this is news coming to you live from berlin north korea tells donald trump that it's ready to talk at any time this after the u.s. president abruptly canceled a planned summit with the north's leader kim jong il and we'll ask who can now pick up the diplomatic ball after trump's dramatic u. turn also coming up for years he seemed untouchable but today harvey weinstein faces arrest in new york scream movie mogul is expected to surrender to police after an avalanche of accusations of sexual assault and rape. and ireland has one

of the strictest abortion laws in europe but that could be about to change voters head to the polls for a historic referendum on the determination of pregnancy. hello i'm terry marchin thanks for joining us north korea says it's still wants talks with the united states insisting that it's open to them it any time this after u.s. president donald trump abruptly canceled a highly anticipated summit with north korea's leader kim jong un in a message to kim president trump blamed his decision on quote open hostility from pyongyang south korea has expressed regret that the summit is not going ahead donald trump's letter that puts a plan so much with north korea on ice. the u.s. president blamed p.r. on young's open hostility towards washington but trump left open the possibility of

meeting at a later date if north korea fulfilled the u.s. demand for denuclearize ation if and when kim jong un chooses to engage in constructive dialogue and actions. i am waiting trump was asked if the move would make war more likely to see what happens i heard that. will continue on. just hours before a tunnel leading to north korea's underground nuclear testing site. was blown up by pyongyang as a gesture of goodwill the government there responded to trump's decision the abrupt announcement of the consolation of the meeting is unexpected for us and we can't put find it extremely regrettable we again state to the u.s. our willingness to sit face to face at any time in any form to resolve the problem

. seoul has said it will keep pushing for dialogue between pyongyang and washington news of trump's decision came as a disappointment to south koreans hoping for progress towards peace. with. north korea has already released u.s. detainees and dismantle its nuclear test site but the u.s. has tested north korea's patients i think this is the reason for the consolation of the summit people on the korean peninsula including myself are worried that we'll go back to an unstable situation when. president mungy inhumane to kim jong un at a historic summit last month said he was perplexed by trump's consolation after big steps forward it appears resolving tensions on the korean peninsula won't be as quick and easy as some had hoped. for some analysis now we've got marcus com with us here in the city oh he's from the german institute for international and security affairs here in berlin good morning marcus so do you see this cancellation

as a strategic move by trump or is it just another impulsive reaction i don't know it seems to me more than some kind of emergency exit from administration because what has been has become obvious over the last couple of weeks is that both sides talk about denuclearization but they mean totally different things for the united states the comprehensive verifiable and immediate denuclearization of north korea as the starting point of negotiations or as north korea it's the end point if ever and it has very key allies that means that the whole strategy of the united states. where does this impetus this diplomatic impetus from north korea calm from why is north korea's so keen to meet truck i mean we have actually back couple of weeks no . a couple of weeks ago there was tremendous international pressure on the north

korea of six rounds of sanctions at least but they not only by the united nations security council sanctions by the united states additional sanctions by the european union so life has become quite miserable even for the no one plan to live on in north korea on top of that we have the military threats and web some personal reshuffling in the tribe and the very meaning that those people favoring regime change are now at the forefront of the public from policy debates in washington that this is an uncomfortable situation for the north koreans that experience does that make degree why they have reacted very reasonable last night and why they remain interested in negotiations ok there are several players involved here of course there's no south korea the u.s. and the focus is. on those three at the moment but what about china and china is also north korea's neighbor has a lot at stake here what role is china playing it seems to me that the that the

chinese so to speak when of of the last i mean the over the last couple of weeks we all got the impression that china had lost control of both korea that's north korea had developed close ties not only to south korea but the unexpected move to agree on a summit an unprecedented move by the north korean leader seems to be contrary to a chinese interests and by then it was just created by the fact that the community only moved to travel to twice to beijing to explain his policy and i think the chinese were very concerned that they might see some kind of small between south korea and north korea and the united states and all korea but now they have regained control of the situation but then but china still must be very concerned that if this diplomatic process results in the reunification korea of the two

koreas that it could end up with with u.s. forces on its border i think we're not seeing reunification in the foreseeable future particular to solve greens have become very very i would put it sold more in this regard and i think one element of any u.s. north korean agreement will be some kind of rain from regarding been all u.s. troops on south korean soil and i'm pretty sure that the chinese will make sure of that he will maybe not withdraw it completely but there will be for a refused extremely ok marcus thank you so much for your analysis r.t. of time from the german institute for international and security affairs here in berlin. now it's catch up on some other stories making headlines today in canada fifteen people have been injured in an explosion in the toronto suburb of mississauga police are searching for two men suspected of having detonated an improvised explosive device inside a restaurant and then fleeing the scene police say the three people admitted to the

hospital in critical condition are now stable at least seven people have been killed in a car bomb attack in the libyan city of benghazi the bomb exploded on a busy road close to the popular to bestie hotel no group has yet claimed responsibility and libya has been rocked by violence since of two thousand and eleven uprising which toppled and killed dictator moammar gadhafi. and venezuelan president nicolas maduro has been sworn in for a second term in office this comes just days after he won almost sixty eight percent of the vote in an election that's been widely condemned as a sham critics blame a duro for but as well as crippling economic crisis resulting in food shortages health issues and mass immigration. the former hollywood film local harvey weinstein is expected to hand them self over to police in new york

city police later today on charges of sexual misconduct more than seventy women have made accusations including rape against the co-founder of the miramax studio and the weinstein company the allegations gave rise to the meet to movement this be the first time weinstein has been formally charged since the avalanche of allegations emerged. harvey weinstein was once one of hollywood's most celebrated moguls the studios were behind a string of oscar winning films in weinstein's hands an actor's career could be made or broken but his store began to fall last october when the new york times published multiple reports of serious sexual misconduct. more than seventy women came forward to accuse weinstein including some of hollywood's biggest female stars allegations range from unwanted sexual advances to rape. only days ago actor asian argento spoke out at the khan film festival i have

a few words to say. in one thousand nine hundred seven i was raped by harvey weinstein here at cannes. i was twenty one years old this festival was his hunting ground. i want to make a prediction. harvey weinstein will never be welcomed here ever again. weinstein has denied all allegations of unwanted sexual contact with women law enforcement officials have been investigating the claims of criminal conduct against him since late last year in the wake of the scandal weinstein's wife has left him his production company has filed for bankruptcy and he's been ejected from the academy that one's on heard him with oscars. the allegations against weinstein also sparked the me to movement women around the world have leveled allegations of abuse against powerful men in the entertainment business and government hope the

watershed moment has led to a global discussion on gender equality and changes in the way women are treated in the workplace. and another hollywood giant is facing accusations actor morgan freeman has issued an apology after reports of multiple sexual harassment allegations according to us media reports eight women have come forward saying freeman had subjected them to a range of troubling behavior on film sets or promotional tours the allegations include the hollywood actor making comments about their bodies or touching them suggestively in a statement the shawshank redemption star apologized anyone who felt quote uncomfortable or disrespected. people in ireland are heading to the polls today in a historic referendum their vote will decide whether to reform the country's near

total ban on abortions polls have just opened and the result is expected this weekend ireland has seen weeks of bitter campaigning which has left the mostly catholic nation divided currently arlen has some of the most restrictive laws in europe the only legal case for an abortion is if a pregnant woman's life is at risk in cases of rape or fatal fetal abnormalities women in ireland have to travel abroad for abortions d.w. went to meet one of those women. 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 doctor's exact words. 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 and on top of that she has no 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 arrange a trip to a clinic in liverpool because doctors in island couldn't help. are you ready. they couldn't talk to you about it over here we got the details of liverpool on us 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 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. can you imagine going into a hospital this assists life concern or slight issue. 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 pregnancy is is reduced some even oppose abortions in cases of rape. there are other options out there and 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 have a 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 i 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. today is the dawn of a new era for european internet users go. as of today many europeans feel they are getting their life's back at least the digital part of it the e.u. has recognized that data is private and personal and belongs to the individual so as of today every e.u. citizen can demand that companies like facebook google or amazon tell us what kind

of personal data they hold what they do with it and have it corrected or even deleted. whether you use the internet to search for information connect with friends or simply to do your shopping going online means sharing personal information but in many cases it's unclear exactly what happens to that data. who has access to it what can companies do with it the new e.u. legislation aims to address some of these issues. under the new rules companies will only be allowed to collect data relevant to their services so weather app for example won't be allowed to access your address book or photographs. the new regulations also afford individuals the right to launch a complaint with a supervisory authority in their own country instead of potentially having to challenge a foreign company abroad those violating data protection rules will face harsher

fines instead of the maximum three hundred thousand euros in germany companies will face up to twenty million euros in penalties or four percent of annual turnover whichever is bigger for facebook that'd be one point three billion euros. the new regulation requires companies and website operators to pay closer attention to what they do with their users information and remaining legal anomalies are likely to be settled in the courts in the coming years. consumer watchdogs have welcomed the new rules and say they give individuals more control over their personal information. well sounds well and good but are we regulating our digital economy to dest us data protections stand in the way of progress questions i want to discuss with a locker. is technology and politics at its motherboards germany thank you very much for coming to the studio to raise are we making life to dig difficult for the

digital economy and i we actually preventing european success story like facebook you know i think quite the opposite i think this is a shit decision that was long overdue and i think in the light of hacking scandal so i came about every day basically in the last year or so it is an important part for growing up and i mean growing up also for businesses to handle consumer dodger and responsible way and also having informational duties to towards the customer so i think that is a very good step mark zuckerberg who's been very much the focus of criticism recently you said that his company is always here to this regulation let's just listen in to what he said. giving people control of how they're doing is just has been a core principle of facebook for since the beginning. but in g.d.p. are some new controls and. some areas that we need to comply with but overall it

isn't such a massive departure from how we've approached this in the past and i don't want to downplay it there are stronger roles but that where we've needed to put a bunch of work into making sure that we comply with but as a whole the philosophy behind this is not completely different from how we've approached if you write the facebook take data protection suits you know i don't think they he knows exactly how to apply these new rules to what happened with the cameras because scandal for example because otherwise this wouldn't have come about we know that it's much like i had to testify in front of the u.s. senate exactly because. troves of users were exposed to have to expose to third party companies absolutely no control over it and my second book also kind of invaded a lot of critical questions by saying well i will follow up on that in written form

of course because you just couldn't say who has this who has the daughter so no i don't think facebook has been in a major role of the there's a lot of protection ok just recently one example of technology standing in the way of previously standing in the way just recently i was looking for flats in berlin and i looked online for flats and i checked out the one of the check out the area where the check out the houses on google street view which i find incredibly useful and you know this is what i got this is i don't know whether we can see it yes the many many houses here in berlin are just blurted out because one person in the house demands that that the whole house is being. blood out we taking previously and they do protection to fall off well i think it is a choice and prissy is a choice and can be a choice and other countries can be kind of proud of the role that

uses take on here because otherwise you have a lot of informational informational rights that are being used and i think that the new g.d.p. our g.d.p. our is a step in the direction that uses can actually os companies what are you doing with my daughter who's going to see what's who's going to use going to get it so to and this is i think important also for you how you dot to travels throughout the internet because otherwise when you don't take up this right for example to see where your daughter has moved to is being moved to by one company and it can solve these mysteries of why this show at is following you around for years and years and years and i think this transparency is long overdue in a way thank you very much there's a locker. for us court has ordered south korean electronics

giant some stone to pay five hundred thirty nine million dollars to its rival apple the american tech firm has accused some soon for of copying its designs for smartphones some some have argued it should pay much less in damages but the cold side with apple awarded about hoff of the one billion dollars apple demanded a ruling is a win for the i phone maker and the long running legal battle between the two tech companies. well as bring in our financial correspondent from the frankfurt stock exchange you know on the front of the thirty nine million dollars from. john to the most valuable company in the world and you put that figure into context for us. well as you said this was a long running legal battle ongoing since twenty eleven to be exact but the issue of whether of whether some of some of. the smartphone features from apple was

resolved relatively early on in two thousand and twelve so this verdict is actually the result of a retrial concerning damages now the central question here was whether it was fair of apple to demand more than a billion in damages now that was a figure that is based on the total profits that samsung made selling those infringing phones now for its part samsung thought it should only pay twenty eight million dollars which is which is based on the profits that it made that was directly attributable to the infringing components of the phone so the central issue here is whether is whether total profits of an infringing product should be awarded in damages if the patent only applies to parts of the product and what we have from the courts now is sort of a compromise between those two positions that doesn't go very far in answering what the courts think is the answer to this question you know it's the last day of the trading on what was pretty miserable week on the markets and a chance for

a month reversal before it officially closes. yes yesterday was an especially bad day the markets dropped off sharply as a reaction to the council door korean summit but now the measured response coming out of pyongyang seems soon with some nerves quite a bit european markets are back in the green but of course there's plenty of time till the end of the trading day and more time for those numbers to move. you know them in frankfurt thank you. as they two up on the market's trip to china the german chancellor spent it in the southern city of shenzhen where she viewed chinese innovations in areas like self driving cars an artificial intelligence business has already proven to be top of the agenda during a visit at a meeting with chinese counterparts she's being in beijing on thursday it sounds like hold on china to improve and deregulate market access for german companies to leaders agreed to strengthen cooperation on trade and technology. ojo

business and there's been disappointment for votes builds women's football team that's right they've missed a chance to grab yet a second treble in five years after losing four one to french powerhouse the own in the women's champions league final retained their bonus league and german cup titles this month then they took the lead in extra time through penniless harder and were then down to ten players defending champions league on and soon hit back through dean only and three further goals sealed victory for the french side who are now on for their own trouble through well with the world cup in russia just three weeks away germany are at their training camp in northern italy to get ready for the big bit coach ewen live is staying optimistic but he knows the world champions will not have it all their own way as they try to defend their

title. you have him love looked laidback as he waited for his first appearance in front of the press but mentally he was already in full world cup mode on the first day of training camp. the c.e.o. went to our drive and ambition our undiminished look at what even among the players who are already world champions when you right now we don't need to pump up our how you're here because it's definitely present in everyone who's here as four hundred nineteen out of twenty seven players have already arrived so far love has only had them do light duty but this weekend he'll get the team started on true tactical training. before they already know what will be facing in the group stage sweden south korea and mexico teams that will play defensively if we also have to expect that we'll be aggressively attack during the tournament so we have to work on that now instead of his theory at meetings and on the pitch lots sten to go we

haven't really thought about. whether injured captain manuel neuer goes to the world cup will not be decided until the end of training camp until then though there will be daily updates on his progress. to a study by how as of today he has no problems whatsoever not even with high impact moves like jumps and so things are looking very good right now to moment see it with us but despite all his optimism love watched training with a critical eye his team has some hard work to do before the tournament kicks off. you're watching news coming to you live from berlin and we have more for you at the top of the next hour of course all our stories so there for you online at g.w. dot com thanks for being with us.

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