even hollywood satire of kim young un.rder. >> they smuggle these in every three months. >> and other defector groups. >> if we could call north korea or send a letter or e-mail we wouldn't do this but there's no way you can. >> they sent thousands of giant balloons to be picked up by every day north koreans living in a dictatorship. >> why is the truth so destabilizing to north korea. >> what liars fear most is the truth. and he makes himself higher than gods you destroy that the dictator nation will be pulled down. >> his home country considers 24 such a threat that north korea spies have been sent to assassinate him at least twice. >> what's it like to be constantly surrounded by a threat. >> it's exhausting but someone has to do it. the defectors who do it consider it a mission. >> the worry for our family and the pain is always in our hearts. >> her mission is to help families become whole again through art and family therapy classes. she defected ten years ago and knows firsthand women are more likely to defect but a

president trump has agreed to meet with kim young un before the end of may, but before he even sits down with him to discuss a nuclear deal, they have to discuss how to handle the preexisting deal with iran. from the outset, mike pompeo has cheered trump in his hard-line posturing toward iran. trump announced that america will no longer abide by the nuclear pact unless the european leaders agree to fix it. they seem sob worried about more than cosmetic changes and iran refuses to renegotiate. that means by may 12th, the united states is set to pull out of the iran accord, which could lead iran to do the same thing, and we start its nuclear program. this would happen at the same time as the summit in north korea where the united states will be trying to condition vince north korea to sign a similar agreement. recall that iran did not have nuclear weapon, only a program that could have led to them. still, the deal required the iranians to scale back significant aspects of their program, dismantling 13,000 sen tro fusions, and shutting down their plutonium react eor in ir. the agency has ca

kim jong un young the delegates are the first south korean officials to meet kim since he took power at the end of twenty eleven the south korean president in has sent them in a bid to get pyongyang talking to washington and to avert conflict a hung parliament is expected in italy following sunday's general election the anti establishment five star movement is the single largest party but it trails behind the center right alliance which has a thirty seven percent share of the vote the anti immigration league policies leader as said that he has the right and the duty to govern a silly. power new guinea has been shaken by three strong aftershocks a week after a powerful earthquake killed at least fifty five people the mountainous southern highlands the worst affected six hundred kilometers from the capital. one hundred fifty thousand people remain in urgent need of supplies damage roads and landslides are hampering delivery food water and sanitation is badly needed. a u.s. aircraft carrier has arrived in vietnam for the first time since the end of the vietnam war the visit by the us s.

while the young kim jong un enjoyed his ninety's in switzerland starvation was killing countless children back home crop failure many fish and agriculture economic mismanagement but the regime always blamed its arch enemy the united states. in two thousand and one came jones' oldest half brother kim jong nam was arrested. the tokyo airport trying to enter japan on a fake dominican republic passport he said he wanted to visit disneyland. in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's north korea abducted a number of children and young adults from japan so they could teach japanese to it spies decades later a few were allowed to return home. in two thousand and two north korea finally revealed what it had done people in japan were aghast journey to a cause rumi was prime minister of japan at the time he and his diplomats had persuaded north korea to make that admission and to apologize as a precondition for moves to start normalizing bilateral relations. but laying the groundwork took a lot of preparation this process highlighted the tricky moral issues involved in dealing with despots ito

kim jong un's first ever face to face with south korean officials since taking power. images from north korean state television president kim jong un welcome south korea's national security chief chango a young and four other special envoys from seoul kim told them he wants to write a new history of national reunification and this is what the first chapter should look like the two sides are planning a meeting for their heads of state in late april the first summit in eleven years but that's not all according to south korean sources kim is prepared to suspend nuclear and missile tests while dialogue is underway and he is reported to have said there's no reason for north korea to have nuclear weapons if he gets security guarantees for his regime and he also hinted at dialogue with the united states u.s. president donald trump seemed optimistic about these latest developments. we have come a long way at least rhetorically with a great thing for the world. great thing for. south korea's president reacted with caution you know how. we must talk to north korea to denuclearize the korean peninsula but at the same time we must put maximum effort into establishing effective measures against north kor

young man. >> brangham: kim jong-un. >> kim jong-un, we negotiated with kim jong il, who agreed to a joint statement in 2005, commitin to comprehensive reversible dismalement of all their programs. now this young man comes into arsenalas a significant of weapons and delivery systems and is saying, i'm not prepared to denuclearization. now 's saying he is. what does that mean? >> brangham: bruce klinger, d you share that trace of optimism i heard there? >> well, right now the twore koreasushing down the path of reconciliation. it's a well-trodden path to date it's always led to both of them rushing off the cliff like lemmings, but we can always run down the path again and hope for a different result. you know, it is aignificant development. it is a bit surprising, especially considering whe we were in late december when it seemed like we were on an inevitable path some kind of military conflict. so this is really a dramatic change. the koreas really are leading the game right now. there's some concerns in washington as to how eager south korean president moon is, whether he willave less conditions or

the country used chemical weapons to assassinate the half brother of leader kim jong un at kuala lumpur airport last year kim young man died after a nerve agent was sprayed in his face. sri lanka has declared a state of emergency after anti muslim violence mobs made up of the majority buddhist population attacked muslim owned shops and homes and at least two people have been killed the government to supply its soldiers to riot areas and imposed a curfew. and in germany eight members of the far right groups face verdicts today they've been on trial over a series of attacks on refugees and left wing activists federal prosecutors are calling for up to eleven years in prison for the perpetrators and could classify the so-called group as a terrorist organization. now britain has warned russia of grave consequences if the kremlin was behind the suspected poisoning of a former russian spy service to pall and x. fresh an intelligence officer living in the u.k. was struck down alongside his daughter by a mystery substance the pair were taken critically ill on sunday in the southern city of solsbury observer said the episod

kim jong un met with south korean officials since taking power. images from north korean state television president kim jong un south korea's national security chief we young and four other special envoys from seoul came told them he wants to write a new history of national reunification and this is what the first chapter should look like the two sides are planning a meeting for their heads of state in late april the first summit in eleven years but that's not all according to south korean sources kim is prepared to suspend nuclear and missile tests while dialogue is under way and he is reported to have said there's no reason for north korea to have nuclear weapons if he gets security guarantees for his regime he also hinted at dialogue with the united states. u.s. president donald trump reacted on twitter he cited possible progress but warned it could be false hope the u.s. is he says ready to go hard in either direction but south korea's president moon j.n. reacted with caution you you know how bundakji it could yeah we must talk to north korea in order to denuclearize the korean peninsula but at the same time so we must put maximum effort into establish

bled, we saw this at the airport in kuala lumpur with the assassination of that relative of kim jong—un. two youngskin with a cloth is an effective way of getting certain nerve agents into the body. you say that this is done because they want to be seen to make a statement? they wa nt to be seen to make a statement? they want people to know this is an assassination. but does the nerve agent not carry a risk for the person trying to administer it? absolutely it does. if we go back to the case we were talking about in kuala lump it seems two different materials will put on the cloth carried by the females so that they we re carried by the females so that they were combined on the face of the target because if i do of them had been contaminated they would have suffered in effects themselves. so one thing very worthy of investigation is, how did the perpetrator of this act manage not to get themselves covered in the agent. it may mean they have a novel device that perhaps released a small amount of the liquid onto the skin of the father, which then carried on acting. it may well be that the daughter h

announcement came a day after it was confirmed km young un made a surprise visit to china where he met president xi jinping china's foreign ministry said kim pledged his commitment to denuclearization. tension ever north korea's nuclear weapons escalated last year after pyongyang tested several ballistic missiles sparking a war of words between community and u.s. president on a trump. but since the winter olympics in south korea when athletes from the north and the south much together at the opening ceremony relations between the one time furrows have thought. whether north korea's leader really is willing to make any concessions and limit his nuclear ambitions will be revealed at the end of april. joining me now is aiden foster carter he's a korea expert from leeds university in the u.k. it and how surprised are you by the fact of the two koreas a holding this summit. well i got i have to my surprise i mean the thing that was the new news today of course just to have the date but early on i was quite surprised i was like many people i was pessimistic i thought that kim jong un and then they introduced a tactical thaw in his new year's add

this he will be waiting to see just where it goes to but also a dozen awful lot of focus on kim jong un a very young leader in north korea and has diplomatic skills and you wouldn't normally expect. to have the two in the same sentence but i think a lot of people in south korea have been very impressed very stunned by the kind of actions we've seen from north korea the nuclear address from kim talking about the possibility of opening up and so on and then now leading to the stage where we're at now down just a final thought from iraq despite what seems like good news on the surface we must be careful here because there are still many people in south korea who are extremely skeptical of the north intentions there are indeed people skeptical here as there are people skeptical in the united states far more hawkish figures who believe that this is still some sort of a wave by north korea of playing for time that it will never commit to giving up its nuclear missiles its weapons development and also people the same people who say north korea has been forced to this point by this maximum pressure of these

and north korea may be possible when jane is expected to meet north korean leader kim jong il next month young uns nuclear missile program is expected to be central to talks and there's been a six explosion in the u.s. state of texas this happened at a charity store in the city of austin but it's not related to a series of bombings in the state this month according to police early on tuesday a package bomb filled with nails and shrapnel exploded at a fed ex distribution center also in austin those are the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera is the documentary europe's abedin colony. or. the european parliament brussels where the people of europe send their representatives. because of the boxes of the of them please. they belong to the people will jump at these to hold the european union to account. a look you can hear us look inside. what do they do here. nothing. there's a hugely important debate about the future all to european union today and i'm trying to see. i mean it's impossible for them to people but it is a european problem and it's not accountable. like even in croatia in the parliam

criticism of his pledge to meet face to face with the country's leader kim jong un the white house says the meeting will only go ahead if young young makes concrete concessions. protests against nuclear power have been taking place in the fukushima power plant in japan ahead of sunday's seven year anniversary of the tsunami that triggered a meltdown there now a barrier meant to contain radiation is failing which could jeopardize efforts to clean up the site. french president menem says he wants his country to replace britain as india's gateway to europe has begun a four day visit to india and at strengthening trading climate and security ties the two nations plan to boost cooperation in the indian ocean where china has been extending its military reach. the winter paralympics are underway in south korea more than five hundred sixty athletes for nearly fifty countries will compete in the biggest winter paralympic and in history but before the sporting action got underway athletes and fans were treated to an inspirational opening ceremony on friday night. there was something for everyone at the paralympics opening ceremony trad

president and north korea leaders say they'll meet can donald trump get kim jong un to give up his nuclear ambitions and what does young one from the talks this is inside story. allow and welcome to the program. they have taken the wells by complete surprise us president donald trump north korea leader kim jong un have agreed to sit down together and the historic meeting could take place within two months they have spent much of the past year hurling insults at each other trumps cold kim little rocket man game set trump was mentally deranged so what will they talk about when they come face to face there's only one topic being mansion nuclear weapons it was an only voice from south korea that's made the announcement about the meeting delivering games invitation direct to trump of the white house trump was quick to say yes on his twitter account but on what terms the white house says no preconditions but they have been mixed messages mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . it appeared that the u.s. had introduced new preconditions when the press secretary said that the meeting would not take place unless north korea p

the country used chemical weapons to assassinate behalf brother of leader kim jong un at kuala lumpur airport last year kim young died after a nerve agent was sprayed in his face. to look as a clear to state of emergency after anti muslim violence mobs made up of the majority buddhist population attacked muslim and shops and homes and at least two people have been killed the government has deployed soldiers to riot areas and imposed a curfew. a former russian spy and his daughter are fighting for their lives in the u.k. after an apparent poisoning attempt britain has said it will respond appropriately and robustly to any russian involvement circus trip paul an x. russian intelligence officer who also spied for britain was taken critically ill on sunday along with his daughter counterterrorism police are racing to identify the unknown substance that left the parent conscious in the southern british city of salzburg. this is a salzburg park where st paul and his daughter yulia were found critically ill on sunday. investigators are now busy trying to determine the nature of the unknown substance the two victims wer

kim jong—un. president putin. i am sure he would like to meet kim jong-un. thank you very much. just over 30 years ago, thomas sankara, burkina faso's young, looks at the life and legacy of a man once hailed as a visionary leader. the rise and fall of an african hero has just opened. clarisse fortune went along. more than 30 years after his death, thomas sankara's legend lives on and continues to be a source of inspiration for some — even beyond the continent. ..supposed to retaliate. stop the response! the play deals different episodes of his presidency and shows the power of his personality, including when he was dealing with a regional conflict in 1985. they are trying to pressure you. for actor ike chuks, playing the lead role was a challenge. i read about everything that he did. how he was trying to free his country from debt, how he was trying to free them from the slavery mentality of the imperialism and the colonialism that they had faced. in every aspect i am trying to bring out who he was, his charisma, and how he spoke and everything that he did. finally, this is the man worth seeing. ricky dujany is both the playwright and dir

kim jong un it's a historic moment as kim's first diplomatic trip outside the room nation since he took power in twenty eleven rumors had been circulating for days that the mysterious ahmed train crossing the young riva from pyongyang had kim on board but it was only confirmed after kim and his wife were safely back home according to china's state news agency she pressed kim on north korea giving up nuclear weapons kim apparently replied quote the issue of denuclearization of the korean peninsula can be resolved if south korea and the united states respond to our efforts with good will create an atmosphere of peace and stability while taking progress even synchronous measures for the realisation of peace. but many are skeptical about whether or not kim jong un would really skill down the program after the north korean government has worked so hard to celebrate its development. a little i don't think he will officially declared the nuclearization because he has been emphasizing the importance of nuclear weapons a lot he has particularly been stressing that the nuclear program makes the country strong and that the country can defeat the united states with it he can't totally change that stance all

the south korean national security director you young to announce the news to the world from the white house driveway. chong had delivered kim jong un's summit invitation to trump after a rare meeting in the north korean capital on monday this is what he had to say. i put president president thought that you know meeting north korean noodle kim jong un that he's committed to the new providers. pledged that north korea will be praying from any for them to kill me so tests he understands the routine joint military exercises it seems that he probably did of korea and the united states must continue that he expressed his eagerness to meet president trump that's known as possible. for the very latest on this let's go straight to jason strother in south korea jason this is an incredible development one of the reactions where you are and i will south korean president moon j.n. as called this this opportunity of a miracle he's been advocating for many months to get the u.s. and north korea to the negotiating table and and it looks like after is envoys visit it john young and brought this message to washington with them from good judgment so i

current rate new history prison donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un agreed to hold the first ever u.s. north korea summit young and offers to put its nuclear program on the negotiating table provided the rate conditions are met also on the show putting the pedal to the metal president trump moves ahead with tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum as by international condemnation he says he's stopping an assault on the u.s. experts warn the move could trigger a trade war also germany's social democrats announce who's getting tapos the generals on america's new coalition government can one of them a foreign minister of largely untested on the international stage plus a generation broken by war a refugee camp in lebanon tries to help syrian children cope with their trauma by turning their experiences into art and the journalists fighting for press freedom in heir to once a turkey news business one fiercely independent newspaper many of whose reporters are now behind bars. thanks very much for your company everyone world leaders are reacting to the shocking news that u.s. president donald trump and north korean lead

kim jong-un. >> to meet with the young general. but the issue of denuclearization is what i've been talk about a lot with the new trump advisers sjust what mike grn says. there are two different definitions of it.h it sound like, we hear it, it means he's going to get rid of all his neps.th 's not his definition. his definition is he will make a judgment, and it could be as long as 10-20 years frowm no whether he feels secure because the americans have withdrawn comptely from south korea, canceled our treaty. you know, he's going to decide denuclearization. it's not clear if he can keep some nuclear weapons in 20 years. this is going to be the key sticking p and, frankly, i'm not one of those who believes we have to make aa dedline, you know, in mid-may. i'm for a postponement, if necessary, to get clarification on just this one word "denuclearization." what are we going to talk about? >> wdruff: michael green, that's not in the cards at this point. maybe years fr thinks about removing troops in some form or passion, but that's not

let's look at how we got here than one young chang is carried out from young rather has carried out six nuclear tests since kim jong un took power some seven years ago the first was in two thousand and thirteen in january two thousand and sixteen the north announced the successful test of the first time bridge and bomb in november last year north korea announced it had tested a long range missile armed with a nuclear warhead one that would be capable of reaching the u.s. mainland the growing nuclear threat led to tough sanctions tension eased during last month's winter olympics in south korea rare into korean talks were held to facilitate young and participation and last week a south korean delegation held talks with kim and hinted he was willing to denuclearize. i mean the tangan is a political and economic affairs commentator joins me now from beijing we had some reaction there from the u.s. how do you think beijing is viewing this announcement of talks between the u.s. and north korean leaders well you heard it from the foreign minister himself he said he was barry optimistic it was encouraging both sides to hold t

help us out yeah and second thoughts are what extent does kim jong un favorite kind of vacuuming got him the attention he wants what need killing young agree to dialogue. i think you're right if you sense that sort of they may seem like opposite save iraq thing in dialogue but i think the one has led to the other . kim jong un secondly got the world's attention and they're all the maligned way last year basically by a flurry of missile and nuclear tests mainly missile which showed that his capabilities north korea's capabilities are far greater than we actually thought from that position of strength he may feel he then does what may seem like a u. turn and declare as he is ready for dialogue but as i say the key thing will be what actual content goes into that box dialogue is an empty box unless you have proposals fourteen at their isolation which are acceptable at least for discussing to all sides. not not over issues that are out for discussion but that kim jong un has just come back from beijing to what extent is china or constraining these developments from that. i don't think china will straighten anything and i think probably t

announcement came a day after it was confirmed km young un made a surprise visit to china where he met president xi jinping china's foreign ministry said kim pledged his commitment to denuclearization. attention ever north korea's nuclear weapons escalated last year after pyongyang tested several ballistic missiles sparking a war of words between community and u.s. president donald trump. but since the winter olympics in south korea when athletes from the north and the south much together at the opening ceremony relations between the one time third have thought. whether north korea's leader really is willing to make any concessions and limit his nuclear ambitions will be revealed at the end of april. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world former french president nicolas sarkozy is to stand trial on charges he is that he illegally influenced an inquiry into alleged irregularities and his two thousand and seven election campaign his lawyers say they will appeal the decision to go to trial i'm sure sarkozy is facing a separate charges as he accepted millions of euros in funding in the late libyan dicta

announcement came a day after it was confirmed km young un made a surprise visit to china where he met president xi jinping china's foreign ministry said kim pledged his commitment to denuclearization. tension ever north korea's nuclear weapons escalated last year after pyongyang tested several ballistic missiles sparking a war of words between communion and u.s. president on a trump. but since the winter olympics in south korea when athletes from the north and the south much together at the opening ceremony relations between the one time fellows have thought. where the north korea's leader really is willing to make any concessions and limit his nuclear ambitions will be revealed at the end of april. dozens of people have died in a fog that swept through a jail in venezuela after a riot broke out in mates and physicists are amongst the dead the fire is said to have started during an escape attempt police and crowds have clashed outside the building as people demand to know the fates of their family members. god for this woman the wait is agony relatives have come to cairo bobo police station in desperation to find out if their loved ones a

president of north korea live just say tell me can donald trump get kim jong un to give up his duty. and what does young ones from the talks this is inside story. allow and welcome to the program.

president of north korea leaders say the can donald trump gets kim jong un to give up his duty ambition and what does young ones from the top this is inside story.

kim jong-un was a god that could read my mind. >> could read your thoughts? >> yes. >> that young woman's harrowing story up next. stay with us. don't we need that cable box to watch tv? nope. don't we need to run? nope. it just explodes in a high pitched 'yeahhh.' yeahhh! try directv now for $10 a month for 3 months. no satellite needed. cohigher!ad! higher! parents aren't perfect, but then they make us kraft mac & cheese and everything's good again. we came with big appetites. with expedia one click gives you access to discounts on thousands of hotels, cars and things to do. like the bicycle hotel & casino for 30% off. everything you need to go. expedia >>> and welcome back to "on assignment." russia and north korea, that relationship goes all the way back to the early days of the cold war and those ties run deep, which is why making sure there are no holes in the fence between russia and north korea is not just about a few tons of oil and coal, it's a vital american interest and here is why. those new intercontinental missiles north korea tested are powered by russian technology, literally. >> as far as i can tell, the engi

just a few weeks ago kim jong un's younger sister kim jung il junk extended an invitation on behalf of her big brother to south korean president moon j.n. to come up to pee on young moon hasn't said yes or no but as said that some conditions would have to be made first and i think we can expect that these envoys this week are discussing those potential conditions jason as all this diplomatic activity a result of the olympics where we started to see a thaw between the two sides. you know ever since the beginning of this year when kim jong un said that he was looking to participate in the if young chong olympics there has been a flurry of diplomatic activity and you know it was just last year several months ago that many people thought of world war three was going to erupt at any given moment on the korean peninsula we had washington in pyongyang trading threats back and forth who good pudge the more gruesome form of annihilation however that has all changed now since the beginning of the year the olympics certainly have brought a reprieve to the tensions and later this week the paralympics will begin and plan jiang in north korea again is sending athletes and will

kim jong—un wants to talk. he made his new position clear over food with south korean officials in pyongyang. it was the first time ministers from seoul have met the younghe is prepared to discuss getting rid of his nuclear weapons and they've now delivered a message from kim jong—un that caught many in the white house by surprise. he expressed his eagerness to meet president trump as soon as possible. the idea of a face—to—face meeting between president trump and kim jong—un by may seems remarkable, given the months of threats and insults between them. they will be met with fire and fury. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself. but the tone has changed. on twitter, donald trump said that great progress was being made but that sanctions will remain until an agreement is reached. however, that meeting is being planned. the us secretary of state seemed blindsided. just hours before coming he had this to say. in terms of the direct talks with the united states and us negotiations, we are a long way from negotiation. given the unpredictable nature of donald trump and kimjong—un, could this meeting even go ahead? there's all kinds of obstacles on the

the nature of kim jong un himself, he still a very young leader, click clearly in charge of his countrythose are the kinds of things that we can share publicly about him and president trump is now committed to having at least a first conversation. >> john: i'm curious, the president's tough-minded approach to north korea, the things he said, the things he tweeted about, where those informed by her personality profile of kim or did he just relents on that? >> director pompeo: the president had in his mind, even during the campaign, that north korea was an enormous challenge. i brief the president nearly every day and we have shared with the president every bit of information we have about the country, about its economy, about its missiles. about how kim jong un might react and how north korea might respond, how the globe might respond. the president has built an enormous coalition aimed at the singular outcome, which is the denuclearization of the peninsula. >> john: so when did they meet? >> director pompeo: i don't know. >> john: what needs to be taken into consideration when discussin

kim jong-un was a god that could read my mind. >> could read your thoughts? >> yes. >> that young woman's harrowing story up next.tay with us. uldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else. so why accept it from your allergy pills? most pills don't finish the job because they don't relieve nasal congestion. flonase allergy relief is different. flonase relieves sneezing, itchy, watery eyes and a runny nose, plus nasal congestion, which pills don't. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. most pills only block one. and 6 is greater than 1. start your day with flonase for more complete allergy relief. flonase. this changes everything. jimmy's gotten used to his whole yup, he's gone noseblind. odors. he thinks it smells fine, but his mom smells this... luckily there's febreze fabric refresher for all the things you can't wash. it finds odors trapped in fabrics and washes them away as it dries. and try pluggable febreze to continuously eliminate odors for up to 45 days of freshness. pluggable febreze and fabric refresher. two more ways to breathe happy. you totanobody's hurt, new car. but there will sti

the nature of kim jong-un himself point he is still a very young leader but clearly in charge of his country. those are the currents kinds of things we can share publicly and president trump is committed to at least having a first conversation. >> the things he said and tweeted about, or those informed by your personality profile of kim or did the president just do it himself? >> the president had in his mind that north korea was an enormous challenge. i breathe the president nearly every day we have shared every bit of information we have about the country, its economy of how kim jong-un might react. and how north korea might respond. how the globe might respond. the president has built an enormous coalition aimed at a singular outcome which is the denuclearization of the peninsula. >> so where do they need? >> i don't know. >> what needs to be taken into consideration when discussing where they would meet? i assume they wouldn't me to north korea or the united states. probably not south korea either. geneva, - - as gorbachev and reagan did? >> seems less important where they meet i

korean nuclear standoff president and north korean leader kim jong un have agreed to hold the first ever u.s. and north korea summit killing youngoffice to push its nuclear program on the negotiating table if the right conditions are met also in the program despite international condemnation president trying to move ahead with a key campaign pledge the u.s. leader imposes controversial tabs on foreign.

and of course this all comes after that surprise visit that kim jong un made to china for a meeting with xi jinping china's top diplomat young is in south korea to brief south korean officials on the topics that were discussed at that meeting valuable information as they go ahead and plan the interconnection summit next month. gyptian state media is expecting president uphill fattah el-sisi to win reelection by a landslide after three days of voting preliminary results a.c.c. won twenty three million out of the twenty five million votes cost as any rivalry some stuff a muso one three percent of the vote but it turned out was that he nine percent. america the libyan capital tripoli has been kidnapped by gunmen from his home girl ralph bates hamill is affiliated with libya's u.n. backed government of national accord which resides in tripoli over the past few years officials are often being targeted for abduction bush crime is the true reason mayors touring the country to mark a one year countdown before the u.k. leaves the european union the full brecht's the process was triggered last year after the referendum in two thousand

discussion and of course this all comes after that surprise visit that kim jong un made to china for a meeting with pain china's top diplomat young in south korea to brief south korean officials on the topics that were discussed at that meeting valuable information as they go ahead and plan the interconnection summit next month. the. preliminary results show a landslide win for sisi in egypt's presidential election bought a low turnout. after three days of voting results show that c c one twenty three million out of the twenty five million votes cast is only rival with some stuff and one three percent of the vote both a turnout however was thirty nine percent since his bid for a second term was seen as a foregone conclusion after all of the crew at credible candidates withdrew or were effectively made to our senior political analyst my one bashara joins us live now in the studio i mean that's pretty low thirty nine percent lower than the last time the last election at forty three i think how how reliable are these these results anyway of course in terms of reporting it depends who you talk to the egyptian official media and actua

the nature of kim jong-un himself point he is still a very young leader but clearly in charge of his country. those are the currents kinds of things we can share publicly and president trump is committed to at least having a first conversation. >> the things he said and tweeted about, or those informed by your personality profile of kim or did the president just do it himself? >> the president had in his mind that north korea was an enormous challenge. i breathe the president nearly every day we have shared every bit of information we have about the country, its economy of how kim jong-un might react. and how north korea might respond. how the globe might respond. the president has built an enormous coalition aimed at a singular outcome which is the denuclearization of the peninsula. >> so where do they need? >> i don't know. >> what needs to be taken into consideration when discussing where they would meet? i assume they wouldn't me to north korea or the united states. probably not south korea either. geneva, - - as gorbachev and reagan did? >> seems less important where they meet i

an upcoming meeting between donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un but washington insists it will keep up pressure on p.r. young to end its nuclear weapons program trump has agreed to meet kim by many others here as mike hanna has more from washington d.c. we heard from the press secretary appearing to introduce new conditions by saying that there has to be tangible evidence of the north koreans good intentions as it were however administration officials have now been quick to clarify exactly what you are saying and they insist that the press secretary was not introducing any new precondition rather they say she was emphasizing the consequences should north korea back down on its assurances that there will be no more nuclear or missile testing five civilians have been killed in attacks by syrian government forces on parts of eastern on friday an aid convoy crossed into the rebel held on klav delivering desperately needed food despite heavy fighting close to relief workers kenya's president and main opposition leader promised to begin a process of reconciliation the pair held talks for the first time since last

with kim jong un laura and of course the whole regions in volgograd chinese delegation also very in south korea briefing them on kim surprise visit to beijing. that's right china's top diplomat young has been meeting with south korea's top national security advisor talking about that surprise visit that kim jong un made to china for the meeting with the president xi jinping and the south korean side has welcomed that meeting saying that it is a positive development and they hope that it sort of bodes well going into the intercom rian summit and head to the planned meeting with president donald trump the thing that is not clear though is precisely what will be on the agenda at the into korean summit it was discussed we're told that both sides exchanged views on the topics they thought that moon and kim should discuss but we don't have a firm commitment yet and what many people will want to see is a confirmation that junior denuclearization will be discussed we heard via the chinese state news agency shin wa that kinda unknown was quoted as saying once again that he is committed to denuclearize asian on the korean peninsula but historically when he has made that sort of remark from