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the us state department believes kim jung un's attempt to talk to the south is an attempt to disrupt south alliance with the us, the move after kim made a provocative announcement on new year's day that a nuclear button is always on his desk. donald trump responded in kind with a tough tweet, here it is, north korean leader kim jung un just stated the nuclear button is on his desk at all times. will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that i too have a nuclear button but it is a much bigger and more powerful ones and his and my button works. nikki haley, us ambassador to the united nations said north korea must been nuclear weapons in order to have any serious talks with the us and its allies. >> we consider this a reckless regime. we don't think we need a band-aid and we don't need to take a picture. we need to have them stop nuclear weapons and they need to stop it now. north korea can talk with anyone they want but the us won't recognize or acknowledge it until they agreed to ban the nuclear weapons they have. >> reporter: the the north korean defect

donald trump responded in kind with a tough tweet stating north korean leader kim jung un stated theuclear button is on his desk at all times. someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that i too have a nuclear button but it is a much bigger and powerful ones in his and my button works. nikki haley, us ambassador to the united nations says north korea must been its nuclear weapons to have serious talks with the us and its allies. >> we consider this a reckless regime, we don't think we need a band-aid or to smile and take a picture, we need to have them stop nuclear weapons now. north korea can talk with anyone they want. the us is not going to recognize or acknowledge it until they agreed to ban the nuclear weapons that they have. >> a north korean defector told authorities the regime planned its biggest ballistic missile launch ever on it 70th anniversary which occurs in september. donald trump says sanctions are having an impact on the north. the trump administration also adds china must be more active in persuading kim jung un to end nuclear program and

say we have the greatest threat that we've ever faced because in the case of north korea, the guy, kim jung you -- kim jong-un is totally unpredictable. and they always use that word unpredictable. that's scary when you have a weapon delivery system. let me hasten to say because i know the critics are watching, that yes, they have something that i think can range continental united states. they will say well, we don't know on november 28 when they demonstrated they had that range . what kind of a pay load they had or if they had any payload at all. because yes, if there's increase you can't use the actual pounds , but if it would increase by , the amount of a weapon then maybe they couldn't have made that kind of a range. and the other thing is the reentry. when you are in a trajectory and you come back in, it's difficult to come in with any accuracy at all. that doesn't give me any comfort. if they have something come over to the united states of america that could wipe out a city, you know, i can't think of any place i wanted to land. i see that as a fact. i know there are a lot of people

when he said what he said to kim jung un, the president of north korea, and unhad made the statementhat now we know after november 28 we had the range that we can hit the united states and i've got a utton i'm going to use it, his response was, president trump's response was, all right you go ahead and use it. we've got a bigger button we've got the tech noling. now what happened? the very next day north korea went down to south korea and you in re going to join the winter olympics. and they're now working on some things jointly that no one ever believed that would happen. i'm not saying that's the only reason that happened you in the winter olympics. and they're now but ucks you know, we've got to reestablish ourselves as being a tough person and we're the leader of the free world and we've got to acted like it. you know, i was always critical of the obama administration because it was an administration of appeasement. and we're not appeasers any more. >> senator we have a couple minutes left. let me ask you about if we find ourselves as we approach february 8th and another continui

the president refused to tell the wall street journal whether he had spoken with kim jung un, but said were part of a broader strategy, this comes as the pentagon deployed three bombers to guam, a move it says is a show of strength. >> you would be wrong if the bomber deployed in the single lens, it affects allies across the pacific, buyers across the globe. >> north korea agreeing to send a delegation to the olympics next month in south korea, a potential sign of future peace talks. after five years of hiding out in a london embassy, julian assange has citizenship as the wiki leaks found her announcing it by tweeting this picture of himself wearing the national soccer jersey but he cannot leave. the uk rejected the request to grant him diplomatic status. to leave the embassy and face justice. donald trump keeping a key campaign promise making america safe again. the most wanted high-ranking ms 13 leader, one of several arrested in this massive bust. the grand jury indicted 7 suspected members of the brutal gang, the charges range from murder to drug trafficking. the seven month operat

. >> donald trump willing to talk with north korean leader kim jung un to confront the growing nuclearhreat, i'm not sure sitting down will resolve problems. they have taken advantage of the previous president, at next month's on the mix, play on a joint women's hockey team. comparing donald trump to syrian president bashar al-assad. making the horrific statements on the network. >> any check on his power, he would like to be like assad. that is his goal. he is an autocrat. >> the assad regime is accused of killing half 1 million of its own people including last year's horrific chemical attack. lawmakers playing the blame game over a government shutdown but donald trump says they are playing with fire because the ones who would be hurt the most are our troops. what would a shutdown mean for the military? retired marine corps reserve infantryman karen miller, thank you for joining us. they are talking about how this would impact the military in terms of inability to plan long-term. >> we want to get our troops the latest gear and weapons systems. when the government shuts down even thou

heather: this afternoon donald trump tweeted is nuclear but was bigger and more powerful than kim jungying cheers from the left for taking a big step in closing its gender pay gap. the new law in effect requires employers with 20 or more staff to get equal pay certification from auditors but they have certification by 2021 and renew every three years or face fines. iceland claim to the top spot on the world economic forum's global gender gap report for the last 9 years. country singer luke bryant peta's latest target slamming the significance tweet christmas if to his wife, two baby kangaroos. >> take a blindfolds off. >> oh my god! >> peta taking issue with where he can care for the kangaroos. they are actually the newest addition to his animal rescue barn. he created the barn for children after his niece passed away early last year. they didn't have all the information yet. that wraps up this hour of "fox and friends" first, see you back here tomorrow. "fox and friends" first continues now. goodbye. jillian: it is thursday, january 4th, fox news alert, winter bomb cyclone, snowstorm

and north korea, president trump saying he's open to a peaceful solution and is willing to talk to kim jung>> he understands i'm not messing around. >> there are questions on potential white house interference in the russia probe. >> there has been no conclusion, no crime. in theory everyone tells me, i'm not under investigation. >> the party needs more republics and his goal is to protect g.o.p. incumbents for the 2018 election this at the same time reaching across the aisle. bryan clark, abc news, new york. >> more "action news" to come. we told you about the cold weather up next. later, how a guy taking a picture of himself trying to keep his beer cold in south carolina went viral. that and much more when "action news" comes right back. ♪ ♪ uh. what's so great about a 100% fiber-optic that makes your gaming system actually work awesomely? hey. did you take out the trash? haha, garbage boy!month with a 2-year price guarantee with a 2-year agreement. u >> check this out, it's so cold in florida the manatees are huddling together to stay warm. >> in brevard county, experts say warm weathera

we begin with this, deal or no deal, bipartisan group of senators coming to terms on a kim jung un --e white house is not so fast. immigration talks getting sidetracked after a harsh comment, has everyone talking today. >> the white house is not denying it, the president using an obscenity to blessed immigrants coming from african countries and haiti saying why are we having all these people from blank whole countries come here? he signed a small group of lawmakers, and more immigrants from countries like norway instead, issuing a statement that choosing to fight for foreign countries, donald trump will always fight for the american people. the president is focused on a merit-based immigration system but the foot and mouth fever was bipartisan yesterday. nancy pelosi making her own controversial comments talking about leaders working on an immigration deal. >> open a hamburger stand, that could have been done four months ago. why don't we get four white guys to do this? >> the bipartisan gang of six, and a deal before the next week's deadline, senator menendez defended it. >> an issue

kim jung-un keeps going with his nuclear program and developing. >> exactly. essentially he wants this program to at least give him the option to pressure a potentially someday to invade south korea. that may be a ways away the point is if he gets close to that point the pressure will be on the american administration and the trump administration to take some type of action. the chinese do not want us to do that and that is where the dynamic is to put more pressure on the chinese to cut the oil supplies to north korea and the other things that keep the economy functioning. arthel: let's talk about that false alarm ambassador international security. what is the impact of yesterday's event which turned out to be a very unfortunate and scary drill -- how prepared are we on the national security front if that were real? >> staying in what is the public from i can tell you we are not cared for any emergency. when i was in the military in desk onto alert in 1973 we weren't prepared in the military for this. we don't practice something continuously you will not be pr

kim jung un says that's not an option. >> north korea can talk with anyone they want but the u.s. is not going to recognize it or acknowledge it until they agree to ban the nuclear weapons that they have. >> pian yang has yet to respond to south korea's offer. >> the winter olympics get under way in south korea on february 9th. >>> the bitter cold temperatures in many parts of the country are becoming a challenge for first responders. new york city firefighters battled a massive fire inside a furniture store in the bronx. more than 20 people were hurt. none too seriously and it was a similar scene in massachusetts where firefighters were battling a house fire that became covered in ice. >> the water freezes on our equipment, on our air packs on our masks. >> >>> and extreme warmth has caused a bunch of water main breaks. that water main break in the st. louis area left a neighborhood covered in snow and ice. water shot 25 feet into the air for more than three hours before crews could shut it off. left nearly everything coated with a thick blanket of ice. >>> even in houston, texas

this follows a new year's message from north korean leader kim jung-un . he said he is willing to send a delegation to the olympics. south korea's president welcomed the news and he said he would like to use dialogue to ease north korea's nuclear threat in hopes the olympics can improve relations between the countries. >> welcomes chairman kim jung- un raising the necessity to improve the south the north korean relationship while mentioning the willingness to send north korean athletes to the pyeongchang winter olympics in his new year's speech. and the suggestion that two governments hold a meeting to discuss the issue. >> south korea says that two korea's should weaken -- meet a week from today at a shared village to talk about olympic cooperation and ways to improve overall times. no response yet from north korea but if there are talks, it would be the first formal dialogue between the countries since december 2015. >>> iran state television said nine people were killed overnight, clashes between protesters and the security forces, the sixth day of prot

the offer comes one day after north korean leader kim jung-un proposed talks to ease the ongoing military standoff. while also repeating threats of a nuclear strike against the u.s. >> the entire u.s. mainland is within the range of our nuclear strike and the button is always on the table in my office. >> reporter: some analysts say the north is trying to drive a wedge between south korea and the u.s. floating in olive branch to the south while president trunk focuses on increasing economic and diplomatic pressure against the north. but the south korean president has made it clear, and he talks with the north must include negotiations aimed at stopping pyongyang's nuclear program. >> improving into korean book relations is not something that can be done separately from the resolution of the north korean nuclear issue. >> troubling into the diplomatic overture on wednesday tweeting -- rocket man now wants to talk to south korea for the first time. perhaps it is good news. perhaps it is not. we will see. >>> we are staying on top of a developing story in marin county where a ups driver was

that proposal follows a new year's message yesterday from north korean leader kim jung-un saying he's willing to send a delegation to the olympics. south korea's president welcomed the news and he said he wants to use dialogue to ease north korea's nuclear threat and hopes the olympics are one way to improve relations between the countries. >> to improve the relationship rummaging will lose to senator and athletes to the pyeongchang winter olympics in his new year's speech. and the suggested that the government hold a meeting to discuss the issue. >> south korea has proposed the two meet a week from today at a shared border village to talk about olympic cooperation and how to improve overall relations. still the response of both korea but if there are talks, it would be the first formal dialogue between the korean countries between december 2015. >>> we are a little more than a month away from the beginning of the winter olympics and america's top figure skaters are in san jose this week for the u.s. national championships. the main competition starts tomorrow at the sep center in san

the message he's sending to kim jung un. join us for kpix 5 news this morning... beginning at 4:30.t's wednesday, january 3rd. >>> here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. ♪ >>> why did the chicken cross the road? apparently to get away from the cops. california highway patrol officers scrambled to rescue 19 chickens yesterday that got loose on a los angeles freeway. their cage fell off the back of a truck. the officers stopped traffic as they went on a wild chicken chase. they rescued 17 birds. unfortunately two died. the truck driver was unaware the chicken cage dropped and didn't stop. >>> now the team is in the playoffs for the first time since 1999 and the fans are showing how grateful they are, except it's for another team's quarterback. jeff glor explained. >> dalton steps up, dalton throws, incomplete. >> reporter: this winning touchdown pass by andy dalton of the cincinnati bengals turned him into a hometown hero -- in buffalo. as a thank-you for helping them snap their 17-year playoff drought, bills fans flooded the andy and jordan dalton founda

. >> president trump raised the temperature in his dual with kim jung-un who had boasted of having a nuclear button on the desk in his office. will someone from his depleted and food-starved regime please inform him the president wrote, that i do have a nuclear button but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his and my button works. >> trevor: you know, i know that donald trump is trying to be menacing here but all i hear is a really catchy pop star. it's like my button brings all the boys to the yard, and they're like, it's bigger than yours. damn right, it's bigger than yours! (applause) if you had a supercomputer, if you had a supercomputer that could run a simulation of a billion ways, to find the stupiddist possible way to get into a nuclear war, this tweet is what would come up every single time. there are some things that twitter just isn't appropriate for. because just take a step back, take a step back and think about what pressing the button would actually mean. >> hundreds of thousands of people incinerated instantly. and they would be the lucky ones. millions mo

jillian: cia director mike pompeo believes kim jung un could use nuclear weapons to take over the entirepeninsula. he insists the trump administration is working to find a diplomatic solution. we are learning multiple americans were killed and injured in the deadly weekend attack on a couple hotel where the telegram claimed responsibility and donald trump ramps up the fight against the terror group. and more troops ordered to afghanistan. and calling out the legendary a-10 thunderbolt jet blue shirt away and is lucas tomlinson. thank you for joining us. how significant is this move to bring in these jets? >> they have not been in afghanistan since 2014. ground troops love this jet. it has a 30 mm gatling gun designed to loiter over the battlefield for hours and show the direction which secretary mattis, the pentagon and others are going, more us troops coming in this spring to raise the number to 50,000 troops but this jet is very important. these reserve squadrons are originally going to turkey for the isis fight but because of the success of ice in iraq and syria, these jets were more

the us must keep a close eye on north korea which the president agrees with and being tough with kim jungnegotiations in the past to advance the nuclear program and that is something the united states will not tolerate. heather: thank you. back at home a win overnight for daca dreamers was a federal judge temporarily blocking the trumpet ministration efforts to end the obama era program which protect illegal immigrants who came to the us as children. the bombshell ruling coming after donald trump hosted a groundbreaking bipartisan meeting to hammer out a deal on daca and border security. >> there is no reason not to get this done. i will be signing it. i won't say i want this or that because i will be signing it, i have confidence we will come up with something good. heather: the latest ruling allows those protected to remain in the us while lawsuit against the decision play out. cnn, slammed a press briefing, sarah sanders taking on jim acosta who repeatedly pressed her about whether democrats will support the wall. sanders snapped back. >> part of the negotiation we expect congress to h

tom bevan says the recent developments on the peninsula are encouraging but steve stays kim jung un canted. >> deal of except sparks a little bit of a detente, the idea of a unified team playing in the olympics is a huge gesture whether it is going back to these stances afterwards but the opportunity which the south korean president credited donald trump are starting that these talks can be meaningful and we could see movement in a positive direction. we will see how much. >> we heard this from the north koreans for three decades, saying they -- would take down the nuclear program. they didn't do it. anytime you see something out of the north korean government you should assume it is false. >> reading, writing and white supremacy, more and more colleges and universities are writing courses dedicating to detecting and combating white racism. what if it was the one other way around? conservative millennial, and don calloway, thank you for joining us this morning. i will start with you with that question, what if it was the other way around, what are we talking about? >> wouldn't make sens

remember the heat for the tough rhetoric calling kim jung young a little rocket man. now the president is showing he might be flexible as well. and telling the wall street journal that i have a good relationship with kim jong-un. i think you people are surprised by this. if you are talking to. i will not comment. i am not saying i have or haven't. white house officials are deeply concerned about the regime in iran arresting thousands of protestor and torteured or killed protestors. there may be a compremyself on the controversial nuclear deal. and the president could wave economic sanctions to keep the u.s. in compliance with the pac. and the president could announce a new round of sanctions and tarningeting people and businesses inside of iran following the refusal that iran was in compliance and trying to show that the u.s. is keeping the heat to teheran. and issue much immigration got explosive. an oval office meeting, the president complained about the preksz for immigrants from african country and haiti and the president staying why are we having these people from

just by example, south korea, during its military dictatorships, had this person by the name of kim dae-jung who eventually won the nobel peace prize, later became president of south korea, who became a voice, a face for democratic activism in south korea. in beijing, in south korea, you have these personalities that can be identified with the problem. the north koreans have been very good with not allowing that to happen. the chinese have been complicit in that. i think that is certainly one of the reasons why it has not been taken up. the other i think is that it just hasn't captured the imagination of some major personality in the west. i know this may sound a bit catty, but practically i think it is true. in when someone like richard takes up tibet or mia farrow takes up china's policies in -- darfur, this gives a residence that is something you wouldn't normally see. in the case of north korea, we haven't had that. we haven't had an individual that does that. i think one of the things we are seeing more of, and there are stories of this in the book, americans are learning more about the

who are still uncomfortable with the rhetoric, the way donald trump speaks about north korea and kim jungthere are many who said donald trump, tensions in north korea, in 2013 there was a crisis with north korea, so severe that several nations evacuated embassies from the capital of north korea. let's not claim these tensions are donald trump's falls, he is standing up to a nation that has been posting plans to nuke the united states, training nuclear war against this country and saying to north korea we are fed up with these threats, you have to denuclearize. jillian: anything you would like to hear tonight? >> i would like to hear donald trump say i am backing out of the fraudulent nuclear deal with iran. it is not stopping iran's nuclear program, giving iran an opportunity to advance, pretending to cooperate, the time was up with this program. jillian: thank you for joining us, appreciate it. >> brand-new fallout after a high school teacher attacks our nation's heroes. >> they are not high-level maintenance, academic and selectable people. >> now the pentagon is firing back, we will ta

. >> donald trump speaking with kim jung un to confront the nuclear threat telling reuters, quote, i would sit down but not sure sitting down will solve the problem. they talked for 25 years and taken advantage of our presidents, our previous presidents, it comes as north korea and south korea agree to march together in next olympics and plan a joint hockey team. >> reporter: donald will make history by becoming the first sitting president to address the march for life event, the annual rally in washington protests the roe versus wade decision which lifts restrictions on abortions in the us. >> the president will speak from the rose garden through a satellite feed. mike pence will hold a reception for pro-life supporters and leaders. 9 minutes after the hour, brand-new proof of why we need donald trump's border wall. >> this is a great view for everybody in the united states that has never seen the border. it is wide open. >> two months after a border patrol agent is murdered at the hands of illegal immigrants still no answers. griff jenkins went looking for some. jillian: striking a

. >> reporter: in an interview at the white house, he spoke to cnn about kim jung nam killing and howrs face in other countries. >> i personally believe north korean defectors are being active target by the northern regime. even though they are not engaged i think north korea is trying to identify their location, then they will try to threaten the families. >> reporter: now former fbi agent o'neil does not think the meeting wg the mysterious american was necessarily kebted to murder a few days later. o'neil points out that operation at the airport involving those two women appeared to have been planned for weeks, if not months, before kim's murder. brianna. >> thank you so much for that. i'm brianna keilar, thank you so much for watching. erin burnett outfront begins right now. >>> outfront next breaking news, president asks rod rosenstein the man in charge of the russia investigation if he's on his team. plus the clock is ticking on the president, will he release the nunes memo against the wishes of his own fbi director. fbi slammed for text messages that showed anti-trump bias, cnn

i mean he's just playing into kim jung un's rhetorical hands on this. >> there is a counter argument here from trump people and from some of his supporters on capitol hill which is, hey, look, the diplomatic language has been tried for decades and at the end of the day it didn't get bill clinton, barack obama, or george w. bush anywhere. why not try something new? >> yeah, i don't think this is question about diplomatic language or not but sending very clear signals, staying on the same page of your allies. this comes against the backdrop of potential talks following north korea's offer to have talks with south korea before the olympics. potentially actually driving a further wedge between the united states and south korea. >> is it possible at all that this might -- you know, there's this madman theory of trump's behavior when it comes to north korea, which is he's doing all this in a way of scaring kim jong-un, in a way that barack obama and george w. bush who were considered too rational, would never have done. is there anything there? >> i don't know, i don't think so. no. i know

the proposal follows a new year's message yesterday from north korean leader kim jung-un in which he said he is willing to send a delegation to the olympics. south korea's president welcomed the news and said he wants to use dialogue to ease north korea's nuclear threat and hopes the olympics are a way to improve relations between the two countries. >> welcomes the chairman raising the necessity to improve the north and south korean relationship while mentioning a willingness to send north korean willingness athletes to the south korean olympics. and he suggested that two governments hold a meeting to discuss the issue. >> south korea has proposed the two korea's meat a week from today at a shared border village to discuss olympic cooperation and how to improve overall ties. no response yet from north korea but if there are talks, this would be the first formal dialogue between the nations since december 2015. >>> we are more than a month away from the beginning of the winter olympics and this week america's top figure skaters are in san jose for the u.s. national championships where

just days after kim jung unopened the door to dialogue officials met in peace house on the heavy himilitarizedorder. >> the announcement that north korea would actively cooperate in next month's olympics games. the pair of skaters need an international olympic committee to sign offer on the move. >> including one called a bloody nose strike. the plood di nose strategy, i want to talk about what it means for the peninsula. the catalyst would be a north korean missile or nuclear test during the olympic games. if north korea did that, the u.s. would make a targeted strike. one former analyst suggest the strike could hit the missile launch or hit one of kim jong-un's homes. it could hit something in north korea. making clear the strike was a warning shot rather than part of larger military action. the hope is that north korea then backs down rather than risks an all out fight opting instead to discuss deescalation options at some sort of a conference or meeting. they will take the strike as a declaration of war. warns any military option could result this hundreds of thousands and millions of casu

the president has said he's got a special relationship with kim jung-un. he wants to get talks started. well, quite frankly, we don't have an ambassador that could be part of that discussion. >> we're also not going to have a labor force if the president takes this absurd hard line. he talks about building a wall between the united states and mexico. not just, where does he think the labor will come from? let's look at some of the immigrants he is pushing against. when you walk through it, it's stunning. i mentioned it earlier, 43% of immigrants from africa have a bachelor's degree or higher. 33% overall american population do. so, when he is speaking about who these horrible people who are coming, it's shocking. imagine the hurdles you have to go through if you are coming from a place like that and get here. please. >> malcolm, there is a national security element to this because, as you and i have discussed, even when we don't actively disparage people from other countries, the concept that america looks on other people is used by extremists to recruit p

. >> brown: it was an annual new year's address from north korean leader kim jung-un, but this year ite with a surprise outreach to seoul, including possible participation in next month's winter olympics, to be held in south korea. coupled with that, though: new boasts of the north's nuclear power. here are some key excerpts. e entire united states is within range of our nuclear weapons, and a nuclear button is always on my desk. this is reality, not a threat. this year, we should focus on mass producing nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles for operational deployment. the winter games to be held in south korea will be a good occasion for the country. we sincerely hope that the winter olympics will be a success. we are prepared to take various steps, including the dispatch of the delegation. officials from the two koreas may urgently meet to discuss the >> brown: what to make of the mixed messages? frank jannuzi took part in clinton administration talks with north korea and has since worked on east asia policy in and out of government. he now heads the mansfield foundation. >> brangh

it was rocket man or it was kim jung—un. this is beyond 100 days from the bbc.nd bbc world news — can angela merkel work her magic to form a coalition after four months with no government? and after more than a hundred women testify against larry nasser usa gymnastics is accused of turning a blind eye to his sexual abuse. that's still to come. that is storm georgina howell tinley atlantic. it doesn't look very much but in the intervening hours and we will see the isobars dropping in and that means the wind is strengthening all the while. n'gales will be widespread across western parts of the british isles and to the course of the night we'll see the centre closing into the north west of scotland. not a cold night but watch out first thing on wednesday if you are commuting. the wind will be very noticeable indeed and there will be heavy rain around as a weather front slumps across the whole of england and wales. closer to the centre, this is where we have got a combination of very strong winds and also some rain as well. gradually pushing its way into the norther

donald trump was asked about it new year's party in florida overnight and all he said one told that kim jung un had nuclear button on is there skids we'll see he's tweeted this morning about iran he's tweeted about pakistan but he hasn't made any mention of tall about north korea beyond those two words we'll see do they have to maybe at the state department think about recalibrating their potential response in as much as a note of being conciliatory is not necessarily something that they would have anticipated out of pyongyang. of course the difficulty is we hear the united states government talking in two different ways about north korea we've had rex tillerson saying look we would like to have a conversation with them and we would like there to be talks so perhaps you would think that the state department would welcome the overtures that has been made in the new year statement by the north korean leader but of course we've also heard donald trump see look at brics tillerson as we're seeing is time they don't want to have talks we're not going to get involved in that he should really just s

clearly this thought is coming to —— coming from the top from kim jung—un and they have moved on it very the agreement they made today is not just quickly. the agreement they made today is notjust to send a team to the olympics, it is quite a big delegation they will said, it is also to reopen military talks and to also to reopen military talks and to also reinstate the kind of agreements they have before and say they would open up on talks on other issues. that is what they have said, whether it will come to fruition is another thing. but following the relationship is the classic way, we have seen this before, the classic way of driving a wedge between seoul and washington and one suspects that certain if many people in the south believe this but this is what it is all about. they may be tactics going on here but it is also true that the south korean side, a whole series of presidents including the latest one who is much more liberal, have seriously wanted to deal with this on an inter—korean level. they see from the south korean point of view, anything is better than the war talk that

t's a way of stopping vladimir putin says north korea leader kim jung up has match in the contest to acquire new weapons. putin made the comments in a russian editors here he called kim an educated and mature politician. >> the euro strengthened policymakers say they may tweak to align with the strengthening economy. minutes meeting a widely shared view that communication would need to evolve based on the outlook for growth and inflation. that's being seeing as a hawkish pill after the extend q-e until at least september at a educed pace of 30 billion euros. and bloomberg has been told hat uber's san francisco headquarters used a remote company ool for thwart raids by police and other authorities around the world. ur sources say the system was as ripley routinely used from early 2015 until late 2016. remotely change passwords or lock updateta on company owned smart laptops and desktops as well as shut devices down. a day.news 24 hours i'm courtney collins, this is bloomberg. >> thank you so much. we're taking a closer look at the u.s. market close. rebounded from their first retreat o

trump was asked about king jung un -- kim jong-un's claim that there is a nuclear button on his desk. he appeared to brush off the comments. >> the north may want to send a delegation to participate in the winter olympics. taking place next month in south korea. >>> the new year brings hope for transgender individuals who want to join the military. the defense department is taking steps to receive transgender groups as soon as today. but those who join know the legal road could be bumpy. president trump announced a ban. but last month, a federal judge blocked enforcement of the prohibition. >>> the supreme court will look into how they handle sexual harassment allegations in its own ranks. it is not immune from complaints of sexual harassment. this year, whether its standards are enough to secure an exemplary workplace for court employees. the move comes after federal bay area judge alex kosinski announced his retirement following allegations of sexual misconduct. >>> right now, four people have been killed and hundreds of others arrested in the clashes in iran. the protests included

north korea has reopened a suspended communications line with south korea north korean leader kim jung un ordered that the hotline at the country's border be reconnected the two koreas had been making overtures to improving ties. at least forty eight people in peru were killed when a bus collided with a truck and then tumbled down a cliff onto a rocky beach the accident occurred on a narrow stretch of highway known as the devil's curve about seventy kilometers north of the capital lima. a ryanair passenger who apparently grew tired of waiting to deplane use an emergency exit to reach the wing this at spain's molokai airport about half an hour after arriving from london stansted airport police arrested the fifty seven year old after the plane's crew persuaded him not to jump with his suitcase from the wing. it's good to talk north korea reopens its hotline to the south with kim jong un saying he wants the team at next month's winter olympics and check the south as well listening china says into korean discussions are in everyone's interests but america says it's just hot air unless disc