policies with korea. secretary tillerson and our -- in our conversations have discussed an approach to north korea's programs. our approach will be the main agenda. our unchanging goals are something that has been declared by both countries and summed up in our resolutions. it is a verifiable and irreversible dismantling of north korea's nuclear program. goal, its unwavering is effective and copperheads of policy options will be discussed extensively. furthermore, additional provocations are anticipated. the assassination by weapon has triggered an unprecedented term of events. in addition to north korea's rights programs, civil infringements will be discussed. governments in a bid to counter north korea's threats -- doesn pushing for not target any particular country. this is been our clear position. -- with clarity and resoluteness. welcomesn government the trump administration's announcement. most notably, the president himself stated that under the new administration, the alliance will be made stronge

deal with north korea? you will get the calls in the moment. the story from bbc, that country conducting an engine test. north korean leader declaring the test [indiscernible] for their rocket industry. he said the engine would help north korea achieved world-class satellite capability and the development comes as secretary was ine tillerson, who china, after personally overseeing the test, mr. kim said the world will witness soon "the great significance of this epic making victory we achieved today." let's go to joe, west virginia. welcome. caller: hello? u.s. needs to deal with north korea through china. north korea has no economy, no jobs, they create nothing. use, even that they though they are starving the people to death and developing this muscle program and this nuclear program comes from china. basedinese economy is almost solely on exports to the united states. only thing we have to do is what donald trump said during the campaign. let's put a tariff instead of 50%, let's tell china we will change

we urge north korea to achieve peacefuls to achieve silly with north korea have failed to make us safer. the u.s. and its allies have repeatedly assured north korea's leaders that we assure only peace, stability, and economic prosperity for northeast asia. as proof of our intent, america has provided $1.3 billion in assistance to north korea since 1995. in return, north korea has detonated nuclear weapons that -- and dramatically increased ballistic missile launches to threaten america and our allies. our commitment to allies is in the face of north korea's escalating global threat, it is important for me to consult with our friends. let me be very clear. the policy of strategic patience has ended. we are exploring a new range diplomatic security -- diplomatic, security, and economic measures. all options are on the table. north korea must understand that he only path to a secure, economically prosperous future is to abandon its development of nuclear weapons, domestic -- holistic missiles, and other weapons of mass destruction. we called upon other regional powers and all nations in de

where to go with north korea. what we are going to say is that we see what the response in the -- the response has been to press statements. hasee what the response been to many of the member states having conversations with north korea asking them to back , down. it's an unbelievable, irresponsible arrogance we are seeing coming out of kim jong-un at this time. i think the member states recognize that and are sitting back trying to figure out how to move forward. >> ambassador? to clarify what you said about all options are on the table. can you please explain what you think about the option with dialogue, which is what the chinese ambassador has called for? is it now the time for dialogue? or not at all? >> we are not ruling anything out. since these multiple launches, we are reevaluating what u.s.'s approach will be. we are considering every option that's on the table. thank you all very much. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television c

of north korea facing them. and not help. so that is the reason for thad is because of the actions of north korea. we have not seen any good will come from north korea. i appreciate my counterparts wanted to talk about talks and negotiations. we are not dealing with a rational person. if this was any other country, we would be talking about that and it would not be an issue. this is not a rational person who is not thinking clearly. what i can tell you the stance of the united states is that we are reevaluating how we will handle north korea going forward. we are making those decisions now and will act accordingly. i will turn it over to my friend from japan. >> thank you nikki. and thank you for joining us. first of all, i would like would like to thank nikki for her very strong leadership in joining with us to call for this meeting and i appreciate the presidency has called this meeting at an early date soon after the arrival back from an important mission. most of what needs to be said has already been said b

of north korea. hopefully, the u.s. will not d o anytything dangerous in the interim. amy: professor bruce cumings, you talk about how park geun-hye rose to power, how she was also as christine was talking about, what this means for north/south korean relations and the united states? >> well, park geun-hye was the daughter of the president who was assassinated by his own 1979,igence chief in precipitating a crisis that led to another military coup. at this point, park geun-hye have been living in the blue house i think for 10 or 11 years. she went into a kind of seclusion for a long time, then came out in the 1990's as a member of the national assembly. she was elected, really, in reaction against to progressive presidents -- two progressive .residents her constituency, as you can see from the protestss in seoul in favor of her, consists of people who were still deeply anti-communist, anti-north korean. they hate the north korean. they tend to be in her 60's, 70''s, 80's. declining constituency. lost

south korea. guest: it would be tragic. i would apiece last month in where i suggest that we should to bring about the stone and as a stepping andhe strategy for the past what they came to be known as strategic patients work until to go back torees , so that wasement a requisite for us sitting down with them. the problem is that by that point, they were no longer using the program as a bargaining chip or to get an attention. there was already a vital component in the national defense strategy, so they were unwilling to put that on the table. is wee happened essentially allowed them, well, not talking to them, we allowed them to develop their capabilities in nuclear technology and also in missal technology, so the ability to deliver a device, which they did not have in 2006 when the first detonated their first device. points,o year earlier the secretary of state making his first trip to south korea meeting with leaders but complicating this is you no longer have the president in power. she was impe

officials in south korea and japan monitoring north korea.e will go to jerry in north carolina, democrats line. good morning. caller: gary. host: go ahead. caller: i think did we have any trouble with north korea, it will be a mass surrender. we probably zeroed in on every bunkerndocket or whatever they got. we can take them o in the first day. that is not the right call. they moved all of these sporting events out of here. they moved from greensboro to greenville, south carolina. there would have been a home game for us in greensboro. now they moved us to greenville. int: i am going to jump because that is a completely different topic to this network. we want to focus on the situation in north korea. alan from east chicago, indiana. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span and for taking my call. wecomment is i believe should totally and completely ignore him. we should not make the mistake that korea thinks like america does. we have been through this before with other countries. they have a totally different train of logic.

korea. trip by the secretary of state, tillerson, travel to the region this week on trip that will include stop necessary japan, south korea and china. state department officials says the threat posed by north korea high on mr. tillerson agenda. what message will he be bringing? >> i'd be surprised if it is not the only thing on his agenda that is the issue preeminent in that area. of course he'll be talking to south korea about continuing with the thaad deployment, despite the pressure from china. china putting economic pressure on the south. the korean war didn't end with peace agreement, it just ended with seization of hostility, never been a peace agreement. the u.s. and south korea are linked, unlike places where rising tension, you know there might be debate in congress, should we go to war or do something nsouth korea, obligated by treaty to work with the republic of korea to defend the southern korean peninsula. this missile system be deployed there. host: the $180 billion, is that f

right, well, looking at japan and south korea issuing protests and holding meetings after north koreaed ballistic missiles. of fourave claims ballistic missiles, which could be i see bm's. rosalind: that's correct. south korea said multiple missiles launched and flew about a thousand kilometers, twice as for as the missile that north korea launched last month. four is saying that ballistic missiles, three fell into japanese waters. there have been no reports of damage is so far. the national security council meeting will be held today. one happy news says it could be an icbm, but there has been no official confirmation of this. u.s. and come as the south korea conducted joint military drills, which north korea has called a prelude to an invasion. -un has been ratcheting up action and firing missiles, coming with this ban on north korean weapons development. the sanctions don't seem to have much effect on stopping his nuclear ambitions. it is interesting come the timing of this, because the focus on china. move affect latest the relationship between pyongyang and beijing? rosalind: it

and south korea. in terms of the tillerson trips to asia, the meetings he is having to have gone pretty well. he started in japan and that was more about shoring up relations, about there is still some uncertainty, about the u.s. backing japan and south korea and our alliance, and i think he has done a good job with that. the japanese prime minister came out and gave very positive statements about his feelings about the u.s.-japan relationship, and the same thing with the koreans, the acting president was very positive in his words for the u.s.-korea relationship. mentioned, ias i think they are upset about the ofd installation and most their anger is going toward u.s. korea rather than the but the u.s. is seeing some of it. guest: i would agree the press conferences between the chinese and u.s., what we have seen so far, have gone as expected. you are right the chinese are not necessarily looking to have a bad relationship with the united states, and i do not think the chinese leadership have a negat

experts have been trying to solve north korea for decades, so we need to realize that north korea is problem, it's not a specific u.s. administration. scott: president bush's administration removed north korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. bruce: correct. scott: that was in an effort to get them to play along a little bit. is it time they go back on that list? bruce: i think it is. there's actually been a really long list of actions by north korea since they were removed from the list in 2008, which i believe, qualifies them for that. there's been shipments of conventional arms to terrorist groups, hezbollah and hamas. there have been attempted assassinations or successful assassinations of north korean defectors in south korea and russia and china and now malaysia. also, you know, if we think back to when north korea conducted the cyber hack on the sony studios, not only was it the hacking, it was the threats of 9/11 style attacks on any theatre and theatre-goers that went to see the movie, "the interview." that's a threat of a terrorist act. scott: president obama r

korea. i'll talk to the former u.s. ambassador to china about whether he thinks it will end in military conflict. >>> and down on the bayou. in trump country, residents give their take on the health care proposal and the president, ahead right here on "msnbc live." >>> we begin with the first 100 days. president trump in florida for a working weekend. a day after meeting with the chancellor of germany, angela merkel. he tweeted, "i had a great meeting despite what you've heard in the fake news." "nevertheless, germany owes vast sums of money to nato." >>> meanwhile, the administration is stepping up on its pressure on china to keep north korea from expanding its nuclear program. secretary of state rex tillerson is in beijing today where he met with his chinese counterpart ahead of his meeting with president xi jinping tomorrow. >> we have agreed to work together to see if we can bring the government in pyongyang to a place where ty want to make a course correction and move away from their de

south korea urging talks as the north korea fires another round of missiles. more lines. rosalind: north korea fired multiple missiles and flew around 1000 kilometers. that is from south korea's joint chief of staff to bloomberg. we are also hearing from japan's chief cabinet secretary yoshihide suga, who said at least four missiles fell into japanese waters. yoshihide suga and shinzo abe have said japan will launch a firm protest. right now, there is a security meeting on this issue and south korea. wash korea said the missile fired at about 7:36 local time. they are also reporting that they could be icbms. are analyzing the details of the projectiles, including distance and type. tests to do, as south korea and the u.s. go through their annual military drills, and north korea have called those a prelude to an invasion, came toe kim jong-un power, north korea has been launching a series of missiles and three nuclear tests, steps towards a missile that could carry a nuclear warhead as far as the u.s. those are amongst of the concerns. will this continue to aff

if north korea threatens u.s. or south korean forces on the peninsula there could be a military option. he also said if they continue to accelerate their nuclear and missile program to an extent that could threaten south korea that the military option would also be on the table. however he didn't say that other steps would be taken first. listen to this. >> the policy of strategic patience has ended. we're exploring a new range of diplomatic security and economic measures. all options are on the table. >> from here secretary tillerson will go on to beijing where he will be calling for china and other countries to fully enforce all sanctions against north korea as one means of trying to rachet down the threat that continues to be raised by north korea. u.s. intelligence officials have seen signs that they believe north korea is preparing for more missile tests and possibly another nuclear test. >> the u.s. needs china to play ball on the sanctions to have any sort of real effect. the north korean news all coming as

and south korea. these are some of the largest annual drills north korea is always warning against and says that to take them as a threat and even though the u.s. and south korea maintain it's not, they expect some north korean provocation around the times of many the missile -- of the joint exercises. >> i want to talk more about what's happening in china right now. you remember back on the campaign trail last year, president trump said that china, he suggested that china could do more about the north korean issue, the threats coming from north korea. given that this has happened at a time china is having its national people's congress, give us a sense of the optics. >> well, i mean, i think the optics are more right now about these exercises, but certainly while the chinese are having these important meetings, you know, that -- obviously that brings north korea, you know, to the kind of pop up of national security conversations there. i think that the u.s. and president trump, in particular, has rea

deciding north korea's future trajectory of action. the first one is of course how tougher or stronger it will be. more importantly second variable will be china's future behavior. if china continues to support survival of north korea regime unofficially even while officially joining the un sanction i think north korea will stick on its career ambition. personally i see china is not likely to change it's current behavior. >> a special prosecutor in south korea says president park colluded with her long-term friend to receive bribes from the samsung group. the allegations are included in findings of the 90 day investigation. the special prosecution team released the details on monday. >>. >> translator: the focus of this special prosecutor probe is the scandal caused by using the personal interest and collusion of government and business which is a chronic cycle of corruption in our society. >> the vice chairman of samsung electronics wanted support as head of the samsung group. in return they received bribes worth $25 million which wer

it's estimated there are 11 malaysians in north korea. and up to a thousand north korea. speaking to michael bristow to get his analysis on whether this is legal from either country? it's perhaps not legal but who's to stop north korea? over perhaps not legal but who's to stop north korea ? over the perhaps not legal but who's to stop north korea? over the years it's done things to contravene nuclear sanctions, missile tests and launches, its got away from them. it might not be legal, but it might not matter. north korea wants to put pressure on malaysia, conducting an investigation into the death of the half brother of the north korean leader, who was killed, kuala lumpur airport in the middle of february by airport in the middle of february by a nerve agent wiped on his face by two women. north korea wants pressure on that investigation. it's not happy with how malaysia is doing it. by holding malaysian citizens effectively hostage in north korea, it is putting that pressure on malaysia. what would it like to be different about the investigation? what's the outcome it w

the second notion was north korea. and the tensions on the korean peninsula, he had conversations and meetings with a foreign minister, and he dialback language from the earlier regional visit. he talked about not ruling out a preemptive strike of north korea. you did not hear that language here. he would make every effort to avoid conflict. but he managed to do it seemed is a minor concession from the chinese. he said the chinese would be considering approaching the north koreans to steer them off the path of the nuclear program. the chinese see this as more of a initiative for washington and pyongyang. they want them to have a dialogue. the u.s. say that will not happen until north korea moves away from their nuclear program. that looks unlikely because the program is central to change on -- kim jong-un's self-styled mission statement. you have a coalescing around the idea that china could approach the north koreans. china to take a stronger action and use it economic and trade leverage off the north koreans. then ti

and seek only to these -- live in peace with north korea so united states calls on north korea to abandon the ballistic missile program and in with the japanese people. thank you. translator: please come over to the microphone and state your name and affiliation and also to whom you are asking your question. please desisting to asking the question. first a reporter from the japanese side. >> at the moment the trump did ministrations and is reviewing the of policy. argue able to discuss that read you? what was the position or thinking and it is also said to be this state-sponsored of terrorism. >> i will respond first of all. this seems to be in progress in the thoughts and position and the specifics of what we have to customer will refrain from mentioning it. so this past to do with how the legislation so this is something to be decided by the u.s. government between myself and with the secretary tillerson we agree we should keep in close contact. >> with the diplomatic efforts to bring north korea to a point that failed. so we have 20 years of a failed approach. that includes the period

south korea's cospi index ended this way up also, by 0.8%. samsung electronics among the big gainers. >>> the rate hike by the u.s. federal reserve is only the third in a decade, but the central bank has forecast it will be one of three increases in 2017 alone. fed chair janet yellen spoke at the end of a two-day policy meeting. she said the key rate target will be increased to a range of 0.75% to 1%. >> we have confidence in the robustness of the economy and its resilience to shocks. it's performed well over the last several years. >> yellen noted that inflation has increased in recent quarters, approacaching the fed 2% longer run objective.e. >> today's d decision also reflects our view that waiting too long to scale back some accommodation could potentially require us to raise rates rapidly sometime down the road, which in turn could risk disrupting financial markets and pushing the economy into recession. >> it's the first increase since president trump took office in january. analysts have been trying to assess how much impact its econom

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north korea is famously secretive and that's the biggest understatement you could make about north korea's the end goal with this nuclear program? >> well, for decades, really, since the 1960s north korea has had a steady quest to have the ability to hit the united states and its allies with nuclear weapons via missiles. it's been a long-growing program, but it seems in the last several years they've made some leaps and bounds in success not only with the icb, m, but wh other missiles which is a submarine ballistic missiles and it invade basis in guam, south korea and japan. >> a lot of people have interpreted these latest actions provocations by north korea as a direct message to the united states, why, in your estimation, is north korea so focused on the united states of america? >> well, they see us as their main op bonent and they've repeatedly declared they'll never abandon their nuclear weapons and the treasure sword of deterrence. when people advocate a nuclear freeze negotiation. we've had eight international agreements with north korea that they failed and violated. so it's -- w

military exercises going on in south korea. the north korea news agency accused president trump of creating a nuclear confrontational hysteria. secretary of state tillerson will travel to japan, south korea, and china next week. us officals say china is the one country with the ability to rein in north korea, but so far, scott, that has not happened. >> david martin, thank you. >>> still ahead, someone stole her identity and turned her into a fake blogger. are your allergies holding you back or is it your allergy pills? break through your allergies. introducing flonase sensimist. more complete allergy relief in a gentle mist you may not even notice. using unique mistpro technology, new flonase sensimist delivers a gentle mist to help block six key inflammatory substances that cause your symptoms. most allergy pills only block one. and six is greater than one. ♪ where's the car? it'll be here in three...uh, four minute

south korea's military reacted sharply. >> translator: if north korea takes provocative actions despite our warnings we'll punish the country to defend the lives of the south korea people. >> the exercises are routine defensive drills aimed at improving the readiness of its forces. now turning to business news, tokyo stocks shot up following the rally in u.s. markets. wall street's major indexes hit record highs after president donald trump addressed congress. >> tokyo's nikkei average extended it's rally after the record finish on wall street. investors were encouraged by trump's $1 trillion investment plan our business reporter has more from the tokyo stock exchange. >> expectations from a u.s. rate hike strengthen after comments from federal reserve policy makers. in fact tokyo shares touch the highest level in more than a year. let's see where they close this thursday 2nd. the nikkei 225 added 19%. the broader topix gained .75%. the dollar touched a two week high with more fed officials hawkish on a rate hike this month. talk lead to buying up insurance and banking shares. they all

from north korea. you. ari melber is up next on msnbc. >> i'm ari, in for craig melvin. we have major developments this hour. a new financial blueprint, president trump's first budget proposes slashing diplomacy and environmental programs as well as boosting military sp

towards north korea have not worked and a % way forward towards north korea have not worked and a demwards north korea have not worked and a new way forward was neededm the face of this ever escalating threat it is clear and different approach is required. part of my purpose to the region is to exchange views on a new approach stop the foreign minister and i had a very open and candid discussion around a different approach and we will have further discussions with prime minister and further discussions with prime ministerand in further discussions with prime minister and in seoul as well. some of the days are the news. let's have a look at these spectacular images. amazing but also very dangerous. mt etna bursting into life and spitting lava 200 metres into the air above sigilg the lava 200 metres into the air above sicilé, the scale of lava 200 metres into the air above fl the scale of the lava 200 metres into the air above sicilé, the scale of the eruption sicily. the scale of the eruption was an expert on —— unexpected and ten people were injured. among them was our very corresponde

korea. and tokyo, japan with reaction ahead. >>> the fbi is sending the trump administration a message asking the justice department to refute the president's allegations of wiretapping by his predecessor, the latest on this fast developing story. >> nearly 60,000 people very escaped western mosul as the army, would there is to retake that city from isis. ben read man takes us on their brutal and heart breaking journey. welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm george howell in atlanta. >> and i'm hannah jones live for you here in london. you're watching cnn newsroom. >> 2:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. north korea has fired off a round of four ballistic missiles. the united states has a strong message in response. here's how it reads. the united states strongly condemns the dprk's ballistic missile launches tonight. we remain prepared and will continue to take steps to increase our readiness to defend ourselves and allies from attack and prepared to use the fu

i was in south korea and japan. but we are looking at key themes throughout the program, starting out with the fallout from the g-20 discussions. what does it mean for asset classes, but more importantly how does that threaten the how the globalf economy functions in terms of trade, and protectionism as a key risk of that? our guest is the extra chairman at deutsche bank middle east north africa. we will dive into a deeper discussion around emerging markets which includes egypt and turkey. plenty of news from that front, including economic growth figures from each of. we will look at why they came in slightly weaker at the top of the hour. shery: looking forward to that. and your exploits and south korea. david: i don't think we should go there. shery: apple says it doesn't have a specific market goal in china. tim cook says china has unique characteristics where of the mobile pay market is well ahead of the u.s.. single largests overseas market, but faces competition from the likes of oppo and huawei. david: what a

and that north korea's leader kim jong-un was behaving very, very badly. this was the end of a three-country trip for the secretary of state, it started in japan, went to south korea and ended in beijing. the secretary of state is on the way back. that the meeting, it started in south korea where the secretary of state talked a little more publicly how the u.s. and partners would try to counter north korea. he said basically that all options are on the table. he said the idea told fox exclusively the demilitarized zone, that the world should not allow japan and south korea to develop their own and obtain their own nuclear weapons to counter north korea is something that would be on the table. he also mentioned that perhaps military action is something that the united states and its allies could pursue, if the north korea weapon program reached a point but refused to expand what the conditions would be. following the meeting with president xi, the state department said secretary tillerson mentioned that president trump would like to meet directly with presi

this they want north korea to be provocative. seems inevitable something ugly has to happen there. i don't see what's going to curb the testing of the new administration, testing of the world. >> i don't think china actually wants north korea testing ballistic missiles. i think they want them to have their cake and eat it, too. china wants to maintain a relationship with north korea. does not want the regime to fall in north korea because then china would not have the buffer with the west that they have right now in north korea. they don't want reunification, they don't want refugees flooding over into north korea. but at the same time, they don't want to push it too far. charles: got to leave it there. lou dobbs next. lou: good evening, everybody. a conservative uprising appears to be in the works. lawmakers on capitol hill slamming the new republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare calling it obamacare light or ryan care. the long-awaited plan rolls back obamacare's expansion of medicaid benefits. it slashes the requiremen

not engaging with north korea. it is widely believed to not have been successful as the nuclear missile program has increased with some intensity over recent years. now secretary tillerson also said north korea must understand the only way to a secure and peaceful future is to abandon developments of nuclear weapons. he mentioned a new range of policies. i have been looking and i took this press conference. i have not heard anything new. we don't know the policy for the trump administration. we are hearing secretary tillerson saying this is not just an asian problem, but global problem. most countries need to be involved and china needs to be doing more. the main trading partner and ally of north korea. mentioning the missile defense system which started to arrive here last week. china is furious about the deployment. secretary tillerson said the economic repercussions that china is carrying out on north korea are inappropriate and troubling after this trip saturday morning local time, he will be heading to china.

ourtop stories: north korea's leader is not rational. blood words from america as the world reacts to recent lustig missile tests. this is not a rational person, who has not had rational person, who has not had rational acts, who is not thinking clearly. the white house promises to get tough on people who leaked classified information. this after of documents said to detail caa hacking tools published online is. i am karin giannone in london. islamic state gunmen dressed as manic storm a military hospital in kabul, killing 30 people. samsung's chief, jay y lee, goes on trial accused of corruption. we get the latest from seoul. —— jae—yong corruption. we get the latest from seoul. ——jae—yong lee. gladlyjoin us. “— seoul. ——jae—yong lee. gladlyjoin us. —— glad you could join us. in washington, they have been addressing north korea's latest missile test. and there was a blood message for north korea. —— blunt. she had this to say about kim jong on: we are not dealing with a rational person. if this was any other country, we would be talking

sort of understandable because a policy on north korea is not just about north korea.is also about iran, pakistan, and of course, china, because these countries cooperate on ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons technology. this is a hard issue for the united states. tillerson -- part of his brief from the white house is to find out what the chinese position really is and how far they can be pushed, and of course he talks about the military option but that is not going to happen, because there are 25 million south koreans who live in in seoul, 30 kilometers from the demilitarized zone that separates the 2 koreas. and north korea's fourth-largest army has 60% of its forces forward to deployed on the dmz. jane: if the military option is not an option, what is? gordon: he did talk about arming south korea and japan with the world's most dangerous weapons. i don't think that will happen because that is ditching seven decades of proliferation policy. the one thing he can do, which administrations in the past have not tried -- the only thing they have not tried -- is to imp

arriving in south korea.oversial defense system designed to intercept the nuclear threats from north korea. u.s. and south korean officials are noting the launches and saying this installation will go forward and officials are saying this deployment needs to happen as soon as possible. it could happen as early as july. those first pieces are arriving certainly drawing more ire from north korea. at the same time, north korean diplomatic relations reaching a new low with malaysia. north korean state news announcing all malaysian citizens in north korea will not be allowed out of the country. at the same time, malaysia saying north koreans in malaysia are not allowed out of the country. this is after the death of the half brother of kim jong-un, kim jong-nam. they say they are hiding in the embas embassy. north korea is now using leverage to ensure the security of citizens in malaysia. malaysia is doing the same thing as far as citizens in north korea are concerned. a lot of countries condemning the actions of n

korea is higher.focusing on the likelihood the fed will raise rates following janet yellen's comments over the weekend come so you are seeing good upside from asian equities across the board today. those specific stocks impacted by north korea's actions, you are seeing general strength run these south korean defense players and korean era industries up strongly. so, korea and focus on the back of this news that china has closed nine stores across rural china, lotte shopping down. a got hit hard on reports of china curbing tourism to south korea. cathay pacific rising strongly, up around 5%. the movement in korean stocks showing tension one would say, the understatement of that year, in terms of the korea-china relationship. versushe aussie dollar the new zealand dollar, now the highest level against the kiwi on the back of data out of australia and new zealand this morning. let's get you this story coming out of dubai. loserswere the biggest on sunday, falling to the lowest level in two months, on the

bidh korea has for diplomats from leaving.sia is reporting that they are doing the same in a tit-for-tat. they're banning north korean embassy officials from leaving the country. the malaysian government is meeting this friday and they are going to decide whether they will sever all ties with pyongyang. the malaysian foreign affairs minister for his part has penned a piece in the new straight times, a pro-government malaysian paper, basically saying that expelling the north korean ambassador was not a knee-jerk reaction. he had "lost all credibility." the minister once that severing ties will not be easy, but the government is willing to do so if necessary. host: now is something completely different, a bit of fashion controversy. a new ad that some say is degrading to women. guest: is always a fine line between fashion and vulgarity. yves saint laurent's campaign features scantily clad models in chic.ome call porno it has caused an upper on social media. the french paper says that 40 complaints have been filed. one of the mai

north korea would stop missile testing.rely defensive because of the threat from north korea, north korea is defying international law. but there is a re—evaluation going on and the state department said that secretary rex tillerson will be going to korea, japan and other areas next week to deal with what the american seat as an increasingly dangerous situation, trying to generate a new approach which will be a challenge to come up with new ideas, it has always been difficult trying to figure redhead to deal with north korea. difficult trying to figure redhead to dealwith north korea. that difficult trying to figure redhead to deal with north korea. that was very diplomatically put, it will be a challenge! at least 19 teenagers have died in able is near guatemala city, stay with us. died in a blaze. more on our big uk story today. after the chancellor of the exchequer philip hammond delivered his budget, the labour leader, jeremy corbyn described it as built on unfairness and failure. this was a budget of utter complacency

so that is notjust words, that is money into north korea.ly that the scientists in north korea and the political leadership there were thinking, let's's wind up beijing. it would not serve them well. thank you very much werejoining us not serve them well. thank you very much were joining us from seoul. not serve them well. thank you very much werejoining us from seoul. —— radu. —— let's. the director of national intelligence at the time of the us election has denied there was any wire—tapping of donald trump or his campaign. mr trump had accused president obama of ordering the wire—tap but offered no evidence. the white house has asked congress to investigate the allegations. nick bryant reports from new york. on the sunday talk shows this morning, one main topic of discussion... in his extraordinary twitter tirade, donald trump accused his predecessor barack obama of being a sick and bad guy who ordered wire taps at trump tower in a watergate—style conspiracy. and this morning the white house issued a statement asking that as part of their

north korea's ambassador to the un says military exercises carried out by south korea and the us are's take a look at some front pages from around the world. the japan times has this story about the country's biggest warship heading to the south china sea. the paper reports that the vessel will train with the us navy, and tour the region for three months before returning home in the summer. china daily covers the final day of the national people's congress. around 2,000 delegates have attended the session in beijing's great hall over the last 11 days — and over 5,000 proposals have been put forward. and the south china morning post leads on the highly anticipated meeting between donald trump and president xi. citing us media reports, the paper writes that a summit will take place early next month at president trump's mar—a—lago estate in florida. but it's emphasised that neither washington nor beijing have confirmed the meeting. now, what stories are sparking discussions online? well, the story of korean billy has been most watched on our website for the past 2a hours. here he is. bi

critical forill be the future of korea.at is one message that should go out but this is on top of samsung, is this perhaps a concerted, deliberate and actual seachange when it comes to the way that south korea is going to be governed in the future? i cannot confirm at this southin time -- the korean government will have different policies after the impeachment or the election this coming december. you have been pretty critical about this story shows a clear need for the system to be reformed. i'm wondering what does a different system look like? what changes would you propose? the korean system over the past six years was driven by the same system. it is hard to reform in a short time. thanks to the latest political turmoil, people realize the system is no longer working for the system -- the future of develop korea. the new leadership that will come in after may or december will change this. it will take time. court that will be in effect. investors will be corporate governors of companies. haidi: regardless of the outcome

one left leaning south korea president once even paid hundreds of millions to north korea just to hold a summit in p pyongyang. brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> we turn now to political issues coming from the united states. the legal fight over u.s. president trump's new travel ban. a federal judge is telling washington state's attorney general to file an amended complaint challenging the ban. he says until that happen, he cannot determine whether his ruling freezing mr. trump's original executive order applies to the new one. the trump administration is also facing a new controversy involving mr. trump's former national security adviser michael flynn and it can't seem to escape the shadow of russia. here is jeff zerl any frleny fr white house. >> reporter: was president trump aware his first national security adviser general michael flynn was registered as a foreign agent to represent the goechld government of turkey? >> just so we're clear, you wouldn't -- general flynn filed with the department of justice two days ago. >> reporter: sean spicer said his lobbying business was private