in 2012 the world's press was full of reports about north korea dictator kim jong il had died in december 27th and now everyone was wondering what north korea would be like under the leadership of his son 28 year old kim jong il. an old asian proverb says seeing with your own eyes is better than hearing a 1000 reports so in early 2013 my friend philip and i decided to visit north korea the 1st challenge lay in actually booking the trip. we normally plan our trips abroad ourselves but individual tourism doesn't exist in north korea even booking the entry into parts or arrangements are dealt with by a state agency. before entering the country we had to sign a paper declaring that our visit had no journalistic purpose. we had to get permission if we wanted to take photos and film and sound recordings were forbidden . all the following material was shot on a camera with a built in video function. i hid the blinking red recording light with black sticky tape. we were only vaguely aware of the hot water we might end up in but we still wanted to smuggle as much footage as possible back to german

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and the coronavirus hits north korea leader kim jong il and calls an emergency meeting after a person shows of symptoms of covert 19 the isolated country has so far claimed to have avoided the pandemic. i'm married to evanston it's good to have you with us we began in the united states where ceremonies are being held to honor the late civil rights icon john lewis lewis his casket is now lying in state at the alabama state capitol after it was carried across the edmund pettus bridge in the city of selma in a highly symbolic tribute 55 years ago on a day now known as a bloody sunday lewis and other peaceful protesters were beaten by police as. they marched across the bridge calling for voting rights for african-americans lewis who became a highly respected congressman died of cancer a week ago at the age of 80. we'll have more on the ceremony in selma alabama in just a moment but 1st we have this look back at the life of john lewis and why so many people in the united states hold him in such high esteem. his death brought the capitol to a standstill flags flew at half mast silence on th

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with foreign leaders especially authoritarian foreign leaders let's take the north korean leader kim jong il and you were present at 2 out of 3 meetings between trump and kim you said there were times when we were very close to making concessions that i think even prior administrations like the clinton and obama administrations wouldn't have made was some willing to give away the shop what kinds of concessions do you mean. well i don't think he understood what he was doing i think he he he longed for a deal with north korea on the nuclear weapons program i don't think he studied the issue closely enough to know what the ramifications of different terms that were offered were i think ultimately in the case of the her noise some of the 2nd meeting where he did walk away from a proposal by north korea that i thought entirely inadequate he did so because he knew that if he were to accept that it would have produced a volcanic political reaction in america from the republican party and he fundamentally couldn't do that and that really was the sort of reaction that troubled me the most that he did

president on all trumps the foreign policy especially his dealings with china paying and north korea's kim jong il when you were present at 2 out of 3 meetings between trump and kim you said there were times when we were very close to making concessions that i think even prior administrations like the clinton and obama administrations wouldn't have made was willing to give away the shop what kinds of concessions do you mean. well i don't think he understood what he was doing i think he he he longed for a deal with north korea on the nuclear weapons program i don't think he studied the issue closely enough to know what the ramifications of different terms that were offered were i think ultimately in the case of the high noise summit the 2nd meeting where he did walk away from a proposal by north korea that i thought entirely inadequate he did so because he knew that if he were to accept that it would have produced a volcanic political reaction in america from the republican party and that he fundamentally couldn't do that and that really was the sort of reaction that troubled me the most that he di

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its 1st case of corona virus may have been brought in from south korea pictures were broadcast of kim jong il and chairing a meeting to announce the measure state media says the suspected case is a defector who fled to south korea years ago before returning illegally last week south korea says it's investigating sarah clarke is following the story from hong kong she says it's unclear whether the patient was tested for corona virus. well this person who defected 3 years ago to south korea the return date back to north korea was on july 19th and he suspected or he or she is suspected of having covert 19 other reports don't indicate if he or she has had the official coronavirus test and said that the suggestion is that there's been several medical check ups showing respect for the symptoms that are linked to or a similar to those that you have with the crowd a virus that if confirmed as you mentioned this would be the 1st case officially acknowledged by north korea kim jong un has had the emergency meeting has declared a state of emergency also that border city of case one has been put into a lo

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close song on the lockdown after a suspected covert 19 infection the state news agency says leader kim jong il has declared a state of emergency in the area it's the 1st time that north korea has officially reported a suspected corona virus infection. hundreds of nicaraguans a stranded at the border with costa rica authorities in nicaragua are preventing them entering the measures to contain the coronavirus the government says nicaraguans must show proof that they've taken a covert $900.00 test in the last 3 days. protests are underway in the u.s. city of portland for another night anger over the presence of federal agents sent by president donald trump is not going to the demonstrations sparked by the death of george floyd have gone on for more than 8 weeks. thousands of protesters have gathered outside the israeli prime minister's residence. demanding his resignation many people are angry with benjamin netanyahu over his handling of the pandemic and his corruption trial. the son of jailed saudi clerics. is accusing the kingdom of human rights abuses against his family he was arrested 3 years

north korea has reported its 1st suspected case of code 19 north korean leader kim jong il and reportedly convened an emergency meeting of his ruling workers' party on saturday to discuss an emergency in case on city the state news agency says it was a person who defected to south korea 3 years ago and returned 6 days ago after illegally crossing the border brazil's president says he's not tested negative for corona virus after spending weeks in quarantine with covert 19 so your boss an arrow posted this photo on twitter showing him with a box of hydrox a cork when he says he's been taking the anti-malarial drug even though it hasn't proved effective in studies both scenarios regularly downplayed this downplayed excuse me of the severity of the outbreak but his country has now reported more than 86000 coronavirus deaths with over 1200 in just the past day and 2300000 confirmed cases old together the sundering petit is joining us from bogota and since he made that announcement. has been spotted out in the capital. yes that arena as soon as he was cleared from the virus see this i have to g

cairo song on the lockdown after a suspected covert 19 infection the state news agency says leader kim jong il has declared a state of emergency in the area. brazil's president has tweeted that he has tested negative for corona virus while posing with a box of an anti malarial truck diable sonata spent weeks in quarantine with covert 19 they followed the u.s. president in promoting the use of hydroxy clora queen although it has not proved effective in studies thousands of protesters gathered outside the israeli prime minister's residence in west roussillon demanding his resignation is anger against benjamin netanyahu home over his handling of the pandemic and his corruption trial . the son of jailed saudi cleric salma is accusing the kingdom of human rights abuses against his family. is a prominent advocate of reform of the kingdom he was arrested 3 years ago this facing the death penalty. and the 1st at the hurricane hanna has made landfall on the southern coast of texas a category one system arrived on saturday just south of corpus christi. the headlines more news here on al-jazeera right af

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. >>> north korea's state run media say kim jong-un visited the mausoleum of kim il-sung on the 26th anniversary of his death. the nation's ruling party newspaper reported on its front page on wednesday that the leader had paid respect to his grandfather at the palace of the sun. a photo at the top of the page shows that far fewer officials accompanied kim jong-un than did so last year. in april the north korea media carried no reports on the leader's visit to the mausoleum for his grandfather's birthday. the event is seen as the country's biggest national holiday. later in the same month, cnn quoted a u.s. government official as saying that kim jong-un's health was in grave danger after a surgery. >>> china has opened a new national security office in hong kong. this comes after a law took effect last week that beijing sasays will rein in antigovernmt activities in the territory. the office for national security will be temporarily housed in a hotel in a busy commercial district. an opening ceremony y was held wednesday. >> translator: in accordance with the law, the office does not