that we can work to stand up for women's rights. now one answer down we three boys of egypt starting. on d w. pomp and pageantry for kim jong un china gives north korea's leader a lavish welcome at the start of a secret trip to beijing mr kim is said to have assured china's president xi that he's committed to denuclearize ation we'll bring you reaction from washington also on the program france almost a fallen hero the police officer killed in last week's terrorist attack is hailed as a symbol of the country's spirit of resistance. and russia holds a day of mourning as funerals a held for the sixty four people who died in the weekend's deadly fire at a shopping mall in siberia many of the dead which killed.

i'm phil gal welcome to the program. after days of rumors it has been confirmed that north korea's leader kim jong un did visit china this week he's meeting with president xi jinping was kept under wraps until after he left yesterday the hope is that this is the problem to talk about nuclear disarmament today u.s. president donald trump tweeted that he had received a message from president xi saying that the meeting had gone well that north korea's leader was looking forward to meeting him mr trump then went on to say that until that u.s. sanctions would remain in place and that pressure must be maintained at all costs so here is no came jones first foreign trip since he came to power. heavy security for an unnamed visitor making their way through beijing. then pomp and ceremony as the mysterious individual is confirmed as no other the

north korean leader kim jong un it's a historic moment as cames first diplomatic trip outside of the rogue nation since he took power in two thousand and eleven rumors had been circulating for days that the mysterious armored train crossing the yellow river from pyongyang had came on board but it was only confirmed after kim and his wife were safely back home according to china's state news agency she pressed kim on north korea to give up its nuclear weapons came apparently replied quote the issue of denuclearization of the korean peninsula can be resolved of south korea and the united states respond to our efforts with good will create an atmosphere of peace and stability while taking progressive and synchronous measures for the realisation of peace but many are skeptical about whether or not kim jong un would really scale down the program after the north korean government has worked so hard to celebrate its development.

a little yet i don't think he will officially declared the nuclearization because he has been emphasizing the importance of nuclear weapons a lot he has particularly been stressing that the nuclear program makes the country strong and that the country can defeat the united states with it he can't totally change that stance all at once. but others think kim could use disarmament to his advantage. would seek to propagate the idea that he persuaded the u.s. and the international community to essentially surrender by having carefully mustered nuclear weapons so. the china business comes ahead of a historic so miss between north and south korea show jewels for april that meeting is expected to further focus on denuclearization. let's get more on this from t.w.

correspondent claire richardson and washington welcome clare those talks are said to have lasted four days what we learned of the contents well crumbs of the news that he received from she about the meeting is that his meeting with kim went well and indeed the official reports that we saw coming out of both sides from north korea and china after this meeting took place really emphasized the country's good working relationship together this is seen as their effort to downplay tensions between the two nations china of course traditionally north korea's strongest ally but the past several months china's support for u.n. sanctions in north korea has really put a strain on their ties so the point of this meeting for china at least seems to be largely an effort to save face to try and present itself as a relevant player in any north korea talks especially after south korea and the u.s. have been the ones making headlines on the north korea question but what about dates and a venue for these talks between kim jong un and president trump has anything been

decided yet. well certainly the question of where meetings between u.s. and north korean negotiation negotiators it should take place is always the source of a lot of hand-wringing especially now that this would be the first time a sitting u.s. president would meet with a north korean leader the stakes are even higher than usual it could take place in the demilitarized zone for example like the upcoming meeting between the south and north koreans that will be taking place in a truce village in april or it could take place in a neutral third country like singapore or somewhere in europe but any proposal we see from either side is going to make the other very suspicious as to its intentions and the details of how or even when this could play out are not really clear yet. so what is america expecting from lease talks presuming they do take place. i think would love to be the president who says that he gets north korea to agree to stop its nuclear program and to show that his

policy of what he calls maximum pressure is really working but i seems pretty unrealistic given the fact that the north repeatedly said it would do no such thing believes its nuclear program is in many ways fundamental to its very existence so the question becomes what points could they compromise on and certainly there are a few things north korea might want to see up for discussion like for example the u.s. and south korean joint military drills which are always a major point of tension in the region clever interested in washington thank you. francis held a state funeral in all of the place when killed in last week's terror attack left. died of his wounds after exchanging himself for a female hostage tributes in paris were led by the country's president in one you will not call. nation foreigners. french president emmanuel mccaughan awards the legion of honor to. its france's

highest honor. but it can only be laid on the coffin of the police officer who has given his own life for that of a stranger. for the first i think this year we stood up against islamist aggression . against hatred. and against the madness of killing me by for bravery of a single man he reminded us all of the very heart of our nation the french spirit of resistance beltran was one of the first officers to respond to the deadly hostage siege in tribe the special forces officer died of his injuries a day later initiating a further outpouring of praise for the forty four year old sacrifice as events unfolded at this supermarket beltrami traded places with a female hostage who is being used as a human shield by the attacker it wasn't just his act of self-sacrifice that helped end the siege beltran cleverly left his mobile phone on so that police officers

could hear what was happening inside then after hearing gunshots reinforcements went in shooting the twenty six year old islamist attacker and ending the four hour ordeal. there tom died for his country and his memory will live on in france today his nation saluted its hero. and gave him a most distinguished sendoff. or on this from day to lisa lewis in paris well tell us more about president eulogy and today's memorial. well his speech was really emotional this morning very solemn he said tom was a child of france he was standing up to him oh my call called islamised craziness and he then went on to compare our no better time to historic heroes of this country such as resistance fighters during the second world war i was on doc and he said that france was under attack from an underlying islamist

radicalism and that people shouldn't listen to those messages spread on social networks because they should instead look up their ground over time he was standing here as a hero and he would be a much better example really and these other people like little bit that will be remembered by france and not those who spread terror really for the whole country has been paying tribute today to describe the mood in paris for us. absolutely the minutes of silent silence held across the country and during that procession actually this morning the coffin was taken from the point here in paris to the lead the place where france pays its highest tributes to its here is over war and people were lining the streets although it was pouring down with rain because as they said it was important for them to be there to pay their tributes and actually to recognize what this man had done for france one man at the

procession said you know he has given his life for our country this is really the least we can do for him. france has another reason to mourn today tell us about where you're standing on what's going on. yeah absolutely let's just have a look around here where at the moment this is the plaza that a nazi on a square where people are gathering right now in remembrance of me they call an eighty five year old holocaust survivor that was attacked last friday she was killed through eleven she was stabbed in her apartment not far from here and was then burned so to as the family as the family put it then to raise all her memory people are here they're come they've come together to march in some kind of circuit to her apartment a bit later on and to pay tribute to her and to the family and indeed the president

mentioned mirror that in this morning ceremony yes absolutely he was talking about the attackers the two the three attackers really last friday because apparently there are two people who are now suspects in this case and this may make no case and he said that all these people who are attacking french values of solidarity of liberty and that they were the enemy but france should stand together and she said the french president said that you know you can all was in a sense vulnerable woman he shouldn't be shouldn't have been targeted and that france really needed to stand together baseless in paris thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world cuts alone as politics as pasta symbolic motion affirming the right of the region's former separatist leader kind of supposed to be elected to his old job was to promote has been held in a german jail since sunday why german police arrested him on

a european warrant. then last parliament has elected a new president for the country's sixty six year old when my you didn't see him here in the yellow jacket behind songs and she had the backing of the de facto leader the ruling party which has an overwhelming majority of representatives. saudi arabia's crown prince has been with u.s. secretary general antonio protests in the new york to discuss the ongoing war in yemen which is now in its fourth year of involvement in the conflict between a saudi led military coalition and who think rebels during his visit from mohamed been in selma pleasure nine hundred thirty million dollars in humanitarian aid. the funerals are taking place in siberia for the victims of the shopping mall fire at the weekend russia is observing a day of mourning but the heartache is mixed with anger many people believe both or it is a trying to cover up lots safety standards the may have contributed to the high

death toll. the size of the coffin showed the scale of this tragedy most of the victims of the fire with children these parents lost their daughter and son ten year old masha and eight year old koscheck died alongside their grandmother. even those used to dealing with death find it hard to comprehend. we're all suffering from grief and there are no words that can express the pain we all feel the personal tragedies have touched the entire country. but they've also provoked an outpouring of anger people here are desperate for justice they want to know whether all this could have been avoided. those trying to escape the mole found many emergency exits blocked. children were also reportedly left locked inside a cinema while stuff fled. i was talking to my daughter on the

fine i told her lie down on the floor and bridge breathe and don't die. i was crying to my daughter she said dad i love you i'm suffocating i'm losing consciousness. this video. seen from above the damage to the morning is clear but what's not so clear are the circumstances behind the fire furious local suspect to cover up so far five people responsible for fire safety have been detained including the more direct. i'm a mother myself i perfectly understand what people who are now burying their children are experiencing i know what they're going through but i don't want to blame myself for this i just don't. the government has promised those that folks will be harshly punished but will relatives believe officials when they say justice

has been done. this is did a billion years lie from birth and still to come stephen a welcher can draw a detailed how to run this entirely from memory after just the briefest of glimpses we'll take a look at what is behind this artist's extraordinary ability. is here talking about the dangers posed by self driving driving cars as it happened it has happened of course the streets i think it is with you first it was then it was a test within a week two people have been killed by a thomas vehicles now the u.s. national transportation safety board or n.t.s.b. has opened an investigation into tesla over the accident involving one of their cars the n.t.s.b. usually responds to plane crashes and larger transportation disasters since the investigation was made public on wednesday shares of tesla have dropped over seven

point four percent. of a comic as have already announced that they're discontinuing their tests of self driving cars on public roads yet at least for the time being. tesla shares are not the only ones taking a beating let's have a quick look at the market and cross over to frankfurt where my colleagues are standing by tech stocks down across the board is that all in the wake of facebook's privacy scandal. yeah there get here the big tech companies such as twitter's snapchat snapchat or facebook are fearing that because of the latest data security issues they could face tougher regulations of governments in the u.s. but also here in europe and facebook is again in the headlines today because of new data security problems now related to their messenger users have filed a complaint at a district court in california today facebook announced after dated features for

their users to control better how their data is being used but still many experts here have doubt that really lots of things are going to change facebook shares on wall street are again down this evening in general we have seen a day with lots of volatility at the market shares open already with quite some losses after already the trading day in asia finished with the rest numbers the dax wrapped up the trading day with a loss of a quarter percent at a level of twelve thousand nine hundred forty points thanks for that market up the diet coke in frankfurt. the euro zone's bailout fund has approved a six point seven billion euro loan installment after the greek government had an active painful reforms it finally meets the conditions to unlock those funds a first tranche of five point seven billion euros is due to be paid today the rest could follow in may athens has received financial aid from eurozone countries and the i.m.f. since twenty ten let's have

a closer look at the payment is part of the so-called third rescue package that amounts to eighty six billion euros overall and runs until august twenty eighth seen with a total debt is around three hundred twenty billion euros that's about one hundred seventy six percent of its economic output but the economy is growing for the first time in ten years unemployment is down but still at twenty point nine percent and many greeks only work part time and don't much that means that despite hopes of an upward trend the reality for ordinary people may not be improving but it appears that the reforms are taking hold. now the state may be struggling but some greek companies clearly have money to burn greek airline adrian has announced a full billion euro deal to buy thirty new planes from air bus it would be the largest private investment deal in the country the contract for a three twenty and a three twenty one planes is said to be signed in june the

acquisition comes amid expectations of another boom year for tourism in greece following record figures last year. and the country that's been dubbed the sea a citizen of the world in japan falling birth rates and high life expectancy have resulted in a rapidly aging population this coupled with labor shortages in the cast sector have prompted one nursing home to recruit quite unusual assistance have a look. you don't think. it's exercise time much in tony nursing home in tokyo for today's instructor after a humanoid robot brought in as part of a program to address labor shortages in the care sector. for some residents interacting with the robots is liberation. i can communicate with them

and i don't need to be too careful about the things that i say. on the other hand if they were human beings i'd have to think first about what kind of people they are. the less. those looking for more of a warm and fuzzy feeling can take care of pet robot dogs. i don't know if they're going down there when i petted these robots for the first time they moved around like real living animals and i think their cues. and. the nursing home has introduced a total of twenty robots and receiving funding from tokyo's metropolitan government back in twenty thirteen as well as offering residents company they also relieve workers of physical tasks such forms of assistance are likely to become more commonplace as japanese society ages. people over sixty five now accounted for

well over a quarter of the population. with the birth rate remaining stubbornly low the number is only set to rise. with a shortage of human care workers robots could soon become a regular nursing home fixture even if they're not in everyone's choice of companion for their twilight years. australia's cricket captain steve. and his deputy david water have been banned from the game for twelve months cricket australia imposed the unprecedented suspensions after smith admitted plotting to illegally tump with the ball during a game against south africa the revelation sparked an outcry in australia and the rest of the cricketing world a player who actually carried out the at cameron bancroft is out of the game for nine months. if not more brazil has brought germany's twenty two match

unbeaten run to an end your team loves a side defeated the south american seven one in the world cup semifinals almost four years ago but failed to fire in this friendly match. memories of the seventy one world cup fracturing were in everyone's minds before the long awaited rematch brazil out for revenge started aggressively. but it was germany had the better the chances. mario gomez unable to hit the target on the half hour mark. but brazil struck the opener will again center from the right the villagers use with a free header i poor marking and that would go keeping the reserve stopper can trap i was playing a little the flip side police are your man this season. multiple substitution from both sides in the second half stifled the game action was at a premium. germany improved in defense but it was too late to avoid

a woman defeat. plenty of lessons learned for the two heavyweights ahead of june's world cup in russia. well the first time in more than forty five years an american will compete in the chess world championship. defeated eight of the world's best players in a tournament and get his big chance if i serve any world champion magnus carlsen from norway in november. the last american to compete for the world championships was bobby fischer who won it in one thousand nine hundred seventy two. and how good is your memory if you looked at a photo of the manhattan skyline for example could you remember the detail after just a few seconds while you're about to meet a man who can not only vassar but he could also paint an accurate picture take a look at the art of stephen wilcher.

extraordinary drawings of buildings in cityscapes from around the world. artists. even mooching is able to recreate from memory in incredible detail. about. the love to work another memorize it concern. me your hard work and love my job. the result is startlingly close to reality. but. i think that potent stuff and stuff it means is concentrated and. realized into memorized by my mind. as

a child stephen moved she was muse and aged three he was diagnosed with autism by the age of five he started to draw more and through his art was able to communicate with the outside world will cheer went on to win numerous awards and study at city and guilds of london art school. his work is constantly evolving. i think i'm not doing our joy i felt like. doing the best and i'll never stop. his critically acclaimed art has taken him around the world. like new york is not best. place and. many times i. know i've been there by. singapore hong kong.

stephen smith is los angeles another city to add to his extraordinary memory. as i remind the top stories of this hour china has given north korea's leader i'm not fish welcome journey secret trip to beijing kim jong un is said to have a show of his father says he's committed to denuclearization to be looking forward to meeting with president trump. on french president emanuel macross paid homage to the police officer who was killed last week in a terror attack left up to colonel on novell trolldom died after take strange himself for another hostage. on funerals taking place full of fix himself beside therion shopping mall five russia is observing a national day of mourning for the sixty four people who died most of the children . that are forget you can always get the w. news on the go just down dropped from google play all from the awful so i'll give

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