this is coming from burlington north and south korea prepare for a historic summit leaders will meet in this room on the so-called peace line which divides the korean. days there must be no slip ups. also coming up. a turkish border. leading opposition news people on terrorism charges amnesty international kicks out saying stop using the cool of two thousand and six as an excuse to crackdown on

free speech. by unmovic stumbles in the clash of the titans coach says his team deserved to win the champions fighting match undone by injuries and missed. defending champions madrid. south korea's. north korean leader kim jong un for a historic meeting on peace and you could solomon it's taking place on friday in the border village off upon one job kim would become the fullest. since nine hundred fifty three to walk across the military demarcation line once over the border he talks of the peace house with his south korean counterpart. a lot is at

stake for both countries they've been rehearsing for three days to ensure the meeting goes off without a hitch. joining me now is correspondent jason strother in the south korean capital so a welcome jason of this is being billed as a high stakes sunlight what is south korea hoping to get out of it. i think just the fact that they've gotten north korea's leader kim jong un to come to south korea is one major accomplishment but i think something else that president moon is going to discuss is the possibility of drawing up a peace treaty that would officially end the korean war we have to remember back in one nine hundred fifty three that conflict only came to a close with a cease fire agreement now offering kim jong moon a peace treaty or the potential of signing a peace treaty could lead to an even bigger objective and that would be the

complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula and that is a political objective one of the expectations of ordinary people because in nine hundred fifty three i mean families were divided and these decades of course today has taken quite a toll on the people on the divided and insular. sure i mean another five ten years there's going to be almost no one alive who remembers a unified korean peninsula tens of thousands of south koreans have been waiting for some kind of reunification with their north korean relatives and i think one. one goal that i think many people here would hope that would come out of this week's summit is that north korea would agree to some sort of family reunion conference these reunions have taken place before and seoul repeatedly asks pyongyang to hold these but north korea doesn't often let this happen so that would

perhaps be one of the more tangible agreements that could come out of the summit but we don't know if that is on the president moon's agenda or not so expectations are high off this somewhat you know why this how this summit to even came about and why now. we have to remember that just at the end of last year everyone was talking about world war three breaking out here you had many missile tests coming from north korea tested young tested its sixth and strongest nuclear device last fall we thought that it couldn't get any worse here but then at the beginning of this year kim jong noon stated his. hope to participate in the winter olympics here in south korea and that sports the plume a sea has got us to where we are now. the north korean leader kim jong un will be taking this hugely symbolic step across the border into the south could this be to

peace and be led to as we talked about all what i know what a toll it's there one of the expectations that. i don't think any formal peace agreement could come out of the talks alone tomorrow and we have to remember that this is perhaps the opening act for a much bigger summit between president donald trump and kim jong il and that could take place by the end of may or perhaps in early june i think anything that would come out of this week's summit would more or less just be an agenda setter for the next one if that happens at all jason strother in seoul south korea thank you very much for that thank you. if we now being updated with some other stories making news around the. elect a new prime minister on the first of may this follows a mass anti-government demonstrations in the country that forced veteran leader

said. to resign from that same post on monday he was accused of making a palace grab opposition leaders a protest and demanding the governing body also give up power. police in northern india say at least twelve children have died after a train crashed into a school bus near the town of they believe the driver of the school bus who was also killed ignored a god's signal to stop several other children have been injured in the crash. the philippines is closed its most famous holiday. to tourists for a six month cleanup. overdevelopment have taken a toll on the once pristine island security forces have been deployed to enforce the shutdown but business is relying on tourism say the closure puts their livelihoods at risk. africa discovered and chance chimpanzees in western africa than expected but the apes remain. the

intensive study found a significant drop in the population in the last eight years at the current rate eighty percent of region will be gone by the end of the century for the head of the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees criticize washington's decision to slash aids to the organization it's not facing the most funding crisis in its fifty year history the head of the organization clean and drew talk to my colleague. and kids out of the politics effect affecting the agency. well the united states has historically been the most generous and consistent supporter to enrich financially over the years and of course it came as a surprise that what is essentially a political decision should impact humanitarian funding that is a consensus that exists across member states of the united nations or may have

differences politically with a given actor but one protects funding in humanitarian terms and that is what the united states had done for many many decades and which it is not doing and that's of course a regret for me because there's nothing that i can do as commissioner general to influence the political dynamics that are at the heart of that decision we are focused on delivering vital aid to people who don't have horizon and i think in the middle east right now horizons and hope are very important. that was. the head of un talking to my colleague brian thomas the u.s. president cut aid to the palestinians off the un rejected his decision drinking as israeli capital previously the u.s. organizations biggest. you and. it could be forced to stop for. more than five million palestinians across the middle east depend on the u.n.

agency. it's now fear that food aid for gaza could run out in a matter of months because of the funding gap. the human rights group amnesty international says turkey must stop using its ongoing state of emergency as an excuse for silencing triptychs its report comes a day after an istanbul court jailed journalists at the leading opposition newspaper on terrorist charges they were accused of supporting a group that the government blames for the field in two thousand and sixteen fourteen people received prison terms ranging from three to three were acquitted those convicted with. spending but they are barred from leaving. so can independent journalists to do their work into detail. julia hahn is with me welcome who leah now you know ever since the field the president has been

lashing out at anyone who he views as in the bulletin including journalists what impact is this having on the freedom of expression in turkey well first of all jim grid newspapers not just any newspaper in turkey it's in fact the oldest newspaper it is an institution for its readers it has a long standing editorial line of secularism so it's basically if you want to compare it if you want to have a comparison it's like someone arrests the leading figures leading journalist executives of the new york times charges them with supporting terrorist organizations then you would have a trial that goes on for months and then they would be handed to jail sentences some of the jewelry and journalists got more than seven years if you want to have that comparison it shows you what kind of an institution is the journalists themselves of course say we just did our job everything we did is covered by press

freedom and they say this trial was from the very beginning a politically motivated trial designed to smash all kinds of descend and send a message to other journalists in the country you could be next so what's your every move your every article and i think that's indeed the message although the journalists are now free they don't have to go to prison immediately there is an appeal it's possible but still the message is really to all the other don't criticize it's a way of intimidating anyone who has independent views that there's also a german journalist in jail that yes a more prominent case of caused in his you jailed german turks journalist was released pending trial earlier this year but there is another german journalist for name is michelle a total she was also released pending. trial in december but now her trial continues it continues today on similar charges actually like the journalists a terrorist supporting terrorist organizations spread and spreading terrorist

propaganda we don't expect a verdict today but she hopes she will be allowed after today to leave turkey because that's what she wants she has a travel ban right now and has to report to the authorities but she hopes she can return to germany and give a brief elections are coming up into the water all these kind of measures and targeting journalists what kind of climate is it creating for a free press snap elections actually in june and you can imagine this is a time where independent reporting is more necessary more important than ever because citizens have to be able to form an opinion to make an informed choice in the end many opposition candidates complain they don't get the necessary time on t.v. channels and so on the whole media landscape is very much you know shifted towards the government towards a pro government approach of reporting so independent voices it's very difficult for them to get heard and very difficult for journalists who still want to report

independently. a correspondent visit thank you very much for that assessment. you're watching the news coming up ahead thirty two years off but you know with nuclear disaster we have a special report on how nature is reclaiming the exclusion zone. and informed by munich i took an early lead in the champions league semifinal but injuries and missed opportunities left the door open for the on the grid we have all the details of the match coming up. but first monica joins me now and tribulations between europe and the u.s. in focus yeah and that's quite surprising that it comes out today amrita german government sources are expecting that the european union's extension from us metals tariffs will not be extended to when it expires on may the first now the news comes as german chancellor angela merkel is scheduled to meet with the u.s.

president on a trump on friday to discuss the terrorists trump announced hi a terrorist for u.s. steel and aluminum imports in march but granted the e.u. and certain other countries exceptions pending the outcome of new trade talks the e.u. said it will apply counter measures if the u.s. threatens its mettle industries for more on that i would like to chat now with our financial correspondent who is standing by for us in frankfurt comma considering that angela merkel is on her way to washington why is the government coming out with this now. well it certainly looks like the government wants to prevent big disappointments because it's pretty clear that a solution for this. conflict with the americans about terrorists will not be found on the national level it's not the berlin government that will negotiate this with washington it's the european level the european union which will have to find

a solution together with the americans but for sure until america will mention the topic when she. is going to meet donald trump in washington she will repeat the position of the government that the government things those terrorists are wrong which means that this statement now can also be seen as a reminder to everyone that the government thinks there's you know pressure in the capital that this is an important topic where such a solution has to be found not if i was a member of the steel industry let's say i'd be worried now because may thursday is next week any reaction from industry yet. yes not only the steel makers and steel traders themselves are worried investors are too the shares of two synchro for example are a big loser or a bigger one among the ducks losers today click no and call one of the big steel traders here in germany the shares are down four percent and not only these

indicators show how nervous everyone is we've been getting business sentiment indices in the course of this week the efore index of business climate here in germany the. from france the cleanup is affair the business climate in france both have come down recently and of course this also has to do with the unsolved conflict with the americans about terrorists and about nervousness what the potential impact on business will be oh i conduct don't go anywhere because i believe that germany's biggest lender is always also quite nervous and i have to talk to you about that in a moment because they continued slump for deutsche bank reported nearly an eighty percent slide in first quarter profits to exactly one hundred twenty million euros dodger also plans deep cuts to its biggest unit of the corporate and investment banking division leading to job losses the bank calls painful but unavoidable it did not mention how many positions would be axed about the restructure could

have an impact on london where daughter has its biggest investment banking operation the financing of big corporations is going to be reduced particularly in the united states and in asia and with that it's back to cotton about wasn and frankfurt come out where does this cut hurt the most. well it terms of location deutsche bank is saying that the u.s. and asia will be focused but you mentioned london it's quite. probable that a lot of jobs will have to go in london as well as the most important corporate investment banking business by the which a bank is situated in london with around about eight thousand people working there but. bank also says that it plans deed layering of management structures across the organization and i talked to a couple of people working for deutsche bank here in the corporate headquarters in

germany today and they told me they are sure that you know on the mid level of management a lot of people will have to go in all kinds of the businesses of torture bank so what's the wood in frankfurt is the right move for deutsche after years of turmoil . you know after three years of talking about how doj about once to stay a global bank this now is a major shift in strategy but it obviously shows that georgia bank was not able anymore to finance and to afford this very ambitious goal of a strategy now it has to focus on where the stable business is where it's you know stable business relations are and that's germany and that's europe because for a sions wealthy clients that's what they can handle and that's what they are focusing on now and i can have was an affront but thank you so much for this.

did you ever get the feeling that your car is missing a feature well how about the ability to turn itself into a robot to japanese engineers who obviously watched too many transform episodes of developed just that the robot can turn itself into a two seater sports coupe a within a minute's time but the car itself is not particularly fast still you won't get any talking to kids if you park it in robot mode the developers want to use the robot cost to transform amusement parks around the world. now i remember exactly where i was in april nine hundred eighty six when something terrible happened that's right monica you talking for course about the general disaster off eighty nine hundred eighty six which remains the single biggest nuclear accident in history religion from the reactor extension killed thirty one people and more than a quarter of a million were evacuated from their homes since then authorities have enforced

a thirty kilometer exclusion zone around the disaster site so gentlemen there has been devoid of human life for decades now nature has reclaimed what's become a unique habitat the colony was there and sent us this report. this is no ordinary wetland what was once the cooling pond of the chernobyl nuclear power plant is now home to eat grits turns and ducks and they're not the only wildlife making inroads since the humans left. when reactor number four exploded in april nine hundred eighty six no one could know what the long term fallout would be thirty one people died in the immediate aftermath of acute radiation poisoning more than a quarter million were evacuated from a thirty kilometer zone around the power plant as the years pass nature is reclaiming these villages. biologist said he pesky which is an

expert on the region's wildlife and the impact of radiation. he wants to show us some of chernobyl to most charismatic inhabitants wild horses. and so his camera traps show us that they've been in recent days heavy build species that lives in big family groups in theory they should be easy to spot but not today. he takes us to an abandoned van the horses like to visit. from the horse's mane and they come in here to scratch themselves and they love to get a rub along the walls. but that's not all the horses are looking for and here salt is at a premium in chernobyl and the villages once used this band to store salty foods in wooden barrels this is the floor used to be much higher but the horses have come in and each of us the other the salt. no one taught the horses how to do this in the space of just

a few decades they've learned to make the most of the human made landscape of abandoned villages just as they've adapted to chernobyl's forests originally from the open step of central asia scientists brought them here in the one nine hundred ninety s. in the hope they would keep the grass down and prevent wildfires around the reactor . it's time to check radiation levels after all we're only twenty kilometers away from the reactor. because of the background radiation where we are now is the same as in the here you know the radiation has migrated into deeper layers the soil in that region you have there doesn't necessarily mean it's a fair wage for the rhythm of the. say he has spent the past twenty years studying the effects of radiation as it passes through the ecosystem while animals in and around two noble undoubtedly carry heightened levels of radiation say says it's not enough to impact their ability to survive and reproduce a conclusion that many international scientists would agree with but what about his

own health does he worry or conger through so far i've been fine so why should. we get a call from one of said he's colleagues a group of horses has been spotted nearby. the male stands aside watching us closely while the females and last year's foals graze. say he tells us that this is folds have just been born this week but it will be some time yet before the mothers and their young leave the safety of the forest . the absence of humans being crucial to their success and the radiation it seems has done little to dent that. eventually all the attention from our camera proves to be too much the herd heads back towards the forest the forest the keeps on growing and in just a few more years will likely swallow up this meadow as nature raises the last visible traces of human activity.

football and now the champions league semifinal draw mind gel new last night as the bundesliga as by new nick face defending champions real madrid mccambridge from the deadliest bullets this joins you know welcome ed how does a big test of by and they were not up to it well like you say it was a huge test there's absolutely no doubt and this was a heavyweight clash champions league semifinal between two teams that won seventeen at euro european cups between them as you say things didn't really work out for blind but let's take a look at the face now and then find out what happened. i if i ever to win the treble this season a champions league semifinal showdown with real madrid represents the greatest test of all and make got off to a dream start you're sure kimmage finishing in the twenty eighth minute off the hammers rodriguez found him on the run but with biden's back line already missing

several key faces an injury to jerome but taking the thirty fourth minute spell danger by robin had already limped off early in the match marcello capitalized on the germans absence to fire a low volley past spin all right and draw his side level on the stroke of half time . and marco asensio rounded off a lightning fast counter to put the visitors ahead in the fifty seven minutes and so it would remain two one the final score a night of contrasting emotions for the coaches it would be and. it's not easy to come here and supply and we know this is not flashy. we know we can do better but we can be happy and satisfied with the match tonight to put up with it most are content to satisfactorily do their part to janice nutrition and the chance and some notes and we didn't know how to take advantage of our chances. we weren't as efficient as we usually are those come to even the off construed as the sphere

and on top of that we handed out gifts and then didn't use the chances we created for ourselves properly. can not stand a difficult night the decide the coveted treble slips a little further from reach. so it was as well not good night not a good night he was bitterly bitterly disappointed after the match now is dream of a treble over what you know you have to be in two minds really on the one hand you have to say no of course it's not they've won the league they're in the final of the german top and there's not there any one goal behind real madrid it's not insurmountable. on the other hand you have to be right. i mean real madrid around the drift there a while east side bursting with talent they've won the past two champions league trophies and i mean rb i'll be very surprised if they did manage to get to the final and you talk about injuries generally bulleting how serious is that because it's good we see it's not just for the buying but also for germany well you know we've we've had a look at the media outlets this morning in germany the reports and that is

a good chance that he's out for the world cup he's definitely out for the remainder of the season which is a. german cup final but for germany like you say it's a real problem you're going to have like the partnerships and characters in his team and there's a huge one there that may be missing that it's a it's a big blow it's a big deal right ed mckay mitchell did obvious for says thank you very much for that. you're watching the dead news coming to you live from london i have more news for you in half not look forward to seeing you in the meantime good or was check out a web site that's dot com by for now. move .

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