officers tell us they're only here to keep the peace not prevent people from moving freely between the two countries that are for that but it's challenging crossing the border through the river it's challenging this bridge serves as the official border crossing and is usually bustling with pedestrian traffic but a week ago venezuelan officials set up barricades to prevent international aid from entering the country through colombia since then people have had to find other ways to get across the border. as many as twenty thousand people are estimated be crossing to and from minnesota every single day this river is what separates been a sweller from colombia some people tell us they've been traveling for four hours or more in search of food others say what they're seeking is medical attention. this woman was rushed across the river on a stretcher after suffering a miscarriage her mother tells us they didn't know where else to go. you know cup her mouth is purple she's vomiting infirmity there was no want to treat her if i

didn't bring her here she would die. the local economies on both sides of this border rely heavily on commerce and it's clear the people are anxious for it to reopen even though there's no clear sign of when that might be uninterrupted oh i'll just see down who could. still ahead on al-jazeera. i'm sort of i go in part of where a form of monastery is set to become a school for the next generation's far right populist politicians. and a campaign to save a reptile in kenya that's facing extinction. and there were scenes of very heavy downpours they were the southeastern parts of asia recently most of those showers have been over the southern parts of borneo through parts of java and to somalia and java has been reporting rains over one hundred

millimeters just in twenty four hours now yet more wet weather is expected here as we head through monday and generally speaking for the northeast looking a good deal drier not all of us will get away with a completely dry day though i think for some of us through thailand is that we want to showers and also across the philippines that be a bit more cloud that we've got used to recently and the chance of a few more showers as well down towards australia and here of course it's been incredibly hot recently but now. the clouds mean making its way across us and that's really dragged down the temperatures so for many of us it won't be as hot as it has been twenty seven will be the maximum in melbourne on monday and thirty fourth in adelaide towards the west though it's got hot again for us in perth but fortunately that heat is just easing back a fraction as we head through tuesday thanks to a little bit more in the way of cloud over towards new zealand and there's been plenty of fine drawing weather with us recently all thanks to an area of high pressure that sitting over the top of us as ensuring there's

a lot of sunshine and it's fairly warm we don't climb up to around twenty four degrees on monday. we want to return i can bring your people back to life from start with updates and the best of al-jazeera is documentaries the struggle continues from bad to no use distance continuing with australia's most generations of recovery from call on is a really important issue suicide rights do or mine very high was still twice the national average rewind on i'll just zero.

you're watching the top stories right now the u.s. and south korea have a great and major joint military exercises in order to support future talks with pyongyang on two nuclearization trails have been a major point of contention with north korean leader kim jong il. funerals have been held for the victims of the recent fighting in the disputed kashmir region at least seven people were killed on saturday in cross border shelling between india and pakistan. even as wales opposition leader insists he will return home despite threats of being arrested on but i was in ecuador where he met with president clinton marino is on a tour of latin america drumming up support against president nicolas maduro. kurdish forces in syria closing in on the last remaining eisel fighters of the village in the village of say they expect to quote decisive battle on sunday.

yes back syrian democratic forces launched the final push against the armed group on friday the last remaining civilians were evacuated just hours earlier thousands of people have left in recent weeks they're being taken to a camp near the iraqi border thousands of syrians have fled to neighboring lebanon when the war began are going back home a new minister in charge of lebanon's millions of refugees is an outspoken supporter of syria's government is vowed to make the return of refugees a priority but given rights groups say those returning face arbitrary detention and torture by the regime send her to reports from beirut. a new group of syrians is returning home thousands have made this journey in recent months but their numbers are still small lebannon hosts over a million refugees from the war in syria authorities say it is time for them to go home now that much of the country is back under the syrian government's control but there are those who accuse bashar al assad's government of reestablishing we're pressin rule they cite the southern province of daraa as an example there is

a. lot of. insecurity for the population. for former rebels as well as for. people. who are have a record. people supporting the opposition. being against the government. the opposition and there are had agreed to a negotiated surrender for an amnesty but some say the so-called reconciliation agreements are not being respected instead there have been arbitrary arrests. international organizations including the u.n. say the lack of security guarantees is why many refugees are afraid to go back. eight years into the conflict and we haven't seen any form being done by the syrian government towards the security situation especially syrian security services that

are responsible for crimes against humanity and for arbitrary detention torture and death in custody lebanon's politicians are divided on whether it is safe for syrian refugees to return home but the refugee affairs portfolio is now run by a politician allied to the syrian government the newly appointed minister saw the first act in office was to visit damascus it further politicized the issue there are some politicians who criticize. the government policy of intervening in the hope that they believe in return as well as normalize direct contacts with damascus should not happen until an international political solution is reached. many in lebanon complain about the refugee populations impact on the country's economy and infrastructure those who hold power say they will push ahead with what they call voluntary and safe returns for many syrians that could mean more difficult

conditions to discourage them from. beirut yes president has launched a furious attack at a mall or investigation during the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the us speech came after his former lawyer michael cohen labeled a racist a con man and a cheat and his testimony to congress. political opponents are trying to take him out of the investigation into possible russian collusion during the two thousand and sixteen election we have the greatest of all time now we have people 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 maryland. the president don't trump might have had a couple of uncomfortable weeks with north korea and his former fixer 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 check his deals we get a check these people are sick of this. i saw a little shifty shift yesterday. it's a first time he went into a meeting. and he shared were go to look 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 he was energizing his base he talked about the love that was in this room and this theme of this year's seat back really is trump is and he talked a lot about the forthcoming twenty twenty alexion is a theme that will come up again and again he wants people to believe that he's of all position the 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 for the president don't trump going forward to the twenty twenty lunch. and donald trump's former advisor state bandanas helping set up an academy for all white leaders in italy and has praised italy's populist government for its nationalist agenda and is hoping more countries will follow its example just on a go reports from pardo some residents are unhappy their town will host the next generation of all right leaders for more than eight hundred years the two still

teach how to house more history in college powered daw has been a place of quiet contemplation these days the last of the remaining monks is retired i did is no longer so he dedicated to a theory of pursuits a new resident has moved in with a more worldly plans in mind benjamin hahn well the founder of the did he taught his human institute or d.h. i want to transform it into a right wing populist recruiting ground. the first project is the cardinal martino academy for human dignity which will promote catholic social teaching with a special emphasis pro-life pro-family issues the second project is the academy for the judeo christian west which will promote the christian foundations of western civilization one of the main backers is all right ideologues steve bannon

who played a leading role in president trump's electoral victory and was the author of his nationalist american first dogma his intention here to spread that vision across europe and beyond because then return home use what they learned here for the fight for the judeo christian west once they get back into their home environment the blueprint for this was a talk given by a baton to the d.h.i. at the vatican in twenty fourteen where he preached his conflict ridden worldview but we're in an outright war against just hard is islam islamic fascism within this forum on astri is where the organizes and steve battle hope to create a new generation of populist nationalist politicians and thinkers the next donald trump or viktor orban if you will but outside of these walls there is little appetite for this project. in the town itself there is a sense of discomfort about the plans to was until last year looked after by the

state and there were concerns over how the d.h.i. which keeps its funding secret to maintain the monastery. we cannot even begin to consider allowing steve benen to come to our town. just so he can do whatever he likes by launching this academy to attack the european union resulting becomes a battleground for europe we will defend it but at the. resulting project may sound a warning to the very future of the european union and increasingly fragile continent that threat is ever present this will be a front line with the forces of populism poised to the new recruits and create an elite in their own image. al-jazeera. and while up to two hundred thousand people have marched through the italian city of milan against government moves they say promote racism and discrimination of instructors called on politicians to put people first their policies make it easier to deport migrants

and take away their citizenship if they commit serious crimes. against the serbian president alexander continue for the thirteenth week in a row thousands marched in the streets of belgrade demanding media freedom as a precondition for a free and fair elections administrations began after an opposition politician was beaten up last november sorgen opposition groups accuse president government of violent intimidation. really elected congolese president says he wants to free political prisoners within ten days as he was pronounced winner of the december vote but that's been contested by the opposition named easing tensions as a major goal of his first one hundred days. within ten days i will take a measure of granting a presidential pardon to political prisoners who have been sentenced by decisions that have been overturned i will actively work to create the conditions for the

early return of its who are currently outside the country for political reasons to carry out their activities in accordance with goodwill and the republican institutions. have been urged to leave their homes after bush fires destroyed at least five homes in the australian state of victoria an emergency warning was issued for residents around but of state park east of melbourne hundreds of firefighters are trying to control that fast moving fire there are twenty five fires burning across the state and it's believed lightning caused many of the it's been the hottest start to autumn in the area for thirty years conservationists in kenya say poaching is fitting turtle species at risk are working with local fisherman to try to stop the endangered reptile being caught on purpose or in their nets the turtles are also losing their breeding grounds to erosion and construction catherine reports on the eastern coast. a green tart old carefully cut his eggs

she's just laid down we have to be careful distracting how with bright lights may force her to stop what she's doing this stretch of beach in what time on the kenyan coast is a nesting site for hundreds of green and all you've really tuttle's both endangered species. every time they come out of the ocean to nest there life is in danger hunting them is illegal but some people here do for meat and or oil which they say is maybe senile and it's also an aphrodisiac this residence of atomic tuttle conservation group it's their job to guard the tuttles but the biggest threat is poaching where some people should be talking that's why we are patrolling to give the security for the nesting models they then target them to keep count of how many are out there up to four hours of hard labor she is done and has covered up eggs the best way she can to protect them from predators she's lucky that she's

in a protected area many cattle that come up to nest in other parts of the beach are in most danger of being hunted down for food by people another tart all lead her eggs in what is considered a danger zone this part of the beach is too exposed the title watchers have to move the eggs to a safe area it's a delicate process. they have to make sure the eggs are well protected from poachers and direct sunlight. during the nesting season they carry out biweekly surveys which they say are often green last week. that we did we collected a total of. course. statistics we haven't done enough because we have done outreach with awareness of the people but still not really ready to work with us many fisherman in what time will know that titles are protected thousand

muhammad several have been trapped in his fishing net he hands them over to government wildlife why didn't all conservationists in the area for a few it's a program that has helped but does not cover the entire nesting stretch the river. there is protected i think is very difficult to see as fishermen poaching. after two months total hot make their way into the ocean only one in a thousand will survive into adult food catherine saw al-jazeera on the kenyan coast. to get the headlines right now on al-jazeera the u.s. and south korea have agreed to and major joint military exercises in order to support your church talks with pyongyang on denuclearization the drills had been a major point of contention with north korean leader kim jong il mcbride has more from seoul. this now does come as

a confirmation that fold eagle and key resolve these of these big exercises that normally take place in the spring two ends and they will be replaced by much smaller less high profile exercises command exercises virtual computer games if you like rather than troops on the ground it is quite a concession the these exercises always enraged the north koreans they say that it could be a prelude to war so it is a concession with the military of south korea and the u.s. now saying yes they do the two a rise in tension a four day long gun fight has ended between security forces and rebel fighters in indian administered kashmir and insulters launched an operation in northern ca and to try and flush out armed groups meanwhile theon rolls happen help or some of the victims of the recent fighting in the disputed kashmir region at least seven people were killed on saturday and cross border shelling between india and pakistan

tensions remain high after both sides said they shot down each other's jets on wednesday and israel's opposition leader insists he will return home despite threats of being arrested on white who is in ecuador where he met with president lenin merino he's on a tour of latin america drumming up support against president nicolas maduro this president has launched a furious attack at the muller investigation during the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the us speech came after his former lawyer michael cohen labeled him a racist a con man and a cheat and his testimony to congress. high level talks between the u.s. and taliban are expected to continue and u.s. envoys like killed saad said in earlier round ended with i'm president of progress to end the seventeen year war the taliban are suffusing to directly negotiate with the afghan government and also wants foreign forces to withdraw people been urged to leave their homes after bush fires a short at least five homes in the australian state of victoria an emergency warning was issued for residents around daniel state park east of melbourne

hundreds of firefighters are trying to control that asked moving fire or so the headlines keep it on al-jazeera rewind is that next. and abandoned. downed and say. what i want to reveal how one is giving pakistan's lost children a new chance at life. his era. hello and welcome once again rewinds i'm come all santa maria since they were english

launched back in two thousand and six we've been adding to our collection of award winning films year by year and here on rewind we're showcasing some of them once again today it's a one on one east film about the abnormally high suicide rate among young indigenous australians each year more than one hundred aboriginals choose to end their lives they are twice as likely to commit suicide as other australians in kimberley and western australia tree stumps they use to mark the sites of a suicide and programs based on ancient rituals have been developed to try to help young people find their way from twenty twelve this is australia's last generation . remote and picturesque. the kimberley in north west destroy. a vast area three times the size of england.

the traditional lands of the. low side. job to take care of the land. a using the bush skills. study but it's a different thing. but recently these ranges have had to acquire a new set of skills. to respond to. lloyd know gets younger brother last year the suicide spot the only good ranges to take up a suicide intervention course. we had my birthday.

mowanjum has a population of three hundred and fifty people. and is about eight kilometers away from the town of. it situated in the kimberley. the week before we arrived there had been five suicides in the region. it's taboo to talk about the aboriginal culture to even say the name of someone who's passed away . in the community. anywhere else in the queue. just about every single family has been touched by suicide.

is a suicide response worker for the. area he's been working here for more than seventeen news. become in this community. very own i've had i year old kids point out that this is true that they want to hang themselves often actually mark out their tree yeah identified trees that they want to hang social and what's right side in the kimberley region. in the kimberley region that's probably up to thirty completed suicides in the last twelve months. and that's an epidemic. mark the spot where people have committed suicide. serving as an easy reminder of the untimely deaths. families kind of down because they were like that i want to see it brings back. bad

memories but. best friend killed himself here a few months ago he was just eighteen years old if someone commits suicide it affects the whole community. one big family it's not the first time a man has had to deal with the death of someone close to him. when i was only an adolescent. committing suicide i didn't know what for. just turning eighteen so i think about it too. and the sound of suicide in his sleep. i just like. people shouting in the night saying somebody help this person want to

commit suicide or hung himself. lloyd no good believes a lack of opportunity is contributing to a downward spiral there's nothing there for them but alcohol and drugs there's nothing exciting or good for them to enjoy. it. takes us to a popular spot the adults and children go to drink alcohol kimberly's allowing him to drink more three times a much. stronger you know normal sitting for the boys to have a drink is ninety cans of beer. with copious amounts of know. and they'll drink and i and then go back the next day and rick will sign me up i'll

spend the whole white on a home. and not even flinch. terrence james often finds himself in a drug and alcohol haze we go on to have a good time you know. broke smoke weed. a few years ago when he was high and depressed terence tried to hang himself. as i hear that happened the oh well here. for the rope he takes me to the site of his suicide attempt oh. come over here to help me understand how you're feeling that day. it was getting dark it is. going on.

waist that broken. and went to my mind in my mind it's cool blank you know the day no one went over here to i'm one of them and with them. getting one. just. like over the moon one would mean and. in the morning my most hope. republican were all going to grab the rope when. they were home or. would you do it for you would you want to clear them for. where the northern territory would mean yes so side right is three and

a half times the national average wedding to an indigenous can't just say how culturally appropriate methods are being used to heal and say they are. david cole runs which means creation in the local language it's about giving the kids a safe place and a culturally appropriate place to just. get away from things play them on share some tools of the. can some seeds of understanding and by sickly help them work through the challenges i got. to just let things go and how is it culturally appropriate the biggest aspect of the problem is culture reconnection it's getting the kids to build their self-esteem and pride through identity and culture and that's components of the program. run six camps a year. for about

a week at this one nine high risk youths are being put to task. for. making traditional weapons to help break connect them to their ancient culture. more than forty thousand history. with traditional dance i. and smoking ceremonies to clinton. but one of these adolescents have thought of committing suicide and are recovering from drug and alcohol addictions. we can't identify them because they're under age ranging from twelve to sixteen years old. to be hoping to heal.

you know the violence the broken families the loss of identity the various forms of abuse physical mental emotional. substance abuse drug and alcohol that can be drug and alcohol around the kids and ultimately the kids being embroiled in that substance abuse themselves. first indigenous psychologist professor pat dudgeon. says substance abuse is a symptom of largest social issues i think that indigenous people are still dealing with all the problems that are a consequence from. all of that plane has been left unattended and just manifested through the generations and that plane passed on to the children and site has led to the children that we have today who at the end of that they don't understand the price that i must

understand where it comes from and i don't understand why they must endure such crying. this fifteen year old who can bring is one boy who wanted to end his life. she can and i'm angry just. now so awful. what do you do with that anger. so i do bad things. because. that's where you find the drunks and stuff like that with a little help from nature david cole is trying to show these adolescents how to isolate their problems. it does violence broken family if there's been past abuse if there's been whatever it is every challenge every problem that bothers you or is on your mind i want you to get iraq i want you to just mike to

paul along the edge of the water. the bigger the problem the bigger the rock. how does it how do they feel is it hurting. and that's what problems do you if you refuse to find ways of releasing that you will have to carry this pine tree your whole life you have to learn you have to be willing to learn how to let go i had a lot of sort of pre. let. young people need to be given. that they culture. being cultural activities and feel that they part of a community and a cultural community. so we're only going to a small healing session a meditation. for these for. this is the

healing circle. and indigenous version of a counseling session. which is going to go through a very. reading meditation technique. in accordance with aboriginal custom for the young boys to speak at the healing circle but they're encouraged to. we are. both. cameron says the camp has made him feel stronger. like you and i. and respect and. the challenge lies in keeping these boys on track after they leave the balun you

camp it's really hard it's hard for us because. thirty percent of the kids are extreme heart risk area and there were kids to be remembered for abuse are the ones who are looking at it as an option from the sky. so we feel a lack of resources and lack of appropriate funding and support we we can't do adequate follow up marion scrymgour is an outgoing state minister in the northern territory government she's skeptical that money from a controversial stead will government package is reaching indigenous communities under the northern territory emergency response there was a story billion dollars that significant tax pis money that's gone into what people think has gone into these communities a lot of their money is spent on bureaucrats consultants a lot of people fly in fly out from these communities there is very little money

that goes into programs and for working with families working with communities so that they can build and start dealing with that with the trauma. she says she's leaving politics because she doesn't believe it's hoping aboriginals enough heck can i sit in this job any longer don't know what i'm doing. we've got i ten year old young kids killing themselves it's clear something is wrong. and communities have got to start taking some strong staying. because there's not going to be a generation left if. we're heading east of darwin to the picturesque and largely indigenous land just. some years ago the community of state made the highest grades and have the time know well at its

highest point average for the elderly lady decided to take matters into their own hands. is a ski beach she says it was the hanging suicide of a twenty one year old that sparked a cluster of other suicides in her community he was the first one to commit suicide the first time his community in this community. youngest sister also committed suicide that was when her family took action seven years ago creating a volunteer service called the manga suicide prevention group what do you do to prevent suicide in the community. with. walk been licensed as we walk the streets and listen for the noise where it's coming from. the women who

run a twenty four hours suicide watch often patrolling the streets with only small torches they mediate in family issues and mental troubled youths will probably up the next day go to their house and sit down have cuppa tea read with their peers they've named seven or noting that angry with them but like cancelling. local police say the group's work has been invaluable or boy if that since they've become operating i think there's been a source saw it in their area and while suicide numbers have dropped there's been a shop rise in attempted suicides looking at the figures from thirty two thousand and two to have an eye where there was forty or ten now and just as two year period two and a half he's the one hundred thirteen that's a significant increase. nick still bears the rope marks from his suicide

attempt to weeks ago. group intervened just in time to save the twenty three year old. two months. the reason i've been doing this was because my biggest problem is with alcohol and once i start drinking alcohol i start losing control i would think things like my family doesn't love me and i want to go hang myself with them and i don't want to learn to new i want to change my life a better life so that i can spend time with my son go hunting and fishing with him and do good thing in the. back in mowanjum terence told me he wants to cut down the tree where he attempted suicide. or live kind of. you know. to me that's a staple of someone going forward. but then remove

something of a symbol that. they want to do in their life and. in its own way the community too is giving itself the space to heal the trees were families but people commit suicide it's up and down but we don't actually killing us. the time it takes to grow back gives us the time to get over forget about it. while suicide remains a scourge in aboriginal communities across this trail it appears that family and culture is indigenous australia is best hope to saving their young.

australia of last generations so that was back in twenty twelve which leads us to ask how successful have those schemes been in reducing the suicide rate where we're joined now by psychologist professor pat dudgeon who you recognize from the film a former commissioner of the national mental health commission she teaches at the university of western australia and actually runs a number of suicide prevention projects focusing on aboriginal communities it's great to have you with us here on ri one professor dudgeon you really believe then that that local approach works oh absolutely look every channel interest right on the people have been just some pad there's a whole lot of issues facing women not just us and astride this old. would remain issues the indigenous people of settler countries such as in new zealand canada and the states where recovery from call on is a really important issue and what we do on the names that enable people to become

empowered to control their own destinies to control their own resources to decide what the problem is and to be given the right information to decide what the solution is twenty twelve when the film was made the wood epidemic was used to describe that situation in western australia and i'm not suggesting for a moment that this would be fixed overnight but we are now six years down the track the levels are still high there are some reports which talk about one hundred times the national average in western australia. i mean would you have expected or certainly hoped for it to have come down more look i think that sometimes those figures have been a tad sensationalized suicide writes however having said that suicide rights do remind very hard i was still twice the national average suicide is the fifth leading cause of death and some my group's indigenous people are seven times more likely to type their laws of the people and northern territory actually is i'm

a genius as. having the greatest state average of suicide when you have having high suicide right something is going terribly wrong you mentioned some other countries a little bit earlier places like new zealand and canada what is the common factor with these indigenous communities around the world including the aboriginals australia that leads to the high suicide rates ah look there's a commonality of a range of different things but odd side that certainly i think there is an affinity with those other countries because they were indigenous people in those countries the countries were taken and sometimes very almost tong's very brutally so we've had processes of colonized you know being removed genocides being removed off country put into reserves missions residential schools and then

having new laws dictated to enforce legislation so there's a history told the countries that are about people losing their they draw it's losing their countries and losing their human rights which needs to be we need to go into recovery about certainly in astride the there was denial of that that process of history that's now starting to change change around certainly are proud then prime minister. kevin rudd's apology to the stolen generations was one of the ways really historical moments where there was an acknowledgement of the harm done and a genuine polity given for that hound so i think that we as a nation can start healing when i'm in a ship and and there is a truce a non est between different groups professor pat dudgeon former commissioner for the australian national mental health commission it's been

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a failed talks with north korea the u.s. says it's ending longstanding joint military exercises with south korea. as more gunfire was exchanged in kashmir we take a look at the pakistan based on the groups that india is accused of inciting violence. talks continue in doha to end afghanistan's seventeen year war. and we look at one group that's trying to keep its traditions alive after it fled venezuela. and then spoke baseball's three hundred thirty million dollar makes his official by. the has signed the biggest contract in n.l. the history with the philadelphia phillies. the u.s. and south korea have agreed to end large scale joint military exercises on the korean peninsula the drills have been

a point of contention with north korea's leader kim jong un washington and seoul say it's part of efforts to reduce ten. with pyongyang but the two will still carry out smaller joint exercises in unspent comes just days after denuclearization talks between u.s. president donald trump and kim jong un broke down in vietnam rubber britain's got more from south korea's capital so. 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 it 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 could 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 we 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 well the underlying code is professor korean studies are cooking in university he's joining us on skype from seoul thank you very much indeed for your time so just give us some context here in your opinion how much of this has got to do with the talks that didn't really work out in hanoi and how much a visit is a reflection of u.s. military foreign policy. i believe bourse personally i strongly suspect have as the second summit in hanoi being successful and they would stop they would come so exercises in it. because even that he's brisk has conference after the how the assignment don't want to set a number of times that such exercises say essentially waste of money less. a painful price and is sure if gena to deflect the current attitude of the s.

a new strain to the military presence in the station on top of that sounds good he is now even more interested in preventing any kind of come from taishan in iraq warding any kind of tension because you've seen get ugly it real with the sour scary ins who will be heat just so sad right enthusiastic about such a decision and then believe they have lobbied for eat quite hot i want to i miss out a little bit because we're not just talking about the north and the south korea's and the u.s. we're also talking about japan and china how do you think this change is going to be accepted by the chinese and the japanese. changes i go into feel happy as if a less americans are meaning around it is that less americans are present in east asia as the better because china sees is they show essentially it's kind of

traditional backyard and they're not hippies that somebody has been here for so or wrong because they believe that it's basically is it changes nations feel for it it's talking about japan as the agreed to war to even met because they don't like don from the need u.s. military presence and because it's a major protection against their quite bad relations it is china so they are not going to be happy about any that action so china is in the group mold and japan is in the bed. at the heart of the the breakdown for want of a better phrase of the talks in hanoi where of course the sanctions on north korea and north korea is looking for a lot of those sanctions if not all of them to be removed is this action going to try going to prompt north korea to respond in some way or is it just waiting until those sanctions are completely gone. not going to disappear completely at all and no major playing. video to buy

a late sanctions even china now they're playing a very interesting game as they try to avoid the menu will pulls a spark in the sentients fusion but on balance is the right to avoid at all and violation of the sanctions so essentially even state and talking about they haue neuer developments i would say that probably is the more that each of you choose who to vote agreement is a just the get some kind of you know bargain they don't bother any card like you know you will care market them to produce something somebody wants to sell it but you don't manage to get the right price so it's quite normal right and i think that you wish ations you. could to get your views on this thank you andrea one called thank you very much thank you bye there's been an exchange of fire between security forces and rebel fighters in indian administered kashmir indian soldiers have

launched an operation in northern bob jones to try to flush out groups so how raman is live for us from new delhi so what more do we know about this. yes it's been a perhaps a day of different stories a round the can smear region it's still a area of insight intense. tension and certainly has been like that for the last two weeks this was the fourteenth of february and that attack on indian paramilitaries and pole warmer this last three days has seen an operation in hundred. armed groups started to start a fire fight with security personnel it's only just ended on sunday and official sources from the indian military tell us that two armed fighters were killed to get more details have to be released as to how many military individuals were injured and civilians we believe one civilian was killed there is sporadic shelling across

the border between india and pakistan it has quieted down on sunday as both sides goes probably take stock of the last week which has seen a great deal of tension in the air and then of course the release of that indian pilot from pakistan back to india add to that the chief of the indian military army chief. will be visiting the troops on the line of control that's the defacto border between indian administered kashmir and pakistan administered kashmir to take and assess exactly what the situation is like near the front overnight of course there was shelling in the pooch area and. that seems to have died down but there is no time limits or time agenda as to when the shelling by begin again it's been a very tense scenario and a tense location certainly these past seventy two hours in indian administered kashmir so here on the line for us in new delhi so thanks very much indeed.

meanwhile funerals are being held for some of the victims of the recent fighting in the disputed kashmir region at least seven people were killed on saturday in cross border shelling between india and pakistan tensions remain high after both sides said they shot down each other's jets on wednesday when the unrest between pakistan and india has brought the various armed groups operating in the disputed kashmir region under the spotlight so. i do supporting them and one can expense from was offered about in pakistan administered kashmir. they chillun told me it will be free this group called themselves. in the blood that holy warriors their leader is mohammad haroon. he is a firebrand cleric who supports armed groups across kashmir including jaish e mohammad that's the group who claimed responsibility for the fourteenth attack on indian troops that sparked this latest crisis between pakistan and india.

are you god willing the fighters of a bed they are ready across the country ready to pounce on their targets waiting for the right time and god willing this year will be the liberation of all of kashmir. this rally takes place in front of pakistan's police who let them display weapons openly the anti indian pro united. is fundamental to all of the on groups in the region india has long maintained that these groups are directly funded and directed by pakistan's intelligence service the i.s.i. it's the charge of pakistan the noise explains. who runs a think tank in kashmir they were there when bill grew up but it created and the credit that this scared of creating the groups go through the europe into america is what it created for the but because of combating the soviets in afghanistan and the moment so we are left. dead enders and implied. and they

start the new avenues for employment that is the story of course then i guess i was betting them no doubt about that but when the pakistan was also log in got by them because of their unemployment the stigma is there with the bugs some states productive or dead but they have learned a lesson that is it is a bad minute then as well which is giving the bad is that snow but the groups are active today probably no educational reaction to say they are in the minority now look if there are people as you said earlier that there are people who can be attracted to. a vision that is presented there are some people who might be liking an ideology it's just a portrayal in all our kashmiri struggle to defame it to connect it with terrorism.