this is. from berlin tonight spectacular. u.s. president cancels a planned summit with north korea. i believe that this is a tremendous setback for north korea and indeed a setback for the world the u.s. president blames hostile statements from kim jong un for the decision will ask what the shock for hopes of peace on the korean peninsula also coming up. the french president. and russia's president vladimir putin react to this latest curveball

from washington they say nonproliferation efforts should continue and that they will also keep to the iran's nuclear deal the deal that was discarded by the trump white house. it's good to have you with us u.s. president donald trump has canceled a highly anticipated summit with north korea's leader kim jong on trump blame the decision today on quote open hostility from pyongyang but the collapse of the talks will also will likely raise questions about the hawkish stance from within the white house stance which was seized upon by kim jong un in the meantime trump is conceding that an opportunity for peace may have been missed. on the recent

statement of north korea decided to terminate the planned summit in singapore in june twelfth. while many things can happen and a great opportunity lies ahead potentially i believe that this is a tremendous setback for north korea and indeed a setback for the world. before this suggests trump informed the world and north korea's leadership of his decision in a letter quite unusual for a president more accustomed to making major announcements on twitter this time he needed more than one hundred forty characters to convey his disappointment about kim jong un's recent display of quote tremendous anger and open hostility it means there potentially historic meeting is now off asked by a reporter if this would mean war more likely trump responded we'll see what happens i hope. you aren't worried we'll show you the timing is giving other world

leaders a cause for concern earlier in the day a handful of international journalists including some from south korea were invited to witness the suppose the demolition of a north korean nuclear test site seen by many as an act of goodwill independent nuclear weapons inspectors did not attend the international community's hopes for peace between the two koreas dashed. the partners to continue. to find the path to the peaceful very far though didn't realize asian of the korean peninsula. president trump wants to continue the dialogue but to set conditions. if it when kim jong un chooses to engage in constructive dialogue and action. i am waiting. the world is waiting to see if these two leaders will ever meet

and if their eyes ation will ever be achieved. and for more of this i'm joined here at the big table by korea expert professor has mostly from the for university here in berlin professor it's good to see you again you know we didn't think we were going to be talking about this this soon the it appears the entire world was caught off guard by this decision and what did you think when you heard about it yeah i was surprised by it too i heard from my students during my lecture today and we discussed it but it's not only i think also the. people around for themselves they were surprised by that of course moon of the south korean president was taken by surprise he visited for president only one day before and they had very good conversation what does this mean i mean we heard that president moon was trying to make sense of what happened today. what does this mean for him

moving forward he has invested a lot in the trump plan as we know it has he completely lost face in credibility with the south koreans think this. well i think first of all the efforts by a south korean president were very well received even even in the white house and they were very successful but now we have that what we have been warned about so long that there is an predictability was president trump and the only way to to get over this is now having a smart reaction by the north koreans he said in his comments today that he had spoken with leaders in south korea in japan but obviously according to what we've heard from president moon in seoul you know that was not the case they this caught them by surprise so we've got the south korea factor now what about china with this yes so in the case that really the summit does not take place and the relations getting worse between. the u.s.

and north korea then actually china becomes much more important because they can also give guarantees of security to north korea they can provide also economic benefits to to to north korea of course they cannot completely sums substitute the u.s. but it could be the the core could be moved to china to having a better big rooms and this comes on the day when we had the reports of journalists going into north korea and seeing tunnels to the supposedly to the north korean nuclear facilities being destroyed so you got a picture of at least what north korea wants us to think of them trying to get rid of their nuclear weapons research and what the u.s. president canceling a summit with kim jong un so who looks how in this picture i think both sides ought to be blamed it's only one side but obviously the north koreans are very much interested in going into the negotiation this was an important gesture even though

some people say the facilities have been working anyways but it was an important gesture of good faith by north korea. as they also released the prisoners the u.s. prisoners and all the other things and not so much has been coming back from the u.s. until now and that's what also north korea has been be bothered what about this talk about the former libyan dictator moammar gadhafi there was this fear there's been a lot of talk john bolton's talked about it vice president pence and there was there was this talk about kim jong un being afraid that he too would become a dictator he would be left to die do you think that played a role in the polemics we've seen in the last week or so i would definitely say so the libya model so that back then got duffy agreed in a deal with the u.s. to get rid of his weapons of mass destruction and then in the end up being killed by rebels this is the worst case scenario if north korea and the americans keep talking it's not talking about it yeah there's no big of provocation and that's

yeah that's a very good point i want to read of part of the letter from president trump today just to give our audience an idea of what exactly was said and he writes 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 plane meeting you talk about your nuclear capabilities but ours are so massive in powerful that i pray to god that they will never have to be used so what are we hearing there i mean is that we're back to this mine is bigger than your words but are is that a very old threat of a nuclear attack i would say so i think this is the code between those two cowboys so they call one the s. and a call in the east that they used to talk to and i think you will understand what trump is saying is trying to say and also if you look at the formulation of the tone of the letter that road it's not really harsh provocations just

being very clear that he's delivered the door and quickly before that time. what reaction do you think we're going to see from north korea if any in the next twenty four hours very very difficult to predict but i really hope they are smart and don't react in provocation and that's all right professor one is was there as always we appreciate your insights thank you. or north korea was also on the agenda talks between french president manuel mccrone and his russian counterpart vladimir putin in st petersburg today both leaders urged washington n.p.r. news yang to continue their efforts to work towards a summit so that was vital to uphold the goal of nuclear rising the korean peninsula despite trumps decision to cancel the meeting with kim jong un they also discussed the conflict in ukraine and the iran's nuclear deal. more on this now we want to go to moscow our correspondent in really sure what is on the

story for us tonight good evening to you emily's that we've got a key issue for president seeking moscow's help in maintaining the iran nuclear deal even as the u.s. pulls out of it what do you make of president putin's response on that front. well putin reiterated the importance of keeping to that iran nuclear deal he also spoke of the bent to bull consequences if if there weren't if the deal couldn't be preserved he also then mention again that he had spoken to the head of the international atomic energy agency and he said that iran which is fulfilling its obligations within that nuclear deal so really there's no reason to leave that deal to break up that deal as it were it seemed to be kind of to me almost a veiled criticism there are not so veiled of the us for leaving that deal from the beginning russia has been very critical of the u.s.

is decision to leave the deal shortly after the decision was made the foreign ministry said that the decision showed that the u.s. was incapable of keeping to its international agreements and today over. announcement that he wouldn't be meeting with north korean leader kim jong un as well putin seemed to criticize the u.s. for not keeping keeping to its deals for not keeping to its international obligations and for not being a reliable partner he said again that korea north korea had kept to its promises that there was no reason to cancel the meeting so perhaps by questioning the reliability of the u.s. as a partner he's also showing himself to be a more reliable partner to europe and to france's michel. we know the reality is france. have some very very strong differences just as they give ukraine in the war in syria would those differences those tensions really reflected in the way putin

directed today. well yes and no on ukraine both leaders were leaving they both spoke of the importance of keeping to the minsk peace process and also of continuing talks in the normandy format so that's with ukraine russia france and germany on syria you could sense that there are some differences in talks about the importance of. the fact that there are different different opinions between alluded to leaders when it comes to weapons and that it was important to find out who is behind chemical weapons attacks in syria after all france joined the u.s. and the u.k. after a suspected chemical weapons attack in april and they attacked syrian government targets there and putin condemned those attacks at the time very strongly so that was certainly a reference to a difference of opinion between the two sides but in general the tone was very much

conciliatory mcallen talked a lot lot about historical ties cultural ties and they've both talked about economic ties as well and also michael i found it interesting referred to putin in the opening statements with an informal two so really kind of signaling that that the two sides are kind of looking to deepen their partnership for sure in the story most skilled like you really think you. there's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the dutch investigators say the missile that brought down malaysia 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 blowing out of the sky over eastern ukraine all two hundred ninety eight passengers and crew were killed german chancellor angela merkel is on a two day visit to china during talks with premier league young of the two leaders launched a spirited defense of free trade at a meeting with president xi jinping merkel welcomed chinese moves to reduce

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