on the face of kim jong il at kuala lumpur's airport women said they thought they were participating in a television prank lawrence louis has the latest on the courthouse in the city. all the judge will give a fiver to acquit the two women all off them too and that defense now the prosecution says these two women were trained to carry out the killing they were recruited by four north korean men have since been identified and named as the four men who are charged with a common intention to kill. and that they were the ones who trained these two women to kill to carry out the act that these two women knew that what they were doing and that they knew that the substance they were handling were dangerous these two women as you said with the. airport security footage especially the vietnamese who was clearly identifiable from the for to it not so much the indonesian citizen now the defense lawyers however say these two women are political. appointees in a politically motivated killing that they did not know that what they were doing that they sincerely thought that they were just taking pa

sufficient evidence to try to win in the murder of the a strange half brother of north korea's leader kim jong il the women one internation the other vietnamese will now stand trial in february of last year they were seen on c.c.t.v. smearing the nerve agent v.x. on the face of kim jong il on that kuala lumpur's international airport the woman said they thought they were participating in a television prank florence lewis outside the high court in the city of shah and so forth is this what type of ruling that was expected. the judge now has decided that the prosecution has juiced enough evidence enough credible evidence that to establish on the face of it a case that the defense will now have to answer so what's going to happen is that defense lawyers will have to present their case they will have to call witnesses perhaps put the two accused women on the stand so that they can testify they can tell their story to the world and remember what the what the trial has that the trial that's gone on for the last six months we've all been only been hearing from the prosecution witnesses so the judge has

it's the first time he's acknowledged problems with the outcome of the deal signed in june with kim jong il and he says paging isn't helping as much as it should be since he launched a trade war against china last month with more from washington. just a few days ago doldrum been pretty upbeat about negotiations with north korea telling reuters about pyongyang had taken steps towards denuclearization of missile testing and stalled and he was looking forward to another summit with north korea however house to be said mike compares last trip to north korea was a bit of a disaster by many accounts kim dragoon even snubbing compare there was a great deal of pressure for something tangible to come out of this one from the more hawkish people around him john bolton as national security advisor for example but it is striking in these tweets but it's still very diplomatic very respectful towards chairman kim and he says he still does want a summit to take place at some point in the future federal prosecutors in the u.s. meanwhile have granted immunity to the chief financial officer of donald trump's

exercises had been suspended since a landmark agreement between donald trump and north korean leader kim jong il last june that the u.s. is frustrated by a lack of progress towards denuclearization by the north. colombia and peru have agreed to set up a joint database of venezuelan migrants the announcement was made after a two day meeting both countries are struggling to manage the rapidly growing number of venezuelans crossing their borders the migrants are fleeing a deepening political and economic crisis back home according to the u.n. more than two million fled venezuela since twenty fourteen. in the colombian capital book atop. the two countries that have been receiving the highest number. of migrants so far roughly one million are in colombia they more than four hundred thousand and appear to. gratian a third of the two countries and the two governments are finally deciding that he's going to cooperate and start working towards a more coordinated a more coordinated policy in the region to deal with this unprecedented exit is canadian officials are in washington d.c. for talks on the nafta

president trumps historic summit with north korea's leader kim jong il and at that summit trump called his military commanders off guard by agreeing to drop the drills the reversal now by the pentagon comes amid a broader breakdown in diplomacy over north korea with north korea over its nuclear weapons program. a historic handshake between two former foes in the months before their singapore summers donald trump and kim jong un traded insults and threats of nuclear war but the leaders pulled back from the brink to deliver a diplomatic spectacle as an unexpected concession from the u.s. . we will be stopping the war games which will save us a tremendous amount of money on lashon until we see the the future negotiation is not going along like it should. the u.s. military exercises with south korea have infuriated p.r. nyang for decades trumps decision to suspend them surprised both u.s. allies in the region and top u.s. military officials critics said he was handing kim a major symbolic victory without getting any concrete commitments that north korea were denuclearize since the june so

state of hawaii to mark the arrival of korean leader kim jong il and promised to return the remains during his meeting with president in june only one set of identification tags were included and experts say the identification process could take anything from days to years. the u.s. is planning to impose even higher tariffs on chinese imports upping the ante from ten percent to twenty five percent of levy will cover two hundred billion dollars worth of goods tariffs have already been imposed on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese imports president trump accuses china of unfair trade practices and is putting pressure on beijing to reform. those are your headlines we're back with more news here on al-jazeera that's after. the first batch of u.s. sanctions against iran go into effect on august sixth. the impact will be wrong. covering the story from their perspective looking at what sanctions mean for iran's economy and its people a special coverage. of . the jewel of different and pires centuries of politics has shaped a distinct identity evident in the people. to date a new generat

kim jong nam was targeted. well you ask officials and equally south korean officials claim that was a political act committed by north korea it is known that kim jong nam was the hot . off kim jong il and by his father and later on kim jong un criticized his younger brother and said he lacked leadership qualities so that was enough for motives to for him just to kill kim jong nam and also you have to say you have those four north korean suspects who fled the country and the north korean side has shown no sort of cooperation or billing this to corporate in this highly suspicious case and the quick question is if you will ever find out the truth ok it looks like this case is turning into an international thriller sandra rocks so for us in kuala lumpur thanks very much. president abraham abubakar has been officially re-elected for another five year term kid it was declared the winner of the country's elections securing sixty seven percent of the vote the opposition led by somalia since say i've already said they will reject the results of the presidential runoff campaign was marred by accusations of fraud by violence and by low turnout. now faces the amends task of lifting the west af

peninsula they have been suspended since a landmark deal being drawn will trump the north korean leader kim jong il the u.s. is frustrated by a lack of progress towards denuclearization in the north. now colombia and peru have agreed to set up a joint database of venezuelan migrants the announcement was made after a two day meeting both countries are struggling to manage the rapidly growing number of venezuelans crossing their borders the migrants are fleeing a worsening political and economic crisis at home according to the u.n. more than two million fled venezuela since twenty fourteen al assad run press he has the latest from bogota. colombian put a word to two countries that have so far received the highest number of business well in migrants and are now agreeing that they need to cooperate more to confront this unprecedented exodus of people migration authorities met for two days in bogota and announced that they will begin sharing more information about the migrants they are receiving they plan to implement a shared database in new technology at the border to do so they also agreed that this

rajini: w ten accused of killing the half-brother of north korean leader kim jong-il are tokim jong-uning aused of deadly nerve agent under kim jong nam's face at the kuala lumpur airport last year.th jo head has more. jonathan: these youon women are th defendants facing trial. they are hoping for an acquittal , but were disappointed. the judge ruled the evidence backs the charge against them of murdering kim jong-un and, -- the estranged half-brother of north korea's leader. lawyers for the twod, indonesian and vietnamese woman, said they were recruited to carry out what they thought were harmless pranks. >> it does not mean that the judge will n find them guilty. the case must proceed. now they are to hear our version of the story. jonathan four north korean men charged with them fled malaysian the same day kim jong nam was attacked. it is belihey ran the operation. malaysia froze diplomatic relations. the nort nkorean embassy ho ambassador. the militiamenyo leftyang -- malaysian one left pyongyang after being heldth hostage, e government said. and y malaysia refuses to blame north k

be said mike compare did have a pretty disastrous trip to north korea in july he was snubbed by kim jong il and i think i think kim jong un prefer to go to a potato farm the visit might be. there is a great deal of pressure on the trump administration about these talks john bolton a much more hawkish national security adviser is now in charge of the foreign policy establishment the military industrial complex that funds the republican party there will against talks about denuclearizing the korean peninsula they thrive on the fear of war in south korea having said that there are other upbeat signs when it comes to north korea a new representative has just been have been finally appointed to oversee north korean policy for the white house a special representative to the interview an interview with reuters a few days ago don't trump did say that he did think there were steps being made by north korea to denuclearize missile testing had stopped and that he was prepared to have another summit with with came in in the future sometime so we're getting all these all these mixed messages but yet he'

for quite some time but it is a country that president obviously has you know met with the leader kim jong il and apparently still trying to keep the door open there what are we hearing from his national security team. yeah there are some natural links between these two stories in terms of the effort and the pressure that the united states has put on both nations namely with with strict economic sanctions so you're right when it comes to north korea the national security advisor john bolton weighing in on both of those topics here in the united states in the last couple of hours not only is he suggesting in the case of iran that it wants to avoid sanctions should be negotiating but he's making the similar case when it comes to north korea as well saying in fact that despite the fact that the north korea has making the case that it believes that showing good faith in terms of its step to denuclearize these sanctions should be lifted the position of the united states is one and one only and that is that when it comes to north korea denuclearization should be complete verifiable irreversible in

security council a report saying kim jong il is breaking his promise and violating other international sanctions in the process the expert's report says the north continues to build nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles and it's still illegally trading in oil coal textiles and weapons it's also making deals the report says with movie fighters in yemen the syrian government and libyan rebels at the all see on security forum in singapore u.s. secretary of state mike pompei you told reporters it's clear the north koreans are violating international sanctions including the complete shutdown of illegal ship to ship transfers of petroleum destined for north korea we have seen reports. that russia is allowing for joint ventures with north korean firms and granting new work permits to north korean guest workers pump ale and foreign minister re on hold greeting each other during the singapore meeting just as the u.s. was imposing new sanctions on to north koreans illegally doing business in russia later accused the u.s. of not acting in good faith. in order to build full confidence between th

kim jong-un. again, you are the only senior american official, the only secretary of state to have met with a north korean president, the father of kim jong-un, and that was kim jong-ilhow did your meetings come about? how did your discussions go? is trump, do you think, being properly prepared? >> well, we had spent in the clinton administration quite a lot of time dealing with north korea, from the first moments in '93 when they had threatened to pull out of the nonproliferation treaty through an awful lot of talks and agreements. but a year or so before i went there, what had happened was that the president then asked for a complete review of our north korea policy, which was led by former secretary of defense bill perry. and he was the initial person to go to north korea after the review to say, it was kind of fork in the road time. they should either negotiate on their issues, or we were prepared to use a number of our different tools. they decided to negotiate. and what happened was the number two man, vice marshal cho, came to the united states in order to invite president clinton to come. and president clinton did, i believe, the right thing, saying, you know

top stories so far today two women accused of killing the half brother of the north korean leader kim jong il north face trial for murder in malaysia the court has ruled there is enough evidence to try the suspects were from indonesia and vietnam last year they were seen on security video seeming to smear a nerve agent on kim jong nam was face at kuala lumpur airport the women say they thought they were taking part in a televised prank the lawyer for one of them said they were disappointed. you ok she was the one who had like the way the evidence that she had like. it was. there was no evidence that this is the give you the dish that show now did josh not want to draw that inference in print because she says well you look at the expiration. she looked very pale and before she went to bed by let an issue where you elect i think it. well look even worse she knew what was happening and she must have gone to that but it was a. judge right or wrong but i think wrong and the days of metaphors on that view. turkey says it's ready to enter talks with the united states over the dispute that seem tarif

speak about it quite regularly do you fear that even though he has the legal right to do so that kim jong il could be addressing the general assembly in september but i don't know i mean that i don't know him and you asked me a question and i haven't really given much thought about. i mean the position that does it create the wrong impression that he's been well very bad well i think i think i mean clearly there were two would raise a lot of eyebrows and i mean the position of the u.n. as i understand it is that if you're indicted by an international court for. the atrocity crimes crimes against humanity war crimes crimes and. the crime of genocide then it should be really be impermissible for you to turn up in new york. but if there hasn't been a charge like that it's it's it's the evidence is still being collected although there's very strong indications that the more severe human rights conditions exist . certainly there would be a lot of criticism of the un. high commissioner or an ex high commissioner wouldn't you're comfortable with when you talk about technicalities that's certainly b

problem might be who would broker a summit with iran south korea pave the way for the meeting with kim jong il in france might be an option president emanuel mccraw had arjen donald trump not to walk away from the iran deal during a state visit to washington is links with tehran and that might open up the necessary diplomatic channels that are voices senior people in this white house have been very critical of the iranian government and called for its removal but this is donald trump's white house if you want something to happen then it could and soon alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house. all right so let's go and bring in our panel joining us in washington d.c. hillary mann leverett former white house. house and state department official with responsibility for iran in tehran. a professor of world studies at the university of tehran and in geneva john mark rickly the head of global risk at the geneva center for security policy welcome to you all hillary i want to start with you so here is yet another shift in tone from donald trump earlier this month he threatens iran now he's saying th

acknowledged problems with the outcome of the deal he signed in june with north korea's leader kim jong il and he says beijing isn't helping as much as it should because he launched a trade war against china last month here's more from share returns ian washington d.c. just a few days ago donald trump again pretty upbeat about negotiations with north korea telling reuters that pyongyang had taken steps towards denuclearization the missile testing had stopped and he was looking forward to another summit with north korea however it has to be said mike compares last trip to north korea was a bit of a disaster by many accounts kim dragoon even snubbing compare there was a great deal of pressure for something tangible to come out of this one. federal prosecutors in the us have granted immunity to the chief financial officer of donald trump's business empire and by the berg is also treasurer of trump's charitable fund foundation has been questioned as part of an investigation linked to michael cohen trump's former personal lawyer and of course on tuesday pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finan

from session of several hundred missiles capable of reaching japan even after the summit between kim jong il and president trump in june. australian filmmaker james ricketts has appeared in a cambodian court for what is likely to be the final day of his trial he was charged with endangering national security after we flew a drone over an opposition party political rally more than a year ago if found guilty he faces up to ten years in jail. government experts from around the world are meeting in geneva to discuss the future of so-called autonomous weapons systems also dubbed killer robots these systems can operate and kill without human guidance critics are calling for these controversial weapons to be banned. germany's armed forces already make use of semi autonomous weapons base add offenses to can seek out targets on its own. for now soldiers still have to give the order to fire but fully autonomous weapons are being developed they can select and attack targets without humans at the controls. they're highly controversial supporters say the new weapons are needed in modern warfare and will

and the north's leader kim jong il and two met for the first time in may for informal talks and of agreed to meet again in the autumn. in syria dozens of people have been killed in an explosion at a weapons depo in italy province the syrian government and its allies have been preparing for an offensive to recapture the last remaining opposition area of santa been jevon had reports. from under a collapsed building some made it out alive they're probably not part of the word of the younger ones had to be carried out by volunteers the familiar exercise for syrian rescuers. a powerful explosion brought down this building in the town of some of them in northwestern syria but this time it wasn't an attack by the assad government or its allies. on the. first we thought it was an air strike but shortly afterwards we realized it was an explosion inside a warehouse in the civil defense teams arrived on the scene and began working to free survivors they were able to risk you seven civilians who were still alive some of whom were badly injured and they also took out about five dead bodies according t

president donald trump and north korea's kim jong il and we have many others coming but i want to thankchairman kim in front of the media for fulfilling a promise that he made to me and i'm sure that he will continue to fulfill that promise as they search and search and search if relations continue to improve it's thought the u.s. and north korea could organize joint searches for more remains. and possibly declare a formal end to the war in which these soldiers died sixty five years ago so our next step. probably will be taken by u.s. north korea south korea and china will be how to deal with. a potential declaration or fishel end of the korean war there has been suspended. fifty three critics of the singapore summit to point out that the return of these remains was reasonably easy to deliver and that the main object of the summit north korea is denuclearization is as elusive as ever none the less this is a chief meant is rich in symbolism for all the former enemies offering the prospect of what improving relations might lead to. and for some of the families of missing u.s. soldiers the

he's acknowledged problems with the outcome of the deal he signed june with north korea's leader kim jong il and he says beijing isn't helping as much as it should be because he launched a trade war against china last month. federal prosecutors in the u.s. meanwhile have granted immunity to the chief financial officer of donald trump's business empire and over us allen has been questioned as part of an investigation like to michael cohen trump's former postal lawyer who of course implicated the president in. breaking campaign finance laws and a judge in ecuador has suspended the recently imposed entry restrictions for venezuelans earlier this month ecuador announced venezuelans needed to have a valid passport to get in but the court order means they will now be allowed in with just their id cards for the next forty five days. australia has a new prime minister we say that quite often after the ruling liberal party replaced its leader scott morrison won an internal party vote after his predecessor malcolm turnbull lost the party's support fourth time since two thousand and ten that a prime mi

hard to focus on what kim jong-il and will wear to the next summit. those are important issues. we should be able to focus on the school board and the white house. hold members of congress accountable and legislature. that is our job and i get it. putting off dancing with the stars or whatever occasionally but job as citizens, that is what you sign up for when you say you are an american, self-governance and self-governance means doing the hard job of governing. we don't elect leaders, we elect servants. we are supposed to be the leaders in our system and yet we have completely tossed that out the window. >> city council lost this. >> we have to be engaged so that we don't allow these petty bureaucracies, dictatorships under the guise of state agencies, our right to speak and participate. someone will take them away. they want to shut us up and friends and family have got more engaged. >> talking about bureaucrats, the issues of accountability at the state level, the legislature passes the buck to bureaucrats. >> it is complete bunk. that is a 9 story to tell. and we elect serva

enough evidence to try to woman charge with the murder of this strange how a north korean leader kim jong il the pen indonesian and a vietnamese were a school that into a malaysian court about two hours ago in february last year they were seen on c.c.t.v. smearing the nerve agent v.x. on the face of. the woman said they thought they were participating in a television smilies outside the high court in the city of florence so what are you expecting to happen in court today. the judge will give a five a two and quit the two women or ask them to defend the prosecution says these two women trained to carry out the killing they were recruited by four north korean men have since. been identified and named as four men who were charged with a common intention to kill kim jong nam and that they were the ones who trained these two women to kill to carry out the act that these two women knew that what they were doing and that they knew that the substance they were handling were dangerous these two women as you said with the. airport security footage especially the vietnamese who was clearly identifiable

state of hawaii north korean leader kim jong il promised to return the remains during his meeting with president trump in june and identification tag was includes an expert say the identification process could take some time. the democratic republic of congo's health ministry has confirmed four cases of in the north eastern city of goma the ministry says there's no evidence linking these cases to the recent outbreak that linked that killed thirty three people that outbreak was officially declared over last week. is dean of the university of nebraska medical center college of public health he says better education is needed for rural communities to understand how is transmitted what we saw in the last outbreak we hope to see in this outbreak which is a really active response vaccination of contacts and hopefully hopefully shut the outbreak down very quickly unfortunately this outbreak is in an active conflict zone on the border rwanda and uganda which is very different from the location of the last outbreak and that's going to pose a challenge itself in the response so there's no lack o

they have been suspended as a landmark agreement between donald trump and north korea's leader kim jong il the u.s. is frustrated by a lack of progress towards denuclearization in the north. now an urgent u.n. security council meeting has been considering the threat of a syrian government offensive in the country's last remaining rebel held province russia which is a large of president bashar al assad says rebels in the province may stage a chemical attack and blame it on government forces western governments say moscow is trying to sow confusion and to regain some reports this morning from russia called this emergency meeting of the un security council to warn syrian rebels the pooty by western governments might stage a chemical attack then blame it on syrian government forces western diplomats dismiss that idea as ridiculous i think even reach a stand of russian propaganda this is an extraordinary fake news story of course we are not going to do anything remotely a kin to a chemical weapons attack we take our chemical weapons pay bishan responsibility sixty me seriously western governmen

speak about it quite regularly do you fear that even though he has the legal right to do so that kim jong il could be addressing the general assembly in september but i don't know i mean that i don't know and i mean you asked me a question and i haven't really given much thought about. i mean the position the does it create the wrong impression that he's been well very bad well i think i think i mean clearly there were two would raise a lot of eyebrows and i mean the position of the u.n. as i understand it is that if you're indicted by an international court for. the atrocity crimes crimes against humanity war crimes crimes and. crime of genocide then it should be really be impermissible for you to turn up in new york. but if there hasn't been a charge like that it's it's it's the evidence is still being collected although there's very strong indications that the more severe human rights conditions exist . and certainly there would be a lot of criticism of the u.n. and high commissioner or an ex high commissioner wouldn't you're comfortable with that when you talk about technicalities that's

peninsula they had been suspended since a landmark meeting between donald trump and north korean leader kim jong il in june after that meeting north korea committed to end its nuclear weapons development program but the u.s. says there has been a lack of progress towards denuclearization. keep it here for much more to come on al-jazeera those are the headlines in the meantime the strain as the next thanks for your time. unless we have new generations growing up to understand that all the nations that ship with another. soon there will be nothing left and will suffer primatologist conservationist dr jane goodall told to al-jazeera. hi i'm sorry i can't. today crazy rich asians is the first major hollywood film with an all ages old callused in twenty five years now does this make it a watershed moment for representation to get your thoughts all call made it out alive you can chat and back not to be in the street. march we've been dating for over a year now and i think it's time that my beautiful girlfriend. about us take another country. like queen singapore collins what do you want to see my family

china now back in june trump was criticized for signing what many saw as a vague agreement with kim jong il and it was supposed to end north korea's nuclear weapons development program almost immediately questions were raised about whether inspectors would be able to verify the deal and in the months since the satellite photos of showing what continuing at known north korean nuclear sites now in a series of tweets trump has said he's postponing a trip planned by might come to pyongyang supposed to happen next week here is what he said on twitter i have asked secretary state might not to go to north korea at this time because i feel we are not making sufficient progress with respect to the denuclearization of the korean peninsula additionally because of our much tougher trading stance with china i do not believe they are helping with the process of denuclearization as they once were despite the u.n. sanctions which are in place in the meantime i would like to send my warmest regards and respect to chairman kim i look forward to seeing him soon. more on all of this would she have a chance he'

yet we are all hyper focused on one -- on what kim jong-il and will wear to the next summit. it is mind numbing. while those are important issues, and as citizens, we should be able to cut our heads and rub our bellies at the same time. we should be able to focus on the school board in the white house. we should be able to hold members of congress accountable and legislature. that is our job as citizens. i get it. to turn maybe we have off "dancing with the stars" or whatever occasionally. but that is our job as citizens. that is what you sign up for when you say you are an american, self-governance and self-governance means doing the hard job of governing. elect leaders, we elect servants. we are supposed to be the leaders in our system and yet we have completely tossed that out the window. [applause] --hael: andrew: we have to be engaged so that we don't allow these petty bureaucracies, dictatorships under the guise of state agencies, our right to speak and participate. if you are not using your rights, someone will take them away. to the extent that we are not paying atten

state of hawaii north korean leader kim jong il and promised to return the remains when he met donald trump in june the u.s. president has since tweeted his thanks to the north korean leader only one identification tag was included among the remains and experts say the identification process could take some time california's governor is pledging to spend whatever it takes to contain wildfires sweeping the u.s. state eight people have been killed in the past week and tens of thousands have had to leave their homes california has already spent one hundred thirty million dollars fighting the flames that's one quarter of its annual firefighting budget the fires have destroyed nearly one thousand two hundred square kilometers of land those are the headlines and back with more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera next we continue with snow of the n.d.s. . good. while the government on the leaders may have regulated the growth of coca plants the production of cocaine continues unabated. the task of detecting drug activity relies on believe his own special onto narcotics police force they

for two women to go on trial for killing the a strange half brother of the north korean leader kim jong il and the pair one indonesian the other vietnamese are accused of murder for smearing a nerve agent on the face of kim jong nam in early twenty seventeen the women said they thought they were taking part in a t.v. prank turkey says it's ready to enter talks with the united states the dispute between these two nato allies escalated in the last week over the detention of an american pastor in turkey washington impose additional tariffs on turkish steel and aluminum while ankara has responded with its own measures the dispute has course the value of turkey's currency to plummet. and cats are says it will invest fifteen billion dollars in turkey's troubled financial sector the announcement came shortly after a meeting between the turkish president and the emir of qatar in ankara turkey was one of the first countries to offer support to cata after its neighbors imposed a blockade last year there's been an attack in the afghan capital kabul gunmen have targeted an intelligence services traini

so put the onus more on them than on kim jong-il who refused to denuclearization. >> then the optics you know, does this announcement from the president undermine the work of the secretary of state, even though, you know, sarah sanders, the white house spokesperson, said trump sent out this tweet canceling this visit even while pompeo was in the room so everybody knew about it? publicly, does did send the right message? >> to have the secretary of state announce a new envoy and then 24 hours later issue what really is a tepid rain check on this trip. the president left the door more than ajar. he said he looked forward to seeing chairman kim, his words, at a future date. president trump said kim jong-un is not keeping his commitments, he's not denuclearizing, he's still looking forward to seeing him. so you have to wonder why that is, if kim jong-un is still violating international law, a can't imagine that president trump needed any more evidence than what was in the iaea report earlier in the week saying they weren't denuclearizing to decide to cancel this trip. >> if it's not an e

three years now the two meetings are also said to have paved the way for a landmark summit between kim jong il and u.s. president donald trump in singapore in june a little earlier i spoke to reuters correspondent jason smith in the south korean capital seoul i asked him what's known so far about the agenda for the meeting. both koreas have been trying to move forward on a number of issues north korea's likely to tout what it says have been goodwill gestures on its behalf stopping its weapons testing program and providing or returning the remains of u.s. troops who were killed during the korean war in return for some kind of easing of sanctions south korea meanwhile is likely to push north korea to make more concessions on its weapons program bring back something that it can bring to those allies in washington who are very skeptical of north korea these days just mentioned this going to the third meeting between the two sides since april how significant are these talks or how deep is this stalled that we're seeing both koreas do seem very committed to least maintaining this level of interactio

speak about it quite regularly do you fear that even though he has the legal right to do so that kim jong il could be addressing the general assembly in september but i don't know i mean that i don't know and i mean you asked me a question and i haven't really given much thought about. but i mean the position that does it create the wrong impression that he's been well very bad well i think i think i mean clearly there were two would raise a lot of eyebrows and i mean the position of the u.n. as i understand it is that if you're indicted by an international court for. the atrocity crimes crimes against humanity war crimes crimes of the. crime of genocide then it should be really be impermissible for you to turn up in new york. but if there hasn't been a charge like that it's it's it's the evidence is still being collected although there's very strong indications of them or severe human rights conditions exist. and certainly there would be a lot of criticism of the un and high commissioner or an ex high commissioner wouldn't feel comfortable with that when you talk about technicalities that's

peninsula president gul trope has agreed to drop the drills at his historic summit with north korea's kim jong il no forget you can always get to know you news only good just download from google play or from the apple store i'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and also use the v.w. app to send us photos and videos. and leave you know with the awesome images of the thousands of aretha franklin fans who have come to bid farewell to the legendary us singer she died earlier this month at the age of seventy six after a battle with pancreatic cancer now her legacy is being celebrated stay with you. will not only. say. you know. i'm. glad my mom loves. the book. and. the book. the book. the book. the book. the body. that they took me and they laid me on the grounds for a while grips blow up and jump on me and i feel my ribs breaking. and he said a lot it seems that you don't want to confirm if you will confess if you don't confess we'll kill you if that that a lot of my mom she survived but tens of thousands of others are

north korea's leader, kim jong-il somehow decided to say koizumi was so close to bush and so expecting some economic aid. but koizumi didn't see it without condition. the clarification of objectives. a starting point, north korea first the abductions of japanese ordinary citizens. this time of course, trump administration, a strong show with north korea. for now, showing some room. we never know. the japanese don't know. so some kind of hedge is probably, if things are going so wrong like an agreement over denuclearization is implemented. the north koreans talk with the u.s., and that's ongoing. japan would face anyway japan needs to talk. japan is expected to help economic development aid and the japanese ordinary people's reactions is where is our abduction issue? and president abe himself makes this an issue. it is safe to say we are for the open china to talk about. that clearly, if things are talk toead, ready to such kind of things. but the abduction issue must become first. minister abe keeps telling president trump, and president trump clearly understands. he is a very amazingl

the first time is acknowledged problems with the deal he signed in june with north korea's leader kim jong il he says beijing isn't helping as much as it should be since he launched a trade war against it last month. ranger refugees living in bangladesh are holding protests to mark one years and symmetry crackdown forced them to flee from their homes in the more than seven hundred thousand range living in what's become the white biggest refugee settlement in the world. a judge in ecuador has suspended some of the entry restrictions for venezuelans imposed a week ago ecuador had announced that venezuelans needed to have a valid passport to get in the court order means they'll now be allowed in with just their id cards for the next forty five days. international committee of the right across says nearly one million ethiopians have been forced to flee their homes after a surge in local violence fighting between the auto mall and goodale people has been taking place along the border areas of goodale and west. paula zahn reports. these ethiopian families sheltering in a courthouse fled for their l

speak about it quite regularly do you fear that even though he has the legal right to do so that kim jong il could be addressing the general assembly in september but i don't know i mean that i don't know him and you asked me a question and i haven't really given much thought about. i mean the position the does it create the wrong impression that he's been well very bad well i think i think i mean clearly there were two would raise a lot of eyebrows and i mean the position of the u.n. as i understand it is that if you're indicted by an international court for. the atrocity crimes crimes against humanity war crimes crimes and. crime of genocide then it would be really be impermissible for you to turn up in new york. but if there hasn't been a charge like that it's it's it's the evidence is still being collected although there's very strong indications of them or severe human rights conditions exist. and certainly they would be a lot of criticism of the un and high commissioner or an ex high commissioner wouldn't you're comfortable with that when you talk about technicalities that's certainly

they had been suspended since that landmark meeting between donald trump and north korean leader kim jong il back in june as part of that meeting or of korea committed to and its nuclear weapons development program that the u.s. says there's been a lack of progress towards to nuclearization. there are reports a suicide car bombing in near the iraq syria border has killed at least eight people the attack targeted a checkpoint jointly manned by the iraqi army and allied she of fighters several people have also been injured colombia and peru have a great to set up a joint database of venezuelan migrants the announcement was made after a two day meeting both countries are struggling to manage the rapidly growing number of venezuelans crossing their borders are fleeing a deepening political economic crisis at home according to the u.n. more than two million people have fled venezuela since two thousand and fourteen those are the headlines keep it here inside story is next. china is keen to win friends and influence you need oil rich middle east this is part of the wrong turn land of china to secu

official since the historic summit between trump and kim jong il in june back then both sides agreed to restart their relations helping to bring a stable and lasting peace they reached a consensus on the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula while agreeing on security guarantees for north korea donald trump held the summit as a huge success. very proud of what took place today and it worked out for both of us far better than anybody even predicted it's an honor to be with you. except ben just. like. you well. you know. let's go live now to international affairs expert andrew young mr long thank you for joining us on the program to discuss this in your opinion how serious is this considering is coming from the official newspaper of the north korean ruling party. well one cannot. get on i that such aspin or. kind of subversive activities would be all stopped. once the two countries come in the talk about it on the table i think that this kind of. best time activities are always there not only between united states and north korea but amongst many other countries as well tha

told us that our dear leader kim il-sung created the nation and he gave us beloved son, his service, that was kim jong-un and they said their bye-bye but their spirit never days and they can -- the universe chose them. so i mean i had no internet no other information to know that there they were just human being. and i did not know they were not gods. >> host: so yeonmi park you write in your book the 1960s and 1970s were a very different time than when you grew up. >> guest: yes. >> host: what is a paradise in the '60s and '7s so. >> guest: it was no paradise. people were being persecuted, have no idea or concept of freedom of speech or compression or movement or religion. but they were not actually starving that much. they were -- not millions of people dying from star vision, even though they were persecutessed for political reasons 'the problem right now in north korea is not only they near political right, they don't have basic rights that require people to be alive, that -- i'm not even asking for the freedom of religion or movement, a lot of things. just like can we feed these people? why we ar

kim jung il lie embalmed. or as airbnb described it, "cozy bungalow, quiet neighbors, great view of dictator corpses." another-- ( cheers and applause ) sure, sure. another reason pompeo didn't have a good meeting with kim jongdidn't meet with kim jong-un. but kim had a very good excuse. turns out he was too busy visiting a potato farm to meet with u.s. secretary of state. but to be fair, a lot of people have trouble telling the difference between mike pompeo and a potato. ( laughter ) you say-- ♪ you say potato i say pompeo ♪ potato, pompeo let's call the nuke deal off ♪ ( laughter ) and the saddest part of all of this is that donald trump is president. but also sad-- ( cheers and applause ) but also sad, mike pompeo had a gift for kim that he never got to deliver. remember when donald trump was threatening to blow up the world and calling kim jong-un "little rocket man?" well, he thought it would be fun to send pompeo with an elton john cd with the song "rocket man." and the cd is signed. it's not signed by elton john-- it's signed by president trump. ( as trump ) "dear kim, i didn't write this, but i did listen to it. put it on to remember that time i insulted your penis. ( laughter ) stay sweet, have a g