but first a train journey away from north korea hanoi vietnam was in the spotlight this week the city played host as u.s. president donald trump met north korea's leader kim jong un for their second face to face summit vietnam's being showcased by the u.s. as an example of a phone turned friend can really help it reports. a quarter of a century after the war in vietnam ended jim garcia has traveled to the vietnam veterans memorial wall to honor those who fought and died in the conflict. i think . father was a marine who served two tours in the vietnam war the conflict cost more than fifty eight thousand american lives most of them moralized here in washington d.c. u.s. president donald trump avoided military service during vietnam citing bone spurs something he's been heavily criticized for. but the vietnamese capital of the

noid was chosen as the venue for trying to meet north korean leader kim jong il and for their second face to face summit the country serves as an example of how old foes can become friends. from the nine hundred fifty s. through to the early one nine hundred seventy s. the united states sent its men to fight vietnam a generation later a nine hundred ninety four bill clinton and other u.s. president who avoided military service lifted a trade embargo on this communist country completely changing vietnam's relationship with the united states since then the vietnamese economy has been. the us is now one of vietnam's biggest trading partners like vietnam after the war the us and north korea have no formal diplomatic or economic ties we think that north korea and jim and kim have

a tremendous potential as an economic force. as the u.s. tries to convince to abandon its nuclear weapons program some analysts say kim should look to vietnam as an example of what's possible it's really quite remarkable. that we the united states are capable of moving beyond previously adversarial relationships. like vietnam north korea can learn much about transforming its economy despite u.s. efforts to isolate it it's one of the so-called carrots trump is dangling as a means of negotiating peace but the challenge may be convincing the north korean leader a deal isn't a sign of surrender or vietnam like north korea was once economically isolated poor and split between north and south today though it's one of the fastest growing economies in the world. economy growing at seven percent it remains a single party communist state yet foreign investment and private enterprise have

created a wealthy middle class all thanks to reforms which in the me is a cold but it's not recognized by international investors as an emerging market is seen as a from. vietnam lists two hundred thirty six restricted areas where foreigners are limited to forty nine percent of shares we asked new un managing director of business advisory group asia if she thought that vietnam could be a model for north korea people. from. any country that go to that. and so we do believe that. it's going to. not only.

peace. keeping the peace in the reason now a new era of super fast internet speeds five g. the future was the message coming out of the mobile world congress this week in barcelona reports. at this tech trade fair there's one thing everyone is pitching it's five thirty. five. life is about there if i just look at the network one hundred times faster than forty wireless internet will be rolled out in twenty twenty but in some places it's already operating here patients under the knife at a hospital in barcelona is linked by five g. cameras to the mobile world congress where a senior surgeon is guiding his genius through a gastro intestinal operation the world's first live five g. assisted surgery one of the main problems you are not in the right plane is you can't make an injury into the year it is estimated that every year one hundred

forty three million surgeries can't be performed due to lack of surgical knowledge dr antenatal ac believes five g. can change that the surgeon just needs a simple recommendation for you mean needs of the operation or maybe even have a hole into the call and say ok would look inside to do it and that's what we believe even defeat to five gene change our lives change the health system most consumers will first see five gene speeds on their smartphones but companies and building into every device that can be connected to the internet so your tablet will talk to your t.v. which again will be connected to your heating and so on this is called high ot the internet of things and the improvements won't just be for humans and how will five g. make you a better robot or protests. my mind is in the cloud or some form of general long

term so complex questions almost in the summer and that it's all goodbye to the old environmental long balanced how we do our. tech leaders say five g. puts us on the cusp of a new industrial revolution but it's not a revolution everyone will be able to afford. you said them a lot of fun i said so it's possibly the most important thing we can do to make sure that people feel that today there's two hundred million fewer women the man that owns a mobile phone south asia forty percent less sub-saharan africa thirty percent. so while this new wave of technology promises it doesn't feature is what to do to make it an equal feature joining us now from london is daniel gleason daniel is a senior consumer technology analyst with london based digital research and consulting firm of i'm daniel always good to have you on the counting the cost so not surprisingly the talk this week in both the loner and mobile world congress has

been all about five g. what is five g. why is it better than four g. well first starters what everyone will hear about is that it's much much faster you'll be downloading h.d. movie in a matter of seconds roar of in half an hour or so the second and what i think is the most important part of five g. is the latency is much lower and that's essentially the response time of the system when you when you ask the internet for a web page or to do something and that's very important for enabling new applications such as augmented reality streaming virtual reality cloud gaming in many many other things yet five g. also has is much broader in its power levels which means it also can be used for us whole internet of things which is a very low power level very low bandwidth monitoring systems which can be anywhere from thermostat to industrial applications to power in billions of devices across

the world driving driving us cars for example as well that's the kind of technology that these these gadgets are going to rely on you talk about this latency this this being fuss to connect what happens if something goes wrong who's going to connect this police this well the i mean lives could depend on it. well specifically when it comes to driverless cars a lot of those instantaneous decisions about whether to turn or brake or expect will be taken locally and there's a lot of onboard computing that will those onboard measurement systems instead the connectivity will be much more in terms of driving awareness of broader context traffic. situations also onboard entertainment with the cover much much bigger faster for the connected car once the driver is all of a sudden no longer needing to pay full attention to the road the telecoms industry

desperately needs growth i mean who do who's going to benefit more here is it is us the consumers or is it the telecoms companies or is this going to be expensive it is going to be extremely expensive course for the telecom companies to deploy the new five g. network for a couple reasons not only is a broad new radio architecture that they will have to deploy but the frequencies in which five g. will be broadcast are much higher i want that means that process is it means that the range of those signals is much much shorter which means they have to have a much denser network deploy lot more radio towers so that's going to mean very expensive rollout and also means it's going to be a lot slower in terms of getting into rural areas and there's a lot of talk in buffalo about the chinese telecoms company quite a way. in your opinion is using way. infrastructure to build

these future five g. networks a risk. it is very tough for me to say right now exactly where the truth of out lies and frankly i think we're probably even pass the point where the exact truth of the matter is is the most important thing you have a political situation now where the chinese government is obviously backing wall way to the health the us government have dug in their heels and several other european governments a dog in their heels on refusing wall weighs equipment so that is a political situation now that needs to be resolved much more than it is a technical situation because you started going to have quite a number of countries that and quite a number of economies that won't really have a choice rather other than to use while way because it is more cost effective i think we had the c.e.o. vodafone saying the past couple of days that you know not using weiwei could potentially delay five g. deployment by you know a couple of years in europe so that has big political and economic ramifications

that are going to be you know will eventually overtake a lot of the technical issues danielle good to talk to you many thanks indeed thank you finally this week the drug industry maintains where not the villains pup the price of medicine is on the rise drug manufacturers a profiting and patients are at risk for example the price of insulin invented in one nine hundred twenty three it costs hundreds of dollars a dose and the price keeps rising the alarming rise in the price of pharmaceuticals is becoming a heated political issue in the u.s. as alan fischer reports from washington the unusual public hearing after the drug companies asked for it to be in private is a sign america's congress is running into patients over the price of drugs we here in congress are exploring legislative options to determine companies to deter companies from engaging in these practices and keep drug braces high for

patients. today we expect open honest answers each of the company bosses submitted statements to the committee one said the companies use their profits to invest in important research and development of new drugs we go where the science leads us which means we don't focus all the on diseases in wealthier countries the goal is to save lives even where no viable commercial opportunity exists one this is the first time lawmakers have demanded answers from pharma companies about rising prices the government is among their biggest customers buying billions of dollars for various government programs senators acknowledge the importance of research it was pointed out drug companies enjoyed more than two hundred billion dollars in government grants to develop drugs and they can write off a lot of the cost of himself against taxes one senator says americans deserve a better deal an american taxpayers we are happy to help you be able to develop these drugs but i can tell you people in michigan just feel that the bargain not to

be that the are to be able to afford the medicine after they has had it they have helped to develop it my constituents are dying nearly five it was a tense exchange when one senator accused the drug companies of acting recklessly by pushing drugs on patients to boost profits and companies like janssen and produce pharma fueled this epidemic employing deceptive and truly unconscionable marketing tactics despite the known risks rask drug makers see other players in the industry help high prices and rebates league gives aren't always passed on to the consumer the president donald trump has promised he's going to make more drugs more affordable for american drug prices are famously complicated with one government report stating it's almost impossible to follow the money and while the pharma companies are reluctant to see government action drug prices is shaping up to be a key issue in the next presidential election question. and that's our show for this week if you'd like to comment on anything that you've seen you can tweet me

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counting the cost this week the secretive money working to influence the u.k.'s exit from the european union good morning vietnam will get to grips with one of southeast asia tyga cup economies plus who really benefits in the five g. telecoms are you counting the cost old al-jazeera. focusing on diplomacy instead of rehearsing for war the u.s. and south korea decide to scrap large scale joint military drills.

and i'm just as you take in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. we're going to go in. we give you deals with. these people. president donald trump delivers a blistering speech to his support base attacking political rivals on the mall or investigation. caught in the line of fire more injuries and deaths in the disputed kashmir region where tensions remain high between india and pakistan. and the campaign to save an endangered reptile we join a neighbor of love in kenya. well just days after talks between donald trump and kim jong un broke down there's been a significant move towards lowering military tension with north korea the u.s. and south korea say the ending major joint military drills which has been a point of contention with north korea's leader kim jong un seoul and washington

say it's part of an effort to support more talks with north korea on denuclearization a two day summit between the u.s. president and kim finished early on thursday without an agreement. bride has moved from south korea's capital seoul. effectively joint military exercises in south korea have been scaled back since president donald trump announced after the single poor summit last june that he was no fan of these war games as he called them that they were a waste of money but this confirmation that key resolve and foal eagle these spring exercises involving tens of thousands of troops of war planes ships and tanks will effectively come to an end is seen as a big concession they'll be replaced by a much smaller less high profile exercises these exercises have always enraged the north koreans who see them as a possible credit to war seems the joint militaries of south korea and the u.s.

of now agreed at least in part with that saying that they do indeed lead to a rise in tension that these exercises are being ended as a way of supporting the diplomatic efforts this will be welcomed by president moon j.n. of south korea who's once again standing in as a possible mediator between north korea and the u.s. to get things back on track it will also possibly help his personal initiative to try to help into korean relations go move forward to the next step he has stated in the last couple of days that despite the disappointment of the hanoi summit he's still determined to try to resume economic and tourism projects with north korea is still wants to try to go ahead with that although it's difficult to see just how without getting sanctions relief from the united states donald trump has launched

a furious attack against his democratic opponents and the lower end destination in a speech to supporters the longest of his presidency so far his address to the annual conservative political action conference or c. pack came after a bad week for the u.s. president his second summit with north korea's kim jong un. ended in failure while his former lawyer michael cohen labeled him a racist a con man and a cheat in his testimony to congress trying to attack the democrats over their plan to tackle climate change and used a profanity to describe their attempts to look into his personal finances we had the greatest of all time now we have people that lost. unfortunately you put the wrong people in a couple of positions and they leave people for a long time that shouldn't be there and all of a sudden they're trying to take you out with ok. and gallagher has more from the conference and oxon hill maryland. the president

don't trump might have had a couple of uncomfortable weeks with north korea is foremost fix and michael cohen giving damning testimony before congress but here at c pac this is his base and he's been talking to them about all the usual issues his relationship with china the booming economy and also immigration but he did touch briefly on the miller report let's listen to what the president had to say they fight so hard on this witch hunt this phony deal that they put together this phony thing that now looks like it's dying so they don't have anything with russia there's no collusion so now they go and morph into let's inspect every deal he's ever done we're going to go into his finances we're going to jackies deals we get it checked these people are sick. this is. i saw a little shifty shift yesterday. was a first time he went into

a meeting. and he shared were those who looked into his finance i said where did that come from he always talked about russia collusion with russia the collusion delusion so what the president was essentially doing it was an a giant zing his base he talked about the love that was in this room and this theme of this year's c pac really a strong prism he talked a lot about the forthcoming twenty twenty alexion and he is a theme that will come up again and again he wants people to believe that he's of opposition and democrats are socialists he talked about that in relation to venezuela he will talk about that once again in the future but in this room lots of love a president don't trump going forward for the twenty twenty large. political analyst eric has says trump's speech highlights the extent of the divide in u.s. politics. walk for this president he has made his base he has made his home on the right on the far right and so now after

a brutalising couple of weeks where he sees his declaration of emergency on the u.s. border wall threaten michael cohen threatening both his administration and his organization and of course the southern district of new york closing in this is us a place where the president can be at home where he can be around his supporters and where he can feed red meat see pac has now become trump and it's a place of political conservative red meat today donald trump was the primary of the president's support now even among republicans is around eighty percent of very high and unfortunately what we're seeing with the president are among independents and democrats of course his numbers are at a astonishing low rate in fact if you look at texas a conservative state a state where no democrat has won and more than twenty years right now in a hypothetical match up with democratic challengers the president is in a dead heat with joe biden bernie sanders and camila harris and so right now we're

seeing the president if the election were held today it would be very difficult for this president to get to be all important two hundred seventy electoral votes so right now with the president needs to do is is he needs to ensure that his base hold strong because unfortunately that's all he has keep in mind this is a president who now we know has paid off porn stars we see the president under siege from politically legally and so unfortunately this has become normalized we are looking at the fraying of relations with allies the united states and have held for decades and so everything right now from our treaties from our allies even from the us constitution is being frayed is being pushed to the brink right now. well donald trump may have told the conference he is confident of victory in twenty twenty but independent senator bernie sanders is

determined to beat him and has launched his second bid for the presidency kicking off his campaign in brooklyn seventeen year old seventy seven year old saunders told supporters he expected to win the democratic nomination for candidate he described as the most dangerous president in modern american history this is what i believe from the bottom of my hole if we do not allow tramp of his friends to divide us up if we stand together black and white latino asian american native american if we stand together herb good and louis d'ors south east and west if we stand together not as red states and blue state borders working people fighting i think that. if we stand together believing in justice and human dignity if

we stand together believing in love and compassion. ah if we stand together brothers and sisters. the future of this country is extraordinary and there is reporting we will not be able to accomplish. funerals are being held for some of the victims of the latest fighting in the disputed kashmir region at least seven people were killed in cross border shelling between india and pakistan tension remains high between the two countries with fighting resuming just hours after pakistan released an indian pilot in a gesture of peace while the pilot was captured on wednesday when his jet was shot down and he's now returned home to scenes of celebration so how raman reports from new delhi. india is missing military pilot is back home and people are celebrating

on the streets. the man's fighter jet crashed in pakistan administered kashmir on wednesday after being shot at by pakistan's force pakistan's prime minister brunt card ordered his release as a goodwill gesture which was welcomed by new delhi it's the only story internal yet the government's message is clear pakistan is not off the hook in the past twenty four hours there's been ongoing shelling in the kashmir region that indian administered kashmir officials claim three members of one family were reported to be killed in the area. at six in the evening pakistan started firing and shelling the shelling was going on for about three hours one of the shell fired by pakistan hit a house in which three members of a family were killed including two innocent children. fifty kilometers away and three civilians were due to temporary accommodation after coming out to heavy shelling from pakistan's forces the suicide bombing that killed more than forty

paramilitaries last month prompted the latest escalation of violence of the disputed kashmir territory it's one of the worst attacks a decades old group operating from inside pakistan claimed responsibility india's foreign minister speaking at the organization of islamic conference in abu dhabi as it's. guest of honor was clear about her country's approach to terror groups they have to go international in this newspaper editors says the conflict is key to play a bigger role of the international stage they want to be of the process of decision making in the muslim world because if you are there on the idea build a new grand influence and things and also there may. still be due to rule somehow sidelined by the stand and to somehow as you were going to a leading role in the muslim world india is heading towards a general election in twenty forty.