making a difference shaping their nation. and their continent. w multimedia series for africa. dot com africa homo. this is deja vu news live from berlin president donald trump visit south korea the second stop on his asian tour trump is looking to present a united front with seoul against north korea's nuclear threat but south korea's president has signaled he differs with trump's hardline approach we'll go to seoul for more also coming up investigators say the met domestic dispute appear to be the

motive for a gunman who killed twenty six worshipers in a texas church and the military air allowed him to purchase a firearm. and these glaciers in alaska have become a hot topic in the u.s. states debate over climate change scientists have raised the obama over their rapid melting but some pro-business residents say that's a good thing. and one hundred years ago today both of the revolutionaries seized power in russia but their dream of a classless society turned into a totalitarian state so why did today's russian officials want to keep a lid on that revolutionary spirit goes to moscow to find out. i'm sorry so much going to thank you for joining us u.s. president donald trump has begun. a visit to south korea that's dominated by

tensions over north korea's nuclear program trump is holding talks with south korean president lee j. in that are expected to touch on trade as well as how to rein in pyongyang's nuclear ambitions the visit is being seen as an attempt to present a united front against north korea despite policy differences between the u.s. and the south it's the second stop of the u.s. president five country tour of asia. well north korea and the u.s. have exchanged ever stronger threats and insults but what would a potential conflict really look like. in this propaganda film war breaks out on the korean peninsula. north korean troops annihilate u.s. forces though the actual outcome of any new conflict here would likely be different there's little doubt that the carnage would be great. then there's the north's growing nuclear arsenal relations between the two countries reached

a new low this year as north korea stepped up its nuclear program five nuclear tests were followed by the detonation of a hydrogen bomb the regime is also developing long range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. tension sword at the end of july when north korea launched a second intercontinental missile which it claimed could reach the u.s. mainland. under pressure from the united states the u.n. security council agreed to tougher sanctions on the regime. pyongyang valid to exact revenge on washington and trump ramped up the rhetoric north korea best not make it work for the rest of the united states. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen a month later at the u.n.

rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime the united states is ready willing and able this mockery stung the north korean dictator kim jong un sent the us president his first direct personal message branding trump a mentally deranged ordered when he would team with fire. north korea then up the stakes threatening to strike the pacific island of guam home to a strategic u.s. military base. hoping to diffuse the crisis the united states wants china to do more to rein in its ally north korea beijing is reluctant to get involved. both sides will speak and act cautiously and not do or say anything that will irritate the other in september the u.n.

imposed yet another round of sanctions on north korea including caps on oil supplies washington hopes that will knock out the north's nuclear program the prospects for a diplomatic solution do not look good the escalating the north korean crisis will be the biggest challenge of donald trump's asian trip. and heartache is following the trump visit in seoul and joins us for more. donald trump's actually indicated he might be willing to meet kim jong un at some point he talked to american network about that let's just listen to what he said. i would sit with anybody i feel i don't think it's a strength or weakness i think sitting down with people is not a bad thing so i would certainly be open to doing that but we'll see where it goes i think we're far too early so boston is a trump kim meeting really a possibility. well to me that will be quite a stunt if the president could pull that off when it but to be fair at the moment

there's no indication of that happening any time soon here on the contrary because of what president trump is actually here to do is as you said forge a united front against north korea consisting of the u.s. japan south korea and china and that's where the problem starts and that's where starting to become very tricky because that united front would also include a military alliance between the u.s. japan and south korea now that's something that china obviously doesn't want to see because they don't want a powerful rivaling military alliance added stores that but you don't even have to look as far as china also here in south korea president moon day in has indicated that cooperating with japan militarily to counter north korea is ok but he doesn't want to enter a military alliance he made it clear he said the u.s. is our ally japan is not and the reason for that is that relations between south

korea and japan aren't very good and that dates all the way back to the second world war and the atrocities that the japanese army committed here in south korea and that's how korea feels the japanese haven't apologized enough for and then also south korea doesn't want to enter that military alliance and antagonize china even further when it when it knows that china doesn't like this military alliance so this is a very very difficult balancing act that president trump is attempting here because he has to get time on his side to act against north korea because china arguably has the most influence over north korea and on the other hand he's trying to forge a military alliance has not only meant to counter north korea but that in the long run it could also be meant to contain china and china's rise in the region so as you can see not an easy task for the u.s. president so we ok best in what people there where you are in seoul say you know they've lived with the threat of north korea's nuclear program. and long waged missiles for decades and what do they think of the us president.

people here are very divided there are those who welcome the u.s. president and they welcome his tough approach in this tough rhetoric towards north korea because they say that's the only language that north korea understands and then there are others who say that only makes everything worse deploying more troops deploying more military equipment in south korea just makes the situation more tense and therefore more dangerous especially of course for south korea and then so there are today to protest rallies that that authorities here have allowed just there behind me around the corner we can't see it one is pro u.s. and the other is against the u.s. and against trump's visit so you can see the atmosphere here a lot more divided and a lot more tense than it was on the president's previous stop in japan so he did

his best in heartache of covering donald trump's visit to south korea thank you. now police say the man suspected of killing twenty six people inside a texas church had been in a domestic dispute before committing the massacre devon patrick cali's believed to have died of a self-inflicted gun wound after fleeing the scene kelly's in los reportedly attended the church in sutherland springs it is the deadliest mass shooting in the history of texas. we right. the farsi church are always sought to bring people together by walk around take somebody give him whatever you may feel like the lord let him know it's good to see him in god's house that they got. this video from last month captures a service like any other it was faith family and friends until this sunday when a gunman came intent on killing among the many victims. we had a long night with our. children and great babies we have left the pastas fourteen

year old daughter our church was not comprised of members or parishioners we were a very close family we ate together we laughed together we cried together and we worship together now most of our church family is gone. our building is probably beyond repair. and the few of us that are left behind lost tragically yesterday. the suspect is devon patrick kelly a twenty six year old with a history of violence he was discharged from the u.s. air force for beating his family he was chased out of town by residents before turning the gun on himself. amid the hatred of this tragedy are tales of heroism i saw the firefight between. the shooter and the church and a neighbor

a resident here in town. after the fire fighting the shooter took off in a neighbor came over jumped in my truck and said he just shot at the churchill said we had to get him i said let's go and that's what we did it's official say the gunman may have been targeting his in-laws. but we can tell you that there was a domestic situation going on within this family. the suspects mother in law attended this church we know that he had. threaten threatening a resort threatening texts from him. almost a tenth of the population of this town was killed on sunday in tiny southern springs they're holding each other that little bit closer. now to some other stories making news around the world gunmen have attacked a private television station in the afghan capital kabul a witness says the men entered the building of shamshad t.v. after an explosion at least one person is understood to have died in the attack is

believed to be ongoing there is no immediate information on the identity of the gunmen it is the latest in a series of assaults on afghan workers and media saudi arabia's accuse lebanon of declaring war against it because of aggression by the iranian backed lebanese shiite group hezbollah the comments by saudi gulf affairs minister tamar comes amid a dramatic rise in tensions between saudi arabia and its longstanding regional rival iran. hong kong's top court or allow young democracy activist joshua long to appeal his prison sentence that decision gives wong and a fellow activists nathan law one last chance to fight their prison terms for involvement in an unlawful assembly that spark huge two thousand and fourteen pro-democracy protests in the chinese controlled sitting. here watching d.w. news still to come russia is marking the one hundredth anniversary of the communist revolution led by lenin russians today

a very different ideas about how those events should be remembered. but first the fallout from the paradise papers only continues monikers more about exactly show me and today's upshot of from the paradise papers data dump obtained from muda law firm the new york times and the international consortium of investigative journalists shed light on apple's tax avoidance contortions and when ireland announced it would crack down on tax loopholes in twenty thirteen apple shifted to all of its irish subsidiaries to the channel islands of jersey to take advantage of a lower taxes there apple has reportedly avoided tens of billions of dollars in taxes by using overseas havens but a company insists its tax arrangements are perfectly legal and it pays twenty one percent corporate tax across the globe. now the paradise papers are also topping the agenda of the e.u.

finance ministers meeting in brussels today they have to find ways how to react to the latest data legal financial documents that reveal how the world's rich and powerful hide their money in offshore accounts and as we just heard in many cases they do so perfectly legally and because of this trillions of euros are lost to the state in taxes the e.u. had long planned to crack down on tax havens but not everyone is on board because offering tax breaks is a lucrative business. when it comes to tax dodging nike ticks all the boxes the paradise papers have shown a light on a complex network that helps the sportswear giant issue taxes in europe among its strategies over the years she fitting money out of its european headquarters in the netherlands to bermuda where it paid zero tax the revelations have prompted potentially awkward questions about why storage fees didn't crack down on the practice. it's important to take action on tax evasion but i still need to

examine the exact details in the document. the leaks have sparked some soul searching among e.u. leaders too as they face the fact that multinationals on the super rich have been able to avoid paying vast quantities of tax in europe without even breaking the law in paradise the paradise papers as i've understood it focus heavily on legal structures that facilitates tax evasion that means we need to tackle it and we intend to do so. sharp words but will they be matched with action the european commission estimates that the bloc could be losing up to a trillion euros a year to tax dodging failure to act could therefore prove a cost too high to bear. now therefore more of the issue of tackling tax havens i'm joined now by ellen painted a gold research fellow at the financial institution and credential policy unit at

the center for european policy studies in brussels good to have you with us we just heard in that report that the paradise papers are revealing quote perfectly legal structures that facilitate tax evasion how is that possible i mean are you governments colluding in dodgy tax practices or are they simply blind to what's going on. i think what you have seen in the paradise paper so far at least is that there are many different and to the stair of which only a couple are of the wealthy individuals from the e.u. and also companies from the e.u. so. only you a part of it this is based on which we indeed see in these kind of papers that in many cases the structures seem to be legal and making use of differences between texas terms as well as gaps between those stick systems ok if they're legal but nevertheless i mean trillions of year as a last in taxes every year what do you think finance minister today in brussels are

going to do about it there's talk of a possible blacklist i think already for some time to have indeed some measures there have been some proposals for instance of addressing the issues with intermediaries phasing this kind of structures and indeed also a blacklist is already a for some time jus really many national member states have discovered of blacklist and now it's their task to come up with you one but of course it's quite hard to find agreement on the composition of such a list why be on that list why is it that is the problem. everyone has his own ideas about what the tax haven is. as well as there are certain interests as well as some things are not known to to them ok so we need a common definition for all what a tax haven actually means now meanwhile as i mentioned trillions of euros are lost

in taxes somebody must be footing the bill who is that. so at the end of that are the people that pay taxes so we see i mean i think why does kind of tax gives or may be revealed also now is that you see that there has been a convergence between countries but there has been increase in inequality within countries and that means that basically especially middle income people are paying relatively more tax. than maybe the most wealthy of the society that can escape to some extent that excess since ok that's inequality definitely there's something that needs to be tackled peter to go and research fellow at the financial institution and prudential policy unit at the center for european policy studies in brussels thank you so much for this thank you. the electric guitar is synonymous with rock music and rock's

a greatest often take to the stage with iconic instruments from top guitar makers now a selection of those famous guitars is going on the auction block in new york the stars of the auction paul mccartney's gold gibson guitar jimi hendrix gilt instrument and bruce springsteen's bass from his very first album hendrix a guitar is the one he played in a festival in miami in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight and that god rained out and then there's the black. guitar that madonna played on her tours in two thousand and one and two thousand and eight the auction is taking place on december second. all right so if you have enough cash maybe that is something for you if you have enough cash maybe you want to support actions against climate change because global warming as i understand it is a ready very tangible in many parts of the world including alaska that's right monica and if you visit a lax a field you're pretty much guaranteed to see

a spectacular sight and also get a firsthand lesson in climate change now a since two thousand and seven the famed mendenhall glacier has retreated more than six hundred meters scientists say that's alarming evidence of the effects of global warming but business leaders in the u.s. state while the melt the trumpet ministrations cutbacks in environmental regulations. alaska's juneau ice field spans nearly four thousand square kilometers of glacial wilderness. it's gordon's favorite place on earth. he heads here whenever he can spectacular views await those who scale to the top but the ice is vanishing over time. and when i first came out here a long time ago. the ice is probably a couple hundred feet higher and it was just flat across ski two or crossed out

here. to get here but now i have to ice climb to get out here and it's completely changed. allen says each trip is different because of how rapidly the ice cover is changing. scientist aaron herd is also watching the changes the two encounter each other often and talk about the weather pathways and what's happening to the ice. barons measurements indicate the height of the ice is dropping by about ten meters per year meanwhile the white house is reducing funding for climate research. aaron blames u.s. president trump for making his research more difficult and for sowing doubt among americans about the existence of climate change they're convinced that donald trump can come in and cut back on regulations cut back on climate change research and that's going to somehow stimulate the economy and you know that's very

convincing to people that are you know need jobs and need to support their families . but the facts speak for themselves the mendenhall glacier alone receded by five hundred fifty meters from two thousand and seven to two thousand and fifteen there appears to be a lack of political will to reverse the trend. elsewhere in alaska people are banking on a new oil and gas boom under president obama offshore drilling was outlawed in large areas of the arctic that's now changing under trump republican mead treadwell was a politician in alaska today he advises.