more authoritarianism here let me ask you straight up korea is the true state solution the lights are on and there's nowhere to hide from it's. south graham present day and returns to seoul after a historic three day visit to pyongyang. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up from the malaysian leader. in court facing new charges of money laundering. pakistan's opposition leader now wash a reef returns home to a hero's welcome after a court suspends his corruption sentence. and another homecoming but uganda's

government is behind rallies marking the return of opposition leader. after historic three days with north korea's kim jong un the president of south korea is back on home soil. touched down just a short time ago in seoul his trip north has been one that could change the face of the korean peninsula with agreements on denuclearizing the region and improving relations with pyongyang just a few hours ago he and kim jong un made a symbolic visit to the top of the korean peninsula most sacred mountain mt back to . reports. 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. two inches of the 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 them or they 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 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 a significant diplomatic success for moscow area because in a few months we should 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 mosque that kicks their major goal 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 malaysia's former prime minister's appeared in court again to face twenty five additional corruption charges including abuse of power and money laundering prosecutors accuse najib razak of illegally transferring six hundred eighty one million dollars from the one n.d.p. state investment fund into his personal bank account denied corruption when charged with seven seven similar offenses last month. he has the latest from kuala lumpur. the new charges facing former malaysian prime minister najib razak centered around 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 a more significant they involve a much bigger sum of money than the ten million dollars he's alleged to have received from another state own entity as our senior 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 into use. 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.

. to his finance minister has lowered the economic growth forecasts for the coming to his growth in two thousand and nineteen is now expected to be two point three percent down from three point eight percent announcement came as part of a presentation of new policies the government is trying to ease in social concern about the turkish lira which has lost forty percent against the dollar this year and so central bank hikes interest rates last week an effort to cut recent double digit inflation rates. this period is a period when economic sanctions are being used like weapons it's a global each challenge and period on the tenth of august turkey became part of this process because its economy and currency were targeted with a tax we want to make the best out of the five year term bestowed on us by our people and we will realize all these economic measures to make our country stronger . and istanbul for us as some do we have any details of a new economic plan. well laura yes the new economic program

was has actually brought a lot of expectations in the market send them over the turkish population because the turkish lira has been declining has been losing value against the against the us dollar also other national currencies but to be honest i have to say that the new economic program didn't bring what the markets expected to get to while the finance minister were was giving his speech turkish lira gained value against us dollar but after he finished his the speech the lira started to decline again and what we know from his speech is that turkey is going to continue fight against the high inflation resources which is double digit and the minister said that it is going to be brought down to six per cent he said that turkey will be fighting against security account the physic which is very high because turkey is dependent

on energy import which is most of the current to come the facade of the country but of course the other measures that have been announced during the last couple of weeks like banning us dollar from rent contracts and sales contracts for the turkish turkish businessmen i mean these these are a little bit. bringing curiosity and seriousness in the markets but people were expecting a very huge reform programme in the second eva konami plan unfortunately it didn't bring what the markets expected it just repeated the same actions of the previous economic management ok so many thanks for bringing us that update from istanbul. 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 happens 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. there's concern and confusion about how that will be done stephanie deca 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 sun 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 but these fighters a coalition called the national liberation front are believed to be backed by turkey getting them to fall in line will be easy the problem may be with groups that have been deemed terrorist organizations like the formerly known as the nostra front and accused of having links to al qaeda. i don't think to reality will

disappear it will break up and join the other factions there is no way that turkey will accept them staying in a loop so what if he asked 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. i gave that i feel i don't have any or what's happening a lot of forming 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. former pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif has been greeted by jubilant crowds of supporters often being freed on bail he's not about high court ordered to release his daughter and son in law to be released until the appeal against corruption sentences can be had ruled there were deficiencies in the case that led to the changing of the three in july and the purchase of true properties and london reports from outside troops home and lahore . after his release from jail by the order of the high court with the day that for no washer. and son in law captain. hauled to. the airport from where they drove to their farmhouse on the out of the city of lahore they did a. good amount of more hard around security of. them

going to be taking out protection on the ninth and tenth of moron and therefore maximum security in place now why should he for. over 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 it is likely that he will go to his board and try to win as many feet in the by election would you. be a litmus test for its popularity and maybe board a problem in case they go back and number of the. board 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 chief family and he may still be found guilty in other

different which are under way in the national accountability bureau. still ahead here on al-jazeera european leaders are under pressure as they hold yet another summit focusing on refugees and migrants we'll have more from austria. and he has the unblemished record this is a very good thing for him and his family and donald trump defends his pick for the u.s. supreme court who is embroiled in a sexual assault scandal. hello there we've got lots of showers over the southeast in parts of asia plenty of them over parts of the philippines so those a very lively then a whole rush of them overboard for the west there's actually a few more breaks in the clouds so we are seeing more in the way of sunshine around

k.l. at the moment as we head through the next few days though do expect to see more showers in k.l. and singapore and actually those showers will be going all the way further north as well into parts of thailand so generally speaking most of us will see some wet weather over the next few days but also some sunshine coming through in between for us in java they'll be a bit of cloud in the west impalas in the east but a chance of a dry day in bali should be drawing to over towards australia and for some of us here there's more cloud edging its way towards us and that in alice springs is quite exciting because we've had our longest dry spell on rec ordinal for one hundred sixty days it looks like we should see a thunderstorm or on friday that's not going to last too long though by saturday looks like that will have cleared away so twenty six degrees will be our maximum temperature in the dry where that once more further south we've got more cloud this making its way across parts of tasmania a few showers out of this particularly in the west of the west over of perth it should be fine unsettled twenty one maximum temperature a bit of cloud coming and going during the day.

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top stories this hour after three days with north korea's kim jong un the president of south korea is back on home soil. short time ago in seoul having made agreements with. and improving relations. minister has appeared in court again twenty five an additional corruption charges. including abuse of power and money laundering. because accused of illegally transferring six hundred eighty one million dollars from the state's investment fund into his bank account. and crowds of welcomes the release of pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif from prison on bail. his daughter and son in law to be freed until their appeal against corruption convictions come the. gender of european union leaders meeting in austria measures to prevent migrants

and refugees from entering the e.u. for discussion and. as assaults but trying to convince us to be flexible about brags that all the hosts austria's right wing tells us about him because reiterated his tough stance on the migrant crisis so it's not my guns. i said again 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 the paid up so will keep on having it and will 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 so you have to solve the issue in cooperation with countries of origin in transit they would need to make sure that people are being sent back after the rescue and not transported on the continent to europe i was lee is live for us now from that summit and salzburg and austria salon's what is the in his plan to address this

issue of migrants and refugees. yeah it's quite interesting there's been basically no movement whatsoever on but an enormous amounts of movements on migration and further to the point of the austrian chancellor was making there about about the common agreement that the now seems to be inside the european union to outsource the migration issue so it's not inside the european you that all they have identified one country that they think is going to be the long term strategic plan and that's egypt's been briefed this morning by the austrians and by other very senior european union officials there the european council and kurds himself went to see president sisi of egypt's last weekend is going to announce today a summit in egypt's between the european union and african countries and the austrians a separately going to host the african union at another summit in austria in december and the plan is because they regard egypt as being a basically

a tightly controlled country which people can't escape from as they can with libya they regard egypt as being the country they can work with to basically potentially at least put migrants and asylum seekers there potentially if people are picked up at sea take them to egypt there's the complete agreement from the european countries who don't want to host refugees here themselves they will pay ages to do this and even though it's quite embryonic it appears to be a very stable relationship that the european unity egypt potentially have so this is. presumably enormously lucrative for egypt and similar saying it's lee. for human rights groups will raise all sorts of questions about whether or not it's all appropriate for the european union so the outsourcing of migrant issues a country which has such a poor human rights record and i like it or not breaks it is on the agenda of this summit as well as that but two is a maze been really given the absolute minimum time to defend her position have.

yeah she was given ten minutes last night just came out afterwards and said no progress they're all meeting today to discuss among themselves and then donald tusk will tell stories in may what they had to say about it he's already said that the check is deal the deal is is no good and she needs to move she spent her time minutes last night saying i can have a separate arrangement for northern ireland because it's all about the borders of the rest of the u.k. because that would interrupt the constitutional integrity of the u.k. so she will move the position all the european union and things are going to have to come to head in the next two months but there's not going to happen today that the movement here is all about a new deal for migration the not at all about brics is ok lawrence thanks for the update there from sales back 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 tortured in police custody wine is charged with treason has leisure rolling stone in the president's motorcade welcome web reports from kampala. there's a heavy deployment of police and soldiers along the road from an international f.o.b. about forty kilometers to the camp to come out of places that they will not allow the procession will be one supporters will be wind tweeted he's free to meet who everyone had when he arrived with his brother and some others over this as yet who were the arrested and detained when they went ahead and travel that earlier today he meet him when he arrives but if these detained on arrival we can expect to see already in some parts of the capital and there's a heavy deployment of these in some of the usual hot well way has many supporters here very popular here in uganda at least though they really don't want something to happen that they're going to lose control of them neither do they want to be

covered by the media everybody being threatened simply threatened the beat our cameraman highly of the day filming at the moment on the street. i guess 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 judiciary committee christine ford says she wants an f.b.i. investigation into allegations before she testifies publicly a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. an 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 to see about. cavanaugh has been accused of sexual assault by this woman christine ford ford says she was fifteen when a drunk seventeen year old cavanagh pushed her into a bedroom at

a party groped 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 prep. 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 to 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 will be very interesting 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 canadian government leaders will flexibility from the united states as time runs out to agree a new trade deal to replace enough to take in the go she says have been pressured by the trumpet ministration to make concessions if the new agreements to be signed by the end of the month u.s. president has already agreed with mexico to revise parts of the north american free trade agreement which he says has been a disaster for american jobs share muslims across the well to mocking assura and the annual commemoration mourning the death of prophet muhammad's grandson hussein who was killed in the battle of karbala and what is now iraq thirteen hundred years ago hussein's death was a major factor in the splits into two main sex of islam sunni and shia the

anniversary is commemoration worldwide on the tenth day of the first month in the islamic calendar. well u.s. sanctions have made it harder for iranian share muslims to travel to iraq to mark a shura and reports from baghdad the town. intense and vibrant assura in the iraqi city of kabul the crowds which used to pack the shrine of imam hussein are smaller because thousands of iranians can't afford to be here. we came to iraq because we love to visit the holy shrines but the economic crunch means many iranians can't afford to visit karbala on ashura day. iranian shia worshippers usually travel to kabul at this time of year but iran's been hit by u.s. sanctions since august the value of its currency the real has plunged for the iranians getting to college is expensive now and for some even the price of

a hotel room is simply too much of in their cars off the hotel business in karbala in previous years was booming and now we can only make ends meet last year we had more than two hundred seventy big iranian religious groups staying at my hotel alone and now there are just seven small groups. from the economic point of view the u.s. economic sanctions on iran have really affected iraq's religious tourism when iranians come to my shop to buy souvenirs most of them can't pay for sure is marked by prayers for sessions and food handed out at stores like this one all over iraq is held on the tense day of the holy one of the heart of march the death of a mom to say one of the grandsons of prophet muhammad who many see almost as the third. he died thirteen hundred years ago in a battle where the city of karbala now stands for mine here put a year ago iran's currency was in good shape and now we have financial problems but

ryan's will strive to come here during the holy month of. for shia muslims a show is a time of reflection and remember i many iranian worshipers may also the members this uses it as a time of financial hardship matheson algis is back to. japan's prime minister has been reelected as head of the ruling liberal democratic party this paves the way for. three more years as prime minister until elections in twenty twenty one is promising to boost economic growth further off to six years in power facing american pressure to cut japan's sixty nine billion dollar trade surplus with it head of talks with president next week. proposed tax increases and economic chaos in argentina are not expected to do much for the reelection chances of the president. and his main rival next year has major problems to creating

a corruption scandal he can't get rid of latin america has to lose to newman has more from one of fairies. i just struggles to lift argentina from a chick huge economic crisis president. limited chances of reelection next year would appear to have received an unintentional helping hand from his main rival former president cristina fernandez the kishner is facing a barrage of corruption charges and is only being kept out of jail because of her parliamentary immunity as a senator who likely thena or be dealing as a competitor having christine affected by so many corruption indictments is certainly not an undesirable scenario for mockery. in fact a newly published poll suggests that the only candidate that could defeat evil elections were held today is christina care and yet the fiery populist politician is still very much in the race and. the charges of corruption against christina on

all the front pages don't impact her electoral base which she runs impermeable to attacks against her for the simple reason political support comes from argentina's poverty for the poor the issue is not corruption but inflation and the price of food which has gone up three hundred percent on democracy we tested the theory at a bus stop. she stole too much i doubt she could ram but her daughter disagrees. with mike for you can't live i vote for christina with her we were much better off. and unless my economic recovery plan shows results by the second trimester of next year many believe kishner will have the road paved for victory argentina is not brazil former president lula da silva is serving out a twelve year prison sentence and the cleric in eligible to run as a candidate in next month's presidential elections here even at this dinner kisner

is convicted on one or more corruption charges she is still eligible to run as long as he has exhausted all of the appeals process which could take years by then she could already be president a scenario that horrifies those who believe corruption is the root of argentina's problems second only to its current economic turmoil you see in human al-jazeera when the sights. sounds there are these all top stories after historic three days with north korea's kim jong il and the president of south korea is back on home soil and touched down just a short time ago in seoul his trip north has been one that could change the face of the korean peninsula the agreements on denuclearizing the region and improving relations with pyongyang. just a few hours ago he and kim jong un made a symbolic visit to the top of the korean peninsula is most sacred mountain mt back

to their already talks about starting a tourism project on the south koreans to visit the mountain from the north korean side places former prime minister has appeared in court again to face twenty five additional corruption charges that's now thirty two in total including abuse of power and money laundering prosecutors accused of the legally transferring six hundred eighty one million dollars in the one state investment fund into his personal bank account the jeep denied corruption when charged with seven similar offenses last month. his finance minister has lowered economic growth forecast for the coming two years growth in two thousand and nineteen is now expected to be at two point three percent down from three point eight percent came as part of a presentation of new policies the government is trying to ease international concerns about the turkish lira which is lost forty percent of its value against

the dollar this year the turkish central bank hiked interest rates this last week in an effort to reste to cut recent double digit inflation rates in. this period is a period when economic sanctions are being used like weapons it's a global each challenge in period on the tenth of august turkey became part of this process because its economy and currency were targeted with a tax we want to make the best out of the five year term bestowed on us by our people and we will realize all these economic measures to make our country stronger and uganda's government has banned rallies welcoming home the wine pop star turned off position politician has been receiving medical treatment in the us one was charged with treason over his alleged role in standing the president's motorcade. state now with all the headlines more news continues here on al-jazeera after people in power.

al jazeera it's sweat and. it's. as paper reported in twenty seventeen a resurgent tool for the church has become central to president putin's ideas of russian i just an echo chamber to the kremlin's expansionist policies of the proles know as the orthodox church in pro western savoring the brain seeks to break from the scourge of despite warnings the tension in the region a bunch of increase where resharing are episode on the significance of the ties between russia's church and state.