unfolds i cattle call. you're watching live from paris on france24 under senate headlines this hour.. in south korea hold at this summit in two years with. a great to take pause in the winter olympic games six months. but it also insisted seeking a program right off the table. they see for french president emmanuel back on in china fluery of this is still signs and plans to write in and you. museum in shanghai. trying to do more to open its markets up to french kids. and pain but a vestry performances jewish community the prime minister attend the ceremony about three years since the deadly attack on a jewish grocery

store. just hours off to another jewish stole was burned to the ground. suspect arson attack. we begin with the first talks between north and south korea in of the two years teams from both sides met in the demilitarized zone on the shed border. just weeks of warnings admitted ship was edging closer to rule north korea has agreed to send a team to compete in the winter olympic games in the south next month i will even take part in a joint opening ceremony. one thing absence from these discussions that north korea's nuclearar program erin okay hassle. some high profile handshakes and tight smiles. for the first time in two years north and south korea held a meeting at the joint security area. where there

armies face one another? in a joint statement after the meeting the countries agree to hold military talks to ease mounting tension. the owner had others of. those lazy during today's meeting north korea told a south it is restored ministry hot night in the west e end section of the borderer. we have confirmed around two pm ministry communication line is now connected. since all. hockings up. as expected it north korea said it would send senior officials and athletes the upcoming winter olympics in pyeongchang. and south korea proposed a resumption of reunions of divided families next month. but despite the progress a north korean officials at t the discussig the country'ss nuclear and weapons programs what harm the prospect of better ties between the north and the south. knowing that north korea's weapons are not aimed at south korea china or russisia. the meeting comes after the north's leader kim jong moon made apparent overture at the start of the year hold alonso's north korea which

has declared the completion of its nuclear development program. is likely to use peacemaking tactics narrow the country probably wants to use the pm china olympics is a means to improve its image and bring the international community towards dialogue. relations between the neighbours deteriorated sharply over pyongyang's missile tests. the previous government and seoul cut off communication channels closer jointly run case aung industrial park. and stop eat in early twenty sixteen. the north has continued its test firing with its leader kim jong moon trading barbs with the u. s. president. who non the less says he remains open to dialogue with the regime? france and china have announced major deals in agriculture. and aviation and a with the building of the french art museum in shanghai willis on day two of emmanuel michael's first state visit spot will lead to chinese economy more open to french goods. ago has this report.

closer ties. then economy. his first visit to china as french president emmanuel not coal is taking the reins for europe. with britain leading he you and germany and political limbo back home is determined to become the primary voice in a strategic partnership between europe and china. and initiative welcomes by chinese leader xi jinping. two hundred of our own china supports a bigger role for friends in the european integration process and welcomes france's larger role for you. on the in the developments chinese european relations. michael made the trip flanked by french business heavy weights. he and she oversaw the signing of billions of dollars of deals notably in the aerospace and nuclear industries. a first step towards deeper economic cooperation from trade with china michael says europe needs to put up a united front.

well in the post cold we need to coordinated european approach and they give china more visibility about our agenda. she promised more high level talks on trade womack warned that francis thirty billion euros trade deficit with china was politically unstable. the leaders also discussed closer cooperation against terrorism and climate change. back home preys beijing's commitment to the paris climate accord and promised more investment to help with their ecological transition. i to remains one of the world's worst polluters but it's been investing heavily and renewable energy anchor being emissions. here in front for the service acs inspected austin attack on a jewish grocery store in a suburb south of paris. the promo and the stock stool in cut day was completely destroyed and she's the in what appears to be the latest in a string of anti semitic incidents in france. in recent is marissa force has the story.

remains of the catia grocery shop in the prisons of it of today authorities assets to be treating the case as a probable acts of austin as the ship is of the shop and being forced. the fire comes only a week after anti semititic graffiti was found on the front window of the shop. her husband commemorations since last sunday last week the president was part of these commemorations asks the different places whether we'r're attacks in twenty fifteen. and today the day marking the end of a three way everyone gathers to pay respects to the victims we have an awesome is unacceptable. so we have reasons to worry we have reasons also hold questions while we wait for the investigation to determine the causes and the reasons behind this. global. the blaze also comes exactly three years after islamic extremists attacked the kosher market in paris killing four people. authorities have launched a preliminary investigation into the cause of the fire lookoking in partiticular to establishh if there is any

lilink to last week's vandalisism. the fire started in the early hours of tuesday momorning u uess no one injured it disrupted the local community. but i came to my shopping and there you go. the song. is a long time ag. replace the bars stance on down as well and now he called shop. is our daily life which. will. cause a is a multicultural city that is not generally experienced tension in the past. and he had that that incident comes on what is a painful anniversary for france's jewish community it is exactly three years since an islamist government of around the heat out cash out supermarket to several people hostage and killed. full. of hate would choose the prime minister has not been attending a memorial for the victims and france24 oral to three is that with all. was a very low key as

ceremony for the for victims of killed. the a grocery store right behind me in eastern power as low key because. if you candles or when they had the chief rabbi of paris right at seoul mother was a minute of silence on the french came. stay yeah is running out in the streets at the boston to boss said we saw dozens of people. he brave the cold and the rain come heifets in to to pay tribute to those of for victims. of the end of the ceremonyy that was at the thousand billions will released into the sky and also he pulled a small victims but also. for the victims of old paris terrorist attacks since twenty twelve we also sold he politicians here mps but also at the french prime minister edouard feet deep

on. that goal the paris mayor but also the former french president francois or don't. you. had a meeting with the victims' families. world decrees that. now he's the united states for an investigation into alleged collusion between r russia d total trump's both have pleo lying to fbi agents were more that said. close to washington dc. to see us legal expense every he stands thanks for being with us every now and visible how is this going to work candles from. the forced to answer questions. happy new year laura yes he can be forced to but right now the negotiations over the manner in which you will talk with them. are really centered around a voluntary backdrop of voluntary contacts and politically

speaking the president gains from acting in accordance with earlier representations he's made that he wants to cooperate with the investigation. sophie's forced by legal process by what's called a subpoena to testify it takes away from that image that having been said there's certainly some things that the president and his lawyers will prefer. to obtain in the in the negotiations over how this conversation will take place and so that's the give and take behind everything is the realizazaon that if it doesn't work the prosecutors can issue what is called. a grand jury subpoena. whicic. would force the president to actually come into sign secret before a grand jury without his lawyers president under oath and having that transcribed that's never been done to a sitting president and the full legality of that. has never been a florida court level although we saw

president clinton work out a similar arrangement president reagan also did something similar and president nixon was forced to hand over. tapes in the watergate affair even though he'd overtly did not want to what will likely happen here is at the end of the negotiations that will be some sort of. parameters placed on where the conversational take place how will be recorded who will be allowed to be present and where they can be replayed to a grand jury if it isn't given to the grand jury in real time. so that's a backdrop that we're looking at here this is all part of fallen do we have al evidence that there was collusion between the top campaign and russia at the

state you know is he going in ways we got a little time already this investigation. well if you listen to president trump and. sarah huckabee sanders and some of his other. acolytes. that that evidence isn't there but if you actually look at. what the findings are that have been released publicly a lot of it through congressional investigations quite a different picture has been sold in fact it's easy to lose? track of all of the contacts between the trump campaign a ends. in russia there was a staggering amount of them. yeah i've certainly. is the special prosecutor mahler will want to ask you about the infamous meeting on june six that took place between all the high level trump campaign leaders and the president's son donald trump junior. and. russian agents specifically for the purpose of getting desserts quote unquote duterte on hillary clinton there are other campaigns as you mentioned. other individuals for profit out was who was a.

at the time. labeled a high level of foreign policy advisers spoke in a very highly. bites by the president's self he had numerous campaigns. new issues a numerous contacts with. people purporting to be russian agents including wonders are leave sort of shoes putin's knees and. carter page another adviser to the campaign was actually the subject of what's called a a fisa warrant the foreign intelligence surveillance court warrants. because it they they convinced that judge there'y fertile ground for. miller and his assistance

to look intnto in questionig the president cabinet again this investigation eric thank you very much today's everyday senate. now meeting so you a cabinet reshuffle in poland one is being seen as an attempt to improve relations with the u.. any prime minister has devoted will sax ministers seen as hostile to brussels is ahead of a meeting between the irish prime minister on the eve commission president john volume cap. on the agenda heard is controversial judicial reform does get more on that now out without brussels correspondent and made the amman and nave and punished. prime minister will be hoping then that that reshuffle the getting rid of those ministers will be enough to satisfy the european union does it appear that that is the case of all. well it was supposed european commission's

concerns amazing to me to be so bad but it was certainly at the welcomes of course and. younger the head of the commission ahead of this meeting also trying to strike a positive tone he said that the european commission was by no means out war apostle with the polish government. and tonight center would not just be focusing on that rule of law program he's sitting down tonight what did you publish prime minister on it from the sermons his second in command and they will likely be welcome in the fact that i was of state is in you. foreign affairs minister in poland t the former one was known for his gas and for feeding tension here in brussels on over in the german capital of berlin that also the welcome the fact that is in you environmental minister puts in place the former. environment minister was at known for being a climate change i in higher for being an advocate for coal and also for increasing the minds of. of logging taking

place at one e of them and r poland he's and he's your dinner guests i mean he's a bit more than a u. funny face if you like he speaks fluent english effluents germany study number of you. countries is also the former ceo of a bank so he knows how to get things done and he's also promised to here to the ruling of european court of justice when it came to that set logging. doctor that said he's not going to enjoy reading the cuisine of european question site because of course the elephant in the room will believe that ongoing probe into the post governments at rule of breach of rule of law and fundamental rights yes and made you say investigations are very. much on the way at will

happens is quoted is found guilty or breaching the the eagles what penalties the tf december for the first time in history they launch what's called. article seven of that has been treaty that's basically a close in the lisbon treaty that gives legal ammunition to the european union to punish member states that they believe are breaching at fundamental rights and. of little at they need of course the backing of twenty two and twenty seven member states in order for this to become a reality countries like france and germany has said that they would follow. the recommendation of the european commission but other countries like hungary and czech republic say they were not so they will support their neighbor on our opponents on to the end european commission. at

number two from sermons that he really had no other choice than to go day in this race with poland study center free formal recommendations on twenty five informal actress. right thirteen different reform. we seem to have a technical problem that we also may be unfortunate risks to unityyp in i investment has h hit te economy harard us unity correspondent a blaze has more. you flew traffic one of a new book about. the arterial road in downtown to news overflowed with people. testers took to the streets once again. needed seven calls protests by the collective fashionista now. which means where we waiting for in arabic. there against a

financial law which came into effect on january firs. in acts austerity measures and new taxes on ordinary tunisia. he's we demononrate as citizens non violently and without fail. until the financial loss. tunisian cannot enter this great economic situation any longer. continues to get worse everyday. the finance minister who's behind the austerity budget believes the reforms are crucial to jumpstarting tunisia sluggish economy. is that that you know that see. one of the achievements of democracy is the ability to organize and protest. but we also need to work to make the chinese economy healthy. an economy that can further consolidate the growth that began in twenty seventeen. also it up on that. the past two days violence

has erupted at protests in several cities across the country. into more bus lest of tunis one person was killed in clashesesith police and dozenenof people arrested. scenes recal protests against the high cost of living back in twenty ten. start wider regional movements called the arab spring. has an update on the database is usually okay meetings with me and she had a case. because it is some of the business deals and i know markle today in china because there's a lot of money at stake of course they're a different president is trying to even the playing field. by adding french companies more access to the chinese market there was perhaps less a concrete progress in the president and his delegation might hope for. as i was in awe explains. china and france agreeing dozens of business deals worth billions of euros. a sign. michael's first visit to china as president is

bearing fruit. president to send a strong message about the the strumming relation between china and france and general business together. among the headline deals was a plan by the chinese online retailer j. detailed come to sell two billion euros of french goods in chihi over the next two years. but the fine print shows that many of the memorandums fall just short of what president macron was aiming for. for example the chinese of agrees to consider an offer by french energy giant arena to build a ten billion euros nucleus and fuel we processing plant. but his mates may guarantees about accepting it. abbas's announced an agreement with chinese partners to increase production of the a three twenty jet engine gin from four to six aircraft a mont. bus nothing was put in writing about the number of

domestic sales. and china has also agreed a plan to lift a sixteen the fight deo some extent and we need to talk general gate. trying to obtain a similar level of access to china this chinese companies enjoy brought was a key aim of the trip. francis comes trace deficit to the country. thirty billion euros. as you can is trading action now the highlight of the trading day it was a record close for r the nikkei in tokyo which had its highest level since nineteen ninety one earlier this choose day. green across the board finish european indices calculus rising about three two thirds rather of one percent here in paris. shares of the telecom from i'll tease jumps ten percent is it announced plans to separate european and us operations. wall street also try trading higher with

intraday records being set by the dow jones as v. five hundred and the nasdaq. fourth quarter earnings season is kicking off positive results so far notably for the retailer target. had strong holiday sales. moving on some days of the business headlines now. donald trump will become only the second sitting u. s. president. world economic forum's instant silence. but has said he will promote his america first agenda. by many of the world's elite to. attend the summit in davos. takes off on january twenty third. this is the dreaded seeking more than two thousand staffer down and see this year. sametime company plans to hire thirteen hundred staff members. say that make use of new rules allowing french companies to implement large scale. see programs.

and jamie dimon has backed off his skating criticism of point. chase now says he regrets dismissing the currency as a fraud. until fox business that the technology underpinnings the currency wasn't real. that is interesting missile currencies remains minister. since been testing watching technology. head of the tech guide intel has promised to fix the widespread security flaws. affecting smart phones and computers around the world. speaking at the consumer ath valley security is job one for the company. intel is scrambling to recover after researchers revealed sirius security flaws in its computer chips that could be exploited to steal personal information. as of now we have not received any information that these exploits at the news attain customer data.

and we're working tirelessly on these issues. to ensure it stays out way. the flaws known his meltdown inspector affect nearly all modern smartphones in computers. brian krizan it's said that ninety percent of intel's process is made in the last five years would be patched within a week. but there was a warning to. the software being released will slow down machines some by up to thirty percent. we believe a performance impact of ththese updates