putin on the stick can straddle into the city of lead of all stock on a private train accompanied by a high level delegation has visitors believed to be part of sean gans efforts to build international support following the breakdown of tours for the u.s. in february russia is also keen to play a role in any peace plan on the korean peninsula rob mcbride has the latest from seoul. kim jong un is on the move once more the third trip by the north korean leader outside of north korea so far this year as with the previous two trips the preferred mode of transport is that armored train again the train left pyongyang station early wednesday morning to the usual cheering crowds after inspecting an honor guard and then took the short trip up to the short land border the north korea shares with russia crossing over into russia where again kim jong un was welcomed he'll then continue his trip to

a vast talk the ports in russia's far east where he's due to meet with russia's president vladimir putin those talks expected to take place the day we don't know many more details than that both north korea iran to a lesser degree russia both valuing the security detail surrounding the movements of their respective leaders it's not expected that this summit will produce any great declaration or any big deal it is more the symbolism of this visit this is the first time a north korean leader has visited russia since twenty eleven we are expecting though that possibly the north koreans will be looking for some support in trying to get easing of sanctions but there's very little that russia itself can do unilaterally about those sanctions but it is part of north korea's lobbying efforts as far as south korea is concerned they government here has largely welcomed this

visit they see it as all part of the same normalize ation process of north korea no longer being the hermit kingdom but interacting with its neighbors for a south korea as is concerned that only can be a good thing. teenage environmentalist has been meeting british politicians and climate protesters. in london the sixteen year old swedish activists held talks with the leaders of opposition parties tom burke has inspired tens of thousands of children around the world to boycott classes to draw attention to global warming her trip to london coincided with a ninth day of climate protests by the extinction rebellion group. while prime minister may was unable to attend the event she was chairing the first cabinet meeting after the easter break cross party talks between the government and the labor party also resumed on tuesday they're trying to break the breaks that empath threatening maze leadership those from within her own party are said to be once again maneuvering tryon alster now for seven years there's

a three refugee camp on jordan's border with syria has provided shelter to thousands of syrians for most of the younger people there have no memory of life anywhere else as though it smith reports from the south or e. some of the older refugees a child recreate the syrian culture that they were forced to leave behind this is. the bill c. is trying to preserve a reminder of what has been destroyed in syria's civil war zaatari refugee camp opened seven years ago almost sixty percent of the eighty thousand syrian refugees here are under seventeen will either have never seen or have very little memory of their homeland and its rich cultural heritage here. they made it. is destroyed get the theater power mira is a two thousand year old desert city the unesco world heritage site was controlled

twice by eisel fighters who smashed engine relics with sledgehammers the world look at the destroyed. the world is just they destroyed the civilization omit it. because i love. my country syria is also remembered through paintings this is a damascus neighborhood this is a map of syria and its monuments and this is called soldiers of peace some of the artists prefer to paint what they see now ok. i prefer to do anything related to refugees show what i've been through all my relatives women's lives children's lives and anything related to the camp. of not doing anything related to the tragedy we've left i hear drawing anything about that i try to escape from here by drawing european nature or the sea. for those too young to remember it's

a way to try and connect to a country they may never see for years to come bernard smith al-jazeera zaatari on the jordan syria border. at least thirty two people have died after floods and mudslides destroyed homes in the south african city of durban the heavy rain started on monday night hitting parts of position in a towel and the eastern cape where many homes and roads were flooded and destroyed rescue workers are continuing to search for survivors now scientists believe they've measured the first seismological tremor on another planet the faint rumble on mars was picked up by masses inside probe and has been labeled a mars quake researchers hope to analyze how rocky planets were formed by analyzing seismic activity on mars. you know again on the news of a problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera the death toll in after sunday's

attacks has now increased to three hundred and fifty dollars and the president is promising major changes to the country's security leadership the softer the government acknowledged that intelligence agencies received multiple tipoffs before the attacks but al hunt and as has the latest on the investigations from colombo investigations have been broadening as there are leads that are being obtained from the suspects already in custody order to being interrogated by the criminal investigation by the police and investigators we're hearing just a short while ago that another eighteen people have been detained and these people will be subject to questioning and into a geisha and there are lines sensually of for the investigation that are opening up depending on the information that is being extracted from these suspects that are in police custody thousands of sudanese protesters have joined

a session outside the army headquarters and. they say the military leaders are taking too long to hand over power to civilians african union leaders have given the military council three months for the transition egypt's national election i thought he says voters have backed major constitutional changes that could allow president out the fattah el-sisi to stay in power until twenty thirty the amendments also extend the military's power of the politics rights group said the referendum was the the free nor fair. in hong kong pro date pro-democracy leaders behind the so-called umbrella movement will spend up to sixteen months in prison many of their supporters are gathered outside the court where the sentences were handed out and twenty fourteen hundreds of thousands of people blocked roads for seventy nine days to demand open elections for the city's leadership. north korean leader kim jong un's crossed into russia to attend a summit with president putin on thursday he's traveling to the russian city of

lead of all stock on a private train accompanied by a high level delegation his visit was believed to be part of pyongyang's efforts to build international support following the breakdown of talks with the us in february. well those are the headlines on al-jazeera the stream is coming up next thank you for watching. your just back to yemen what was the glimpse of the country to go listen the children are deeply affected because we meet with global news makers the stories that matter just zero. in the stream india prime minister narendra modi has promised economic growth and prosperity for all people is warning that

a party is reelected next month but what does that mean. i'm really could be lobbied today we speak with kashmiris about the first three phases of polling and what this is stuart the election could mean for indian administered kashmir want to share a few of your thoughts but them in the chat or tweet us we'll do our best to include them in the conversation. i am sure i'm a reporter for india and you are in the stream. the first phase of parliamentary elections in the region began on a poor eleventh amid calls to boycott what separatist leaders say is an illegitimate exercise and debilitating occupation other communities have also expressed to saturday cat dissatisfaction with the election constituencies living in southern kashmir for instance on tuesday with the final two faces of. twenty nine and six in its manifesto the b.g.p.

included a plan to repeal indian administered kashmir special status which according to modi is an obstacle to economic development government authorities increased security in the region after a suicide attack. paramilitary troops killed forty people but the results are restricted civilian movement on long an arterial highway and shut down mobile internet services measures that have not been well received by many kashmiris so how would this huge voting exercise affect people living in the territories to help us explore the possibilities in indian administers kashmir and sasha cohen is an associate professor of politics and international relations at the university of westminster also. dean is a journalist who covers wins issues and conflict in the region. this is a human rights activist and feisal is the president of the jammu and kashmir people's movement party hello everybody for the benefit of international audience

they realize that india is the has a huge elections ongoing right now so big that they're broken down into several parts have a look here my laptop audience you can see jammu and kashmir the elections are twenty nine there are funny faces before you even get a sense of what the results might be but not everybody is voting there is a boycott going on right now kiran can you explain to me why some people say i'm not going to the polls i have not voted. german kashmir is disputed territory between india and pakistan and people of kashmir since one nine hundred forty seven have been demanding the right to self-determination and a sense nine hundred forty seven there are many elections held but we have seen that government of india has always used elections and legitimized presence and. saw it as an integral part be used by used. to clean

internationally people of kashmir. so these domestic elections in a way as. well as people of kashmir are voting for a referendum which will determine whether kashmiri people want to be part of or by the kashmiri people want to be part of pakistan or whether they want to be an independent country so therefore that's the reason why most of the people have. elections and in last few years we have seen that the intensity of the by thought has increased so in last three phases of election also we have seen considerable. good and ishmael had motorbike or not because we had less. but general sentiment in kashmir is like what seem like god i think i think it's also that by god is not only like if we go on ground what people tell us is that they have seen a lot of oppression in recent years like in two thousand you see in two to twenty

eighteen like a lot of people a day care like it was to thirty doubleclick one hundred fifty six million and then there were more there was like more indian houses and these lakes recent killing the intensity of these artists and now you see the damage or the hardline policies b.g.p. government in in kashmir they think it's no point the world because. it's not going to situation it's not going to change did. you know what i mean you mentioned earlier that the intensity of this boycott seems to have increased in the hospital years and that's something that we're seeing online so i wanted to share a few anecdotes from at least three people who explain why they are not voting the first is art on twitter and she says i didn't vote because i didn't want to be a part of the statistic that indian politicians use to justify their illegal occupation of kashmir another person to made on twitter says we don't care which

party it is they're all the same for us we want to raise our voice for a boycott so that the international community will see that kashmiris are rejecting indian democracy and then the last one is via video com and this is from a student in kashmir his name is omar is acting as an engineering student and here's why he's not voting. you've got an election story. just because in the start of the. nation they're going to. probably still see this in the donation and inside. someone is it. my boy to me to my. flaws. and. so shall he says this would legitimize military rule you heard the anecdotes from people there who

seem very discontent and yet you started your own political party talk to us about that seeming disconnect why people there don't seem to have that same enthusiasm that you do. i have a slight disagreement with the we elect will mainstream is often seen here while i do agree with the caller on that this electoral process is at times misused too may be going to portree normalcy in kashmir or to portree elections as an endorsement of the steps call. but then at the same time i believe that you know saying that the international community is very naive and they do not understand the ground realities and fish meat and they can be maybe misled into believing that that participation in the electoral politics is the endorsement of the steps called i think that's also something which i need to question. but i do believe that by court has been a regular feature of the elections and wish me. the intensity of by court which we

saw in this election and the elections last couple of fears that has been unprecedented and has more to do with the policies of the central government which we saw the last four to five years the extreme shift of the policy of the right wing to words a hard line military approach to. to conflict management wasn't ashit i had seen him about to say something i had to push back a little bit on that because i think that the numbers that we need to remember here are seventeen ninety and sixty five these are the numbers of polling booths that actually recorded zito vote now if as a voter anywhere in the world you try to imagine that there's a democratic exercise and nobody goes to vote at a booth then i think that is significant and elections country to what is claimed as a festival of democracy in kashmir that a very good test carnival of securitisation hours have to be restricted the end

dire landscape the cedula of the elections is structured because that there needs to be enough security forces to be able to carry it out so what does that tell us if elections are held under such conditions and it's a i think supremely ironic that elections are claimed as something that gives legitimacy to the government it's a process of eliciting consent but in contrast to that there is there's a complete lack of people who engage in and a lack of consensus around the very need to have elections before anything else is properly addressed it's not as if there are the lections and then something else that will also. taking place in fact the something else that is happening is the arbitrary closure of highways to civilians on specific dates closure of trade in the last few days talks of the appealing article three seventy an article thirty five a so at the same time is used as a rallying cry for the right wing extremists in india and media's out object you know i made abject and and watch between this devil you know this rock and a hard place that situation where they vote if you know if they vote then they are

merely you know see putting a stamp of approval on their own oppression and the lack of any political component to either democracy or development and if they don't then there is a what opened up relation and you know and people don't realize that many of those who do vote also end up with a specific need a better more nearly climb to list their reasons because they may be related to their leaders josh i believe you know elections have been happening in spite of what we keep on saying for the last seventy years the participation in the elections has been you know going up and going down we have seen that sort of role of course to which the little participation has gone through so why do it be that at this moment electoral mainstream is going through a serious let's do missile crisis morsel because we have not been able to deliver the very we have been you know telling people in problems and people that you know coming elections are going to be what you do as illusions but then at the same time

i think there is a huge constituency of people who still believe in electoral politics and who believe that maybe electoral politics can still be constructively to meet the. sort of successes that i know i know that you can't vote but who from other guys have actually voted or decided they weren't going to vote if you don't mind me asking that they are so they can also hear ok. i for the first time in my life right i am not voted ever in my life this was the first election in which a party because i didn't leave i want to be very candid it is not silent it is not intelligent life to tell us why he did.