this is t w news coming to you live from berlin performing for peace some of south korea's best known bands play a rare concert in pyongyang north korea's leader kim jong il and tell state media he was deeply moved by the experience so what does it mean for diplomacy also coming up in syria rebel fighters are reported to have agreed to a deal to give up like she stronghold new damascus the plight of civilians trapped there remains unclear. their response to u.s. president trumps punitive tariffs of china imposes levies on u.s.

problem. and life in it as an immigrant worker in saudi arabia has probably reports on how reforms in the kingdom are making life more difficult for foreign. hello i'm terry marchin thanks for joining us north korean leader kim jong un says his heart swelled after attending a rare concert in pyongyang by musicians from south korea it's the first such performance in more than a decade and some say it's a sign of improving ties between the two countries also coincided with the start of the annual military drills between the u.s. and south korea will have more home in a moment first this report. south

korea's k. pop girl bands red velvet and girls' generation as well as others play the kind of music that's been to do in the north i. thought north korean leader kim jong un was in the audience in the capital pyongyang and fearing the groove. over one hundred south korean musical artists came to perform in north korea for the first time in thirteen years a possible thaw in what has mainly been a chilly relationship between the two koreas things got really interesting at a theater in pyongyang when south korean performers sang about reunification the crowd didn't seem to mind. meanwhile a south korean taekwondo team gave its first performance in pyongyang since two thousand and two. is their home on the political stage south korea's leader mean j.n. a schedule to meet with his north korean counterparts on april twenty seventh to

discuss the north's possible to nuclearization from the us president donald trump is also planning to meet in the near future with the north's kim jong il. trump has also scaled back military exercises between the u.s. and the south korean military sunday's concert was held under the title spring is coming many koreans both in the south and north hope that means peace is on its way . cross over to seoul south korea now reuters correspondent josh smith is standing by for a so josh a south korean pop concert in the north korean capital with kim jong un in attendance the north korean regime usually frowns upon western style music what's going on here. well this is the latest in north korea's attempts to lower tensions on the peninsula it's part of an offensive that's launched we

can go and speech at the new years and it's included a similar process ordered cultural exchanges that happen during the olympics it is quite a stretch to connect himself showed up he's put. a personal face on all of this diplomatic offensive many people however are still wondering whether the upcoming political summit so will allow him to move beyond these more cultural exchanges now while this diplomatic offensive is underway a joint military exercises between u.s. and south korean troops are also underway these are usually seen by north korea by north korea as a provocation what's the reaction this year. yes indeed north korea has usually labeled these drills as a prelude to war and in the past has even launched missiles in protest of these

drills so far this year their reaction has been much more muted according to south korean officials who met with kim jong un last month they said that he told them privately that you understood the need for these drills and that they would go forward. for their part south korea and the united states say that the rules are fairly routine and they have in fact cut them down there about a month shorter than they have been in the past and will feature some major weapon systems including an aircraft carrier which participated last year ok so the military drills there seem to be scaled down a bit meanwhile the diplomatic offensive is continuing you mentioned that a number of summits coming up how often mystic can we be that this apparent thaw in relations with north korea will continue. well those who support negotiating with north korea say seoul in the united states and their other

allies have no choice but to. react to this overtures these summits many however are skeptical because in the past there have been these moments of saws and the times with north korea increased cooperation and other measures and they have failed to solve the larger issues that are leading to this standoff joss thank you so much for bringing us up to date that was reuters correspondent josh smith there speaking to us from seoul south korea now to some of the other stories making news around the world today in costa rica the center left carlos all right ok saddam has decisively won the presidential election but nearly all the votes counted the electoral commission announced the case thought it had taken almost two thirds of the vote he defeated a conservative evangelical preacher who opposed same sex marriage. huge protests erupted in indian controlled kashmir after at least thirteen suspected militants

were killed in fighting with indian security forces tens of thousands of demonstrators marched demanding an end to indian rule some protesters tried to reach the sites of gun battles to help trapped rebels escape. in tel aviv israeli peace activists and members of arab israeli political parties demonstrated against friday's deadly clashes of the gaza border israeli forces killed at least fifteen palestinians and wounded more than seven hundred during mass protests there israel has rejected calls for an independent investigation into the violence. and a defunct chinese space station has reentered the earth's atmosphere years after scientists lost control with the chung gong one was launched in two thousand and eleven and served as trying his first space station stronger say it mostly disintegrated upon re-entry but some debris appeared to have landed in the south

pacific ocean. reports coming in from syria suggest that rebel fighters have agreed to leave their last stronghold in eastern guta regime forces say they've reached a deal with the largest breville group their army of islam to pull out of the territory but some members of the group deny their surrender is imminent fighters from another smaller rebel group however are leaving hundreds of people have been killed in fighting in eastern guta in recent weeks for. the road to eastern ghouta passers by ruined buildings and abandoned lifeless villages. on the roadside corpses rebels that nobody has stopped to bury displaying victory signs assad soldiers approach the center of eastern daughter the offensive has lasted more than a month with russian warplanes carrying out crucial air strikes. and. the rebel terrorist finally over the syrian army has been able to free eastern gota

we thank our president. and the bush at home for for the last rebels are leaving the area the conditions of their withdrawal were negotiated late into the evening many are now trying to get to the city of idlib in the north one of their last remaining strongholds. and her children were taking prisoner by the rebels for four weeks and held as hostages. in the end my son was ready to kill my daughter and me so they couldn't violate our say any more. than. they beat them with rifle butts and stomped on them with their heavy boots and hard can i live bindi then they grabbed my daughter and screamed she was now married to one of the revolutionaries if she refused they would cut off her head and give it to me

. said they were monsters so you know means. more and more refugees are making their way through the card or out of eastern gota more than four hundred thousand people were caught in the crossfire essentially held hostage by rival groups with a common goal overthrowing the assad regime. many are now in the custody of the syrian army apparently the lesser of two evils. eastern ghouta now just a collection of ruins a region without people after the recapture of the region moscow and damascus bursting with self-confidence and washington after announcing it would freeze millions of dollars in reconstruction aid is on the back foot what's left out the dead the homeless and many displaced eight years after the civil war began with a few isolated protests against the assad regime the president has almost finished bringing the country back under his grip. correspondent. following developments in

eastern from beirut in neighboring lebanon and she joins us now from there bring us up to date on these rebel evacuations from eastern guta how close is the regime to regaining full control of the region around damascus. well the regime is pretty close the offensive of the regime began and eighteen to february and since then hundreds of thousands of people have already evacuated he says he's some who thought was a century dominated by three rebel groups durkee backed her some of us controlling how to stop the war let me back we did file a federal mom's back up out of one point and the average back rated job which is by next to the old city of damascus and other areas and i gesture this now which is the dominant group in dumas the largest town of east and with that they have apparently come to a deal according to his blood and according to wash out of the south state media that they would soon begin evacuations to those still there is

a certain silence from josh in the slum and they have officially only admitted that the wounded would be allowed to leave and they haven't said anything when the fighters would be needing or not though that evacuation is expected to begin this is certain surprise element it is a gesture a slump continues to maintain the reason is that they want to stay put in lieu mom but the locals the civilians are saying they'd like to be. if assad's troops do regain control of all the areas there around damascus in the coming days how much will this strengthen the syrian regime. significantly i mean this is the biggest victory for assad regime after december two thousand and sixteen which is when the regime regained aleppo the financial center the heart of many sick after that this is the biggest victory for about shiloh last hour and the surprising thing for many you develop groups in opposition activists and those who have sort of from the outside supported the uprising not the revolution has been that the assad regime

has used the same tactics which is siege and am more fair and then a ground offensive and the same sort of factors have been used in goods as they did in the last four and there was really no preparation in a sense from the international community to support the rebels law so this is huge for him once do mastic know what they would be a tiny pocket and there are one in hama and italy but drug laws that he would then be focusing his attention on. the bombing campaign in eastern has been devastating what's been the cost of this victory for the syrian regime what's been the cost for civilian. well about fifteen hundred people who have been killed in the east and with our fence there but it's a civil war in itself is in the east and. half of severest population has been deployed displaced about six million are internally displaced by five million plus

are living in other countries like levanon turkey germany and many of them also illegal at least where i am at levanon so many displaced these people god knows when they would be able to really go back home because the regime does not really have a coherent plan as to how they want to build the international community doesn't really seem to be going to see and be a test of how they would rebuild the whole country that's been sort of formed and charles thank you so much rains up today that was correspondent and charles bora speaking to us from beirut lebanon. you're watching the news still to come life as an immigrant in saudi arabia some foreign workers are facing new hardships there because of the country's ambitious reform program panipat charcoals a rare report from the kingdom on the cusp of change and voters like a football i'm talking front for world looking to jump back into the champions league spot but boast about a flame and offered a tough task will find out who. trade

relations between china and the united states continue to deteriorate monaco and stock markets don't like it terry as you can imagine stocks in china certainly kicked off the first quarter with mild losses amid lingering worries of a full blown trade war with the united states on sunday china announced terrace of up to twenty five percent on one hundred twenty eight u.s. imports including frozen pork and wine the new terrorists kick in today and beijing said to the move was to quote save guard china's interests and to balance the losses caused by new u.s. tariffs. these american avocados that destined for the chinese market but they might not so so well anymore now that china has imposed tariffs on fruit eat wines steel pipes and scores of other imports from the usa the rates of fifteen percent on one hundred and twenty items and twenty five percent on eight others. the

chinese government says the people support its move though some in china regret the ensuing rise in prices. it's definitely going to have an impact many fruits that kids love only grow in foreign countries we don't have them in china that is a direct impact. it's absolutely right to impose tariffs because i've seen the news about the us crapping trade deals with us it's right to fight back. the new tariffs are china's initial response to the us move to slap tariffs on steel aluminum and other imports worth some sixty billion dollars a year china by contrast is raising tariffs on about three billion dollars worth of u.s. imports. beijing says it will never submit if the u.s. launches a trade war and says that tariff increases are in line with world trade organization rules to protect its interests still the scale of china's new tariffs is modest the

move looks more like a warning shot than a major counterattack the u.s. is china's largest single market a full blown trade war is the last thing china would want. and for more on this and moving trade war and what it means the global trade i'm joined by a tip on that tomorrow from did all these business tip on that let's first of all talk about this imbalance i mean you have china's tariffs affecting some three billion dollars goods from the united states. tariffs affects some goods from china with sixty billion dollars why which are china hold back well i mean the chinese are obviously sending a warning shot with the three billion dollars in tariffs that they've just announced and which went into effect today but they may be holding like their biggest chip bargaining chip that is they're holding it close and still maybe get talks under way and they can actually use it to negotiate and that's the tires they

could have been soybeans especially sixty. send of exports soybean exports from the us gold to china so that's a major market for the u.s. and that's something the chinese may be holding on to for now as a bargaining chip for any discussions regarding tariffs and we are waiting for an announcement on more tires so i know that they still hope obviously to resolve the matter by negotiations and if not they could really hit u.s. agriculture what exactly are the next step because the united states is planning more tariffs quite soon exactly this week the u.s. the trade secretary. has until april sixth to announce a list of chinese products that will be affected by tariffs and so from then on we can see how things will unfold and of course for now it's a little bit a waiting game for china the u.s. and actually the world the rest of the world and for germany as well we had in the report to you the united states is a big market specially for german cars but so is china how should germany position

itself the question everybody has been asking how to position themselves in this sort of trade dispute we won't call it a war just yet. well it looks like germany is positioning itself with the u.s. that's based on. reports that we heard over the weekend from discussions in interview with the economy minister peter here in germany he said they might actually agree to reducing the terrace for u.s. cars and so that's where it looks like it's going for now and we also had discussions between merkel and trump last week and in a separate coal spoke with the french president manuel mccollum so it looks likely e.u. germany likely to side with the u.s. and a lot of toll trade told not to trade war just yet. jim. thanks so much for this. the gulf nation of bahrain has discovered the biggest oil fields in the

country's history the field which is located off the country's west coast will do wolf. according to the bahraini government details about size and extraction viability out to be released by the oil ministry at a news conference later this week but rain isn't a major oil producer it's on the rank fifty seven when it comes to the oil production. thus staying in the region some big changes underway in saudi arabia both economically and culturally tara absolutely and also socially to some degree many many of these changes affecting women that way saudi arabia is known as one of the world's most conservative societies things may be changing though as monika mentioned the reason is or oil falling prices have hit the oil rich chain him hard crown prince mohamed bin saddam on his own built in a vicious program of reforms because of that no news beijing thirty thirty aimed at transforming the kingdom's economy among other things now these reforms include

diversifying the economy and reducing its dependence on oil creating new jobs making the country less dependent on foreign workers will take a closer look at that in just a moment saudi arabia also wants to attract more foreign investment it has also taken a few steps towards social reforms as i mentioned is made to start lifting some of the oppressive restrictions on women for example a driving ban for women will finally be removed later this year our reporter funny has been in saudi arabia in the capital riyadh in jeddah only coast looking at how this vision for the future is changing the country. we is an international city third of the population comes from abroad many of them were of course they helped to build the saudi capital but the wall come they once enjoyed is starting to fade . saudis first know that the saudi government's plan to reduce unemployment among native saudis employers who hire non-self they have to pay higher fees and

jobs in shops like this one selling electronics for example would be restricted to saudis only. foreigners will be banned from at least jobs this music store selling instruments has already put up a sign for saudis only be looking for a salesperson may. well i sowed ization is a good idea but there are more job opportunities here for saudis than for foreigners. and. a lot of saudis return from the us and germany with degrees only to find many jobs already filled by foreigners at their own country should benefit from them as saudi arabia should benefit from saudis. we are in a neighborhood in the south pacific it's a tough area most of the people here i wonder. want to hear is from bangladesh

derives a month ago to work in this shop learning how to assemble picture frames yes everything is getting more expensive and the salary isn't enough for everyone is how traits if they had to survive for the person's. life for manual workers was never easy in saudi arabia just as in many parts of the world affording prices have made it more difficult and if your prices doubled in a year pushing up prices and recently new taxes on basic goods i did an extra boot and it's even which i hear has just finished his shift how many hours did you work today i swear were to sixty. an hours that's a lot. maybe it's a lot but i need to do that for the salary he makes one thousand three hundred saudi ryall a months that's about three hundred fifty u.s. dollars on the way home he tells me he used to have a good life until his father got very sick. you know we lost almost all of our money on his treatment so i just thought that i should come here to. keep them

alive being the eldest in the family he border responsibility he dropped out of engineering studies and came to saudi arabia to earn money she said it wasn't as easy as he expected life is becoming more difficult for. most of the people of other countries though losing their job and even hear of the college leaving so the because you know there are now just and they can't live like that maybe my boss gave me a place to live but. the boss is a not like that in some of people don't have a job sometimes the slaves in the road they don't have time money to buy food i want to hear chooses not to show me the room he lives in the three others he doesn't want to get into trouble and be sent home he wants to stay as long as he can to make money for his family he's just one of millions of foreign workers in

saudi arabia they are realizing that the future here belongs to sounds. to me as funny they're reporting from saudi arabia well it's time for some sports now and in the bonus league of frankfurt traveled braman in search of three points that could push them into the champions league slot but it was never going to be easy but were unbeaten at home since october while on top of last their last three games away from home made for an evenly matched clash. raymond's florian co felt has been working to emulate the kind of success niko kovac has had in frankfurt unlike the former croatia international though cofield builds his team around attack thomas delaney with a pinpoint cross does not to lose of its. one nil to brain in the twenty eighth minute a high quality goal you know high tempo game. in the second half frankfurt struck

back with some style as well. kevin prince boating with a snappy back heel assist for a look at your age. three minutes later the eagles nearly soared into the only your bitch threw on the republican who pulled a crucial kicks in how crucial this crucial use of it is cross deflected high into the air by dabdoub around. and into the net. look us why did steve try and fail to control the ball perhaps tassel by the sun. frame and walked off to one winners the trend under cofield just keeps going up. and forward joe just a reminder of the top stories we're following for you here today on d w news some of south korea's best known bands have played a rare concert in pyongyang the north korean leader kim jong un said he was deeply moved by the experience it's seen as

a sign of efforts to improve ties between the two countries have a summit later this month. on syrian state media say rebel fighters have agreed to a deal to give up their last stronghold near damascus eastern ghouta has been in rebel hands since the start of the call but. don't forget you can always get the w. news on the go just google player from the apple store i'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news can also use the heat. just send us photos and video. you're watching dude f.w.i.w. names from berlin we have more for you the top next hour and you'll find over stories on one of the t.v. dot com let's watch a. couple. of

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