going to be on the white house or at the next big hurdle there has most of from the graduate school of east asian studies at their free university here in berlin thank you very much. now some other stories making news around the world militants of the boko haram islamist group have killed at least eighteen people after they attacked a military base in two villages near the nigerian city of my duty dozens of people were wounded officials said the militants fired mortars that troops on the base and suicide bombers detonated explosives in the village. increase security restrictions are in place in the indian controlled kashmir a day after twenty people died in clashes between militants of security forces much of the region is also on strike on sunday four civilians were gunned down by troops for protesting anti militancy operations that had killed sixteen troops and rebels earlier in the day. a defunct chinese space station has reentered the earth's atmosphere years after scientists lost contact with it that one was launched in two thousand and eleven and served as china's first space station astronomers sa

to be on the white house or at the next big hurdle there how does muslim from the graduate school of east asian studies at the free university here in berlin thank you very much now to some other stories making news around the world militants of the boko haram islamist group of killed at least eighteen people after they attacked a military base in two villages near the nigerian city of my ducati dozens of people were wounded officials that the militants fired mortars the troops on the base and suicide bombers detonated explosives in the village. in coasta rica the center left. has decisively won the presidential election with nearly all the votes counted the electoral commission announced that casey had taken almost two thirds of the vote he defeated a conservative evangelical preacher who opposed same sex marriage nobel peace prize winner malala yousafzai has left pakistan after making her first visit to the country since being shot in two thousand and twelve use of side rose to prominence after taliban militants tried to kill her for promoting girls' education she said she plans to return permanently

photo opportunities and headlines how this must look as director of research at the graduate school of east asian studies and welcome to t.w. we saw the declarations in the report has anything of substance been achieved today absolutely they put their pledges into writing this was the necessary condition for bringing about a peace process so they showed the world on it with this document their sincerity regarding they wish their will to to improve the situation denuclearization of course is one of the big prizes that was held up as a pledge by south korea's president in his statement whereas kim jong un in his statement afterwards didn't mention it both sides really on the same page i would definitely say so literally i mean they put it on the same page and they signed it that he didn't mention it in his speech i think we don't have to overrated the important thing is that kim jong un himself he knows that there is no other way than denuclearization and he said that a couple of times in recent other meetings so he's it's only the question when how and who would implement these pledges including the. denu

photo opportunities and headlines how this must lead as director of research at the graduate school of east asian studies here and welcome to g.w. we saw the declarations in the report has anything of substance been achieved today absolutely they put their pledges into writing this was the necessary condition for bringing about a peace process so they showed the world on it with this document their sincerity regarding their wish their will to to improve the situation denuclearization of course is one of the big prizes that was held up as a pledge by south korea's president in his statement whereas kim jong un in his statement afterwards didn't mention it both sides really on the same page i would definitely say so literally i mean they put it on the same page and they signed it that he didn't mention it in his speech i think we don't have to overrated the important thing is that kim jong un himself he knows that there is no other way than denuclearization and he said that a couple of times in recent other meetings so he's it's only the question when how and who would implement these pledges including the

joined now in the studio behind us most of the who's the director of research at the graduate school of east asian studies here in berlin thank you so much for joining us in these seem like very significant developments in the grand scheme of things but are we just witnessing symbolic gestures here or is this actually a thawing of relations between the two koreas you have to let you write this was a very important meeting it was very successful judging from what they put down in writing today and publicized to the to the public and even the symbolism was very important important to shoulder korean people into to show the people of the world and at least to show donald trump we are sincerely interested in moving things ahead now we know that denuclearization is on the table and this is something the u.s. has been trying to get north korea to do for decades now why would the north give up what seems to be their biggest bargaining chip well that's very simple now since they now have their nuclear weapons in place to a certain extent develop so they have very self-assured we have the power to bog and even wit