towards pm yang is exactly what made the diplomatic breakthrough possible in the first place tom brookstein at durham north says that these talks happened despite efforts a real opportunity for the north koreans to be other world stage they don't have much chance to do that for lots of reasons the last report the difficult relationship they've had with much of the world for a long time but i think that these talks are happening certainly not because of trumpet in the sense some sense despite. that it is very telling that usually the americans are always in the room and now the americans are nowhere to be found so i think. the trump dimension is one that can't be overplayed but for negative reasons rather than positive i'm glad it's happening despite it. russia's defense ministry announced on friday that it had killed the terrorists behind a mortar attack on russia's airbase in syria it issued a video showing its strike on the militants positions. the. happened on new year's eve and left two russian officers dead days later the base was targeted for a second time by more than a dozen. succes