for more let's go to seoul our correspondent jason strother is standing by jason the north says it's prepared to shut down the nuclear test site in mere weeks what more you can you tell us about this new development. and well evidently during their summit on friday kim jong un said this to president moon that in may he will be prepared to close down the site and invite international observers analysts experts that he will make the dismantlement of this of syllabi live public to the world and what do we know about this nuclear korean site. right well since two thousand and six this is the area that north korea has conducted all six of its nuclear tests there are four tunnels two of which seem to be in active right now but there are still two more tunnels there are reports however that due to the most recent test back last september north korea's strongest nuclear test to date that much of the facility was damaged including much of the mountain that is on top of the facility now kim jong il evidently told president moon during their summit that you know despite reports of this area bei

you know for more let's go to solve our correspondent jason strother is standing by jason the north says it's prepared to shut down the nuclear test site in mere weeks what more can you tell us about this new development. of it and lee kim jong moon said this to moon jay and during there some of this is all relayed today by president moon's office there of course there's been some speculation over the functionality of this of the three sites however kim jong un says that he's ready to bring international observers journalists whoever to watch this site get closed down sometime in may and that presumably means complete dismantlement they're saying that they're going to shut the site down within mere weeks what do we know about the north north korean nuclear site. right well it's built under a mountain and there are four tunnels that are that the point grace a site is made of the first two tunnels seem to be an active based on satellite imagery collected by observers at johns hopkins university the second tunnel was used during north korea's biggest nuclear test last september its sixth nu

we're going to go straight to seoul now waiting for us there jason strother one of our correspondents there jason the former president park geun hye found guilty on several charges just talk us through the charges the verdict in the sentence. sure she was found guilty of sixteen of the eight hundred pound suit against her these all revolved around a friendship she had with a woman named chase soon shill and the judge agreed that. president pock used her power as the leader of the nation to pressure the heads of companies like samsung to give millions of dollars to this friend of hers under the name of donations to charities they say that even if the president did not you know really srong arm these business leaders to donate just the mere fact that she was the president of the country would put a sort of burden on on these business officials to pony up whatever money they felt they needed to give and now she's being convicted sent a sentence of twenty four years in prison do people in south korea feel that that's appropriate. well the prosecution wanted thirty years and i'm sure many

joining me now is our correspondent jason strother in the south korean capital seoul welcome jason what is south korea hoping to get out of the summit. well i think just bringing kim jong moon down below the border was a an accomplishment itself but i think like we heard from some of the people in that package they just want a sense of calm and normality on the korean peninsula we have to remember that just at the end of last year there was talk about war erupting here again so i think deescalation of tensions is is that even very least that president moon can hope for although i think that the loftier goals would be for north korea to completely denuclearize as well as engage in dialogue that would lead to a peace treaty that would eventually that would ultimately and the korean war which only came to a conclusion with a cease fire agreement back in one nine hundred fifty three that's going to be a hugely symbolic step and the north korean leader kim jong il on call says and steps across the border into the thought oh my this again how this summit came a lot and why now at the beginnin

president right jason strother in so it's outgoing i thank you very much for that thank you. you know being up the if it's along the stories making news around the. the deadly van attack in the german city of mr three weeks ago has now claimed a fourth life police say a seventy four year old man who'd previously been seriously injured in the rampage has died in hospital the driver who killed himself is thought to have had mental health problems. armenia's parliament says it will elect a new prime minister on the first of may this follows a massive anti-government demonstrations in the country that force veteran leadership. to resign from the post of prime minister on monday he was accused of making a power grab opposition leaders are calling for protests and demanding the governing party also gives up power. the philippines has closed its most famous holiday. to tourists for a six month clean up heavy commercialization over development have taken a toll on the ones pristine island security forces have been deployed to enforce the shutdown but businesses relying on tourism say

next month to discuss nuclear disarmament for now the conflict is not over it's on standby and jason strother has been following the developments between the two koreas and he joins us now from seoul so jason just how significant is this move by south korea to silence is propaganda loudspeakers. well the propaganda loudspeakers have always irritated north korea a few years ago it almost sparked a battle along the d.m.z. so by shutting down these speakers it is pretty much just a gesture of good will have this summit this friday. now this move by south korea is being viewed as a gesture of goodwill and head of friday's planned meeting between south korean president lee j. in and the north korean leader kim jong il and what can you tell us is being expected from those talks. well there are some hopes that the two leaders could discuss signing a peace treaty that would officially bring an end to the korean war we have to remember that one thousand nine hundred fifty three only a cease fire agreement was signed but that is perhaps still a long way ahead all right well we do know that north korea

joins us now from seoul the korean capital of south korean capital jason strother who's been following this verdict for us jason good to have you with us what is. or what has president park geun hye being convicted on exactly give us more detail on the charges that she's now being found guilty off right well former president pock who is the the first south korean president to have been impeached was found guilty of sixteen of the eighteen charges that were brought up against or primarily she was found guilty of pressuring some of the country's largest conglomerates like samsung to give millions of dollars to a very close friend of hers and the judge said that even if president that not explicitly pressure the heads of these conglomerates just by mere fact that she is was the president was a nothing to cause some degree of concern or fear for these conglomerates and pretty much do whatever the president asked them to do what about public the public's feelings in south korea they support it. right well the spite maybe some of the images we've seen of flag waving protesters the majority o

joining me now is correspondent jason strother in the south korean capital so a welcome jason of this is being billed as a high stakes sunlight what is south korea hoping to get out of it. i think just the fact that they've gotten north korea's leader kim jong un to come to south korea is one major accomplishment but i think something else that president moon is going to discuss is the possibility of drawing up a peace treaty that would officially end the korean war we have to remember back in one nine hundred fifty three that conflict only came to a close with a cease fire agreement now offering kim jong moon a peace treaty or the potential of signing a peace treaty could lead to an even bigger objective and that would be the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula and that is a political objective one of the expectations of ordinary people because in nine hundred fifty three i mean families were divided and these decades of course today has taken quite a toll on the people on the divided and insular. sure i mean another five ten years there's going to be almost no one aliv

correspondent jason strother is in the south korean capital seoul he told me about expectations ahead of the into korean summit. right oh i think this summit between the korean leaders will really set the agenda for the expected trump and kim summit north korea has always regarded this out there as the junior negotiating partner certainly some. resolutions or some symbolic agreements can be made during the summit tomorrow maybe we could even see a resumption of family reunions between north and south korean relatives who've been separated for decades but any real concessions that kim is prepared to make would have to comment out of direct talks with the u.s. . assistance to other insult to some other stories making today's news headlines defense lawyers. a former member of a neo nazi like use of murdering ten people more than a decade ago a call for a maximum jail term of ten years for their client a shop has been on trial for moving forward he is a suspected accomplice in the so-called and this you killings. germany's bundestag has referred its commitment to the existence of the stat

the correspondent jason strother is in the south korean capital so he outlined expectations ahead of the into korean summit. right oh i think this summit between the korean leaders will really set the agenda for the expected trump and kim summit north korea has always regarded the south that as the junior negotiating partner certainly some. resolutions or some symbolic agreements can be made during the summit tomorrow maybe we could even see a resumption of family reunions between north and south korean relatives who've been separated for decades but any real concessions that kim is prepared to make would have to come out of direct talks with the u.s. . the french president emanuel macross just ended his street a visit to washington with much of the focus on the supposed bromance between him and president trump as to spite the french president's defense off the iran nuclear deal and these harsh words for america first policy now it's i'm going to german chancellor angela merkel's time she'll be meeting president trump at the white house on friday to discuss the same issues but will s

many thanks for that jason strother reporting from the south korean capital seoul. and we are going to turn to the other big story of the day the war of words over the poisoning of expiry gates crippling his daughter the war of words is escalating at the moment at the united nations security council last night the russian and british ambassadors to the u.n. facing off in a fiery exchange over the alleged nerve agent attack london is sticking to its accusation that moscow is the chief suspect for that attack russia denies any wrongdoing sara guy and yulia script for weeks the british government has accused russia of trying to kill them now the kremlin is using the u.n. to go on the offensive. we're going to verbs with guns and we've told our british colleagues you're playing with fire and you'll be sorry i don't think the british investigators are grateful to the british government for their hasty and unequivocal statements and conclusions and a long and blistering speech moscow's envoy reached for alice in wonderland to argue that it was russia who were the victims

joining me now is our correspondent in the south korean capital seoul jason strother welcome jason so what it is south korea expecting from this summit. i think south korea would like to get some sort of the surance from kim jong un that he is serious about denuclearizing however many analysts say that's just highly unlikely that north korea although it has said it's going to hold its nuclear weapons development would actually turn over its existing warheads now something that the south korean president could put out there to. some pressure on kim to give up his weapons would be to initiate talks on signing a peace treaty that would replace the one nine hundred fifty three korean war cease fire agreement so that's a pretty big a wish list jason that will be a dramatic and a symbolic step when it came john on crosses into the south for the first time first leader in many decades let's first take a look at the history of the two koreas before we come back and have a conversation it says the third ever into a korean family let's look at how we got to this point korea was for a split off