Also ahead sign of progress north korea accepts songs offer to hold high level talks on tuesday a socalled bombsite clone sweeps into the east more from there to what states by simple record breaking cold and scrambling to fix a bug found on computer chips tech firms try to patch a security flaw but could affect millions of devices worldwide. The white house is threatening legal action over a damning book about u. S. President donald trump the upcoming book fire and fury inside the Trump White House paints a highly critical picture of life inside the oval office and describes the president mentally unfit for the job Don Estabrook has more. President Donald Trumps press secretary came out swinging thursday saying americans are more concerned about policy then a new book on the white house i dont think they really care about some trash and author that no one had ever heard of until today or a fired employee wants to peddle earlier attorneys for the president sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher and author demanding the book not be released they also threaten former white house strategist steve bannon with legal action for telling author Michael Wolff that Donald Trump Jr was treasonous and unpatriotic for meeting with russians before the twenty sixteen president ial election after excerpts of the book were released wednesday and enraged President Trump said of bannan. And he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind initially ban and fired off a tweet saying i wont speak about who lost their minds or ever had one but he later tweeted that the president was a great man that prompted President Trump to downplay the vitriol at a white house meeting thursday dont really know me very bad last night so you know you obviously changed his tune pretty quick the book is a distraction for a president who is trying to advance his policies in the face of a deepening special investigation into russias meddling into the twenty sixteen president ial election author Michael Wolff says he spent eighteen months and conducted roughly two hundred interviews with president from senior staff during the transition and the first year of his administration in a column thursday wolf seems to question the president s Mental Fitness for office it used to be inside of thirty minutes hed repeat word for word and expression for expression the same three stories now it was within ten minutes the book is prompting speculation that the twenty fifth amendment to the constitution could be used to remove the president from office but former federal prosecutor Melanie Sloan says that he is unlikely to imagine the majority of the cabinet and the Vice President of the United States actually sending a letter saying that the president of the United States is mentally incapacitated is very hard to imagine and there are many commentators who believe this could lead to a constitutional crisis sions sloan says impeachment is a more likely scenario but with the Congress Still controlled by the president s own party that two seems unlikely at least for now Dion Estabrook Al jazeera Washington Well as i mentioned and have a port the book is diverting attention away from trumps new policies on thursday he pushed forward on some of them the attorney general reversed an obama policy on marijuana that kept federal authorities from cracking down on the drugs trade in states where Recreational Use is. Loud the government also proposed new rules allowing Small Businesses then the selfemployed to band together to buy Health Insurance and that as another attempt to roll back Barack ObamasSignature Health care law trumps also moving to expand offshore oil drilling under a new five year plan line two percent of the nations reserves would be opened up to private Companies Including waters off the california coast torture being restricted for decades or matley ashley is a senior fellow at the center for American Progress and he says trumps plan for offshore drilling is already facing major obstacles. I think there are two kinds of challenges ahead for the trumpet ministration the first is political governors of many coastal states today came out including republican governors governor rick scott of florida and said no way not on our watch are we going to put oil rigs off the coast of florida same with governors of Pacific States so its it remains to be seen whether this plan will weather the political firestorm that it is experiencing today and will extend for months to come and secondly there are huge technological barriers and big safety risks associated with development off these in these areas. Its worth noting as well in the last few days the trip the ministration has weakened safety regulations for offshore drilling so going back to predict water horizon Safety Standards so the risks for offshore drilling are simultaneously going up as the trump mr ations trying to push into areas that are on developed lets move on to other news now north korea has accepted the south proposal for talks on tuesday the missing will be held inside the Demilitarized Zone which is the area between the two countries earlier this week Cross Border Communications between chong yang and some of the result and the First Time Since two thousand and sixteen kim jong un offered to take part in talks during his new years address is set to focus on that north korea taking part in next month went to and then picks in the south well lets get more on the smell were joined by robert kelly professor of International Relations and diplomacy at Busan University hes joining us on scott from the south and south korea a pleasure to have you with us on aljazeera mr cattanach before we get to exactly what might be discussed at these talks is this a hopeful start to the can we be cautiously optimistic. Yes it is its always good to talk to north korea north korea is arguably the most dangerous state in the world and its possession of Nuclear Weapons makes it even more dangerous so its always a good idea to sit down with north korea especially when they ask maybe we can get some momentum from the olympics for these talks and we can actually get something thats really important like human rights or Nuclear Weapons so you know i dont want to get sort of too carried away absent some pretty governments got a little gotten a little bit too excited about this but its certainly better than what we had in the last ten months well pyongyang kim jong un has said that they want to talk about participating in the winter and then pick seoul wants the Nuclear Issue to be on the table just how likely do you think that will be i think the South Koreans will absolutely bring it up i think its just a question of how long the North Koreans will tolerate that before the talks break down to be perfectly honest i think the North Koreans will probably want the talks to dance around for smaller issues like trade and i think north korea is feeling the bite of sanctions north your worries about its axis of Global Financial system particularly to chinese banks which is something the americans become the target my guess is thats what the North Koreans want to talk about the olympics is something of an olive branch to get that moving but what the South Koreans really want to talk about are the Nuclear Weapons right i mean south korea could be devastated by those Nuclear Weapons the Nuclear Weapons could provoke the americans to strike north korea which could lead to a war. And thats what everybodys really worried about and so i imagine thats what the talks will be about in the Southern Side of the nukes first and the American Administration have said that you know theyre pleased that these talks are taking place and weve had the u. S. And south korea postponed and their joint military exercises which always aggravate the north the u. S. Administration is saying that this isnt actually because of the talks its because of the pics but is that a not very positive sign you know does that help sort of create a Good Environment for talks. Yeah and thats the hope right i mean were not really sure quite what will get the North Koreans to the table right i mean we really we really are on the outside we really are rather desperate to get the North Koreans to come and talk to us not just about sort of like what they have but also is it safe and you know try to get them not political proliferate i mean a lot of questions we have about north koreas Nuclear WeaponsProgram People worry about your noble style incident out here right so anything that gets them talking right if it requires the olympics or maybe like a Family Reunion thing or something shared music events or Something Like that there are lots of these kind sort of low level person a person thinks of north korean the past my its my concern and the commander of u. S. Forces in south korea said this to just in the past few days that weve had these things before these kinds of like good moments that didnt actually really go anywhere and thats ultimately what really matters right with the North Koreans really deal when it comes to the table i mean its nice that theyre athletes column and everything its good its not bad but its going to actually lead to something in the past it has not and could it lead to something do you think this time because you know you say that the world is desperate to on this issue to engage with north korea and to think that pyongyang is more desperate than it has been because of the series of sanctions that have been possible that will pasta over the last year yeah its hard to know just how much north korean sanctions actually bite i mean this is really really big debate out there my own sense is moderately so my own sense is that the sanctions make it harder for north korea to advance the Nuclear Program but cant stop it all together it makes it harder for the north korean elite to get access to luxury goods but cant stop it altogether so the sanctions cause moderate pain but i dont know if that pain is enough to get the North Koreans to seriously deal on Nuclear Weapons the North Koreans have a pretty big card now i mean Nuclear Weapons are really really big thing the world has tried for twenty years to stop them from getting them they got them anyway theyre not going to deal in Nuclear Weapons unless they get some really really major concession theyre going to ask for a lot and we just have to see what it is thats a kind of thank you as always for your time on those that set off a county that one has a life and theres some thank you. Perus former president Alberto Fujimori has been released from hospital he was pardoned last month by president kaczynski on Health Grounds triggering days of protests the controversy over his pardon also saw three cabinet ministers resign in as many weeks fujimori was serving a twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights abuses during his rule. Large parts of the eastern u. S. On the grep of a historic one to storm system being called a bomb site on this map shows the areas that will see the worst of the record breaking low temperatures the National Weather service says heavy snow can force winds and tidal flooding expected until late on friday when the storm moves towards canada well the extreme weather has travel chaos with thousands of Flights Canceled leaving many travelers stranded at airports. Reports from new york. A large chunk of north america was already in a deep freeze now the northeast coast is being hit particularly hard from a winter blizzard massachusetts bearing the brunt of it blowing snow made printer white out conditions along the coastal regions of the state there was icy flooding. In the seaside town of scituate massachusetts boats were seen floating in icy waters all of the northeast of the u. S. Was hit with what meteorologists were loosely calling a snow hurricane it closed many schools and Government Offices in new york heavy snow and particularly high winds nearly brought the city to a halt and by afternoon most businesses had closed up for the day the mayor declared a winter storm emergency and asked residents to stay indoors. This is a serious serious storm between the very low temperature the strong winds the driving snow everyone should take this one very seriously and take precautions that conditions brought airports to a standstill thousands of Flights Canceled in the northeast leaving travelers either queuing up to rebook or stranded unsure of when they might be able to fly after it was canceled and we never got any information it would be canceled. Or delayed and were not sure it would be on the plan to see further south than georgia waterfowl. Ins were no match for the cold air site where temperatures this low are highly unusual this is the first time five years have seen snow even colder this much space but back up in the northeast the situation could get worse overnight the governor of massachusetts saying friday likely wont be any better a foot of snow wasnt enough the forecast predicts single digit temperatures to move in on friday a storm that hit hard when the temperatures now expected to dip down again to minus twenty degrees celsius and below there seems little chance of much melting away gave rosendo new york. You know lots more ahead on aljazeera a good struggle to call it but the henge of behaves in crisis but tens of thousands of miles expected the seattle os. Im going hey in northern thailand home to many ethnic minority groups many People Living in these hills have lived here for generations but still cant officially call thailand home. From long flowing island winds to an enchanting desert breeze. Hello there are some of us in the middle east were seeing some very heavy rain and a fair amount of snow to one system thats moving away towards the east that ones fizzling out but the system that were really looking at is towards the west its been giving us some heavy rain already to parts of turkey and now is stretching towards the south as well say through lebanon all the way up into turkey it does look very very wet and over the mountains were looking at some snow that system who well give us a problem with flooding and landslides before eventually clears away and it should clear away quite readily so saturday should be a brighter day by day getting to around sixteen degrees which is sixty one fahrenheit now a bit further towards the south and here in doha our temperatures hovering around twenty four but i think it will get a little bit warmer as we head through the day into saturday twenty six degrees will be the top temperature and then the winds will be help as we head into sunday i mean further towards the south and weve got all storm that weve been watching thats just grazing the east coast of madagascar thats going to give us some torrentially heavy downpours it is likely to give us a problem with flooding and with some landslides as well so major problems here in the eastern parts of madagascar and the main problem with this storm is due to the fact that its moving quite slowly just edging a little bit further south which as we head through saturday but still giving us an awful lot of rain there with sponsored by the time. You are making very pointed remarks whether online the main u. S. Response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been criminal minds or if you join us on sad no evil person just wakes up low within the morning and says i want to scour the world of darkness this is a dialogue and that could be what leading to some of the confusion online about people saying they dont actually know whats going on join the colobus conversation at this time on aljazeera. Good to have you with us on these are our top stories u. S. President donald trump has tweeted saying an upcoming book about him is full of lies the book paints a highly critical touch of life inside the oval office and suggests that the president is mentally unfit for the job the white house has threatened legal action north korea has accepted the proposal for talks on tuesday leader kim jong un. Said hed take off during his new years interests discussions will focus song north koreas participation in next months went to olym