other guests right if it isn't verified it's hard to really know so when they said they blew up the test site for example we don't actually know that ray saw an explosion on t.v. it could have just been the entrance tunnel we don't actually know there's also a lot of suspicion that that test site was basically corrupted because they've been overused and if the north koreans had done again the mountain would have imploded and released radiation like turn normal or something like that right i mean this is why we need that extra pair of occasionally the north koreans have cheated a lot in the past strategic trust between the united states and north korea's very low to be fair to the north koreans united states has also cheated on nuclear

treaties with rogue states most obviously with libya seven years ago are ten years ago right so there's low strategic trust on both sides which is why these big grand gestures are sort of denuclearization exchange for peace treaty these large things they're just not going to happen what we need to do is kick this back down to the working level and lead diplomats start making small steps and build toward something more substantial this is just not a big bang approach is just not going to work and once the american election said after the midterms the democrats take the house of representatives and trump is embroiled in investigations and scandal all this is going to disappear in twelve weeks the trauma administration is not going to be talking about north korea. i mean if just robert talking about the domestic implications of the deal on my top next do you think that. the south korean president is taken all those things into consideration and what would be the options available for him then. absolutely i think that's precisely why there has been such a sense of urgency in south korea in dealing with the north korean situation.

experts here have been speaking time and again about the importance of ensuring that this process can be completed within a reasonable trying period because once mr trump to ease losing his political capital it's really difficult to say it what is going to happen we have seen from the american political establishment that they're very firmly committed to the traditional approach to dealing with north korea namely ensuring that sanctions remain very strong it adding to the pressure that is placed on the north korean economy so they're coming out has no choice of deterrent and sensually capitulate to the demands made by the international community by telling from the south korean side there is this understanding that perhaps this is not the approach that has worked in the past and it's not the approach it's going to work in the future and this is a very small window of opportunity we're looking at and it really very much happens

point slightly mr donald trump term as president laura against the back to what has been said so far don't you think that the bed and now falls on the south korean president to try a to convince the north koreans about the need to agree on a an agenda for the talks about what just ought and wet to and. well i think it is a shared burden but i think it is singularly motivated to do that and i think it's going to take that for this process to move for their life here however is that you have both him jump on and president trump thinking this is going to be the solution to our problems and they might try to hurry up and yet in deal there will be either complete their idle or irreversible in any respect and there will be such a rush to get an agreement that you may hand up with a deal it's a very bad deal all around the point of view and security so i think the president

will is your mealy motivate it to make sure that if there is a deal that it protects south korea's security interests as well and the only way to do that is i getting north korea to actually negotiate on some of the issues that it's and as rigid about as the united states is and robert so what it ultimately boils down to bilateral talks between the north koreans and south korea is there would break the impasse and pay the ground for comprehensive talks that would include the americans or do you think that this issue in particular require is the help of have their ways in the region by the russians or the tinies for example. yeah any kind of final status deal in korea war choir at minimum the assent of the two koreas the united states and the chinese it would be nice if the japanese and the russians agreed but ultimately they're peripheral players on this

it would be ideal certainly korean patriots will tell you that it should just be the two koreas that would obviously be ideal in my opinion but given that china and the united states are so vested here realistically it's simply impossible i think those are the four relevant players right now it's really come down the stalemate i think between the united states and north korea the south koreans can kind of play a bit of a bridging role i think that's one of the things moon is hoping to do when he goes to pyongyang right but like i said i mean ultimately he's got to do is he's got to get something that will convince the americans that this process is leaning towards denuclearization the americans are not interested in the detente that the south koreans are pursuing with north korea united states doesn't particularly think that's a good idea the united states really want is some kind of arms control language from the north koreans right and we haven't really gotten that i mean at least we got that timeline by the end of the trumpet ministration but you know we don't so we don't have the facilities list we still have a warhead i mean we know we're missing a lot right and you know and family reunions and that's just that kind of stuff is

just not real that's not strategic and the north koreans are kind of dancing around the issues so we're waiting to see well not just about a few months ago everyone thought that the region could be on the brink of a catastrophic confrontation no north korea leader kim jong un is talking about turning the peninsula into a cradle of peace and stability. to the south koreans trust him when he says. well this is an ideologically divided country and certainly even in response to visit by a special envoy to tell me out yesterday you could see just how that division plays out we have seen welcoming messages coming from the ruling party and the faction that represents the political left they say this is an important gesture on the part of north korea we are firm its commitment to the nuclear rights issue and you talk to the conservatives there is a it's the same old same old and it really doesn't change anything we need to see

comprehension and not just words by if you want to look at what the government itself is doing what the president of blue house is doing it is very clear that the government the scenary seriously and they do believe that there is full and one thing that really needs to be mentioned at this point is the process of the nuclear rise even though it's korea from the perspective of the presidency is not just about this and yet you see a shunt but also about opening up north korea up to a point of an economic reform and also nurturing a certain sense of economic dependence on the part of hang out on south korea and to have playing out its base the rewards of what it's like to open up and reform and liberalize and that's where a lot of the attention has been being a at least on the part of the problem that is here but it's certainly not getting a lot of attention sights of the real. if talks between north and south korea leaves us collapse what it what would it mean for the future of the g'kar eyes

ation. oh i think i think that will be. to be a real that indication or promise having said that as i mentioned i think president trump is so motivated to get a win especially in light of what robert referred to that the current chaos in the white house he so looking for a reason that he might push forward any way one could imagine that kind of scenario that's a travesty i think it's a little naive to assume that jim john woo's will get rid of the single thing that i asked him to the negotiating table anyway and certainly not any time soon but i have i think even if it's the south where the conversation falls apart i think trump is going to be i think he's going to be trying to meet any that personal relationship that he says he has been with him john wouldn't you will be pressing

for a win because he will need one politically in the united states for him to name and asked robert v. if you pour yourself into the show's over north korea leader is someone who should be in our reading history books. all the countries before him the starter talks with the americans about dismantling their own programs be it iraq or. libya their leaders were completely abandoned by the americans i think you should in a way or another who should be concerned i could be also ditched by the americans if i dismantle my weapons. absolutely there's a very obvious reason why the north koreans built nuclear weapons was saying milosevic yeah sure now it's a great strategic choice for the north koreans to build weapons it's very rational we don't like it but it's pretty easy to explain why they have them and this is also why they're not going to give them up we should be talking about complete

disdain nuclearization verifiable c.v. idea we should be saying those things the north koreans are not going to do that that creates artificial expectations just like six months ago on people talking about the president getting a nobel prize that was just preposterous none of these things are going to happen right at best we're probably going to get is a freeze where north korea is right now maybe we get some minor rollbacks maybe the north koreans give us a couple of warheads we can come up and look at them right maybe they'll blow torch some missiles for something maybe we'll get them back in the eye a but these are minimal steps there are koreans are just not going to give all this stuff up the united states is just not a credible partner united states as you said is sort of well it's done deals in the past most obviously with libya i mean the north koreans say it was all the time you know if gadhafi to have these things he'd still be alive you guys cheated on the deal that analysis is basically correct so both sides have huge credibility problems those problems are bad lead to worsen by the behavior of the trump administration doesn't keep his deals he's been cheating on his contractors and creditors and everybody else for decades he's probably going to cheat on the north koreans to the north koreans know that this is nothing very little is going to come of this and it's certainly not going to come of it in this sort of shotgun marriage

speed everything is taking place in eight weeks this whole thing needs to slow down and go to the expert level we have to live with the boats kelly see it will include book would thank you very much indeed. and thank you to washing you can see the program again and it's on by visiting our website www dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com for was last a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is. from me. by phone up.

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administration official her turned on trump in the pages of the new york times and ugandan opposition leader bobby wind takes his fight against his country's government straight to washington d.c. it's for the new n.f.l. season is about to begin but the talk is all about a player who doesn't have that same. believe in something. even if it means sacrificing everything will be live its game one in philadelphia for reaction see calling captain x. nike out. so the united nation. security council's been discussing the nerve agent attack against a former russian spy in the u.k. six months ago britain called for this meeting after charging two russians with the attempted murder of surrogate's cripple and his daughter junia in salzburg the russian government continues to deny any involvement in this case following the

proceedings for us james bays our diplomatic editor take a search ends well the u.n. security council meeting was called by the u.k. twenty four hours ago the new evidence was presented by the british prime minister to the house of commons in london the idea now was to bring the evidence to the international community and to the fifteen members of the u.n. security council certainly there is solidarity from some of the u.k.'s closest allies ahead of the meeting a statement by france and germany by the u.s. and canada saying that they supported the u.k. and agreed with the findings that came out in the u.k. investigation the u.k. making the case these are compelling findings that prove that russian agents were involved this was the comment from the british ambassador karen pierce they were in a parallel universe where the normal rules of international affairs in thirty eight

this is a direct challenge back in president to the rules based international system which has kept all of this safe including russia since one thousand nine hundred forty five. in the face of such behavior the international community needs to continue to defend the laws norms and institutions that safeguard our citizens against chemical weapons and safeguard them against the threat of hostile foreign interference this is why the british prime minister yesterday set out the importance of using transparent multilateral mechanisms to identify and hold malign actors to account. well it wasn't hard to predict what russia's response to that would be the russian ambassador certainly now ben zia saying that he completely rejected all of that he said that these were mendacious claims by the united kingdom and he said he knew

what london's game was to as he described it was london it was good in those noble good luck months in london means this story for just one purpose to unleash a disgusting and to russian he steria and to involve other countries in this hysteria the number of inconsistencies and under assault issues in connection with the new british so-called quote unquote evidence out of the charts what would go with these words it is because i believe this new episode is just as invented and produced out of thin air as the previous episode. said james with all that in mind where does this actually leave us diplomatically speaking apart from a lot of animosity between the u.k. and russia. yeah and what was the point of the security council meeting certainly the u.k. ambassador karen pierce said it was important she said this is a matter of international peace and security and an example of chemical weapons being used and so clearly the security council should meet the security council

though it's pretty clear it won't act because russia is a permanent member it has a veto it's used its veto more than the other permanent members all put together over the history of the united nations and it's proved just look at syria but it's prepared to use its veto when it feels it's necessary to do so so no further progress i think of on the any action down the u.n. route i think what's most likely is some further action potentially by the u.k. and its allies maybe more sanctions maybe more expulsions of diplomats that sort of thing that we've already seen this year but remember where that leads us every time that happens and it's conducted by the west you get that tit for tat with the russians then following suit james by that diplomatic editor at the u.n. thank you. you know the news one for another senior officials from the trumpet ministration denying there the enormous author of a scathing op ed in the new york times he also describes a mad house inside the white house where for the good of the country members of the

administration are actively working against president trump let's get more from kimberly how could who is outside bet once a madhouse outside the white house so i said it to you earlier before kimberly it's this feeling of the cold is coming from inside the house now and you've got a lineup of people saying it's not me. right the anonymous author of the op ed in the new york times where it was designed for diddly to reassure the nation that those inside the white house are stopping the president from his erratic impulses well if that was the intent to reassure the nation well the first lady has come to the president's defense saying to the writer of the op-ed you are not protecting this country you are sabotaging it with your cowardly actions that is just some of her scathing retort in a statement to the press and this mirrors the reaction of the press secretary who as you point out the denials from within the trump white house are mounting with

regard to the identity of who this might be she says if you want to know who the got list loser is call the desk of the failing new york times and ask them that she puts the phone number out they are complicit in this deceitful act the president for his part calling the actions of whoever authored that treason and the denials again mounting not just the. secretary of defense the director of national intelligence the vice president the u.s. ambassador to the united nations but also the secretary of state mike pompei o. if it is what it is purported to be it is sad that you have. someone who would make that choice i come from a place where if you're not a position to execute the commander's intent you have a singular option. to leave and this person instead instead according to the new york times. chose not only to stay but to undermine what president trump and this

administration are trying to do and i have to tell you. i just i find i find the media's efforts in this regard to undermine this administration incredibly disturbing and i'll answer the question directly because i know some will say gosh you didn't answer the question is not mine kimberly what's your gut feeling on this one you mean you've reported on this administration since it began you know close to two years ago and there's always another scandal isn't it there's always something new that comes along things don't tend to hang around her alone. that's absolutely right what my take is on all of this is that for a long time the sort of notion that there was this deep state with inside the trumpet ministration this was largely kind of dismissed within the media as being conspiracy theory but now what seems to have happened here is that at least some supporters will believe that there is now some credibility that they feel they have

this proof that there are these sort of elites within the government not just the white house but the broader agencies both democrat and republican where there really is very little ideological daylight between them that they're out working to actively protect their interests at the expense of the ordinary american and this is something donald trump is already picked up on in least one of his tweets i guess when it's really going to get stirred up that's in a about a couple hours time he does have an open press event here at the white house when he departs to go to one have his big campaign rallies he may speak about it then but there's no question when he gets in front of a friendly audience as he is expected to tonight in billings montana for another one of those great make america great again rallies were often thousands are in attendance expected the president will be looking for some sympathy portraying himself as a victim of someone who's got a strong economy a low unemployment rate but in fact is a victim of what he says is the complicit media and now it appears potentially some

inside his own cabinet sure words and won't believe how could so white house correspondents can really afford to ken here's earlier researcher at the university of virginia's miller center who says the obstacle may be written actually as a signal to centrist republican voters ahead of the midterm elections. any one of a number of establishment political republican figures in the administration could have written that the editorial is a sign of panic on the part of conventional republicans regarding the upcoming midterm elections they're very afraid of losing traditional republican voters and this assures traditional republican voters that there are people in the white house that there are people around donald trump trying to trim in his excesses and steer the white house in a more conventional republican course tax cuts deregulation and beefing up the

military these are these are the people who republican politicians have to appeal to between today and election day and they're very very worried about losing them so rather than seeing this as as a sign of rebellion against donald trump i think it's really a way for the republican party to protect itself now france's military chief says he's prepared to strike syria if chemical weapons a used in the country syrian president bashar al assad is that he's planning a military operation to retake it labe but the french armed forces chief while the consul was speaking to reporters in paris stephanie deca has more from the turkey syria border. there have been several air strikes in the northern area of how my province and south it live one of those from what we understand is taken out one of the buildings belonging to the civil defense or the white helmets the rescue workers that operate in opposition territory also understand that there are

a number of families hundreds we understand around a thousand people that have fled some of those areas where those airstrikes are taking place at the moment all eyes remain on tomorrow that is when you have the trilateral meeting into between iran turkey and russia everyone expects something to be agreed upon there what this offensive what kind of shape it will take whether it will be limited to certain areas certain groups or wide scale turkey is doing everything to avoid a large scale offensive it is its worst case scenario is to have a fresh influx of flight fresh push of syrian refugees i.d.p.'s towards its borders fleeing the fighting the borders remain closed turkey already hosts over three million people we went to talk to some of the aid organizations to see how they are preparing for what they say they expect to be a potential bloodbath.