At least thirteen people are killed after a powerful rainstorm triggers floods and mudslides in Southern California. More anger over austerity protesters in tunis clashed with police after the Prime Minister promises to crack down on rioters. A court blocks the u. S. President s plans to end a program that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from being deported. South koreas president says hes open to meeting north Korean Leader kim jong un if certain conditions are met. Choose days official talks between the two sides the first in more than two years from seoul reports. The First Official talks between north and south korea in more than two years ended with an agreement that could make president vision of a piece of lympics a reality says Domestic Support for his policy of dialogue with north korea helped bring about the rare meeting and he had some one else to think as well. There will be accomplished mint of south korean dialogue was largely credited to President Trump id like to express gratitude to him in a statement the white house welcome to the talks and said the u. S. And south korean president s recently agreed to continue the campaign of maximum pressure on north korea toward the goal of complete and verifiable denuclearization moon says the other purpose of that pressure is to bring the north to the negotiating table adding that he would be willing to talk directly with north koreas leader kim jong un. I keep myself open to any meeting including a summit if its helpful for an improvement of south and north korean relations or a settlement of the north Korean Nuclear issue president says even though south korea prefers a policy of engagement it also supports the u. S. Approach of maximum pressure but he acknowledges that with more sanctions come more risks of escalating tensions that could lead to a possible Armed Conflict ultimately south korea wants to find a diplomatic solution to the problem of north Koreas Nuclear weapons but north korea has continued to indicate they are not up for negotiation. Regarding the Nuclear Issues strategic weapons including atomic bomb Hydrogen Bomb and Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles only i aimed at the United States not our fellow koreans but moon says both south korea and the u. S. Are threatened by the norths Nuclear Weapons and will continue to Work Together to address that threat Kathy Novak Al Jazeera seoul. Dozens of homes in Southern California buried in a thick layer of mud and debris off to a powerful storm the flooding and mudslides of killed at least thirteen people and forced thousands of others to abandon their homes robert oulds reports from los angeles. Torrential rains moving inland from the Pacific Ocean devastated the very same parts of california that were ravaged by wildfires last month the only words i can really think of to describe what it looked like was it looked like a world war one battlefield it was literally a carpet of mud and debris everywhere. Deadly mudslides raced down canyons in montecito near Santa Barbara leveling homes and destroying everything the fires left on harm i heard the rumble of the rocks and we looked over the river and the trees are just coming down to the truth weve heard of a little baby. Cable. Dug down. The road can you. Got it out of the bottle thats no. Hope thats ok to. A car lay stranded the fate of its owner on known rivers of thick gray muck course through upscale neighborhoods and roads were overwhelmed including the major north south coastal highway one hundred one the recent fires stripped steep hillsides of brush and other vegetation that normally anchors the earth in place firefighters say the burnt landscape makes the soil more susceptible to giving way without warning in heavy rain what happens once the ground gets saturated the soil it starts giving its kind of like building a sand castle at the beach says out sand get saturated with water its going to slough off and thats what were seeing here behind me. As crews work to. Clear roads and move debris word came that several residents had died in the floods thousands of others were under mandatory evacuation orders the death toll is expected to rise rob reynolds. Was essential these twenty nine people are dead after Tropical Cyclone battered madagascar over the weekend emergency workers say the Southeast Region of ot. Is the worst affected further north many parts of the capital antananarivo remain flooded of a crossed into madagascar on friday bringing winds of up to one hundred ninety kilometers an hour twenty two people are still missing and more than seventeen thousand have been displaced. Police internet fire tear gas at demonstrators are stormed a supermarket in the capital tunis antigovernment protests have been taking place since monday when people rallied in more than ten towns against planned price and tax rises the government says the measures are necessary to reduce a ballooning deficit and to satisfy International LendersPrime Minister use of childhood says twenty eighteen will be the last year of economic hardship. Its been seven years since twenty eleven have the government didnt do anything for us so its natural to protest i think the demonstrations will be bigger than before because of these major price increases people are no longer accepted this high cost of living and that is contributing to the parties to all of the country of poor people like me can no longer bear the burden of these high prices some of them im sorry. Its normal for people to demonstrate when they find it difficult to buy necessary and everyday things this is normal the same thing also happened last year when people demonstrated against the cost of living and this year will be more severe illness chrisman rotty says the protests show the government must address peoples concerns. Weve received the tax increases in new budget coming to be you know this is going to a lot of people nervous and. Upset their country we see kind of the arab spring which number one for the people itself carries worries also for external investors carries that same old view of the middle east of trouble not a safe place to invest and the government really needs to do something about this in order to fix to change expectations and to help the country flourish unrest continues throughout the streets of sudan over the rising prices of bread and wheat products since sunday three people have been killed during fighting with Security Forces two prominent opposition leaders have also been arrested as Police Confiscate newspapers and crackdown on dissent to the more than joins us now from khartoum aber whats the situation on. All right now in car two its pretty quiet most of the protests have been happening here has been happening around one of sudans mean aversives cartoon when you first who were students were trying to go out on the streets to protest but they were met by riot police so they were prevented from coming out but we also know that protests happened around different parts of the country a student was killed in darfur and several opposition members of been arrested the Sudanese Congress party which is one of the major opposition parties in sudan reported that at least half a dozen of its Members Around the country have been arrested and that nearly a dozen of its students around the country have been arrested as well and theyve been calling on the government to release them now lets remember jane that the protested not just because of the government lifting subsidies or subsidies of the wheat products in the country but also because of the countrys Economic Situation the dollar and the sudanese pounds the responsibility to the dollar has been devaluing sense two thousand and five when it was one one dollar to two sudanese pounds then it went on to want to eight in two thousand and twelve and want to twenty eight up until early january just yesterday it had a record low where one dollar is equals to thirty sudanese pounds and the world bank said more than half of the countrys population live below the poverty line so for a lot of them its quite hard to be able to afford basic necessities basic food and the price of a loaf of bread has gone from have a sudanese pound to one pound a lot of families find that very hard to afford now the concern is that there might be more students coming out to protest more people coming out to protest but the government made it very clear that they are not going to allow this protest to happen unless they give clearance and that becomes very hard in sudan and any idea what the governments going to do to improve the economy. The sudanese finance minister is expected to appear in front of the Parliament Today to discuss further reforms but lets remember that the sudanese pound has been devalued early january from one to six point nine to eighteen hours of new sponsor dollars but that the government said it was based on recommendations from the International Monetary fund to try to reverse the economy which has been an downfall partly because of south sudan seceding in twenty eleven and taking with seventy five percent of the countrys oil field which is the main source of which was the main source of revenue for sudan and also because sudan had been under u. S. Sanctions for more than twenty years which was just lifted last october so sudans economy really needs a lot of work to be able to reverse itself and the government is trying but this years budget has two point four percent deficit so its quite hard to take a lot of work for the government to try to reverse it thanks for that here but still ahead on aljazeera steve bannon steps down from the right wing great bad news after a public forum out with donald trump. Blasting iran and still no government in Northern Irelands political troubles deepen. Hello and welcome to International Weather forecast the weather is quite down across europe at the moment after a very unsettled spell was to us some heavy rain across parts of italy through into the balkans quite a further towards the east temperatures around the freezing mark across much of russia over ukraine Western Areas seeing some showers in temperatures that average already hates nine Something Like that still the cool side for madrid there nine degrees and some rain pushing its way in across parts of the Iberian Peninsula the risk of snow a high elevations of a head on through into thursday on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea east of us a bit unsettled across some of these Western Areas morocco through intel chair the chance of a few showers and some showers through the gulf of sirte but once we get across into egypt things are looking fine for carra and fight warming up as we head on through into thursday as we get the winds coming in from the Desert Southwest is falling across much of Central Africa two showers a long way towards assize a few for cobol but otherwise much of west africa is looking dry and fine plenty of sunshine for Lagos Nigeria and i cry in ghana for southern portions of africa weve got the remnants of a Tropical Cyclone moving away from madagascar still some showers on the east coast some showers across the eastern cape of finding cape time with highs of twenty six. Again youre watching aljazeera mind of the top stories south koreas president says he is open to meeting north Korean Leader kim jong un if certain conditions are met jane says he has no plans of easing sanctions against pyongyang until it ends its Nuclear Program. Dozens of houses in california are buried in a thick layer of mud and debris after a powerful storm the flooding and mudslides of killed at least thirteen people and forced thousands of others to abandon their. Police and to have fired tear gas at demonstrators who stormed a supermarket in the capital tunis and together protests have been taking place since monday when people rallied in more than ten towns against planned price and tax rises. Temporary israeli checkpoints and roadblocks are cutting off the city of nablus and surrounding villages in the occupied west bank Security Forces are looking for the killer of an israeli rabbi carrying out multiple raids in the area the thirty five year old victim was killed in a drive by shooting and illegal israeli settlements no one has claimed responsibility for the attack kerry force it is live in west jerusalem for us tell us what youre hearing whats the latest harry. Well this is a pretty major Israeli Military operation inside the occupied west bank as you were just outlining eleven palestinians have been detained overnight in the west bank and as you are saying a number of major routes have been closed off the one of the main links between the north and south portions of the west bank just south of nablus the check point of horror is closed a number of other roads are also close with checkpoints to the southwest of nablus as well to villages which were raided overnight theyve had soldiers stationed outside them and there are several checkpoints which arent allowing entry into the city of nablus as well the man who was killed a thirty five year old rabbi as you were saying was a resident of the illegal outpost of have at key largo he was in his car on the main route sixty nearby when he was shot from a passing vehicle these are really the trees and saying whether there was one shooter or more but there are reports that more than twenty bullets struck the car he was saying in hospital and pronounced dead many israeli politicians have been paying tribute to this man talking about him as a rabbi and as a volunteer medic and promising retribution the Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu also issuing condolences saying that justice will be brought to his killers whereas hamas in the gaza strip has welcomed this saying that it is the first practical response with fire presumably they mean a response to the donald trump declaration on jerusalem or that wasnt entirely made clear and theyre saying its a reminder of more to come out harry thank you. The rain and company his oil tanker collided with a freighter off the east coast of china says there is little hope of finding survivors bad weather and a fire on the tanker are hampering the search for such a one crew member skew been missing since the collision on saturday the body of one sailor was recovered from the sea on monday the tanker was carrying more than a Million Barrels of oil agent brian as more from his son port where the hong kong freighter has been towed. Were here in the city of joe shannon in eastern china because this is where twenty one of the survivors were brought to and details of the dramatic rescue operation are starting to emerge weve been speaking to the captain of a chinese fishing trawler just like the one behind me and he was in the area at the time of the collision he says he saw a huge explosion on the horizon they then received a distress signal by the time they got to the scene of the collision twenty one crew members of the hong kong freighter the sea of cristal were in a lifeboat the fisherman was able to haul those twenty one members on board the trawler they then made their way towards the iranian sanker by this stage the tanker was well alight he said the flames were burning so fiercely it simply forced them to pull back well those twenty one survivors were then brought to this port and they eventually went on to shanghai where theyve been Receiving Hospital treatment and also been interviewed by officials from shanghais Maritime Safety board who have begun an official investigation weve also been hearing from officials from the south Korean Ministry of oceans and fisheries and they say its possible the fire on the radio could burn for another two to four weeks and also officials here in china say the oil slick so far is not that big malaysias government has signed an agreement with a u. S. Based private firm to resume the search for m. H. Three seventy the airliner that went missing nearly four. Years ago the company has dispatched a vessel to the southern indian ocean to look for debris from the plane under the deal payments will only be made if the wreckage is found the Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared with two hundred thirty people on board in twenty fourteen to fifty migrants are feared drowned of the coast of libya after the rubber boat sank the coast guard found sixteen survivors of the city of so we have migrants from two other boats trying to make the journey across the Mediterranean Sea were rescued libya is the most common departure point for migrants trying to reach europe from africa by sea. U. S. Judge has blocked the Trump Administration from ending in a bomb era p