good german starting with a thirteen column to w. . business d w news lawyer from north korea freezes its nuclear testing the communist regime announces a suspension of all new clear and long range missile tests a media says pyongyang will boost to be scrapping its nuclear testing something just needed kim jong un wants to pursue economic growth and peace instead but what about the weapons he already has or so coming up. demanding change to

protect children in india the indian government approves the death penalty for child rapists often days of protests and nationwide outrage over teen action. on the one does need a weekend kicks off in style there are plenty of goes to be had his first year mentioned gladbach put on an impressive display against relegation french involves fragile and kept a european aspirations a long. time head of the home free thanks for joining me it could be a significant reversal from north korean leader kim jong un office spending years celebrating his country's weapons program he's now announced north korea will stop nuclear and intercontinental missile tests well international reaction has been broadly positive with south korea china on the u.s.

praising the move but neighboring japan remains cautious saying it will keep up the pressure 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 aimed at resolving the deadlock between the two koreas. in the south capital seoul people have reacted with skepticism. here on the all of

them either one unless the regime changes i don't believe we can build normal diplomatic relations our safety can't be guaranteed either so that one doesn't put . it into one to know that 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 the name 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 our summit but japan's defense minister was not optimistic stressing what was omitted from the announcement in coverage just a statement makes no reference to the north abandoning you can short and medium range ballistic missiles in the book you did it says. 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 there . let's talk to correspondent stephen barr awake now who is in the south korean capital so stephen is that the sense that we've been here before ten years ago the north agreeing to end its nuclear program that proved to be a false start is kim serious this time around well it's important to keep that context that we have heard something like this before and just today north korea did not mention actual denuclearization they haven't committed to anything permanent here and all they're saying for the time being is that they're not going to test any more nuclear weapons so this seems like a sign that they are for now satisfied with the level of nuclear armament and they feel like their arsenal is significant enough that they can negotiate from some

kind of position of strength in their upcoming summit swished the united states and south korea and they have of course left the door open if they're not satisfied with how these summits play out they could go back on this pleasure they could begin testing weapons again but this is nevertheless an encouraging sign compared to some of the hostile rhetoric we see from north korea all right let's go back to that point over that often what about the existing nuclear weapons he claims to have developed what will happen to them. well north korea invested a ton of resorts his and energy into developing those nuclear weapons and they have neglected the economy in that neck to neglected a lot of things that governments normally do with the resources and favor of developing nuclear weapons so we cannot expect that they will just suddenly decide to give those up they obviously feel like those nuclear weapons provide them with some kind of legitimacy and what they've wanted for a long time is for the international community to recognize north korea as

a nuclear power and it seems like now they feel as though they've come to a point in a development where they can credibly demand that and will have to look at the upcoming summits to see if that's something they put on the table if they see formal recognition from south korea in the united states and the other most likely explanation is now that they're going to put more of their resources towards developing their economy which is in a pretty dire state due to some strong international sanctions all right let's break down this statement from came a little bit more because they only refer to continental and they stick missiles as japan's defense minister pointed out there's no what and what would be happening with shorter range missiles and why do you think that distinction has been made. when japan is particularly concerned with those kinds of missiles because japan is one of the countries that could lead the could be and flight path of those even shorter missiles that were no three launches though that's usually off of the east coast in the direction of japan it's a sort of public health concern and public safety concern for people in japan and

japan is on the same stage as south korea the u.s. in seeking a more definitive solution to the north korea issue and they will be cooperate on those points going forward stephen barr awake and so many thanks indeed. now 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 that's after chooses 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 and the airline had to make an emergency landing. in nicaragua are protesters have again clashed with police the vice president says as many as ten demonstrators have been killed in the violent protests broke out after the government decided to cut pensions and raise employee contributions to social security. in peru two people were killed and several injured off to

a bus carrying german tourists crashed in the country's south the bus was on its way to a popular canyon in the region when it came off the road on plunged down a ravine. so the united states now where one issue continues to dominate the country's politics was there collusion between russia and donald trump's campaign during the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election so far there's been three official investigations into that question two of them on going and now the democrats are taking the matter to court suing the leaders of trump's election campaign the russian government and wiki leaks trumpets 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 are gay sions in a court filing. and the run up to the twenty sixth election russia mounted a brazen attack on american democracy and the trunk campaign russia found a willing and active partner in this effort. the lawsuit alleges trumped and our circle 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 troops 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 a cause 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 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 trump campaign says the latest case is frivolous. the indian government has announced plans to introduce the death penalty for people convicted of raping children under the age of twelve cabinet ministers approved the plan after widespread protests over the recent rape and killing of an eight year old girl several cases involving young girls have stirred outrage in recent years critics say that a no conviction rate means that many rapes go unpunished the measure now goes to

india's president for approval. and we can bring in our correspondent on you found a guy who is in delhi so he had the indian cabinet approve the death penalty for child rapists today after an emergency meeting called by the prime minister and they're under modi why the rush on this now and what does it mean. you're right i mean it is really rushed and you know this is literally the most of the meeting course within literally hours off prime minister nouri movie returning today from his five day trip abroad or so that really underlines how urgent it was and i think you know the background to this is that the government who believe the party compliments criticism and is on the intense fire for failing to do what many say is trying to do enough to pack of crimes against women there's also been a lot of international criticism by mr another in the most he himself has faced criticism over its dealings response to the problem and you know this is basically

focused on too long running great cases in the northern city to crush me and one in the northern states but that the bish and in both those cases leaders of the ruling the g.p.u. were seen to be shielding the rapists and killers and i think that there's been incredible amount of public anger around this and i think that's the reason why we're seeing this kind of emergency meeting and this ordinance today and needless to say of course on whatever rape and violence against women it cuz it's of horror and been looking at stories from india one might have the impression that it's worse there than other parts of the world is that the case. well i don't think india is really alone when it comes to you know high rates of interest in supporting what is however disturbing is what appears to be a rising number of children who are being targeted not india's own kind data shows that you know the paper reported rates of climate children have more than doubled between two thousand and twelve and two thousand and thirteen and the conviction rate is very very low so i think that there are issues there and many believe you

know there's a deeply entrenched patriarchy but also a very skewed sex ratio which may be making matters worse and i think that was probably happy as well you know the rights and security of reading billion never really become election. twenty points to that conviction rate women in india saying they're often ignored when they report sexual abuse that there are widespread complaints that perpetrators are ready convicted despite the existing laws is there a sense that this is now changing. when i think it's difficult to say i think the problem the problem the police not taking cases even sleaze children means big problem the good news i think is that there is higher and better reporting of rape and i think the bad news that we still have a criminal justice system that remains you know hugely vulnerable to political pressures and allows many of you to go free. sonia found a case in delhi thank you very much. in the going is league of mercy mentioned coach tita heckling has called on his

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