number thirteen fronting. the line from berlin a historic encounter raises hopes of reconsolidation for the first time the leaders of north and south korea meet face to face at their common border at stage the north's nuclear program kind of breakthrough to peace follow we have complete coverage. also coming up another high profile visit aimed at repairing relations

german chancellor angela merkel arrives in the united states for talks with the u.s. president donald trump we'll go to washington to find out more about her mission. plus bill cosby is convicted of sexual assault prosecutors successfully make the case the once beloved actor had a predatory secret life. and welcome to the program and a moment rich in symbolism the leaders of north and south korea have met at their common border which remains one of the most heavily militarized on earth kim jong un and moon have been holding talks aimed at diffusing decades of tensions on the korean peninsula top of the agenda the crucial issue of denuclearization.

after months of careful diplomacy and decades of hostilities an extraordinary meeting between the leaders of a divided korea. with a handshake north korean leader kim jong un and south korean president in began the third ever summit on the peninsula. this was the moment kim stepped over the border to the south in the demilitarized zone he's the first north korean leader to set foot in the south since one thousand nine hundred fifty three in a show of unity moon returned a favor by crossing briefly to the north with kim. inside the peace house in south korea the leaders expressed their hopes for reconciliation. puzzle because i hope we can have a conversation with big results and reach an agreement so we can give our citizens

and everyone around the world who hopes for peace a big gift. i hope we can have a heartfelt conversation about the issues and its chief good results i had we can gain momentum said that we can see our agreements can cells where in the past we must look to the future she said we can count on hands on one general problem. president moon has made his goal for the talks clear the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula came out recently announced the north would suspend its nuclear and missile tests but observers say it's unlikely he'll give up the country's nukes. should speak further about today's historic summit i'm joined here in studio by had a smuggler and korea expert with berlin's free university and e.w. correspondent philip bilski who is in seoul while come to you both philip we'll

start with you you're following developments at the official press center what happened there when the two leaders met. where you can clearly see that you're witnessing something historic here as you mentioned i meant the press center that's not where the action is summit is taking place the summit is taking place in the north from you it would take you like two to three hours by car to get to the border between north and south korea but as a journalist right here you are as close as you can get to the talks and i'm here with more than three thousand colleagues from all over the world from more than three hundred countries and it was very interesting this morning to see the reaction especially from. the green colleagues when the south korean president and the north korean leader match and when they shook hands you could clearly feel the excitement and at a certain point the german the c.e.o. even started applauding so you could really feel that your experience in

experiencing something really historic here the journalists but there are south koreans and while and they have a stake in this what is south korea what is seoul expecting from this summit or is the fact that it's happening at all thing if they get enough. i think it is significant and especially for the south korean president moon it is extra true extremely important that both sides are talking again as you may know the relationship between north and south korea were really bad for almost ten years and so no both sides are talking again and one major thing is to generally improve the relationship between both sides also there might be talks about a peace agreement in the future and of course they might talk about the denuclearization issue. philip stay on the line we have highness moser in studio highness he is the first member of the kim family to stop or cross the border and

go to south korea to have these talks how historic and monumental is this moment as you said this is various toric that he crosses across the border to the cells as the first north korean leader in this in its symbolism itself this is very important of course and as the correspondent rightly pointed out it's now nine years it has been nine years since the relations for nine years the relations cooled down because of the writers conservative governments in south korea who really did not fall in of improving the relations with north korea and by the way both a sudden j. right now exactly and we also know that there's been days with regard to this meeting days of rehearsals to make sure that everything went off without a hitch what do you make of the choreography of what we saw and the pictures of course that means that it was very interesting to see that was very well planned to a certain extent but of course you cannot fly on everything and in particular i found it very interesting that moon agreed to cross over the border to the north

and then holding hands a coming back together with kim jong il into the to the south to have the discussions of this really gives us. a feeling how very positive those leaders are in this situation how what kind of positive atmosphere they are trying to make it right philip will come back to you lots of smiles lots of handshaking a lot of the main issues on that agenda and what happens next. well first of all i have to say that obviously the new negotiations are taking place behind closed doors so we don't really know for sure what what they're talking about but of course at the same time we know the main issues so that would be denuclearization. talks about a possible peace agreement in the future and the enhanced manasseh relationship generally between both sides regarding the schedule. first half of the talks have already ended and then they have

a break for lunch time and in the afternoon they they're going to plant a tree and then continue with the second half of the talks there will be an announcement probably sometime in the afternoon but right now at the moment we don't know when this is going to take place and office he we don't know what they're going to say. a lot of symbolism there planting a tree together obviously a very important meeting highness do you think what we're witnessing today in this moment where these two leaders are meeting could potentially set the framework for a negotiated peace agreement that's exactly what they will try to do and i'm quite sure that they will come up with a successful result of this meeting because this was digger stated before and this will be very important for the next summit with the u.s. between north korea and the u.s. so this was the necessary condition for successful start of of the peace process and a successful meeting between north korea and the u.s.

would be the sufficient condition to start this peace process you mentioned the united states we're talking about expectation management a little bit in terms of what all these sides are wanting from these kinds of talks are the expectations on the side of the americans on par with what the north koreans are expecting are willing to give up in terms of concessions that's hard to say you cannot look into they had of donald trump but i think by now they have an idea they pump il was sent to the north to find out what the north koreans are thinking and i think they've prepared themselves where very well that this morning it was reported that trump again was talking about the rocket man and so on he's trying to raising the stakes and i think kim jong un can deal with that has malls are from berlin's free university and philip bilski and seoul thank you both very much now some of the other stories making news around the world thousands of mexicans have protested after three film students were murdered amid the country's vicious drug war the students were abducted while working in an area being watched

by cartels the case has renewed anger over police failures to investigate the country's thirty five thousand missing people. king hundreds of members of brazil's indigenous community have protested in the capital brasilia indigenous leaders say the government of president michel to marriage is threatening their land rights they say changes to the laws make it harder to designate lou land as belonging to indigenous groups and could even be used to take away land they already occupied. the first u.s. memorial to victims of racial killings has opened in the southern state of alabama a monument on earth the more than four thousand african-americans who were killed and racially motivated lynchings between eight hundred seventy seven and nine hundred fifty the fear of lynching underpin segregation laws even after slavery was abolished. german chancellor angela merkel has arrived in washington d.c.

for tough talks with u.s. president donald trump merkel landed in the u.s. capitol late last night ahead of a visit to the white house today during a three hour meeting the leaders are expected to discuss the iranian nuclear deal the u.s. steel tariffs and the war in syria it's the german chancellor is first visit to the u.s. since march last year i'm now joined by d.w. correspondent clare richards and washington square as a we just said merkel is back after a year but her schedule on this trip is quite different from the pomp and circumstances of merk rons visit isn't it. good morning yes marcos touch down in d.c. for a trip that's going to be all business and pleasure and this is in fact a very short trip she's actually going to be in the united states for less than twenty four hours and only have a few presidents to a few hours to meet with president donald trump and discuss these big issues on trade and the iran nuclear deal now if you look at the optics of her trip it could

not be more different than what we saw earlier this week from french president and money he of course had a lavish three day state visit with things like helicopter rides and fancy dinners and really was trying to have show a warm close relationship with president trump that is a far cry from what we've seen with merkel the two have a rather frosty have rather frosty relations trump is that you have said that he was not looking forward to her visit and she's going to be out of the united states within within twenty four hours of arriving a short trip but we know that one of the top issues on the agenda is the european union's tax exemption on steel and aluminum which is the set to expire at the beginning of the month what is the american position what is the american position at the moment on extending those for the block. well the reason we saw donald trump announced these in march he says that these protectionist measures were put in place to protect american industries in steel and aluminum and also made an

argument that this was necessary as a matter of national security now many u.s. allies like canada and mexico and the european union got temporary exemptions from these tariffs but those are due to expire on monday so what both mccaughan and merkel have been trying to do this week is to gain a permanent exemption from these tariffs when they go into effect it's not really clear that merkel is going to be able to make any serious headway on this issue it didn't appear that mccaw secured much of a victory and as i said earlier their relationship is much frostier if mccrone walked away empty handed it seems unlikely that america will be able to do much better for all the body body behavior that we saw i mean mccall so left and was critical of trump could potentially do anything on this trip that would push trump to extend this exemption or do you think. well these exemptions really are

the biggest issue for markel that could really hurt the german auto industry but they're also one of the thorniest and so it's going to be she's going to have to look at what other foreign leaders have done to try and get president trump to extend exemptions japan's was at mar a lago recently and he was not successful in getting a permanent exemptions so that would be a way not to do it but this is really going to be a test of international ties of transatlantic relations where things stand between the united states and germany and it's not clear how markel could go ahead without trying to point out the fact she's going to have to make the case that the u.s. doesn't want to start what could result in a trade war with its european allies but it's not clear how she's going to make that case. claire richardson in washington and you can find more information on that story and others on our website at www dot com there in the day will be broadcasting merkel's visit to the

white house and the subsequent press conference live after richest man in the world just got a little bit richer is that right guard that's right and that's this man of course jeff bezos the founder and biggest shareholder of online retailer amazon who has seen another eight billion dollars added to his personal net worth overnight because how do i put this his company is doing quite well shares in amazon have jumped by seven percent after the company announced first quarter profits more than doubled compared to last year and list say a rise in online shopping and increased demand for the company's cloud services drove the numbers up but it's not all plain sailing the results come as the amazon faces intensifying scrutiny from politicians and regulators who accuse it of having too much market power finance ministers of the eurozone are meeting in bog area today with greek debts high on the agenda again some countries want to

relieve greece off at least part of its debt others insist on full pay back germany being the most vocal european commission president don't load your was in athens a day ahead of the meeting and optimistic about the country's prospects last year greece saw a budget surplus of seven billion euros that was much more than expected. and optimistic showing claude younker was full of praise but his meeting with greek prime minister alexis tsipras the european commission president hailed the progress of france as made in implementing a string of painful reforms over the years the proper form of the regulars pieces performance is excellent as were the sacrifices of the greek people you nischelle results are now in growth has returned to greece and to europe. to live up. hopes are that will continue and the outlook is good greece's current eighty six billion euro bailout ends this august by then athens aims to be financing itself on

international capital markets again and is confident of hitting budget targets by twenty twenty two european commission intends to support greece a long the way. important steps are still needed but that e.u. countries also must honor commitments in return calling solidarity and responsibility two sides of the same coin. our correspondents barbara vessel is in the capital zofia and follows the events for us there barbara greek debt hasn't been in the headlines for quite a while now why is it back. because it hasn't gone away really care hard i mean the whole greek problem was on the backburner everybody was watching the country struggling back to its feet again economically and politically things have quite a lot so finance minister think about things like the banking union and what else is on their mind spot in the background of course the greek problem is still looming because there needs to be some sort of exit package and that is one part of

that is how are they going to control what greece does in the next years and decades maybe to stay on a growth course to sort of sort of stays stable and sustainable was in its econ economic development and the other of course is is there going to be some sort of debt relief the i.m.f. says yes that is necessary otherwise they will sort of never really get independent again and. canonically safe and sound and but finance ministers particularly in germany and in some of the northern countries the netherlands for instance say we can't tell our tax paris we have relieving greece of part of its debt and just throw it away and give it to them so that's the main problem they're facing here. you mentioned it but again germany is being paid painted as the bad guy here but it's only fair to the debts being paid by one of the criticism.

because the i.m.f. is in the picture and there are sort of safeguards for further good behavior and grace that greece is going to stay on course and not turn back to its lovely old ways if i may say so and so the i.m.f. says greece can pay back this huge man enough debt we're talking about two hundred forty billion at the moment and at the same time and this is a small country was a small economy and at the same time sort of produced growth and sort of feed its population and and become sustainable so the problem is that germany says we can't tell all taxpayers this money is gone it's been thrown away and on the other hand if you look at the figures everybody in the economic world says no some of this money needs to be some out wiped out you know the solution lies in some sort of repayment mechanism that is quite subtle greece can pay back as much money as it earns if gross is better they pay but more growth sort of goes down they pay

a bit less that's the french solution what paris has sort of that they want to present here and germany is still sort of flaming and trying and the question that was put this morning to finance minister all of shorts the new german finance minister is are you going to be the new. and he didn't find that particularly funny . in sofia for us. to prison obviously a story that's right even likely that bill cosby could be headed to jail for the rest of his life that's following the comedian actor of conviction for sexual assault case vindicate a multitude of women who have come forward accusing cosby of drugging and raping them and a pattern of predatory behavior that's lasted for decades. the ruling sent shock waves around the world but perhaps those most moved by the photo were in

the courtroom itself. some of these women had testified against bill cosby and koch outside this sense of a long relief was clearly visible i feel like i believe in humanity is restored and a lawyer representing some of cosby's more than fifty accuses said this was a watershed moment first of all. i want to thank the jury justice has been done. we are so happy that finally we can say. women are believed and not only on hash tag me too but in a court of law cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault the conviction relates only to the accusations of one woman who alleges cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in two thousand and four. cosby left the

courthouse with a defiant gesture and his legal team said he would challenge the conviction. we are we are very disappointed by the verdict we don't think mr gryce was guilty of anything it upright is not over thank you do you feel good yes yes yes first of all the eighty year old actor now faces the possibility of a long prison term the date of his sentencing has yet to be confirmed. i'm joined now by entertainment hollywood reporter k.j. matthews from los angeles k.j. thanks for joining us you know bill cosby a powerful man a wealthy man many of his victims never thought that they would see this day calm but it has come and it's the first major celebrity trial in the two era what were some of their reactions to the guilty verdict in the courtroom. you know a lot of celebrities were obviously very elated to see justice served but a lot of the victims who were in the courtroom were also just surprised and really

just overwhelmed many of them said they've been waiting twenty thirty years for bill cosby to to actually go into court and for them to get some level of justice they had begun to think that they would never see justice in their lifetime because he was such a big figure so rich so powerful so famous and that nothing would ever happen to him so they were just elated to finally have some sense of justice a massive figure especially in north american culture and entertainment culture for most people that did grow up on the continent bill cosby was a father figure what are other people in the united states saying now following this verdict i think they're still just you know shocked when he was charged last year with the first trial there was a hung jury they thought well maybe he might not actually have done it he might not be going to jail now i think people have accepted that the bill cosby that we grew up with in the cars we show that played cliff huxtable it was laughable that was affable that was a nice guy just family man was really not that person and i think many americans

thought he was cliff huxtable now we know that was simply not the case that will cause be in real life it was nothing like the clips the what i think some people are still trying to reconcile that but many many women are saying they're over that the raid to see justice and that no man is above the law now you it's interesting that you mention that this is bill cosby he's not the character of cliff huxtable at some point after he was found guilty in a courtroom he went on a tirade some perhaps now more people are seeing who he truly is. oh yes he was very very upset you know just found guilty of three thousand these obviously the district attorney wanted him to be reprimanded and to go into custody immediately obviously his attorneys did not want that they wanted some time they didn't even want there to be a lack of a bail and so they said you know he's not a flight risk and i guess the district attorney has argued that yes he is a flight risk he has

a plane at that point bill cosby got very upset very irate and said i don't have a plane and caught him an a hole and exploded he was very very just angry of interest i'm surprised that he was convicted of three felonies but you could see that he was visibly upset and really just was having a hard time accepting the verdict and he's having a difficult time accepting that verdict but he has been found guilty what happens next now we have to wait thirty to sixty days that's when the since unseeing for bill cosby should take place he could get anywhere up to eighteen years on each count but even aside from this criminal trial he still has three to four different civil cases there are still three women who are suing him civilly for money saying that they were sexually assaulted and then there's a number of women who are suing him for their nation so he's got a long road ahead of him and it's not letting up and her tame reporter k.j. matthews in los angeles thank you for your insights thank you.

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