this is the. those mixed messages from north korea despite promises that it seems they're building missiles again. at a missile site what does this mean for kim jong un's commitment to denuclearize the korean finance we'll get reaction from washington also. this city the islamic state . in northern iraq was liberated three years ago but only a fraction of the minority who once lived there. will have an exclusive report

and a smartphone ban at schools in france kids are outraged parents are happy but the teachers worry it will be tough to enforce. golf it's good to have you with us tonight reports that north korea has not stopped working to build new ballistic missiles that could carry a nuclear weapon the washington post says that u.s. spy satellites have detected renewed activity at a site that has produced them in the past well this puts into doubt the promise made by north korean leader kim jong at a summit in singapore just last month he reportedly told u.s. president donald trump that he would end all missile and nuclear testing we'll get reaction from washington in just a moment but first this report. on the surface relations between the

u.s. and north korea have been warming earlier this week north korea return the remains of american soldiers sixty five years after the end of the korean war the gesture of peace came weeks after an historic summit the two countries agreed to work toward the quote total denuclearization of the korean peninsula a day later u.s. president donald trump declared that north korea was no longer a threat but now the washington post has published reports citing u.s. intelligence that could undermine the apparent diplomatic progress on the peninsula . according to the report this missile research facility and sunroom don north korea is being built up rather than torn down. neighbors south korea is on alert so husain korean government is closely watching north korean movements and closely working with the united states however i hope you understand that we are not able

to speak about intelligence reports. this on the heels of reports that north korea is continuing to enrich uranium in secret and critics say the trumpet ministration is being played by north korea last week u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o faced criticism from within his own party i am afraid there is this point the united states the troubled ministration is being taken for a ride fear not senator fear not. there is no doubt the u.s. intelligence community is watching north korea closely it is unclear however what progress has been made toward denuclearization since the trump him summit. for let's take the story down to the united states phenomena standing by in washington good evening to you carson so what has been the reaction to this report from the washington post. on the white house has not officially reacted to the reports but one of the president's surrogates kellyanne conway has tried to

play down the importance of the news saying that things don't change overnight she was echoing earlier statements by a secretary of state compay old the american foreign minister who had sat that the nuclear rising north korea and getting rid of the threat from its long range missile program would not be a quick achievement and that both the government and the public had to have patience he had but of course is not what donald trump said after his summit with kim jong un as we've said and in a treaty pointed out that everybody now can feel safer than the day i took office there is no longer a nuclear threat from north korea unquote that was on the trumpet only a few weeks ago you also said great progress was being mined that was obviously a slight overstatement his critics probably this evening feel vindicated you know

they've said that he's being taken for a ride i mean has ministration has he just completely misread the intentions of the north korean leader. at least it seems to reaffirm all confirm what the critics have sat at the summit in singapore was not very well prepared and that it didn't yield any concrete results to show for of course came and trump in a joint statement said they would work towards the nuclear arms ation of the korean peninsula but it wasn't even quite clear if both sides understood the same. when they said these things and also there were no concrete steps that had to be taken from that point there was no concrete timetable and that is the problem with donald trump's approach towards diplomacy he think it's enough when the big guys sit together the relationship and then everything will fall in place normally it's done

the other way round first the experts come together try to find common ground work on some of the details and thus provide the platform for such a meeting of the big guys yeah and that brings us to iran and the u.s. president yesterday dropped doing a one eighty s. saying that he would want to meet with the iranian president and with no conditions is he trying to apply his north korean strategy to iran. well i think in this case he was just shooting from the hip or reacting to the question from a reporter at a joint press conference with the italian prime minister i wouldn't read too much into it i don't think there is something like a cohesive strategy behind this or anything that was pre-planned a diplomatic offensive or something donald trump has been criticized heavily both for his meeting with vladimir putin

a few weeks ago and also for summits in singapore with kim jong un and he's basically just doubling down on his style of diplomacy and saying well i wouldn't meet with anyone i believe in meeting people and talking to people and so this is what he did and as we know of course the iranians have already rejected this kind of spontaneous offer yet at least surprise there are corresponding question phenomenon the story for tonight in washington carson thank you. here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world facebook says it has uncovered what looks like a coordinated effort to influence november's congressional elections in the u.s. the company says it does not know who is responsible but it has taken down dozens of fake accounts related to the campaign back in september facebook disclosed that russians had used the site to try to influence u.s. voters before and after the twenty sixteen presidential vote at least fifteen people are dead from a militant attack on

a government compound in the eastern afghan city of jalalabad security forces ended the assault after hours of intense fighting with suspected islam is government the group has yet claimed responsibility is in bob ways opposition party says it's candidate nelson has won monday's presidential election it also accused the ruling party of attempting to rig the vote by delaying the official results the election commission has rejected these claims and says it needs more time to count the ballots for the vote count is also still underway in mali's presidential election violent attacks disrupted voting in many polling stations across the country the european union has called on the authorities to provide a list of the worst affected areas. we're turning now into northern iraq which was liberated nearly three years ago from so-called islamic state when it swept through the region are yes targeted minorities like the z.t.

don't follow the islamic faith militants killed or kidnapped and enslaved thousands of yes scenes and even now the group is still recovering from what the united nations describes as a genocide or returning and starting afresh is a mammoth task very few people have tried to start a new life in the region and its capital singe are or shingle as it's known in kurdish because it's a show traveled there and brings us this exclusive report. seeing on the capital of the yes you to slice in ruins devastated by invasion and the fight for liberation most people fled when so-called islamic state took the city and killed then it's left thousands now that these limits have been expelled only a few residents have free to vent in many fields like a ghost town two ahead of us after liberation from i as only three thousand

families have returned to a city which once had more than eighty thousand inhabitants. this still no sign of reconstruction there are no hospitalised schools a functional administration he has hedy's living inching gun kill abandoned by the police to since. the head of we've got no electricity and the water is bad. there are bombs and mines all over the place. they have to clear them. they've now before the us you just can't live here there's no work so people aren't coming back . because the situation doesn't improve soon then we who have returned will leave again very soon got enough. stephanie yes he wants to stay no matter what the twenty four year old studied to be a teacher but there are no schools so he opened up a glass workshop with

a friend the problem is that nothing is being rebuilt which means even his business is struggling. with people won't come back as long as there are so many different political groups here working only for themselves there are thousand different groups and they're all only looking after their own interests. he means the different militias that are still active in the city they run their own checkpoints and have their own agendas all parties want influence here in the singe amounts being close to the syrian border the region is strategically important to kurds to the central government and backed up to turkey and iran. she knows mayor fatemi doma says the cities people are suffering from this clash of interests he is the yes' eady put in office by the central government then left to fend for himself. is the incentive that we are treated like

a fourth or fifth class citizens let me give you an example i had to live in the mountains for three years and five months there were six thousand families in the mountains if we weren't yazidi easy they would have taken care of us like they did other people more god and with more heartbroken residents come to him every day asking for money for reconstruction but he can't help them the government says it wants to press on was rebuilding but almost pessimistic after the latest protests he says he expects any available money to be spent elsewhere. our new business news the u.s. e-car maker tesla is planning to build a huge manufacturing center here in europe talks are already underway with two german states the facility will symbol batteries as well as vehicles tesla says it will decide the legation by the end of the year the company has also recently

announced plans to build a factory in china producing half a million cars a year. france has passed a law banning smartphones in school students aged from three to fifteen will not be able to use any mobile devices during class or on the playground or parents are satisfied the teachers are concerned and the kids as you might imagine are outraged . gaming texting on streaming music is a sight you won't be seeing in french schools from september onward smock phones will be banned from the classroom and the playground. the new ban will prohibit anyone under sixteen from using their phone at school. when the law was proposed eight months ago kids were already outraged. over this one will be bored and will have to move and run around there are going to be loads of accidents. says it all

taking away something we use every day it's like losing a part of yourself to. the new law sailed through parliament with only a few abstentions from the opposition ahead of the vote the education minister was confident it would pass. you rarely see school children in the playground playing catch or football all looking at their phones from a teaching point of view that's a problem with. the cellphone ban has hardly made a ripple in the papers or the national news but the french public largely agrees it's a good idea. i'm not for it but even when they're in a group of kids with phones like zombies or they're addicted to them and don't even talk to each other anymore it's a good decision but i'm not sure that all parents will go along with it teachers have also voiced their doubts they say enforcing the ban could prove difficult given the kids' talent for using their phones on the sly. you're watching the news

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