and of being the 1st foreign leader to meet the new emperor of japan was a historic certainly symbolic poignant moment that we saw in the imperial palace a few hours ago and shinzo alba has tried very hard over the past few years to donald trump to get him on his side going back in to 2016 when donald trump won the election there was the 1st leader to fly over there to meet then president elect donald trump in trump tower in new york and since then they have mates by the face to face or spoken on the phone at least 40 times much of that to do with north korea but it is still quite a remarkable statistic and i think that's really what it is all about for shinzo a bit trying to build that relationship to an extent that it makes it more difficult for donald trump who as we all know can be an unpredictable unconventional president to set that relationship back when it comes to security issues or trade issues and when with the 2 men now need thing that tough work

begins something of a clearly get along that they have already said not to expect a trade deal that's not. yes that's right donald trump spoke about trade as soon as you arrived in japan speaking to japanese business leaders the reference that trade deficit that you heard him speak about a few moments ago saying that it needs to be rectified but also tweeting that he wouldn't expect any significant announcements or any significant deals to be reached in this trade negotiation until after july the reason he's saying that is because there's an upper house election coming up in japan in july and there is a feeling that shinzo up is in want to going to want to make too many concessions to the united states before the election because of course it could risk alienating some of his votes a base now donald trump is saying in that brief media conference that he gave before the bilateral talks with shinzo abo would you to get under way in the

building behind me he's saying now that they hope to announce some sort of trade deal in or go so it seems that we have a few more months of negotiations still to come out of there as well and have a following that visit for some time here thank you. whether it's next still ahead on now is there an iraq signal support for iraq standoff with the united states one again offering a mediator. hello again here across united states it has been another day of severe weather particular across oklahoma here the storms have pushed through and they were deadly in el reno oklahoma where people had died because of the overnight storm and it's still dealing with the recovery there across the region we're going to see more

weather over the next few days particular pier across parts of arkansas into missouri and to iowa as well and we're also dealing in conjunction with the flooding that's going on because these storms continue to drop rain across much of the same areas from monday to tuesday a lot of the rain pushes into ontario but then we're going to be seeing a little bit of break here across the central areas down towards the southeast we're still dealing with heat with atlanta reaching to about $34.00 degrees there what we've been talking about the rain and heavy rain across parts of central america we do have a disturbance off the coast that has really been instigating the rain there nicaragua has been a big problem and now we're going to be seeing a little bit more rain as we go towards northwestern coast to rica so flooding and also mudslides and landslides could be a problem there up towards now it is going to be a nice day on monday with a temperature of $28.00 degrees and then very quickly across parts of argentina a little bit of a rainfall situation across parts of the north in the east and a sunshine rain for you the temperature of $26.00.

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and again i'm. reminded of the news this hour pro europe centrists have suffered significant losses in one of the most contentious elections in the e.u.'s history the center right european people's policy and the socialists and democrats together have the most seats but not enough for a combined majority and the right is gaining ground in the elections. led by material salvini has become the biggest policy in the country and in front's marine le pen one of her symbolic jewel was president. and president all trump has praised the relationship between the u.s. and japan as he sat down with prime minister shinzo all day he says they're working together to address the trade imbalance between the 2 countries. at that news conference in tokyo also spoke about growing tensions between the united states and iran i do believe that iran would like to talk and if they'd like to talk we'd like to talk also we'll see what happens but i don't know for

a fact that the. prime minister is very close with the leadership of iran and we'll see what up and show it would be fine. nobody wants to see terrible things happen especially me. now iraq has spoken out against the u.s. treatment of iran and the escalating crisis that the iraqi foreign minister also told his iranian counterpart they are willing to mediate from madison reports from baghdad on iraq's delicate position. if mohammed jeffords early for came to baghdad to clarify where iraq stands in the ongoing tension between the u.s. and iran iraq's foreign minister seems to have given him an answer and. against the unilateral measures taken by the us we are standing by iran in its position and god willing we can play an intermediary role between the parties if necessary. iran's foreign minister has proposed signing a non-aggression pact with gulf neighbors but iran says it will take action if

necessary. we will defend ourselves against any efforts for a war with iran whether it is a military or economic one that would victimize the iranian people we will face it with strength and resistance iran and iraq have close ties to trade culture and religion but iraq relies on u.s. and foreign troops to combat the threat of eisel and it needs foreign investment especially to develop its oil fields iraq has been doing a diplomatic balancing act for years and some say that puts it in a perfect position to be able to mediate between the united states and iran but to do it successfully like most negotiations it has to be seen not to take sides there are also fears that some of shia armed groups in iraq who are allied to iran might decide to upset that balance they might decide to take their own action their own initiative against u.s. assets in iraq. iraqis filled tahrir square in the heart of baghdad on friday

demanding that their government put iraq's safety 1st and that their country should be at the center of talks to find a solution. and iraq at the. iraq has become a bridge where meetings have been held at the iranian embassy with european diplomatic missions and it's taken the decision to start talks with moderate countries affected by the situation to lobby the united states and iran to try to extinguish the fires of war. iraqis maybe need more evidence to convince them that they won't be dragged into an unwanted conflict rob matheson al jazeera back. several kurdish politicians and thousands of prisoners in turkey have ended their 200 day long hunger strike they were responding to a call from their leader. who's been in jail for 20 years protesters politician leila groovin started her hunger strike in november in

a push to improve auto loans access to lawyers and prison conditions while syrian government forces have regained control of a village in the northwest just days after losing to rebels government troops initially captured earlier this month before losing it to fight as led by hired to reality that group used to be linked to al qaeda government forces launched an offensive on the last month it's the last major rebel stronghold in syria state media in saudi arabia says it's intercepted a drone with explosives launched by who's the fight is is apparently targeted the airport inches than near yemen's border towards the south who thier run media confirmed a drone strike on military hangars at the airport the emir of cats us take to member tunney has been asked to attend to emergency summits in saudi arabia the invitation came from saudi king solomon in the highest level publicly known contacts between the 2 nations in the early 2 years cancer remains on dry land sea

and air blockade after saudi arabia led for arab nations in imposing a trade and travel embargo in june 2017 the meetings will focus on the effects of recent attacks on saudi oil installations in the region. well tens of thousands of brazilians have rallied in support of president john abell so narrow crowds gathered in more than 300 cities calling for political reforms many are accusing the supremes court and congress of trying to block both sonars agenda the demonstrations are being seen as an effort to counter earlier protests against bolton r.-o. and his decision to cut funding from public education and close to that probe elsinore in march in rio human rights activists and people living in the cities for that has demonstrated against an increase in police violence there have been a record 434 killings by police in the 1st 3 months of this year the protests were called stop killing us president both sonar and the governor of rio support shoot

to kill policies in neighborhoods where drug gangs operates accusations of corruption were rampant in argentina when cristina cut snow was in power since then judicial authorities have launched a campaign to detain and seize assets of those involved in corruption scandals to raise about who has more from buenos aires. sealing through but on a river aboard a confiscated $1000000.00 luxury yacht that's been used by argentine security forces. the ship belong to the god of the highway the former transport secretary during the administration of cristina fernandez. he's currently in prison accused of corruption whatever the prefect. says all saudis are using the yacht because the government cannot sell it. was recovered in a corruption operation it is now used by the students of the institute so they can

learn how to navigate we have to pay for maintenance everything is very costly but i would rather buy speedboats all students but in the meantime it is what we have. longed for a labor union representing construction workers he's being accused of corruption and extortion the estimated value of the car is about $350000.00. but it's not just ferrari's there are at least 3 garages like this one filled with luxury cars the government has to pay for the maintenance and insurance of the vehicles at cost that people like says needs to stop. ideally if the vehicles were normal we could use them in operations the problem is that in this case the cars are too expensive for us to use we have to keep them and it requires a big investment to keep them i. accusations of corruptions were rampant during the

previous administration but what is your market came to power in 2015 with a promise to fight it but he was also investigated because his name appeared in the pan am i papers 0 machree is the son of a once powerful businessman who also had dealings with the argentine state. never mind the political part. there are within the political establishment links that transcend the party and mix business and political classes and many of them want all the corruption investigations to be closed because many many are in court . precedent mackley best to decrease so the government can sell the confiscated corruption items but for now it has not been implemented. the degree needs to be controlled by congress and congress rejected it the degree is unconstitutional i think fighting criminal organizations require us to a. new method but it has to go through congress and all political forces should be

able to say i'm sorry. but it's an election year in argentina and for now many in the opposition say the law will have to wait. at least 30 people are dead and 200 others are missing after a boat sank. and western democratic republic of congo officials estimate several 100 people were on board when bad weather hit they were mainly teaches travelling to collect their salaries by boat because roads in the region are in poor condition and at least 4 people have been killed in a church attack and became a faster it happened in the village of 2 affair it's the 4th attack on a church in recent weeks fighters linked to al qaeda and i so have been active in the region a tornado has ripped through a motel and trailer park in the us state of oklahoma killing at least 2 people and injuring dozens more the twister touched down in el reno about 25 miles west of

oklahoma city late on saturday night the town's mayor has described the aftermath as tragic and says several businesses were also damaged the area was just recovering from serious flooding when the storm hit. at least one person has died in northern peru where there's been a powerful earthquake magnitude 8 events happened about 75 kilometers southeast of gunas district president martin biz kyra has flown over the epicenter where the quake damaged buildings and roads and coolest part of a hillside to collapse at least 18 people were injured and. the means says it's working with the french government to arrange the return of precious artifacts stolen during the colonial era but one of the challenges is the capacity to look after the items once they arrive on the boats and reports from album a the area from which that many of those items are thought to have been taken from. this is what remains of the palace of what was once the most powerful kingdom in french

speaking africa we were given rare access to the album a palace of 48 hector maze of compounds rich in history and culture dating back hundreds of years. our guide is himself a prince mature who is explaining how the apple makings conquered their enemies sold their people to slavery and took hundreds of wives. is asking france to return thousands of artifacts looted from the country during the colonial wars many of them thought to be from the kingdom of apple me these stars represent the spirits of the oval making and they date back to the 1600 people considered these and other stolen artifacts to be at the heart of their culture and that's why they want them back. the current king holds a position still steeped in ceremony we have to kneel while he grants us an audience and gives his view on the issue. of these objects are back we will perform

ceremonies to recover their powers this will allow peace to reign in our country we've suffered so much since the reign of my father shot by jews we have only seen pictures today i am king and if they carry. it would be a great joy for us. in december 28th in france as president announced the return of just 26 pieces but that hasn't happened yet because bin in is not ready to receive them the government admits it needs resources and expertise we have in where you. ministry of culture in france for training. professionals here the curator is. fair in their. sights and museums and the professional courses has already started hearing been at the french institute in order to have really nice exhibitions we have to modernize.

and we're working on that really the french side because passages to preserve the country's culture and history is a challenge that extends beyond me in the capital city of portland the best museum in town is also in need of support along with iconic buildings such as the central mosque built in the early ninety's hundreds. of them got old to much to the president of his people's past is his passion but it's going to take time before you look at the chance to see his kingdom's artifacts back on home soil i'm aborting al jazeera me. hello i'm the star with the headlines on al-jazeera for europe centrists have suffered significant losses and one of the most contentious elections in the e.u.'s history the center right european peoples party and the socialists and democrats together have the most seats but not enough for

a majority and the right is gaining ground in the elections italy's league party led by matteo salvini has become the biggest party in that country and in from some arena pen claimed what she called a victory for the people after projections put her national rally ahead of president emmanuel backgrounds party and in the u.k. nigel farage is new bricks at parties in the lead as voters expressed frustration over the deadlock on how to leave the european union for says his party's success is a massive message for the conservative and labor parties that have long dominated british politics president obama trump has praised the relationship between the u.s. and japan as he sat down with prime minister shinzo ave their talks will focus on trade and regional security earlier he became the 1st foreign leader to meet the new emperor and our heater. so our relationship i think i can speak from the standpoint of the united states has never been better than it is right now with

japan i feel that we understand each other very well we're very committed to each other as nations so we have a situation where we have the best relationship that we've ever had with japan and we're going to keep it that way we are work you know and the imbalance of trade there's been a tremendous imbalance and we're working on that and i'm sure that that will work out over a period of time and during that briefing trump also said he'd be open to dialogue with iran if they wanted to talk trump sent extra troops to the region amid escalating tensions but has downplayed fears of conflicts on sunday iraq spoke out against the u.s. over its treatment of iran but the iraqi foreign minister told his iranian counterpart that iraq is willing to mediate syrian government forces have regained control of the village of kufa in the northwest just days often using it to rebels

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