this type of event. south korean president and wraps up his north korea visit with a trip to the region's most sacred mountain. life and also coming up for malaysia is in court facing new charges of money laundering. pakistan's opposition. home to a hero's welcome after a court suspends his corruption sentence. and another homecoming but uganda's

government has banned rallies marking the return of opposition leader. and a symbolic end to their three day summits the leaders of north and south korea have together to the top of the putin says most sacred mountain to. the moon j. and took a tour around the iconic volcanic crater called heaven lake it rounds out a trip that saw the two leaders agree to make in the peninsula nuclear free and gives hope for stalled talks with the u.s. to resume bride reports from seoul. this summit ended as it began rich in symbolism president moon j end of south korea and his north korean host kim jong un top of mt peck to the highest peak of the korean peninsula that spiritually significant to all koreans into korean relations have seen many false starts with

attempts at reconciliation often returning to threats of war but there's a strong sense moon and kim want to forge a bond so strong that they can never slip back to the acrimony of the past. to which we adopted a military pact to end a history of brutal and tragic confrontation and hostility. some weapons facilities will be closed but there's little detail on how to fulfill a more vague promise to make the peninsula nuclear free it's enough though to breathe new life back into the stalled negotiations between north korea and the united states and could lead to a second summit between kim and u.s. president donald trump but many believe to make real progress it's now time for the photo ops to give way to detailed discussion i mean it's going to be really really difficult and the president and kim jong un don't know these things in any kind of

detail which is why we keep getting these some of declarations that are very short because the detail has to be worked out by the experts more skeptical observers suspect north korea now with south korean support may have other reasons for pushing for a summit and this is another significant diplomatic success for mosconi because in a few months the disband to all make preparations was a summit and during the summit itself they are not going to see any confrontation and this is exceptionally moscow technics their major goal is to wait. out for north koreans like the thousands gathered from mass games that are normally patry arctic show. with devotion to north korea's leadership a mix of excitement and bewilderment to now listen to the leader of their traditional adversary speak of a korean people united. we also confirmed the principle of autonomy for our

people whereby we ourselves determine our own fate. the leaders of two countries whose relations are heavily reliant on their much more powerful allies building a homegrown momentum for change that may be difficult to stop. bright al-jazeera so . the u.s. actually of state has welcomed wednesday's agreement between the two koreas to denuclearize the peninsula my pompei it has invited north korea's foreign minister to meet him on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly next week in a statement upon peres says the agreement will mark the beginning of negotiations to transform u.s. d.p. r. k. relations through the process of rapid denuclearization of north korea to be completed by january twenty twenty one as committed to by chairman kim and to construct a lasting stable peace regime on the korean peninsula another key player in this story is china and scott had a has more on beijing's reaction to the korean somers. jenna's officials saying

they welcomed the developments on the korean peninsula and said that this is a good sign for the peace process for denuclearization and temping town military tension on the korean peninsula the chinese officials also took this opportunity to say just how important to underline just how important they are china is in this process to get it where it is now but also to move forward they've said that they are north korea's most important ally and they want to make sure that they essentially have a seat at the table when things move forward they also took this as an opportunity to again underline their dissatisfaction with these missile systems these american missile systems that are deployed in south korea when tension was very high earlier in the year china very vehemently disagrees with that and they say that those should be removed they say it's a threat to chinese security they say now using this opportunity saying that those should be removed or there should be discussions about removing those missile systems because the military tension on the korean peninsula has downgraded so they

see this as an opportunity to say to the americans it looks like you don't need those anymore and they hoped moving forward they say that they will have some discussions about when and how they'll be removed. malaysia's former prime minister najib razak has appeared in court after again being arrested he's now facing twenty five corruption charges prosecutors accuse him of illegally transferring six hundred eighty one million dollars from a state fund into his personal account it's already been hit with seven other corruption charges last month louis has the latest from column for. the new charges facing former malaysian prime minister najib razak sent to iran allegations that he had received two point six billion ringgit or the time of the transactions worth around six hundred eighty one million dollars interest personal bank accounts around two thousand and thirteen and that these sums of money came from the state investment fund one and that he had set up these charges are more significant they

involve a much bigger sum of money than the ten million dollars needs alleged to have received from another state own entity as are some international he was charged with criminal breach of trust money laundering in relation to those transactions over the last two months these new charges will involve a much more complex investigation investigators believe that front companies and well as well as foreign offshore entities were used to siphon the money from one end d.b. and eventually injuries. bank accounts a malaysian police have also issued a warrant of arrest for another person known as joe blow or go take joe he is believed to be a key figure in the corruption scandal involving one m. d. b. . for pakistani prime is the know why sure reef is being greeted by jubilant crowds of supporters off to being freed on bail is all about high court ordered his

daughter and son in law to be released until their a pill against corruption sentences can be heard it ruled the deficiencies in the case that led to the jailing of the three in july of the purchase of luxury properties and london reports from outside sheriff's home in lahore. by the order. of the high court. for no washer. and son in law captain. at the airport from where they drove to their farmhouse on the out of the city of law. and security. taking out on the nineteen. and therefore maximum security in place now why should. a week ago he will be receiving gates for. why did not like me to give any

political statement for the next few days after that. he will go to his board and try to win as many feet in the by election with you and. me date for its popularity and maybe board a problem in case they go back a number of feed. which will make the situation for the new government even more precarious because they have a coalition and it's lamb of god but legal experts also warn that the legal order still hanging over their family and he may still be found guilty in other different in which the national accountability bureau. talking finance minister is set to unveil a new plan to tackling a currency crisis as concern grows over the stability of the economy. has lost forty percent against the dollar this year a doubling of u.s.

tariffs on and then human still has wesson's the issue attack a central bank hiked interest rates last week in an effort to cut double digit inflation rates the government is hoping the plan will ease market worries and strengthen the lera. a deal between russia and turkey may have averted a syrian government offensive against rebel held but many in the province remain unclear on what comes next a fifteen to twenty kilometer wide demilitarized corridor has to be set up to keep government troops and rebels apart but the agreement also calls for certain groups to be removed from the area and there's concern and confusion about how that will be done stephanie decker reports. the demilitarized zone agreed on by turkey and russia is due to be established around fifteen kilometers from here it's a topic on everyone's mind. the demilitarized zone will be a separate zone between or send the regime turkey will ensure our aside and russia

will ensure their regimes in order to prevent any battle i think all the factions will accept this because turkey is pushing forward and we are with turkey in. but these fighters a coalition called the national liberation front are believed to be backed by turkey and getting them to fall in line will be easy the problem may be with groups that have been deemed terrorist organizations like. formally known as the nostra front and accused of having links to al qaeda. i don't think hired to reality will disappear they will break up and join the other factions there is no way that turkey will accept them staying in a loop so what if the s. and other groups refuse to abide by this deal their positions remain unclear what will turkey do and what happens next will government forces be taking over these areas over time there are many more questions than answers that confusion is also felt in my. city about ten kilometers away from the agreed. again

i feel i don't have any or what's happening a lot of foreign states are involved and we don't know anything so. this is not the end of the revolution there are twenty million people who wanted the region to fall that twenty million wanted to liberate syria there are twenty million who want to see the victory flag on the presidential palace but it is seen to be the last stand of the armed opposition how much of it lives future will be decided militarily and how much will be decided politically remains unclear what is clear damascus is adamant it will take it back stephanie decker or jazeera. still ahead here on al-jazeera european leaders under pressure as they hold yet another summit focusing on refugees and migrants will have more from austria. and an exclusive investigation looks at the inhumane treatment of animals at the center of a booming multi-billion dollar industry.

from the clear blue sky of the doha morning. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city . hello there we've had some very stormy weather over parts of europe recently the worst of it has been in the northwest over parts of scotland and the northern parts of ireland as well it's brought down quite a few trees and we've also seen a loss of loss of power as well see the win that we've had to deal with there there's also been some very heavy downpours and it looks like there's more stormy weather still to come because the next system is working its way gradually across us and that will be intensifying as we head through the next twenty four to forty eight hours so during the day on thursday then we've still got some rather keen winds and some heavy rain that's making its way across the british isles but it's as it works its way towards the northeast that it really pulls itself together so for some of us in the northern parts of denmark also the southern parts of norway

we're going to have some extremely dangerous winds and some very heavy downpours as well during the day on friday that system then dragged its feet further south and this is going to have quite a mocked effect on the weather across many parts of europe over the next few days so berlin will have a temperature around twenty nine or thirty degrees on friday but by saturday we follow him down to around eighteen for the southeastern parts largely fine and dry here but across parts of italy and towards us in the northern parts of africa there's this little circulation here this is giving some very violent thunderstorms more to come. there with sponsored by qatar and these. landings you. please where this is going to lead to whole. lot different groups bringing you know wanted me to once you know you all ends up with money and they do this from c.n.n. and this is just for a surprise is planted here yes there is yes to every north. my

nigerian. on al-jazeera. again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour and a symbolic ends of a three day summit the leaders of north and south korea have together to the top of the planet says most sacred months and back to that rounds out a trip that saw kim jong un and. agree to a nuclear free peninsula. malaysia's prime minister najib razak has appeared in court he's now facing twenty five corruption charges for the transfer of six hundred eighty one million dollars from

a state fund into his personal account has already been hit with seven other corruption charges last month. and jubilant crowds have welcomed the release of former pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif from prison on bail is about high court ordered sharif his daughter and son in law to be freed until their appeal against corruption convictions come to be. here is president donald trump says it would be unfortunate if the woman accusing his supreme court nominee of sexual assault did not appear before the senate your district committee christine ghazi ford says she wants an f.b.i. investigation into allegations before she testifies publicly a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. but i'm optimistic donald trump surveying the damage in north carolina from hurricane florence but back in washington trump was dealing with a very different storm surrounding his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh is such an outstanding man very hard disease you would imagine that it is cavanagh has

been accused of sexual assault by this woman christine ford ford says she was fifteen when a drunk seventeen year old cavanaugh pushed her into a bedroom at a party broke her attempted to remove her clothing and held his hand over her mouth to prevent her from screaming three years ago cavanagh hinted at the culture of his exclusive high school georgetown prep based on a very familiar phrase what happens at georgetown prep stays at georgetown. senators say for deserves to tell her story congress has given her the chance to speak privately with senators or publicly at a hearing on monday i just want to say to the men of this country just shut up and step up and do the right thing but ford has not yet committed to a hearing and is pressing for the f.b.i. to first investigate the thirty six year old claims republicans are accusing democrats of playing politics deliberately drawing the process out to delay

a hearing and to rail cavanagh's nomination if she shows up as a credible showing that of the various procedures rob to make the decision an investigation of ford's allegations could take months and would be devastating for republicans eager to push this nomination through before november elections when democrats could potentially take control of congress can really help at al-jazeera the white house. migrants and set the agenda of european union leaders meeting in austria measures to prevent migrants and refugees from entering the e.u. are up for discussion and britain's prime minister is in salzburg trying to convince him to be flexible about bracks at the host austria's right. because reiterated his tough songs on the issue. i say begin very clearly i don't think the debate about distribution of migrants within europe is going to

solve the migration question i say that is austria chancellor speaking from a council presidency point of view and many states want to continue that so we'll keep on having it and we'll keep it on the agenda but if you want a realistic assessment then i believe that more and more heads of state and government are aware that we have to solve the migration at the external borders you have to solve the issue in cooperation with countries of origin and transit there we need to make sure that people are being sent back to the risk you know transported on the continent to your. parents lee has the latest from the summit. the only story in town here in salzburg in this debate around migration is how to keep people out completely gone or any conversations about burden sharing quotas doling out refugees across the european union because it's too much resistance they're now looking entirely at north african countries and saying to them you sort out our problem for us the big announcement is going to be news of a summit next february between the european union and north african countries in

egypt and it's egypt's and these sorts of places which the e.u. is now looking to to prevent people from getting to europe in the first place. fred lessing sits on the german side of the austrian border population seventeen thousand nothing much ever happens or at least it didn't until the great exodus of twenty fifteen when two thousand people a day were crossing the bridge which is the border now that bridge is quiet an average of two migrants a day make the crossing but the austrians would like to make it zero the whole austrian plan calls for the schengen free movement zone inside europe to be maintained by forcing people who want to claim asylum to do it before they enter the european union the logic of that says that people might have to ask a country they're trying to escape from to help them become a refugee the austrians release the briefing documents in which they said that some

single male migrants were characterized by and see freedom or backward looking religious attitudes the whole thing is straight out of the playbook of the populace far right. that also plays very well in small towns like fry lessing. with a libyan but it would be wise if countries like libya and turkey where they are received first had reception centers it's smarter to help those countries register them none of which is to say that this place is unfriendly bashir who fled somalia three years ago is being looked after by locals his journey took him through libya could he really have asked for asylum in germany while he was a sixteen year old in north africa is fairly sure i feel fairly sure it would be really dangerous once you're out of your country nobody does anything for you and you can't go back it's just a whole lot of problems and trouble as it stands the migrant reception center and

for the last thing has nothing to do because there are no migrants while over the border austria has gravitated entirely to the points of view of governments like those in hungary and italy which despise any migration with populous parties on the march before european elections next year the austrian presidency seems to be validating the most hardline views. rather see. candidates government says it needs more flexibility from the united states if they are to reach a deal on that trade relationship or is pushing back against pressure from the trunk the ministration to make concessions as part of a new deal as its own needs must be met when renewing nafta washington says an agreement must be finished by the end of september. nafta is a very complex agreement which governs the largest trading relationship in the world's governments choose a billion dollars worth of trade every day. for an agreement of

this scale thirteen months for a very deep water in isolation of the kind where working on is absolute. trade agreements do take some time to negotiate and to update because the economy is complicated and trade agreements are complicated and we are absolutely committed to getting this right and to getting a good deal for canada. an exclusive al-jazeera investigation has uncovered widespread abuse of animals in marine theme parks in china a two year investigation by a current affairs program want to one ace reveals the cruel and inhumane treatment of animals at the center of a booming multi-billion dollar industry steve reports. i . think the public aquarium performances in china are entertaining mix of hype to find tricks i suppose and mostly. it's some displays of the affection

only. but exclusive behind the scenes video obtained by one of one east reviews a much darker picture no telling president or joe. and border. workers who asked not to be identified say animals such as seals sick with skin diseases and cataracts or a band in places called dining rooms left to swim in their own urine and feces for a horse and so. you will woman. was one. the ocean being i all. in and come and be mailed the whole deal over two years one on one east documented many more sick and dying in.

this palooka whale looks like it's playing with some young visitors see that's aggression but iommi rose one of the world's best known marine scientists says far from being happy this behavior indicates it's overstressed by captivity if you see the same animals consistently responding in an aggressive open mouthed threat way to the people of the underwater viewing window then that starts telling you a bigger story that maybe this whale and particulars under stress she says conditions in china are the worst she's ever seen anywhere with dolphins and baluga swallowing debris and display areas far too cramped a tank for these three believe guys is so small it's hard for them even just to turn around. roll says not only is there widespread abuse but animals are dying prematurely this is just a one way conveyor belt and it ends in death at the other end premature death and

this is supposed to be entertaining managers of the marine park didn't respond to our request to discuss mistreatment the parks are now so popular there are more than sixty in china with a dozen more being built there appears no winter china's aquarium park proved and for their captives no wind to their misery steve check out al-jazeera china and you can watch steve chiles program china caging the oceans wild this thursday at twenty two thirty g.m.t. hair on al-jazeera. uganda's government has banned rallies welcoming him but the wine pop star turned off position politician has been receiving medical treatment in the us his lawyer says he needed to travel abroad. after he was tortured in police custody and one is charged with treason for his alleged role in stoning the president's motorcade. is live for us in cannes paulism

uk i'm also of welcome do expect probably want to receive. all the places already said that they will not allow the fashion of his forces the international airport in the town and that is about forty kilometers from here but all area from the airport along the airport road to the capital where we are is built up many people living there will be wine is very popular in the urban areas especially among young people very soon he may well the south along that road and draw crowds of his supporters there's already a very heavy deployment of police and soldiers along that road clearly they're going to try and stop any crowds gathering in or going through allowing there waiting to see if they will actually left in proceed on that road or even if they will possibly arrest him will detain him when he arrives and was at his plans now. arrived back in uganda. he tweeted he's

free to me where everyone but his brother and some others of his travel there really today were arrested and detained his supporters are also planning some rallies here in the city you know my view is being very heavy deployment of the soldiers in some of the city as well the problem of the government faces if they leave him freely to move around he might draw a big crowd and they're worried that you know that's something they could lose control of but on the other hand they can they do arrest him when they allegedly thought of him before that because angry protests around the city here people blocked roads. a tricky one for them to handle if they do wrestle with a name later today like. on brett here in the can. i just remind us why one has travel to travel to the u.s. in the first place. he traveled to the u.s. to seek medical treatment he says he was tortured by ugandan special forces come on

the presidential guard when he was detained by the military and it was insane later by the police about a month ago and this followed violence in the end of my election in northern uganda he was campaigning for an independent candidate and he was growing very large crowds of supporters of the president's spokesperson that they supported the president's convoy that prompted a violent crackdown by the presidential guard in which was arrested was arrested he said he was then thought that over the following day he was right with carrying illegal firearms those charges were dropped but then he was late that tried with treason released on bail and then eventually allowed to travel so he went to seek medical treatment he'll be due back in cool. treason charges in the days and weeks ahead ok thanks very much for that income paul ahead of. the wind.

now japan's prime minister is on course to be the longest ever. japanese leader. pave the way to stay in power for three more years with his reelection as head of the ruling liberal democratic party the new time prime minister is promising economic growth after six years in power as he faces pressure to cut japan's sixty nine billion dollar trade surplus with the u.s. . to meet president donald trump next week. with al-jazeera these are our top stories in a symbolic end to their three day summit the leaders of north and south korea have together visited the top of the peninsula's most sacred mountain at mt pak to kim jong un and in took a tour around the iconic volcanic crater called heaven lake there are already talks about starting a tourism project allowing south koreans to visit the mountain from the north korean side that runs out of

a trip that saw the two leaders agree to make independent nuclear free. malaysia's former prime minister najib razak has a right as appeared in court after being again arrested he's now facing twenty five corruption charges prosecutors accuse him of illegally transferring six hundred eighty one million dollars from the state fund into his personal account has already been hit with seven other corruption charges last month. for pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif has been greeted by jubilant crowds of supporters after being freed on bail is about high court ordered sharif his daughter and son in law to be released until their appeal against corruption sentences can be heard and ruled there were deficiencies in the case that led to the jailing of the three in july of the purchase of luxury properties in london. uganda's government has banned rallies welcoming home bobby wine the pop star turned opposition politician has been receiving medical treatment in the us his lawyer said he needed to travel abroad after he was beaten up in police custody is charged with treason over his

alleged role in stoning the president's motorcade. migration is high on the agenda as european union leaders meet in salzburg host austria is pushing for tough steps to prevent migrants and refugees from entering the e.u. british prime as a tourism is also at the meeting trying to convince e.u. leaders to be flexible regarding a brics it deal canada's government says it needs more flexibility from the united states if they are to reach a deal on their trade relationship. is pushing back against pressure from the trumpet ministration to make concessions as part of a new deal says a needs must be met when we're nearing nafta washington insists an agreement must be finished by the end of september. you have states with all the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream to stay with us if you kept. a year ago president from

threatening to destroy north korea what will happen this year when he and other world leaders visit new york. this time there's a new dimension trump is expected to chair the u.s. most important body the security council. and he has iraq besides. extensive u.n. coverage. ok add in the stream today as international journalists standing by to tell us healthy chronicle one of the most controversial u.s. presidents in history i really could be alive and we want to know how have the politics and personality of donald trump been covered in your part of the world too much too little too critical or perhaps too favorably share your thoughts on our you tube.