monsoon rains the tropical downpours that she'd like. to the small clusters of comes at the seams of them to cause of this destruction. starting may twenty third d. double. this is deja vu news live from berlin north korea invites foreign journalists to witness the destruction of its newest nuclear testing facility is being billed as a goodwill gesture ahead of an historic summit with the u.s.

but this is all a show for the cameras also coming up. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg prepares for a grilling by european politicians over the global data scandal engulfing his company will they give him a harder time than their u.s. counterparts. and one year ago today twenty two people were killed and eight hundred were wounded in a terrorist attack in manchester we meet friends of one of the victims who's being remembered with a new place. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show we begin in north korea where a small group of foreign journalists has arrived in the country to cover the disk.

telling of the country's nuclear test site. promised to destroy the facility as part of efforts by kim jong un to create a positive atmosphere ahead of a planned summit with president trump next month but experts are divided on whether kim's plans to dismantle the site will achieve what he climbs. in a notoriously secretive country this is one of its most secret sites north korea's main nuclear research facility is hidden away in a system of tunnels several hundred meters underground. situated in the north east of the country sixty kilometers from the chinese border the site has been central to kim jong un's nuclear ambitions it's where all of north korea's six no nuclear tests of taken place. the latest one in september last year pyongyang declared as its first successful test of a hydrogen bomb. a bomb that could be used on an

intercontinental missile to carry a nuclear weapon as far as the united states as north korea has threatened in the past the closure of perm yury was announced after the historic meeting between the north's leader kim jong un and south korean president in at the end of april in which the two pledged to work for the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. north korean state television carried the news saying that all of the tunnels at the site would be collapsed and the entrances blocked it also announced that foreign media would be invited to cover the event. however some analysts have said that the closure of the site doesn't prove kim jong un renewed plans to denuclearize and so far north korea has not responded to pools to that independent experts verify the shutdown. skeptics have

pointed to the destruction of the young people and nuclear complex by kim jong un's father ten years ago the cooling tower of the plant was blown up in front of foreign t.v. camera teams and failing to specialise for the occasion. the nuclear activities at the side however continued. let's bring in correspondent jason strother joining us from the south korean capital seoul for more jason looking at the deception of the past we just saw there is what's coming up all spectacle and no substance oh well brian i think the fact that north korea has only invited journalists to the destruct to watch the destruction of the. test site perhaps is indicative that it is just for camera video and photo ops north korea had indicated when i made this announcement earlier in the month that it would invite experts but those invitations were not sent out other invites that were

declined include south korean journalists seoul had been told that the north would accept some reporters from here below the border to attend the demolition this week but those that request to have them accredited by the north korean authorities was the client so while american and british and some other foreign reporters are there the south koreans seem to be stuck in beijing ok now it's not just about the site. does telling young have all their testing science if kim decides to continue developing nuclear weapons. more we really don't know bryan i mean north korea is a very mountainous country many of its weapons sites whether it be nuclear or conventional arms are hidden in some of these mountain ranges it's completely possible and there is speculation that the north might have some secret

testing areas for that matter in terms of denuclearization north korea could easily be hiding even if it says it has given up all of its weapons and of course that's way down the line for now but it very well could be storing nuclear material and some of the secretive location so we just don't know you know jason all of these questions and doubts certainly are not lost on the south korean president and he's in washington today what is he going to be looking for in his talks with president trump he is going to try to ensure president trump that north korea really is serious about denuclearization but that it's all been called into question just a week ago said that it was not going to cave in to washington's bullying to have complete and unilateral denuclearization and that's something that washington really wants to see happen. experts doubt that the north will

really denuclearize expression when you have folks like john bolton saying that he wants a libyan style denuclearization and of course we all know what happened to colonel gadhafi after giving up his nascent nuclear program in the early two thousand he was killed with the support he was killed by his own people after the u.s. and nato allies bombed libya and that is certainly something that the pan young regime would want to avoid at all costs jason strother for us in seoul following this story thanks very much jason thank you. now for some of the other stories making the news today iran has dismissed american threats of sanctions calling them funny and ridiculous iranian president hassan rouhani was responding to the u.s. secretary of state among pompei oh i pump a open pail warned iran to expect the strongest sanctions ever if it did not stop enriching uranium u.s. president trump has been using an official mobile phone that is ill equipped to defend against hackers or surveillance white house insiders saying the president

has gone as long as five months without having his phone checked by security officials the president has reportedly resisted efforts to change his phone once a month saying it was too inconvenient. fourteen countries including argentina brazil and canada say they will be recalling their ambassadors to venezuela to protest against what they say was the illegitimate reelection of president nicolas maduro the u.s. has impose new sanctions on the country rocco says the measures are barbaric. authorities in hawaii say the lava flowing from the killer whale volcano is producing toxic clouds as a reaches the pacific ocean residents are being warned to remain away from the fumes a dangerous mix of hydrochloric acid steam and extremely fine shards of glass a lava haze or leis can cause lung damage and ion skin irritation is

no mark zuckerberg the founder and head of facebook is due to answer questions from members of the european parliament and brussels later today so i could berg has already faced the u.s. lawmakers over the alleged misuse of facebook user data by cambridge analytic a that's a british consultancy that worked on president trump's election campaign today m.p.'s in the european parliament are expected to quiz zuckerberg on how facebook is daft ing to europe's new data privacy rules. and we're joined now with the very latest fire correspondent terry scholtz from brussels terry will mark zuckerberg get more of a grilling from the europeans than he did from the u.s. congress which was in many ways woefully unprepared to question well if you think that was unprepared wait for tonight's testimony from zuckerberg

because unlike the two days of questioning that he got in washington by dozens of senators and congressmen there will be just a handful of politicians grilling him here the entire session is going to be forty five minutes long and it's just going to be questions from the head of the political groups there are going to be two more or less experts in the rooms that will be john philip albrecht who was basically the author of the parliament's data privacy act and claude marie who heads up the civil liberties commission other than that these guys are not experts at all and the session is so short that they're expected to get one question and one follow up so anybody who is left unsatisfied by testimony in congress is going to be extremely unsatisfied with what happens in brussels tonight terry why did the bird decide to accept parliaments of the taishan what does he want to get out of this appearance today. well we'll see i mean he probably wants to try to regain favor with with facebook users who have abandoned

the platform in droves and many of whom you know constantly say they don't trust facebook anymore after you know the either the theft or the taking of facebook data by cambridge analytic as you mentioned and others perhaps he wants to try to explain in this very brief way his company's commitment to doing better in the future but he won't have long to do that there are also some reports out there that he wants to apologize to european union users that their data was harvested without their knowledge but will be ok now will the session be limited to the abuse of personal data and privacy or do parliamentarians have all their issues that they want to see zuckerberg address or again if this were the full european parliament you would hear a huge range of issues i'm not sure exactly what the political groups will bring up again they only get one question and one follow up so they're going to have to

think long and hard about probably what political points they want to score as well i presume that we're going to hear the main issues cambridge analytic. theft of data probably some some linkage to fake news to how facebook plans to limit its own ability to be used to spread false stories to spread propaganda and also how it plans to comply with the new data privacy regulations that come into effect on may twenty fifth and will change the way all data is used here in the european union ok we'll know later today what kind of questions are going to get asked there terry shoals for now thanks very much. we have some breaking news coming in brussels dortmund have appointed lucy involved as their new coach the swiss one comes from the french club nice he was formerly coach of gladbach. well song to britain now and it was one

year ago today since an islamist terror attack in the british city of manchester which killed twenty two people and injured some eight hundred others a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at manchester arena as people were leaving a concert by the american singer ariana grande one iran met up with friends of one of the victims who is being remembered with a new play. on. earth with a penchant for tight. and then it became clear. and our thought that it was the body i. was. going. to see and then it became. a sloth. thing. martin that was just twenty nine when he lost his life inside manchester arena you know i was just really great really low play. out.

it's. about a mile. that's my favorite picture of her. for friends like harry jones the first anniversary isn't just a time for grief it's a chance to reflect on the lives of their loved ones. and for martin's friends that means tributes to him need to be just as larger than life as he was i didn't know there was those who didn't know. it's only fitting then that martin's life is celebrated with a touch of showbiz. a new play written in his honor and tells the story through the eyes of his friends its message be more like martin. be loving the attention. it was thought and follow it with what it can for five. feet or so.

it's with unity and passion that manchester is choosing to remember it's dead a mark of the resilience of the city shaken by tragedy. and will be following the commemoration of the manchester attack here on the w throughout the day. for now thanks so much because. the whole d w one out. for in focus global insights the news

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