all week long. north and south korea are to hold their first formal talks in two years after donald trump claimed his top staff made the meeting possible. also in headlines these really prime minister faces mass protests over mounting corruption allegations with thousands again marching in the streets of tel aviv. and the new coalition talks are in full swing in germany. and what some see as the country's worst political crisis in years.

you're watching our international live from moscow just go on the eleven here in the capital with your with me today daniel hawkins of you are welcome to the program and north korea is set to hold official talks with its southern neighbor for the first time in two years as tensions run high on the peninsula there are signs the spot is easing though with some progress already made at the start of the year has already seen the reopening of the cross border phone line the next day trump delayed annual military drills with seoul until after south korea holds the winter olympics next month in face to face negotiations with the north are set for tuesday artie's kaleb open takes a closer look at the arranged negotiations. well it's hard to tell exactly everything that will be discussed now we know that one thing that is probably going to definitely be on the agenda will be the upcoming olympic games now we've heard from south korea's unification minister and he has said that he hopes that the talks become

a place to ease the tensions now if you've been paying attention to everything that's been going on on the korean peninsula over the last few months you can tell there's quite a bit of tension there i almost can't really imagine it being worse let's take a look at what's been happening. now when the leader of north korea kim jong un was giving his new year's address he surprised a lot of people and unexpectedly called for talks or said he was open to talks between north korea and south korea this is what we heard from kim jong un during his new year's remarks which if the south really wants reconsideration and unity we will keep open the doors for talks contact and exchange to everyone including the

south greeted ministration opposition parties groups from various fields and quantities and individuals now the moon administration in south korea as always you know called for a more diplomatic approach to the north and so when they heard about the possibility of talks they jumped on it immediately now we did hear however donald trump first on twitter and then later in comments to the press and elsewhere take credit for the renewal of dialogue between the north and the south this is trump a lot of people have said a lot of people have written that without my rhetoric and without my tough stance and it's not just a stance i mean this is this is what has to be done if it has to be done that they wouldn't be talking about olympics that they wouldn't be talking right this. year of strategic patience. with the north korean regime has not had states is prepared to use the full range of our capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies we

will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea little rocket man rocket fuel for the american economy is a sick puppy but unlike previous dialogue that has taken place at this point the usa will not be at the table so if donald trump himself is responsible it's odd that he wouldn't get a seat at the table for something that he arranged the whole world is watching the korean peninsula people have seen how the usa has paused its provided military exercises during the olympic games you know the olympic games are set to commence and now the world is watching as north and south korea are going to start talking to each other a lot of possibilities here in this moment people are waiting to see what could happen next well professor of law and government. school tom brooks believes the talks may go well beyond just the winter olympics. i think the south koreans will be wanting to explore different ways they can lower tensions and i think it is

a very important opportunity and a welcome one between the two sides but i also think that one or two meetings in the run up to a winter olympics next month they're not going to achieve everything i think that these talks are happening certainly not because of trumpet in the sense some sense despite trump that it is very telling that usually the americans are always in the room and now the americans are nowhere to be found it what trumps rhetoric has done has increased the kinds of threats if we were to get threats in the united states from north korea but increase the level of severity the fact that he's got no representative in the room for the talks no one will be actually there to help have anything to do with what goes on in the room or help the negotiations in any way is a sign of how powerless so much the united states is genuinely walked away from world leadership in areas like the korean peninsula. thousands have marched through

the streets of tel aviv in israel demanding the resignation of the country's prime minister over mounting corruption allegations the protesters were carrying placards and shouting slogans denouncing the government auntie's what does the if as will. six weeks now its release have been demonstrating against the prime minister the prime minister as they've affectionately nicknamed him not just in tel aviv the capital but it's now growing but israel proper always been here for the last two years everybody is talking about and it's coming up all the time to the media. there is a feeling that the government is corrupt. interests before the citizens that the.

government is corrupt. they're tired i think is going to get elected again it's enough. there are two publicly known cases against netanyahu in the first his wife and he alleged to have the excepted illicit gifts tobacco and alcohol from a hollywood billionaire luxurious champagne for the lady and fine cigars for the gentleman case number two netanyahu reportedly struck a deal with a major newspaper where in return for more favorable coverage he would weaken a rival newspaper using his office and powers as prime minister serious allegations stuff like this has put people in jail you think bebe's scared if there will be recommendations by police to endure so here's

a fact i doubt the public knows the vast majority of police recommendations in with nothing more than sixty percent of police recommendations are thrown out here of course denies everything just like his predecessor who'd all met also denied ever taking bribes even as he was handcuffed and convoyed off to jail b.b. doesn't care police can recommend whatever they want it's only if the state prosecutors decide to act will he face trouble and he seems sure they won't they knew a year ago even before the investigation why did it take a year and a waste of time and public funds there's more of course questions about netanyahu is connections how bibi's cousin ended up in the middle of a controversial billion dollar deal to buy german submarines you know how these things happen but isn't it amazing how

a man can be so flippant about corruption allegations against him and so righteous about corruption allegations against. others bridgie reunions are poor into the streets they seek freedom they seek justice i wish the rainy people success in their noble quest for freedom but the know. this. against other corrupted or to learn but try to manipulate. criticism against in what is really. a corrupt government and lisa still months away from issuing an official recommendation on whether to try the netanyahu or not but b.b.'s allies as striking back they've passed through legislation that would be the police for making any public recommendations on whether people should be taken to court that then yahoo's

a survivor israel's longest serving prime minister he has weathered and survived plenty of scandals and next time this law will make it even easier under the israeli law the prime minister does not have to resign even if he is indicted and even when he's standing trial only after he has been convicted in a certain district court in jerusalem and after he's appeal has been denied by the high court which could take two years or so but this is only billygoat point from b. public and political point of view there will be a lot of pressure on him to resign or at least step aside for a while once he's indicted. national security

agency in the united states is facing troubling times with a number of employees leaving the service increasing dramatically we discussed the problem with former n.s.a. technical director turned whistleblower william binney he believes staff can no longer work in the conditions the agency creates they've got the workers inside and they say watching the other workers so that they can get their what their objective is to get somebody to tell them about someone who might be another edward snowden so that was the whole program that's what it's all about so i'm sure that that creates a very hostile you know kind of. a bad work environment in addition to that i think some of the things they're doing like spying on u.s. citizens going on everybody in the planet they object to and they've even written internally some from some of the material from ed snowden they read they written articles about not being able to figure things out because it's just too much data for them to work with so i mean i just set up

a very bad work environment and i think their participation in this fake russia gate thing it's also discrediting them and so you know who wants to work for a corrupt organization and that's what that's what we have out there now. a new coalition talks have kicked off in germany in what seen as angle of merkel's last chance to form a majority government and avoid yet another election the social democrats and the ruling christian democratic union will now have five days to enter into a so-called grand coalition both sides seem confident of success for going to live with the social democrats is the only option left for angela merkel of the previous coalition talks with the green party on the free democrats collapsed three months ago the current political crisis is seen by some as the worst in germany for years in the trunk sizes up michael's chances of resolving it. to put together a coalition it takes a match angle has been desperate to make any match she hoped her party could match

with the greens but that plan also required matching with the d.p. or the free democrats are rights wide here too but no it's a match pop ups angle almost got it right with the green party but she's still in favor of using coal power plus her transport minister in the old government called the greens tofu that has fallen into our meats when it comes to the d.p. these folks were nowhere near matching with deep divisions and how to deal with tax and solemn and environmental policy. we will not abandon our foreign policy with which we are not convinced it is better not to govern than to govern badly so that was it for the so called to make a coalition talks. one guy quit using the coalition building up

all together but then signed up again. we are not entering a grand coalition we said this clearly in this room after the elections and we still stand by this. time politics that's why these tools necessary to meet the great challenges facing the world europe. so angle crossed paths with her part there swipe left or swipe right the conservative leader is having another go at matching with the social democrats but here again angle may find herself matchless here's why. migration was much less of an issue in two thousand and thirteen when agreeing on the c.d.u. s.p.d. grand coalition was no sweat today it's one of the main if not the number one issue for germans to worry about the success of the right wing force the conservative

blog to get more tough on asylum seekers something the social democrats refuse to accept. instead what they'd love to accept and actually push for is more integration after all the s.p.d. leader wants to see the knotted states of europe and while angle as c.d.u. as moore has it in the varian wing of her block is turning increasing the euro skeptic you don't invite hungary's leader slash boogie man viktor orban to a party summit for nothing. then there's the issue of how much to spend on the army the conservatives are seeking more military spending to reach the nato target of two percent of g.d.p. the social democrats though say that's not what germany needs if eventually these things are enough to cause a mismatch angle of merkel may end up in real trouble and as the prospect

of yet another election looms recent opinion polls show more than half of germans are against muckle running again spoke to geo political analyst who believes a rerun is much more likely than people think. the trust in the great coalition is beginning to diminish quite considerably in german population there is already a much higher majority of people calling for new elections as recent polls have shown a good negotiator would have seen much earlier that one of the three or four or even negotiating parties. why under represented in the different points that were gathered to form the coalition and obviously angela merkel failed at that point she did not realize how bad the situation was perceived on behalf of the liberals i can imagine that merkel will be replaced. even if

there are new elections already in twenty eighteen vice president of the german bundestag recently said he was in favor of limiting the charts in his term in office to eight or ten years calling it the hardest job in the country amid the political uncertainty some are speculating merkel may not run again if the latest coalition talks fail the media has already lined up some potential successes.

so. what is it for on the right. well have any of you ever seen a circus with a fly through. are you an expert in german wine. we were the wine tell us now yes it's pretty easy to distinguish between am quite why. the us department of homeland security have developed a virtual reality training game meant to simulate active shooter schools is intended for teachers and first responders helping them stay ahead.

and have been more than two hundred fifty shootings in schools in the u.s. in the past five years that averages nearly one every week and already this year there have been two reported farm incidents in schools nearly a third of all mass shootings in the u.s. since two thousand have taken place in educational establishments is a reminder of some of the deadliest.

we spoke to two experts about just how effective this new school shooting simulator may be in helping to curb the problem. we have to really understand that we do live in a day and age when children are going to have to understand this at a younger age than we would have liked then we were probably raised with and because of that you know it is good to utilize technology in order to train them to either defend themselves against it or defend others against it and just to be ready for it because sometimes the worst things will happen when children or a those in it situation have absolutely no idea how to handle what is happening in the group by teachers with at least some information in order to repair any of that

that they're actually use and sold on their school and what that does is it is assumed that the assaults will come there will be more socks and dare i say this there will be there will be more shooting there will be more bashing in schools across the united states we have seen this and there's nothing that tells me that that's simply not true will technology and video games make decision ration safer i don't know i hope it will but here's what i do know i know that we have seen mass shooting after mass shooting after back shooting children in the united states but we're working in the schools with young students to help them understand the modern threats of that time and to better prepare with that to know exactly what to do in the case of the current modern threat happiness upon their school in this case it is school shootings the united states and so you know teachers first responders being able to take part in the simulations is going to help them better train their students for what to do in the event of

a swell shooting this is to some degree and acceptance that that is the ongoing reality and that the only true response the only thing that the u.s. can do at this point is simply to prepare teachers for what is coming rather than to point a legitimate alternative to stopping those actually shootings themselves. and one might think a successful businessman has better things to do than spend his days picking up litter on the streets not so though when you're on a mission. i. i i. i. i think it doesn't matter how much money you have no matter if you are rich or poor you always need to pass on positive energy to society it doesn't matter how old you either i was i. think.

if i saw someone drop litter in public i would persuade them to pick it up and not to do it again because i collect trash to remind and persuade others i see it on time if ten percent of citizens were like him our environment would be much better i. mean. i believe that if i persist the environment would be better doing this as long as i can even when i'm seventy eighty years old. lots all from myself in the team for now it ought to you do join us again that midnight most good time for more global headlines about.

power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and the goal of the match over their heads up saudi arabia these days is as corrupt as the day is long and he's just stealing money from folks and with us right to be had it but america is like that's reform meanwhile ok already there actually are in the process of reform but that's evil. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turns some countries into pigs these are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of low bloat even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work and it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their which is decline almost

a decade how good are the results. by the. gathering which the wider all good people with you are doing i. believe will be she was i mean if a legal. challenge was to move this economy was always the case she somehow they're not getting paid while the same mission is still in place to one of the consequences to weaken blue bird. who will for. the truth be consider this is the consequences are quite acceptable to the decision . in two thousand and sixteen the panama papers show the world with a tax haven the secrets two trillion united states dollars passed through most of conseco in the amount of time that we've been in panama papers exposure that's what

it shows a lot of money it really is. journalism it's an act of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and asking why would they want to keep these things secret. millions of. documents were examined. the all the people which basically have tried to get an advantage out of this sort of newspaper. and probably other politician which was the other politician the media were quick to find their targets such as the kings of morocco and saudi arabia the president of argentina several prime ministers. and russian president vladimir putin of course. a car that had so i have sued so many newspapers for defamation some things don't just happen by chance it was

very striking there were no more americans to go specially a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china that this special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. the panama chronicles. along. welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle it's a new year but the same stories persist out front is the chaotic trump white house followed by the steel dossier and a possible breakthrough with north korea. in

the new year i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst and we have to me he's a political analyst with spook nick international ok gentlemen as always crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let's talk about michael wolff fire in fury i look at it is basically political gossip something that some things in there we've already suspected but one of the things i thought was interesting that i pulled from the eggs or i haven't read the book i haven't seen the whole thing but you know when we have these conversations with steve bannon the former strategist. and being thrown to the curb later by mr trump the collusion with israel again this story pops up it doesn't get a whole lot of coverage because people want to hyperventilate about how crude or rude or simple minded or stupid the president is but there are little nuggets coming out here that the mainstream just isn't interested in the well first i was

puzzled by the admission. that actually i'm going to quote him. certain segments of this. presidency in this book were false and that was reduced to make up their own minds well that's not a term that's not journalism markedly reaction to i don't want to waste a lot of yeah well he specifically said that a lot of what he says in the book quotations and so on contradicts each other and that some of the people were flat out lying to him. and that in some areas he's going to let. readers decide what is true in other areas he's going to decide on a narrative that he believes and this guy is a charlatan he's a flim flam man he's he's he's selling scandal to an audience a resistance liberal media audience they want to believe it's like fox more i want

to believe now this is a review of one of his earlier books in the new republic hardly you know a center left magazine much to the annoyance of wolf's critics the scenes in his columns aren't recreated so much as created springing from wolfson magination rather throw from actual knowledge of events even wolf acknowledges that conventional reporting isn't his bag but rather his absorbs the atmosphere and gossip surrounding him a cocktail parties on the street and especially during those long lunches at michaels he's around town enough to have those insights to spot people to come across pieces of information he also has a talent for making the most of even the briefest encounters his great gift is the appearance of intimate access big we got that we got the flavor of the reactions to the book and the excerpt that people are talking about i think is were also really

interesting is that maybe we.