stories of people who ended up killing. women more photographers starting research on g.w. . this is detail for the news the law prohibiting north korea freezes its nuclear testing regime announces a suspension of all nuclear and long range missile tests the state media says pyongyang will also be scrapping its nuclear testing sites leader kim jong un says he wants to proceed economic growth and peace instead what about the weapons he already himes also coming up. daunting change to protect children in india the indian government approves the death penalty for child rapists off the

days of protests and nationwide outrage over inaction. gone too soon superstars d.j.'s vici has been found dead at the age of twenty eight this soft eight pounds of health problems and his struggles with the demands of the spotlight. time have an arm free thanks for your company 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 start nuclear intercontinental missile tests international reaction has been broadly across the positive with south korea china and the u.s. praising the move but neighboring japan waynes cautious saying it will keep up the

pressure to compete you could just all meant. 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. 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. a good one to it and 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 our summit but japan's defense minister was not optimistic stressing what was omitted from the announcement concludes 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 place 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 results is an energy into developing those nuclear weapons and they have neglected the economy in that neck that 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 to be 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 of development where they can credibly demand that and we'll 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 and then a bit more because they only refers to intercontinental ballistic missiles as japan's defense minister has pointed out there's no what and what would be happening with shorter range missiles and why do you think that distinction is the night. when japan is particularly concerned with those kinds of missiles because japan is one of the countries that could land could be in the flight path of those even shorter missiles when north korea launches those 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. a team of inspectors from the global chemical weapons watch shock has been collecting samples at the site of a suspected chemical attack in syria the group from the organization for the prohibit of chemical weapons arrived in duma to determine if internationally banned substances were used on residents here this month the samples will be sent to the netherlands for testing western governments launched airstrikes on syrian government targets off to the alleged attack the acid regime and russia deny using chemical with weapons and say evidence of an attack was fabricated. out of some of the other stories making news around the world. around fifteen hundred guests are attending a private funeral for former us first lady barbara bush the wife of the forty first

president george h.w. bush the service in houston is taking place at st martins church the largest of his church in the country. bush died on tuesday at the age of ninety two. police have detained dozens of protesters in the capital yet event that's off the thousands again blocked city streets it's the ninth successive day of demonstrations protesters want the new prime minister to quit who already served two terms as president and they fear intends to rule armenia for life. u.s. and european regulators have ordered the inspection of hundreds of engines on a boeing seven three seven planes to choose days accident on a southwest airlines flight when a blade from one of the engines broke off sending shrapnel ripping through the play one passenger died in the airline and had to make an emergency landing. the indian

government has announced plans to introduce the death penalty for people convicting 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 who stood out range in recent years critics say that a low conviction rate means that many rapes go unpunished measure now goes to india's president for approval. and we can bring in our correspondent when you found the guy who is in delhi so many of the indian cabinet approved the death penalty for child rapists today off for an emergency meeting called by the prime minister and their andhra modi why the rush on this now and what does it mean when your rights i mean it is really rushed in our business literally are promoted to meeting called within the three hours of prime minister nouri good will be returning to the from the fight the trip abroad so that really underlines how

urgent it was and i think you know the background to this is that the government body competent to name criticism and who's on the intense fire for failing to do what many say is the thing to do enough to tackle crime against women there's also been a lot of international criticism by mr nobody in the more the contrary is free of criticism over its dealings response to the problem and you know this is basically focused on two long running great pieces in the northern part of kashmir and one in the northern states with the british and in both those cases the leaders of the young b.g.p. were seem to be shielding the repairs and looking for and i think that there's been an incredible amount of public anger around this and i think that's the reason why we're seeing this kind of emergency meeting and the cortlandt debate and needless to say of course on where the rape and violence against women it cuz it's of horror of been looking at stories from india one might have the impression that it's worse 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 now india trying to show that you know the paper reported rate for climate children at one point double between two thousand and twelve and two thousand and fifteen 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 encouraged pretty lucky but also very few tricks ratio which may be making backers worse and i think that public opinion well you know the rights and security you never really become elections. when you point 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 rarely convicted despite the existing laws is there a sense that this is now changing. what i think it is difficult to say i think the problem the problem the police not to keep a few of you still remain big problem the good news i think is that every tire in

britain reporting of rape and i think the bad news that we still have a criminal justice system that remains you know usually vulnerable to political pressures and allows many of your kids to go free. so you found a case in delhi thank you very much a big loss yesterday for the wall of electronic dance music one of its superstars a d.j. of the chief found dead in muscat the capital of oman twenty eight year old swede produced one hit off for another for his fans songs such as levels wake me up hey brother the cause of his death remains on. he produced hit after hit he won critical acclaim and he played to sellout audiences. of vici 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. madonna who hired

ficci to produce her last album posted on instagram so sad so tragic goodbye ideas sweet him gone too soon. to be ci had suffered from health problems including pancreatitis caused in part by heavy drinking in twenty thirty and he underwent surgery for a ruptured appendix and a blocked score bladder he spoke candidly about that time in an interview in twenty fifteen. twenty feels like going from being normal to being like very like the album because of all the work of so much workload you know i never saw one of our trips to the hospital or there was so much go along at the same time. it was. a real relief like a. long break. that hopping. vici quit touring in twenty sixteen but continued to make music just days ago he

was nominated for twenty eighteen billboard music awards. well the one is the only games have come to an end they've been some surprising results across the board have to battle in damaging frankfurt's european hopes hoffenheim scored a bundle against leipzig by and behind of a ship got down but even some hope for hamburg in the relegation battle by beating fi book and on friday night garcia mention blood back to the hopes of european competition next season with a victory over vosburgh whose took advantage of poor defending in school for three of their goals during a dominant tof display the pick of the lot came from coast of comma in the first school to minutes as he took advantage of a lot of thing concentration in the defense to seal a three nil victory. and they're all three games still to play this match day in

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