north korean leader kim jong un arrives in vietnam ahead of his summit with the u.s. president donald trump. and welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha with a prop but also ahead iran's foreign minister says he's stepping down sizing has shortcomings. a coalition of latin american countries say it's time for venezuelan president nicolas maduro to go but rejects military intervention and. after weeks of protests calling for him to step down saddam's president fads public gatherings and demonstrations.

north korean leader kim jong un has arrived in vietnam formated with u.s. president donald trump and had no way he was greeted with a god of on a as a train station on the border this will be the second meeting between the two leaders after this i mentioned singapore last year as expected to arrive in vietnam later on tuesday james bays has more farmhand on. three hours from now we will have kim here in the vietnamese capital will have to wait another twelve hours for president trump president trump has stopped over for refueling in the last couple of hours the stocks in the u.k. are a.f. mildren hall in suffolk on the east coast of the u.k. as ever we get some details from the white house about the president and his plans when they stop because there's a small group of reporters called the pool who are on the plane with him they've been briefed by the white house press press secretary sarah saunders she's revealed

to us about the first big meeting will take place wednesday evening vietnam time a brief meeting between the two leaders on their own and then a working dinner ahead of the full talks which we believe will take place on thursday what you've got to remember about kim is that he has been in power in north korea since the end of twenty eleven only last year did he leave his country as leader for the first time this is only the third place as the north korean leader that he has visited in his term as the supreme leader and so obviously i think quite excited to see a different country a country that i think has all sorts of parallels for north korea because remember that vietnam fought that very long war against the united states and yet vietnam has been for a generation now ahead of north korea in good relations with the united states

technically still a communist country in terms of doing business here you couldn't find anywhere more capitalist. let's move on to other news now and iran's top diplomat has suddenly resigned mohamed played a central role in brokering the twenty fifth nuclear deal between iran and number of world powers that after the u.s. pulled out of the agreement last year he came and increasing criticism at home and mike hanna reports from the united nations. this was a moderate face of a nation apparently seeking reconciliation with western powers mohamad job you'd sorry if i was educated in the us and served as ambassador to the united nations before becoming foreign minister in two thousand and thirteen. he was the driving force in the intense negotiations with the west in nuclear powers that led to what became known as the joint comprehensive plan of action an agreement in which iran agreed to a limited sensitive nuclear activities and give access to international inspectors

in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions. the deal now threatened by the unilateral decision of president trump to no longer abide by it it's a bad deal it's a bad structure it's falling down should have never ever been made i blame congress i blame a lot of people for but it should have never been made. in the months since the u.s. announcement there's been increasing criticism of the foreign minister by some elements in iran who had argued that it proved the foreign minister had been misled in negotiating the deal. a long time user of social media mohammed reef was well aware that twitter is restricted in iran and announced his resignation on instagram which is widely available i think the generosity of the dia and courageous people of iran and respect to the fischel is over the last sixty

seven months he says i apologize sincerely for my inability to continue serving and for all the shortcomings and flaws during the term of my service be happy and proud the announcement came on the same day that syrian president bashar assad made a surprise visit to iran his first since the civil war broke out in syria eight years ago among those he met was a rainy and president hassan rouhani who's yet to confirm that you'll accept his foreign minister's resignation mike hanna al-jazeera. harry mann leverett is a former u.s. diplomat and co-author of going to ted on why america must accept things like republic often iran and she says a lot of resignation as a surprise. zarif was someone who was fascinating he was brilliant he was an incredible diplomat and i i i don't want to use the past tense was

because president rouhani has not from what i understand has not yet accepted. foreign ministers or resignation so it's not necessarily a done deal but if it is not only iran but i think the world will have lost one of the most important diplomats of of our generation if not for the past several decades it's also somewhat unusual because foreign minister zarif just gave a world claimed a world appraised around the world performance in munich at the munich security conference last week it was a performance that went viral literally so that when he went to beijing china right after munich the foreign minister of china praised him and said that he had done an incredible job in munich and he was now someone who is a superstar the world over so it's you know he was doing incredibly well with what he had but the problem that i think the problem that foreign minister zarif had was

that even though he was an incredible diplomat he had bet essentially the entire house on the iran nuclear deal and the united states without a fallback plan without a plan b. and that opens him up to criticisms internally inside iran and without that much of an agenda that he could really put forward on his own without the united states without europe with china lagging really in coming through for iran there weren't that many cards left for zarif to play. a coalition of western and latin american nations venezuela's president little must the so called russian colombia and core for a democratic transition of power in venezuela. the reports from. supporters of venezuelan opposition neither one way have waited for this moment the chance to see him side by side with the vice president of the united states mike pence. the

setting the meeting of the lima group and a bloc of mostly latin american countries supporting those claim that he's the illegitimate interim president of venezuela in a speech paints an announced new sanctions against venezuelan officials in called on the block to freeze assets controlled by president nicolas maduro in their countries but stops short of calling for the use of force to house the man he says represents a threat to the m a sphere what we've seen in the last two days wasn't a bold stroke by a triumphant leader it was the desperate act of a tyrant clinging to power with violence and intimidation since day one of this administration i'm pleased to report that the united states has recognized the threat that nicolas maduro posed to the venezuelan people and to

nations across the region including ours. the world's media recorded how my daughter's forces acted to stop the delivery of usaid from colombia and brazil leaders here and now they will ask me their national criminal court to treat my daughters blockade as a crime against humanity opposition leader said the international pressure needs to continue until my daughter is forced out. the people of venezuela have resisted have survived and today in bogota in this is storage medium we ask for your help and cooperation to advance the necessary pressure that the regime believes it is resisting a resistance to what to democracy. outside the meeting fled their country's economic crisis gathered to show their support for gray door that claimed only an external military intervention could bring change something the country's gathered here firmly reject. it's an era we're tired of protest sanctions proclamations

they're not helpful since the sanctions how many malnourished kids have been saved how many people with cancer helped none that's why an intervention is needed in a nutshell monday's announcement could be summarized as more of the same said he will try to go back to this week and also continue in this effort to move the inside his country but many even among supporters of the opposition fear that more of the same will not change the current stalemate. protest leaders in sudan have called for immediate demonstrations after the government banned. gatherings the most was a state of emergency declared on friday by president omar al bashir or mice daily protests have been held across the country since december i started of the high price of basic goods paper morgan has the latest from. it's not clear yet if the

latest decrease issued by the president on what hasn't been too will stop people from demonstrating as they've been doing for the past ten weeks now let's remember that he and i was the state of emergency on friday evening but on saturday sunday and on monday people still came out to protest against his rule and demand that he step down now to these decrees that as has been issued has nothing new it largely explains what the state of emergency is after the constitution which is basically. that the military has the right to raid houses an institution that they deem is hiding agents or individuals threatening to dance political and economic stability but also as for the constitution under the state of emergency the military has the right to arrest those that they deem is a threat to sudan's political and economic stability but today is the crees goal of here not just for there it's also bad gathering public gathering any bands strikes that has been organized there we've seen that happening over the past ten weeks people protesting gathering to protest we've seen people going on strike from different sectors of the working fields saying that they want the president to step down so this is all been banned it also regulates the country that the country's

economy to a certain degree people are not allowed to carry what is three thousand years worth of goods and more than three thousand dollars worth of currency with them they're also not allowed to carry more than one hundred fifty more than one hundred fifty grams of gold it especially if they're traveling outside the country without license so it does also regulate the country's economy just in the green that is one of the things that the president said he's going to try to do with the state of the with state of emergency and mounting and saying that that is one thing the president is going to try to do when he's announced a state of emergency which is that trying to regulate the economy and fight corruption there with the current decrease the decrees that were issued on monday also includes preventing people or regulating the amount of news or the kind of news that is being broadcast and it says that people who are broadcasting news that is deemed to be fake or deemed to be inciting hatred anger or discrimination or racism will be prosecuted for ten years or fined or both so it's not clear if all

these regulations that have been issued or all these decrees that have been issued will stop people from demonstrating they've been repeating over and over again for the past and weeks that they will not stop until president omar bashir steps down he said he's not going to do that so the coming days will reflect just how effective the state of emergency that has been imposed on friday and the degrees today will be. still ahead on the bulletin a top vatican with characters convicted of meth and the rest. two choir boys face fifteen years in prison. and democrats strike back against the u.s. president's state of emergency at the southern border. there is still deep winter in the middle of this chart well it's really the northern plains the upper midwest and the canadian prairie's the winding thing here

is the storm has taken the blizzards through the temperatures left behind i mean the anything else you've injected there not this cloud from the west will produce yet more snow so the picture and the high temperature on tuesday minneapolis minus twelve the high temperature chicago monastery this is a big diff in the temperature regime the cold does extend further south was nice was new york city just by freezing you know there's a bit of a change the still snow falling in all the high ground from wyoming west was to california and south was courses right on the coast san francisco is not having his best day on tuesday nor indeed on wednesday but it will be good for the snow pack up and mountains now it hasn't its way as well i'm not going to say so relatively speaking isn't that many offices minus nine rather the minus thirty chicago problem minus three a slow warming trend but vast amounts of snow seem likely of the great lakes and then across into new england and that's where all the action is to be honest further north of the still some rain visible sickly in florida and across towards

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it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories north korean leader kim jong un thrived in vietnam ahead of the second summit with the u.s. president donald trump the u.s. is calling on north korea to give up its nuclear weapons iran's foreign minister mohamad jolliffe the reef has announced he's stepping down sudden departure throws further down from the future of the twenty fifty nuclear do you wish the u.s. pulled out of last year and venezuela has denounced a coalition of west and bashed american nations accusing them of waging a ferocious campaign to unseat president nicolas maduro. the lima group back to lotion for a democratic transition of power that is way into but without the use of force. according to strain has convicted a top vatican cleric of child sex crimes cardinal george pell was found guilty of molesting two choir boys at a melbourne cathedral in one nine hundred ninety six the pope's top financial

adviser is the most senior roman catholic cleric to be convicted off child abuse andrew thomas has more from sydney. total george pell has become the most senior catholic anywhere in the world to be convicted of child sexual abuse he was most recently a confidant of the pope at the vatican but before that he was archbishop both here in sydney and in melbourne and it was in melbourne in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. and bishop that he's now been convicted of sexually assaulting two teenage boys in a back room of the cathedral off to mass one sunday now the conviction was actually handed down in december but because he was also accused of separate cases of sexual assault but dated to the one nine hundred seventy s. and a separate trial was to be held for that later this year a judge ordered a suppression order but nothing could be reported of that trial including the verdicts until the second trial had concluded the deal was that jurors in that second trial might be influenced if they heard elements of the first trial

including the verdict in that first trial so nothing could be reported all that well on choose day prosecutors in melbourne decided to drop the charges in that second trial there will be no second trial and that's why we can now report the verdict of the first double george pell has said that he will appeal but the judge has made it very clear that next week when he hands down sentencing. will go to jail the washington post has named a human rights activist from saudi arabia as first fed of the kushal she found a ship the salary is also an award winning scholar and writer the fellowship on as the newspaper's columnist who was murdered inside the south the consulate in istanbul last year and says the program will provide a platform for journalists and writers from places where freedom of expression is suppressed. u.s. senators may hold a vote on whether to end u.s. involvement of the war in gehman as soon as next week senators were given a briefing by the trumpet ministration on the situation there they said it didn't

change their minds of the need to condemn saudi arabia for its bombing campaign the murder of saudi journalist was also raised the senate has expressed concerns about the administration's failure to meet a deadline to report to congress on the role of saudi officials in the killing. the us president's senior adviser there has revealed more details about his peace plan for israel palestine and the middle east as a whole is currently on a tour of the region in an interview with sky news arabia said one of the main principles is to eliminate the borders as they are today he says that will guarantee freedom of movement for people and goods says his plan will help the entire region and not just israelis and palestinians he says jordan egypt and lebanon will benefit critics say the deal is less about building trust between the palestinians and israel and more about uniting the veatch and against iran. as a former u.s. state department official and he says cautious plan is unlikely to satisfy the

palestinians. clearly israeli palestinian peace making has been a longstanding american national security objective and that's why we've had successive presidents engaged in it but the framing today by mr kushner was. the bad actor in the region and therefore the arab states should support this and join with israel against iran and at the same time as you point out unilateral actions have been taken by the united states to marginalize palestinian long term demands so this doesn't look like negotiation or something where the palestinians are going to be a very happy to be a part of it does look like it's a move by the united states to continue to push towards more conflict potentially between the arab states and iran but the palestinians in the process there their needs may very well not get heard and that's very damaging for an actual solution there was a growing opposition fall where the autumn party against his declaration of an

emergency at the border with mexico the u.s. president to use his powers to get the five point seven billion dollars he requires the congress refused to give in to his demands but democrats leading the charge against him and john hendrick the polls nancy pelosi plans to declare a state of nonemergency to let the executive branch get away with this assault on the constitution we would be delinquent in our duties to the oath of office thank you thank you on tuesday the house of representatives will vote on a measure to make president donald trump's declaration of an emergency at the mexican border in void that disapproval resolution is nearly certain to pass in the house newly controlled by democrats led by palosi sending a strong message to drop we're talking about it invasion of our country with drugs with human traffickers with all types of criminals and

gangs. declared the emergency to bypass congress which denied him the five point seven billion dollars he requested to build a wall along the mexican border that declaration gives him access to more than eight billion dollars in emergency funds to build the wall the house disapproval resolution has the support of fifty eight former u.s. national security officials both democrats and republicans who've signed a letter saying there is no emergency at the border where illegal crossings are at a forty year low. it could still be a long time before president trump gets money for his border wall if he ever does first there's that emergency declaration in the house that could end in the senate where forty seven democrats need for republicans to join them to pass it or if it passes there it could end with president. and that's exactly what he's promised to do on the wall well i veto it one hundred percent congress appears to lap the two

thirds majority it would need to override a presidential veto but there are also court challenges that seek to overturn trump state of emergency arguing that there is no emergency and that the constitution gives congress the power of the purse and then we have a threats a constitutional democracy. this is a president who does not respect the rule of law who does not respect them its own power who is basically saying not for the first time here but this is the latest example is basically saying i will do what i want is anyone going to stop me on thursday the house judiciary committee plans to scrutinize the one nine hundred seventy six national emergencies act and possibly to change it so no president can circumvent congress like this again john hendren al-jazeera washington. the u.k.'s main opposition party is prepared to back a second referendum on bracks it. says he'll support an amendment and favor of a public vote to prevent a quote damaging tory breaks that promise to turn as

a man has been trying to win support for her data on conservative party as well as opposition m.p.'s the u.k. is set to leave the e.u. on march twenty ninth. faithful and the administered kashmir have been panic buying fuel off the deployment of thousands of paramilitary troops to the region as jimmy and has more from new delhi. a disorganized crowd tries to queue up and one of the few fuel stations still open in srinagar there's been a rush on petrol and cooking fuel for the past two days as rumors spread about a possible escalation in the conflict in the region said enjoy they don't think it will end. there is some benefit or do they want but the fuel doesn't last leaving many running on empty. since yesterday i have gone to five petrol pumps but no petrol was available i have to go somewhere but it's becoming difficult to travel. with snow blocking the main highway fuel trucks are not expected to come in anytime

soon so how do you get all the petrol pumps had fuel for two to four days recently the government deployed more troops which created a panic we had about twenty two thousand liters of fuel which usually last for a few days but because of these rumors people rushed to the petrol pump and in one day i sorted all of. the deployment of ten thousand paramilitary soldiers has added to an already tense situation following this month's attacked claimed by a pakistan based armed group which killed at least forty one troops added to that india's supreme court will soon hear a case challenging the indian constitution's article thirty five a which allows special rights and privileges to permanent residents of genuine kashmir that's been raging some local politicians. if there is any tinkering with article thirty five a there will be a worse situation in kashmir i'm not pregnant or trying to scare you i'm telling the truth. india continues to hold responsible for

attacks in the area despite pakistan's repeated denials political leaders speak out the leaders of india and pakistan are speaking to each other through public statements prime minister. telling. what he calls actionable intelligence in the government. that armed groups claiming responsibility for attacks is proof enough. speaking at the inauguration of a war memorial on monday mostly avoided the topic of kashmir instead focusing on his pre-election campaign pitch. but in kashmir the reality is an increased military presence in the region and people scrambling to get what they can today not knowing what will happen tomorrow. the un's top courts and. a soon as possible international

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set up the three minish afterwards many of them were on the oppressed cycle don't. live in bar cyclists for the past fifty years when maurice just could have looked after us it didn't do so i don't think it's a control of our islands it's treated us like animals. in one thousand nine hundred sixty five britain split the remote shakos islands from riches three years before riches gained independence the new ruling says that was illegal under international law then in the late sixty's and early seventy's britain evicted almost two thousand chicle sian's to marisa's in the seychelles that was to make way for construction of a us military base on the largest island diego garcia. decades on many live in poverty and maria shows where the largest exhaustion community is based but several thousand now live here in southern england following a decision in the one nine hundred eighty s. to grant some cigar sian's british citizenship and they've been campaigning consistently for the right to return one of the oldest is celestin she's eighty two

and came to britain from russia seven years ago. hopeless tells you that both the u.k. and marisha have wronged us and forced us to renounce our islands we're not involved in political games we just want to go back well i mean what you did in twenty sixteen the british government extended diego garcia his lease and declared the islanders would not be allowed to go back when the supreme court upheld the ban britain promised to invest around fifty million dollars over ten years on she goes in communities and increase visits to the islands this is our country and we can do visitors on our own len how would you feel if i just come to your house and i tell you to just go and i'm going you are going to be a visitor. these to go see and say they haven't seen any of the money the u.k. promised to spend on things like training somebody also fighting for the youngest generation to be granted u.k. citizenship and their campaign is far from over the d. barber al-jazeera cruelly and that story and the rest of the day's news can be

found on our website that al jazeera dot com. again on is a problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera the north korean leader kim jong un has arrived in vietnam ahead of a second summit with u.s. president donald trump the u.s. is calling on north korea to give up its nuclear weapons trump is due to arrive in vietnam later on tuesday our diplomatic editor james bays has more from hanoi. what you've got to remember about kim is that he has been in power in north korea since the end of twenty eleven only last year did he leave his country's leader for the first time this is only the third place as the north korean leader that he has visited in his term as the supreme leader and so obviously i think quite excited to see a different country

a country that i think has all sorts of power levels for north korea iran's foreign minister mohammad has announced he's stepping down it's unclear why he decided to resign a sudden departure throws further doubt on the future of the twenty fifty nuclear deal which the u.s. pulled out of last year and then is where has denounced a whole election of western and latin american nations accusing them of waging a ferocious campaign to unseat president nicolas maduro earlier the limo go back to motion for a democratic transition of power in venezuela but his refuses to endorse the use of force by outside powers. a court in a stranger has convicted a top vatican cleric of child sex crimes cardinal george pell. was found guilty of molesting two choir boys at a melbourne cathedral in one thousand nine hundred six the pope's top financial advisor is the most senior than catholic cleric to be convicted of child abuse protests leaders in sudan have called for immediate demonstrations after the

government banned the rise public gatherings the move follows the state of emergency declared on friday by president omar al bashir almost daily protests have been held across the country since december they started over the high price of basic goods the u.k.'s main opposition party is prepared to back a second referendum on leaving the european union labor leader jeremy corbin says he'll support an amendment in favor of a public vote to prevent a quote damaging tory brix it prime minister tourism a has been trying to win support for her deal from her own conservative party as well as opposition m.p.'s. well those are the headlines on al-jazeera what miss is coming up next thank you very much for watching. i mean every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories joined the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most on al-jazeera.

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