this is t w news live from berlin the leaders of the two koreas vow to end their state of war an unprecedented summit yields pledges to scrap the north's nuclear arsenal and bring the korean war to a formal and will deeds follow words will have complete coverage. also coming up another high profile visit named every pairing relations german chancellor angela merkel arrives in the u.s. for talks with president donald trump look ahead to a meeting that promises to be brief but far from simple. class bill cosby is

convicted of sexual assault prosecutors successfully make the case that the once beloved after had a predatory secret life. on my own schwager welcome to the program north korean leader kim jong un and south korean president monday in have announced their intent to formally and the two countries state of war sixty five years after the end of combat during an unprecedented summit the leaders embraced before announcing their plan for peace kim jong un said he would scrap his country's nuclear program and he said the two countries were like families linked by blood and cannot live separately leaders insisted they did not want to repeat the mistakes of the past. it's been a day of monumental breakthroughs in the standoff between the koreas let's take a look now at what the two leaders have agreed to so far

a plan to convert the cease fire into a peace treaty ending the war they fought for almost seventy years they've agreed to the full denuclearization of the korean peninsula families torn apart by the war will be reunited with a liaison office opened on the northern side of the border a second summit will also be held in the north korean capital of pyongyang in the fall and correspondent philip bilski is in seoul and i'm joined now here in the studio by bad backer a korea specialist from the german council on foreign relations philip let's go to you first and so we're witnessing something really extraordinary some historic moments here what's happening right now. well i'm here at the press center which is in the north of seoul where it's the talks at the summit has been taking place two to three hours by a kind and all through me air. at the same time this place here for john this

is we we are as close as well as we can get as journalists to to the summit so we have had live coverage of all the events happening north here. during the whole during the day. and that the life cover broadcast has just stopped just recently as some we're seeing what we're seeing now here in the back basically is footage that has been. taken during the day so right now everyone everyone here in the press center is basically getting busy writing the news and trying to understand what has been and we departed via by a both parties you know we can definitely a very crowded press room behind you there back off from council on foreign relations take us through what the north and south korean leaders just agreed to from a policy perspective where i think the most important point is the declared willingness to go towards a peace agreement if you look at the cease fire agreement as it was agreed between

the militaries after the korean war and it's basically outdated to no longer constitutes a status quo that would regulate the relations between north and south but also with the u.s. so we need to a new agreement but we also need to be clear that the north and the poles cannot go that way alone that some point they need to take the u.s. on board and that's a real challenge you know how significant are these developments is this just symbolism or are we actually witnessing the arrival of peace on the korean peninsula after decades really of cold war there well first of all we have to be patient i mean these are first steps but they're very significant it's more than we had in recent years so if the north and so. managed through to create some kind of reproach meant through small steps create cooperation and an economy and military affairs etc that's actually a great step and of course both sides need to somehow lay out a roadmap for the future and then take on the us and also perhaps in the best case

define the whole future negotiations with us would look like and felt let's go back to you for a moment do you have a sense of the mood there in korea in light of what we've witnessed today oh yes i think very much that was the case for for the whole day today it's started this morning actually when we got the live pictures of the south korean president and the north korean leader when they arrived and when they met when they shook hands it was very interesting to see the reaction by the journalists in the press center so there are about three thousand thousand journalists here from thirty different countries and two thirds of them off to see that they are koreans so it started this morning this this feeling that we are really seeing something historic happening here. and when the south korean president and the north korean leader

shook hands this morning there were even colleagues from from career here applauding and you could really get a sense that it's huge what is happening here right now. now we're talking about these high level policy decisions these two great leaders meeting but if these two countries were to actually have a peace treaty and the war and how would that change life for ordinary people on the ground on either side of the d.m.z. there. well i think it's still we're still at a very early stage and it has already been mentioned that south and north korea can't agree on a peace agreement because at the end of the korean korean war it was the north koreans the americans and the chinese who signed a peace treaty so we're not there yet but i think at the next step will be to have discussions and talks including the united states and china and then it will go.

step by step off to sleep that the aim of foot for both sides reunification in the long run so if this ever happens of course this will be huge now we're talking step by step fantasia in the studio with us. denuclearization has been put on the table do we think there's any chance the north would actually give up their biggest bargaining chip well fully agree with philip that it needs a slow process where both sides have to make concessions at the time that this time is no hurry we need to find ways how old sides can make contributions and the nuclearization can only be at the end of the process what's most important is how the u.s. can contribute and storms of security guarantees towards and north korea that in the possible is one of the main challenges which that they can see as unfair you know let's expand the picture a little bit what role did the u.s. and president donald trump play and how about what role can germany perhaps play

moving forward well the role of the u.s. is at the moment of course to sit back see what the two koreas can do to prepare overall process get an order they already are in consultation with the north and then set up a process where they can then we can see what the terms of the peace process first of all in the end of the peace treaty germany's role at the moment is of course that we can support the two koreas and especially south korea and cost true too. create reproach meant and set up this process we can also promote that carries in the united states and of course of course through tour history during the cold war we can look what lessons we have learned during the health secure process but also in the german reunification and what lessons can be learned for the two koreas now we also have this summit that's being highly billed coming up between kim jong and donald trump which is sort of billed as a main act here but has this overshadowed it and in light of that what can we

perhaps expect to see from that summit well new idea world of course the two koreas take center stage and the meeting between kim and trump is not agreed to the best case of course the diplomats come together do the hard work and in the end there will be a symbolic act of kim and meeting. i think that's the idea ok's but i hope that will go that way ok and filled last question to you take us through the rest of the day whilst on the schedule i what is happening right now is. between. the president of south korea and the north korean leader and i wives. that's what's happening right now and afterwards as we learned this morning they're going to watch a film about the prosperous future off the korea to get out there so they're all going to sit together and watch these beasties these these images of very very

positive very bright future off of korea right philip belsky for us and saw him back to back from the german council on foreign relations thank you both very much for your insights. now to some of the other stories making news around the world armenia's opposition leader has threatened to boycott any snap election if you've not made interim prime minister next week nicole past c.n.n. has said that he is the only viable candidate to lead the country even though his protest movement holds only a fraction of the seats in the parliament anti-government demonstrations forced the resignation of the prime minister on monday triggering a political crisis 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 the first

us memorial to victims of racially motivated killings has opened in the southern state of alabama the monument honors the more than four thousand african-americans who were lynched between eight hundred seventy seven and nine hundred fifty the fear of lynching underpinned segregation laws even after slavery was abolished german chancellor angela merkel has arrived in washington d.c. for tough talks with president donald trump michel landed in the u.s. capitol late last night during the three hour meeting today the leaders are expected to discuss the iranian nuclear deal u.s. steel tariffs and the war in syria is the german chancellor second visit to d.c. sense trump took office take a look now at a meeting that will probably be brief but fraught. could moments during the first meeting at the white house still sums up the lack of political chemistry between on going to machall and donald trump. when

traffic simply didn't react as merkel asked him to shake hands thank you. german chancellor i'm going to marco's reputation as the global leader who keeps the world strong men on the straight and narrow simply doesn't seem to apply to this u.s. president who insists on setting the pace and direction of global politics. observers say trump's 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 he has 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. side. 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 corporation with trumps 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 criticize trump steelmaking and called on

the u.s. congress to live up to europe's expectations the united states is the one who invented these middle of dualism your zero one now who has to to preserve and reinvent it. merkel won't have this kind of stage for two and a half hour visit is set to focus on working down the list of problems mark or have to leave unresolved with berlin already resigned to the fact that a trade war is in the making expectations are low. right i'm joined now by g.w. correspondent coston phenomena in washington d.c. the cousin truck gave french president very warm welcome this week for all this pomp and circumstances how are we expecting him to greet the chancellor today.

well i believe he would greet the chances in the very friendly and polite way but we won't see the kind of bromance show that we've seen between trump and crawl and i'm pretty sure that i'm going to america is comfortable with that she's more sober and pragmatic person focused on facts and on the outcome of talks and not so much on pomp and circumstance of course you did have a very close relationship with trump's previous us of barack obama but even that was more carried by the moocher respect that the two leaders had and i convert members seeing those two holding hands or anything like that so it's quite obvious that donald trump and i'm going to makkah don't really click on the personal level but i think the found a kind of level where they can actually deal with each other on working levels so they would get along with c.

calling for an exemption to that exploration is she just trying to win over trump. yeah of course she's doing that so that mark wrong but of course trade is the prerogative of the european union so the leader for these negotiations is to see a must room the e.u. commission for trade but of course european leaders like michael and michael has been trying to sway the americans to make sure that say europe gets a permanent exemption from those tariffs right now as you just heard in their reports it doesn't look too good but you never know with donald trump it could be that he would decide to at least extend the exemption for the european union just before the deadline all maybe even to make it permanent but i'm not sure i'm actually i'm pretty sure that he will not just hand it over to a mac and after that talk and say what has been fully convinced by and you're of

bones have to face those tariffs that's not his style he would wait until the last minute. and phenomena for us in washington ethiopia has a lot happening today thank you very much. now as we look ahead to that visiting back on track in washington we know that trade issues are set to dominate a lot of the agenda get had authors let's get an idea of that that's right my and here's the main issue at the moment e.u. companies are exempt from tariffs on steel and alum in the end but donald trump wants those exemptions to end on may first that's the assumption of the german government according to t.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 at some stage here's what's at stake for the german economy in twenty seventeen germany german companies rather sold goods to the u.s. worth almost one hundred twelve billion euros mainly cars machinery and

pharmaceutical products in the opposite direction the us sold about sixty one billion euros in goods to germany mainly computer technology and also pharmaceutical products and vehicles that created a trade deficit of around fifty billion euros and that's going to be the bone of contention between merkel and trump today but the lack of parity and trade will likely remain in the first forseeable future ironically it is partly driven by donald trump himself because of his recent tax reform in the us people have more money to spend and that will at least partly go into all those nice products made in germany so we have two big events on the world stage today the meeting of the two korean leaders dominating the headlines and also the meeting of chancellor merkel and donald trump in washington let's bring in our correspondent connaught bosun in frankfurt what's what which one of those is moving markets.

what's really concerning people on the markets more is what's going on in washington the question of how to deal with those fundamental differences between the u.s. the trump administration and our government and i have to say between the trump administration and a large majority of economists both in the united states and here in europe what donald trump doesn't seem to understand is that you cannot compare trade surpluses and deficits between economies with losses and profits at companies the goods that america buys from germany of course used for consumption but they are also used by american companies to make america great again or to keep america great to help american companies to remain profitable and competitive this is something that trump doesn't seem to understand of course and of course now people here on the german markets are hoping that angle and that go with

a rather dry and down to earth style manages to find some sort of common ground here with the u.s. president and talking about u.s. companies or come we'll come back to you come on in a few minutes because i want to talk about the richest man in the world who just got a tiny bit richer i'm talking about jeff bezos the founder of the biggest and biggest shareholder of online retailer amazon and he has seen his fortunes rise by another eight billion because how do i put this his company is doing quite well shares an amazon have jumped by seven percent after the company announced first quarter profits more than doubled compared to last year unless say 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 camas amazon faces intensifying strewed need from politicians and regulators who cues it of having too much market power. i'm coming back to conrad

tech companies these days a lot of them are coming out with earnings which one sticks out for you in the whole inspiring is that for the market in general. well of course amazon is very inspiring a maison is the name that people here are giving the company and i have to say investors alike quazi monopolies they are really getting heavily for the shares today of course there are other tech companies as you said and from a european point of view what's interesting to see is that sony in japan reported a rather not so strong first quarter which has to do with the relative weakness of the u.s. dollar during this period of time this is something that many euro zone companies also have to cope with the dollar was relatively cheap the euro was relatively high and we're seeing this leaving traces in the earnings reports of many eurozone companies that's why the earnings report season is not so super and suzi as to care

in europe at the moment compared to what's going on in the united states not so amazing after all thank you very much conrad who is in france the finance ministers of the euro zone meeting bug area today with greek debts 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 of them european commission president was in athens a day ahead of the meeting and is optimistic about the country's prospects last year greece achieved its plus of seven billion euros that's much more than expected . it's the beginning of a new era as greece prepares to wave goodbye to its arriving for talks with his eurozone counterparts in the both kerry and capitals of fear germany's finance

minister appeared upbeat. today the outlook on greece is far more optimistic than it was a few years ago. and he wasn't alone in his optimism euro group president mario centeno pointing to greece's better than expected performance in twenty seventeen. times from greece. piece called. primary surplus of four point two percent to twenty seven. point five times back to the program greece has received a total of two hundred sixty billion euros as part of three bailouts since two thousand and ten its latest and most likely its last bailout runs out in august. the loans have come in exchange for sweeping and highly unpopular public sector reforms which saw pensions slashed and a freeze on recruitment we gain economic autonomy would be a major political achievement for prime minister alexis tsipras whose assured

european commission president john claude younker that he won't backtrack on reforms in the post bailout era. u.s. comedian bill cosby could be headed to prison oh how the mighty have fallen indeed he was once called america's dad and now he's a convicted sexual predator american comedian bill cosby could go to jail for the rest of his life the case vindicates a multitude of women who have come forward accusing cars b. of drugging and raping them and a pattern of predatory behavior that stretches back to at least one thousand nine hundred sixty five. 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 court outside this sense of awful long relief was clearly visible i feel like i fit in humanity is restored

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 to 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 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 it upright is not over thank you. yeah yeah yeah

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. the semifinals of the europa league kicked off on thursday and a disappointing evening for arsenal the gunners battered madrid goals for a large part of the game and finally took the lead in the sixty first minute but they left the left to rue their missed chance as atletico equalise twenty one minutes later and now have the upper hand as they head into next week's return leg in the other semifinal marsay beat salzburg two nil and looks set to reach their first european final sense two thousand and four. london's iconic wembley stadium could soon be in private hands u.s. billionaire shahid khan has offered england's football association a cool nine hundred million euros the ninety thousand seat stadium was built in two thousand and seven and the f.a.

is still paying for it if the deal gets the go ahead the money could be used for a major investment in grassroots football the offer also increases the prospects of an n.f.l. franchise in london shahid khan already owns the american football team the jacksonville jaguars as well as the english soccer club. a reminder of the top stories we're following here for you the leaders of north and south korea have agreed on the aim of completely at reading the korean peninsula of nuclear weapons then unprecedented summit the two states common border on enriching instead they seek a formal peace treaty more than sixty years after the korean war ended in a truce you're watching news more coming up at the top of the hour.

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