and does not want to break his promise to me deal will happen is the thoughts of a former state department diplomat specializing in north korea he told us trump's focus on economic growth in north korea won't be enough for it to give up nuclear weapons there is a belief that north korea desperately wants to bolster its economy and that if only it would get great economic aid from the united states it would completely denuclearize. the united states is certainly right that economic incentives do matter in some way to north korea especially partial sanctions relief but it certainly will not get north korea to completely give up its nuclear weapons deal will happen but i see no evidence that we are anywhere close to a nuclear deal with north korea north korea probably does not have the domestic political space to take any of the bold risks or maneuver maneuvers that would restart the diplomatic process and washington for its part has not been creative

enough or flexible enough to really take advantage of this diplomatic process and get us closer to the deal it has always been the case in both the obama administration and the trumpet ministration that with an issue this important and this high profile the white house takes the lead and it's the general policy direction and the state department really implements it drives diplomacy it comes up with ideas but the direction is at the white house level. his subordinates have been on completely separate parallel tracks on north korea and it almost seems like they don't consult each other or record in a their message and that's a huge difference from past administrations and i think has a lot to do with the dysfunction we've seen in north korea diplomacy and it's very concerning. syrian government forces. have pounded the rebel held northwest of the country with more airstrikes twenty two people have died after an escalation of

violence in hama provinces despite an eight month old truce the latest in the last i should say rebel held province in syria border in turkey in the north russia and turkey did negotiate a ceasefire in september which is so far averted a full government offensive. but remember it labor is mostly held by the hyatt to hire more h.t.s. formerly known as nasr front who am not a not part of that deescalation agreement the province is home to more than three million civilians around half of whom were displaced and moved there after the government took aleppo is think and other areas from the rebels here is under schapelle with more. volunteers worked throughout the day to check for signs of life in buildings bombed by the syrian regime and its russian ally how the saudis you know not that there's an intense campaign on residential areas there helicopters bombed this village twice thank god the losses are only material

because the village has been targeted before and everyone has evacuated. the white helmet say more than twenty civilians have been killed and dozens more wounded in airstrikes and shelling since friday morning. the u.n. says schools markets and displacement camps have been struck in recent days and barrel bombings have returned with the frequency. not seen in more than a year italy province and surrounding areas were declared a deescalation zone last year under an agreement reached between russia and turkey intended to avert a major offensive on the rebel held area that agreement appears to be under threat activists say syrian and russian government forces launched more than eighty strikes on saturday two hundred fifty thousand people have already been displaced in the latest wave of violence if there is a real offensive really a tack and really i mean. is aimed at penetrating.

eventually. settle. down with itself a model of those then we're going to have it enormous prices and then we're talking about two hundred thousand. up to a million of probably will be on the rules right now. i'm still hopeful that's not going to happen i'm still hopeful that it will be contained to. the end of confrontational ceasefire line. as government tanks and troops move towards it live in greater numbers state media say they are there to target terrorists from a group linked to al qaeda but many fear this could be the start of a bigger operation to take the final rebel held stronghold home to nearly three million civilians one million of them children and or chapell al jazeera. is what's coming up for you on this news hour we'll look at turkey's economy and how it is

expected to be hit by u.s. sanctions on iran and also in sports live a pullback on top in the english title race joe with all those details of a dramatic victory newcastle. the brother of algeria's ousted president has been arrested side but the flicka had been algeria's de facto ruler since abilities suffered a stroke in twenty thirteen two former intelligence chiefs have also been taken into custody weeks of protests forced the ailing longtime president to resign last month after he attempted to run for a fifth term however the demonstrations have continued with protesters wanting the entire put a figure regime dismantled and any insiders prevented from holding top chops is the thoughts now of mohamed kid up from cup the university you told us about those protesters still seeking genuine change. but that said so on one more day want you

know to go through a very democracy transition dishy gestured to like two or three names like dr ben beach or dr. amador and so one you know to to get over and to the transitional period but for the time being. who seem dead he said eminent of. which if you are as wide as you know we are going to know where and so far what the politician says how about chief it is only there is ignition of which if not more and the people of the day need more it's not having to president and he was almost out you know he was eighty two years old he was very sick day to day want to know it really change nearly a month since the sudanese president omar al bashir was ousted from office and protesters there continue to vent their anger at the transitional military council

but some demonstrators are now starting to feel confident in their demands for change mohamed atta reports from. these no letup in porto since done public anger against the transitional military council is in no way. given us a full impasse between the military council importers leaders continue the protest and say they have more confidence in their actions than any other poor service but it also got me on you know that the revolution not here that's why we are pushing no faith in the e.u. we do not discriminate against anyone we will win the war from right here on. these a festive mood here families have come hoping to be part of history all sing the military council is exhausting work for some. have been coming out here for weeks they're angry and timing. in their almost endless chanting the military council

does it it got it as close as that is former president bush. i skated had them seen the military have ruled us for all these years and we have nothing to show for it except in justice that a civilian government is what we urgently. those people are the ones before place that they want to help remove from our present moment. raised by their very long past one toll free will be more the silence nothing very bright will hold them back a deadline issued by the military for that immovable body kids from roads bridges and gravel ways. but instead of removing them the protesters reinforced the body creates the home ahead on the street and on the head with i mean we will never remove the barricades because they're here for our security checkpoints we have not people with weapons and drugs wishing to cause people harm we can't take chances. the daily demonstrations in the square help ensure all for the much needed and the bridge to poultice leaders in their talks with admitted. that is why saddam cmdr

evolution of his thinking and link them snuck. up to saddam. at least nine soldiers have been killed in an attack on a training camp for forces loyal to the libyan war on a for hafta he is blaming the attack on ethnic ted breaux forces who are aligned with the u.n. recognized government in tripoli about the one who does more now from the libyan capital. now have to his forces in the south of libya say that they are calling on their simple command of have the us was in the east of libya to send more troops to sustain and maintain security in the sales of libya we know that the city of. forces loyal to the world have since february but this has been all was unstable especially since help

us forces should civil campaigns and the there are civil military groups in the cells who are opponent of the warlord have especially fighters and also fighters from. minority in the south of libya some of the armed groups in the south of of libya which are opponent to have to some of them are allied with the recognize the government and others are allied with their own tribal affiliations some of the tribes and the toward tribes generally speaking of libya there are civil airports and also oil fields or who have been taken control of by have to recently but the situation now remains very on a stable spatially after most of the troops have put have troops that have been

controlling and securing the airport in the cells have moved to the north to take part in the offensive line should they have to his forces to take control of the capital tripoli. european leaders have criticized washington's decision to restrict oil trade with iran that comes after iran's president called on his country to resist and unite against the u.s. after it tightened restrictions on the country's nuclear program the u.s. didn't renew two key sanctions waivers that were in place so iran will now be in violation of the curbs if it continues to ship surplus heavy water as it's known that is something that's made in the nuclear process to oman the u.s. has also made it harder for iran to dispose of any and rich to rainier and it's renewed some sanctions waivers that allow russia china the u.k. and france to work with iran on civilian nuclear projects president hassan rouhani says the u.s. is just trying to sow division amongst iranians gioia army corps about all your

general getting as the united states is violating international laws and pressuring companies to prevent them cooperating with iran and seeking to weaken our currency and the independence of our country there are huge conspiracies against our country and the american administration is waging a political and psychological war against us and to seeking to change the regime in iran washington aims to spread division in the country and the iranians must unite to piece this war. you know turkey's economy is expected to continue to slump as the u.s. imposes further sanctions on iran's oil industry turkey is a major iranian customer and so now is having to look elsewhere for its energy supplies cynical sunni reports from istanbul. iran is the second largest oil supplier to turkey after russia turkey has energy rich neighbors but no reserves of its own so is dependent on oil and gas imports that leaves the turkish call me while noble to rises in energy prices the value of the turkish lira has fallen at

least forty percent in the past year and could fall further because of concerns about all supply to keep the troubled economy running. human you have many troubles just like the israeli lobby before the twenty twenty a lick should sound like he gave golan heights and jerusalem told him otherwise it has nothing to do with national security around complies with the nuclear deal but they want to contain iran for israel safety if turkey can't buy oil from iran sourcing alternative supplies from the united arab emirates or saudi arabia is difficult the turkish government is a leading saudi quit it following the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi in the kingdom sconce late in a stumble last year and relations with the u.a.e. are strained since turkish police arrested two arabs who confessed to be spying for their murat is as a stopgap the turkish government is negotiating with iraq to buy oil only to kick only to wild turkey is trying to make itself understood by its western friends who

are protecting its national interest but to put an end to its independence it should focus on renewable energy in the long term turkey try to torpedo their reimposition of u.s. sanctions through a gold for all a strategy with iran basically using clear and golden payments to buy a turkey's state bank hot bank another turkish initiative was a cross a swap they are between iran and russia last year and that's bypassing the u.s. financial system but it fails to stall turkey's all supply problem turkey's relations with the us are strange two of the major problems are u.s. support for the kurdish fighters in syria out with turkey calls terrorists and the u.s. stopping deliveries of f. the device that's what plays because turkey refuses to cancel a deal to buy air rushing the missile defense system and with the domestic issues such as weak currency and troubled economy it seems difficult for the turkish government to stand against u.s.

sanctions on neighboring iran seen up to sort of al-jazeera a stumble or grab a break on the news hour when we come back we're looking at how the legacy of apartheid is fueling tend to. leading up to the next south african election. thailand crowns its new king two years after he inherited the throne. and eighteen women line up on the grid is a new motor sport series begins joe we'll have that and the rest of the sports a little light. rain clouds really have been gathering across central and southern parts of china lots of disturbed weather coming through hate see this weather stretching is way

down to much of vietnam as well so a lot of unsettled weather coming through with all these dark shades down to the southeast of china hong kong seeing some rather nasty weather on shore winds filtering in here for sunday that weather pushes up central parts of china as well come monday more of the same really so the real risk of some a localized flooding particularly to the southeast into the central areas southwestern plastic want to cross the south could see some rather wet weather by the time we do come to monday showers longer spells of right a good parts of vietnam as well sunshine and showers into southeast asia some rather lively ones into indonesia philippines doesn't look too bad for the philippines thailand seeing some rather wets weather some humid weather still he conditions big thunder a downpours here as we go through sunday similar to the last couple of days really thirty six celsius there in bangkok on sunday it doesn't get a whole lot better as we go on into monday the cloud of the rain still very much in

evidence thirty seven the high by this stage will see temperatures at thirty one the singapore. the weather sponsored by catalona is. in a country beset by poverty and lack of infrastructure. sometimes we risk our lives in taking these roads. saving lives is a dangerous job it's a vaccine so it's on a good cause when you go for hours there are patients waiting for these mothers who must be in pain life's earth risk is a week ago one of the gang stops on because of the road at that point is good luck for the state risking it all guinea at this time on al-jazeera growing up in the united states i learned that the first amendment is really key to being a freedom of the challenges going to be. men and women in the lead forces that are available what makes an al-jazeera story to me is that we just don't tell you what the subject of the story wants to know the government is not going to do the

one thing the demonstrators want to apologize for that's what al-jazeera does we ask the questions so that we can get closer to the truth. from the news on here at al-jazeera these are our top stories for palestinians killed including a pregnant mother and her four month old child as is already war planes hit the gaza strip and strikes were launched off to palestinian fighters fired dozens of rockets into southern israel injuring two israelis. north korea's just released pictures of fits leader kim jong un inspecting rocket launches from the country's east coast state media call of a strike drill and kim has also told his troops to be on alert. and siri. russian

government forces are continuing to strike rebel factions in the province in what is meant to be a deescalation zone at least twenty two people have been killed the fighting is forcing thousands from their homes many of whom have already been displaced. as well as opposition leaders made another bid for the support of the country's military as he tries to take over as president one. is to break ranks with president nicolas maduro but military commanders have remained loyal to me so far. as more from caracas. venezuela you are venezuela it's now or never that's the message from sanchez to this police officer. it sounds like a pretty from someone who is tired of the ongoing crisis in the country that. there's so much needed in our neighborhoods people cannot eat there's no medicine

no security and they know it because they have family my husband died because we can find medicine. from all across cracka ass small groups of people headed to the headquarters of the navy the army the police and the bolivarian national guard responding to opposition leader one last call to go out and convince them to switch sides people have come here to hand in a document but also distributing leaflets like this one to talk about an amnesty dog that has been offered to those who rebel against the government of motor except those involved in human rights abuses or war crimes will give you a good security forces did not take the message well. the government is not taking challenge to precedent. they deployed hundreds of security forces around the capital. appeared on state t.v.

leading military exercises all. showing the armed forces remain loyal to him. but look out a handful of traitors can tarnish the owner union question an image of the bolivarian national an armed forces in front of the people of the word no say no to traders out with the traitors and those in the fear that. the united states says it has been trying to negotiate. it with defense minister. and others in government. they were supposed to be part of the uprising alongside why they all but things did not work out as the opposition leader planned some say those negotiations were a trap carefully planned with the assistance of the cuban intelligence services. congressman winston florida says he will continue pressuring the government.

forces are infiltrated by the cubans the russians and by intelligence agencies their relatives are persecuted there's a lot of pressure but we will continue we will take our message to the families of the armed forces and everyone else we need to we are civilians asking for change. a message that resonates across. mostly because of the enormous economic crisis the country is now in. now in addition we've got the u.s. seeming to send mixed messages shall we say regarding venezuela or after speaking to president vladimir putin this way don't trump downplayed any russian involvement in caracas however his secretary. has since had this to say about moscow last month. and saw firsthand the misery that was created with the russians and cubans.

these same scenes of desperation are playing out all across venezuela the must and the time for transition is now his gabrielle is on though in washington d.c. to talk about the so which is it dave is that the secretary of state of the president that we listen say. well it's up to truth of that is probably somewhere in between on how much of a role than a rush is playing within venezuela but really this shows the real disconnect that you have with u.s. policy on venice well a visa vs russia right now in one way you have there you have the secretary of state mike pompei all basically saying russia is very involved in venezuela went so far last week is to say it was russia that called president nicolas maduro at the last minute and said do not flee to cuba and it was the russians according to my pump aoe that convinced me to stay in the country when that potential uprising was happening a few days ago so on the other hand though you have president donald trump who just

spoke to him you're putin on the phone a few days ago and afterwards donald trump said i spoke to putin and putin said that russia has no interest in being in venezuela or doing anything nefarious in venezuela so and it seemed like trump took that it face value so you're really getting these mixed messages out of washington and no real clear direction of where the u.s. stands on that why do you think secretary pump has come up with this now. it's a whole host of reasons but probably because the opposition is struggling right now as you just saw from the story from teressa bo there and come back as i mean you're seeing that the opposition is having a hard time building momentum let's remember it was three months ago that long white though declared himself president of venezuela interim president and it was three months ago that the united states accepted that recognized wide though as the president of the country and did not no longer recognized president nicolas maduro

as the president was three months ago and nothing has changed it was more due to a still the president won wide those still in the opposition nothing is changed i think you're seeing pompei or putting out this statement out to remind the opposition that the u.s. is behind them. see what has given an interview to the washington post and he makes some fairly big admissions they can take us through some of those. yeah he did in two really big things out of this interview on saturday that he did with the washington post number one is he admitted mistakes he admitted that the opposition did not properly calculate how many members of the armed forces would turn on mad to do it oh and cross sides over to the opposition how many would flee from a duo he basically said that we we didn't quite there's not enough support within the military for the opposition at this point that's a pretty key admission on why those part and the second thing as he was asked about

u.s. possible into military intervention in venezuela he said why those said i would prefer that any military intervention happened with the venice well and military but he said if it doesn't he goes he quite though would consider welcoming unilateral military intervention in venezuela if that's what it took to dislodge president nicolas maduro from power and he said some of this previously but he was very adamant about it or really open the door and open even more to it now it kind of gives you an idea of perhaps perhaps that why do the opposition might be getting a little desperate ok thank you for all of the in washington d.c. . and staying in washington we're going to focus on an interview another one that's getting a lot of attention this is nancy pelosi the speaker of the house whose concerns donald trump wouldn't relinquish power if he loses the twenty twenty presidential

race by a close margin speaking to the new york times pelosi said trump needs to be defeated in such a crushing way that he can't challenge the legitimacy of any democratic win she also cast doubt on the chances of trump being removed by impeachment let's talk about this with bill schneider political analyst and public policy professor at george mason university nice to see you bill i feel like donald trump said this before the twenty six same election as well we've sort of cast a bit of doubt and little you know what necessarily except the result in the end he won by a pretty strong margin. what does he base all of this on is the just the idea that there's only democratic fraud that could happen well first of all he did not win the twenty six thing to election by a decisive margin he lost the popular vote moved three million votes and he claims that those votes were fraudulently cast and that he actually did win the popular vote though he has never produced any evidence to that effect nor has anyone else he could easily claim fraud if it's

a close election in two thousand and twenty and he again loses the popular vote and perhaps loses the electoral vote which is the decisive vote exactly a good good point to make that the popular vote is not the thing which actually decide the election but he did contest that as well do you do you think nancy pelosi is taking the right. path here if you like because there is a lot of agitation within parts of the democratic party to start impeachment she's saying no let's go and do it the old fashioned way almost. well what she's doing is protecting the democratic majority that was just won in november in the house of representatives and made her once again speaker of the house she said that the only way democrats can retain their control as a majority party in the house of representatives is to remain a moderate party to appeal to disaffected trump voters without scaring them with words like socialism and a green new deal they have to stick to the center she said in order to retain

control of the house her primary loyalty is to keep her majority in the house and that's what she's acting to do she's afraid if there's impeachment under way that a lot of trump voters will rally to support president trump and that majority democratic majority in the house could be lost is there not a risk of the democratic party looking at the week or indecisive here you know they they they got back control of the house in twenty eighteen in there is a school of thought that says take advantage of it push do something you know a lot of democrats are saying that right now and there's a bold move in the democratic party to push the party more to the left nancy pelosi is worried about that because look the districts that democrats captured from republicans from donald trump in nineteen in twenty eighteen are districts where there are a lot of trump voters and she doesn't want to further alienate those voters so she's arguing for democrats to take a moderate path in order to keep their control their hold on power just to

returning to the article where she talks about as we say beating him by a margin so big he cannot challenge any budgets mysie. it is they have this sort of specter almost of the supreme court in all of this as well that if donald trump were to contest anything and twenty twenty that he has got a supreme court which might be more in favor of. he probably believes that because he's already said that if they try to impeach him he'll take it to the supreme court which plays no role in the impeachment process whatever and would very likely do nothing to interfere with it now the supreme court has gotten involved in a presidential election before in two thousand they declared bush the winner over al gore when there was a disputed result but that was a very close election with a very close in disputed issue and a constitutional issue was involved this is he can he thinks the supreme court is his get out of jail free card that if they try to impeach him or if they win the election on what he regards as fraudulent terms the supreme court will rescue him i

doubt if that's true hard to believe we're discussing all this eighteen months out from an election but most of the times we live in and thank you for joining us yes sure. thousands of muslims have attended the reopening of a historic a mosque that was destroyed in nine hundred ninety two when the bosnian war wrapped it the sixteenth century. allowed mosque in the town of such it was a masterpiece of classical awesome and architecture but one of many mosques blown up by serb forces during the conflict which tore apart the former yugoslavia fortune had a muslim population of about twenty thousand back then but today only one thousand remain the ceremony was aimed to encourage reconciliation between both sunni and serb and croat communities. as south africans prepare to head to the polls this week the political race is stirring up emotions in a place where the legacy of apartheid does live on it has been twenty five years

since the laws to segregate people were abolished the issue of racism though that is still an election issue from in a miller reports now from gary in the northern cape province. it's in this dry dusty and desolate part of the northern cape province that a group of white south africans say their found refuge they call this place utica only white afrikaans speaking people are allowed to settle here but they say they're not racists orcutt's want to paul and his family moved here three months ago he says to protect and preserve the africana culture language and way of life we were all building on a dream. but i think for aggressively. it got worse and it got more difficult and with affirmative action. it made it increasingly difficult. for us as white people to get jobs secure jobs and also job security you really really sure when you might be retrenched we've not been given permission to film in utica

instead we speak to the founder our brand new boat at his home nearby the school is only under a foot. but you know last. bernie the shoe is no on the other foot and now we are fighting against the racists how can we be racist when it is us who are being forced out of the country they sing against us kill the farmer so everything counts against the white race so who are the racists. so far twenty families live here and more homes are being built the local government went to court to stop people here from building any more houses the minutes a pallet he says these homes were built without permission and contravene bolding regulations the court agreed but judges are also considering whether or not a town that allows only white afrikaner people to live there should be allowed to exist in a democratic south africa one of the smaller and newly formed political parties

black first land first has banned white south africans from joining it we have a blacks organization let us be clear accept white people the party sentiments resonate with some in a country many consider to be one of the most unequal in the world it's been accused of exercising discrimination and taken to court the wrong of this country is anti black hole you couldn't exist in. the media projection of let problems is anti black. we are going to the parliament therefore truly presenting your voice or for people to bring a prop left democracy in a fleck county while the apartheid system and its policies based on race may have been abolished twenty five years ago many here say they have to live with its legacy and come election day the vote of many south africans will be influenced by race and identity. al-jazeera south africa.