quote i'm going to say it but i couric remember the front you. want to point you can see it because as you grow. this is d w news lawyer from bunny north korea freezes its nuclear testing regime announces a suspension of all nuclear and long range missile tests state media says pyongyang lucidly scrapping its nuclear testing is something leader kim jong un says he wants to pursue economic growth and peace instead also coming out. demanding 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 in action. on the dizzying a weekend kicks off in style there are plenty of goes to be had as you mentioned lot back push on an impressive display against relegation threats involves bug fans kept a european aspirations along. with. five hundred home free thanks for joining me it could be a significant reversal from north korean leader kim jong un off to 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

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.

unless the regime changes i don't believe we can build normal diplomatic relations our safety can't be guaranteed either i don't want to 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 this a little. u.s. 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 because just a statement makes no reference to the north abandoning you can short and medium range ballistic missiles from the book you did to us and. 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 and they're coming so much with 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 get back to that point over that often what about the existing nuclear weapons he claims to have developed what will happen to that. 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 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 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 want 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 and 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 it 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 has been made. well japan is particularly concerned with those kinds of missiles because japan is one of the countries that could land that could be a flight path of those even shorter missiles when north korea launches though that's usually off 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 in seoul many thanks indeed. and team of inspectors from the global chemical weapons war shock has been collecting samples at the site of a suspected chemical attack in syria the group from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons arrived in duma to determine if internationally banned substances were used on residents this month the samples will be sent to the netherlands for testing western governments strikes on syrian government targets off to the alleged attack the assad regime and russia deny using chemical weapons and say evidence of an attack was fabricated. to india now and following a string of gruesome rape cases the country's cabinet has called for the death penalty for the rape of young children india's president and parliament would have

to approve the measure for it to become law and protesters in the capital of delhi are demanding that they do just that all correspondence is on you're found they can and ashish my daughter found out. now the rallying cry for people at this spot a site in new delhi responding to a speech of brutal great places across india in recent weeks some of the victims have been as young as eight months old. when one gets alone if i had a daughter i shudder to think. that even babies are being raped it's so scary also although at the center of the protest is spotty money but delhi's commission of women she's been on hunger strike for the past eight days and says she wants stop until the government takes tougher measures to tackle the crisis she's demanding greater police presence on the capital streets and the death penalty for child rape it's a sentiment shared by many at the potus. they don't want the you get we need the

death penalty once we have it it will definitely deter future rapists think twice before committing a crime because their very lives will be at stake we didn't give that one up but it was a growing outrage and protests across the country seem to have had an effect the indian government on saturday called an emergency cabinet meeting to sign off on an executive order introducing the death penalty for rapes of triggerman under the age of twelve but not everyone is convinced many see deeper societal changes are needed before women and girls can feel truly safe boys given girls are always being told to ignore boys who have wrestling and stalking them but why aren't parents explaining to their boys that they shouldn't her arrest women and instead respect them it's not girls but whores who need to be told what to do. for now swati molly was hunger strike has resonated with many angry at what they see as government inaction and

a failure to protect the country's women and girls. and we can bring in our correspondent d.w. sonia found a guy who is in delhi so any of the indian cabinet approved the death penalty for child rapists today after an emergency meeting called by the prime minister narendra modi why the rush on this now and what does it mean. you're right i mean it is really rushed and this is literally the most of the meeting of course within literally hours of prime minister narendra modi returning today from his 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 of the ruling elite of the party compliments criticism and is on the intense fire for failing to do what many say is trying to do an architect of crimes against women there's also been a lot of international criticism by mr never in of all the compared to fix criticism over his dealings response to the problem and you know this is basically focused on two long running rate 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 reapers and pictures and i think 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 assortments today and needless to say of course on you would have a rape and violence against women it cuz it's abhorrent 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 minor children have more than doubled between two thousand and twelve and two thousand and sixteen and the conviction rate is very very low psyche 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 women been in never really become elections. we 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 ready convicted despite they do this thing or 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 taking jesus even sleeze 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 allowed many of your kids to go free. so new found in delhi thank you very much. now to some of the other stories making news around the world a median police have detained in dozens of protesters in the capital yet yvonne that's off the thousands again blocked city streets since the ninth successive day

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