president donald canceled a highly-anticipated summit with north korean leader kim jong-il and.rump blamed the decision on "open hostility from pyongyang." but the collapse of the talks will raise questions about the hawkish stance from within the white house, those hawkish attitudes seized upon by pyongyang. in the meantime, trump has conceded that an opportunity for peace may have been missed. >> based on the recent statement of north korea, i have decided to terminate the planned summit in singapore on june 12 >> -- on june 12. while many things can happen, and a great opportunity lies ahead potentially, i believe this is a tremendous setback for north korea and indeed, a setback for the world. correspondent: he for this address, trump informed the world and north korea's leadership in a letter, quite unusual for president accustomed to making major announcements on twitter. this time, he needed more than 100 40 characters to convey his disappointment about kim jong-un's recent display of "tremendous anger and open hostility." it means there potentially historic meeting is no

and of course we saw the meeting the historic meeting between the president of south korea and kim jong il and laying the groundwork for this upcoming summit between donald trump and kim jong un had always been hoped that that would sort of set the scene that if that injury into korean summit went well then the u.s. north korean summit could go ahead and it's hoped that will really be a turning point here on the korean peninsula to diffuse the situation that had been really escalating last year when we saw regular missile tests and north korea's biggest ever nuclear test. these three americans on the early foreign nationals being held in north korea south korea pushing for the release of six of its citizens japanese nationals are also being held against their will in north korea. that's right that's something that japan has often brought up of course we often talk about the geopolitics around the situation even though of course it must be said these are human beings that are being held in north korea first and foremost the families of the americans the south koreans the japanese who remain

also heads north korea's former spy chief heads to new york ahead of a planned summit between kim jong il and donald trump. a bid to end italy's political deadlock the prime minister and president are expected to hold talks and a trucker's strike that's brought brazil to a standstill now threatens to spill into the oil sector. helo after a day of strikes between israel and palestinian armed factions there appears to be relative calm. on tuesday is really warplanes carried out several airstrikes targeting what they call military sites across the besieged on klav islamic jihad and other factions had launched rocket and mortar attacks on israel after their fighters were killed earlier. in a separate development israel has released some palestinian protesters detained on a boat that was headed to cyprus they attempted to breach israel's naval blockade of gaza for the first time from inside the besieged enclave we'll talk about that with bernard smith and just a moment he is joining us from gaza but first what are you hearing about this cease fire and does it appear to be sticking for now. dur

doesn't give up too much in order to achieve some sort of victory in his eyes from his talks with kim jong il at the same time president moon of south korea who in many ways has brought kim jong un and donald trump together he's been integral to this whole process and recently a saturday meeting kim jong il in person hugging him looking like him on the surface anyway kim jong un's best diplomatic friend while at the same time having donald trump say he wants to get involved as well it's very likely he'll travel to singapore he probably won't be in the bilateral meeting between kim jong un and donald trump at the beginning but it's quite possible he might meet in the minutes or hours afterwards also in singapore so all these leaders from asian countries and of course singapore and thing of course prime minister as well they are after all she will probably to meet in his country he'll also want to talk about kim jong un and will trump for a summit so all these leaders all focused on june the twelfth in singapore if it still is if it happens and thank you very much for that for now that's added

said our united states team has arrived in north korea to make arrangements for the summit between kim jong il and myself i truly believe north korea has a brilliant potential and will be a great economic and financial nation one day kim jong un agrees with me on this it will happen and he might as well be talking about the summit there happening because as he suggests in that tweet all signs are that it is happening a team is on its way now from washington d.c. to singapore we also hear that a north korean delegation has been spotted changing planes at beijing there on route to singapore as well they should all arrive the same time late night singapore time on monday meanwhile those talks that kim jong il talks about in his tweet are happening in just on the north korean side of the border right now they're led on the american side by a man called song kim he's currently the ambassador to the philippines but he was the ambassador here in south korea he has a very very good knowledge of the north korean nuclear situation he was president bush and then president obama's delegate to the six six

a senior north korean official heads to new york ahead of a planned summit between kim jong il and now donald trump. and as greece's financial aid program nears its sad workers from its energy sector angry over more reforms. hello we've got the usual rash of showers across southeast asia some big ones there into thailand over one hundred millimeters of rain here twenty four hours in those big dam pose will continue to trundle away from aced to west so more storms gathering together southern parts of the mill a potential northern areas of sumatra seeing some bigger lively downpours not wall to wall downpours but still plenty of heavy showers in the heat of the day lots of sunshine ahead of fact they go as you go on into thursday more of those heavy showers through much of the philippines down into malaysia indonesia on the other hand does look like is drying out quite nicely over the next couple of days jakarta

president to promptly cancels a planned summit with the north's leader kim jong il and we'll ask who can now pick up the diplomatic ball after trump's dramatic u. turn. also coming up for years he ruled hollywood but today harvey weinstein faces arrest in new york the disgraced movie mogul is expected to surrender to police after an avalanche of accusations of sexual assault and rape. and voting is underway in arlin's historic abortion referendum but mainly catholic nation has one of the strictest abortion laws in europe a close result is expected. hello i'm terry martin thanks for tuning in north korea says it will start talks with still wants talks rather with the united states insisting that it's open to them it any time this after u.s. president all trump abruptly canceled a highly anticipated summit with north korea's leader kim jong il and in a message to kim president trump blamed his decision on quote open hostility from pyongyang south korea has expressed regret that the summit is not going ahead. donald trump's letter that puts a plan summit with north korea on ice the u.s.

zero went to pyongyang over the easter weekend and it didn't plan initially to have a meeting with kim jong il but he did have a meeting with kim jong il and the meeting went well. that's a very good step step in the right direction but we know that between now and the time when this deal is concluded there's a hundred ways that occur blow up every day we know pompei as history and that would not make us optimistic that is going to be a moderating force pump ayos hawkish statements over many years. his openly brandishing his ideas about american exceptionalism. reinforced donald trump's america first policy this idea of make america great again that's not the message that the world wants. exclusive video from yemen now as r.t. has spoken to the groom who survived a saudi led as strike that hit his wedding party at the end of april the attack left over a dozen of his friends and family dead. at the moment of the bombardment the rocket landed and the whole world turned red and i felt that i was turning in the many were killed most struck you know. there was some victims who were tune in home oth

want to take a listen to what nancy pelosi said today about the cancellation about the image of kim jong il and and about the treatment of the state department by u.s. president trying. he got global recognition and regard he's the big winner and we got this letter from the president saying ok never mind he must be having a giggle fit right there now and north korea and telling young it's unfortunate because as you say you want to be optimistic and be hopeful that something can come of something but it can't come of something if it's built on just saying i know everything i don't need defense i don't need state department knowledge of the subjects let's let's deplete the state department let's do this then the other thing is really a very sad thing. so harsh words there what does all of this tell us about the credibility of the white house is trying to nail more unpredictable the middle. of a policy statement points to a lot of democrats and critics think which is essentially that north korea has taken the united states for a right here that kim jong un was able to secure what would have be

gadhafi was toppled in twenty eleven north korea the north korean spy chief and senior official kim jong il is headed to the u.s. after stopping over in beijing he's likely to hold discussions with u.s. officials regarding a possible summit between kim jong il trump. well japan's prime minister shinzo says he'll also be meeting trump before any summit goes ahead in singapore the two also spoke on the phone about japanese citizens being held by north korea. the abduction victims today and have conveyed the feelings to u.s. president donald trump and discussed how important it is to resolve this issue also we agreed to have a japan u.s. summit before the u.s. north korea summit colombia's military says it's killed eleven dissident members of the former rebel group in the country's south the defense minister says they had been threatening politicians entrepreneurs and civilians in the region the operation comes a day after the first round of colombia's presidential election government's peace deal with the fark has been one of the main issues. those are the headlines on al-jazeera earthrise is

young troll is now planning to travel to washington to deliver a personal letter from chairman kim jong il the proposed summit offers a historic opening for president trump and chairman kim to boldly lead the united states in the d.p. r. k. into a new era of peace prosperity and security our two countries face a pivotal moment in our relationship in which it could be nothing short of tragic to let this opportunity go to waste in my conversations with chairman kim jong un to be on young and today with vice chairman kim young i've been very clear the president trump of the united states objective is very consistent and well know the complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the korean peninsula present troubles also made it clear that if kim jong un denuclearize there is a brighter path for north korea we envision a strong connected and secure prosperous north korea that maintains its cultural heritage but is integrated into the community of nations we think that working together the people of the united states and north korea can create a future defined by friendship and coll

and we knew very little about kim jong-il. there was one thing that we did know and i take-- dennis rodman was all my fault because we did know that they liked basketball and that kim jong-il liked michael jordan. so i took offer a basketball autograph of michael jordan and that was-- >> the idea, madam secretary carrying in a diplomatic pouch this basketball photo is great. but-- >> did you brief dennis rodman? >> no, never-- but i do think that what is interesting is how smart and informed kim jong-il was. we had a lot of kind of back and forth about basketball, but then basically he was in-- he technically knew an awful lot of things. we were actually talking about missile limits at the time. he did not consult his experts. he really was able to talk about various aspects of the programs, and he spent a lot of time on it. it was very interesting. he also could be very gracious, i mean, it was all kind of dinners and all kinds of things, but i think that he was determined to make some progress. the problem was that it was-- w

claims what he calls the quote open hostility and anger in the latest comments from north korea's kim jong il and that is despite the young and decommissioning its nuclear test site look at the latest from washington. also coming up germany's on the american is in china for high stakes talks the chancel gets a warm reception in beijing as the two countries grappled with the friends of trickery in washington we'll bring you up to speed on day one because her visit. both sides on ireland's abortion debate get set to vote tomorrow the country will decide in a referendum whether to reform the catholic country strict rules on terminating pregnancy. also on the show germany gets set to defend its song for world talks the world cup title coach at yorkhill no still has to decide who like the trip to russia after an injury is goalkeeper month long neuer up to the task. and remembering the legendary operate diva maria collins will take a look at a new documentary exploring her life and legacy forty years after her death. i'm sumi so much gonda good to have you with us we start with some breaking news o

kim jong un sultan easily. >> how is this different? >> north korea had a reporter, president clinton had the famous photo, looking like a hostage himself. had to be obsequious. and if kim jong-ilmp on neutral soil is a change. rob: there are bragging rights for kim jong un. having the president of the united states considering you, a small little hermit kingdom. >> it is an accomplishment for them. the concept of truth is great, the fact that donald trump didn't have a meeting, that is how they operate. also to concessions without the meetings having been held. digging in their heels, and the japanese run up the issue. and in the middle of having the negotiation. this is a big step and we have three hostages, 25 million more hostages to go. >> it is fair to celebrate and be thrilled and happy for what plays out in the we hours of the morning. how do we feel and look forward from here? skeptical, optimistic? >> we look at their actions and these are concrete demonstrable moves the things that we want, that they should want as well to be a country in the 21st century and not the 19th. rob: looking at this situation in early june when they meet supposedly in singapore i don't see

though as pyongyang destroyed its nuclear facility double trump said he would not be meeting with kim jong il you know the schedule summit in june however just the following day he backed away from that statement. what happened. to that very much want to do or we'd like to go to the white house. just so i did to terminate the plan summit in singapore in june twelfth. everybody you know you know that better than anybody who knows what he's up to i'd suspect least of all donald trump knows what he's about i mean this is somebody who jumped into that meeting first of all quicker than a ferret supper drainpipe there is no policy behind it this is somebody who is into making headlines and appeasing the base and yesterday that needs to not go down well with his base supporters that he had pulled out of this meeting he'd always seen it as a chance to make make peace on the korean peninsula which would be world breaking his strait and i think you saw yesterday he saw all about dissolving. hopes of a meeting between the u.s. north korean leaders were high with the u.s. even issuing a coin showing the

state mike pompeo discussed the proposed meeting between president trump and north korean leader kim jong-il and -- kim jong-un on june 12. he talked about the trump administration's strategy toward iran and filling senior administration level positions. this was 15 minutes. >> how are you today? i brought in a special guest with me today, mike pompeo, who is going to give you a quick briefing out of his meetings with the white house today. some of you may have questions following on the secretary's iran speech. he has a few minutes to take over your questions, then i will handle the rest of the briefing. secretary pompey -- secretary pompeo, welcome. glad to have you here. secretary pompeo: good evening everyone. it has been one month since i have been here. i made a handful of commitments at the beginning, not the least of which was i would put the team back on the field. we have taken steps in working toward that. there remains a great deal of work to do. you should know i am committed to that. we will get there. we have listed the hiring freeze. than the mosther talented people including

expected summit with the us foreign minister sergey levitt office in pyongyang where he met leader kim jong il and he told kim that russia wants peace and progress on the korean peninsula and also vital taim to moscow at the request of president putin. it is absolutely obvious that starting any discussion of the nuclear problem and all other programs on the korean peninsula they cannot be complete without repealing all sanctions on north korea how that will go ahead will be a question of the skill of the negotiators but it cannot be done in one sitting one cannot provide denuclearization in one sitting so of course there must be several stages and in every stage there must be a two way road. more now from our correspondent in seoul rob mcbride. so gay lover of becoming the most senior russian official to meet with kim jong un since he came to power delivering the invitation to visit moscow to add to what is already a very busy summit itinerary for kim and also it came after lavrov is meeting with the north korean foreign minister after which he made his statement very much supporting north kor

state mike pompeo discussed the proposed meeting between president trump and north korean leader kim jong-il on june 12. he talked about the trump administration's i strategy toward iran and filling senior administration level divisions. this was 15 minutes. -- level positions. >> how are you today? i brought in a special guest with me today, mike pompeo, who is going to give you a qui

kim jong-il, kim jong-un-- >> the thing that's probably most important, determinative of a person's behavior is their experience. and kim il-sung, kim jong-il had very different kinds of experiences. the current leader was a child of privilege. he grew up and everything was given to him. everybody respected him. >> right. >> he had no qualms a year or two after taking power of executing his uncle. these are not the kind of -- this does not reflect the kind of behavior of a person who wants to get along with other people. this suggests the person who is used to getting his own way and if he doesn't get his own way, he throws a tantrum. now, it may be that he's reached the point where he can s say, i can't throw a tantrum, maybe he's learned that he can't get everything with a tantrum and he's got to use more positive means to try to effect the change that he wants, ie, economic development and lifting sanctions in order to be able to move forward. i'm -- he is a different person than his father and his grandfather, but to say that that's positive, i'm not sure that we're there yet. >> i see.

kim jong il on out it. into the sunshine and has an open and shone in the pot through it to global integration and as well as not science reconciliation. in the south korean progressive government has the lead this process for reconsideration which has dramatically altered the dynamics on the on the korean peninsula of course the olympics also have helped and therefore it is north and south they extend that they leave the process that they would have dragged the other parties along including the united states and credit allies with the peninsula parties ok john let me go to you more or less the same question here because the dynamic changes considerably if there is a peace between the two koreas after sixty eight years they start coming to some kind of defense and security measures that both can accept then regime change as it were that we hear so many people talking about in in the washington foreign policy blob that kind of is taken off the table because that would not be in south korea's interests go ahe

president and north korea's leader but now concerns are growing in washington that kim jong il and might ditch the meeting planned for june twelfth in singapore trump was still cautiously optimistic as he welcomed south korean president. their talks focused on efforts to convince john young to denuclearize and accept a lasting peace despite aggressive signals from the north korean capital. kim reiterated his unwillingness to completely dismantle north korea's nuclear program saying he needed to guarantee his political longevity well we're moving on and we'll see what happens there are certain conditions that we want and i think we'll get those conditions and if we don't we don't have the meeting and frankly it has a chance to be a great great meeting for north korea and a great meeting for the world. if it doesn't happen maybe it will happen later maybe it will happen it is different. if the summit is canceled the memorial coin depicting trump and kim which is already been minted may be obsolete before it's even been released. over the next few days several foreign journalists who've bee

pyongyang aimed at getting this summit back on track on thursday trump canceled the meeting with kim jong il but in his latest tweet us presidents of the talks could still take place on june the twelfth in singapore and to thomas joining us from seoul so this summit was a surprise to the local media as well andrew. a complete surprise and the latest twist in this roller coaster of news that we've had over the last forty eight hours it was under forty eight hours ago in fact that donald trump canceled the summit but the moves in washington and in seoul since have seemed to be a bit more positive the summit could yet be salvaged but this is the biggest step forward by some measure along that road this is the second summit between kim jong il and president moon the first of course on april the twenty seventh but that was a very public affair everybody knew about the advance the t.v. cameras were there to capture the historic moment in contrast this one that's happened saturday afternoon on the korean peninsula time took place without any fanfare obviously showed you a lot of the last moments an

the three men are kim jong il tony kim and kim hawke song all are americans who were imprisoned in north korea for between one and two years for quote anti-state activities the charges are widely seen as bogus. secretary of state mike pompei i made a thirteen hour visit to the hermit kingdom to arrange the planned summit between trump and came down on us in the process pump air also secured the men's release so the country is new torrijos for its harsh labor camps. were ready to go we were treated in many different ways. for me i had to do a lot of labor. in. the world but when i got sick i was also treated by them you know if i want to go to. trump seems to think this is a sure sign that kim is ready to reconcile he even thanks the north korean leader for freeing the men but kim is every bit as unpredictable as his american counterpart and it's unclear if today show peacemaking will lead to actual peace. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world attackers knife with guns and knives struck a mosque and there's the south african city of durban on thur

officials regarding a possible summit between north korean leader kim jong un and president donald trump kim jung il as considered the north korean leader's right hand man. colombia's government says eleven dissidents of the former fox rebel group have been killed in fighting with the army in the south the defense minister says they have been threatening politicians entrepreneurs and civilians in the region the violence comes a day after round one of the presidential poll in which a two thousand and sixteen deal with the fog was a major election issue was that up. this demonstrates our renewed ability to dismantle this residual group that has brought so much pain to this area of colombia we are continuing operations in the area. italy's president has appointed former i.m.f. official locata valley as interim prime minister to head a technocrat administration but the country's political crisis continues it comes after president says you're a matter of ela veto of plans after populist parties to form a coalition government here's what the new leader has been saying. that the government will maintain a

shortly after trump revealed that a date and location has been set for meeting north korea's leader kim jong il in trump previously suggested the meeting could take place in the demilitarized zone where kim and south korea's president held their historic summit last week christopher hill is a former u.s. ambassador to south korea and lead the u.s. delegation at the six party talks on the north korean nuclear issue and he says the location is just one of the many questions surrounding the summit. i would not focus too much on the venue i would focus on the fact that this is the first time you have a u.s. president meeting a north korean leader and the question is do they really know what they're going to talk about much less do they know what they're going to agree on normally in a high stakes summit like this you have a pretty clear understanding before the summit begins as to what the outcome is so far if there is such an understanding we're not privy to it the first thing they need to do is understand whether the north koreans are ready to give up their nuclear program there have been at some

koreas the two meetings between the chinese president and kim jong un and all the talk around the possible summit between donald trump and kim jong il and you got the feeling that this was about the japanese prime minister laying out japan's wishes what they need to see from this process going forward and in terms of the tripartite relationship when do you get the sense where you are that what donald trump's announce what ten hours ago on the iran nuclear deal colors their relationship and how they look in the on the north korean nuclear issue. well there was certainly no discussion of that or at least not publicly when the three leaders made their statements as i say the japanese prime minister was really the only one who spoke in specifics about the nuclear issue in north korea and his desire to see the korean peninsula fully denuclearized but the it was a feeling that the three need to be unified in their stance when it comes to the korean peninsula and also when it comes to trade and that sits them apart from the united states as well peter of course we've had the america first policy of the u.s. president donald trump and that

of state mike pompei or travel to north korea to finalize plans for a summit between trump and kim jong. il. really. really big. israel's defense minister says that his military has destroyed nearly all iranian bases inside syria avigdor lieberman says that more than a dozen targets were his it was in response to a ready and rockets fired at israeli positions in the occupied golan heights. mahathir mohamad says that he expects to be sworn in as prime minister following his surprise election win ninety two year old governed malaysia in the eighty's and ninety's led an oppositional alliance to the first election victory in sixty years he will replace najib razak his former president who was tainted by a government corruption scandal there's been some. is. a little understanding of the asian but we link to be clear that there is a and then you'll see here we need to form now the that is because i believe the government of malaysia. i think even. and even there in the wind is no or. a search and rescue operations on the way after a dam burst in central kenya heavy rain caused the patel dam in t

their doorstep and they won't be part of the planned meeting between president donald trump and kim jong il either. analysts say china's president who met kim jong un in late march wants to ensure that the chinese aren't left out of future talks that could possibly include the united states and i want to make sure that in any war on these questions china will have this here seat and that negotiating table it is hard to believe that china won't play a role in any future discussions it is in theory at least the only ally that north korea has and china was also a signatory to the one nine hundred fifty three armistice that ended hostilities on the korean peninsula but not the state of war that still exists between the two koreas adrian brown al jazeera in beijing. military spending is on the rise across the world according to a new report from sweden the russia is backing the trend with its expenditure falling for the first time in almost ten years the u.s. remains the world's top spender is expected to fork out even more the share are on a hot reports. two hundred and thirty dollars that's th

pompei o traveled to north korea to finalize plans for a summit between president donald trump and kim jong il. but israel's defense minister says has been the trees destroyed nearly all iranian military installations inside syria i think all lieberman says it's in response to iranian rockets fired at israeli positions in the occupied golan heights more on that story now from harry forces who is in israel the pied golan heights. literals military says twenty rockets were fired from inside syrian territory here towards the occupied golan heights and israeli targets here it says that four of those rockets were intercepted by israel and the other sixteen fell inside syrian territory nonetheless the response from israel was overwhelming and very different from the kind of strikes that israel's been carried out carrying out so far in syria during the course of the civil war it says dozens of iranian targets were struck in israel it says that it hit almost all of iran's infrastructure within israel the israeli military today saying that if iran wants to rebuild that infrastructure it will be a long

korea's nuclear program, and the proposed meeting between president trump and north korean leader kim jong-il -- kim jong-un. >> good morning, everyone. how are you doing? jim.ted to, my name is asak foundation usa -- peace foundation usa. we talk about u.s. japan security relations. is deepeningam ties, while confronting new challenges. we hope today will be a wonderful opportunity to assess the state of the security alliance, but also look at challenges we face in the future and assess how we might continue to strengthen our security alliance. before i introduce our keynote speaker, i wanted to recognize three special guests. peacee sasakawa foundation chairman. [applause] also from tokyo, sasakawa peace president and executive director. [applause] also, i wanted to recognize former secretary of agriculture, who did a wonderful job promoting congressional exchanges. i believe somewhere in the audience, too finally before we start. [applause] i did want to mention for those of you tweeting, we have a twitter handle #usandsecurities. we hope you will use that if you are tweeting about today's

mystery who is currently going to pompei or is going to be going to washington with a letter from kim jong il. absolutely important development this these negotiate going on in new york that started at a dinner here in new york on wednesday night in the continuing now on thursday or not the end of it is going to continue now to washington d.c. with that direct delivery of. from the north korean leader to the u.s. president the talks going on behind me are actually taking place in the residence that is normally used by the deputy ambassador to the united nations there isn't anyone actually in that job at the moment so using it as a secure location they keeping us the reporters while away the state department. their diplomats telling us perry little very little details of what's going on very careful not to give out too much information i have to say even eighteen months almost eighteen months in the trunk administration never ceases to surprise me because despite all our diplomatic efforts president trump in the white house is giving us a running commentary. i think it'll be very positive i th

korea's nuclear program, and the proposed meeting between president trump and north korean leader kim jong-ilkim jong-un. >> good morning, everyone. how are you doing? jim.ted to, my name is asak foundation

announcement of a summit with north korean leader kim jong-il and, moving -- kim jong-un, moving thembassy is proof of his desire change u.s. positions across international state. >> joining me now is james. he has done a documentary for france 24 called stateless in palestine. in the west bank, it seems there is little mobilization compared to what we're seeing in gaza. what is behind this lack of engagement? >> i was in the west bank. rates --hen the march the march started in gaza. there were a few demonstrations. ramallah. there were bailey at 100 people. when u.s. people -- there were barely 100 people. when you ask people why it is there is no mobilization in the west bank because political leadership are not calling for the mobilization. the government is very weak. president abbas is 82. he has been in power for a long time. a lot of people are saying we need fresh elections and fresh government. they are also saying they believe less and less in a two state solution. this is one of the big issues. the united states recognizing israel, sorry, jerusalem as the capital of israe

donald trump and the north korean leader may still take place kim jong un's right hand man has been seen on his way to the u.s. kim jung il is the vice chairman of north korea's ruling workers' party doesn't it thomas reports from the south korean capital there's been plenty of movement too with other players involved. with just one flight daily from pyongyang to beijing sharp eyed camera operators can watch and wait to see who steps off it's the man in the white shirt is kim yong stopping over in china before connecting on to a flight to the united states on wednesday kim yong heads north korea's into korean relations department and he's essentially the north korean leader on denuclearization talks he came to the winter olympics closing ceremony in south korea in february that events was the catalyst for the positive into korean relations since earlier this month he was at kim jong un side when u.s. secretary of state's mike pompei o visited pyongyang and last saturday he was in the room when the leaders of the two koreas met for that surprise summit that he's on his way now to the u.s. probably to meet pompei again bode

of trying to kim jong un for the americans to be released and he also worked with the north korean leader to lay out of the groundwork for the upcoming summit between trump and kim jong il. the u.s. could reimpose sanctions on iran as early as next week that follows president donald trump's withdrawal from the lombok international deal with the islamic republic to limit its nuclear capabilities his move has been widely criticized from london to tell from where as in bush has this report. god the day after the united states tore up the nuclear deal iran set it on fire members of parliament into one burned a printout of the international pact and the american flag a show of anger and disappointment over what they say is a mistake by washington i doubt all right all you more him miss nettled if europe an important countries like russia and china fill this international vacuum perhaps that will be a way to continue otherwise the islamic republic of iran will bring the us to its senses with its nuclear actions they have to know that under such circumstances iran has no commitment to remain in the nuclear position it was in before the iranians woke up to headlines that highli

donald trump abruptly canceled his meeting with north korean leader kim jong-il. -- kim jong-un. >> many papers are try to analyze this decision. we have seen breakup rhetoric. one paper said a week ago, an advance team from the white house went to singapore to meet with the north korean delegation, but they waited for three days and the north koreans never showed up. and when u.s. officials tried to call them, the north koreans did not return the phone calls. a classic case of ghosting. there are suggestions of them may have been another man in the picture, so to speak, and that is chinese president xi jinping. they pinpoint the meeting with xi as the moment his attitude started to change towards donald trump. things really were not the same anymore, and it is some thing that donald trump has commented on. thisme papers are seeing as a failure on the part of donald trump himself. >> a left-wing american website is calling it the art of the fail, taking on the title of trump's book. they say he handed north korea a win. "the new york times," surprisingly, is coming to donald trump's defe

past said a date and location has been set for his meeting this month with the north korean leader kim jong il and but the us president didn't clarify where or when this comes just after the historic summit between the north and the south korean leaders last month where kim pledged to work towards denuclearization across the korean peninsula we're having very substantive talks with north korea and a lot of things have already happened with respect to the hostages and i think you're going to see very good things as they said yes they do i think you're going to be seeing very very good thing. and also the trip is being scheduled we now have a date and we have a location will be announcing it. of course in the u.k. has ruled the human rights campaign is can proceed with a legal case aimed at stopping british arms sales to saudi arabia the campaign against arms trade says british weapons are being used in violation of international law in the war in yemen the u.k. has sold six point two billion dollars worth of bombs to the country since the saudi led campaign began in twenty fifteen the united na

think at the end of march when kim jong un came to beijing either summoned or invited here by president xi jinping and of course that came shortly after it emerged that kim jong il and president from were going to hold face to face talks talks that are due to happen sometime in late may or early june so there is now a flurry of diplomatic activity and china doesn't want to be on the sidelines i think it is talks in pyongyang the chinese foreign minister is going to be pushing the idea of china being involved in four party talks involving the united states china as well as leaders of the two koreas and of course next week in tokyo we will have talks involving the japanese prime minister the south korean president as well as china's premier league a chunk. time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back the french president takes office australia talk around trade and china high on the agenda plus. saddam seekers in the so-called migrant caravan remain hopeful as they wait patiently on the u.s. border proposing more in the state of. how i was still plenty of hot weather into eastern parts of europe but elsewhere the temperature is starting to fall away

what now for north korea donald trump canceled much awaited talks with kim jong il and. their ability now to change its mind sometime in the future to what happens to the world's nuclear weapons now this is inside story. and welcome to the program on this of pran i'm shocking perplexing and unexpected just some of the reactions to donald trump canceling his highly anticipated summit with ken jiang on and singapore next month the north said trump's decision was extremely regrettable a sentiment echoed worldwide as a missed opportunity for peace the u.s. president called it a sad moment of history and the white house blamed north korea's trade of broken promises in a letter to kim trump said sadly based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement i feel it's an appropriate at this time to have this long planned meeting you talk about your nuclear capabilities but our the so massive and powerful that i pray to god they'll never have to be used to spot trump surprise announcement north korea has not given up hope that talks will eventua

president has just told a cabinet meeting details of a historic summit with north korea's kim jong il will be revealed within three days but he has said the meeting will not be held inside the demilitarized zone between the north and the south and this just hours after three u.s. citizens imprisoned in north korea were freed they are now heading back home in a move seen as a goodwill gesture ahead of the summit kathy novak has more now from seoul. the release of the americans is another sign of the thawing relationship between pyongyang and washington and improves the climate for the proposed summit between donald trump and kim jong un the us president has pushed the case for months saying there's been constant pressure likewise fighting very diligently to get the three american citizens back reports that the three had been moved from a labor camp to a hotel in the capital was followed closely in south korea there they received better food and medical treatment this is what we know about the three men kim jong il is a south korean born u.s. citizen who worked as a religious minister i