this is literally news live from girl an unprecedented a potentially historic turning point in the korean nuclear standoff president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un agreed to hold the first ever u.s. north korea summit jonghyun offers to put its nuclear program on the negotiating table if the right conditions are met also on the show germany's a social democrats announce who's getting tapos in chance on america's new coalition government came on them a foreign minister who largely untested on the international stage and despite

international condemnation president trump moves ahead with tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum he says he's stopping an assault on the us but does he risk triggering a trade war we'll hear more of our business team. way of iraq thanks for your company everyone. world leaders are reacting to the shocking news that u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un will meet for talks chinese president xi jinping called washington to emphasize the need for careful diplomacy u.s. vice president mike pence meanwhile set the talks were a sign that sanctions on pyongyang were bearing fruit but the heavy lifting was done by south korea who helped broker the u.s. summit with the north. this is the man doing the running between pianka yang and

washington d.c. and he's failing reached a major milestone. i told president president from you know meeting north korean leader kim jong un. is committed. to do provide. kim pledged that north korea really did freeing from any for the nuclear war this old tests then he expressed this and you're going to meet president trump that's as possible it is a sentiment shared by the u.s. president hu confirmed that a meeting is being planned. to historic breakthrough comes after south korean negotiators held talks simpy on yang on monday it was here they learned that denuclearization was on the menu. far from giving up their bombs

in recent years north korea has been ratcheting up its mesereau program and the threats. from fired back with warnings of annihilation and insults for kim jong il. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. on the front lines of this conflict the capitals of the korean peninsula relief and distrust so it is good news now everything is heading the right way but you know that judging from kim jong un's character i don't think he will give a lap and he's easily. the i can't believe either of them i don't know what's in trump's head and i'm doubtful he is serious about this meeting all of its. details are still being worked out on when and where exactly trump will come face to face with his a valued enemy. whether they see eye to eye is another matter entirely. well

here in germany's house on america the venue's of the talks a cautious welcome this is my hope colas a glimmer of hope it needs work but of course really seeing a deescalation would be wonderful because for all of us the nuclearization of north korea has been a grave concern. the chancellor there reacting to the news well the stunning overture has taken the world by surprise and now that some time has passed for the news to sink in let's find out what policymakers in washington d.c. are making of all this heat of these carson from naaman is standing by carson was this really like a bolt from the blue not entirely parent the south koreans this week has warned the u.s. government that something big was coming out of their talks with north korea but the announcement yesterday was a bombshell not only because kim jong il promised to suspend nuclear missile

tests for the time being and asked for this meeting with donald trump but that the u.s. president actually immediately said yes that surprised almost everyone inside and outside this administration even many people inside the white house we hear all right so a lot of surprise to go around there how much support is there for this potentially historic meeting. one is always that the pens on whom you os the reactions range from unrestricted praise for the president and his strategy of maximum pressure of new sanctions and military threats to the skepticism the supporters of the president says say it was his strategy it was his approach that actually brought keep junk to the negotiation table but others fear north korea is just once again playing for time and that they are playing on

a trump by catering to his vanity all right now many a church many are saying carson that this could be trumps nixon in china moment is that a fair assessment. i think that goes a little bit too far i mean after all nixon went to china only after there had been years of secret diplomacy his national security adviser henry kissinger went to china several times before nixon actually met sham and a model and the situation now is very different donald trump in the past has told his secretary of state rex tillerson not to waste his time by trying to establish direct communication channels with north korea the americans don't have an embassy in north korea donald trump hasn't even sent a new ambassador to south korea many old korea hands who know the region know the

language have recently left the administration so the big question is who will prepare the president for such a meeting and even more important will the president let's people prepare him for such a meeting because president trump is famous for. being a very spontaneous he likes to improvise he likes to follow his gut feeling and that might not be the best approach if you meet someone like kim jong un if you want the summit to be more than a photo opportunity even when it's a historic one carson phenomena reporting from washington thank you. well for more analysis on this historic we want to turn now to hanna somai he is professor of korean studies at the university of berlin thank you so much professor for being with us what i'd like to understand is how did we go from fire and fury and mr trump deriving at the north korean leader as a rocket man and then kim of course returning that favor saying he's a dotard to the meeting in the summit i think that's only rhetoric but maybe to

a certain extent that helped the two leaders to tune in to some extent but. honestly the most important part here is the right timing. for we have a liberal president in south korea with president then we had the olympic games the winter games also we have a very self-confident north korean leader now with the atomic weapons program and we have a very pragmatic donald trump now right well let's talk a little bit about the role that south korea place because they've been pushing really hard to broker this meeting between president trump and the north korean leader talked about that yes south korea definitely was here the crucial the most the size of facilitating the whole process as we know president. at his brilliant speech here last year he invited north korea to participate in the winter olympic games and this gave the north koreans

a very good opportunity without losing face coming back into dialogue which was very much much needed for them also within south korea the un to reproach him and our forces the right to conservatives are now in a crisis they are very weak because two of the former presidents are embroiled in big scandals convolving corruption so this was very important for a lot of it has to do with just south korea having a very progressive leader who wants to dial down the heated rhetoric that we saw over the past couple of months ok why has it become easier for the north korean leader and the. the u.s. to sit at the same table what changed this time around i think between those two leaders it's a similarity in style but of course we have to see for north korea it's very much more difficult to come to the negotiation table because they are bargaining about their survival not less nothing less than their survival the biggest handicap is that it's like a exchange of captured captured spies at the same time they have to give away the

safety of the survival of the regime and get some some guarantee not to be attacked by the u.s. this is a very big but maybe trump as a goal for knows how to deal with this kind of what you make of president trump accepting this invitation does it give the north korean leader legitimacy on the world stage and is that a big gamble to take at this stage i don't think so i even though if even if we would accept and has allegedly to the event in change for that would be a loss or a trump or the community to have changes on the korean peninsula everything is one so this is a very very good opportunity what was the deal killer excuse my language the last time around because of course a president clinton also tried to broker a deal with the father of kim jong un or not what happened there well at that time of course the father oh yes of that time into two thousand after the summit of two

thousand it was mainly to bush and his talking about the naxal axis of evil which made the most probably problematic aspect here and after two thousand and seven the two thousand and seven summit it was maybe they have very many factors but the most the size of one was the governmental change in south korea changing back to a conservative government and maybe the situation now is this so different that while there has to agree to meet we have with each other right professor. press professor of korean studies at the free university of maryland thank you so much for breaking it down for us. all right i want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. turkey's presence rich of tire and one says turkish forces have besieged the northern syrian town of our fighting and are moving in on its center turkey launched a military operation against kurdish militia in the region some seven weeks ago the militia deny or to want to claim saying turkish forces are still some distance away

meantime much needed aid has arrived in syria's eastern time after being delayed for days by fighting a thirteen truck convoy uploaded to food supplies for some twelve thousand people in duma the largest town in the rebel held enclave the convoy has since crossed back into government held territory. at least nine people are reported dead after an explosion in afghanistan's capital kabul police say they believe a suicide bomber carried out the blast in the minority shia area but so-called islamic state claimed responsibility for the attack in an online statement. all back here in germany germany social democrats have named the three men and three women who will join a new coalition government as ministers all they will head up the foreign ministry labor justice family environment and the much coveted finance portfolio and it will

be down to them to show s.p.d. voters that they were right to give their backing to another grand coalition optimistic and relieved after the lengthy discussions the s.p. these leaders present their six cabinet picks for the new government. with the quarrels over the foreign ministry behind them the focus now is on teamwork. we sorta put together a good team who can work together extremely well a good team made up of highly competent people with the expertise to take on significant portfolios. hamburg mayor own life schultz is set to become vice chancellor and take on the coveted post a finance minister former justice minister heiko mass takes a career leap to become foreign minister the important labor ministry goes to who batters hile a parliamentarian with twenty years experience the three male s.p.d.

ministers will be joined in the cabinet by the same number of women the incoming family affairs minister francisco gif i was previously mayor of the berlin district of noise of. mrs angus as mayor and it has always been important for me to say it doesn't matter where you come from what matters is who you want to be that's what we have to work for making sure that all the people living in our country have equal opportunities her predecessor catalina bali is moving to the justice ministry . another fresh face is spanish wilson who is set to take over the environment ministry. is called induced i come from an industrial area and i know that safeguarding jobs and protecting the environment must go hand in hand that is the task i've set myself. in germany and europe have been waiting half a year for the new government now things are finally set to move quickly the new

cabinet will be sworn in on wednesday. all right sara we're going to be right back and take a quick break and a garret will have more on trump's terrace with shar ruffling a lot of feathers here in the e.u. stay tuned for that. to. learn german with w. . any time any place. whether with jo jo and her friends. the good looking man. mr spitzer's misfortune.