right. this is. mixed messages from north korea despite promises it seems they're building missiles again u.s. spy satellites reportedly spotted renewed activity at a missile site what does this mean for kim jong un's commitment to denuclearize the korean peninsula we'll get reaction from washington also coming up

a city the islamic state turned into a ghost town in northern iraq was liberated three years ago but only a fraction of the minority who once lived there. will have an exclusive report. plus a smartphone ban it schools in france kids are outraged parents are happy but teachers are worried about being able to enforce it. and as the temperatures soars off the scale what happens if you just have. the relentless heat. on the advice of berlin's road builders as we sweat way through a real. it's good to have you with 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 al this puts into doubt the promise made by north korean leader kim jong un at a summit in singapore just last month he reportedly told donald trump that he would end all missile and nuclear testing or get reaction from washington 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 son i'm 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 but this on the heels of reports that north korea is continuing to enrich uranium in secret and critics say the trump administration is being played by north korea last week u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe face 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 or not senator. 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 kim summit. thoughtless think the story of the united states or corresponding course in phenomena standing by in washington good evening to you carson so what has been the reaction there 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 secretary of state compay o. 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 does not want to 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 that whilst on the trumpet only a few weeks ago you also said great progress was being mange 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 the 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 said 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 on the stood 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 from doing a one aide saying that he would like to meet with the iranian president and with no conditions is he trying to apply his north korea strategy to iran.

well i think in this case he was just shooting from the hip 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 so 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 won'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 yeah it's surprising that there are corresponding course in phenomenon the story for us 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 been fluent 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 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. more funerals have been held today for the victims of greece's wildfires the famous greek actor prisons in the o.t. and her husband demetrius. were among those killed when flames ravaged the seaside town of monte just over a week ago the blaze claimed the lives of at least ninety one people malaysia's civil aviation chief has resigned after a report on missing flight m h three seventy showed failures in air traffic control if controllers failed to put emergency procedures into action when the malaysia

airlines plane vanished from the radar but investigators say they still don't know why the flight disappeared in two thousand and fourteen with hundreds of people on board. were turning male into northern iraq which was liberated nearly three years ago from so-called islamic state now when it swept through the region i-s. targeted minorities like the yazidi who don't follow the islamic faith militants killed or kidnapped in slave thousands of yazidi s. are 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 he used to get the show traveled there and she brings us this exclusive report. the capital of the years he dislikes in ruins devastated by invasion and the fight for liberation most people fled when so-called islamic state took the city and killed enslaved thousands now that the islamists

have been expelled only a few residents have returned in many parts feels like a ghost town to end of years after liberation from i as only three thousand families have returned to a city which once had more than eighty thousand inhabitants. there's still no sign of reconstruction there are no hospitals schools or functional administration he has hedy's living inching gun kill abandoned by their politicians. the head of we've got no electricity and the water is bad. there are bombs and mines all over the place and they have to clear them. they'd never forgive us you just can't live here there's no work so people aren't coming back. the ship is 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 study 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. 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

notes may or fatemi doma says the city's people are suffering from this clash of interests he is the yazidi put in office by the central government then left to fend for himself. is the incentive that is. treated like 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 you know c.d.c. they would have taken care of us like they did other people. more than 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 with building but almost pessimistic after the latest protests he says he expects any available money to be spent elsewhere. denmark is the latest country to ban

wearing full face veils in public this may effectively mean house arrest for nearly two hundred women who choose to cover their faces when leaving home the danish government says the ban supports women's rights that empowers them to make their own decisions but we meet one woman now who says that denmark veil band is taking away her choice. them to man it's not just handing out flyers sarah wants to fight for her faith twelve years ago she made the decision to bail her face but from now on she'll be breaking the law. but i feel very disappointed i feel like i thought we lived in a free society where people can believe what they want and they can wear whatever they want as long as they don't hurt other people born in denmark and raced by turkish parents sarah and her fellow activists are complaining while they still can trying to win support for a demonstration and they're getting that support i think it's

a violation of human rights just one other time when men are deciding what women are supposed to be wearing i think you kind of pushing them more away from society and it's important that. you accept that there there's like a cultural difference in parliament sara has an appointment with one of the initiators of that then that's for leader of the governing liberal party is convinced than a cop has to be prohibited even though fewer than two hundred women are affected they find no middle ground. you are very ignorant about your writing sure we are all over the loss of this as i am saying we don't know why i'm saying we love you why we need to electrify the value i'm saying we live in denmark it's very sad in denmark we have the freedom of religion. the discussion escalates into an argument formats the kneecaps stance for the oppression of women that's why he thinks it

should be banned. the cop in the shop or on the garments of that thought all instruments. to an end and that in is so for control of women and the not if occasion of the female kinda and we want to fight that the ban on face coverings is one of several laws the government says it has introduced to integrate immigrants some critics say it will only divide society further and in the end to veils are rarely seen in the streets of denmark. sarah describes the new compass a sign of religious humility but if she remains faithful to her beliefs she faces a difficult future in denmark her idea of religious freedom could end in isolation within her own four walls. our time for business news helen is here now let's talk about u.s. consumers who are splashing the care they sure are they feel good about the state

of their economy right now the reprinting their wallets the index of the u.s. consumer confidence surprisingly actually rose in july despite analysts expecting a decline now the positive trend is partly due to robust job gains and rising off the tax incomes which nifty can see misspending in recent months but the optimism while it only reflects americans view on the short term economic outlook consumers remain concerned about the long term development and do not foresee growth that the consumer confidence was quite a surprise anyway let's think more about this now. we know yen schools are a financial correspondent good to see you yen snout the consumer confidence was quite a surprise so should consumers really be that confident. well it looks a pretty good day and specially when you look at the job market down even if their

wages are not really increasing that much at this point but there was also a survey yalit where people got asked him how confident they are to find a new job and this survey actually hit the highest level in about seventeen years and then also consumer confidence is close to an eighteen year high so especially the labor market doesn't look quite promising and then on top of it we also had the tax cuts that is also fueling the economy for not they did show some caution about long term growth why's that. well first of all the u.s. economy is expanding four nights straight and nine straight years so this is basically the second is the longest expansion phase in u.s. history and saw at some point it is pretty likely that the economy will turn even if nobody knows when precisely that's going to happen than old soul we could see the federal reserve starting increase interest rates so that could block economic

growth a little bit and then we shouldn't forget i mentioned the tax cuts all this huge this also means that we are piling up a huge amount of debt and that also might strike back at some point but so far economists are quite upbeat that the u.s. economy actually has still some room to run maybe another two three four quarters all well all those of the big bets on wall street right now when the u.s. economy i call them you might china might shows some signs of weakness but at least for now the u.s. economic growth seems to be quite solid and that shows in consumer spending and in consumer sentiment all right covering those big bets on wall street for us of course our financial correspondent yens court in new york thank you yes. well iran's ryall was trading at a fresh record low of one hundred nineteen thousand to the dollar on choose day now

that's a loss and eighty two thirds of its value since the start of the year many played the imminent reimposition of u.s. sanctions on the sixth of august after donald trump's decision to pull out of the new care court to her on the planes quote enemy conspiracies for the rielle son decline has been barely more welcoming to trump's offices talk without preconditions. the iranians are skeptical about washington's intentions iranian government adviser to layby make tehran's position clear on twitter he said for talks the u.s. must first respect the iranian nation's rights lift sanctions and rejoin the nuclear deal the iranians are sanguine about the sanctions they've had years of tough experience with them and survived intact tehran's leadership is counting on them actually drawing government and people closer together. but there is one problem that could prevent that happening iran's currency the reality is trading at

historic lows and prices are spiraling upwards. a lot of people can't even afford basic staples things like butter cheese eggs beans and lentils and i can see things improving nothing's ever become cheaper in this country. has plunged even further ahead of the reinstatement of u.s. sanctions it's now lost two thirds of its value this year. but have it right now for a look at hell but live is well enough for people but taking a look at how they keeping count of the heat we are and we could do but some more air conditioning coach. of the northern hemisphere is suffering through a severe heat wave with wildfires breaking out although over here in berlin the mercury hit thirty nine degrees celsius today that's one hundred nine hundred and that's close to the record of forty point three degrees that's all right if you can bask as i said in air conditioned splendor but how do those who work outside cope

with the unbearable heat on the w.'s on your shard north. to find out. well it has been sweltering for weeks and still the moment she reaches record highs everyone here is looking to get the heat. out expecting going to greens here now in these temperatures oh you want to do is find a way to cool down but what if you've got a job that means you've got to state the heat oh. we asked three people with the hottest jobs in the capital. as it happened i just took the temperature here and it's off the scale how does a guy who has to stand here and not altogether two hundred eighty degrees and how do you survive as he does here by drinking a lot of thinking cool thoughts and you're just getting used to it so it doesn't

mean. i'm trying sausages how do you cope in these temperatures the man pacing to yourself that it's minus twenty four degrees it's all in the head yeah it's all in the head absolutely definitely bites the man who do that so it's cool it's cold it's cold. doesn't that what idea works the mate at least really does or not only with power up right now i'm at the north pole i mean the still want to eat occurrences in this heat well look you can see fizzles. as a fun and you're used to high temperatures right but you still suffer in this heat . of oh absolutely not without the fire department we're normally used to high temperatures for short periods of time when we battle a blaze that constantly having thirty seven degrees for several hours also affects

us even when we wear these clothes which would normally protect us this can sometimes get on your nerves we sweat and we can only get our fluid levels back by regularly drinking a lot as well as getting some shade if we're in action outside and also regularly taking off our protective gear. he says anyone able to find a cool place in the capital these days should come and sounds nice. and don't forget to thank those firefighters are close to ten percent of egyptians are coptic christians and they often face discrimination from their muslim compatriots it's no better on the football pitch but now a private football academy is at the forefront of efforts to redress the religious imbalance we have this report from egypt second city alexandria. i mean i've been diary gives his boys some tips the twenty two year old lives for football

but he's own career was over before it had even begun. his former club wanted him to give up his christian sounding name rather than do that he gave up playing football and founded the jets we academy instead. we catch cup to kids here because talent still the clubs refused to take them on christians don't have the chance to make river in egypt like it must have. been caught up. in the long history of the egyptian football only very few coptic christians have ever played for the national team despite the fact that they represent ten percent of the overall egyptian population sporting officials however rejects the idea that christians are systematically excluded from football. all of the african players in the league which religion do they have foreign coaches like the national coach is a christian man will jose on the most famous and popular coach among the fans and

lastly he's a christian the muslims versus christians thing just doesn't exist in school in egypt. just three was founded three years ago and players pay no more than a token monthly membership free. now there are plans to found a club under the same name and soon afterwards they hope to start playing in the fourth division the starting lineup is pending the formation is set all that's missing is the paperwork. three months has passed a law banning smartphones and school students from the ages of three and fifteen will not be able to use any mobile devices during class or on the playground parents we understand are satisfied with that teachers however are concerned and the kids as you might imagine are outraged. gaming texting and streaming music this is the site you won't be seeing in french schools from september onward

smartphones will be banned from both 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 ward and will have to move and run around they're going to be loads of accidents but we are next door says look says it all taking away something we use every day it's like losing a part of yourself to. a 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. through rarely see school children in the playground playing catch or football they're all looking at their phones from a teaching point of view that's a problem with. a cellphone ban is hardly made a ripple in the papers or the national news but the french public largely agrees

it's a good idea. i'm all for it but even when they're in groups kids with phones are like zombies they're addicted to them and don't even talk to each other anymore and it's a good decision but i'm not sure that all parents will go along with it teachers have also voiced that doubts they say enforcing the ban could prove difficult given the kids' talent for using their phones on the sly. but it's true here's a reminder the top story we're following for you u.s. spy satellites have reportedly spotted renewed activity at a north korean missile production site it comes just weeks after leader kim jong un promised to work towards the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day.

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