this is g w news alive from bird land a spectacular turnaround does donald trump cancel his planned summit with north korea the u.s. president blames what he called the quote open hostility and anger in the latest comments from north korea's kim jong un that despite pyongyang reportedly decommissioning its nuclear test site we will have the reaction from the korean peninsula and to the united states also coming up investigators say that the

missile used to shoot down planes and the seventeen over ukraine four years ago came from a russian military all two hundred and ninety eight people on board died in a crash the passenger jet was headed from amsterdam to kuala lumpur when it was flown out of the sky moscow denies any involvement and both sides on ireland's abortion debate get set to vote tomorrow the country will decide in a referendum whether to reform the catholic country strict rules on terminating pregnancy or move. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us we begin with breaking news from the united states where u.s. president donald trump has canceled the summit with north korean leader kim jong un planned for next month the abrupt turnaround was announced in a letter that donald trump addressed to kim u.s.

secretary of state my pompei o briefed to lawmakers in washington on the shock decision and read from trump's letter. sadly based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement i feel it is inappropriate at this time to have this long planned meeting therefore please let this letter serve to represent that the singapore summit for the good of both parties but to the detriment of the world will not take place you talk about your nuclear capabilities but ours are so massive and powerful that i pray to god they will never have to be used i felt that a wonderful dialogue was building up between you and me and ultimately is only that dialogue that matters someday i look very much forward to meeting you if you change your mind having to do with this important summit please do not hesitate to call me or write the world in north korea in particular has lost a great opportunity for a lasting peace and great bus prosperity and wealth this missed opportunity is

a truly sad moment in history sincerely yours donald j. trump president of the united states of america thank you mr chairman thank you sir that was the u.s. secretary of state speaking a short time ago let's get more reaction now to this canceled summit we have the view from the korean peninsula and from the united states richardson is standing by in washington and josh smith is joining us from seoul and clare i'd like to begin with you because we just heard the secretary of state cite there in that letter open hostility and anger what was trump referring to there and why cancel the summit now. it seems that he's referring to some comments that were made by the north koreans which in turn seem to have been prompted by things said by vice president mike pence he was referring to the libya model when it came to dealing with north korea and that of course would be seen by the north koreans as the incident in which wal-mart get off the agreed under george bush's administration to give up his nuclear weapons program and then during the arab spring uprisings we

saw that he was brutally murdered by his own people and we talk about the libya model you can see from a foreign perspective that how that might be interpreted as a signal that if a nation is going to give up its nuclear weapons it's not going to mean good things for its political survival so with north korea looking at this mike pence as comments toward. toward the libya model we saw a very strong reaction and i believe that's what compass referring to let's talk about strong reactions now and josh i'd like to turn to you how is pianka likely to react to this cancellation now well that's certainly what everyone is watching or a discount solution comes amid something of a spiraling of heated rhetoric between both sides after several months of reduce tensions things have started to ramp up the increased criticisms from both sides of criticisms from north korea as well as new threats from the united states so

north korea's reaction really signaled what direction all of this will go whether both sides will try to ratchet things down crease the tension and try to talk with each other again where are we returning again to the threats of war. absolutely some big questions being asked by everyone now and you know just to put it into context these are two leaders who just generally speaking are known for their political theater given that claire how likely is it that this could just be in negotiating tactic on the part of trump i mean did he ever really intend to go ahead with the summit i mean at this point it seems unlikely that it's a negotiating tactic in terms of delaying for a future summit by all accounts trump would say that his intentions were genuine but many people looked at this highly anticipated summit with great reservations they said let's not count our chickens before they hatch it was not clear whether

the summit would actually take place or whether this was just north korea's way of getting the u.s. president to the table to buy itself credibility on the international stage to be seen with meeting with the leader of the united states of the leader of the united states without offering any real concessions josh this comes at an interesting time of course because just today foreign journalists reporting this morning that north korea has gone ahead with the demolition of its nuclear facility in a so-called gesture of good will given that where does that leave things. well it's certainly likely to provide more ammunition in its criticism that united states is out to get it that it's looking to force a regime change in north korea no matter what not only does this come after north korea declared that it would no longer test nucular weapons or missiles it also comes after north korea released three americans it was holding also as

a gesture of what it said was goodwill so this again is likely to provide more ammunition to skeptics in north korea who see the united states as a major threat clear i'd like to ask you what from washington's perspective you see coming next because there was an interesting part of the statement i just like to read it for our viewers at the very end and we heard my pompom pay also read a bit earlier if you change your mind having to do with this most important summit please do not hesitate to call me or to write it seems as if trump has left the door open here hasn't he when some ways but it's interesting that he's asking the north koreans to call or write if they change their mind when he was the one who has backed away from this summit and in many ways the fact that the united states is the one that's pulling out of this possible and coming summit on june twelfth could be seen that the united states is not a good faith after there are many who are saying that this makes it look like the

united states is not willing to negotiate and it could actually strengthen not only strengthen north korea's hand but also alienate u.s. allies like south korea where richardson with the latest from washington josh smith the joining us from seoul thank you so much both of you. it's let's turn to some other news now because dutch investigators say that the missile that brought down bill asian airlines flight m h seventeen nearly four years ago came from a russia based military unit the passenger jet was headed from amsterdam to kuala lumpur when it was blown out of the sky over eastern ukraine all two hundred ninety eight passengers and crew were killed russia has rejected the investigators latest findings they'd already established won't shut down the plane now for the first time dutch led investigators have determined the russian made book missile did originate in russia it's still to conclusion to goldman to birkdale

a joint investigation team has concluded that the book mists of the shutdown and seventeen came from the fifty third missile brigade based in sc in russia. in the shrader. the investigators laid out how they came to that conclusion using photos and videos taken by the public to discover crucial details and map out the missiles journey that journey tragically ended here in a field in eastern ukraine in territory held by pro russian separatists flight m.h. seventeen had taken off from amsterdam heading to the malaysian capital kuala lumpur it disappeared from radar screens four hours later over the village of. will two hundred ninety eight people on board lost their lives most of them dutch and as many as eighty children since that day in july twenty fourth investigators have been gradually piecing together the evidence they now want

people to come forward to help identify who fired the missile lot of our work in the in the last years have been all the forensic work and all the work around the why of everything we found on the internet and now we are narrowing down a narrowing down to finding the perpetrators so she had this as a confident goal for the next phase. but russia has repeatedly dismissed the findings of the investigation and blames ukraine for the incident and with moscow using its veto to block an international tribunal any meaningful criminal trial looks unlikely ireland is holding a referendum on friday on whether to reform the catholic country's near total ban on abortions in europe most countries have fairly liberal abortion policies and allow terminations through the first trimester of the pregnancy there are three exceptions in malta terminations are completely illegal poland has

a near total abortion ban in place women there can only terminate a pregnancy if they have been raped or their life or the fetus is life is in danger currently in ireland meanwhile the only legal case for an abortion is if a pregnant woman is her life is a risk irish women are however free to travel to other countries to access abortion services and as a result an average of eleven women travel every day from ireland to england and wales to terminate their pregnancies there d.w. met one of them. a loving mother that's what jennifer ryan always hoped to be six years ago she was pregnant for the second time it seemed like a normal pregnancy until a routine scan in the twenty second week brought jennifer's world crashing down she can still remember the doctors the exact words. oh no she was.

your baby has a lot of problems and she has a very severe form of spinal bifida starting up around her shoulder blades and she won't be able to survive with us on top of our. kidneys and the severity of the spinal bifida is cause a lot of damage from brain your baby is incompatible with life. jennifer decided she wanted to spare her baby any pain and have an abortion what happened next was almost as traumatic she and her husband had to hastily arranged a trip to a clinic in liverpool because doctors an island couldn't help. are you ready. they couldn't talk to you about it over here we got the details of liver promise on a scrap of paper you know we had to ring ourselves they couldn't do any of our for us. just you know like you were just a you felt totally alone they took a ferry to liverpool went there and back in twenty four hours it's

a journey three to four thousand women make each year it's proof that terminations are reality and i learned to say those who want the country's strict abortion law to be repealed these activists in central dublin come painting for giving women the choice. but anti abortion campaign as fair if the law is repealed women could feel pressured into terminating their pregnancies for example if the baby has a disability. right can you imagine going into a hospital this a slight concern a slight issue. that doctors will be obliged if we have at all allowing for abortion to tell people and explain that they can have an abortion and suddenly you feel undermined so your commitment to a pregnancy is is reduced some even oppose abortions in cases of rape. there are other options out there i would never like to think that a woman feels she has to have an abortion. although jennifer ryan can understand

this view she's in favor of repealing the law she believes only the woman can decide what's right for her. my daughter was never going to hold her life she was never going to exist in this world you know she was never going to get a chance to live like the doctors to tell me she wasn't one to be able to breathe i wasn't pretty i was protecting her making the choice i made her was protecting her from pain jennifer's unborn daughter holds a special place in the family's hearts jessica would have been hung name jennifer hopes women will soon no longer have to go through what she did oh vote that is so emotional and has power polarized rather a nation in other news french president emanuel makana is in st petersburg for talks with his russian counterpart vladimir putin on the table the conflicts syria and ukraine and the iran deal back home to visit to russia comes hot on the heels of a trip to moscow by german chancellor angela merkel despite recent tensions between

moscow and europe e.u. leaders are keen to keep moscow on board the iran nuclear deal recently jeopardized by the us announced withdrawal. quick reminder now the top story that we're following for you here at the u.s. president trump canceling next month's planned a summit with north korea's kim jong un he did so in a statement a short time ago. with that you're up to date i'm sorry. john. when are you going to use a posse it's a real policy because there is no rubbishing about everyone writes that only him on their own and then we part. and you know what the great thing is you know and they .