this is w. news live from berlin and asian leaders meet as a threat by north korea loses china south korea and japan hold a special song that as agreed to continue close cooperation over north korea's nuclear program and also coming up searching for answers after dozens are killed and hundreds of prison riot

a state of emergency has failed to stop the bloodshed in the most violent places and one of the world's most dangerous countries. and no christmas mass said no top down cathedral in paris for the 1st time in over 200 years there will be no christmas service due to reconstruction work after a huge fire. plus of putting african countries on the digital map until now many places have not been available as on line maps. needs the man who has set out to change that and is mapping out by foot car and air. america evanston welcome to the program the leaders of china japan and south korea have agreed to work together to promote dialogue between the united states and north korea. in

a bid to ease tensions over pyongyang's nuclear program chinese premier li ke chunk japanese premier shinzo abi and south korean president hu in held a summit in chengdu in china against the backdrop of increasing threats from pyongyang north korea has said it will take unspecified action if sanctions against it are not lifted by the end of the year. well to talk more about all this i'm joined in the studio now by good of a correspondent bob encroachments who is based in beijing and good to see you so what is likely to come out of this summit to will we see any new initiatives to ease u.s. north korea tensions will there be concrete steps taken now well so far what we've seen coming out of the summit is more a symbolic message namely that all 3 nations one piece and didn't do cruise ation of north korea however i mean concrete steps i don't expect anything that is a breakthrough but we could see low level communication channels opening up again

however north korea has been really silent on any diplomatic effort recently so i mean the you know call the conflict between north korea and the u.s. because there's a discrepancy on how to achieve denuclearization well just last week china actually had proposed lifting some of the sanctions in place against north korea could this be a possibility that's what north korea wants i mean they've basically given the u.s. a concession that's stopping intercontinental missile tests also stopping nuclear tests and they want something in return for that namely economic sanctions the lifting of economic sanctions washington however ones north korea to dismantle its nuclear program 1st and they haven't you know i don't think that they can find anything like a compromise so i think the outlook 422020 is really gloomy all right so washington is dead set against lifting any of these sanctions in north korea is threatening some sort of unspecified action as we've been hearing is there any way to prevent

a new confrontation. i think at least in the short term and it looks rather dark in that conflict and how that unspecified action could could look like i mean it's really open i mean north korea cannot just launch a satellite a space miso overnight they need preparations for that and to so far we haven't seen any you know signs from the satellite image. any activities and rocket test sites but also i think there will be both sides the u.s. and north korea will step up their rhetoric and probably i mean the discrepancy is there it's open and i don't see any sign how can how they can find a compromise that well along with the tensions with north korea have actually been quite a bit of tension between the 3 countries taking part in the summit but did this meeting between these 3 countries actually improve their ties i mean the future will tell but i think this combination is really interesting because japan and china they have similar historic issues like south korea and japan has its name

over the colonial past of japan and china and japan they've been able to overcome that past and i think south korea could learn from that experience however you know sentiment against japan is much more deeply rooted in that among the south korean population and if you look at sobeys for example. south koreans use the ends of the state. even more unpopular than north korean leader kim jong il and that really shows something it's. been pressure on it's always great to hear inside thank you let's check a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world at least 24 people have died after a bus plunged off a cliff on the indonesian island of sumatra rescuers are still searching for any survivors trapped inside the vehicle which veered off the road above a 150 meter high ravine. german carmaker b.m.w. has confirmed that it's being investigated by the u.s.

securities and exchange commission the wall street journal newspaper reported that b.m.w. was being probed for allegedly manipulating its sales figures in the u.s. the company said it was fully complying with the investigation. about a dozen people have been injured in australia in a shopping mall stampede in sydney mall goers scrambled as balloons were dropped containing gift cards then billed as the ultimate make a balloon drop 7 resulted in 5 shoppers being taken to the hospital with injuries. all right to the central american state of one door a switch is in shock after 2 deadly prison riots in 2 days the death toll has reached almost 40 in clashes between gangs authorities have declared a state of emergency but that has failed to stop the violence and may even have provoked more. despair written on

their faces relatives gather at the morgue and to go seek out the one juror says capital their loved ones died in one of the most violent places in the most crime ridden country on earth one juror says joe's on the tour is but even by those standards the past few days have been grim indeed. i did right away with all of the families some mourning today by the country is in mourning. after a weekend of violence many are also outraged that the authorities found here to prevent the massacres the prisons was supposedly high security. when the government to create emergency measures last week it did side to stop the killing there but instead more violence followed. my brother's death hurts he had already served 10 years in a maximum security jail why did he have to die. the authorities are defending their

policies they say gangs are trying to stop them cleaning up the prisons. and since the massacre is they've promised to the point even more troops to the country's high security giles to fight the mafia's influence they. all do scales was planned on behalf of all ghanaians crime. family so i need to avoid us implementing our reforms because soon. but it's not clear if getting even tougher will stop the killings or rather few further anger and violence the united nations is calling for an investigation into these massacres it says the state must guarantee the human rights of prisoners especially their right to life. paris is iconic notre dame cathedral will not be holding a christmas mass this year for the 1st time since the french revolution the french

government pledged to rebuild it immediately after a fire earlier this year devastated the cathedral while that work will take years to complete and the building is still too unstable to hold religious services. to the landmark cathedral of paris still a skeleton of its former self the work underway now focuses on stabilizing notre dame and preventing its collapse. the fire that ravaged the church's roof and spire broke out on april 15th. tons of poisonous led mill to during the blaze that spells health hazards and good reason to delay holding christmas festivities inside i think it's incredibly sad that they will be able to celebrate mass especially because it's such a revered monument for catholics probably many many families have that tradition of going every year for christmas services it is quite a break in tradition. as long as the renovation work is carried out quickly and

well it is not the right moment to open the town i think people are aware of that and can go to the churches. notre dame has held a christmas mass every year since 1903 even during the horror of world war 2. the last interruptions to the mass came amid the anti catholic fervor of the french revolution. this year worshippers are being sent to nearby sites for mass including the church of sun so peace. to think that i went last christmas and i missed christmas and thinking that it would go again this year with no problems. i'm missing that already. in years past thousands of worshippers and tourists gathered inside notre dame daily it's still unclear when they'll be able to congregate inside again. when going to a new location many of us turn to online maps for help navigating the way but in

fact fewer than half of the world's countries have been sufficiently mapped online our next report follows one man who's trying to bridge that digital divide by putting more african countries on the map. traveling anywhere in africa can be really complicated when you don't hear about just about to read maps if you look at africa right now maybe only 6 or 7 countries america. and there are 54 countries on the cartoon and within maybe a 120000000 people his day job is in silicon valley but in his spare time to one the country is thousands of kilometers away filling in the gaps left by google street view being from having grown up in the new york maybe. that street that became clear when to want to move to california a decade ago and he tried to show his new friends his hometown of harare friends

parent asked me to show them. the house that i grew up. so we went to my hometown if we were maps and we turned oh we could get satellite view of a neighborhood like the oh. i thought why do we not have the same but you know i thought what's that city's doing so last year he borrowed a camera and went back to southern africa to map some of the places he remembered from his youth. those images became the 1st instance of street view in zimbabwe. and he didn't just stick to the streets he maps some of the country's most famous sites like victoria falls from above in order to millions of people to know that the axis or resources to travel to this place that sort of just getting an idea of what this place may look like if you think does help using his own money he's now mapped at least 12 cities across 3 countries by car and by foot. i went

and we dropped through about 5 sittings. to the west atlanta coast at the skeleton coast that's the 2000 miles of coastline or long going to be a stark county coast. according to google only $87.00 of the world's $195.00 countries have been significantly mapped the biggest gaps are in asia and africa there is a significant digital gap we are putting some of these communities that are left out of these platforms. within cities in making sure that people in their cities actually ever access to tools that allow them to to live their lives like anybody else who truly built our digital infrastructure. after he maps harari google added several listings for local businesses and the information gathered by car could even help improve drive time testaments which can often be gone by

several hours or to wander maps have another dimension let's say merry making up their. you know where we need to practice deception of the world around us i want to mention to. rosa away from her she hopes to keep building those connections one step at a time. and you're up to date on t.w. news this hour before we go though would like to bring you some christmas carols german bundesliga club when young violin have hosted their yearly carolynn tradition with over $28000.00 fans joining in a festive sing along at their stadium here in the capital omarion adelstein from me and the entire news team thanks for watching. the was. 5. was.

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