seoul and to convince the united states that north koreans are really serious the north koreans are prepared to make a genuine strategic concession and see when this is the first time though that team don't go and says that there's going to be a time line of that his is somehow confident denuclearization would happen before the end of twenty twenty one that statement on its own could be could be seen as something quite significant. well certainly if you're to talk to the south korean government here they would tell you that this is a very significant statement in fact the presidential spokesperson even made a point of having a separate meeting this afternoon to emphasize the fact that kim jong un is actually proposing a very specific timeline and this is something that we have not seen before it also goes to underscore the kind of importance that is being placed on the role of mr donald trump. despite all of the political problems that he's having domestically there seems to be suggesting to the three of us not really think that any kind of agreement can be beat if they want to deal

there with koreans dear fellow south koreans and koreans abroad we opening a new korean peninsula. free of. south and north korea agreed to remove all the risks that might cause war. the military agreement is going to be implemented through constant. consultations. we technically still at war were and war has been deeply embedded over the past sixty five years many young lives were sacrificed and neighbors had this invisible wall behind them the korean peninsula should be permanently at peace so that we can enjoy normal life. over the past three years. because of the confrontation and risk. there was corruption and imbalances but overcoming or these problems we can now going back to the normal and i'm so glad and i am so moved that i can confirm this north and south also agreed how to denuclearize the korean peninsula. north is to. you. permanently closed its nuclear facilities with inspection of the experts outside. and young be on nuclear facilities are to be always so closed or cording to or depending on the measures taken by the us and it is so. great. development from our pers

seoul and to convince the united states that north koreans are really serious the north koreans are prepared to make a genuine strategic concession. see when this is the first time though that team don't go and says that there's going to be a time line of that his is somehow confident denuclearization would happen before the end of twenty twenty one that statement on its own could be could be seen as something quite significant. well certainly if you're to talk to the south korean government here they would tell you that this is a very significant statement in fact the presidential spokesperson even made a point of having a second meeting this afternoon to emphasize the fact that kim jong un is actually proposing a very specific timeline and this is something that we have not seen before it also goes to underscore the kind of importance that is being placed on the role of mr donald trump. despite all of the political problems that he's having domestically there seems to be suggest and i'm afraid that's not really think that any kind of agreement can be beached if they want to deal w

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citizens and my fellow koreans korean people are great you know we are strong people are murders korean people love. and. have to live together. for five thousand years and only used a little together and we've been separated twenty for seventy years today right now and here. i can say. we are going to take. big steps for the future where we can live peacefully just like we used to do five thousand years ago. you know chairman kim jong un and myself. again are going to hold hands in hands where thousand north korean people to go for the prize future to build our better future from now and let's walk together in their journey. a lot of money and citizen. young students and children children from kenya. welcomed. me and my delegation. with great care and great respect once again i want to take this opportunity to say a big thank you and express my sincere gratitude for the welcoming gesture that you have shown. today. thank you very much again. there you see president mean jayna south korea addressing what is a record crowd of north koreans i'm told for the first time that the south korea

and a total ban on the exports of north korean coal. we all promised to expel north korean overseas financial representatives. we agreed north korea should not able to obtain chemical and biological weapons related material. and we all agreed to stop international scientific engagement with north korea. these sanctions were put in place for a very specific reason. to cut off funding and materials for north korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs because we know that the cash revenue going to north korea is used to build its weapons programs, not to help the north korean people. the difficult and very sensitive talks with north korea are ongoing. -k the trumpim summit has set us on a path of complete denuclearization but we're not there yet and until we get there, we must not ease the powerful worldwide sanctions that are in place. it is important to note that like the rest of the security council, russia voted in favor of all of the sanctions i just described. despite this, and despite not having yet come close to the achievement

korean special representative.that is what needs to happen, and this point of empowerment is important. a thing i have heard over the years, from the north koreans is that you never send anyone important enough. decisions are made at the top. whatever one things about the singapore summit, with the timing or the framing, that issue was addressed. so now the issue is empowering negotiators from washington, and having empowered negotiators from that president trump and north korea who are able to see what is possible. as a believer in negotiations, i think the key of a negotiation is shaping the context for things that was not possible at the beginning, so things can become possible or necessary through accommodation of carrots and sticks. that's the process we eed to get into. >> speaking of process, and we talked about this being about developing negotiating strategies. we are in a much different process than we have been in the past. this is now top-down. in. , one would hope hat you have -- in theory, one ould ho

is blocking joint inter-korean projects. we are grateful to you, madam president, for an in-depth economic analysis of the issues that the russian far east are saying. at the same time, i would like that the you cooperation between the u.n., the railroad roads including the trilateral project is not covered by the sanctions regime including resolution 2397. instead of creating roadblocks, you should promote the inter-korean cooperation and dialogue. to washington is prepared second fisa and a kind of hope for inter-korean dialogue. it ann. command, is analog to the berlin wall in the 21st century? what is being done by the united states can be considered a violation under security council resolutions enshrined in all resolutions where we are talking about finding a peaceful settlement to a conflict. on the other hand, the steps are fully in line with the policy of exerting maximum pressure on pyongyang. the united states is becoming increasingly aggressive in trying to subjugate the security council. sometimes we are left wi

future i've seen the courage i've seen their determination my fellow koreans korean people are great we are strong people we love peace and we have to live together. pakistan's former prime minister now as sharif has been freed from prison on bail islam about high court ordered shareef his daughter and son in law to be released until their appeal against a corruption conviction can be heard rule they were deficiencies in the case presented to the court which sentence them to jail in july. u.s. president donald trump is defending his controversial supremes court nominee who's been accused of sexual assault trump says brett kavanaugh a is an outstanding man and that it would be unfortunate if his accuser christine daisy ford didn't testify before a senate committee ford's lawyers say she won't appear before senators unless the f.b.i. investigates the edged incident. she . also welcomed. improve a proposal on the. next . to get an update on your porch for a new do it open pits of the new trailer given you some notion of the place time cause you don't have to. pick and choose. is god it'

on the korean peninsula plus south korea. that's what north korea defines as denuclearization of the korean peninsula. the end of the u.s. nuclear umbrella, a promise for no future deployment of nuclear weapons on the korean peninsula. so it's not the same type of denuclearization that we were talking about five years ago or ten years ago. i think two, three months, one year retreat from nuclear potential, we have to think about the price and when it's testifiable, whether we are better off with one year denuclearization, in return for instance all the u.s. troops and all those things that north korea is demanding. but this is something we have to think about. i think we shouldn't rule out the possibility of kim jon denuclearizing. and he's a genius strategist. he knows what he's doing, what he's talking about. >> so talking about that you could withhold some things or go for a year latency, one, we need a risk management strategy, how do we manage the risks of getting partially on this road, and maybe getting what we think w

i'm korean and i'm proud to be korean. >> mark is what's called a korean who has lived abroad.e and more people, like mark, are moving back home for the ever more numerous opportunities. >> when i came here, it just felt right for me. i'm here. these are my peoples. this has what i've been missing. i was considered not really korean, an outsider in my own country. i had like this thing going on because i was like am i not korean enough if i don't do this, if i don't drink this, if i don't eat this, but there was a certain sense of well, i want to learn this if that makes me feel more korean. >> nice. the best part is the skin. is this so hard to walk in and eat delicious food and get hammered in the street? being korean is pretty awesome. >> last one. >> yeah. ♪ >> nighttime in seoul and everywhere you go it seems, food and drink. this is what they call kind of like a pub, if pubs could operate in the street. you could have drinks and, well, i guess you could call it pub food. >> we're about to go eat some really, really good. welcome to seoul. let's do this. >> my new friend m

people so it's a symbol essential of what it means to be korean. and south korea's president has said that he dreams of going to this mountain in cuba and by feeling that wish is kind of sending the message that korea may be divided right now but there are still indeed one people right to read this is to take a stand because no let's go to give a wrong so where can we seem to really be happy day could this be heading to well it's a korean dream if a king shouldn't in the coming months. you know i had i'd like to think that it is but it won't be a quick process if we do indeed see you know reunification or of the merging of these two countries and then near future there's a new reasons for that the first one being you know to formally create a peace agreement and to the korean war north and south korea really need more than just themselves to sign on and that would basically require for the u.s. to be on board and right now i'm not so sure that the americans want to be washington is treating a piece of surance between the u.s. and north korea as a b

he wants to be the south korean president who brought peace to the korean peninsular but he also hasons progress and there is substantive progress and there is substantive progress on denuclearisation so he is really caught between a very difficult situation here because those two agendas, his agenda and the nuclear agenda, they don't a lwa ys the nuclear agenda, they don't always live a perfectly. this is where it's going to be a big task for him. the south korean administration, the blue house, has set expectations, saying that if president moon is able to broker us— north korea dialogue, that would be considered success. we will really have to see what the details are of that. i'd be very surprised if we heard kim jong—un say something very specific in public. typically, we've heard the south koreans come back and say kim jong—un heard the south koreans come back and say kimjong—un has committed himself to denuclearisation in very broad terms, perhaps the specifics will come behind closed doors and that's important to do privately but again, specifics and details are really key to

china that has a special place for all koreans spiritually moving j.n. said he'd never been there before well his wishes come true he will be visiting there before returning to seoul marty from a bride live in the south korean capital seoul thank you and just a couple of minutes ago president trump commented on the summit between the two korean leaders. very good news from the us career south korea. they met and we had a great responses i got a tremendous letter from him jungleland as you know it was deliberate three days ago i would beg to commend his progress with respect to north korea prior to becoming president it looked like we were going to war with north korea and now we have a lot of progress we've gotten our prisoners back. we're getting our remains back they continue to come in a lot of tremendous things but very importantly no missile testing no nuclear testing. they've been scenes of jubilation in pakistan after a cold ruled that the former prime minister nawaz sharif could be freed on bail islam about high court ordered sharif his daughter

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north korean capital pyongyang.0 people from seoul including k—pop stars and business executives. there's hope president moon will restart stalled talks on north korea nuclear disarmament. our seoul correspondent laura bicker has been speaking to two south koreans who have very different views of these talks with the north. lets get more on this. andray abrahamian is from the griffith asia institute in australia, who's recently come back from north korea. hejoins me now from seoul. welcome to the programme. you spent 11 days in north korea, you must have spoken to quite a few people. did any tell you how they would felt about their leader and his policies at the moment? i think, overall, north koreans view the process the way most of us in the rest of the world a re way most of us in the rest of the world are looking at it as well. that is with considerable excitement at the beginning of the year with the prospect of real change at then as the months have dragged on without any breakthrough, a little bit of cynicism

south korean president moon jay in.expected to emerge in just a few moments this summer's war will be seen as a litmus test for another meeting. kim jong un has had recently too with the u.s. president donald trump and may give clues as to whether the north korean leader leader is serious about denuclearization that is a commitment he made at their first encounter with the u.s. president in june we're going to go live now to rob mcbride who incest standing by for us in solve rob. that's right we are waiting has him here for the doors were open this is been a short flight just under an hour from seoul to pyongyang as you mentioned they're bringing jay and his delegation of some two hundred people there is an equally large crowd gathered pyongyang airport we have seen a number of flags people carrying the north korean flag but also interestingly and we're seeing more and more of this flag if you are not of familiar with it before it's the blue reunification flag of a really unique fied korean peninsula we are waiting to s

on denuclearizing the korean peninsula. bible kendell e discuss advancing the nuclearization with president. has president moon and i build trust with each other our progress towards a peaceful and prosperous korean peninsula will become faster. you wonder not because complete denuclearization and the establishment of peace on the korean peninsula is an important agenda good as it is a completely new resolution there could be various challenges and difficulties however chairman kim jong un and i share trust and friendship and. relations between the two koreas do seem to be improving but real progress in the region will depend on convincing the us that the north is serious about getting rid of its nuclear weapons. let's get more from political scientist robert e. kelley from south korea suppose that national university welcome to doubly so happy seen some problems as a piece from pyongyang but was anything of substance achieved. a little bit i think probably the most important thing meaningful is that the north koreans consi

americans to get things moving again what would it take to try to bridge the gap between the north koreans and the americans when it comes to restarting talks about. denuclearization so at this point most commentators recognize the u.s. and north korea they're looking for one thing each of us wants north korea to come out and make some kind of sincere concrete gesture toward denuclearization and north korea wants to us to join in on this declaration to end the korean war but unfortunately the ball is now in north korea for and responsibility is to bring back some kind of concrete detail commitment commitment from north korea as to how they're going to proceed with this new nuclear reservation and here is coming down the steps now with his wife to be greeted by kim jong il and. what will be going through kim jong un's mind at this time following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather all doing better than him and having these meetings with his opposite number from the south well there have been questions as to whether kim jong un is really different from his predecessors but i think

push north and south korean. home and abroad.we head into a korean summit encountering young and both the signed and the september joint declaration. into korean relations turned made a turning point with the april permanent german declaration and with this joint declaration in september we aim to strengthen or improve this in relations and for the peace and prosperity. and i'd like to thank president moon and all the people from the south korean government for their hard work to stick to their promise and commitment for us for this for the april pam and jim declaration. the decision of both leaders have been supported by all the people of south and north korea and i'd like to thank. all those unwavering support from both koreans home and abroad. i mean. this south and north korea started to work closely together. starting from winter olympics. which reached today. and it has. created this reach fruit in autumn. and new history has been realized as it was described in. president moon and i looked back on the improved relations be

a little bit i think probably the most important thing meaningful is that the north koreans considered inviting inspectors into the country and now it seems like the two facilities they want to comment have inspectors look at already been decommissioned in one way or another and that might not actually get relevant to the north korean program anymore so i'm not sure that that's actually a major concession that's up for debate probably in the next couple weeks we'll see what that means but inspectors are something new right and we know the north koreans don't like inspectors foreigners can operate freely in north korea at all right so if we get that from them that's actually a pretty good start there's enough to keep the process limping along right donald trump said i sent a tweet or two afterwards saying this is sort of a good step so it's still ok but you know there has been movement on the really big issues of nuclear weapons and missiles yeah let's let's look about a little closer so that no throws a great to potentially dismantle its main nuclear sites if the united states makes co

day to south korean president jay ends visit to his no the neighbor kim jong un more carefully staged displays of harmony along with the generous serving of top. the two leaders selling their pact is a breakthrough they've announced can will become the first northern leader to visit so another step along the road to peace they say. we have adopted a military pact to end a history of brutal confrontation and agreed to make efforts to turn the korean peninsula into a land of pace. they also promised to hold family reunions regularly that's after dozens of relatives from the north and south separated in the one nine hundred fifty s. recently met. and the leaders agreed to disarm a jointly controlled border village starting with the removal of land mines they also said they've made progress on the issue the world's watching denuclearization . south and north korea have agreed on a way to achieve denuclearization for the first time it's a very meaningful outcome. the north says it will allow international inspectors to observe the dismantling of its main missile testing site but it's repea

state from the korean civil war right the korean war it's basically sort of a civil war between two claimants to govern the peninsula and it's really clear now that south korea has won sort of that long term rates right i mean nobody really looks to north korea as a model of the future the north koreans are worried about absorption you know the north korea might collapse or you might have some some kind of internal revolt that would lead to southern intervention that's certainly the case anymore in south korea right i mean these claims are really asymmetric north korea is under threat but south korea is really not and so north koreans want a peace treaty to validate north korea's existence as a separate distinct korean state from the south and not the sort of average part of south korea that should be reabsorbed as soon as possible do you think that the north and south. on a direct poff to pay so i mean if they look at relations looking better than they have at any time in recent history you've been looking better probably than the last ten years or so but and part that's because th

projects allow himself koreans to visit the mountain by the north that runs out a trip that sold the two leaders agree to make the peninsula nuclear free but macbride has more from seoul. this three day summit ending as it began rich in symbolism moon j.n. and kim jong un his north korean host visiting mt pettigrew this is a mountainous volcano right on the border of north korea and china that is spiritually very significant to all koreans along ago moon had expressed a desire to visit the place and this does seem to be the kind of summit where dreams come true he has visited there with kim later he will then be returning after lunch to seoul possibly addressing the south korean nation and he has a lot to talk about about the events that have taken over over the past few days culminating of course in something which has still stunned people here in south korea the sight of their president addressing one hundred fifty thousand north koreans at the may day stadium in pyongyang on wednesday night it's something that simply doesn't happen but it has happened and that i think is the bigge

the north korean capital in more than a decade.delegation of 200 people from seoul including pop stars and business executives. it is going to be tricky and challenging for him because he has his own presidential and domestic agenda. he wants to be the south korean president that finally brought peace to the peninsula but he also has to make sure that us and north korea nuclear negotiations progress and that the areas substantive progress on denuclearisation. he is really caught between a very difficult situation near because those two agendas, it hears agenda and the other one, they do not line up perfectly. and this is where will be a big task for. the south korean administration has set the bar and its expectations, saying that if president moon is able to even broke aus president moon is able to even broke a us north korea dialogue, that will be considered success. and we will have to see what the details are of that. i would be very surprised if we heard kim jong—un say something specific in public. typically we have heard the

you know south korean president and north korean leader kim jong un really trying to send the message that they're ready to kind of put themselves or as one people again that dusan are you now and it's really symbolic of the korean people because it is the setting of a game piece of folklore that talks about the birth of the korean people so basically they were going there to kind of rewrite history and so the two leaders can access that now they get and also certainly from kim jong un's perspective it's a way of welcoming south korea into its narrative because north korea has used. as a kind of a propaganda tool it's suppose the birthplace of the north korean revolution and also kim jong un's father kim. so a deeply symbolic move on both sides kelly. to some of the south koreans as to how they feel about this recent summit this is a listen first to what they had to say. i didn't really believe kim jong un's pledges to denuclearize in the past what he did during the past three days seems trustworthy. to kind of none of you can get anything out of north korea in terms of denuclearizing

the north koreans are great at this. they love talking.im jong—un great at this. they love talking. sitting down with kimjong—un in singapore was not a great achievement, because we know that they love to talk. the problem is they love to talk. the problem is they talk and they talk and they talk, but don't do a whole lot. we are into the night month of the departed this year, and the north koreans have not made any serious concessions. but as 0k, koreans have not made any serious concessions. but as ok, but that is what we are focused on. what we want is more information and ultimately some sort of rollback. we have not anything on that. it donald trump cannot move this forward, then nobody else, not the neighbours of the trainees of the south koreans, derby appears to be able to make kim jong—un budge much?” derby appears to be able to make kim jong-un budge much? i don't think the north koreans will send much back. that means about 50 warheads and some icbms. mainly they want to get back some stuff. mike pompeo talk about than giving up

for koreans even small steps towards. our reasons for optimism after so many years of tensions and they like what they're seeing after all the leaders have never been this close before. the ban imposed on russian athletes could be lifted by the world anti-doping agency wada to day that despite widespread resistance from athletes and other sporting bodies russia's anti-doping agency has been suspended twice since two thousand and fifteen after a water report revealed a major state sponsored doping scandal athletes and. bodies from around the world have urged water and not to reinstate russia's saying it would be a betrayal for clean up things. you're watching news coming to you from berlin we have much more for you at the top of the next hour rita will be with you then and of course you get all the latest news information online around the clock thanks for watching. nico he's in germany to learn german. luge beneath. why not learn with him online on your mobile and free to sask from the w e learning course nikos speak.

and kim jong un could become the first north korean leader to visit so. both sides appear to be committed to closer relations whether that can continue will depend in part on the reaction of their asian neighbors and the level of watchful united states bride al-jazeera so. are listening to leonard petrof he's a korean studies lecturing researcher at the australian national university he's joining us live now from sydney and i'm just wondering what your impression then is of the deals that have been signed and perhaps some of the things that have been a message how far forward do you think that this this summit has brought the relationship between north and south since ational i think it's a major step forward not only in her career in reconciliation but also in building strong and continuing peace in northeast asia which is a really problematic region where peace agreements haven't been signed since the end of world war two russia and japan don't have the peace treaty china and republic of china and taiwan still at all and now the most important historic

jane was greeted out pyongyang at ports by the north korean leader kim jong un the south korean president is accompanied by a two hundred strong delegation is bringing with him business leaders including the heads of samsung and l.g. is that there is into korean summit this year the previous meetings took place on the border say but this is the first time in ten yes this is south korean media has visited pyongyang him and moon are expected to discuss an ongoing peace plan d. to rise asian they could sign a bilateral measure agreements. and as we mentioned visit comes just after the u.s. accused russia of violating sanctions against north korea antiwar activist brian baca believes washington does not want to see pace emerge on the korean peninsula. if you look at the last year all of the good progress has really come from north and south koreans they want to live together they want to have peace they want to end the war they want to have economic integration this frightens the united states because the united states sees south korea not as an ally but as an extension of american power and

the leaders of north korea promising a nuclear free korean peninsula kim jong un also says he plans to visit seoul probably before the end of this year south korean president made the remarks on the second day of the three day summit yang they also agreed to open bold and rail lines between the two. it will be in. the north the permanently close its nuclear facilities with inspections from outside experts and the young young nuclear facilities are also to be closed depending on measures taken by the us it's such a great development from our perspective. over the past decades confrontation and hostility described our military relations but with this new agreement we agreed to make the korean peninsula a free area through various measures to that in exchanges in many areas and communications are going to help our hard work for the reunification. right now he's joining us live from saul's and then we'll close production facilities and allow outside inspectors rob this. indeed elizabeth is a commitment to close those facilities but dependent upon actions taken by the united states exactly

to all koreans into korean relations have seen many false starts with attempts at reconciliation often returning to threats of war but there's a strong sense moon and kim want to forge a bond so strong that they can never slip back to the acrimony of the past. to which we adopted a military pact to end a history of brutal and tragic confrontation and hostility. some weapons facilities will be closed but there's little detail on how to fulfill a more vague promise to make the peninsula nuclear free it's enough though to breathe new life back into the stalled negotiations between north korea and the united states and could lead to a second summit between kim and u.s. president donald trump but many believe to make real progress it's now time for the photo ops to give way to detailed discussion i mean it's going to be really really difficult and the president and kim jong un don't know these things in any kind of detail which is why we keep getting these some of declarations that are very short because the detail has to be worked out by the experts more skeptical observers suspect north k

nuclear free south korean president. agreed that pyongyang will close its nuclear production facility. the north the permanently close its nuclear facilities with inspections from outside experts and the young young nuclear facilities are also to be closed depending on measures taken by the u.s. it's such a great development from our perspective. over the past decades confrontation and hostility described military relations but with this new agreement we agreed to make the korean peninsula a free area through various measures to the exchanges in many areas and communications going to help our hard work for the reunification. china's imposing levies on another sixty billion dollars of american made items the move comes after u.s. president donald trump announced. two hundred billion dollars of chinese products says he's open to talking to beijing but won't let it take advantage of the u.s. . russian president vladimir putin is trying to calm tensions after hours of accusations over the dam. element of a russian military p

future i've seen the courage i've seen their determination my fellow koreans korean people are great we are strong. people we love peace and we have to live together. don't you see this moment right here and now will be remembered beautifully and gloriously in our history for many years to come. it's another twist in this extraordinary diplomatic dance is to lead to see them on the headlong rush into each other's embrace of the bride al-jazeera so. let's speak to alison evans she's a korea analyst and head of open source analytics at i.h.s. market that's a global information and intelligence provider based in london thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera you know looking at these pictures one might almost forget that these two countries are still technically at war how much closer do you think the summit puts the two koreas to formally ending the war. i think this third summit between north korean supreme leader kim jong un and south korean president moon jane is definitely a step forward for the two koreas diplomacy however and the armistice that ended the korean war in one nine hu

the south korean president, moonjae—in has arrived in the north korean capital, pyongyang, hoping to president moon was met by kim jong un at the airport, becoming the first south korean leader to visit the north korean capital in more than a decade. he's travelling with a delegation of 200 people from seoul including pop stars and business executives. a short while ago i spoke to an academic expert on north and south korea. you know, it is going to be tricky and challenging for him because he has his own presidential and domestic agenda. he wants to be the south korean president that finally brought peace to the peninsula, but he also has to make sui’e peninsula, but he also has to make sure that us and north korea nuclear negotiations progress and that there is substance of progress on denuclearisation. so he is really caught between a very difficult situation here because those to genders, his agenda and a clear agenda, they don't always lined up perfectly. so this is where it is going to be a big task for him. —— nuclear. the house has set the bar, set expectations are saying tha

the meetings that have been going on with the south korean so doesn't signal that the north koreans do want to come out of isolation and do want to continue on this process well yeah i think they want to come out of isolation but they're trying to do it on their own terms sensually they're looking for peace without denuclearization and they're worried that the united states wants denuclearization without peace and so that's really the nub of the impasse that president moon has to try to bridge and find satisfactory way of resolving so that those two objectives can be pursued in parallel and linked with each other all right we thank you very much scott snyder for speaking to us from washington d.c. thanks for more on what you can expect out of this three day trip you can head online our online team has put together a comprehensive analysis of the trip and what's at stake let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world and fighting between rival armed groups in libya's capital tripoli has destroyed the country's electricity network plunging large areas into da

i don't think the north koreans will send much back.they would cap and freeze with what they have now. that means about 50 warheads and some icbms. maybe we can get them to give back some stuff. mike pompeo talked about them giving up two thirds of their arsenal. maybe they can give at 10% or 20%, and get back into the iaea. in some way get inspectors in. i think they will allow that, but they will ask a lot, and the white house will have to make concessions on sanctions and aid and that discussion has not happened yet. but for the utilisation, that will not happen. the americans and chinese, we will not get that. —— fold denuclearisation. -- fold denuclearisation. bashful denuclearisation. —— full denuclearisation. we're talking about verification processes. who checks that they do what they say are doing? that's a big thing. the north koreans have talked about how they have built down a little bit over the summer. they had that explosion at the test site and things like that. but we did not have inspectors there, scientists and people

future i've seen the courage i've seen their determination my fellow koreans korean people are great we are strong. people we love peace and we have to live together thank you see this moment right here and now will be remembered beautifully and gloriously in our history for many years to come. it's another twist in this extraordinary diplomatic dance is to lead. on the headlong rush into each other's embrace of the bride al-jazeera so. there has been jubilation in pakistan after a court ruled that the former prime minister nawaz sharif could be freed on bail the islamic jihad high court ordered sharif his daughter and son in law to be released until their appeal against a corruption conviction can be heard it ruled there were deficiencies in the case presented to an anti corruption court would sentence them to jail in july come out haidar has more from islam about. the war dig for through or north. of the hall. toward him. a son in law captain and former chief minister of the pond job and younger brother and i watched. him very relieved by being out of however here and by no means.

korean peninsula. and of them are a trial this is out there a live from doha also coming up starvation at an unprecedented level aid agencies say more than five million yemeni children are at risk. dozens are feared buried after a massive landslide in the philippines the local mayor says it's unlikely any of them will be found alive. plus needles end strawberries destroyed him prime minister vows to get tough with those thrusting the country's fruit industry. to another landmark day for the rebuilding of relations between north and south korea on his second day and south korea's president in the north korean leader kim jong un signed a raft of agreements and changing the face of the korean peninsula they agreed to work together to prevent any armed conflict technically north and south korea a war that would mean an end to all hostile actions along the border it's all they've also committed to telling the demilitarized zone into a piece and and that's means with war and god posts and disarming the area

south korean president jay n. has just finished a historic three day trip to pyongyang for talks with his north korean counterpart kim jong un means visit is only the third for a sitting south korean president since a division of the korean peninsula and comes as nuclear disarmament negotiations between north korea and the u.s. have started to a halt so is the reapproach right between the neighbors in danger or just getting started joining us to debrief a stream of what happened when kim met moon kristin is the founder and international coordinator of women cross d.m.z. and jody town is a research and analyst and managing editor at the stimson center hello ladies good to have you here good to have you back again christine so where are we now in thames of the moods of the korean people how do you describe it. i mean it's extraordinary i received messages from. my my allies my partners in south korea the women's peace organizations as well as north koreans especially you know including a friend that is a defector he

will smiles in pyongyang as the north korean leader lays out the red carpet for the south korean president. china announces your talent retiring self to the u.s. targets chinese imports with two hundred billion dollars. trouble in paradise the moodies government is accused of corruption following an al-jazeera investigation. the russian president vladimir putin has moved to calm tensions after accusations and blame over the downing of a russian military plane off the syrian coast he says a tragic chain of circumstances led to the incident fifteen servicemen died in the aircraft after it was hit by syrian air defenses israeli jets were attacking government installations on the ground israel blamed inaccurate syrian file while the russian defense ministry said israel deliberately deliberately put the plane into the line of. the israeli pilots were using the russian aircraft as a shield and pushed it into the law in a fire of the syrian defenses as a result of the aircraft which has a much more effective reflecting surface than the israeli jets was brought down by the missile defense system i

for koreans even small steps towards. our reasons for optimism after so many years of tensions and they like what they're seeing after all their leaders have never been this close before. let's bring in journalist john paul and he's covering the story for us from seoul jen today's the last day of the summit the two leaders are posing for pictures on the sacred volcano mount pictou noticed and that's usually symbolic for koreans tell us why. comcast doing them a mountain that starts the korean peninsula so for the south koreans there was a place where our country started whatever we have never been there because north korea are still in war. i think it's more symbolic because the both leaders have overcome an obstacle and went together going up the mountain. and hopefully this will bring more cooperation and we'll work ok so we're seeing some important symbolism a lot of smiling and cheering can we also see any further progress being made on key issues like denuclearization. well i think the time with power at this point w

of north korean leader kim jong on and south korean leader kim jong on and south korea was the presidentarting to sit down now. this is the second day of their summit. they are supposed to be discussing the unique larose nation, how to move forward those talks about denuclearisation in the korean peninsula. you can see kim jong—un looks like he is signing something. we did hear reports a little bit earlier on some news agencies that they might be signing agencies that they might be signing a military agreement and a joint statement, but we don't know fish or. that is just something that was reported on news agencies. as we can see, president moonjae—in also signing something, we may have more to report on that little bit later. they are at the state ‘s house in north korea, that is where president moonjae—in is staying. they may be about to brief the media. and exchange, a warm shake hands at. —— shake of hans. —— shake of hands. this is the second day of the visit to the north korean capital, the first time in ten years that they will —— about it south korean leader has been to the capi

with the south korean president. it's the first time a south korean leader has traveled to pyongyang in more than a decade kim treated moon giant to a special concert after spending the day discussing north korea's nuclear program rob mcbride reports from seoul on the historic occasion. if talks over north korea's nuclear stockpile were in trouble you wouldn't know it from the smiles and hugs. the third meeting between north korea's kim jong un and monday in south korea and the warmest so far. a full on a god and equal providence given to the flags of north korea and the blue flag of a reunified korean peninsula. the last meeting between these two men led to the historic summit between him and u.s. president donald trump but moon knows this visit must deliver some evidence of north korea's commitments to denuclearize ation if talks with the u.s. are to raise you on day one perhaps disclosure of inventory facilities and this is the kind of thing that morning we need to get going to come out and say when the two leader