reality star kim cardassian petition president donald trump at the white house last week. and turkish voters living here in germany can start casting their ballots today for turkey's snap general election polling stations open this morning in turkish consulates and other locations across germany voters here have two weeks to choose a president and a new turkish parliament turkey itself votes on june twenty fourth to russia now and an event that has become a staple in glad i'm here putin schedule it's the annual nationwide q. and a session where the russian president takes questions from members of the public listening to and sometimes solving problems live on t.v. these are live pictures we're looking at now from that event taking place this year the session has been criticized in the past for being stage managed theatre this year the usual studio audience is gone in favor of text messages and video questions. let's bring in our correspondent in moscow emily sure was there standing by watching this event and really this is an annual event in putin's calendar what sort of c

happy when he is pardoning people, like the african—american grandmother at the behest of king cardassianto get out of dodge really quickly because he does not want to be embarrassed. right, embarrassed by how little he knows. the results... i think how little he knows. the results... ithink we're how little he knows. the results... i think we're being a bit premature. thatcher member that there's never beena thatcher member that there's never been a meeting between a us president a korean president before. he does not want to be seen as equivalent to the north korean dictator. trump sees them as different and that's what he was too disruptive. it might bring results but we are not there yet. the optics might look good but who knows whether or not we are actually going to get a deal? if we do, will it be better than the iran deal that trump has nuked? we are hoping, we are hoping to cover the summit if it actually takes place. we are hoping. a lot of people say it is a distraction, russia, to distract from the steel tariffs. and that but it also may be the fact that a lot of people commit

and met the requirements for clemency in two thousand and fourteen she was stuck in jail until cardassian took up her cause visiting the white house last week to discuss the case social media stars since treated her gratitude to president trump for his decision saying it gives hope to those deserving of a second chance. still ahead here on al-jazeera as a nationwide crackdown on protests. we meet the model and then there is a hope to pressure the government. to act of disobedience and fifty years after robert kennedy was murdered we look at his legacy and walk. well again as we take a look at weather conditions across the strait here we should find dry weather returning to sydney where we've had some showers of last twenty four hours or so in front pushing in across the bite maybe give us some rain later on throughout late i mean well out across western australia we've got this system which is giving some rain in places and that slightly is to grow actually die as we head on through into friday may push into parts of south australia push should be dry but not particularly warmer temps the

well coming up in this news hour came cardassian visit to the white house pays off as president trump commutes the sentence of a great grandmother jailed for drug offenses this is singapore prepares for trump's meeting with another kim this one at an old for exclusive island hotel. we always will. and then sport find out more about the latest u.s. team to decline an invitation to the white house feature with that story and they too late. but first new evacuations have been ordered in guatemala as the mound for a global kaino spews more lava at least seventy five people have been killed and around two hundred more are missing after sunday's eruption rescuers have been sifting through ash in search of survivors entire villages surrounding the volcano have been the score they would mercer has the latest from should that view which is about ten kilometers from the volcano. what i'm always play go volcano continues to be highly active you can see here behind me in this morning we've seen columns of smoke rising from the cone now on tuesday there was a large explosion that sent gas and hot

star ken cardassian sixty three year old alice mary johnson has served almost twenty two years for a first time offense of cocaine trafficking question visited the white house with lawyers last week to raise her plight for the president in a statement trump's office says johnson has been a model prisoner who has worked hard to rehabilitate herself. the so the crime in this half hour tensions in syria between president assad's allies as iran and russia jockeying for position and influence and then ultra exclusive island hotel is revealed as the location of the trial in summit in singapore we look at how preparations are going. hello and welcome to international weather forecasts central and southern parts of europe again our risk of some pretty severe storms during the course of thursday other areas looking little germany draw across much of poland through into russia we've had a cooler trend of last few days so temperatures of just fifteen in moscow on thursday meanwhile across more western areas we've got this low pressure system pushing into wards portugal which will get some rain