Floods and a deadly rainstorm in Southern California at least thirteen people are killed as dozens of homes are bearing. Transformer advisor steps down from the writing great part news after public forty yard with the u. S. President. More anger over a stereotype protesters internet clash with police after the Prime Minister promises to crack down on rioters. South koreas president says he is open to meeting north Korean Leader kim jong un if certain conditions are made to moon jay ins comments follow choose days official talks between the two sides the first in more than two years from seoul kathy novak 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 peace a limb pics a reality says Domestic Support for his policy of dialogue with north korea helped bring about the rare meeting and he had someone else to think as well during. The accomplishment 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 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. China has backed several un sanctions against north korea for its Nuclear Program pyongyang depends on its neighbors for ninety percent of its trade but beijing ordered the closure of north korean businesses to comply with the sanctions and the deadline for the closure pass and choose david as rob mcbride reports from beijing some still remain open according to the directive yesterday the ninth was when all north korean restaurants were meant to have closed so that by today the tenth north korean lunch should be off the menu but weve just been inside this restaurant and were able to order a full meal with no sign of it being closed down we dont know exactly what the setup is here with this restaurant but it suspected that sound north korean restaurants may be changing their Management Structure to make it look as though theyre now owned by chinese management when in fact money from them is still finding its way into north korea china has promised to implement fully all un sanctions but coming after claims that its been allowing north korea to get around some other embargoes news that some north korean business is still seem to be operating will fuel suspicions of a disconnect between what china promises what china implements staying with south korea where protesters are calling a deal with japan on World War Two sex slaves invalid in twenty fifteen japan apologized to woman who were forced to work in brothels during the war and agree to set up an eight Million Dollar fund for the victims critics of the deal one direct compensation instead but south koreas government says it will not seek to renegotiate the agreement. Dozens of houses 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 rob reynolds 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 choose truth weve heard of a little baby. She will. Cut down the food and the right can you. Got it out of the bottle thats no. Hope its ok to buy 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 clear to. 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 aljazeera los angeles 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 theyre carrying out multiple raids in the area thirty five year old victim was killed in a drive by shooting near an illegal israeli settlement air force that has more from west to east them there is a Major Military operation underway in the occupied west bank as Israeli Soldiers who have been reinforced in the area are searching for the killers of this thirty five year old man a rabbi. Who was a resident of the illegal outpost of hovered gilad and was shot in his vehicle on the main route outside that outpost from a passing vehicle Israeli Military isnt saying whether there was one shooter or more but they are searching for the perpetrator or perpetrators of this killing they have closed a number of roads in the area with checkpoints the main north south artery or at least one of the main ways linking the north and south of the occupied west bank has been cut off at the who are a checkpoint there also checkpoints which arent allowing access into the city of nablus there are cameras along these routes and there have been reports over the last year of increasing use of cameras within palestinian villages as well so doubtless that will be part of the investigation the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu has issued his condolences to the family of the dead man and also promising swift justice there are also a number of israeli politicians who are talking about retribution. Turkey is accusing russia and iran of helping Syrian Government troops break agreements on socalled deescalation zones russia iran and turkey agreed on four such areas in may last year Turkeys Foreign Ministry says violations in syria could not be possible without the support of the two countries they both support president Bashar Al Assad while turkey backs opposition groups. Go to transform adviser steve bannon has resigned from his role as executive chairman of the right wing news website great part this comes just days after bannons remarks about trump and his son in a new book band called the twenty sixteen meeting between Donald Trump Jr and a group of russians treasonous the book is more from washington d. C. Well steve bannon and breitbart are both saying that he left the his position at breitbart but theres a lot of speculation in washington that he was probably pushed out. One of the investors and one of the Board Members that breitbart is a republican a billionaire republican donor by the name of Rebecca Mercer she hopelessly called gran an out last week over the comments that he made in fire and fury so there is speculation that she probably had something to do with his leaving the breitbart news. This afternoon what is the political future for steve bannon kind of hard to tell right now he appears to be rather toxic this was a man who had a very meteoric rise started at breitbart in two thousand and twelve sort of led this nationalist movement and helped get president elected and then was part of his staff now hes fallen out of favor with trump hes lost his job at breitbart and hes also lost a show a radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio so hes sort of lost that platform for that nationalist movement but washington is a city where there are a lot of Second Chances he was working to try to get some people that were running for the midterm elections elected he may have to step aside at this point because of his relationship with President Trump but again this is a town of Second Chances hes likely to step aside lick his wounds and maybe really emerge over the next several months. Still ahead on aljazeera a year on and still no government Northern Irelands political troubles deep and. Does the u. K. Takes action against these plastic tiny beats that are charging us. From the waves in the south. To the contours of the east. 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And again the top stories this hour 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 to ease sanctions against pyongyang until it ends its Nuclear Program dozens of houses in Southern 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 homes. 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 any israeli rabbi following that attack there are reports of Israeli Settlers through. Stones of passing palestinian cars in surrounding villages. Up to fifty migrants are feared drowned of the coast of libya after their rubber boat sank of the coast guard found sixteen survivors of the city of so we hear on 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. A u. S. Judge has blocked the trumpet ministration from ending and Obama Era Program that protects immigrants who entered the country without documents the deferred action for Childhood Arrivals Program provides legal status to around eight hundred thousand people the San Francisco judge said they would suffer serious irreparable harm if it ended abruptly trump decided to stop the policy in march but congress has remained deadlocked on the issue despite this blow to trans immigration reforms one thing hes not backing down on is the border war with mexico lets get more from can really help it in washington d. C. Well certainly there has been repeated speculation about the president s Mental Fitness when it comes to his presidency those accusations intensifying in the past week but that may have been countered by a Spontaneous Press Conference by the president a bipartisan appearance of both democratic and republican lawmakers here at the white house that appeared to run in front of the press real time negotiations on a thorny issue that has been under resolvable in the United States for years and that is the issue of illegal immigration as well as Border Security the president showing that he not only despite accusations to the contrary was engaged in new the issues but he also seemed to signal that there was a willingness to work with his critics particularly when it comes to issues like Border Security and something known as doc our deferred action on childhood arrivals essentially what to do about thousands of Illegal Immigrants brought to the United States living here for years but brought here as children many now adults we dont have six months from the start but i think youre going to negotiate and maybe well agree and maybe we wont i mean you know its possible were not going to agree with you when its possible but there should be no reason for us not to get this done a joke i will say when this group comes back hopefully with that agreement this group and others from the senate from the house comes back with an agreement im shouting at me i will be signing now the issue of immigration is key to a looming deadline and that is funding the u. S. Government that deadline a little more than a week away may have something to do with the fact that republicans democrats along with the president working together in a bipartisan fashion the president is still insisting that he wants funding for his border wall along with southern u. S. Border with mexico but seems to be striking a more conciliatory tone with his political opponents that may have something to do with the fact that this is a. Election year Congressional Elections are set to be held in november presented as if i had to guess the demonstrators who 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 tests are going to reports. Its the economy just as it was in tunisia during the revolution that spawned the arab spring in two thousand and eleven. Tunisians are looking at their circumstances and saying enough. Although this time theyre also saying not much has changed since they succeeded in bringing democracy to their country. But. Its been seven years since twenty eleven and 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 accepting the high cost of living and that is contributing to the process of the country poor people like me can no longer bear the burden of these high prices and im afraid that i mean. There have been protests across t