bashar al assad. north korea state news says the syrian president plans to meet with kim in north korea. the timing is unclear. north korea is shaking up the military leadership ahead of the singapore summit. we have alexandra field with more from seoul. this is interesting. what is the dynamic with syria and north korea? >> reporter: look, this is interesting news and it certainly comes as an interesting times. two countries have a history of ons back to the 1960s. k kim jong-un's grandfather met with bashar al assad's father in the '70s. they exchanged messages of support for one another. this is the first face-to-face meeting. admittedly no date has been set. it has been reported by north korean news the meeting would happen. this is theirst time a world leader travels to pyongyang to meet with kim jong-un. certainly we know history of cooperation with the countries. just this past winter the u.n. released a report with alleged evidence of the latest cooperation with north korea and syria on chemic

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you have isis and kurdish rebels bashar al-assad is dealing with.he united states helped to eviscerate isis he wants to throw is out of the country. we have done a lot of favors. >> lots of moving parts and pieces inside syria. you have israel, iran forces, hezbollah, russia, the syrian defense forces, many moving parts and pieces and bashar al-assad is looking to take a step up with russia by his side, and it is not going to happen. secretary mattis said he doesn't seem the united states leaving syria until diplomatic efforts are won and we are not there yet. jillian: the pentagon released a statement saying, quote, any interested party and syria should understand attacking us forces or coalition partners will be a bad policy. we are there. nothing has changed. you mentioned bashar al-assad never felt the force of the united states. do you think he should? >> i don't think the us for policy purposes is interested in getting any more involved in syria than they are. we have to thousand troops working with syrian defense forces to fight isis. that is

now syrian president bashar al-assad wants his own face to face with kim jong un.m going to visit the dprk and meet kim jong un. jillian: despite claims no indications that any plans have been made. but is it possible that north korea is courting other heads of states while planning a summit with president trump. here now to weigh in is the author of dear, what do you think of the latest news. >> on the one hand this could be platitude and the other thing why is does the u.s. get to be arm's dealer and they don't. all the missile tests are great commercial for products and small state can stand up to u.s. and other nations, this is something that will compensate for. they will dial down missiles an weapon's industries, they will want money or something else in exchange and syria would be one of the customers. rob: two very bad people meeting together. big-time threat to, i think, international law, the two meeting and big threat, i think, to our negotiations here. are we fools to go into this meeting at this point knowing that they will meet, this does seem like ba

really quick, i want to ask you about the issue of the news that syrian president bashar al-assad is ng to go to north korea. i bashar al-assad to someone reading at a face-to-face whatever it's going to be. these two gentlemen are still considered dictators. should we be concerned about that? >> these are two of the most brutal but traders in the world. bashar al-assad and kim jong un have also previously, the north korean government allowed the syrian government to build a nuclear heard using north korean technology which is what israel bombed. did they not only chemical weapons but nuclear weapons. this is a really big problem for not only our government, but governments all over the world. cheryl: have a feeling the administration in the white house in particular is concerned about this. hopefully it is after the summit with president trump. thank you very much. appreciate you getting up with us on this monday. >> thanks. have a great monday. tracee: can a president pardon himself? good question. the latest on the russia investigation. good news for cancer patients. a doctor sugge

a lot of people are trying to get influence and bashar al assad is next. >> good morning to you. yet another indication that kim jong-un is going into a important meeting with president donald trump. syria and north korea have a history. the presidents have exchanged messages of support before and this past winter that the u.n. alleged a report there was evidence of continued cooperation between syria and north korea on chemical weapons and ballistic missiles and now syria president is the first leader to visit face-to-face with kim jong-un. north korean state news saying assad said this. the world no date yes yet set for that meeting but the other big meaning between trump and kim jong-un happen on june 12th. he talked about the need to keep up the strong defenses against north korea at this point going into meeting in order to allow the u.s. diplomats to negotiate from a position of strength. take land to what he said. >> we will recognize the declaration of peace and prosperity against the north korean peninsula and that was announced in april. we can anticipate best a bumpy r

geopolitics have prevented the international criminal court from taking action bashar al assad is protected by his alliance with russian president vladimir putin's. little bunny and his team have found a willing partner in berlin germany is the only country to consider pressing charges under the principle of universal jurisdiction enabling any country to prosecute war crimes no matter where they've been perpetrated. damn it what they can with this germany's chief prosecutors have made a huge step ahead of other nations other countries should see this as an example of what action they could take because this task cannot rest solely on the shoulders of the german judiciary one it's really will be. to prove to european and to them save justice as. it's not under control of forty that is very important to us untoward. the case represents a strong signal from germany's judiciary to president assad suspected war criminals and torturers will be prosecuted. correspondent. in beirut is following this story for us as we just saw efforts are being made to apprehend alleged syrian war criminals and bri

of shields he won't be safe in syria as long as bashar al assad is in power he wants to go to europe but doesn't think you'll get a visa for now he's forced to stay in lebanon even a fact means being evicted and ending up homeless. now german chancellor merkel says syria must be secure before any refugee is sent back and as far as she's concerned the time is not yet right that message from the chancellor comes as fighting has intensified again according to a war monitoring group. b.o.'s said to be from it live in syria's north the syrian observatory for human rights and britain says president bashar al assad's regime has stepped up stepped up airstrikes on rebel held areas the u.n. fears hundreds of thousands of civilians will be caught in the fighting that comes as questions remain over the syrian regime's alleged use of chemical weapons and russia's involvement in the seven year long conflict. still to come on the day a cold war blockade and a daring rescue operation to save a city remembering the berlin airlift. planes dropping essential supplies in west berlin up to thirteen thou

bashar al-assad plans to meet, visit north korea to meet leader.date has been said, with the u.s. summit the meeting is notable, syria and north korea have been accused of cooperating on chemical weapons together. heather: yes, they have, very notable to say the least. thank you so much for joining us, garrett, appreciate it. number one-state sponsor of terror is accusing president trump of bullying, iran's foreign minister begging u.s. allies to stand up to the white house and save the obama-when area nuclear deal. u.s. decision to pull out of the deal is illegal and challenges international law. president trump has since reimposed harsh economic sanctions against iran. at least 25 people are dead, hundreds more injured after volcano erupts in guatemala. volcano of fire spewing laugh -- lava and black smoke, troops as far as colombia coming to help with survivors. second eruption this year. here at home, nearly a dozen people trapped on their homes on hawaii's big island. three people cut off from water, electricity air-lift today safety. lava cov

earlier this year schools of children being treated after exposure to an apparent nerve agent has bashar al assad's forces sought to take control of rebel held areas since two thousand and twelve the o.p.c. recorded four hundred gc's of chemical weapons in syria and a year and a half ago a brazen assassination at kuala lumpur airport the half brother of north korean leader kim jong un attacked with a deadly chemical substance he later died in hospital and in march the attempted murder of former russian double agent sergei script and his daughter in the british town of souls. investigators concluded they were poisoned would not be chunky a nerve agent developed by the soviet union. russia and its allies syria and iran strongly oppose britain's proposal russia's published a plan of its own only the un it says can apportion blame the international border . security council this isn't the first time that there's been an attempt to point the finger at those responsible for carrying out chemical weapons attacks in two thousand and fifteen the un security council in partnership with the o.p.c. w set up th

of chemical weapons use in syria that body concluded that four attacks had been carried out by bashar al assad and his regime the two are being carried out by eisel but the work of that organization was short lived after russia refused to extend its mandate. the u.k. says russia is trying to protect its ally syria russia says extending the o.p.c. w.'s mandate will undermine its independence member states will vote on whether to accept or reject the u. case proposal of wednesday the result could lead to the biggest shake up in the organizations twenty year history they've balk at the hague. to spain now with the first trial of the so-called stolen baby scandal as about to begin thousands of children a believed to have been taken from their mothers of a several decades and eighty five year old doctor is now on trial accused of stealing a baby and nine hundred sixty nine pizza shop reports. are. what they call themselves the stolen babysit association each of them horribly scarred by the loss of the newborn and each of them could tell an all too familiar story. you know doing my baby was with me

can agree on well i think they both have a common goal they want iran to go iran is supporting bashar al assad the syrian president at the moment fighting on his side and obviously france is part of the western coalition that it's at sometimes fighting against bashar assad recently everything estrades and both want iran to go however it's a very unlikely that iran will listen to israel and france in this matter. and those in paris thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the king of jordan has appointed the country's education minister to be the new prime minister . will form a new government a day after the resignation of his predecessor honey malky made massive protests the king's ordered to as instructed i was asked to review changes in countries tax system and issue that spar with demonstrations. russia's president vladimir putin has told austria's sebastian courts that his country is interested in repairing ties with the a european union but the president has been meeting or about austria in the design his first foreign trip since his reel

have to feels he won't be safe in syria as long as bashar al assad is in power he wants to go to europe but doesn't think he'll get a visa. for now he's forced to stay in lebanon even if that means being evicted and ending up homeless. china wants to become a world leader in electoral mobility e-cards are increasingly popular in the countries local authorities are fast converting their public transport fleets the city of change and sixteen thousand buses are already battery powered. alight hummer instead of the roar of a diesel engine in just three years all of change and sixteen thousand buses have gone to lecture the city's bus drivers have been retrained and there are now five thousand charging points at bus depots. a fully charged bus can travel two hundred kilometers that's about a day's driving. genting you is spearheading the changes woman one song we can charge you a bus in the evening when services have stopped for the day well that's what that's good because electricity costs less in the evening only you mean so the bus company saves money she knew the reasons why electric bus

how to feels he won't be safe in syria as long as bashar al assad is in power he wants to go to europe but doesn't think he'll get a visa. for now he's forced to stay in lebanon even a fat means being evicted and ending up homeless. turkeys voting in elections on sunday and there are indications the opposition is mounting its strongest challenge yet to present. the main opposition candidate has reportedly had one of the largest campaign rallies in the country's history of the city two million people are valid it is near heaven inchy and his c.h.p. party polls show in chick could force a do on to a second round on sunday. less articulate at some other stories making news around the was officials from north and south korea have set a date for holding reunions of families divided by the korean war in the nineteen fifties the families are now due to meet from august the twentieth to august the twenty sixth the koreas last held reunions in two thousand and fifteen before times between the two countries u.s. and. south sudan's president salva kiir says he has ruled out governing again with r

german prosecutors have applied to extradite the former president bashar al assad regime or in spain to spain he's facing charges of corruption and rebellion there was detained in germany on a european arrest warrant for his role in last of two of his independence bit by catalonia the exhibition must first be approved by a court before it can be carried out. north and south korea have bizarre will be a key part of efforts to resolve the nuclear standoff with pyongyang. and not a spin where marianne or a whore has been ousted as prime minister after losing a duel confidence vote in parliament rawhi admitted defeat is just ahead of the vote and said it had been an honor to lead the country he replaced by socialist leader beds or sanchez the opposition socialists called the vote after members of the horse party were linked to a corruption scandal. he is the man of the hour pedro sanchez has achieved his goal of ousting his old foe mariano rajoy the socialist opposition leader was a driving force in the campaign to oust him. i really needed are you ready to resign here today. resigned to

places that would be free of hostilities between rebel groups and forces fighting on behalf of bashar al assad's government the day it can mean b. day this unprecedented air campaign by the russian jets adopting the scorched earth strategy is in gross violation of the deescalation agreement. but russia's ambassador to the united nations says moscow will no longer uphold the deescalation zone saying it was among the last strongholds of al qaeda syrian branch and i sold we urge the again the russians the americans and the it today nance were able to to to do it last july they can do it again today. that they have only influence in this in this area there's nothing inevitable about. this escalation of fighting for assad taking the rebel stronghold of down especially important after all this is where the uprisings against his rule began seven years ago. libyan warlord. his forces have taken full control of the city of daraa from rival armed groups people have been celebrating in the streets the local armed groups are denying those reports on a was the last city in eastern libya not under huffed cont

ally russia about a peace deal and under which they would hand over more areas to president bashar al assad's forces as being a temporary ceasefire in parts of the province but it's been breached by sporadic fighting adding to fears of a humanitarian catastrophe u.n. says the fighting has displaced one hundred sixty thousand people in southern syria over the past five days has secretary general says the group will help return some of the syrian refugees and lebanon to their country. says he'll work with both the syrian and lebanese governments to coordinate voluntary returns or than one million syrians have fled to neighboring lebanon to escape the violence. it's now been a week since twelve young footballers and their coach went missing in a cave in northern thailand heavy rain flooded the cave leaving them trapped inside more than a thousand divers soldiers and border guards have joined the search for top british cave divers along with u.s. military personnel are also involved south sudan's latest attempt at a cease fire has failed just hours after it began it comes after heavy fighting was

how did life change when son bashar al-assad came into power? how did they sustain over time? how did this evolve from a few demonstrations to a national revolt that first called only for reform, some changes to make less oppressive system ultimately called for the toppling of this regime especially the regime responded to peaceful protests with brutal forms of violence, how the opposition eventually took up arms first defensively and series of offensive measures and uprising fragment to have many different groups fighting as nonstate and state actors with different patrons and agenda, how is it like to live war, how did people come to flee as refugees, that's the arc, trajectory that i heard again and again in people's own stories about living each of those stages of life and i decided to make narrative arc of the book. those stages but within each stage, the book moves simply voice by voice, story by story, cross-section of syrians, different backgrounds have lived each of those stages both to give people i hope, outside reader, a sense to better understand the syrian confli

places that would be free of hostilities between rebel groups and forces fighting on behalf of bashar al assad's government the day i mean the day that this unprecedented air campaign by the russian jets adopting the scorched earth strategy is in gross violation of the deescalation agreement. but russia's ambassador to the united nations says moscow will no longer uphold the deescalation zone saying it was among the last strongholds of al qaeda syrian branch and i sold we urge the again the russians the americans and git to damien's were able to to to do it last july they can do it again today. they have all influence in this in this area there is nothing inevitable about. this escalation of fighting for our side taking the rebel stronghold of down especially important after all this is where the uprisings against his rule began seven years ago. on. us police say they've captured and identified the man suspected of killing five people inside a newspaper office in the city of annapolis maryland investigators say the shooting specifically targeted journalists. castro reports. police say the shooti

has called on president bashar al assad to halt the offensive which falls inside one of the internationally agreed deescalation zones. reports. this is the first time forces have used battle. in the year. helicopters struck several villages in what appears to be a major advance to take over the city but this violates a truce that was brokered by russia and the united states in africa to bring an end to the seven year war the americans have of serious repercussions if the offensive continues and the rebels who are losing ground remain defiant. we don't recognize assad's of course and he has destroyed our cities and killed our people he's quite serious distinct power we will never recognize him reject the presence of ukrainian and afghan militias. who should decide the future of the country. the syrian army is massing troops in the area the opposition says thousands of shia militias also moving in dar was the focal point of the syrian uprising in two thousand and eleven but in recent years the rebels have been retreating they now control one neighborhood in the city and a few areas on the bor

now there are reports from north korea the syrian president, bashar al-assad, could be paying a visit soon? he could. it was an unexpected announcement that the charlotte visitould be planning a bashargyang -- that al-assad could be planning a visit toyong btw are both internationally isolated. if the meeting does transpire it that kimhe first time hosts a foreign leader on his home grounds. in this opinion piece, the paper jumpes a side of trying to on this to avoid international isolation. next, to the u.k. were the british papers are carrying a sign is story on their front page echo yuka: -- frontpage? that this study found women with early-stage breast cancer could avoid chemotherapy and still have a fighting chance of battling the disease. it's a big deal according to the co-authors of the study. it means that women whose tumors have not spread to the lymph nodes could get a genetic test, option tople determine if chemotherapy is necessary. it could help them avoid a painful, sometimes unnecessary step in the battle against cancer. genie: not to france where "le m reporting that

our friends in israel, backs a regime that kills innocent people including 50,000 children in bashar al-assad. so in terms of international law, i'm not sure iran is the expert on that. in the united states has every right to make a decision on our foreign policy. the president made a decision that this iran nuclear deal was not in our best interest and congress never ratified this because the prior president, mr. obama did not want to give it to congress because he knew it would fail so it is not a binding deal and president trump made a decision in the best interest of the united states. >> rick: he talked about this extensively during the campaign, a promise of his that he wou kill this deal, it was a bad deal from day one and that he would spike it in and he did. i'm wondering if you think that this might have a negative effect as far as accelerating iran's nuclear program? how close are they? >> they are close but i don't think it will. the difference between this and north korea, there is a military option in north korea but it's kind of unthinkable. in iran, there is a military option.

. >> in the works, meetings between syria's bashar al assad and russia's vladimir putin. e admiral commented this morning. i want you to listen to what he said. >> the next summit in north korea is bashar al assad coming to see kim jong-un. this would be like tony soprano inviting vito corleone to the bada bing club. >> oh, god, bada bing club, that's a lot already. how could this meeting be used against president trump? >> as a"godfather" fan, i would say corleone is not the character to show up at the bada bing. but if you look at what's happening with north korea, you have so many different nations and their leaders trying to intervene in the process. it's not just syria, it's of course china. as much as the president wants to keep this a bilateral process, he's dealing with an international chess board of all these different players who want to make sure the u.s. isn't a dominant decisionmaker in these negotiations with north korea. >> it's just a week before the summit. we know that north korea just replaced three of its top military officials. does that mean anything

the first one is not surprising with bashar al-assad.s very clear pattern since the owe -- olympics of kim jong-un trying to show as responsible leader as head of state, doing diplomatic innings, wants to keep thathere wants to broaden his appeal across the board. three generals that have been replaced, certainly some concern, looks like kim is trying to firm up his command of all the people he has under him. melissa: meanwhile iran says they plan to tell u.n. that they will boost their uranium enrichment just in case the iran deal president trump pulled out of early may fails completely. is this a threat to the world? do you think that they mean it? do you think it makes people nervous? is this what you would expect? >> well at least from what ayatollah khomeni said today, he will give notice to the u.n. tomorrow, iaea, about reprocessing within the confines of the jcpoa. apparently they had some room. it hadn't bee m noteally a change. definitely not a strategic threat or even a military threat to the united states. it is not welcome b

state-run media reporting that syrian president bashar al-assad plans to visit kim jong-un in pongyangt days before kim's meeting with president trump in singapore. joining me now is bruce clinger. former cia deputy chief for north korea. >> north korea is seems to shoot itself in the foot. the summit is back on track, ruffled feathers were smoothed, this announcement of all the dictators in the world north korea had to pick the one u.s. attacked and which president trump has been very critical. i don't think it will derail the u.s. north korea summit but cast ad dark shadow over it. melissa: any way to look more positive light, this is another country controlled by russia or has seen influence from our other enemies, maybe kim jong-un is saying come over to the light side, there is more reward over here? >> well, north korea and syria have a very long military relationship going back perhaps to the 1960s. north korea was assisting syria build a nuclear reactor. that is what israel bombed in 2007. and more recently there have been north korean support for serious chemical weapons progr

>> so north korean state media says bashar al-assad plans to visit kim jong un in north korea so if thathosts another head of state. the u.n. has previously said they shipped nuclear materials to the assad regime. >> joining us from washington, good to have you with us. let's start with the trump/kim summit preparations. it appears to be back on at least for the time being. what final preparations still need to be hammered out between the two sides and what's the atmosphere like in the region ahead of this meeting? >> well, the atmhere in singapore is very much a city that's preparing for a big summit to take place. in terms of the details of the negoions they'veot t fire out the number of entrances there are to where people are going to sit, how the photo ops will be staged. these are all tricky questions they need to iron out. i think the big development is what we've seen in north korea with the dismissal of those three senior military generals from the previous generation being replaced by younger generations. the fact that there's been a shift in the leadership structure inside nort

north korea announced bashar al assad is going to travel to pyongyang.gine the north koreans went ballistics when pence and bolton talked about the libya model. here kim is inviting a war criminal to north korea and probably expecting donald trump to keep quiet because the president so badly wants the summit to go ahead. i think that that puts kim in the driver's seat ahead of singapore. >> now before singapore we also have another battle perhaps for the president. >> unfortunately. >> the g-7 summit in canada. >> yes. >> and this is going to be a battle with our friends. the other g7 countries, the g 6, if you will, are preparing for battles on multiple fronts. u.s. tariff policy, u.s.-iran policy and climate change policy, and canada had prepared a real substantive agenda centered around themes like gender equality and women empowerment, but that's going to be overshadowed by all of these fights. the fact of the matter is these meetings, i've traveled to some of them in the past, are supposed to be about building consensus. the g 6 did achieve consensu

places that would be free of hostilities between rebel groups and forces fighting on behalf of bashar al assad's government the day it can mean the day that this unprecedented air campaign by the russian jets adopting the scorched earth strategy is in gross violation of a deescalation agreement. but russia's ambassador to the united nations says moscow will no longer uphold the deescalation zone saying it was among the last strongholds of al qaeda syrian branch and i sold we urge the.

has urged rebels to give up their weapons but so far they're refusing to recognize president bashar al assad. we don't recognize assad's authority he has destroyed our cities and killed our people he destroyed syria to stay in power we will never recognize him and we reject the presence of iranian and afghan militias it's only syrians who should decide the future of the country our lives introduce our guest now from beirut we have sami nada who is director of the levant institute for strategic affairs from london we have mahmoud no our retired jordanian air force general i'm from in italy via skype joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma thank you all very much indeed for joining us can i start with you mark moon in london because the words there we've just heard of that f.s.a. commander suggest that any kind of political deal is not at all acceptable they're not prepared to accept the authority of the government of president assad so a battle is inevitable my question therefore is what sort of support to the rebels have and are they likely

and also reports bashar al—assad will be making a state visit to north korea, the leader of syria.side north korea of working on nuclear and chemical weapons. a meeting of those two figures would be interesting because it may turn the us against kim jong—un. be interesting because it may turn the us against kimjong—un. so it is a very delicate game, diplomatically, kim jong—un is playing here. but he is making it clear it is notjust the us he is willing to talk to. it may be that all of these meetings take place and he retreats having achieved what he wanted, time on the world stage tube reject power back home. —— in order to project. in seoul, thank you for the update. as hywel mentioned, there is hope in south korea that this historic meeting will lead to a peace treaty after decades of division. others have very personal reasons to hope these talks will be successful. for a group of north korean spies who've beenjailed in enemy territory in the south for decades, these talks offer their best chance of being returned home before they die. our correspondent, laura bicker, has been

palmyra has changed hands multiple times, controlled by both isis militants and by president bashar al assad's government forces. r now, isis has been driven out of the world heritage site, leaving behind a trail of destruction. i.t.n.'s alex thomson waste granaccess to the city and brings us this report. >> reporter: a broken, abandoned place, palmyra may be in government hands, but the pe eoe t coming home. >> ( translated ): the town must returnecause palmyra is for everyone, for the whole world, not just syria or the people of palmyra. it's a place for all civilization. t >> reporter: few people we saw here did not yet feel secure. our military escort banned us from filming iranian militias on the streets. the syrian government's allies. but we saw the flags of hezbollah here, their militia. the ruins, defiled by graffiti, some apparently from forces loyal to president assad, anan some pro-iralogans in farsi. r ban on us-- we can't film the russians as we droach through the empty shattered streets. there are checkpoints all across this ghost city. palmyra, forever now the scene of russia's

i lived under bashar al-assad for three decades and now i live in a country where you can sue the president, wow! yeah, that's a different way to see it. that's a really different way to see it. ( applause ) when you look at the situation now being created at the border, the current issue where kids are being separated from their parents. you hear anecdotes of parents being tricked or not informed about what's happening to the kids, is there legal recourse that might come back to bite the united states? >> attend of the day when the policy is over, the trump administration is literally going to have to pay for it because, my opinion, every single one to have the parents and kids has a pret did food damages lawsuit for kidnapping and infliction of emotional distress and damages. damages are important. it's how you make people pay for doing ( bleep )up shit. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: for those who argue the united states cannot handle any more, the united states has taken too many people, how does your organization respond? >> usually it comes down to an argument about jobs or the ec

against them and likewise russia extends the same courtesy to its allies for example president bashar al assad of syria and so the role that germany sees itself as playing the role of the nonpermanent member is that perhaps trying to get in between these great powers and see if there's any way a bargain can be struck and so perhaps vetoes don't need to be carved and that the u.n. security council is able to become a more effective global mechanism i'm talking to james rival in new york thank you . but take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world officials in the gaza strip say at least three palestinians have been killed and hundreds wounded in renewed protests on israel's border israeli army fired tear gas and live bullets in an attempt to dispel the crowds israel accuses hamas of using the process to try to breach the border a process to say they want to draw attention to that diet humanitarian situation. with r.c. say about six hundred homes have been swallowed by lava flows on hawaii's big island since a killer whale a volcano began erupting last month makes this i

syrian president bashar al—assad plans to make a state visit to north korea, according to the north'sif it goes ahead, it will mark the first time north korean leader kimjong—un has hosted a head of state since assuming power in 2011. hundreds of passengers have been left stranded at hamburg airport after air traffic ground to a halt due to a power outage. a spokesperson for the airport, which is germany's fifth busiest, said they are working to fix the problem, which was caused by a short circuit. cricket and england surged to victory over pakistan by an innings and 55 runs to win the second test and draw the series. joss buttler‘s 80 not out, helped england to a total of 363 in theirfirst innings. english bowlers kept up the pressure and bowled out the visitors for 134 runs. it'sjune, which means it should be the beginning of summer here in europe. but you wouldn't think so looking at these pictures. this is brasov in central romania. and yes, that's hail and ice, hitting much of the central and western regions of the country. the bad weather is expected to continue for the next few

since the end of the cold war over issues like the crisis in ukraine like russia's support for bashar al assad's regime in syria and of course for the alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen elections in the united states but it actually met twice before on the sidelines of international meetings and they certainly spoke by phone many times including famously when trump called to congratulate putin on his reelection victory so these two leaders have put out fairly similar statements saying that they're going to be talking about national security and bilateral relations and remains to be seen exactly what the trump administration is praising and what it says it's going to get out of these meetings and what will you should hill seek you finland know that was often the summit location of choice during the cold war it's all wrong the trump will meet there is will make you wonder held this summit is going to go down with america's new do at all was do we know what imagine not very well at all and this is going to make the european allies quite nervous particularly because trump's commitment to nato ha

taken as a signal that we were wiping our hands of the syrian problem and that could well assure bashar al assad the ability to reassert his power over the entire country do you think opening the embassy in jerusalem. not not especially i've always you know i'm a career diplomat i was in that business for a long long time and we always thought of the question of jerusalem as something to be settled and a final negotiation a status negotiation between the palestinians and the israelis on the other hand i think by moving there we're sort of recognizing a reality whenever i went to israel i'd have some meetings in tel aviv but i have to meet the senior government officials i always have to go to jerusalem so clearly it's been treated as the capital of israel for a long long time and so long as they make some space allow some space in. east jerusalem for a future palestinian capital if they ever get to that point i think well you know that's that's ok john always great to talk with you thank you so much for your time today yeah well thanks for having me larry always a pleasure on monday the special

and how will i go back of course i'm afraid how to feels he won't be safe in syria as long as bashar al assad is in power he wants to go to europe but doesn't think you'll get a visa. for now he's forced to stay in lebanon even a flat means being evicted and ending up homeless. business there's one problem less for the eurozone monaco has some good news for a change terry hopefully finance ministers in the eurozone have declared the greece debt crisis to be over they expect to end the blocks financial support for greece in late august at marathon talks in luxembourg greece's creditors reached a new deal providing debt relief and a last cash payouts to athens greece has already received almost three hundred billion euros in financial support from international creditors over the past eight years. all opec members are meeting in vienna today to decide whether or not to raise output amid a rapidly increasing oil prices in may a barrel of north sea crude peaked at just over eighty u.s. dollars the main reason for the increase was no output from opec the economic situation in venezuela as well as

all else among individuals named in the report or rummy kloof a cousin of the syrian president bashar al assad and a lebanese businessman camel and it has sanctioned by the u.s. in twenty fourteen for helping hezbollah it also identified some twenty one million dollars in real estate held by individuals associated with the tough konami money laundering organization a pakistani ring that aided drug traffickers and groups like al qaeda through its currency exchange houses. ok let's bring in our guests here on inside story from berlin we're going to be joined by casey kelso advocacy director at transparency international who also pulled leads the global anti corruption consortium from london andrea's craig assistant professor at the defense studies department at king's college london and from copenhagen on skype a senior policy analyst for the social and economic survey research institute at castle university thank you and welcome to all of you for joining us casey coming to you first just paint is a fiscal picture legal or illegal of how they do what they do into by well it's very interesting to

sixty thousand rebels and now in talks with russian officials about brokering a peace deal with bashar al assad's government meanwhile fears grow over humanitarian catastrophe on the borders of israel and jordan both countries are refusing to open their borders as displaced people continue to amass danis on the syrian side of the border with jordan. now. we're here at the border crossing that many syrian refugees have used in the past to cross from syria into jordan today thousands of civilians mainly women and children again others along this border hoping to be able to cross into jordan. ever calls his highness the king of jordan to give them permission to cross over these families have nothing left for them to ask to cross that border to escape death they've been displaced from areas that have been hit by thousands of airstrikes in the past few days and they're now looking to cross to safety we've witnessed the tragic events the civilians have been through and their only demand now is to go in the direction of jordan the area is meant to be part of a deescalation zone negotiated by the united

of peace deal in the south under which they would hand over areas they control to president bashar al assad's forces these pictures aired on syrian state television they're said to show celebrations in a town called it appears people are chanting pro-government slogans after the army entered the town there's been a temporary ceasefire in parts of daraa province but it's been breached by sporadic fighting i think the fears of a humanitarian catastrophe the u.n. says the fighting has displaced one hundred sixty thousand people in southern syria over the past five days. arabic correspondent. has this update from the jordanian side of its border with syria. the cease fire announced friday and i mean not only held for a few minutes there's been uninterrupted shelling across billy just south of syria namely in the eastern and western countries sod's of daraa province according to eyewitness accounts we received the areas were all residential homes and makeshift hospitals which is no longer operational as a result of the intense bombardment as we speak we can still hear the shelling a true massacre

in an interview with the british newspaper the mail on sunday, syrian president bashar al—assad repeated, and started it by supporting people he described as terrorists. he also defended russia's involvement in syria, but said moscow does not dictate terms to any country it is involved in. russia is fighting for the international rule, the sovereignty of different countries. syria is one of different countries. syria is one of them. their politics, their behaviour, their values, is not about interference or dictating. they don't. we have had good relations with russia for more than 60, nearly 70 now. they have never, during our relationship, tried to dictate, even when there are differences. and because there is a warand differences. and because there is a war and there is high tension in our region, it is natural to have differences between the different parties, within our government or with other governments. russia, syria, iran. within these governments, that is very natural. at the end, the only decision about what is going on in syria and what is going to happen in syria is a syria