this is deja news live from berlin north korea freezes its nuclear testing the communist regime announces a suspension of all nuclear and long range missile tests the state media say coming young it will also be scrapping its nuclear testing site leader kim jong only wants to pursue economic growth and peace instead but what about the weapons he already had it's. also on his program the u.s. democrats take the trunk camp to court they believe there was a conspiracy to keep hillary clinton out of the white house they're suing donald

trump's campaign the russian government and wiki leaks to prove that. and super star of vici has been found dead in amman the twenty eight year old swedish d.j. and record producer was a pioneer of the electronic dance movement his family his friends and his fans are devastated. the war. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring a good to have you with us it could be a significant reversal from north korean leader kim jong un after spending years celebrating his country's weapons program he's now announced north korea will stop nuclear and intercontinental missile tests international reaction has been broadly positive with south korea china and the u.s. praising the move but neighboring japan remains cautious saying it will keep up the . russia for complete nuclear disarmament.

north korea's missile tests kept the world in suspense throughout last year until in november its leader kim jong un declared his nuclear force complete now state television has made it official no more nuclear or missile testing. pyongyang will instead focus on building up its economy and securing peace with its southern neighbor. south korea has welcomed the move as meaningful progress president is due to meet kim in less than a week's time for a rare summit and resolving the deadlock between the two koreas. in the south capital seoul people have reacted with skepticism. here. unless the regime changes i don't believe we can build normal diplomatic relations

with our safety can be guaranteed either on that one day he put our. bid to once it looked as if the north would denuclearize after the last two summits but now we're back to square one we shouldn't blindly believe them without thorough verification . because of this of the. us president donald trump is also set to meet the north korean leader in the near future having previously derided kim as little rocket man trump reacted positively on twitter. this is very good news for north korea and the world big progress look forward to a summit but japan's defense minister was not optimistic stressing what was omitted from the announcement was just statement makes no reference to the north abandoning even short and medium range ballistic missiles in the book you get to the stage. the prospects are not encouraging ten years ago the north blew up

a cooling tower in a symbolic show of abandoning its nuclear ambitions clearly they did not and they're. ok on the line now correspondent stephen barr avik who's in the south korean capital seoul stephen as all important just a report rather just pointed out we've been here before ten years ago the north agreeing to end its nuclear program and yet that proved to be a full storm is this another full story or is it perhaps a signal that kim jong un is now serious about deescalating things. it's important to note that north korea has been committed to anything permanent here to date message contains nothing about do you clear ideation they're saying they're going to try and mortar their work so they feel that that sign that they are now satisfied with the look declared. and it seems like they have an arsenal that allows them to feel confident that they can negotiate from a position of strength and they are coming from the south korean the u.s.

and they were of course from the door open that the kurds go back on this if they find that summit with john young chicks are going to washington go or not very likely. at the very least this is an encouraging sign it's better than a lot of the rhetoric we sometimes read korea. an encouraging sign you say steven but what about the existing nuclear weapons that kim and his regime have in their possession. well they haven't said anything about those and they're likely to want to get rid of them because north korea has invested so much resort there's an energy into developing these and what they wanted for a long time is formal recognition as a nuclear power so they may feel that now they have developed their nuclear program to a level where the outside world has no choice but to recognise their power and they feel like they can credibly make more demands on the basis of that so that the most

likely explanation for all this is probably that north korea is going to turn its energies more toward developing its economy that of the developing nuclear weapons until well after watching the games go in the summer and then moving on from there . you know we've seen positive reaction to this move from the u.s. also from south korea's president what about people on the street where you are in the south korean capital seoul. people are definitely pleased that these developments because they make war less likely and in recent months things have been getting quite tense over here with south korea and the u.s. on one side and north korea on the other side exchanging some pretty heated language and i think there was a lot of concern that things might get out of hand and so seeing the two sides south korea and north korea exchanging friendly overture then holding meetings and north korea of course participated in the olympics earlier this year that's

something that south koreans like to see because they makes the product or less like the rest of the world tend to talk about the north korea threat in from what abstract terms but over here it's very real and i think that's very unwelcome news kinds of moves because they make peace more likely and more sustainable stephen barr of akin so many thanks for that. turning to the u.s. now where one issue continues to dominate the country's politics was there any collusion between russia and donald trump's campaign during the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election so far there have been three official investigations into that question two of them are still ongoing and now the democrats are taking the matter to court suing the leaders of trump's election campaign the russian government and wiki leaks trump has repeatedly denied any collusion between his campaign and russia. they stand accused of conspiring to disrupt democracy.

one is the russian federation one who runs wiki leaks and another is the us president thank you russia if you're listening i hope you are able to find the thirty thousand e-mails that are missing the u.s. democratic party outlined its allegations in a court filing and the run up to the twenty six thousand election russia mounted a brazen attack on american democracy and the trump campaign russia find a willing and active partner in this effort. the lawsuit alleges trump and are saku liaised with wiki leaks and russian officials to steal and spread emails from the democrats in order to embarrass them. because he'd rather have a puppet as president and open fire not hellary clinton has said as much to total trump's face nato do whatever he wants to do the russians have engaged in cyber attacks against the united states of america that you encouraged espionage against

our people that you are willing to spout the pluton lie one veteran political reporter says the case has echoes of watergate there was a similar lawsuit filed in one thousand nine hundred seventy two against richard nixon by the democratic national committee really a very similar suit alleging by elations the law. by the opposing political party. to take advantage of the democrats and to help win the election of richard nixon and. the democrats lawsuit on top of the f.b.i.'s russia probe will raise more questions the campaign says the latest case is frivolous. ok let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. and european regulators have ordered the inspection of hundreds of boeing seven three seven engines it's off to choose days accident on a southwest airlines flight when a blade from one of the engines broke off sending shrapnel ripping through the

plane one passenger died during that flight and the airline ahead to make an emergency landing. students across the united states staged another recount on friday again demanding tougher gun legislation the protest came on the nineteenth anniversary of the columbine high school shooting three students helped thirteen seconds of silence to honor the thirteen people who were shot dead at columbine back in one thousand nine hundred nine. in nicaragua of protesters have again clashed with police the country's vice. as events says as many as ten demonstrators have been killed in the violence so far protests broke out after the government decided to cut pensions and raise employee contributions to social security. now a big loss yesterday for the world of electronic dance music one of its superstars d.j. of the chief found dead in muscat the capital of the twenty eight year old swede

produced one hit after another for his fans songs such as levels wake me up and hey brother the cause of his death remains unknown. he produced hit after hit he won critical acclaim and he played to sellout audiences. at beach she had found fame fans and fortune but on friday the music artist whose real name was tim burgling was found dead he was just twenty eight i don't know who hired to ficci to produce her last album posted on instagram so sad so tragic goodbye ideas sweet him gone too soon. to be chief had suffered from health problems including pancreatitis caused in part by heavy drinking in twenties then a teen he underwent surgery for a ruptured appendix and a blow. he spoke candidly about that time in an interview in twenty fifty. three it

feels like going from being normal to being like very like. aldworth you so much workload you know. someone like trips to the hospital or with there was so much go along at the same time so. it was. a real relief like. barry happened in iraq when he had hopped. the cheek quit touring in twenty sixteen but continued to make music just days ago he was nominated for twenty eight billboard music awards. he will be sorely missed turning to german sucking on the honestly. boosted their hopes of european competition next season with a victory over both spoke last night the hosts taking advantage of poor defending

and scoring three of their goals during a dominant first time off to supply. the pick of those three goals came from christophe in the forty fourth minute which he took advantage of a lapse in concentration in the wolf all sport events ceiling and three nil victory for his team. in the meantime just four much is left in the bundesliga season so the race. is still tight for champions league spot stuart month for instance have suffered another slump recently that clinging on to the final place in the top four at the moment today though they face third place leverkusen a team in fine form at the moment so it's likely to be a tough match. dorman coach still has a spring in his step even though it's been a trying week a darby defeated shelter was followed by new strike amaechi batch why would miss the rest of the season through injury and now a tough test against tactically flexible labor crews and. they have lots of options

through the back for the back to attack as three up front four one four one there are many possibilities it's great how this team has developed and their rightly up there but if the fun. they've accusing currently sits third in the table one place ahead of dortmund successive four one win save a champions league rivals leipsic in frankfurt have given them an edge in the european race but they're not taking their wounded opponents for granted i just dortmund have more potential than the showing at the moment but that makes this match dangerous especially after that game against shout. and that you know the feat didn't just damage dortmund's pride. it was a chance to take a big step towards the champions league but we didn't quite manage it actually putting it politely it's no more difficult going to talk. more difficult but not impossible to a man's fate is still in their own hands because if you treat the club though

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