your program get rid of their nuclear weapons and then after that kim had expected the young at out expected said they expected more from the united states with regards to removing sanctions but the us had said that they wanted concrete actions then in recent weeks kim jong un had said that they would start we started their new nuclear program because they weren't seeing enough of an overture from the united states but then on january first and can draw and sneer day speech he said that he was willing to once again get rid of his nuclear weapons and how that in all the branch to the u.s. and it seems that this time he seems to want to involve beijing in whatever the next move happens to be and this of course is exactly what beijing would like as they are seen as north korea's biggest benefactor and biggest ally and it's also worth noting that today is kim jong un's birthday and the fact that he is spending it in beijing holding talks with using ping would give it a certain amount of respect to be an indication that towards cooperating with

china or the view thank you very much for that we will leave it there with the vehicle live in hong kong thank you well let's move on to other news now and turkey's president of the lawn has praised donald trump's decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria in an opinion piece in the new york times and the one said the pullout must be done carefully he says only turkey can provide the leadership in the region to create stability there are fears that the u.s. pullout will pave the way for a turkish assault against american ally and could fight as in northern syria heavy man leverage is a former u.s. diplomat and she says at the head is directed at his american counterpart. i think he's speaking to president donald trump and he needs to do so because the national security adviser john bolton who has been in israel is now going to turkey and we know that national security adviser bolton has a very different view of turkey of syria of israel than then president urged on and

even president trump so early on i think is trying to establish or continue to build on his direct channel to president trump through his phone calls through an op ed in the new york times and newspaper that donald trump breen's i think his his audience is the one and only president turn up i think what erin want is trying to do and i think with the help of some some very skillful advisors who understand the american policy dynamic and understand washington quite well i think what erdogan is trying to do is to present turkey as the credible partner for the united states in syria and more broadly in the middle east that the united states may have wanted to work more closely with russia when trump was first elected but the u.s. policy toward russia has all but collapsed under the weight of the domestic investigations here and that. cannot work with with iran because he's boxed himself

in so much with iran the other key player in syria and so really turkey is the only player in turkey i think under present president is trying to present itself as credible as a player that the united states can work with as a major in nato ally as an important country and a country that trump can work with. a new round of talks between yemen's warring factions may take place soon and short of that's according to a senior official meanwhile the u.n. envoy forget if it's met the whole thing is before heading to the solve the capital he's trying to end a recent deal is fully implemented. in yemen. but the united nations. with its confident it would one day become reality. griffiths destroying the region to ensure all the parties will implement the agreement reached in sweden last month

the deal calls for the houthi is to hand over control of yemen's red sea port of her data of the warring factions remain divided over who should step in and run the facility where much of the food aid comes in. the exiled government says it's ready to take over and move dismissed by the who these who don't recognize the government of president of the muscle had he. not and then we hope peace efforts kick off a gratian comes to an end debility prevails in airports reopening. the un wants to bring yemen's rival factions to a new round of talks to discuss ways to improve the economy and tackle the deteriorating humanitarian situation on his arrival martin griffiths was shown children affected by the almost four year old conflict the war has killed

thousands of people and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes yemen faces the worst humanitarian catastrophe in warden times according to recent estimates as many as eighty five thousand children may have died of hunger since the start of the saudi u.a.e. led war against the houthi is the deal that was reached in sweden was the first breakthrough since the start of the war in two thousand and fourteen but the deal remains fragile fighting has resumed in some areas and a prisoner exchange is on hold. the internationally recognized government insists the who these must hand over their weapons and put out of the capital sanaa before there's any final peace deal but the whole thing is who controlled most of the country remain adamant there are humans just about lead.

to japan now where the former chairman of car company nest and has appeared in court in tokyo where he's declared his innocence can ask on his accused of underreporting his salary by millions of dollars of a several years what's he denies he's been in detention since his arrest in november let's go live now to our correspondent rob mcbride he's outside the courthouse in tokyo is gone first opportunity rob to put his case forward so what did he have to say. that's right elizabeth this has been a long awaited the court appearance he's been in detention now for some two months he was expected to proclaim his innocence and indeed he did he says these allegations are groundless c. is innocent of them and he's insisted that he has always done business legally and fairly he's also denied any kind of claim that he has of course financial losses or damage to the motives of which he was chairman until recently the allegation is of

course that he transferred personal losses that he made on to the company also as you mentioned there elizabeth thirty under reported his for several years amounting to some tens of millions of dollars it's further claimed that he misused company finances to fund homes that he kept in rio de janeiro and beirut here he has claimed in court that for the past two decades he has been serving the interests of nisanit company that he helped to turn around his lawyer has also been explaining to the court to her. his client should no longer serve time in detention that it's unfair but the court has also been hearing at the same time that given the fact that he has other nationalities he does represent a flight risk that they he doesn't have a close family here in japan it's also being claimed in-court that he could potentially destroy potential evidence so his detention for the moment at least

elizabeth continues he is a prominent international and rob what's been the fallout from his detention both in japan but also the scenes. that's already created intense media interest and international interest in this court case the case has wound up in the past hour or so but this courthouse has been besieged by a couple of hundred journalists we've seen diplomatic cars one from lebanon one from france dropping off embassy staff here to look in on the proceedings the implication is of course that he was chairman of. remains chairman of ren no this is a two car companies that he was the architect of their alliance so there is a lot of speculation now about what happens potentially to the alliance between those two car companies if there is going to be any diplomatic fallout even between

france and japan as a result of this so we are waiting to see that there has been a lot of interest in japan itself i think elizabeth there's also been a lot of interest given the corporate culture here that once again this seems to be indicative of the old style of corporate management in japan that you have this hierarchical approach with these boardrooms dominated by middle aged men with a lack of transparency then this is a further example of that and just finally his appearance in court handcuffed with a restraining. a rope around his waist seems to make his apparent downfall all the more dramatic elizabeth rob thank you very much for that for now that is rob mcbride with the latest from tight here. still ahead on the bulletin accused of a cover up an archbishop goes on trial and fonts and connection with a sex abuse scandal and why a scan bleach ban and

a wanda could be dangerous the cost to mess. from long flowing on in the winds to an enchanting desert breeze. hello again a welcome back or we are watching still some very heavy rain across much of the west in the van over the next few days and this means that flooding risks is going to be on the increase as these storms come out of the mediterranean very messy conditions on the satellite image and here is your map on tuesday across turkey we're talking about widespread snow anywhere from central and eastern portions there and then down towards the self along the coastline we're talking about very very heavy rain anywhere from syria down here towards parts of lebanon as well beirut fourteen degrees and heavy rain in your forecast aleppo only getting into the high single digits there finally though on wednesday we are going to be seeing

a break as that system breaks away down here towards the southeast and also into the northeast where the higher elevations will be seeing some very heavy snow there well here across much of the gulf are looking quite nice but there is a lot of clouds around on our forecast map clouds of here towards parts of the northern gulf we'll be seeing the clouds there riyadh could be seeing a cloudy day even some clouds passing across parts of doha as we go from our tuesday and into wednesday but as you can see here in iran we could be seeing some rain just on the other side of the shore and then across parts of south africa we are looking at some very heavy rain down here for parts of durban with a temperature of twenty seven and johannesburg attempt of twenty seven as well. the weather sponsored by cats on race. in the next episode of science in the golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of mathematics. the term algebra can be traced back to the arabic word. we're going to the limits of modern technology forty percent salt

in the speed of sound they give us the final building block find they discovered mediæval towards its. charms from a golden age with jim. good to have you with us on al-jazeera and these are our top stories north korean leader kim jong un is in china where he is due to meet president xi jinping kim's convoy passed through beijing a short time ago china as north korea's main ally in the truck comes ahead of an expected meeting between cam and south korean president moon j.n. . turkey's president has praised donald trump's decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria. and says the withdrawal must be planned carefully there are

fears that the pullout will pave the way for turkish assaults against american allied kurdish fighters in northern syria and the former chairman of card company less than is appearing in court in tokyo where he's declared his innocence coddles golan's accused of financial misconduct which he denies. the u.s. president will visit the mexican border on thursday in an attempt to pressure democratic opponents in congress to end the partial government shutdown but before heading south donald trump will address the nation to make his case for a controversial wall he wants more than five billion. dollars to build it's by the democrats agreeing to that and the dispute over the funding has led to a possible government shutdown what about eight hundred thousand federal workers are affected by the shutdown half of them are on leave while the out pay the others are working without compensation john hendren met some of them and chicago from where frank lagunas stands which for the past couple weeks has been at home the

forecast for workers employed by the u.s. government is gloomier than ever some will be paying their mortgages some will be paying their car payments some will be paying their credit cards as a furloughed chemist for the environmental protection agency responsible for overseeing the cleanup of some of the most toxic waste sites in the country he has been deemed a nonessential worker also non-essential it seems is the environment well there's nobody. there to safeguard current regulations and oversee any potential environmental damage so there's a violation of the law and there's no one there to you know enforce current law repeated shutdowns have led to a brain drain over the past two years the chicago region covering several states has seen one hundred fifty of the e.p.a.'s nine hundred fifty employees leave it's almost lunchtime here at the federal building in downtown chicago and it's normally

bustling but today is unusually quiet and on friday many workers will be missing their first paycheck of the year across the u.s. about eight hundred thousand federal workers who are in forty three thousand dollars a year on average are either working without pay or not working at all from national parks to the farm service agency. to the alcohol tax and trade bureau which has stopped approving labels for new beer and wine. among those federal employees is sam kitchen a correctional officer at chicago's federal prison home to some of the nation's most dangerous inmates here drug runner murder. but he's not staying home he's considered an essential worker he's just not getting paid do we pair mortgage three player house payments the judge is going to say if i can't pay my child support i do it necessary job thankless job but a job that the public expects us to do now we expect our elected officials to do

what they are elected to do now they're want to walk around and say ok we're not going to pay you they cut their pay and donate it to some federal employees so they could get paid for now thousands of other federal employees wait for the president donates his salary to charity and members of congress who are giving their paychecks without pause to break the impasse and fund the government john hendren al-jazeera chicago. the european commission has once again said that there will be no renegotiation off the brakes a deal that it reached with the bush government but just twelve weeks to go until the u.k. leaves the e.u. commission president john clarke says negotiations on. russia's promise to change the maze of expected to put the two of lotion parliament next week she had put off a december vote after facing opposition a many m.p.'s and her own a party well bush politicians opposed to breaks that will begin launching a fight back on tuesday more than two hundred

a quarter on the promised us to ensure that a nod to give breaks that cannot happen while a parliamentary vote is planned watch could force a second referendum and there is a growing pressure on the leader of the main opposition party jamey corben to back a rethink on leaving the e.u. asshole dons lay has been speaking to a labor party activists who feel betrayed by their leadership. the billionaire has live in the streets of this palace of south london woods you might think. the give their children's christmas presents away then support the labor party scene as the most left wing for generations yet in local elections last year labor took this area from the conservatives it was based on the simple promise stop the government's brix it but labor acts of his here have been left unclear if that is actually what the party wants and it still comes out one of the things that we regularly hear we campaign and we do campaign regular here is the people who live in dodge village ward are almost unanimously opposed to break through and their

offspring for leadership from the labor party on budget. a few kilometers north in the same it's an entirely different demographic in a london racially diverse often impoverished that just as worried about bricks it is the rich people down the road just as unsure whether labor is on their side i think they should be unequivocal in saying where we support you we want you in this country we value the contribution that you've made to our communities and not simply saying that but proving it even by saying you know what bracks that is not something that the labor party wants to be associated with. if you like. the vast majority of labor party members regard bracks it is a national disaster and criticizing party leader jeremy cole been is a sacrilege it could be himself has a preferred policy of leaving the european union and it's tearing the labor policy apart the labor leadership fears the wrath of the traditional whites working class

whose anti european views underpin the levites if it supports staying in the e.u. and they cannot square the circle poland's appears deadlocked yet remain supporters keep pointing out that the labor party leadership shifted position and supported staying in the european union and almost certainly they would be apollo mentioned majority for no breakfast at all in any shape or form yet standing in the way of that is jeremy corbin's lol held your skepticism his belief that the european union is a block on workers' rights with bricks it now coming to a head many labor.