well i think the laura south korea trying to put a brave face on things trying to be as upbeat as possible in fact in the last few minutes mungy and office the presidential office the blue house has just issued a statement saying that it is unfortunate that the two leaders have not reached a complete agreement something of an understatement there but saying that the two sides have a greater understanding of strength than the understanding of each other's positions looking ahead to the future so trying to be as upbeat as possible but i think there is a sense of disappointment here but also i think they in a run up to this summit they other people have been trying to manage expectations quoting at one point from the ancient chinese proverb that a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step also saying that even a small agreement is not necessarily a failure but i think they were taken aback at the absence of any agreement turned i think there will be a sense of disappointment not only by the government but by

a south korean companies that had been hoping to embark on a number of into a korean economic and tourism projects that were not looking for any huge breakthrough from hanoi i know that it has been mentioned that the big stumbling block was a demand for the complete dropping wholesale dropping of sanctions what a lot of people in south korea were hoping for which was considered to be the low hanging fruit if you like the thing that was achievable was selective exemptions from certain sanctions to allow the government of south korea to in improve the ties across the d.m.z. these into a core of korean relations so there is disappointment here remains to be seen just what's moving jay in will do next he has as we know have played the role of into me jury when this talks between north korea and united states have gone off track remains to be seen if once again he will try to get these things we started lower

ok rob many thanks now over to china in a year is in beijing of course the chinese leadership also heating very close tabs on developments in vietnam. that's right so china's foreign ministry just a few hours ago finished its briefing here and basically it seems that china is one of the parties who are watching this event who are not surprised at all china has always said that they they are happy that this dialogue is going on but they said that negotiations from their experience are a long drawn out process and though they do definitely want to denuclearization on the korean peninsula they don't expect this to happen overnight and they hope that the two countries washington and pyongyang do continue to talk and they said that china is going to continue to play a positive and constructive role in ensuring that does continue and those talks go forward now from china's the specter of the or they would have liked to see some concrete outcomes some partial lifting of sanctions they're not going to be

completely disappointed because from china's perspective north korea's weapons are not a disease a disease itself north korea's weapons are a symptom of this incredible paranoia that north korea has as long from china's perspective as knows as north korea feels that it's threatened by the world threatened by the u.s. it's not going to give up these weapons. china sees that this talking any any move towards north korea feeling safer kind of opening up is a positive thing and so they might be happy with that little step but for sure they would like to see some more concrete outcomes here christine. thank you very much indeed for joins them from beijing. well the rest of the day's news as salahadin we have all the latest from india and pakistan as a dramatic escalation in tensions every disputed kashmir region.

and other has been sebago and reported downpours in java recently and you see from the satellite picture this is still the concentration of big white topped clouds there aren't that many elsewhere in the philippines it remains markedly dry if you're in sumatra you probably got away with it mostly but the cloud is rather more prevalent here and it's coming back in a tonne coming in from the east towards southern sumatra staying south of singapore and in the western coast i think it's quite light to be showery but all this time jakarta eastwards maybe as far as bali shower of a possibility but still going to be a rarity even though some of them will be heavy there also still a rarity in northern australia brought more clouds current through the bike now i would if you look at the drift of this here you know the winds coming in from this direction hot air once again we got a mix of well the high thirty's even forty maybe three melbourne adelaide and even

in tasmania we're talking about middle thirty's here so the heat is back in this part of australia not necessarily for the rest peschardt the cloud of the top so we're down to twenty four slow rise in terms of that maybe by saturday much the same in this corner as for these sea the big swell around the gulf coast knows because it was but still the sun shines. on the way of life. a battle is raging between the whaling industry and conservationists. as the future of whaling in icelandic waters is decided. people in power killing whales.

and again you're watching as there is reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump is on his way home with north korean leader kim jong un was pulled off and a vietnam meeting ended abruptly after a disagreement over the lifting of u.s. sanctions tom says the u.s. had to walk away from the tool. or back in washington d.c. much attention has been on the testimony of donald trump's formal i'm michael cohen has the full story. after more than six hours of testimony michael cohen seemed to be fighting back tears this was a day of high drama that ended with this ominous warning given my experience

working for mr trump i fear that if you loses the election in two thousand and twenty that there will never be a peaceful transition of power throughout his testimony cohen leveled a series of serious allegations against the president perhaps the most serious alleging that while in office the president wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws and the top democrat says he's convinced the president of the united states committed a crime i'm basing that on what has already been found here they think oh. mr cohen is pleading to charges where he said he will direct it to commit a crime but a president other allegations the trump lied about his tax returns being audited that he lied about pursuing a project in moscow and that the president's personal lawyers told cohen to lie to congress about it that he believes the president didn't know that his son was

meeting with russian officials to get dirt on his opponent that it is possible trump defrauded banks and insurance companies cohen says the president was told in advance that wiki leaks would leak damaging e-mails from the clinton campaign an allegation wiki leaks denies and he says the president is being investigated for other yet unknown crimes that he couldn't talk about you know what cohen from did not hold back he's a racist he's a con man. and he used to cheat republicans countered cohen is a no liar he pled guilty to lying to congress along with other serious crimes he can't be trusted you know your lawyer i mean you've been disbarred i don't know if you're in america that would believe anything mr cohen says given his past actions and. this committee laid out a case for why they need to move forward expect that they will in the coming days call for the president's personal attorneys to testify before them ask whether or

not cohen was in fact told to lie to congress they're going to want to bring in the people who know the president's finances they can do that they have subpoena power they can make people testify under oath making it clear that this is just the beginning. al-jazeera washington. now pakistan says it's prepared to return a captured indian pilot if the gesture leads to deescalation in the disputed kashmir region from mrs says his saudi arabian counterpart is expected to visit islamabad what he calls a special message from crown prince of. saudi arabia has been backing in with financial bailouts but has also supported india's position on fighting what it calls terrorism developments come a day off to both new delhi and say they shot down each other's fighter jets pakistan says it's downs two planes captured a pilot india says it shot down one pakistani aircraft and lost one of its own

prime minister is now calling for dialogue and they say we now can speak to the pakistani foreign minister shah mahmood koresh he's joining us on the phone line from it is a llama bad first of all thank you very much for joining us here on al-jazeera what she you planning to do with this pilot's how is he going to be used in negotiations . well to begin with we are looking after him. reassured the family through media that he is in good health his things looked after and we are going to treat him with dignity and respect and they have nothing to whitey now. we do not blame the pilot for anything he was doing his job is a professional soldier he was it was an instruction should do what he was doing and . if if. if his return can help the

escalation baka some will. consider with an open mind ok so what do you expect india to do to deescalate the situation. should the should as you said from day one. if they have extra built evidence they should share it with us and put on the tube of we're willing to sit there and sort of. unfortunately attack pakistan here violated its drop bombs and artillery. the trample the un charter the violated international law and today there's plenty that goes here but i would still welcome it and i'm saying ok we're willing to engage on the pieces of the dossier to send ok so of course you're talking about india's response to the attack about two weeks ago and indeed mr kashmir which killed around forty indian

parliament she's sold as a group who dies she mohammed responsibility for that is a pakistani based group india went and struck the camps the training camps it said of that group india of course say that pakistan gives groups like gys the mohammed a free rein to attack in indian soil and therefore has to take action because pakistan won't. i'm a man to your program to convey to them we are newcomers and god has been elected by the people of thugs. yes that is a historic baggage but be out of government with a fresh mindset we want peace and stability in the region we have a very ted agenda which is that people sent to kinda we want to focus on governments and we want to focus on the economy we want to focus on that occasion of corruption right and for that we need peace we want to focus on the western front where we

want peace and consideration and a lot of fun in why it would be want to heat up the eastern border we have nothing to gain from that now we are willing to engage we are willing to sit and talk and we are willing to cooperate. in investigations ok by mr as we engage your investigation will you are you willing to invest again yourselves this clean joshie mohammed. we are willing to do anything to promote peace and stability we have an open mind we have a terror policy that we would not allow pakistanis choices to be used by anyone or terrorism but what movie you going to make to say that you all come busting terrorism yourself. now. the moves are obvious but what

pakistan and in the last few years the military operations undertaken the way we've cleared our tribal belt where we have built a national consensus on. the political battle consensus on fighting terrorism. and the steps we have taken the lives we've lost seventy thousand casualties we've suffered kashmir is a disputed region is the world's most highly minute tries to area it's been that way for seventy years many point to pakistan to say well what is pakistan doing about it what money has pakistan put in to pakistani administered kashmir to try to prevent local kashmiris from joining a resistance against india. please understand that resistance to india is coming from the indian occupied kashmir

he invited international observers you're welcome to come to our part of kashmir see for yourself accordingly to see. people orleans allow you to feed off prepared to move freely in inside i doubt many also would say and i was speaking to people just yesterday about this that this is not actually an issue for india and pakistan to be fighting over it is a kashmir e issue and the people of kashmir both on the pakistani side and the indian side of need to be given the rights to self-determination they need to be offered a referendum whereby they can choose if they want to belong to pakistan to india or be independent. it's an international issue it's a recognized internationally issue. number of international security council

resolutions on it and recognize parties to it india pakistan and the question really is ok you want to give me the chance. to sit committed by india in the security council and that because we will decide ok shah mahmood qureshi we really appreciate the time you've taken to join us here on al-jazeera i do hope that you will return to speak to us as developments continue to unfold on the cash mission thank you very much. five sybil has this update on the tensions now from new delhi. you know army says it responded to shelling by pakistan in the district if indeed administered kashmir the local media are quoting defense officials saying the fiery has now stopped shelling between india and pakistan is fairly common when the situations is tense which is very much it is right now locals though in that region say they particularly feel caught in the middle there

telling al-jazeera so many of them are leaving fearing that they may be caught in the crossfire or even hit by a stray shell now in a sign that the situation may be calming somewhat in the region indian media are reporting that the civilian air space over indeed administered kashmir may be opening later on thursday it had been closed on wednesday following pakistani incursions now amid all of this the indian government has been mostly silent except for one brief statement on wednesday but now india's opposition is speaking out they had actually stood behind the government in a rare show of political unity following the february fourteenth suicide bombing now though they're criticizing the government and particularly in the renderer modi the prime minister's handling of the situation saying that it's now being politicized modi is on thursday also holding an interactive form with across fifteen thousand locations via the internet speaking to party workers and volunteers because amid this entire situation elections here in india are coming up soon. now high level negotiations to end afghanistan seventeen yo will have been

poor as for a few days senior taliban officials on the u.s. special peace envoy. are expected to resume in cast. on taliban profounder and political chief ghani baradar has been leading the discussions the united nations says israeli crackdown on palestinian protesters in gaza may amount to war crimes close to two hundred palestinians have been killed and thousands of others wounded rallies along the gaza israel border fence since my last yam. at least twelve children including five new born babies have died in the recline refugee camp in syria's border with jordan since january aid groups blamed freezing weather and poor camp conditions last month more than eighty one people most of them children and babies died in al whole camp in the country's north.

go without is there are these are the top stories u.s. president donald trump is on his way home after a summit with north korean leader kim jong il was called off early in vietnam the meeting ended abruptly after a disagreement over the lifting of u.s. sanctions john says the u.s. have to walk away from the talks basically they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn't do that they were willing to do you know go along portion of the areas that we wanted but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for that so we continue to work and we'll see what we had to walk away from that particular suggestion we had to walk away from. john has accused his former lawyer of lying about him to congress michael cohen has described the u.s. president as a liar and a racist trump says the one truth he told was that he saw no evidence of russian

collusion. pakistan says it's prepared to return a captured indian pilot if the gesture leads to deescalation in the disputed kashmir region developments come a day off to both new delhi and islamabad say they shot down each other's fighter jets pakistan says it's down to indian planes and captured a pilot india says it shot down one pakistani aircraft and lost one of its own by mr monk on calling for dialogue. if they have extra built evidence they should share it with us and sit on the table with us be a willing to sit and sort of thing unfortunately they attacked pakistan first they violated. the drop bombs and i had a tree and the trample the un chaka the violated international law and today they've sent me that those here but i would

still welcome it and i'm saying ok we're willing to engage on the basis of the boss you have sent people into. africa's most populous nation the bloodiest economy has a youth unemployment problem in a bid to control the internet of the future at some sad kind of digital eye until. we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in. counting the cost on our just era. nations in the world to hunt. the practice is akin to being for. others it's part of the country's cultural heritage for those on the front line of this battle between industry and conservationists it's also become a personal struggle between right and wrong.

somebody sat there finally it was definitely them. to eastlands good then find a ski was sunk in the me anymore see how me like every five years did i have a credit limit on the bottle or off my bottle going to be done at military i mean your previous is she said but sia i have a hunch follow the same good teacher then finest we will do it again or even the writer will. know of course you can and will do as long as you. make something up

and. it. was just down the wailing station now on the end of this pier here this is where the oh by the old dog. these are vicious groups and every sheesh david kill you if you can't learn. are those two. to males a thing. we don't want to see any more than whales being needlessly scolded that is obsolete by rick. resource utilization for me. as his thoughts why shouldn't he believes. we have an appointment with a man who many hate and despise christian lofts and is iceland's uncrowned will

king he catches fin whales and endangered species it's been a family tradition for seventy is a vision is the function house floor for the procession of the woods and he had been here in this location all the time she went in for the money stuff and we have a photo of. the monkey since the season started in june he's two ships have killed one hundred thirty whales yeah we mostly took your pants. so it made much of the selling summer here and i still haven't bothered to last since operations are under near constant surveillance to activists from marine conservation and juicy shouted a keeping a close eye on how many whales are being killed and i always had to think about way all this evidence of this about ten years ago that i just they've just fascinated me. oh. love it just. as. we think it's

a question often. people like him think they can just get away with everything absolutely everything you know you just does not. and that's when. the coming days a crucial for karen come out and josh riley. in a few days since pam had to catch fin whales expires and the activists are trying to prevent him from renewing it. that would put an end to his wavelength he has a quote from the icelandic government. that he can go out and kill these endangered species you know they are an endangered species so why does he get to do it people need to know what's going on you know a local would realize that the still goes on. in the past sea shepherd is campaigns have been controversial with some critics

even labeling its tactics of direct action and sabotage as environmental terrorism . these pictures are from two thousand and eight sea shepherd is attacking japanese fishermen. smugglers the first time i've been here and i just think it is an amazing. just breathtaking play and it's just this area that just spoils it for the whole of iceland. the man down there on the pier. they will be pulling you know. the fin whale is the second largest animal in the world. it can be up to twenty six meters long and weigh up to eighty tons. decades of overfishing have endangered it as a species. not some catches only fin whales making

him particularly controversial. bill out there is out there where you can tease out all x. ways they've always themselves. could manage anything because they're too much thanks for the good. we've all come to lay only with this stuff on the site of the blood vessel you're trying to totem on. the international whaling commission considers the stocks around iceland healthy. this is why iceland allows whaling. every way stocks are healthy you have a sustainable harvest you harvest if you do it is not sustainable you don't have to start it's as easy as a. very hard ball is put into the gun and they have. done it for words and it penetrates through the into the animal in the cavity

it explodes inside and kills the. compound weighs more than sixty kilos one shot kills most whales sometimes two or three shots a needed. japanese whale is a seen him shooting a fin whale in two thousand and eight. japan a new way of the only other countries to have commercial whaling. japan calls it research. these three countries defy the moratorium on commercial whaling that was issued in one thousand nine hundred six when several species when their extinction. iceland resumed whaling in two thousand and six this was the reaction when the first ship arrived back at the docks with its catch all the your scientific outlook total on our sites or ideas only to harvest the

whales on the basis of sustainability and. all of the precautionary approach. oh my head off head on and. on i've got no. doubt but if they all are going to wear heading out with totally furred auto johansson to see whales that are alive we use in a scene make us backwards in a way to know where those white big dolphins for five years the young captain has made a living from taking tourists on will watching tourists. it has become a lucrative business in iceland even bigger than whaling. and blow itself or got the word out and you forgot that last year three hundred seventy thousand tourists

went on whale safari is in iceland there is again. one for the. serial killer it was their nature because they weren't going to work their rights it works quite well it's a majority of iceland. is we're in favor of whaling for a long time but an increasing number and now against it like totally for being soft with our poor and drone missiles no. it's not my way and i don't like. a june two thousand and eighteen poll showed icelandic public opinion on whaling is now evenly split one third in favor one third against and undecided away what's in the industry gives way more jobs on the way more money for everyone it's just a no we can see all the you the same animal four hundred dollars

a year still didn't you notice anything. are you curious to try it and system now. you were not in the ok whales are definitely like majestic animals and i think it's a cruel punishment oeuvre it's basically cruel and unusual punishment to hunt them and expressly if they're eating them always on momma's on and they deserve equal respect like us we are and they deserve the same respect as us and they maintain an ecosystem and i think we have to respect that ecosystem and nature so to me that's a complete no no i slung that says even in a small scale and they don't want to extinct the race then i don't mind do you see the boat over there. what is that that's the whaling boat that figured it's going out. according to turn the third whaling is detrimental to whale tourism. would go get angry responses with council a sincere old saying that. i thought this horrible woman never going to go there.

for me whaling is not a cultural thing. and eating with meat there's no culture. for his part. doesn't believe that whaling damages tourism he says the number of tourists has risen from under five hundred thousand in two thousand and ten to over two million last year. i say it's due to the way. you think it's due to really why not people are interested to come and see and taste with me they don't get it anywhere in the world and they're saying the whaling is affecting the tourist industry some of these people. know this is going on average says. farmer likes to see you know you like the whales too. i'm sure there would be some people who say that you don't

yeah i mean i don't care less about that i've been vaccinated for a long time ago. this we call it japanese plague it's. so different from the. this is. really i guess it's better to use this force from the only one. i had are they about to do that i think for their government i think i'll go over to god. now i'll. just take the skin i'll.

see shepherds sees it and he whaling campaign as it's most important mission the head of the n.g.o.s u.k. branch rob reed has arrived to reinforce the message. it's not acceptable. for one man or company to make its money i feel in killing of an endangered species the organization has tried to stop lofts and from whaling for thirty two years. to eastlands good bad fantasy was sunk silly him or see how me like every day seem to do going to africans that. change. if i were to try to have a credit limit on the bottom off not going to object to and figure out that they're going to when it should be nice keep. up with change. actually see this is quite a a proud achievements in seizure of his history. yes the voice really is there and

that's for good reason that in that this is a company killing the second largest well on the planet as. a christian you know looking at those two books over there does it annoy you what happened yet it is. also. kind of vandalism is there a new around you know we've really ensure the games to go right along don't pay the bill. but it was clear that you up the list and again. yes i suppose it is vandalism and vandalism happening to the wedding station but i was a long time ago in a different set of circumstances and that's not the campaign we've running today. to apprise this kind of wailing in austin. over the ships in the world should be like these to. rust your wife got motivate

you. know he's asked the everything movement i call and they don't want anything very good fishing. deer hunting you name it they would argue that they are fighting a nonviolent fight against you know animal cruelty or the extinction of animals that's what they say. if these. terror. people are going to take the law in their hunts you know you have a problem. usually christian lofts and explodes over ninety percent of the whale meat to japan but protests and restrictions mean that no one will transport the meat. and these guys are just two years of history of being in this event there's power in for i doing that they haven't made fun they have made in their home. just going to both know. for sure his his stuff and

i think. he may be. possibly proud of the whiting. i think he had seen genuinely likes being infamous he likes being bisons arrive way that. let alone a whole lot of australia on odds most son has allies. stefan own father son is the head chef at free it for iceland's only restaurant that serves finn well. this is how we get the whale this size of boxes it's fifteen the number here and i'm a lover not three he can eat it's like so seven and he did like roast beef the roast will he did like will come first the. this is. a

big piece out of the pieces the restaurant sells almost two tons of it a yeah and that's controversial. stefan and his restaurant are the object of international protests. do you get like hate mail from the council to take me sometimes to petition or something just as good politely that's all the. people who live they'd be in the center of london or middle of manhattan and they don't have this. contact the relationship with nature. here is a part of a way testicle dog. also sells while. we brew with the sheep done small way of testicles he's brewery makes four hundred thousand a year twenty thousand

a maid with whale. i would say it's. medium dark. and with a smoky taste a special kind of smoky taste because of course of the sheep dung and a bit of a meaty theme that. when you cook the beer you put it here in and boil it for quite a long time one testicle is like this in size maybe seven to ten kilos. this is something i wouldn't want to carry. me you need to see your little bit you know it's fine leave it in the spears old to be in the craziest feel in the world all right it's always here. well we're way past the blue smoke his sheep dung. and you go first. and they are actually very good very good or. i did i don't know if i can hear that

but i don't know i'm a vegetarian can't tell. we have got a lot of threats from people especially outside of iceland it's all kinds of threats for example why not use your own testicles in a beer. we actually specifically looked up this place to try to find a place that actually had whale a pretty much over to myself to try. to actually delicious kind of salty i didn't expect it to be red color like that but it's a. very tender. and sustainable ways of fishing and we can do whatever we want to to keep a balance in the oceans but we don't have to have some. forest to fish to tell us how to run our fishing. so thanks for tuning guys and we'll keep you updated ok guy so what you can see

here is what's left of endangered fin whale number one three one. was brought in this morning a half a seven bike a violent one so as you can see they've removed the majority of the meat. sea shepherd has one hundred thirty nine thousand followers on facebook. many watch online one images a posted life. even though i hate it and i hate seeing it. get on the. other people need to say. so the other people can see what's going on we won the icelandic government to have an idea of how many people around the world are actually bearing witness to the atrocities that happen in your front of you.

have gone on to see ship of. home page baseball page and this is actually the lifestream when they have right now. what do you think of them doing that i don't care less i mean yeah like their minds are getting hasty. you don't believe that you know enough of them. they're standing right up there here five you want to go talk you know i have nothing to talk to both. of which i told why you're keen on these people you ask me every other question is about them and what you must be one of them i'm starting to see for them and she and i hope you know this yes you guys i mean just because you mention a man every other second like you have right there top of the world right now i am because they all right you know right here yes they are the example of the opposition against you yeah i told you not mention i don't care much about it.

as long as you don't stand still and fund the lies of property and things like that so we need you to use the links and the addresses that you find attached to our live streams e-mail the prime minister of iceland actually discuss them is actually barbaric. these are just coward you know when you face them. they just fall down. and that has been your. you approach doing it during all these confrontations that have been with these various groups. of course. we're waiting for. and had eight days here karen come of has documented fifteen whales being cut top. off towards she goes to her cottage on the beach it's kind of tranquil and you know

when you've got the sun on you as well it's just so peaceful. even here she confiscated christian lofts and because her landlord worked for him at the whaling station what did you do what was until i was. so when you had. was it like this if it where it's. that it will scare you how big i'll take the latter i have to last of my whole month it's a symbol of all go and sell and i'm a long vegan so i couldn't imagine you killed the whales and i want to save the wife because when children come with us and just explain where all the bones are this is the rib the rib and so this is so insane i think because it looks like a tree stump doesn't that the landlord placed whalebones on the beach as. this is just a possible yeah. is that. after

the season the government will decide if life since permit will be renewed. that can determine his future as a well catcha. do you think that you'll get well soon. we tend to start a campaign. to keep going on that even if we have to take breaks occasionally for years we'll come back to it some will keep going until that issue is resolved we all calls in a few options on ways to continue or even escalate this campaign. what could make this stuff. right is the government and we of course had thought that the i don't know for how long do you think you'll continue what could have been.

earlier this month the aust london government announced that a maximum of two hundred nine for in wales and two hundred seventeen minke whales can be killed each year between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty five it said the new coaches are sustainable and based on scientific research. jewing sierra leone civil war nigerian forces were deployed to protect civilians instead some turned on the population in plain sight of a journalist camera these is an aim to be well trained to see a green peacekeeping force the last approach complete. zone using his harrowing images international lawyers seek justice for those slaughtered by their guardians peace kilis on al-jazeera. business updates brought to you by qatar airways

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lifted. in their entirety. we couldn't do that no dalan had donald trump. ends abruptly. pakistan's foreign minister tells al-jazeera that he's willing to return a captured indian pilot if it reduces tensions. u.n. investigators say they found evidence of war crimes by israeli forces in the crackdown against protests in gaza and i'm we're hearting with the support and a delay as the head of world football the president johnny and. delaying a decision on whether to expand the qatar world cup in two thousand and twenty two . a second summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un has ended abruptly without an agreement trump says he had to walk away from kim over devolved the u.s. left all of its sanctions on north korea trump is now on his way home from hanoi

several hours ahead of. plans for the third summit when hey has more from hanoi. before the summit u.s. president donald trump tried to lower expectations of a deal with north korean leader kim jong il but the expectation was at the very least that the pay would sign some form of agreement on denuclearize ation or make a joint statement instead the talks were cut short before lunch and donald trump was left to explain why basically they wanted these sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn't do that they were willing to do you know go large portion of the areas that we wanted but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for that the american said kim jong un was willing to dismantle his young beyond research facility regarded as the centerpiece of north korea's nuclear program in exchange he wanted all economic sanctions lifted which was a step too far for the u.s.

and fortunately we didn't you know we didn't get something that ultimately made sense for the united states of america i think you're giving us hopefully he would be asked to do more and he was very to do that but i'm still optimistic. despite that optimism this was not how the summit was supposed to go earlier on thursday there was no sign of trouble ahead kim jong un the reclusive leader of a repressive state even answered questions from reporters perhaps for the first time. here in very you know we're going to. be all over your journey as if i'm not really there that i won't be here right. now will be the best answer you ever but after two summits that have yielded very little there are more questions than answers as donald trump warned about this possibility last year ahead of the first summit in singapore saying he was prepared

to walk away if the talks weren't fruitful it seems he's now delivered on that threat but with such a sudden premature into this summit there must be real concern about what happens next at this stage there are no plans for a third summit donald trump says kim jong un assured him there would be no resumption of missile nuclear tests but what happened in vietnam has proved that this continues to be an unpredictable road to the stated goal of ridding north korea of nuclear weapons wayne hey al-jazeera hanoi. well so what did happen how white house correspondent kelly helka as in hanoi as our diplomatic editor james bays while katrina and rob fried the following reaction from beijing and seoul let's begin with editor james bays james if they couldn't agree on sanctions and denuclearization they said that's why they couldn't sign anything into the denuclearization of specific sites before the meeting why did they have it.

well i think they were hoping that they'd come up with some deal not of full deal but something small but concrete to keep this process moving president trump left here just over an hour ago on air force one these the first hour into a very long flight is on the phone as we're told right now the latest information from the south korean president to the blue house is that he's on the phone to president moon of south korea we understand that he's going to speak to president shinzo of privatizations i.v. of japan straight after that briefing them all of this failed meeting they got pretty close we had a time set aside for a signing over the greenman they were going to have lunch then the agreement the lunch table was set the places where their food was ready but lunch was abruptly canceled the reason i think is that if you believe the u.s. and we only have a u.s.

account of what happened the north koreans overplayed their hand the u.s. was prepared to make concessions but not the concessions that north korea wants and in turn for somewhat limited concessions the u.s. says from the north korean side north korea wanted all the sanctions every single sanction lifted at this meeting and of course the u.s. in return would want the whole nuclear program shut down if they got something like that they were never going to do a deal of that magnitude one wonders whether the north koreans have sought leave blown aids because i can tell you at the u.n. security council russia and china have been saying for some time that north korea is coming to the to the meetings is coming to the table we should lift some sanctions as a gesture and some of the of the security council members from africa even from

europe and some of the other asian members i think were such quite so. sympathetic to that it could have been that north korea would have got some of the sanctions lifted they are spur them all and they appear to have blown it because president trump was not prepared to sign that sort of deal and yet james president trump was the king to emphasize that he and ken have this great relationship that they walked away on good terms does he think that some not for than achievement. well i think the problem is what happens next because of this most unusual process a top down process basically started in singapore by the two leaders meet the second meeting here was pushed both to push the process on how do you start this again do you have to get the two of them together again because president trump wanted to do the deal face to face the normal way diplomacy works is from the bottom bottom up low level officials agree things then they have meetings at a higher level they come up with

a pre-planned pretty quick to agreement and eventually to ohio liberal officials maybe foreign ministers not often presidents come in and signed it perhaps we have to go back to a more conventional form of diplomacy there is a problem here and that's a basic problem with regard to diplomacy we have really nothing that we can say is an achievement from this summit that means no momentum if there's no momentum there's a danger that there will be delay and if there's a delay there's a danger that diplomacy will die james thank you very much for that for now that's a diplomatic at is have with all the very nations live and when i let's go to kimberly halkett who is also there for us so as james was saying company president trump is now heading back to washington and to a massive political storm having achieved one nothing in vietnam. yeah this is there's no question that this has been a very bad week for donald trump in terms of headlines you think about tuesday his

signature campaign promise to build a border wall along the southern border the united states and mexico that was blocked at least in the house of representatives in terms of that emergency declaration he made on wednesday his lawyer his longtime confident fixer michael cohen testifying before congress again before the house committee saying in fact that donald trump is a racist a con man a liar and now on thursday we have these negative headlines coming out of hanoi the abrupt end to a summit one that donald trump said he wanted so badly to be able to lift sanctions those economic sanctions that maximum pressure campaign in exchange for the promise of economic prosperity and working towards denuclearize ation potentially a roadmap none of that happened not even some of the smaller things that were potentially thought could be in some sort of shared agreement for example we a is on offices in pyongyang or in washington d.c.

even a potential declaration of an end to the korean war none of that emerged instead saying sometimes you have to know when to walk away it was very clear in his voice as he gave that press conference with reporters that he was disappointed that he had not been able to achieve more perhaps some of that now you have a tape that many people believe donald trump sometimes exhibits not understanding the subtleties and nuances of diplomacy finally starting to sink in that this is much more difficult then he realized committee thank you very much committee how can i live and i know one person who will be closely following developments in hanoi is of course the south korean president and he's expected to offer new proposals for korean engagement on friday let's go to our correspondent trawled mcbride. and the south korean capital seoul as we heard from our diplomatic editor james earlier rob president taking a phone call with. of course south korea has perhaps the most to gain or lose from

denuclearization from what happens in these talks or has there been any reaction there so far. absolutely elizabeth south korea remains largely upbeat i mean it has to be this is a disappointing day and i think it's difficult for people here to disguise that fact the presidential office the blue house has issued a statement in the past hours saying that unfortunate that the two sides have not reached a full agreement something of an understatement there but saying that at least the two leaders did seem to deepen their understanding of each other in each other's positions and also taking comfort from the fact that donald trump seemed to recognize the fact that north korea desperately wants these sanctions to be lifted saying that he wants to lift those sanctions to if only they can get an agreement on the denuclearization issue i think the disappointment here will also be felt not

only in government circles but also big companies business here in south korea who were hoping to do joint economic cooperation projects with north korea and we're hoping not necessarily for a wholesale lifting of sanctions sanctions we know that that seems to be the issue here in the stumbling block what they were hoping for was certain specific exemptions so that they would be allowed to do deals and trades with north korean counterparts across the d.m.z. and that seemed to have been achievable if there wasn't going to be a big deal but it was a small deal and people here are asking well why didn't have to so many rounds of negotiations and talks at different levels they have a four back position to this small deal at least that would allow things to go further forward now the big question remains in seoul tonight what how does moving jay in respond to this he has as we know in the past year or so when these talks have gone off.