and that will motivate them to also be a little bit more flexible in their approach to entering into negotiations which they have not been since annoying the hanoi summit reportedly failed because the u.s. side unexpectedly introduced the prospect of doing a much bigger deal than had been talked about before the meeting something north korea favoring smaller more tentative steps couldn't agree to but south korea believes a compromise is possible and president moon's team remains hopeful of finding it we must agree on a comprehensive settlement and fulfill that through gradual steps it must include a clear road map and timetable the highlight of this trip is expected to be trump's long anticipated visit to the demilitarized zone separating the 2 koreas south korea is hoping this visit produces far more than just a symbolic photo opportunity. alive now to rob mcbride in south korea's capital

this was something of a spur of the moment decision from the u.s. president as we've come to expect from him this invitation any likelihood at this point that it will actually happen given the small window that he has and the fact that the north koreans haven't actually replied officially. absolutely has i'm spontaneous and as we don't as we know north korea just doesn't do spontaneous trump has now arrived here in seoul he is the guest of president mungy and having dinner at the presidential compound and you can bet that the topic of conversation that will be dominating around the dinner table will be exactly what happens tomorrow sunday because as of this hour middle of saturday evening we on the outside the journalists other observers simply have no idea about how and what will pan out tomorrow and i rather suspect many of the actors on the inside the main protagonists the main players don't know quite how this is all going to work

tomorrow either given this off the cuff spontaneous invitation a tweet from president trump saturday morning for kim jong un if he happens to be passing to meet him at the d.m.z. and shake hands many people disregarded it to begin with didn't give it much credence but then within a few hours we had a response from the korea which are given the fact that responses from north koreans officially normally takes days this was a matter of a few hours with a response from north korea's 1st vice foreign minister saying that they would certainly consider it especially if it was put in a more formal context or more formal invitation now we do know that since then president trump did seek out in a sark of president of south korea saying did you read the tweet can you make it happen or help on our behalf so we can be sure that there have been all sorts of communications going through all sorts of channels to try to see whether it will

happen or not but until it actually does and we might not know until tomorrow sunday we have no idea if this will happen but if it does it certainly will be extremely historic the idea of a serving us president of meeting shaking hands in this. john. a famous village that's on the border between north and south korea with the blue hearts and even the possibility as moon julian did in his historic meeting with kim jong un shaking hands and taking one step over into the north just imagine if that happens has them rob thank you. regional security is high on the agenda at a summit of west african states the echo us blockers it's known as increasingly concerned by fighting in mali violence has escalated there this year in march more than 154 largely people died in one of the worst massacres in the country's history i mean he has more from a buddha. security has been the common denominator of all the 3 speeches and of

course it's also expected to be reflected in all of the speeches and all of the discussions that are going to happen in the next few hours here in this building at the presidential palace now president mahmoud abbas said despite the progress recorded by the region over the last one year or so security remains a very very serious issue and so did the chairman of the of course commission and united nations special representative and they said the region needs actually a new approach to deal with the situation they talked about the clashes between hiders and farmers the doggone hunters in mali the full any promise and promise clashes in nigeria that has claimed thousands of lives of thousands of lives over the last 3 or 4 years so the issue is becoming more and more potent and they have also touched on the critical issue that the region has been dealing with for the last 10 years or so with the issue of boko haram and now i feel it's trying to take

a foothold in west africa and the south this is a very serious concern for leaders at the summit which by the way is one of 10 that most of the leaders of west africa members of the economic community of west african states attending the region the fost of its kind in a very very long time here in nigeria elsewhere in west africa because most don't most of the times only a few leaders will arrive and then the rest will stand in that a percentage so but it looks like the issue of security is paramount on the minds of all the leaders gathered here when we come back and i just need a why libyan will to leave after i had ordered his forces to target turkish ships and interest. gapped in a refugee rescue ship is led away by italian police off the docking as a matter of right mediterranean port.

how do you have those 2 training osaka for the g 20 delegates well it's still raining and it will do i think the next 2 days the system that's coming in from the west is not a slowing down it's part of the seasonal system which gives heavy rain in both japan and china so the threat home sure looks fairly wet not necessarily further north or carter looks very dry of cloud in the wrap around showers inventive us talking dancer north korea are going to be death next 2 days it really isn't moving very quickly at all but where it's not raining the sun's out for south korea beijing's 35 in the quietly moving air and the blazing sunshine the tail end of this rain goes through for geologists just south of shanghai actually in terms of dance the southwest junkers probably cloudy and hong kong certainly cloudy and you may even be wet every now and again but the concentrated van rain has been inland and it goes down toward vietnam as well and also me in ma this is the advancing monsoon rain has turned quite heavy now it affects the northern philippines but if

you're south of that particularly down in borneo or below it's the dry time is the dry season so the chances are going to shower too insular ways at least come the into monday it will be in the east and you may just be able to see it not feel it java looks far. my name is. always thought of yoga as part of my heritage. understand it to be about transformation. seems to be transforming the western mentality a lot about this immense region from eastern traditions like nobel prize originally yoga should belong to everyone but i'm afraid that simple truth is getting lost in a world that's so commercialized to decide who owns yoga on al-jazeera.

but again you're watching a reminder of our top stories this hour some of the world's biggest economies ended in ended with china and the united states agreeing to restart talks and try and end their trade war u.s. president donald trump said he would not impose any new tariffs on china for now. trump has traveled on to south korea to revive talks on denuclearization earlier he invited north korean leader kim jong un to shake hands with him on the demilitarized zone north korea's government said it was an interesting proposition . regional security high on the agenda at a summit of west african states the echo s. bloc is increasingly concerned by fighting in mali violence has escalated this year

in march more than 150 people were killed. our forces loyal to libyan war after are threatening to target turkish interests in libya including airline flights and ships spokesman says turks in libya will be arrested turkey's accused of supplying weapons to forces allied to the un recognized government in tripoli. the u.s. state department is investigating how half those forces obtained american made antitank missiles forces roiled to the u.n. back government said they found the weapons after capturing the city of very and earlier this week libyan media showed rocket launchers with the u.a.e. marked as the recipient if the m.r. artie's did provide the weapons it would be a violation of arms sales agreements with the us. has been to the libyan town the government forces captured from haft are they retreat from the area is seen as a significant setback that they were had has this exclusive report. the road from

tripoli to open again. the city and surrounding area have been a battlefield for the past 3 months. following the latest fighting with honey for have to his forces soldiers loyal to libyan government regained control of the yan as we drive towards the city the remnants of the battles little on the roadside. sandbanks built to defend the city now a stumbling block for call drivers. government forces have recaptured have those military camps like many from of the riyadh who resisted have to his invasion. led was forced to leave his home city in march he says he left his family behind and took part in civil battles until he and his comrades finally reclaim their home. his friends and neighbors are celebrating. we coordinated with their fellow

fighters inside the city along with the western military region command to set the incursion it took us weeks but the city fell into our hands in about 7 hours. funerals have been held for the soldiers who died defending the city. it's estimated dozens were killed in fighting since the city was seized. the fall of the u.n. is being seen as a setback for have to his forces and their campaign to capture the capital. government forces showed off dozens of u.s. made antitank missiles they said they were seized from have to his forces in a rianne and they say their weapons were supplied by the united arab emirates. have to command headquarters in the un is abandoned from here have to the commanders of the forces into battle in southern tripoli over the past 3 months troops and

weapons who were sent from here to north to support the war on the capital. libyans living here say french an iraqi military officers were seen have to hit a quarter of that money or have the kind of fact that it was a nightmare under the rule of hafter forces they misuse the city's facilities including hospitals which became overcrowded with their house will to use. life is slowly returning to normal but the fighting has taken its toll on the people's lives government forces are in full control of a very young city some of have those forces have retreated to the nearby town of. others to the city of daraa who are now but this is their way sion anybody and remains tense and people here are worried that half those were planes could target government forces within the city and without the. area the taliban fighters have killed at least $26.00 policeman in northern afghanistan the

attack on a village in battle and province happened hours before the shadow resumption of talks between taliban and u.s. negotiators in qatar there in da house hoping to finalize a draft task addressing issues including a nationwide cease fire and that would draw of u.s. forces. 5 children are among 8 people killed in yemen by ass strikes led by the saudi and u.a.e. coalition warplanes struck a residential area in a controlled pots of ties all the fighting in southern yemen killed 12 yemeni soldiers and 8 hooty fighters the united nations special representative for children in conflict says the yemeni people are being held hostage by the war now into its 5th year. and the captain of a migrant rescue ship is under arrest after defying italian government oldest she arrived with 40 refugees who've been stuck at sea for more than 2 weeks several european countries have agreed to accept them including france germany and portugal and schapelle as more. judging by the welcome that she received on the italian

island of lampedusa corona rickets 8 was seen as both a hero and a criminal. the captain of the sea watch 3 was arrested after defying the italian government and bringing the german charity rescue ship into harbor she could face up to 10 years in prison for defying military orders. 40 migrants were finally allowed to disembark 16 days after their rescue off the libyan coast 13 others had earlier been allowed to leave the ship for medical reasons the rest were left marooned in the mediterranean during a fierce heat wave there's a lot of cheers sleeping on them a bit of floor and they were going up every morning realizing you are still in the middle of a divorce and. the stories of italy's far right interior minister condemn the ship's crew as outlaws accusing them of people trafficking and. we're not a country of fools we have rules the rules borders so those who made

a mistake will pay i guarantee that to the italian people italy's government had told the ship's captain to take the rescued migrants to mull to tunisia or anywhere else instead the german charity that operates the watch 3 says the captain declared an emergency but was ignored by the italians. captain recap they said she had no other choice because of the worsening conditions on board i mean. courts well recognize that. it's much more an art at the right people to safety and lives. and it's more important than the right especially territorial waters. the migrants are expected to leave lampedusa soon other european countries including france germany luxembourg and portugal have agreed to allow them in. the sea watch 3 is the latest symbol of the refugee crisis on europe's southern front 2 year but the challenge is much greater than one ship and its defiant captain hundreds of other migrants landed on italy's coast over the

last 2 weeks despite sell beanies warnings to stay away and are schapelle al-jazeera. a prosecutors are defending their decision to drop criminal charges in one of the worst manmade environmental disasters in u.s. history city leaders in flint michigan are accused of a crime against humanity by knowingly piping drinking water into it water poison would lead one to into people's homes castro has more from them. in flint justice is long awaited and elusive after thousands of the city's residents were poisoned with lead tainted tap water some dying and others with long long illnesses but government officials accused of knowing about the danger but saying nothing has paid little for their mistake key to the criminal case is the decision of government workers to begin piping water from the flint river into

people's homes it was cheaper than the old water source but due to insufficient water treatment at least lead into the drinking water prosecutors argue that certain officials should have known better this is a poor man and he talked about humility if you know. walk but we're not doing anything about ray hall says his one year old nephew died from the poisoned water that his mother unknowingly put into the baby's bottle and it was. other children show developmental delays linked to lead poisoning on friday a new team of prosecutors called a community meeting to explain why they dismissed charges against 8 government officials citing the shoddy investigation conducted by the previous administration needs to be done properly we know that there are many deaths out there that have yet to be investigated. and it is out there it is our obligation when we accept it this is their oath to represent the people is the ability. to

investigate those deaths those families deserve it the incoming prosecutors say they'll likely file new charges possibly more serious ones than those dismissed but time is running out only 9 months remain before the statute of limitation kicks in they could wrap it up in 3 years and you know let up in the next. all of ours the government is asking the community to trust them that justice delayed isn't justice denied but for the people who've suffered and waited this is yet another drop of poison they're asked to swallow heidi joe castro al-jazeera flint michigan. this is a 0 it's going to round up all the top stories the summits of the world's biggest economies has ended with china and the united states agreeing to restart talks on

trying to end a trade war u.s. president donald trump said he would not impose any new tariffs on china for now. we had a great meeting and we will be continuing to negotiate and i promise that for. at least the time being we're not going to be lifting tariffs on china we won't be airing an additional. you know tremendous amount of where we have i guess $350000000000.00 left which could be taxed or could be terrorized and we're not doing that we're we're going to work with china on where we left off to see if we can make a deal. or trump has traveled to south korea to revive talks on denuclearization he was welcomed by south korea's president gerry and before talks earlier trump invited north korean leader kim jong un to shake hands with him on the

demilitarized zone most korea's government said it was an interesting proposition the u.s. state department is investigating how half stars forces obtained american made antitank missiles forces loyal to the u.n. back government said they found a weapons after capturing the libyan city of gary an earlier this week libyan media showed rocket launchers with the u.a.e. marked as the recipient. after more than 2 weeks stranded at sea dozens of migrants are finally landed in italy but only after the german humanitarian ship that rescued them managed to dodge the coast guard the captain was detained after defying a tally in our thirty's and docking in lampedusa she says she had no choice because of worsening conditions on board. prosecutors in the u.s. city of flint michigan have defended their decision to drop criminal charges against officials accused of letting people drink lead tainted water it's been called one of the worst manmade environmental disasters in u.s.

history those are the headlines inside stories next. can the g 20 and trade wars and political infighting japan is hosting the leaders of the world's 20 largest economy but how relevant is their annual summit for the rest of the world this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program and to be gopalan now leaders of the world's wealthiest economies are in japan to discuss the biggest challenges to flow both free trade the group of 20 summit or g 20 has been held every year for the past 2 decades and the aim is for political and financial leaders to work more closely together for the world's 7 biggest economies the g 7 became the g 20 for lowing the asian financial crisis in 1909 the european union and 1000 countries some members years ago finance ministers and central bank governors were do table but heads of state joined in following the global financial crisis in 2008 the g 20 represents 2 thirds of the world's population and 85 percent of the world's economic output. this year summit is supposed to unite leaders around issues such as free trade and climate change but trade disputes and political infighting are creating divisions our white house correspondent kimberly how has this report from osaka. smiles and

even a fist bump between japanese leader shinzo ave india's narendra modi and u.s. president donald trump even though prior to their g 20 meeting trump criticized both. and at a g. 20 leaders family photo trump was again smiling with saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman even though u.s. intelligence congress and the united nations say the kingdom was responsible for the murder of journalist. also notable during that photo op chinese president xi seeking out trump in the midst of their ongoing trade war to shake hands that gesture was apparently lost on trump despite she's defense of china's digital policies trump indirectly blame she's government for intellectual property theft and risks to 5 g. security at the same time as we expand digital trade we must also ensure the resilience and security of our 5 g. networks this is essential to our shared safety and prosperi. the process of

data collection analysis and circulation east but we also need to respect the solver's rights of each nation. their differences foreshadow a potentially tense meeting between the leaders of the world's 2 largest economies on saturday and less hope for resolving the us china trade war but looming over all of this was trump's meeting with russian president vladimir putin their 1st since u.s. special counsel robert muller released his report detailing russian interference the 2016 u.s. election instead of forcefully confronting pugin issued just a lighthearted warning. of. a white house readout of trump's meeting with the paris cust arms control venezuela syria and iran but there's no mention in. interference and trump's half hearted word of

caution to putin well someone expected is once again inviting criticism for trucks failure to forcefully confront russia's leader kimberley health at al-jazeera osaka . well we can now bring in our guests in london we have felicitous weber she's the project lead to add business and human rights resource center that's a non-governmental organization and on skype from osaka john curtin is the director of the g. 20 research group that's an independent that work of global scholars providing analysis on the g. 20 and in nairobi. economist and c.e.o. of rich management and investment advisory company in kenya welcome to all of you thank you very much for being on the program i want to start with john curtin yarn a sockeye you've been following the developments at the g. 20 very closely my question to you 1st is war he is the g. 20 summit so u.s.

centric how come there's so much focus on america's dealings bilaterally with different countries has it always been so u.s. centric or is this a triumph factor. well certainly when the g. 20 summit 1st started it tyros as a consequence of the american turnout lobel financial crisis the day lehman brothers died in downtown new york city september up 215-2008 george bush's united states hosted the 1st rock obama as the united states hosted the 3rd g. 20 summit so much for that reason the united states loomed very large even when it was defining a new institution and new rules of the game after that the focus really gained broad as other countries started to

a sin the presidency including nitemare putin's russia in knesset petersburg in $2131.00 of the more successful simons angle a miracle in amber guy in 2007 in that area successful climate and donald trump's 1st so some of the drama we've seen here and at one of sarah's summit last year we were had a preview but in am very but nonetheless it produced a very successful i'm summit so even though donna trump is often the center of attention for our many in the world he is capable of adjusting when necessary and one of the reasons why i think we're likely to see a somewhat of broad substantial success here at the end of the day tomorrow right alekhine such as staying with the same the u.s. centric summit only because we have to have. all the qana discussion seem to be

about that or what we're hearing about anyway once outside of soka what does it mean for other countries that are not necessarily represented at the g 20 summit when policies are formed. so the 1st thing obviously is overwhelming the g. 20 summit is this gladiatorial combat between a president trump and pain this is the trade war the tariff war this is the main line item of this entire g. 20 summit and essentially the direction of the global economy is going to be driven by whether these 2 can make some kind of resolution whether they can have a truce remember the last time at the previous g. 20 in buenos aires over true state whether coughed sello in stay can shut mel back at the same time the c.f.o. of hew way was being interdicted in canada i think you know the focus of everybody

is on this on this sort of data tauriel issue between the 2 of them and i think that's why the attention is centered on that unfortunately for somewhere like africa or i think we've rather where a sideline issue at this g 20 summit run of photos as representing africa but right now he's he's having to handle a brief in country which for probably precludes him from doing much else so i think great optics great it's very interesting it's in this post fragmented world where we don't know who our allies and who our enemies largely because of trump but i think that's why this focuses on this code to toe bout fest by the way both of whom i think are going to be unable to reconcile themselves i think trump is it train driver but the train tracks have been set he could speed it up or slow it down but unfortunately and then on the other side xeon paying the paramount

leader the nature of a paramount leader is you know you're up on a pedestal and everyone can point at you and he can't compromise either so whilst everybody's talking about tino a big fat agenda and lots of things being. discussed let's make no mistake this is essentially about the 2 superpowers and about whether they can come to some kind of resolution everything else long jetty the digitally color me this is just. ahead of the main course i think you're absolutely right our economy can have this discussion without talking about that trump she bilateral meeting that taking place on saturday and what possibly could come out of it and its implications but before we get into that let me come to felicitous webber. we're talking about the focus on the u.s. and other focus on the trump she meeting that is happening. what does that mean for the other issues for the wider population this g.

20. the countries represent 2 thirds of the population but does it really represent the issues that 2 thirds of the population are facing. so we feel there are really big issues that are getting left out of the discussion some were already mentioned but a really other big one is workers so the workers produced a food dead we eat that produced a closed that we were completely left out of the discussion so the ilo estimates that there are $24000000.00 slaves in the world today and modern slavery creates $150000000000.00 profits every single year so at no the chain one of the projects that we're working on we did a study where we looked at even just 120 largest global companies and some of the high risk sectors so all companies that are headquartered within did g 20 and we found that most of them are really not doing enough to address forced labor risks in their supply chains meaning that there is workers which are often migrant workers to where tricked into situations where to have to work for

a very limited money often don't get paid have to passports rechange are unable to leave and have to have to pay very high fees to get the job in the 1st place something you or i don't have to do so we really feel that there is a big opportunity for or did she try to lead us to put human rights and labor rights on the agenda and to advance legislation on that topic john curtin before i get into basically the nuts and bolts of g. 20 and the issues that are being talked about or even being missed i want to talk about that one of the comments you've made in the past and the whole point of originally of the g. 20 was to resist protectionism do you think this g. 20 summit will be able to follow that mandate. well i certainly am not predicting that they will repeat not traditional trey's and the anti protectionist leggett's known we will refrain from the new protectionist measures and then later

they added and their redress which means reduce or removes the ones we've already taken but i am expecting similar language of pointing in the same direction affirming the value will open international law trade are recognizing that trade is a source of but you know my growth highlighting the importance of a rules based trade and indeed doesn't need to urgently reform the world trade organization which many see as being at the center of the global trade system so i think there's going to be good news on trade and free trade are relative to most of the predictions are coming into the meeting ali khan such an idiot to think that there will be good news so at this meeting do you thing that issues will be resolved and where we can see the whole idea of protectionism while maybe not necessarily broken up artists but at least.