President demanding mccaughan targets improve trade and diplomatic relations on his First Official visit to china. The race is on to prevent any potential environmental disaster off chinas east coast where the rainy an oil tanker has been on fire for three days. And will meet the nigerian migrants forced to return home from libya was giving up their dreams to get to europe. North and south Korea Holding their First Official meeting in more than two years with a few diplomatic breakthrough as pyongyang is sending athletes and a high level delegation to next months Winter Olympics in south korea seoul says it will consider temporarily lifting sanctions to facilitate that visit but the meeting isnt just focusing on sporting ties as kathy novak explained some soul. Until recently the North Koreans have refused to even pick up the phone when the south koreans tried to place calls at the border hotline so it was significant to see recently one the man in charge of into korean relations for the government in the north stepping over the border into the Southern Side of whats known as the truce village at pun one job leading a five member team of high ranking officials into a meeting with his south korean counterpart. In our talks resume after north and south korean ties have been severed for a long time but i believe the first step is have to journey on what is number one we came to this meeting today with a serious and sincere attitude and with the thought of giving our brethren who have high hopes for this dialogue in valuable results as the first presents of the here. The meeting did produce results and agreement for north korean representatives to attend next months Winter Olympics in pyongyang chung south korean president monday and has dubbed them the peace olympics and its hoped that with its athletes in pyongyang north korea may be less likely to conduct any missile or Nuclear Tests the United States and south korea have already said they would put off any joint military exercises until after the winter games. South korea also proposed more discussions on reunions for separated family members to coincide with the Lunar New Year next month as well as military talks to defuse tensions at the border that talks between the koreans are happening at all is seen by many in the south as a positive step. I believe these formal diplomatic discussions can result in peace for an a c. The Korean Peninsula is a dangerous place thats under the constant threat of war and i hope those concerns dont become reality. But skeptics are concerned the talks wont do enough to resolve the major issue of north Koreas NuclearWeapons Program south korea says it mentioned denuclearization drawing little response. Their Nuclear WeaponDevelopment Program is a threat to the regional and International Community and the United Nations has implemented very strict sanctions so we need to maintain our stance that they need to abide by the resolution as we have been asking them. Still japan says it welcomes north koreas change in attitude on attending the Winter Olympics kathy novak al jazeera seoul now the news frances president is pushing for stronger ties between his country the European Union and china Emmanuel Mccall will be signing several deals with chinese leader xi jinping hes trying to strengthen trade ties to reduce a thirty six billion dollar trade deficit with a chain because offer to open up france to Chinese Investment and in exchange wants better access to Chinas Nuclear arris space and food sectors for French Companies that speak to rob mcbride as our correspondent in beijing this is the First Official visit by the french president to china how is he being received in one of the two leaders been up to. Its been treated very favorably here in china macron is saying and doing all the right things today he has been visiting the forbidden city with his wife bridgette looking around the historic aspect of beijing and getting he says an appreciation of the depth of Chinese Culture china of course likes World Leaders beating a path to its door macron is one of the latest european leaders to come here but he is probably one of the more influential ones at the moment given that Angela Merkel of germany has her domestic political worries britain obviously is busy with its breck sitting it leaves it to macro really to be the standard bearer for the you representing their interests here as the biggest trading partner of china and i think appreciation of just how important china is now to france and to your up says he wants to make this an annual event coming to china once a year for the rest of his presidency sightseeing and ceremonials aside there is a big banquet happening tuesday evening here in beijing we are now into the more businesslike aspects of this visit he is meeting with likud chang the premier of china and another meeting with the himself before the two leaders will be making a joint communique were expecting within about an hour or so from now theyre expected to sign a number of trade deals rob and also one of the big issues for france is environment i imagine and chinas continued support for the paris canada court. Its made all the more imperative that china does support this of course since the United States walked away from it it was signed only two years ago and theres been real concerns just about where its headed i think china and france seem to be positioning themselves now as the two Global Leaders when it comes to tackling and trying to reverse Climate Change obviously france was the big promoter of the Paris Climate Accord and china is the biggest emitter of carbon gases so its very important that it is committed still and they have given all the right indications that they will continue to do that i think its also worth noting firstly that this summit this visit has been taking place under clear blue skies in beijing this doesnt happen normally during beijing winters in northern china we normally experience very high levels of hazardous air pollution but china has said recently has clamped down on the use of coal for heating in northern cities its a controversial move its had to relax that somewhat because there isnt enough gas around to keep the furnace is burning but it gives you a sense of the kind of control the compact kind of power that china has in controlling its own environment how important it is that it is owned board in getting behind the Paris Climate Accord rob thank you very much thats rob mcbride reporting there live from beijing and he rainy an oil tanker that collided with a freighter off chinas east coast on saturdays still on fire and doesnt rescue boats have spent three days trying to control the blaze its here the tank and main explode and sink rescuers are looking for thirty one of whom members are still missing the body of one of them has been found adrian brown has the latest from near shanghai. The drama is happening some one hundred sixty nautical miles out in the East China Sea its happening in International Waters which is why the response has been International South Korea has sent a number of coast guard vessels u. S. Military has sent an aircraft to help in the search for the thirty two missing crew members from that stricken Iranian Oil Tanker now at the moment there are two operations taking place one to put out the fire the broke out on the tanker the other of course to find those missing crew members and other tanker was carrying more than a Million Barrels of Light Crude Oil knows as condensate its very toxic its also colorless odorless which means its very very hard to detect the priority now is to prevent the ship exploding and then sinking and of course that would threaten a real environmental catastrophe in the meantime officials in shanghai say there is no evidence that this accident is affecting traffic going into or out of the port shanghai of course is one of the worlds busiest ports officials also say that an exclusion zone is now in force which means that no vessel can sail to within ten kilometers of the accident site and its possible there is this rescue operation continued that exclusion zone will be widened. Syrian government and russian air strikes have targeted several towns in eastern go to any of the capital damascus twenty three people were killed and the rebel stronghold has been under heavy bombardment on monday Government Forces reach a military base in the city of herat freeing two hundred troops the u. K. Based syrian observatory for human rights says ass strike on eastern go to have killed one hundred twenty six people since december twenty ninth go to has been a target of Government Forces because of its close proximity to the capital damascus the area has been under control by loyalists to the Free Syrian Army which are backed by the u. S. And turkey eastern go to is among four socalled deescalation zones set up early last year by russia iran and turkey in a four year government siege has led to a major humanitarian crisis with severe shortages of food and medicine another rebel stronghold has also weakened in recent weeks with more than sixty thousand people leaving their homes since november first all the spokesman for the u. N. Secretary general says civilians are being forced to flee into areas already overcrowded with displaced people the un is deeply concerned for the safety and protection of ten themselves and of people in southern italy in rural hama in Northern Syria northeastern syria where ongoing hostilities are reportedly calls hundreds of deaths and injuries of civilians tens of thousands of civilians already in dire circumstances have been recorded is displaced since the first of december due to the fighting with the onset of winter save shelters among the biggest concerns is many families are fleeing into areas that are already at full capacity into communities with depleted resources. Syrias army says three israeli rockets have targeted its military positions it says the weapons were fired at could not typhus city along the syrian countryside this is the twenty fourth Israeli Attack against syrian targets since the war began in twenty four team israel hasnt claimed responsibility. The head of nigerias Immigration Service is aging more International Cooperation in the fight against people trafficking the government ordered the medias evacuation of about five and a half thousand of its citizens from libya after reports of abuse slavery and torture but many of the migrants returning home still hope to one day reach aljazeera as i am an interest traveled with a man has this exclusive report. Well these first time nigerian migrants heading home from the schooling facility in tripoli i worried that the plane will leave without them. The only thing on their mind now is to get in with that when you people leave here theyre taking us back to that prison i dont want to continue we should help us by only. But many others here have been through this routine before for that person or ceratin vincent says his destiny allies in europe and he will make another attempt to get there so almost everything i have to buckle is going to go but all like like you are like a madman not limited to this attitude has surprised even the experts who say as many as forty five percent of deported migrants from libya attempt to go back. As a human being. I would my most important goal in life is to preserve my life and knowing that i come so close. To to to what ive seen i wouldnt go but you know survival is also important to a person. If you are in a place you dont see a future then that pushes you to government officials in west africa admit that there are vast porous borders makes it difficult to stop what they call irregular migration i most times Border Police feel powerless to make arrests because of an existing pact that government cheese freedom of movement of goods and people. Its that same agreement traffickers and Illegal Migrants exploit but the challenges go beyond that. Its frustrating that we us country when working together including europe it takes more than returning it takes more than public city to do this we need to walk together sauce. This nation going to did with a clean medical. For now african countries continue to evacuate citizens from libya preventing those citizens from attempting to reach europe again is proving difficult regardless of what happens to them in transit. Comedy grease aljazeera. Still ahead on aljazeera setback for alzheimers and parkinsons patients in the search of finding a cure for the disease since last. We had to argentina where the birthplace of tango is dancing to a different tune. Hello there weve been watching some very heavy downpours make their way across the philippines we look at the satellite picture we can see the clouds of have been drifting their way across us for the last twelve hours or so but just over the past couple of hours theyve really turned heavy particularly in the eastern parts of mindanao and thats where were seeing some particularly heavy rains at the moment now over the next couple of days again there will be some showers here but i dont think theyll be quite as heavy instead theyll be some wetter weather a little bit further towards the west here over parts of borneo it does look very wetter for wednesday and then those showers transfer a bit further towards the west on thursday and it singapore and k. L. Where were likely to see some of the wettest of the weather in fact k. L. Really does look particularly wet as we had a bit further towards the south in australia weve seen a storm thats gradually pulling itself together thats in the northwest it could well develop into a tropical cycle certainly whether it does or not this region is likely to see some very wet weather very enhanced rainfall and very strong winds as well as we head through the next couple of days else where the temperatures have largely got back to normal except theyre going to become a little bit higher again as we head through the next few days thats thanks to this weather system edging its way eastward ahead of that the winds all drawn down from the north so adelaide in melbourne will both be up thirty three. This is the architect of. The self appointed time asks to create Sustainable Housing for the rural poor. To bring into a little beauty came to vietnams child king urban spaces. And to convince developments that is dreams are attainable to changing minds can be as good as altering spaces. The architecture continues with meaning in the city at this time on how disease. Welcome back our top stories our knowledge is iraq north korea says it will send a delegation of athletes supporters and officials of next months winter Olympic Games in south korea. Holding its first high level discussions with seoul since twenty fifty. Frances president is pushing for stronger ties between his country the European Union and china and will be signing several deals with chinese leader xi jinping is offered to open up funds to Chinese Investment. And any radiant oil tanker that collided with a freighter off time is east coast on saturdays still on fire dozens of rescue boats spent three days trying to control the base rescuers are looking for thirty one crew members who are still basic. Prodemocracy activists in hong kong are in court again over their roles in mass protests in twenty fourteen. Eagles conard benny ty and eight others are attending a Pretrial Hearing they face charges of incitement connected with their roles in the movement demonstrations sarika has more from hong kong. This is the Pretrial Hearing for nine prodemocracy activists whove been childs withinside in public nuisance for their role back in the twenty four st occupy hong kong protests which shut down parts of the city but almost three months the group arrived at court determined to have some of these charges dropped stating that though politically motivated now there have been a number of pro democracy activists before the courts but this particular group has attracted greater interest simply because there are three of the founders of the occupy Hong Kong Movement that includes benny time whos the Hong Kong University legal academic dr chung can men and reverend chu uming now the group started that they dont regret an issue the prodemocracy demonstrations back in twenty fourteen but i believe the charges of inciting public nuisance are inappropriate as they were one of hundreds of thousands of people who took to the streets during these demonstrations now the Pretrial Hearing will d