north and south korea are to hold their first formal talks in two years after donald trump claimed his tough stance on young yang made the meeting possible. also in headlines these really prime minister faces massive protests over corruption allegations with thousands again marching in the streets of tel aviv. a new coalition talks are in full swing in germany as an attempt to end what some see as the country's worst political crisis in years. and i welcome to our teams of ash to live from moscow with me. tonight thanks so

much for joining us on the program. north korea is set to hold official talks with the south for the first time in two years there are already some early signs of progress the start of the year saw the reopening of a cross border phone line the next day the laydown your military drills with seoul until after south korea holds the winter olympics next month face to face negotiations with the north are set for tuesday. takes a closer look. 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 and you 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 the south really wants reconsideration and unity we will keep open the doors for talks contact and exchange to everyone including the south korean administration 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. here of strategic patience. with the north korean regime has noted 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 posits provocative 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. let's go live now to eric sideroad can all thought and human rights and so many thanks for joining us good to have you on the program today these talks about a long time coming haven't i but a very tense time on the peninsula i mean in your view do you see these talks as a major breakthrough at all what can we really expect from them. well

you know you have to look at the history of it daniel a little bit to determine why is this so rare or is it so rare in two thousand president kim went to north korea and they set up a very elaborate agreement in two thousand and three president know who went with the now president moon to north korea and there was dialogue and there was an expanded agreement but what happened in those years is that we got the access of evil in george bush name calling and pumping up and there seemed to be a desire not to support the will of the korean people so the korean people on both sides both sides have unification ministers in their cabinets both have proposals for a kind of joint federation where they keep their economic systems and share maritime responsibility and other things these have been talked about before and so it really isn't a surprise to get the north and south talking what we have to see is if the u.s.

can get out of the way finally and we can stop having the korean peninsula be an old cold war pawn and that they could finally have peace for all their people it's interesting you mention the u.s. being out that way because unlike in previous discussions the u.s. isn't going to be at the negotiating table lists do you see that effect in the process i mean is it actually say anything about the you know the south koreans view on the trump administration. well what it says are a few things first of all when they did direct negotiations back in two thousand in two thousand and five actually they actually went ahead and were able to at that time reach agreements and the u.s. was not at the table now in this scenario what you're looking at is a situation where the six party talks which was the only circumstance in which the

u.s. was at the table those never really got going in a way that was highly effective and even when we set up the agreed framework under the clinton administration bill clinton's administration there was a situation in which promises were made for fuel and otherwise and a curtailing of nuclear issues and to work toward a peace regimen and that wasn't followed through at that time so we have to do steps to build trust and really what i think we're seeing happen here is south korea is following through on the pledge that president moon gave to the world that he believes in the sunshine policy he believes in non demonization and peace on the korean peninsula and it's only through that relationship that i think we're going to be able to talk about nuclear weapons and human rights in these very important issues so getting the south and north to talk it's their border it's their country

is essential and restores the kind of respect that the u.s. should be showing to south korea i mean the north koreans that been pretty uncompromising album about their nuclear program very staunch a lot and that seems to have been a key tenet of you know negotiations going ahead of sanctions being lifted what mean what do you think north korea hopes to get out of these negotiations in the long run. well i think in the long run both sides would benefit from peace whether there are people within each government that have an objective to maintain this conflict to maintain the battle state there probably are however you know so it's hard to say put north korea into one camp however i see what can come from the talks is a type of peace. treaty and the type of situation where these countries can learn to live in peace and that's only going to come from building

relationships north korea in the comments if you remember even new years and last summer what kim jong un said very specifically is we will not negotiate our new nuclear defense and deterrence until the hostile policy of the united states isn't pointing at us what that means that will have to come through negotiations but in the end who maintains the bases in south korea more than one hundred bases and posts and almost thirty thousand troops in that tiny country is the u.s. consequently it's south korea who has to work with the united states on that and perhaps if they can go to the table with something in hand for peace perhaps with this support of the international community whether it be russia. other countries in the region and in the world i think at that point it puts pressure on the trumpet ministration to back off from this hostile stance which it

clearly is with the military exercises and the pushing back and be able to essence force an agreement but one that's finally deals with divided families and a sad tragic story of a divided korean peninsula and you mentioned the importance there of this your country is talking of a step back from. saber rattling and brinkmanship in terms of rhetoric but of course it was only last month the daily telegraph reported the u.s. was considering still considering a limited strike on north korea to stop those nuclear weapons programs i mean do you think that's likely to happen are we thankfully having a step away now from this sort of you know military solution. you know i think it's a step back from a military solution because as i've said before numerous times there is no military solution it other than death and destruction of hundreds of thousands or

a million people or more in any kind of cross border attack or attack on u.s. bases in japan or or anywhere else which they've always been able to reach so really there isn't a military option and so to constantly fall back on it in person and that is somehow hard diplomacy is very naive because people know that isn't the situation why not get in there sit at the table time and time again get the parties together and negotiate that resolution and if that can come from the south in the north that's even more empowering for the korean peninsula and may be a more durable peace. and human rights attorney thanks for your take on that story today here on out international good to have you on the program thank you deb. in other headlines thousands of marched through the streets of tel aviv demanding the resignation of the israeli prime minister over corruption allegations auntie's what

i guess the if takes up the story. was. for six weeks now its release have been demonstrating against the prime minister the crime minister as they've affectionately nicknamed him not just in tel aviv the capital but it's now growing all over israel proper and always been here for the last three 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 and puts its interests before the citizens . government is corrupt ten of them are tired i think if you get elected again that'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 indict 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 would or 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 has 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 iranian people success in their noble quest for freedom and you know. this support. against the corrupted reduce the new learn but try to manipulate. criticism against him it is really the. government releases still months away from issuing an official recommendation on whether to try to netanyahu or not the b.b.c. 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 netanyahu is 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 the legal 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. now the national security agency in the united states is facing some difficult times the number of employees leaving the service is increasing dramatically discuss 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. the internally in n.s.a. see their program called see something say something about employees your fellow workers so they've got the workers inside n.s.a. watching the they 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 that's all about so i'm sure that that creates a very hostile you know kind of. a bad work environment that destroys the morale of the people do it work doing the work there i mean can you it's like you were in the middle of the i was in the original program set up by the stasi to they did the same thing in east germany so i mean well when you i mean anybody who had a vendetta or some gripe against someone else could say something about them you know in without giving their names and just to report them for something just to

get them into trouble and have difficulty so i mean that just sets up a very bad work environment. they have to encourage you know creativity and independence and get get get the fear of actually trying to do something out of the employee so they're not afraid to try things i mean when you have people watching you all the time for some kind of slip up i mean that kind of that kind of makes you an inhibited that kind of says i don't want to try to do things because somebody might perceive it incorrectly and if they do and i get reported i get in trouble so you know that's that's a very bad thing for them to be doing so they need to correct that they need to they need to also out a magically audited on what they're doing so that you know congress can really know what's happening and the people can really know and so can the justice department they're doing illegal things like violating the constitution of the united states which are currently doing now. so they need to correct all of that and then that will create a better work environment and actually see that to get the people who are working

there to see that they're actually doing positive things. well i mean i don't see them succeeding at stopping terrorism anyway i mean the only thing they stop are the setups that the f.b.i. does you know they entrap people as far as the attacks that have really been planned by terrorists or people who are in there who are intending harm to people i mean they haven't stopped this for any of them that i know of because alexander general alexander former director there and playing to the judiciary committee in the senate that they'd stop fifty four attacks and he was challenged by senator leahy to prove it and he couldn't prove any of them so i mean the point is the thing that they're doing is unconstitutional illegal it's crimes against the laws of the united states and they need to stop that that would change some of the way that the working employees working there would perceive the job and the charter and the duties inside and it's. over to germany now where new coalition talks have

kicked off in what's seen as i'm going to michael's last chance to form a majority government and avoid yet another election the social democrats on the ruling christian democratic union will now have five days to enter into a so-called grand coalition both sides seem confident of success of forming a lion's with the social democrats is the only option left for angela merkel previous coalition talks with the green party and the free democrats collapsed two months ago the political crisis is seen by some as the worst in germany for years into trying to size up merkel's chances of resolving it to put together a coalition it takes a match angle has been desperate to make any match she hopes her party could match with the greens. but that plan also required matching with the d.p. or the free democrats or 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 f d p these folks were nowhere near matching with deep divisions and how to deal with tax and solemn and environmental policies. 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 and 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 twenty 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 as speedy leader wants to see the knighted states of

europe and while angle as c.d.u. as moore has it in the very end wing of her blog is turning increasing the euro skeptic you don't invite hungary's leader slash boogie men 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. well as the prospects of yet another election looms recent opinion polls show more than half of germans are against running again we spoke to geo political analyst who believes a rerun is much more likely than people think. the trust in great coalition

is beginning to diminish quite considerably in german population there is already much of a majority of people calling for new elections as recent polls have shown a good negotiator would have seen much earlier one of the three or four 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 the 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 and amid the political

uncertainty some are speculating marco may not run again even if the latest coalition talks fail the media's already been lining up a few potential successes. the . foreigner right. well have any of you ever seen a circus with

a flat roof. are you an expert in german wine. we were. now yes it's pretty easy to distinguish between brad and white wine. the u.s. department of homeland security have developed a virtual reality training game to simulate active shooter situations in schools it's intended for teachers and first responders helping them stay ahead. like that.

little bit of more than two hundred fifty school shootings in the u.s. just in the past five years that's an average of almost one week already this year there have been two reported far all incidents in schools many a third of all mass shootings in the u.s. since two thousand have taken place in schools is a reminder of some of the dead list.

we asked two experts 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 this and just to be ready for it because sometimes the worst things will happen when children or those in it situation have absolutely no idea how to handle what is happening that provides teachers with at least some information in order to repair any of that they're actually use and sold them on their school and what that does is it is assumed that the assaults will come up 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 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 on 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 school shooting but 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 find a legitimate alternative to stopping those actually shootings themselves. oh

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