the competition to the most important natural resource. is in tracking. how long we'll be able to. do with. the jews the investigation started by g t o t w. this is news asia coming up on the program no deal donald trump heads home after he fails to see eye to eye with kim jong un we talk to a specialist with insider knowledge of the difficulties of the needle rising a country plus. building bridges with basketball can soft diplomacy achieve what trump and can push not and. the pakistani military releases footage of the indian soldier they captured in kashmir but it doesn't show the full story.

i'm melissa chan welcome to the program it's good to have you with us u.s. president donald trump and north korea's kim jong un have not reached a deal and annoy it's a reminder of how difficult denuclearization is no matter how many and you go weapons are concerned north korea is thought to have a fairly small arsenal an estimated ten to twenty warheads compare that to the number the u.s. or russia has more than six thousand so it's not just about the number of nukes it's about who can launch them and washington has made it clear it does not view the kim dynasty as safe stewards of the weapons the u.s. wants pyongyang to fully disclose and dismantle all parts of its nuclear program and do so under international supervision kim jong un wants the sanctions against his country lifted goals the two sides could not agree on. they were willing to do

you know go large portion of the areas that we wanted but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for that so we continue to work and we'll see but we had to walk away from that particular suggestion he had to walk away from joining me now is lara rockwood of the vienna center for disarmament and nonproliferation so tromping kim having reached an agreement they really disagree on what denuclearization actually means what does that mean. well it's unclear to the u.s. it seems to mean the complete and verified dismantlement of north korea's nuclear weapons program and its nuclear materials production program and its ballistic missile program possibly even including the civilian nuclear program to produce energy using nuclear power on the other hand north korea it seems to me is the total denuclearization of the korean peninsula at large including the removal of

all u.s. military from the peninsula and perhaps even the u.s. giving up all of its nuclear weapons as well. now you worked at the international atomic energy agency for years what are the main challenges for any inspection team going into north korea. well as you know the international atomic energy agency or the i.a.e.a. has been verified nuclear material and nuclear facilities declare by states for many many years it's relatively straightforward the tricky part is trying to make sure there is no other declared nuclear material and facilities in the state and a separate issue is verifying the dismantlement of the actual nuclear weapons and cells and the missile program which is even a much more complicated process and likely to be carried out by a body other than the i hate you but in either instance the first challenge will be

getting north korea to agree to inspections that of and a protocol and what that would include would it require a complete declaration by north korea of all of its nuclear activities wouldn't commit inspectors to go to places that aren't to cleared by north korea will the inspectors be able to carry out all the activities they need to do for example environmental swipe sampling a very powerful verification technique used by the i.a.e.a. in ninety nine and two when it first time covered north korea's attention cheap and its safeguards agreement and this is actually where the two thousand and nine six party talks with north korea broke down over this issue of what time the measures the inspectors could use while they're on inspection now very quickly are we in a safer situation then when trump said and called can rocket man. i think there's no question about that it's unfortunate there was nothing coming

out of the most recent summit but it's always a better situation when leaders of nuclear armed states are rattling their rhetorical sabers lara thank you my pleasure thank you very much. nuclear disarmament is clearly a difficult subject and the talks over pyongyang's nuclear program will have to continue but there are other ways to decrease tensions on the korean peninsula. and heartache travel to south korea to find out how basketball is helping ventilations . has had closer contact with north koreans but almost anyone in the south she was the captain of the joint korean basketball team at last year's asian games a bonding experience. all. one time one of the north korean players brought us a snack a toy drives which i didn't expect it to taste good but it was delicious so i

told her i loved it and she brought me more to. give it all we've heard i brought her some snacks from south korea so it really felt like we were members of per se but family. kids mommy. so-called sports diplomacy back at the winter olympics in chiang last year was one of the few ways open to north and south korea to build trust and improve their relations funny. comedian economy. and the relations between north and south and between the north and the west are very closely connected here the south progress denuclearization process telling fellow north and south korea the very limited options. to its restricted to things like sports culture religion has areas that are not restricted by the sanctions.

had to be that. but south korea would like to move faster and strengthen economic cooperation with the north. listening. as a catalyst to denuclearization of. north korea did better economically and the people had a better quality of life that. clear ization promise and. despite the sanctions there has been some progress and into korean relations two sides have explored railway corridors that could link north and south and to ease tensions along the heavily fortified border they have blown up guard posts on both sides. of the three direct meetings between north korea's leader kim jong un and south korean president move day in where the main driving force behind these developments one symbolic visit however is still missing kim jong said he wants to come here to

south korea's capital seoul that would be historic no north korean leader has set foot in the city since the end of the korean war some sixty percent of south koreans think a visit would be a good idea if it helps build peace and it might surprise you but there are some here who are even outright fans of kim jong. un. she regularly things at public events in support of kim jong il. seeing him frequently on t.v. over the last year sparked her interest. sometimes sometimes i don't but when i saw it at the first time it came out very polite in stockholm such a young leader he treated our president so respectfully don't look there to me as i did some research into found out that he introduced many policies benefited the north korean people over time how we can as

a conjunction when sung it is to come to which some of the views that are heavily contested in the past your own his activism could easily have landed her in conflict with south korea's national security lives now the political climate is more open. to kashmir now where tensions are still simmering between pakistan and india partly over the capture of an indian pilot whose plane came down on wednesday in the pakistan controlled part of the disputed region the matter has caused outrage and protests in india and pakistan has now promised to release the pirates but questions remain over a number of videos that have emerged showing the pilot after his arrest videos that painted rather different pictures of how the man was being treated in custody many say this latest video is pakistani propaganda. for more i'm joined by the w reporter matthew war matthew what's going on here well amid the claims and counterclaims of the last few days one thing that neither side is disputing is that

an indian pilot is now in pakistani hands his name is wing commander nandan and his story began yesterday morning when his plane came down in pakistani held kashmir territory that huge amounts online which it's too graphic for us to show measure online of him surrounded by bringing more bits and bloodied and bruised before being rescued by a pakistani captain the pakistani government yes they confirmed he was in their custody released a video of him in a blindfold looking washed for wear before his delete deleting it i was later they released a video with him cleaned up holding a cup of tea and said he was being treated within the lines of media of the norms of military ethics let's take a watch. because . most of the time you know you know.

from the home and from the survivors from. that. this is what i would expect my. you know. so how did india respond through this well not surprisingly the indian government is furious they released a statement saying that it was a vulgar display they're angry they accuse the pakistanis of violating all norms of international humanitarian law and that you need a convention these are the rules governing prisoners of war it's not yet a war melissa but the rules are still the minimum standard for how country should treat enemy combatants. rules that protect captured soldiers from degrading and humane treatment and torture in the impact and have a long history of this so it's very sensitive experts are divided on whether this

what we've seen breaks that threshold but not least because of this breach of war but obviously as the possibility of inflaming a very very sensitive situation we talk about inflaming the situation how have people on both sides responded well there's been there the rhetoric has been heating up actually in the last few days. we've seen hardliners on both sides using it to call for stronger action stronger retaliation from the governments there was one man who tweeted that pakistan must be punished. we see here and must be punished give back in london that's getting a lot of traction on twitter but for that there's like that there are also the tweets calling for calm saying say no to war right here is one is that kind of makes me not more in reference to when commander nandan who showed composure and not very you and some people just looking for things to calm down

a source or site matthew mark thank you very much. we'll keep you updated on story and leave you now with pictures of the trunk and kim summit that's just wrapped up in one of my good bye for now. i'm not proud they will not succeed in dividing us about not succeeding taking the people off the streets because we're tired of this dictatorship. taking the stand global news that matters. here's what's coming up poland to go to sleep so much movement to the police to get

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council flights. and from new york. hello and welcome to business asia i'm want to get in berlin good to have you with us well the ongoing tension between india and pakistan in the disputed region of kashmir has also been impacting commercial airlines australian flagship carrier quantas and singapore airlines were forced to reroute some of their flights after pakistan closed its airspace time i always counseled more than a dozen flights to and from europe leaving assassins' of passengers stranded in bangkok the carrier said it would resume flights later on thursday after china granted permission to use its air space for nearly a dozen flights to europe. and we just see that kashmir is the only border region between india and pakistan so.