business news live from berlin a historic encounter raises hopes for reconsolidation for the first time the leaders of north and south korea meet face to face at their common border at stake the north's nuclear program and a 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 will look ahead to a meeting that promises to be brief but far from simple. plus u.s.

actor bill cosby is convicted of sexual assault prosecutors successfully make the case for once beloved actor had a predatory secret life. i'm happy and welcome to the program planting peace and prosperity those were the words to mark the moment north korean leader kim jong un and his south korean counterpart planted a tree of peace kim jong un crossed the border into the south to hold a second round of historic talks he and south korean president planted a pine tree for peace at the country's shared border and the first of the day summits the pair held a serious and honest discussion about denuclearization on the korean peninsula.

the two leaders met earlier in the day at their common border which remains one of the most heavily militarized on earth. 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. from god. i hope we can have a heartfelt conversation about the issues and its chief good results i had we can gain momentum so that we can see our agreements councils as they were in the past we must look to the future she said we can count on hands on one jim it probably. 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. joining me now correspondent philip belsky from

seoul fell of the two leaders have symbolically planted a tree together as we just saw near the border that happened just a short while ago yet another historic moment and was certainly turning out to be a very historic day yes we have just witnessed the planting of the tree as you can see behind me pretty much everything that was happening at the summit is broadcasted life here in the press center. in the beginning quite a funny scene when they come out when i arrive he's always on his cars always surrounded by bodyguards and as the car was driving rather fast the bodyguards had to run really fast for a long time that's when everyone here started laughing as well and they chose a pine tree as you had mentioned earlier and the reason for that of course it's all all of what's happened in today's highly symbolic the pine tree is always green

also in winter so that's a symbol for the relationship between the north and the south furthermore both sides the north koreans and the south koreans brought soul and water from south korea and north korea so every symbolic day here. philip symbolic but certainly the two governments are expecting something to come out of this summit what is that exactly. well i think especially for the south korean government and the south korean president it's the most important thing is that both sides are talking again so as to as you know that relationship between the north and the south was pretty bad for almost ten years now one reason for that obviously were the nuclear tests in north korea but also you had a very conservative. government here in the south so for the especially

for the south korean president moon it's really a big step that both sides are talking again so first of all they're trying to improve their relationship and also there might be talks about a peace agreement and also of course the denuclearization might be a topic as well philip as you're speaking i just want to remind our viewers that we're looking at live pictures of kim jong un and moon j.n. speaking there smiling and having a nice conversation on what appears to be a very sunny day sunny prospect potentially for the future of the korean peninsula as we're watching these images fill up can you tell us what are the main items on the agenda we're all talking about nuclear weapons you just mentioned that but will south korea even try to broach that subject today. well yes as you mentioned both of them are sitting on this bridge right now somewhere in the fields and it's only the two of them so we don't know for sure what they are talking about and all the talks that have been taking place so far

has been taking place behind closed doors so we can say for sure what they expected they were talking about as i mentioned earlier the main issues. how to improve the both countries a relationship also possible in the goetia it's about a future peace treaty and maybe they might also be talking about denuclearization of i don't know if korea all the whole korean peninsula right now we don't know what they're talking about this is going to be an announcement sometime in the afternoon and that time we will know more. correspondent philip bill thank you from seoul thank you very much absent 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. hundreds of members of brazil's indigenous community have protested in the capital brasilia indigenous leaders say the government of president michel tamar is threatening their land rights they say changes to the laws make it harder to designate new land as belonging to indigenous groups and could even be used to take away land they already occupied. the first us memorial to victims of racial killings has opened in the southern state of alabama the monument honors the more than four thousand african-americans who were killed in racially motivated lynchings between eight hundred seventy seven and one nine hundred fifty the fear of lynching underpin segregation laws even after a slavery was abolished. german chancellor angela merkel has arrived in washington d.c. for tough talks with u.s. president donald trump marco 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 u.s. steel tariffs and the war in syria is the german chancellor is first visit to the u.s. since march of last year let's look ahead to that meeting although it's brief it's full of potential conflict. it's not all could moments during the first meeting at the white house that still sums up the luck of political chemistry between on going to medical and donald trump. when trump and simply didn't react as merkel asked him to shake hands thank you. german chancellor i'm going to michael's reputation that's the global elite it keeps the world strongmen on the straight and narrow simply doesn't seem to apply to this u.s. president who insists on setting the pace on direction of global politics.

observers say trumps erratic decision making challenges merkel's political style to confront even partners with very harsh positions to threaten and then to undo and sort of go back into a more co-operative mood and i would say yes kept european partners pretty much on their toes trump upstaged his nato allies by talking about money rather than values twenty three of the twenty eight member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they're supposed to be paying. for their defense his willingness to challenge the core values that bind together what is known as the west soon led merkel to a sobering conclusion. site. and then there are times in which we could rely fully on others are somewhat over. for by more than a year into the term presidency germany is still struggling to find common ground

for cooperation with trump's in a circle merkel second visit is laden with pressing issues. there are three important issues on the transatlantic agenda for this meeting one is definitely trade and the criticism of the transatlantic trade arrangement the second one is germany's contributions in military terms to nato and the third one is the iran nuclear deal. the president of the french republic at the end of his state visit in monrovia called directly criticized trump steelmaking and called on us congress to live up to europe's expectations the united states is the one who invented this new tool of dualism you are zero one now. who has to to preserve and reinvent it. machall won't have this kind of stage the two and

a half hour visit is set to focus on working down the list of problems my call have to leave a result with but lynn already resigned to the fact that a trade war is in the making expectations are low. and watching the news still to come american actor bill cosby is convicted of sexual harassment but age eighty will the once beloved actor actually do jail time. now as we look ahead to that visit between america and trump and washington trade issues are set to dominate the agenda that's right because of the moment. companies are exempt from the tariffs on steel and i mean the about donald trump want those exemptions to end on may first that's the assumption at least of the german government according to do w. sources germany's exports have been a thorn in trump's side for quite a while and he's been quite vocal about it calling the germans bad very bad here's

what's at stake for the german economy and twenty seventeen german companies sold goods to the u.s. worth almost one hundred twelve billion euros that's mainly cars machinery and pharmaceutical products in the opposite direction the u.s. sold. about sixty one billion euros in goods to germany mainly computer technology pharmaceutical products and the coals and that created a trade deficit of around fifty billion euros and that's going to be the bone of contention between maclin trump today that the lack of parity in trade will likely remain in the foreseeable future ironically it is partly driven by donald trump himself because of his recent tax reform in the united states people have more money to spend and that money will at least in parts be spent on. all those nice products made in germany. the two big events on the world stage today the meeting of the two korea leaders dominating the headlines and also chancellor merkel

meeting donald trump in washington let's go over to our correspondent conor booze and the frank five current what's more important what's moving markets today than a meeting of the currently leaders on michael in washington. what's really more immediately a concern for people on the markets is what's going on in washington and the question how to deal with those fundamental differences between the trump administration and our government and i have to say between the trump administration and a large majority of economists in both the united states and in europe the trade deficits and surpluses simply don't work like profits and losses of companies that's a difference that donald trump doesn't seem to understand the goods that america buys from germany are used of course for consumption but american businesses also

use them to make their businesses better more profitable more competitive that's what well people here in germany would like to trump administration to understand maybe angela merkel with her rather dry and down to earth style manages to well talk to the u.s. president. is stay where you are we're coming to your back to you in a second but first this the richest man in the world just got a tiny bit rich jeff bezos the founder of biggest shareholder of online retailer amazon and seen another eight billion dollars added to his personal net worth overnight because put this company is doing quite well as an amazon have jumped by seven percent after the company announced first quarter profits more than doubled compacts to last year unless a rise an 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 out as i was

in phase is intensifying scrutiny from politicians and regulators who accuse it of having too much market power but happy no let's come back to call the economy lots of tech companies are coming out with earnings what sticks out for you . well of course amazon sticks out a maze and is the name of the company here on the trading floors the shares traded in frankfurt as well it's up pretty nicely this morning but also sticks out is sony the japanese electronics giant reported strong earnings for the whole year twenty seventeen but the earnings report for the quote for the first quarter also is showing that sony has to grapple with the relatively high yen dollar exchange rate and that the relatively high euro dollar exchange rate is also a problem for many companies in the euro zone it has been during the first quarter and that's why this earnings report season here in europe is not entirely as

enthusiastic as it is in the united states right now contribution in frankfurt for us thank you. and the eurozone finance ministers are meeting in bog area today with the greek debt high on the agenda again some countries want to relieve greece of at least part of its debts others insist on full pay back germany being the most vocal european commission president john claude younker was in athens the day ahead of the meeting and optimistic about the country's prospects last year greece achieved plus of seven billion euros that's 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 directors pieces performance is excellent as were the sacrifices of the greek people the initial

results are now in growth has returned to greece and to europe compact to live up. hopes that will continue and the outlook is good greece's current eighty six billion euro bailout ends this oldest by then athens aims to be financing itself on international capital markets again and is confident of hitting budget targets by twenty twenty the european commission intends to support greece along the way because that important steps are still needed but that e.u. countries also must on the commitments in return calling solidarity and responsibility two sides of the same calling. us entertainer bill cosby could be headed to prison abbie that's right gary hart it's even likely that bill cosby could go to jail for the rest of his life that's following the american comedians conviction for sexual assault the case vindicates a multitude of women who have come forward accusing actor of drugging and raping

them in a pattern of predatory behavior that's lasted decades. the ruling sent shock waves around the world but perhaps those most moved by the food it were in the courtroom itself. some of these women had testified against bill cosby in court outside this sense of a long relief was clearly visible i feel like i fit 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. so. we are so happy that finally we can say. women are believed dead not only on a hash tag me too but in a court of law cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent

assault the conviction relates soley 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 cross was guilty of anything that fight is not over thank you for your 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 of 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 me any 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 happens again 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 cause of the show they 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 the real cause of the in real life was nothing like the cliff huxtable i think some people are still trying to reconcile that but many many women are saying they're over that they're a deceived 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 from perhaps now more people are seeing who he truly is. oh yes he was very very upset you know just found guilty of three felonies 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 i think he was still 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 a 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 taint reporter k.j. matthews and los angeles thank you for your insights thank you. saya files of a europa league kicked off on thursday and disappointing evening for arsenal the gunners battered madrid's goal for a large parts of the game and finally took the lead and the sixty first minute but they'll be left to rue their missed chances as a lead to go equalized twenty one minutes later and now have the upper hand as they head into next week's return leg and the others have a final marsay be thoughts for two now and looks set to reach their first european final since two thousand and four. the kingdom of saudi arabia is working to change its image especially when it comes to the rights and social status of women in licenses have been issued for women only gyms granting women the right to work out

. women working out to the gym and unremarkable seen in many parts of the world but in saudi arabia a sign of social and cultural progression. these women weightlifters are taking advantage of new female only gyms the latest in a series of reforms in the conservative muslim kingdom. the sports entice and many women like rehab to stay in shape and get fit though critics in the region claim weight lifting will cause women to lose their femininity. and you may have had some of the all the people who are interested in sports who don't want to give this a try a usually pretty skeptical of weight lifting some of the old assumptions still exist but the general idea about women in weightlifting on the contrary is that it would help women get into better shape look good and improve their fitness i don't see any problem with this. much. for gym owner in man

shirt the idea that weight lifting leads to a masculine appearance is baseless. but not for me doesn't want some girls fear they might get bigger muscles like men but that's impossible if they don't use growth hormones well you know what if they do normal resistance exercise if they eat proper healthy food they'll develop a physio at that they wouldn't get with any other sport. so the women and they're allowed to attend football matches and will soon be committed to drive as a nation seeks to change its international perception as a repressive state but for these women it's attitudes closer to home that are in real need of an overhaul. you know me when i first came back from the united states in twenty thirteen i was shocked to see people rejecting the idea that women

practice weight lifting weight on drink protein shakes they assume that if they drink protein shakes the body would become like a man even my own family thought that change doesn't happen overnight but for these saudi arabian women it's a push in the right direction. that they're minor of the top stories we're following for you and a historic summit the leaders of north and south korea have been meeting at their country's mutual border kim jong un and when jay and have been discussing the key issue of removing all nuclear weapons from the korean peninsula. and german chancellor angela merkel has arrived in the united states for talks with president donald trump. watching the news live from berlin i'm happy quite often more coming up at the top of the hour thanks for watching.

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